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• 10 Jan 2023

  Dakhla

  Call for papers - Economy

  Fourth International Congress on Desert Economy

  International scientific research collaboration for arid lands and desert development

  The ultimate purpose of the International Congress on Desert Economy - ENCG, Dakhla, Morocco, is to be an interdisciplinary scientific research platform on the desert, arid lands, and the Sahara (hot drylands, hyperarid or semi-arid regions, oasis and remote rural areas)  economy, management, and development (rural development), in order to contribute effectively to the good governance and in the sustainable development of arid lands worldwide, by attracting and promoting investment opportunities in the Sahara and  deserts, and by stimulating meetings between all stakeholders on a global scale.

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• 03 Feb 2023

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Assessing the (de)construction of technological hypes

  TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice - Volume 31, Issue 3 (2023)

  This TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice special topic will collect research articles discussing “hypes” and “overpromising”, extending from false claims to inappropriate exaggerations, whether intentional or not. The aim is to support a deeper understanding of hyping language and practices and its underlying dynamics and mechanisms. Hype shall be transformed from a buzzword to a reflected and applicable working concept for different fields and constellations of technology assessment (TA).

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• 31 Dec 2022

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Tool box, tools for emancipation

  “Woman Journal” - Volume 2

  The Woman Journal is a periodical that focuses on notions of gender in regards to the spaces we inhabit, with an intersectional feminist perspective. The next issue’s theme is Toolbox: tools for emancipation. We love craft and do it yourself (DIY) and want the magazine to be a resource. Toolbox refers to the desire to share know-how, practices, tutorials and experiences, which we believe participate in creating community. Tools for emancipation refers to the way alternative organizations and experimentations of new societal modelsare shared and passed on.

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• 15 Mar 2023

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Religion

  Postdoctoral Fellowship on Religion, Culture and Society, 19th and 20th centuries

  In order to stimulate high-quality scientific research into the social and cultural impact of religion in 19^th- and 20^th-century society, Patria vzw and KADOC-KU Leuven (Interfaculty documentation and research centre on religion, culture and society) offer a short postdoctoral fellowship (12 months). 

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• 25 Jan 2023

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Corporate accountability for gross human rights violations: actors, visions, strategies

  The conference is open to research on the large spectrum of actors active in the field of corporate accountability and their repertoires of actions, including, but not limited to, advocacy for regional and international treaties, criminal and civil litigations, boycotts.

   

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  Vienna

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  The Art Museum in the Digital Age

  The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fifth event on the topic. While the 2022 conference challenged binary concepts such as analog/ digital, this year’s event critically examines the imagined cultural metaverse. In four thematic online sessions and an on-site workshop, the lectures deal with the immersive experiences of virtuality and reality, cultural heritage data, value discourse surrounding the metaverse and NFTs, and self-perception and the social role of museums.

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• 15 Feb 2023

  Cairo

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Reading reuse. Image recycling in Egypt and beyond

  The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Cairo) is organizing a workshop on the concept of reuse of decorated artifacts (entire monuments or wall reliefs, pieces of furniture, statues, figurines, painted or incised pots, items of personal or mobiliary adornment, etc.) in archaeological or architectural settings. It is in the academic interest to bring together scholars from various areas and periods, through a comparative approach, which is not limited to the study of past societies but also benefits from the insights of cultural anthropology.

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• 30 Jan 2023

  Naples

  Call for papers - Europe

  Good and evil in the Germanic Middle Ages

  1st PhD Conference Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG)

  The concepts of good and evil are expressed, from a lexical point of view, in different ways in different Germanic languages and at the same time they are declined in different forms depending on linguistic and literary traditions. The theme takes into account texts of different types: religiouos, legal, medical and so on. Starting from these assumptions, we encourage prospective participants to submit proposals which deal with the theme from a literary, philological, linguistic and/or historical perspective. The call is open to PhD students and PhDs in Germanic Philology and Linguistics.

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• 15 Feb 2023

  Innsbruck

  Call for papers - History

  Limits of Europeanness? Contested Notions of Difference and Belonging (16th-21st Centuries)

  Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe

  A basic tension inherent in any idea of Europe is that it links some set of “cultural values” to a geographical space on the western fringe of the Asian landmass, but at the same time allows for a significant degree of internal diversity, the boundaries of which are constantly shifting and disputed. There is ample evidence for the continuing force of visions of centre and periphery in this context, both on the territorial and metaphorical level. The variety of ways in which such topographies of cultural values have served to underpin notions of difference and belonging in the light of Europeanness are at the core of this conference. In exploring this multi-faceted field of research, we aim to bring together several disciplines ranging from history, intellectual history and art history over cultural and literary studies to musicology and anthropology.

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• 30 Apr 2023

  Call for papers - Representation

  Picturing the Wound: Trauma in Cinema and Photography

  Arts is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal promoting significant research on all aspects of the visual and performing arts, published bimonthly online by MDPI. We are calling for papers for special Issue: Picturing the Wound: Trauma in Cinema and Photography.

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• 20 Dec 2022

  Biskra

  Call for papers - Language

  The First National Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture (NCLLC)

  Todd (1987) defined literature as "language at full stretch". Stretch, here, refers to all the different practices of language by its users, and the common or even rare stylistic features of those users. Thus, a deep understanding of literature, especially the specific usages by writers and poets requires the mastery of the sentence’s internal mechanisms and beyond.

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• 15 Jan 2023

  Saint Petersburg

  Call for papers - Representation

  Beyond Russia’s Two Capitals: Regional Art Exhibitions in the Russian Empire

  Art life in the regions of the Russian Empire has often been sidelined in the larger picture of art history, and this conference aims to bring this vital material to wider attention and stimulate discussion. If the 1905 relaxing of censorship vastly increased the number of exhibitions, local societies and individuals had already established regular and highly significant exhibitions all over the Empire. We invite colleagues to illuminate and discuss exhibitions that were held in the different regions, to consider their specific features and become part of this huge — and inevitably collaborative — project. We particularly welcome papers that address exhibitions before 1905.

   

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• 30 Dec 2022

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Kinship, Neighborhoods and Communities in The Maghreb: Or How to Rethink the Bond between the Local and the Global?

  Nowadays, it seems somewhat anachronistic to speak of bonds of kinship or neighborly relationships, networks of solidarity, mutual aid and support that they can entail in a (post)modernity that is increasingly characterized by the shift and transfer of the social and economic functions once attributed to the family, to public authorities. While matters of belonging and identities seem to be increasingly affected by quite virtual and proximate factors whereby spheres would be considered as being increasingly more seamless and permeable. Nonetheless, recent socio-anthropological studies have perversely revealed that patterns of kinship, family bonds, community or neighborhood ties seem to remain a remarkably significant part of the lived experiences of humans, albeit continuing to control the relationships among people and between people and their environment. The main goal of this symposium is to raise questions about the relevance of kinship, neighborhood and community as a source of meaning, identity and socio-economic solidarity.

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• 31 Jan 2023

  Call for papers - Europe

  Worlds of Work and the Welfare State in Europe between Two Crises, 1973-2013

  This is a call for an issue that aims to investigate the changes in the practices, concepts, imagery of the worlds of work and welfare in Europe that have emerged in the period between 1973 and 2013. The call for paper solicits the proposal of studies concerning public policies, as well as social movements, ideas, dominant and subordinate cultural representations.

   

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• 12 Dec 2022

  Brno

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Inventing Past Narratives. Venice and the Adriatic Space (13th-15th centuries)

  This conference aims to explore the dialogue between Venice and the Adriatic area from a specific perspective: the construction of the past. We would like to create a dialogue between specialists from various disciplines and also examine the validity of interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of different cultural fields: textual and visual, material, and historiographic. The chronological and geographical perspective chosen covers the late Middle Ages and the early modern age and focuses on the interaction between Venice and other centres in the Adriatic space.

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• 15 Dec 2022

  Paris

  Call for papers - Law

  Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses

  The aim of this international conference is to provide researchers with an interdisciplinary platform to investigate and debate the question of contemporary irruptions of political violence and to inquire into the different responses intended to counteract violence. When and why do individuals, groups, and societies come to believe that peaceful means and legal avenues of redress, including non-violent civil disobedience, are insufficient or improper to achieve a social or political goal and to view violent action as morally legitimate and necessary for change? Can one identify trends shaping recourse to violence by parts of the populace? What role does state violence play in the dialectic? When, if ever, is political violence legitimate? How can violence be averted?

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• 01 Mar 2023

  Fribourg | Rome | Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Catholicism and Anticommunism – The height of Pius XII’s pontificate

  Series of conferences and seminars 2023-2024, Fribourg-Rome-Paris

  From the first condemnation of communism in the Encyclical Qui Pluribus (1846) to the excommunication decrees of 1949, 1950 and 1959, anticommunism seems to be a fundamental reflex of the Catholic Church. Its manifestations range from theology to devotional practices, through the commitments of Christian parties and trade unions. Catholic anticommunism needs to be looked at with a fresh look after the opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958). this series of colloquia and seminars aims to stimulate research in these newly available archives.

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• 01 Jan 2023

  The Hague

  Call for papers - Representation

  Women’s Role in the History of Nineteenth-Century Art Revisited

  ESNA Conference 2023: Beyond “The Obstacle Race”

  The European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) organizes its annual conference. Rephrasing John Donne’s famous poem, “No man or woman is an island entire of itself”, the conference will investigate women’s interrelations within the art world and their impact on art objects and art collections.

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• 30 Jan 2023

  Guadalajara

  Call for papers - Language

  Politeness, impoliteness and interpersonal communication

  Revue Verbum et Lingua

  Verbum et Lingua invites submissions for its special 22^nd issue on politeness, impoliteness and interpersonal communication. Papers may cover any aspect of these social practices and possible topics may include, but not exclusively, rapport management, mitigation, gossip and small talk. A focus on Spanish-language politeness practices would be of particular interest. Proposals relating politeness and impoliteness to foreign language teaching would also be especially welcome.  

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• 07 Nov 2022

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Polarized Societies? Challenges for Sociology

  XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology

  The challenges that polarization brings to sociology now extend to crucial domains of social processes and action, reaching, among others, the arenas of consumption, religions, identities, sexuality, childhood, culture, and science. In this context, the digitization of society and the economy creates and emphasizes dynamics of polarization, while simultaneously opening up new possibilities. Beyond the general impact on social interactions and practices, to what extent are the new social media a factor that promotes expressions of polarization?

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