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• 31 jan 2016

  Avanca

  Call for papers - Information

  Avanca | Cinema 2016

  International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication

  The researchers are invited to participate in the 7th edition of the AVANCA | CINEMA that will be held in July 2016. The scientific community members, who dedicate their studies to cinema and its relationship with art, communication and technology, can find here a space for diffusion, debate and sharing of their work. Cinema is a pretext for researchers from different countries to gather in Avanca during 5 days of meetings. In the sixth edition we counted with the presence of 178 participants and the communications have been published in a proceedings  book with 1312 pages.

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• 05 fév 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The production of subjectivity under neo-liberal governance

  Neoliberal governance and its structures, and dispositifs, are at the core of contemporary debates in the human sciences. David Harvey (2006) considers neoliberalism a theory that places individual freedom as the final goal of all civilisations. Private property rights, free markets and liberal democracy are the means through which individual freedom is best protected and society flourishes, according to neo-liberal views. The primary role of the state is to enforce property rights, while market forces govern the economy. Neo-liberal ideas have shaped global and national policy for over three decades, introducing the primacy of private property and market rationality in all range of public life from education to healthcare, from land governance to environmental protection. Workers' rights in the global North as well as in the South are devalued in favour of individual responsibility.

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• 20 fév 2016

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  International solidarity movements in the Low Countries during the long twentieth century

  New perspectives and themes

  Making sense of the bewildering variety of foreign causes and countries that inspired social movements in Europe as well as the elective and changing affinities of this activism, has proved to be a challenge for many historians. The history of transnational activism during the twentieth century has for a long time been written with a fragmented focus, with little diachronic and synchronic comparison between different solidarity movements and countries. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the topic of international solidarity movements active in Belgium and the Netherlands in the late 19^th and 20^th century in order to gain a better understanding of the nature of these movements, their aims and means of action as well as their reaction to the profound changes that occurred during this period in Western European societies.

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• 28 fév 2016

  Call for papers - Law

  Law, History and Politics

  Prim@ Facie Journal, volume 15, no. 28, 2016

  Prim@ Facie has been envisaged as an international journal in Law, hence we strongly encourage submissions from abroad, especially authors with interests concerning to Human Rights, Development and Legal Economic Studies. For a submission you must check off every item of the terms of publication. Once accepted for being published the article will come to light with the cession of copyright for scientific purposes. This is a non-profit journal managed by a federal university in Brazil. It has its statute available online on this website. The editorial office is located at the Laboratory of Journals in Law, downstairs at the CCJ building in the campus at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba State.

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• 18 jan 2016

  19 jan 2016

  Rennes

  Study days - Representation

  Architectural criticism between public debate and autonomous discipline

  Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural criticism XXth and XXst centuries, a cartography

  This first workshop will focus on the relationship of architectural criticism with "public opinion" and on the opposite side, its relations to architecture as an "autonomous" discipline. The various nature and degree of such an autonomy will be examined in different historical, institutional and cultural contexts: to what extent is architectural criticism autonomous from social uses of architecture, from the architectural design and its economic production?

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• 18 jan 2016

  Batna City

  Call for papers - Language

  Foreign language teaching and intercultural awareness

  In the era of globalization, foreign language teaching has become a worldwide concern for diverse reasons. As language vehicles thought; foreign culture is also assumed to be transmitted as a consequence of the teaching/learning process. Intercultural awareness then is an undeniable issue to be discussed in any foreign language teaching atmosphere. The issue identified above is expected to be significant for teachers, learners, researchers and educationists in general. The importance of the subject will be seen in the exchange of experiences and expertise among local and foreign interveners in a way that raises the students’ awareness in the English department that debates on intercultural issues will serve them in many sorts of ways. This meeting provides an excellent opportunity to share the results of the teachers and students research with a varied audience.

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• 17 jan 2016

  Rethymno

  Call for papers - History

  Revealing Ordinary Jerusalem (1840–1940)

  New archives and perspectives on urban citizenship and global entanglements

  The Open Jerusalem project aims to unlock and connect different archives and sources in order to investigate the ordinary entangled history of a global city through the lens of the concept of urban citizenship (citadinité). The objective is to produce historical narratives focusing on the way residents interacted with each other, inhabited and appropriated space(s). The symposium intends to be a forum for deepening discussions and opening scientific debates, based on contributions by scholars specializing in related topics, urban historians and specialists of the region. Therefore all participants are kindly requested to stay in Rethymno for the whole duration of the symposium.

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• 29 fév 2016

  Prague

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Private actors in politics and policy-making

  Trespassers producing norms?

  At a time when a growing literature documents a rising involvement of private actors such as business associations, professional associations, multinational corporations or law firms in the creation of public policy, it seems crucial to study the practices of this involvement, as well as to study the meaning of such developments for the very distinction that social sciences have been making between the private and the public spheres, the private and the public actors. In other words, how do the concrete modalities of this involvement reshape the definition of roles and statuses of private and public actors in politics and policy? 

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• 15 mar 2016

  Maringá

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Complex realities and transformations in work in a diversity of farming models

  The international symposium on work in agriculture 2016

  Transformations of farming systems are marked by increasingly important challenges regarding the environment, food safety and competitiveness of enterprises. How do these transformations bring farming work into question? But farming work has also kept a very strong social and territorial dimension: it gives a place and a status to everyone; it nurtures, safeguards and stabilizes a rural population, and strengthens solidarities largely founded on a local cultural relationship with nature and on agriculture and livestock management. The economic, social and environmental functions of farming work coexist. In rural territories, they may sometimes be complementary, but they can also be quite strained.

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• 20 jan 2016

  21 jan 2016

  Nantes

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: 16th-17th Centuries

  Fondements théologiques de la théorie constitutionnelle moderne : XVIe-XVIIe siècles

  This conference aims to assemble different studies laying bridges between modern constitutional theories and theology from the perspective of intellectual history. Though modernity of law and politics has been usually accounted in the context of Reformation, the paper-givers’ approaches to the question will not be restricted in any confessional perspective, Protestant or Catholic. For, whatever the word ‘theology’ may have connoted in the time of religious confrontations, theoretical attempts to legitimize human rights and political authority at those days can be regarded as part of the general current of philosophical investigations, in a new manner and with different foci than ever, into the concept of justice with reference to that of God.

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• 30 jan 2016

  Call for papers - History

  The clothing of politics: dress, appearances and political identities (XIXth-XXth centuries)

  Journal "Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del 900"

  Fashion and clothing, a crucial aspect of social life, has aroused strong interest in recent years in many different fields of the social and human sciences. After a long period of neglect, many historians have begun to develop new approaches to the experience of dress as a situated bodily practice and as a form of language, always allusive and polysemic. The special issue of Contemporanea aims to engage in a reflection on the relationship between clothing and politics in the widest sense of the term, analyzing how “appearances” can express, perform and negotiate political, ideological, and national identities.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Bergamo

  Call for papers - Sociology

  6th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference

  The Conference embraces and endorses a broad, ambitious view of ethnographic research. Ethnography is understood as an inquiry into the processes, implications, and meanings of social life and culture in groups, organizations, and institutions across diverse social spaces and settings. Accordingly, contributions to the conference can be based on a variety of methods, including but not limited to participant observation, in-depth interviews, focus group, auto-ethnography, visual ethnography, discourse studies, video-based research and other forms of inquiry inspired and informed by ethnographic sensibility. The Conference welcomes theoretically informed and methodologically sound proposals that contribute to the substantive knowledge of the social world. 

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• 16 déc 2015

  17 déc 2015

  18 déc 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Civilians at stake: mass violence in Asia and Europe from 1931 to the present

  On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence has organized an international and interdisciplinary meeting. By bringing together key innovative specialists in philosophy, political science, law and history, the conference intends to reflect on the definition and role of civilians during mass violence. Civilians are understood here as victims of bombing or as actors resisting to ground-based mass violence. The meeting focuses on World War II as a touchstone period but also tries to assess its role in the longue durée up to the present. It takes the term “world war” literally, with special emphasis on the Asian continent, aiming at the opening of new horizons leading to more globally oriented research.

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• 09 déc 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Voluntary Associations in the Yugoslav Space

  Relations with State and Family from the Late 19th Century to the Present

  The workshop focusses on the changing relationship between voluntary associations/NGOs, the state and the family. According to traditional sociological views, civil society – and thus associations, as its most frequently evoked incarnation – are conceived as being opposed to both the state and the family, a sort of free space for collective agency escaping from the strictures of both kinship structures and of the state. More recently, scholars of civil society have convincingly shown the problems with drawing a clear-cut border between the state and VAs/NGOs, and tend to see this border as porous, shifting, and subject to negotiation.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Khartoum

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Sudan, five years after the independence of South Sudan

  Which reconfigurations, transformations, and evolutions in the “North”?

  South Sudan officially gained independence on the 9^th July 2011. This was the outcome of the peace agreement signed in January 2005 and in accordance with the national referendum of January 2011. This historic event, which should have put an end on the historical conflict between the Northern and Southern regions and communities, constituted a real challenge in term of adaptation, resilience and innovation for the whole of the society. In this unprecedented context of the birth of a new national territory, and the remodelling of existing spatial and political configurations, South Sudan has logically been at the centre of attention – whether this be from political actors, researchers or humanitarian donors. However, the North has been profoundly affected by this rupture as well.

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• 01 mar 2016

  15 oct 2015

  Call for papers - Representation

  Syncope in Performing and Visual Arts

  Presence and absence being at the core of the state of syncope, it is not surprising to see the neo-platonician philosopher Marsilio Ficino including it among the seven states of vacatio in Book XIII of the Theologia Platonica along with sleep, melancholia, temperance, solitude, stupor and even chastity, among the seven possibilities for the soul to escape the materiality of the body. This book project is precisely the third part of the vacatio series in the collection Via Artis after two books on sleep in visual arts. Ficino’s categories are used as impulses and here what we are particularly interested in is not the spiritual aspect of syncope but precisely its materiality, how does syncope manifest or does not manifest itself in performing and visual arts? What is the intention of the artist when representing the syncope? Is it to show who experiences it or what is seen when there is figuration? Or is it above all, to make those who do not experience it feel what is experienced in a state of syncope?

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• 31 jan 2016

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Utopia(s): worlds and frontiers of the imaginary

  Second International Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI) 2016

  Five hundred years ago, on the 20^th October, Thomas More published the princeps edition of Utopia. To celebrate this event, The Research Centre in Architecture, Urban Landscape and Design (CIAUD) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FA-ULisboa), The Histoy Centre for Global History (CHAM) of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Universidade dos Açores (FCSH-UNL- UA) invite researchers from different areas cultures to gather in Lisbon, the October 20^th to 22^nd, 2016, for the International and Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities 2016 – Utopia(s): Worlds and the Frontiers of the Imagination.

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• 15 déc 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Europe

  Social Movements of the Global South

  Methodological and Theoretical Considerations

  ISA47 is launching a new journal "Social Movements and Change". Philipp Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar and Jacob Mwathi Mati are organizing a special edition on "Social Movements of the Global South – Methodological and Theoretical Considerations". Their aim is to "bring together research on social movements worldwide that break with the Eurocentric bias of social movement theory and try to develop both theories and methodologies apt to understand action, discourse or outcomes of social movements in the Global South".

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• 10 déc 2015

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Modern

  Defeating impunity, promoting international justice

  The Belgian Experience (1870-2015)

  This conference seeks to discuss the Belgian record of engagement with international law and justice and to put this national experience in international perspective. It specifically questions the way in which the judiciary dealt with gross violations of international law in the wake of war and how legal actors responded to the challenges of an emergent and developing set of international laws, from 1870 to 2015. 

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• 15 jan 2016

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants to the United States (2016)

  Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants provide support for research on topics concerning American art and visual culture prior to 1980. These grants enable scholars outside the United States to consult resources that are only available within the United States. 

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