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• 15 nov 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Geography

  Combining scientific Expertise with Participation: the Challenge of the European Landscape Convention

  The adoption of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) in 2000 represents a major event in taking landscape into account at the European level. As of June 2013, 38 Council of Europe member states have ratified the Convention. By specifying that landscape is an essential component of the quality of life of Europeans, the Convention is, first and foremost, in line with a territorial dimension. Moreover, a strong foundation of the ELC lies in its specific definition of landscape, notably based on the notion of perception by populations. One of the scientists’ major concerns is therefore how to reconcile objective scientific approaches with the subjective aspect of citizens’ perception. After more than a decade of practice, the Conference will be an opportunity for scientists who have been working in line with the ELC to present the tools developed and to reflect on their tangible, measurable and observable effects.

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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Berne

  Conference, symposium - History

  The office as an interior (1880-1960)

  Au cours de la « deuxième révolution industrielle » augmente considérablement l’activité dans le tertiaire et se développent les services administratifs dans le secteur industriel et public. L’employé devient ainsi la figure sociale de la modernité urbaine, qui témoigne aussi du rôle croissant de la femme dans ce secteur professionnel. Le colloque The office as an interior (1880-1960) aborde l’essor du travail administratif entre 1880 et 1960 à travers l’analyse de l’émergence d´un espace nouveau, le bureau, qui par ses arrangements contribue à la diffusion de nouvelles formes de sociabilité et réalise des nouveaux modes d’organisation du travail.

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• 24 sep 2013

  25 sep 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  From silicosis to silica hazards: an experiment in medicine, history and the social sciences

  What are the biases inherited from the constitution of medical knowledge? How does returning to the root of “scientific truth” open new avenues to contemporary research? The present colloquium is an unprecedented interdisciplinary experiment whereby medical experts, epidemiologists and historians will question the very foundations of current medical knowledge of silica hazards, in order to discuss the unknown origin of a range of systemic diseases.

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• 11 sep 2013

  Basel

  Study days - Sociology

  Multilocal residentiality, cities and regional planning

  La multilocalité résidentielle, autrement dit habiter de façon officielle ou informelle en plusieurs endroits, est une forme de vie qui gagne en importance ces derniers temps et capte de plus en plus l’attention des médias. Ces pratiques d’habitation intermittente sur différents lieux ont des conséquences très importantes pour nos sociétés, certes pour la cohésion familiale (thème de notre précédente journée à Fribourg/Bsg) mais aussi pour la cohésion locale (participation locale) et pour l’usage des infrastructures et des services sur les différents lieux d’habitation, mais aussi par ce qu’elles créent des besoins et demandes spécifiques sur les infrastructures de transports, les offres de logements et les services (gardiennage, magasin, heure d'ouverture de l'administration, etc.). Est-ce que ces pratiques s’arrangent avec les infrastructures existantes qui ont été pensées pour la monorésidentialité ?

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• 06 oct 2013

  Evora

  Call for papers - Sociology

  40 years of democracy (ies): progresses, contradictions and prospects

  VIII Portuguese Sociological Congress

  Portuguese singularity presents today new communication bridges in comparison to other territorial realities, offering itself as a rare laboratory of sociological analysis. Regression phenomenon’s (both structural and dispositional) of articulation of social change’s asynchronous rhythms, of risk proliferation and uncertainty, conflictive conciliation of multiple modernities, within an unfinished one, challenge us to look sociologically at these last 40 years and also to think prospectively on tendencies and future challenges.   

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• 30 sep 2013

  Yokohama

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Embodying Another Self‏

  XVIII World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

  Considering the multiplicity of the selves, in the material life or in the virtual life, related to the individual or to the community, according to the reality or to the fiction, we can wonder how the self is constructed. This session explores how the constitution of the self is linked to an embodied dimension. Focused on case studies in different fieldworks, with notably questions of personal conceptions and social visibility, associated to different sociological and anthropological approaches, the session aims to present several analyses about the embodied dimension of various self conceptions.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Narrative Matters 2014

  Narrative Knowing

  Narrative Matters 2014, the 7^th Narrative Matters conference, will be held from 23^rd June to 27^th June 2014 at the University of Paris Diderot and the American University of Paris. The conference will address the theme of Narrative Knowing / Récit et savoir. This conference will bring together scholars of all disciplines — psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, feminist and gender studies, education, medicine/healthcare, social work, biology, law, theology, computer science, visual studies, etc. — to reflect on the issue of the, sometimes, contested epistemic powers of narrative.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  2 Promotionsstellen "Herausforderung Sozialstaat", HU Berlin

  Contrat doctoral à l'université Humboldt Berlin dans le projet "Saisir l'Europe", axe "Etat social".

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• 19 aoû 2013

  Frankfurt

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Promotionsstelle "Nachhaltigkeit"

  Ce contrat doctoral s'insère dans l'axe de recherche « Développement durable » du projet franco-allemand « Saisir l’Europe ». Le/La candidat.e retenu.e devra s’inscrire en formation doctorale à Francfort/Main (Allemagne).

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• 15 jui 2013

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Seventh Age of Man: Constructs, Challenges and Catch-22s

  From a Humanities Perspective

  The Institute for Transcultural and Transtextual Studies (IETT) is organising a multi-disciplinary conference on old age, interpreted as a transitional period during which individuals have to face specific issues. The conference aims to explore three major themes. The first one will lead us to address a series of questions related to aesthetic norms and social models. The second theme will focus on forms of mental and physical degeneration and will encourage us to examine the consequences of age-related disability, segregation, and exclusion. The third issue is based on the related questions of memory and transmission. It will allow us to reflect upon the transmission of traditions and on relationships within the family, partly based on authority, and/or on inherited collective values.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the African Independences: Marginalized, Forgotten, and Revived Political Actors

  The fiftieth anniversary of the African Independence has been an occasion for the East African countries and their diasporas, the international academic community and the former colonial nations to assess the economic, social and political achievements and failures of the past fifty years. However, such inventories tend to focus on the upheavals of the social, economic and political structures, sometimes on the memory of the fathers of the nation and former grand nationalistic narratives, but usually overlook political actors, whether individual or collective, which were marginalized by the men in power during the early post-independent years.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  A three year post-doc position in the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (80%)

  Le/la post-doc que nous recrutons sur un poste à 80% participera durant 3 ans au projet financé par le fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (dirigé par la prof. Mathilde Bourrier): « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic ». Il/Elle travaillera plus particulièrement sur les deux composantes du projet portant sur les facteurs organisationnels et communicationnels de la gestion de la pandémie, en Suisse, aux États-Unis et au Japon. La personne recherchée a obtenu son doctorat en sociologie ou en anthropologie depuis moins de 3 ans, d'excellentes capacités à mener des terrains de recherche dans plusieurs pays, et d'un intérêt marqué pour les questions de santé globale (global health).

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• 07 jui 2013

  08 jui 2013

  Strasbourg

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Changing the Tune: Popular Music and Politics in the XXIst century

  From the fall of communism to the Arab spring

  Popular Music scholars have devoted considerable attention to the relationship between music and power. The symbolic practices through which subcultures state and reinforce identities have been widely documented (mainly in the field of Cultural, Gender and Postcolonial Studies), as has the increasingly political and revolutionary dimensions of popular music. Most studies have focused on the genres and movements that developed with and in the aftermath of the 1960’s counterculture. Yet little has been written about how the politics of popular music has reflected the social, geopolitical and technological changes of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries, after the fall of Communism. Still, the music of the Arab Spring or of the Occupy and Indignados movements have been scarcely commented upon while they attest to significant changes in the way music is used by activists and revolutionaries today.

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• 30 avr 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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• 20 avr 2013

  Guatemala City

  Call for papers - America

  Violences, risques et crises dans les Amériques. Ruptures, mutations et permanences

  Journées des jeunes américanistes 2013

  Les « Journées des jeunes américanistes (JJA) », organisées par le Centre d’études mexicaines et centraméricaines, le Collège franco-mexicain en sciences sociales, l’Institut français d’Amérique centrale, l’Institut de recherche pour le développement et l’Institut des Amériques, sont une rencontre annuelle qui ouvre un espace de discussion, interaction et construction méthodologique dans un cadre scientifique international. C’est un espace de travail et d’échange adressé aux étudiants qui se trouvent dans leur recherche de thèse de licence, maîtrise et doctorat en sciences sociales.

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• 21 mar 2013

  22 mar 2013

  Toulouse

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  E-reputation and digital traces: instrumental dimensions and societies issues

  Cet événement réunira une communauté d'experts : juristes, économistes, sociologues, chercheurs en sciences de l'information et de la Communication, gestionnaires, informaticiens issus du monde de la recherche universitaire ainsi que des praticiens et des spécialistes de l’internet du secteur public, privé, français et étrangers. Ce colloque se nourrira en particulier de la rencontre entre le monde de la recherche scientifique et les experts praticiens. L’animation de tables rondes avec des professionnels et des chercheurs ainsi que l’organisation d’une soirée numérique visera à créer des échanges informels riches et fructueux entre le milieu de la recherche et les professionnels d’Internet. Il est à noter que c’est la première fois en France qu’une manifestation scientifique pluridisciplinaire interroge le phénomène émergent de l’e-réputation.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st century / Medizinische Expertise im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / L'expertise médicale aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Annual conference of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, September 5 – 7, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. The conference would like to address the issue from various perspectives and ask e.g. the following questions: To which levels of medical knowledge and activity (skill, professional knowledge, experience, relationship with patients) did and does the claim of expertise refer to? Which strategies, rhetorics and kinds of self-fashioning were and are used in order to achieve, retain or reject the status of expertise? Which was and is the relationship between expertise, profession(nalism), institutionalization and specialization? In what respect is there a difference between a physician's claim of expertise and that of other health professionals?

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• 15 fév 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  26th International Climate Policy PhD workshop

  For thirteen years, the ICP workshops series has been organized semi-annually under the auspices of the informal European PhD Network on International Climate Policy. It offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to present their research ideas and results, receive feedback, and exchange information and assistance in an informal setting. PhD students from all disciplines working on topics relevant to climate policy and environmental economics are invited to submit applications.

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• 31 jan 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Did you mean halal?

  Islamic Normativities, Globalization and Secularization

  The study of Islamic normative dynamics will be at the heart of this conference that will focus on ‘halal’ qualification / disqualification processes in all areas: how and by whom, for whom, for what reasons objects, discourses, practices can or are actually called "halal" or "haram"? What methods, institutions, arguments of Islamic legitimation / de-legitimation are used ? What are the procedures for monitoring compliance with the standard and how and by whom are they developed or institutionalized? Proposals may question the issues of qualification and disqualification through objects, practices, behaviours qualified as halal or haram in areas such as: food, matrimonial relationships , sexualities, finance, tourism etc. We will select in priority contributions in the social sciences and humanities, history and law, based on empirical studies, archival research, comparisons and syntheses that take a deconstructive perspective.

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• 15 fév 2013

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Multiple Representations in HBO TV Series Treme

  We are assembling a book proposal for University Press of Mississippi for an anthology on HBO’s TV Series Treme. The book aims to interrogate the multiple and complex social-historical, political, racial, and cultural constructions of reality represented in the series through the contributions of scholars from different disciplines. We are looking for extended abstract submissions reflecting diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.

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