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• 31 oct 2013

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - History

  Mediasphere, Culture, Soft Power

  In the wake of the London Olympics, which opened with a popular and populist ceremony depicting the Britain of yesteryear while celebrating the vibrancy of a modern multicultural society, it is timely to consider this deployment of soft power against the backdrop of contemporary Britain. More specifically, the aim of the conference is to explore and draw together common threads and themes – individual expression and freedom, an inherent consciousness of the past and a continuing national identity and iconoclasm – and to consider their influence in the context of broader political and social developments, including Britain’s faltering relationship with the EU, the response to the financial crisis and to Scottish devolution.

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• 30 jui 2013

  Leuven

  Call for papers - History

  In-Corporate. The Human Sciences in Business History: between Naturalization and Legitimization (1880-1940)

  Even if human scientists and business executives like to argue otherwise, the human sciences have always been in-corporated. Without them, the modern business corporation would simply have been unimaginable, just as the production and consumption of working bodies within these corporations. ‘The Firm’ continues to frame itself as a fundamental human enterprise, in which the prominence of human ressources and human relations only continues to increase, yet the humanities of the business corporation largely remain to be written.

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• 29 avr 2013

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  State and societal challenges in the Horn of Africa

  The International Conference State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa is one of the outcomes of the CEA-IUL Project entitled ‘’Monitorization of Conflicts in the Horn of Africa’’. The Project (PTDC/AFR/100460/2008) is financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Ministry of Science and High Education. The project started on 4 January 2010 and finishes on 3 June 2013.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Faro

  Call for papers - Economy

  Tourism and management studies

  Esta conferência abrangerá uma ampla variedade de temas relacionados com os estudos turísticos e com a gestão turística e hoteleira. Este evento visa estimular a investigação e a divulgação do conhecimento científico nas áreas do Turismo, do Lazer e da Gestão Turística, incentivando as abordagens inter-disciplinares e comparativas.

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• 17 mai 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  War, University and Science

  Call for Papers

  During the contemporaneity, military conflicts often provoked junctures of rupture and transformation in pre-existing realities, whether in political, economic or social contexts, or in cultural, scientific and intellectual domains, endued, sometimes of more conservative typologies or yet of a more modernising nature. In this sense, we intend to initiate an interdisciplinary debate on the problematic of "War, University and Science", bearing in mind these multiple relationships and interdependencies, as well as the associated epistemological problematic.

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• 30 mai 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Language

  Voice in Indirect Translation

  First ULICES Conference on Translation Studies

  The University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) is delight to announce the call for papers for a two-day conference on 'Voice in Indirect Translation' (http://www.etc.ulices.org/jet/welcome.html), which will take place on July 10 and 11 at the Faculty of Letters University of Lisbon. 

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• 31 mai 2013

  Bhubaneswar

  Call for papers - Europe

  Autofiction, memoir and life narrative

  Auto/Fiction 1:2

  The issue is open to all kinds of applied and theoretical papers on autofiction, memoir and life narrative.

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• 19 mai 2013

  Ancona

  Call for papers - History

  Business history, debates, challenges and opportunities

  7th European Business History Association Doctoral Summer School

  The school will focus on theoretical, methodological and practical issues which are of relevance for advanced research in business history. The main aim of the school is to provide students with a full understanding of the newest trends in research in the field and to provide a friendly atmosphere in which to discuss their preliminary findings with leading scholars as well as among their peers. In this respect, the program features both lectures and seminars given by faculty and student presentations of their research projects.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Saint-Denis

  Study days - Political studies

  Uganda and the World

  The goal of this one-day conference is to consider the evolution of Uganda’s international relations and its role in the world since the end of the Cold War. The conference will focus mainly on the following topics:  Relations with Uganda’s African neighbours; the Lord’s Resistance Army and its impact in the region; and foreign aid and relations with the developped world.

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• 30 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Ethnic or national minorities. Between renewal and permanence

  Belgéo Review

  The coordinaters of this issue of he Belgéo review plan to reflect about the "ethnic or national minorities", two polysemous concepts here perceived in a way opened to interpretation even if they are inscribed in P. Poutignat and J. Streiff-Fénart’s definition, when they state that these groups “only exist thanks to the subjective belief their members share that they constitute a community.” The minority group is dialectically linked to the existence of a majority. It can be said “ethnic” because of racial parameters but above all because of the presence of linguistic, religious, cultural or other discriminating and specific markers. The will to be different expresses itself in various ways – instutional or not – and leads to very diverse situations, located between resistance and cooperation, forced integration and autonomy. The way to name places, individuals, but also their status – granted or claimed for – their visibility in the social and political space, are elements characterizing the notion of “otherness”.

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• 21 mai 2013

  Paris

  Seminar - Political studies

  Pilgrims and Politics in Pakistan

  Sufism in an Age of Transition

  Bringing together established and early career scholars working across a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology and political science, the Workshop is intended to deepen our understanding of Sufism in Pakistan not as a ‘degraded’ form of Islamic mysticism but as a living tradition ever responsive to wider social and political changes at the local and national levels.  By doing so, it hopes to shed light on the resilience of Sufism to survive the challenge of more ‘modern’ forms of reformist Islam sweeping Pakistan as well as Sufism’s capacity to withstand the historical pressures brought to bear on it by the state’s own ‘modernist’ agenda.

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• 01 jui 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Practising the good life/The good life in practices

  The Call for Papers is now open for the International Conference: Practising the Good Life/The Good Life in Practices, to be held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) on October 17th/18th 2013. This will be the first conference in Portugal solely dedicated to Lifestyle Mobilities. The conference is free of charge, but is limited to a maximum of 24 paper presentations, to be delivered in plenary sessions over two days.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  The Office as an interior (1880-1960)

  The so-called “second industrial revolution” meant a significant growth in the tertiary sector (banks, insurance companies, etc.); at the same time new administrative bodies arose both in industry and at agencies and public authorities. This went hand in hand with a massive increase in the numbers of employees. The employee became the socio-professional figure of the urban modernity, whereas the professional woman became increasingly important. The symposium addresses the development of the office in order to analyse the interdependency between physical and social space, materiality and practices, strategies and tactics, structures and individuals. Likewise, it is intended to approach the office from a historical perspective, as attention is directed towards the significance of the office for structuring and transforming the sociocultural situation from the turn of the last century through the end of the 1950’s.

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• 20 jui 2013

  Evora

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Expression of Interest. Marie Curie Action Fellowships CIDEHUS (Portugal)

  The Call for Marie Curie Action Fellowships was launched a few weeks ago (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/apply-now/open-calls/index_en.htm). It is a great, international, and competitive contest, which gives an unique opportunity for researchers to move in a new country and develop their own project in cooperation with a local host centre. The Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas, Sociedades of the University of Evora (CIDEHUS.UE) – www.cidehus.uevora.pt - in Portugal will be very glad to receive applicants from aboard for this European Call.

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  Florence

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Historical Sources and Transnational Approaches to European History

  CENDARI Summer School

  The CENDARI project, in collaboration with the COST Action: IS 1005, Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources, will host the first of three annual CENDARI Summer Schools in Florence, Italy. Sessions will apply the concept of ‘transnational moments’ to examine ways in which historical research is complicated by the nature of material records of the past. The Summer School will provide a context for the various collections-level challenges to transnational history, such as how to identify sources that have become ‘hidden’ or lost through accidents of history. 

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• 20 jui 2013

  21 jui 2013

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Performing Documentation in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

  Contemporary art conservation requires a re-assessment of the distinction between the work and its re-configuration in documentation. Although documentation is crucial for the survival of many contemporary works of art, it is never neutral: all approaches, formats, media and systems have their own inherent affordances and blind spots and always transform what they document. Furthermore, in process-centered, technology-based or performative artworks in particular, we often can no longer make a sharp distinction between an original work and its subsequent documentation or replication: documentation is part of the work's very core.

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• 14 jui 2013

  Lille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sport Tourism and Local Sustainable Development

  Prospective of the globalization effects. Actors strategy and responsibility

  The knowledge about sport tourism today is at the same level as the economy of sport was at the beginning of the eighties, at least in Europe. A quick overview on what is done today concerning the investments in sports tourism shows that the same mistakes are done everywhere and the development of Sport Tourism without knowing the long term effects avoid to optimize the short term economic results and impacts the long term results. One of the purposes of the IRNIST is to propose a definition of the concept as to gather the scientific community and build the basement of a new part of the studies concerning tourism. 

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• 29 avr 2013

  Idanha-a-Nova

  Call for papers - Geography

  DfD – Design for Desertification

  The main aims of this International Conference are to gather articles and presentations that can contribute to enrich the debate on territorial consequences of rural-urban migration, depopulation and desertification. One of the consequences of several years of migration from rural to urban areas in Portugal, as it leaves the villages in the interior of the country depopulated, is cultural genocide. Design for Desertification is a research project that contextualises these issues within the Portuguese territory showing how economic decline, desertification and depopulation are interconnected and how rural development could present a solution to economic decline.

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• 30 mai 2013

  Santiago

  Call for papers - America

  Rethinking the Political and the History of Politics in Chile: Languages, Discourses and Practices of Power

  The objective of this colloquium will be to debate and analyze politics and the political by means of the different forms of language, discourse and practices that intervene in the construction of the social world. There are myriad examples of this in Chilean history. Taking history, political philosophy and political economy as the starting points, we invite doctoral candidates, researchers and academics to participate in this truly trans disciplinary  space of debate, reflection and feedback whose goal is not only to unite a community of researchers into “the political” in the republican period but also to select the best works presented for a future publication in the format of a collective work or a special dossier of a scientific publication. 

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• 26 avr 2013

  Reading

  Conference, symposium - History

  Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in Early Modern Europe

  Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe. Annual Symposium of the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, 26 April 2013.

   

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