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• 16 Oct 2022

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  A Transatlantic Mediterranean?

  Circulations, influences and civilian and military cooperation between the United States and Southern European and Turkish spaces (1945-1980's)

  The objective of this meeting is to contribute to a transnational and decompartmentalized history of the circulations between Mediterranean Europe and the United States between 1945 and the 1980s, which will make it possible to apprehend these relations from a global point of view and to analyze the way in which these links were able to generate circulations of influence between Mediterranean countries. The aim is to combine diplomatic approaches with the socio-history of these actors and with the analysis of the circulation of knowledge and modes of governmentality, by placing Atlantic military issues and policies in the wider context of intellectual mobility and cross-practices. The European and Turkish Mediterranean is understood here in a broad and political sense, from Portugal to the confines of the Anatolian peninsula. Similarly, the ambition is to see how these relations between Mediterranean Europe and the Atlantic space may have had effects on the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, whether during or after the period of colonial domination.

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• 01 Sep 2022

  Prague

  Call for papers - History

  Careers in politics, politics as a career

  Developments in 19th and early 20th century Europe

  During the nineteenth century, the field of European politics witnessed a host of significant changes, prominent among them being the increasing tendency towards its professionalization. Against the backdrop of major social and cultural shifts, politics ceased to be exclusively regarded as the traditional elite’s ‘duty of honor’ and opened its doors, first to the middle class and then, with the extension of the franchise, to lower social and professional strata. The aim of our workshop is to follow how politics became not only a stand-alone profession, but also part and parcel of careers in other professional fields during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We are interested in the factors underlying this process, in how it manifested in different European spaces and under different historical conditions, as well as in its outcomes and societal impact. 

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• 30 Aug 2022

  Barcelona |

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Indigenous art today: critical perspectives and crossing viewpoints

  The notion of indigenous art today is more controversial than ever. Even though it constitutes a vindication and legitimization tool for the native peoples, its demand continues to reproduce a nineteenth-century distinction between Indigenous and civilized, primitive and modern, Western and the no-Western. Such distinctions provided the grounds on which several academic disciplines were formed, and based on their differences, they also forged diverging theoretical, methodological, and practical paths. Today, the multiple narratives on art aspire to coexist rather than compete, from the logic that fosters multivocality and plurality of discourses whatever their origins or inclinations are. We welcome all those who wish to participate to reflect on the possibilities for encounter and dialogue in the study of aesthetic manifestations and forms of expression that have not necessarily been perceived as “artistic” and that, until now, have been mainly the object of interest of the anthropological and archaeological disciplines.

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• 31 Jul 2022

  Cairo

  Call for papers - History

  Smart Cities: Challenges, Opportunities and Potentials

  Smart Cities is an Engineering Subject that is growing very rapidly and attracting a large number of researchers from different domains. The success of the new era of smart cities depends strongly on the fruitful interaction between the researchers and engineers working in different domains and seeing the subject from different angles to facilitate the design and implementation of reliable and operational smart city. This special issue will be focusing on the Engineering aspects of the smart cities and their impacts. Researchers working in the fields overlapping with the smart city design, modeling, and development as well as those working in the enabling technologies are thus invited to submit original research papers as well as review papers in this issue.

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• 18 Jul 2022

  Aubervilliers

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Intelligence augmentation and amplification plus society (2022)

  2022 IAASOC International Forum

  Our international forum aims at creating an innovative dialogue to explore new research issues and methodology for future symbiotic society with artificial intelligence. It involves researchers working on a wide array of topics and disciplines, in particular in the field of social sciences and humanity (SSH) and of computer/engineering sciences (CS/ES), revolving around artificial intelligence. The 35 participants, coming from Japan, Germany and France, will be divided into three theme panels to discuss the designated topics and draw the goals and its roadmaps for future society with scientific, technical, ethical and humanity challenges.

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• 11 Jul 2022

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Asia

  Betting on the farm

  Institutional change in Japanese agriculture

  Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies.

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• 30 Jul 2022

  Salamanca

  Call for papers - Representation

  Verga Pop

  Traces of Verga in visual and performing arts, in literature, and in popular culture

  We propose an unusual and unprecedented approach within the domain of Verga studies, pursuing the presence of the author in contemporary society through non-canonical lines of research. Some possible areas of investigation could be: Verga in songs, in contemporary melodramas, in dance, in non canonical theatrical forms, in audiobooks and hyperbooks, in comics, in the Italian territory, in the social sector; Verga and the fantastic, parodies on Verga.

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• 12 Sep 2022

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - History

  Psychiatry and addictions in Europe in the XXth century

  The goal of this international colloquium is to explore psychiatry’s contribution to the troubled and non-linear history of the medicalization of addictions in Europe throughout the XX^th century. This question should be explored through the lens of medical concepts, institutions of care and cure, as well as patients’ experiences. At the same time, our aim is to explore how psychiatric archives may renew the social history of drugs.

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• 30 Sep 2022

  Berne

  Call for papers - Modern

  Insecurity in the Age of Labour Formalisation: Informal Work in Europe

  1870–1970

  Free wage labour is commonly presented as the focus, if not the very core, of the history of labour in Europe in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The conference aims to challenge this narrative by focusing on multiple forms and fields of informal work. The conference will explore the insecurity of informal work. It will ask how widespread in Europe was the unregulated employment that can be described as insecure in the very century generally regarded as the era of increasingly formalised labour, and will consider which factors were thereby decisive. Thus, the focus will not be on the hard-won rise and safeguarding of free-wage labour, already so frequently examined in labour history. Rather, the spotlight will be on how the insecurity associated with informal work was not only tacitly but also quite openly accepted, or even actively promoted. The conference will also investigate the social and political conflicts that accompanied this recurrent phenomenon.

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• 20 Jan 2023

  Call for papers - Thought

  Digital Humanities in the Web 3.0 Era

  The publication of critical editions and their use for scientific purposes—two essential realities for research in the humanities—have transformed considerably in step with the digital revolutions of our time. With the adoption of the Open Science principles and their dissemination within the scientific community, the Web has become an indispensable place for the publication and digital exploitation of source texts. All things considered, we are still a long way from exploiting the full potential of Web 3.0 (the Web of data). This issue of Methodos aims to explore new methodologies, technologies, standards, data models, computational tools and applications that allow the integration of major aspects of Web 3.0 into digital editions, including: the Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence, automatic natural language processing, and visualization or graphical representation of data.

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• 15 Jul 2022

  Call for papers - Representation

  Intermediality in Architecture. Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity

  “Clara. Architecture/Recherche” - Volume 9, 2023

  The journal Clara invites proposals for its next issue on the contemporary intermedial condition of architecture. The issue aims to study how architectural design, as a projective and representational practice, unfolds through a series of media that continually refer to one another.

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• 30 Sep 2022

  Call for papers - History

  Comparing Rivers: Aquacritical Perspectives across History and Literature

  This call for paper is a special issue journal proposal. We look for new eco-orientated interpretations of rivers in different cultural sources and for other people and their river-related studies. We expect the potential authors to investigate new or revisit well-known sources, both elite and popular, within what we call the aquacritical perspective of river-centred analysis. This river-centric approach may involve sources across genres and periods to show how they contribute to unexplored river people adaptation cultures, e.g. how such people coped with the elemental nature of rivers, negotiated their space in the riparian landscape, and encoded ecological knowledge that survived in the memory of culture.

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• 15 Jul 2022

  Agadir

  Call for papers - Thought

  Memory and Identity in North Africa

  This conference aims to reflect on a rich array of memory-focused topics, including performance rituals, celebrations, festivals, objects, places, literature, artifacts, and specific historical moments using the interdisciplinary methodologies honed in Memory Studies. We seek papers that draw on Memory Studies to reflect on issues related to identity, history, historiography, commemoration, remembrance, and changing conceptions of the self and the collective in North Africa. Thus, we ask how much memory is present in the North African spheres? How have memories of the past in North Africa been promoted and appropriated for the sake of a more flexible public sphere? Who are the memory stakeholders? How do they mobilize memory? What place do minority memories occupy in the grand narratives of different states? Can ‘subaltern’ memories exist and be performed in public?

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• 30 Jun 2022

  Guadalajara

  Call for papers - Education

  “Verbum et Lingua”, Issue 21 (January-June 2023) – Varia

  Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua y Cultura is an academic journal published by the Modern Languages Department of the University of Guadalajara’s Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. It is a specialized publication that highlights linguistic, didactic and cultural issues and perspectives. This journal especially responds to the needs of professionals in Mexico. It is published every six months: January-June and July-December. The journal welcomes articles, essays, interviews and book reviews in five languages: Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. At the same time, it also considers contributions submitted in other languages. On this occasion, we extend an open call for articles for Journal issue 21 and invite researchers and specialists in didactics, linguistics and cultural studies to submit their contributions (including research-based reflections articles or essays, as well as interviews and book reviews).

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• 15 Jun 2022	17 Jun 2022	22 Jun 2022
  24 Jun 2022	29 Jun 2022	...

  Lecture series - Education

  Teaching and Learning Series

  This indispensable series is aimed at new lecturers, postgraduate students who have teaching time, Graduate Teaching Assistants, part-time tutors and demonstrators, as well as experienced teaching staff who may feel it’s time to review their skills in teaching and learning. Sessions in this series will provide teachers in higher education with practical, realistic guidance on the various different aspects of their teaching role, which is underpinned not only by current research in the field, but also by the extensive experience of our individual speakers.

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• 15 Sep 2022

  16 Sep 2022

  Graz

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Territorial Turn!

  Towards just, ecological and collaborative urbanism

  Join us for the International Symposium Territorial Turn! held by the Institute of Urbanism, TU Graz, and elaborate together with our our keynote speakers and presenters on changes, values and framework conditions of urbanism. The discussion on theoretical concepts and ideas, as well as pioneering practical urban design propositions will contribute to actively think, plan, design, and implement an ecological and equitable urban future on a territorial scale.

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• 10 Jul 2022

  Summer School - Geography

  Rural Futures

  Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

  The interdisciplinary summer school on “Rural Futures” is dedicated to current developments in European rural areas and wants to illuminate them from within. International scholars from various disciplines as well as practitioners and activists are invited to apply for participation. We want to discuss new perspectives and approaches to the question what ruralities are and what they should become in the future.

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• 30 Oct 2022

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Africa

  Photographie, perceptions visuelles et esthétique

  « Sēmēion Med » - Numéro 8 (Février 2023)

  L’image photographique est à la fois une technique et un langage. Ce langage possède sa propre syntaxe, son vocabulaire et ses figures de style. À l’instar du langage parlé, celui de la photographie a bien évolué dans le temps puisque de simple instantané de la réalité (tel l’album familial), il en est devenu le miroir, puis l’expression d’une certaine modernité, volant enfin de ses propres ailes. Loin des influences de la peinture, avec le mouvement pictorialiste, il a développé ses propres codes herméneutiques de saisie et de compréhension du monde. On propose aux contributeurs de réfléchir sur les axes suivants : photographie et réel, photographie et sublimation du réel, spécificité d’une œuvre photographique, photographie et numérique, photographie et l’art contemporain, photographie et modernité.

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• 13 Sep 2022	14 Sep 2022	15 Sep 2022
  16 Sep 2022

  Madrid

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Libraries & Digital Humanities: Projects and Challenges

  Erasmus Training Week

  Digital Humanities Laboratories’ staff involve professionals from different areas, encompassing teams that are necessarily interdisciplinary. The experience of information managers, librarians and documentalists, makes them the perfect partners to cooperate on these projects. In UNED, our Library is an essential part of the Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities (LINHD), supporting a wide range of projects in these disciplines, as well as providing advice and training, both in UNED and other institutions. UNED Library will hold the International Meeting about Digital Humanities and the role of university libraries as essential allies in approaching DH projects, in Madrid in September 2022.

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• 22 Jun 2022

  Study days - Representation

  The “Map of the Absentees”: Cartography, Memory, History of post-revolutionary Iran

  Maps are like icons showing, on a small scale, how space is organized and shared inside the urban frame. If they are always involved in the processes of power, and they are the tool of the dominant group and symbolically strengthens its authority, they are also the tool of representation of space. They provide a visual material base to the narratives and to the discourses related to the space. Therefore maps allow artists to intervene, which means, to investigate differently on space, to represent and to bear witness to the unseen which can then get a precarious visibility.

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