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• 19 May 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 May 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 Jun 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 May 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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• 22 Jul 2013	23 Jul 2013	24 Jul 2013
  25 Jul 2013	26 Jul 2013

  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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• 01 Jun 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 May 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 Jul 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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• 20 Jun 2013

  21 Jun 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 Jun 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 Apr 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 May 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 Apr 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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• 31 May 2013

  Call for papers - Political studies

  European Dialogues

  Journal Debater a Europa, nº 9

  This is a journal linked to the Europe Direct Information Centre of Aveiro, to Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Twentieth Century, University of Coimbra - CEIS20, in partnership with the Office of the European Parliament in Portugal and with the Representation of European Commission in Portugal.

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• 16 May 2013

  17 May 2013

  Madrid

  Conference, symposium - History

  Transfers of precious metals and their consequences (17th-20th centuries)

  After the first Round Table, in Paris at the École normale supérieure in January 2012, "Moneys and Economies during 19^th Century, from Europe to Asia", a second Round Table will be organized in the framework of the program DAMIN, in cooperation with the Casa de Velázquez and the LabEx TransferS (École normale supérieure, Paris). Precious metals were often transferred from a region, or a country, to another: looting of conquered regions (such as Roman Spain, Gaul or Egypt), invasions (Vandals, Huns invading the Roman Empire, Crusaders arriving at Constantinople), and, of course arrival of gold and silver from Americas after 1492. Each time, the new metal disturbed the monetary systems, sometimes improving, sometimes troubling the currencies and economies. The period considered is focused on the 19^th century, the question of the depreciation of silver and the transfers of metals from America or Europe to Asia, India, China, etc.

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• 30 May 2013

  31 May 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - America

  The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet

  Antoine Bénézet (Anthony Benezet) né le 31 janvier 1713 à St Quentin et mort le 3 mai 1784 à Philadelphie, quaker, philanthrope et anti-esclavagiste américain.

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• 15 Apr 2013

  Tarragona

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Ensembles résidentiels fermés

  Vingt-cinquième conférence du réseau European Network for Housing Research

  Cities all over the world are witnessing the spread of residential developments of private neighborhoods in a variety of forms: Gated Communities, common interest developments, private subdivisions, lifestyle communities, etc. These types of neighborhoods had once been the home of the rich and wealthy, but have recently encountered a large base of customers from within the general public.

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• 18 Apr 2013

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Medieval Europe in Motion

  International Conference - Lisbon, April 18-20

  The International Colloquium “Medieval Europe in motion” is directly linked to the current postdoctoral research projects of Dr. Maria Alessandra Bilotta on «Portuguese juridical manuscripts production and illumination between 14th and 15th centuries and theirs connections with manuscripts production and illumination in the French “Midi” (specially Toulouse, Avignon and Montpellier) and in the North-Mediterranean regions (Italy and Cataluña)» and by Alicia Miguélez on «The gesture language in the Lorvão Apocalypse and its rapports with other beatus manuscripts».

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• 20 Apr 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Early modern

  From Carpentry to Joinery

  Floors and ceilings, shutters and frames, doors and panelling in Medieval and Modern Architecture

  This study day, organised by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA-KIK), the University of Namur, the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Royal Museums for Art and History (MRAH-KMKG), is part of the series of scientific meetings started by the research group AcanthuM (University of Namur) on the theme of construction finishings and fittings. The present meeting will focus on joinery elements in architecture from the Middle Ages and modern period that contribute to the organization of the interior workings of a building and division of space through the layout of doorways and window openings, as well as playing a part in the interior decoration.

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• 30 Apr 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  7th International PhD Seminar Urbanism and Urbanization

  This 7th edition of the U&U International PhD Seminar will be held at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais, under the scientific direction of the Laboratory of Infrastructure and Architecture Planning (LIAT). Continually facing new demands from epistemological or technical society, and now facing an economic and social crisis (especially in Europe), urban planning is forced to question its methods. The Seminar is intended for PhD Students who wish to present their ongoing research questioning aspects of the field of urban planning in a historical perspective, from a theoretical point of view or with a potential for practical implementation. The U&U International PhD Seminars take place exclusively in English and seek to promote the exchange of ideas, provoke debate amongst researchers, invite comparisons, cross-pollinate different disciplines and to highlight the latest ongoing research. It is a rare opportunity offered to young researchers to meet with prominent scientists and build a critical argument.

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