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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 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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• 10 déc 2015

  11 déc 2015

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - History

  Endowment for transmission? The social and economic history of the Jewish family (15th-19th centuries)

  Une histoire économique et sociale de la famille juive (XVe-XIXe siècle)

  La storia ebraica costituisce un capitolo rilevante e particolarmente fecondo dell’attuale dibattito scientifico, sia sul versante storico-economico, che su quello antropologico, culturale e religioso. All’interno di un orizzonte di ricerca molto vasto, che identifica i Jewish studies come vero e proprio campo disciplinare, il convegno si propone di indagare, attraverso un’ottica comparativa, uno specifico argomento: le forme e le funzioni di utilizzo delle doti. L’istituzione dotale si configurava come uno degli elementi strategici nelle forme di organizzazione delle società ebraiche in Antico regime. Il suo studio ravvicinato e comparato consente, pertanto, di gettare una luce su molteplici aspetti.

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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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• 16 oct 2015	11 déc 2015	18 mar 2016
  15 avr 2016	13 mai 2016

  Paris

  Seminar - Urban studies

  Migrants in Global Metropolises

  MAGMET research and doctoral seminar

  L'objectif de ce séminaire consiste à articuler transformations urbaines, migration et mondialisation pour mieux comprendre la fabrication des villes-mondes plurielles, marquées par de très forts taux d’immigration et de part de population étrangère. Partant des pratiques et des représentations des différents acteurs sociaux, économiques et politiques qui produisent et vivent dans ces villes, il s’intéresse aux modalités d’incarnation socio-spatiales de la diversité, ainsi qu’à sa gestion. En pensant simultanément les connexions et les ancrages, en jouant systématiquement sur l’articulation des échelles, l’enjeu du séminaire est d’élaborer un cadre analytique théorique comparatif afin de réfléchir aux modes de transformation des métropoles plurielles, engagées dans des dynamiques de mondialisation, en fonction de leur insertion dans les réseaux globalisés, de leur taille démographique et de leurs héritages et contextes politiques.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Dakar

  Call for papers - History

  Repentance

  Origin(s) and latest developments

  The question of repentance now applies to the public sphere and concerns huge collective bodies as well as individuals. It has a complex relationship with history. Repentance has even become a global issue and now concerns a wide range of geographical and cultural areas as well taking on many forms referring to facts whose scale, temporal distance or context are in no way comparable with it.  Indeed, the roots of repentance are to be found in many traditions (religious, cultural, national and community) and nowadays, announcements (through the media at large) give rise to secular forms of repentance which are devoid of the dimensions that traditionally form the definition of repentance.    

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• 26 nov 2015

  27 nov 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Economy

  Basic rights, relational ethics and financial constraints

  The Conference "Basic rights, relational ethics and financial constraints" will explore, from a philosophical perspective, the various ways in which basic rights, interpersonal, professional and institutional relations, and financial constraints interact. Given the gap between the generality of basic ethical principles and the norms of practice in various areas of social life, there is usually no direct or obvious way from principles to detailed and effective regulation.

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• 17 nov 2015	18 nov 2015	19 nov 2015
  20 nov 2015

  Uccle | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies

  2e colloque international sur les études Ouïghoures

  The Uyghurs are one of the ten most populous stateless nations in the world. While they have a long history of cultural accomplishments and political influences, they have remained marginal in international scholarship given their ambiguous position both in regional studies and in geopolitics. This conference is the second attempt to bring together a broad spectrum of the international community of scholars whose research is focused on the Uyghur people’s history, culture, society.

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• 15 nov 2015

  Call for papers - America

  Undertaking and translating culture. The study of Amerindian cases

  En el mundo contemporáneo indígena y amazónico especialmente, observamos desde hace algún tiempo nuevas maneras de mostrarse o darse a ver, a veces a través de un intercambio de servicios o una prestación cultural, que remite a formas empresariales poco investigadas como el ecoturismo comunitario, la danza folklórica, la gastronomía indígena, la empresa comunitaria, entre otros. Para difundir esta oferta, los modos de comunicación modernos utilizados son variados: videos, blogs, redes sociales, etc., que incluyen escrituras diversas. A partir de estudios de casos etnográficos precisos, nos interrogaremos sobre la relación entre las formas de mostración indígena y los contextos económico, social y político en los que emergen; los contenidos expuestos y sus formas; los actores involucrados en estos procesos; y lo que es un empresario indígena hoy en día. El objetivo de este panel es el de presentar las premisas de una investigación sobre estos problemas emergentes.  

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• 18 nov 2015

  Neuilly-sur-Seine

  Miscellaneous information - Sociology

  Towards a History of Socioeconomic Rights

  This research workshop is organized by Charles Walton, fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies.

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• 01 oct 2016

  Call for papers - Thought

  Faces of Eros

  Journal of Phenomenological and Existential Theory and Culture

  Eros plays a central role in Western thought. In the philosophical and spiritual traditions, it usually refers to physical love and desire. Eros is a recurring character in the pre-Socratic cosmogonies, and it is the main impulse of the philosophical quest for truth in Plato’s Phaedrus. This Special Topics issue of PhænEx wishes to give a new impulse to philosophical reflections on this fundamental and ambiguous phenomenon, following an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersection of phenomenology, post-structuralism, and social sciences (psychology, sociology, sexology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.).

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• 30 oct 2015

  Athens

  Call for papers - Modern

  Green infrastructure strategies and lighting: ecological solutions for cities and territories

  The International SD-Med 2015 (Sustaible development in Mediterranean) Meeting is part of the UNESCO Conferences in the framework of the International Year of Light 2015. It will be entitled: Green infrastructure and lighting strategies : Nature-based solutions for cities and territories. The meeting has been placed under the aegis of the UNESCO and the Greek Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Questioning self-medication

  A socially and geographically situated bricolage

  Treating oneself is a controversial practice: scorned in the name of the health risks it runs, self-treatment may also be praised in the name of the independence it expresses. The messages of public health authorities are at the heart of the controversy, emphasizing risk one moment and their potential for patient responsibility the next. Such contradictory injunctions also affect the practices of care providers. The conference has chosen to allow comparisons and confrontations between these various disciplinary approaches as well as distinct research field sites (North/South, North/North, South/South). These practices and their determinants have to be more finely mapped and analyzed to put these analyses – by definition always partial, and theoretically, historically, and geographically situated – in perspective.

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• 20 oct 2015

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sociological appraisal and social changes in Morocco

  Dans ces moments de transitions, sociopolitiques, culturelles et démographiques que connaît le Maroc, le rôle que doivent jouer les sciences sociales est plus que jamais décisif. Car celles-ci permettraient-elles sans doute de saisir et d’analyser les temporalités dans lesquelles se tracent des devenirs à la fois anthropologique et sociopolitique. Le colloque « Bilan  sociologique et changements sociaux au Maroc » qu’organise le B.E.S.M. s’inscrit justement dans cette logique. Il s’agit en plus de faire un bilan synthétique et analytique de l’apport des sciences sociales durant ces deux dernières décennies – relatif aux domaines sociologiques importants sur lesquels elles ont focalisé et des questionnements anthropologiques qu’elles ont ouverts – d’ouvrir un débat interdisciplinaire neuf et critique, à partir de perspectives différentes mais complémentaires, sur les nouvelles dynamiques sociales qui se déploient et se reformulent dans le Maroc d’aujourd’hui. Des dynamiques que nous comptons, en l’occurrence, saisir à travers des pratiques et des processus sociologiques, en donnant à ce terme une dimension globale qui réfère aux expressions religieuses et culturelles, aux articulations politiques et économiques ainsi qu’aux multiples relations entre les catégories individuelles et collectives qui forment la société marocaine.

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• 31 jan 2016

  Pessac

  Call for papers - America

  Journeys, exile and migrations in Latino-American literature of the 21st century

  15 years of migrant writing 2000-2015

  Quelles sont les  stratégies discursives à l’œuvre dans la représentation des migrations internes et externes ? Comment les déplacements plus ou moins lointains sont-ils transfigurés dans la littérature contemporaine latino-américaine ? Comment sont construites les identités mobiles ? Par quelles voix/es s’expriment les personnages voyageurs ou migrants ? Parmi les nombreux auteurs représentatifs de ces nouvelles orientations qui clôturent le boom et l’étape post-boom, on citera Jorge Benavides, Tomás González, Wendy Guerra, Carla Guelfenbein, Eduardo Lalo, Guadalupe Nettel, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Andrés Neuman, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Hebe Uhart, Leonardo Valencia.

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• 09 sep 2015	28 sep 2015	14 sep 2015
  16 sep 2015	21 sep 2015	...

  Rio de Janeiro

  Lecture series - Thought

  Três franceses e uma alemã

  Marcos do pensamento Ocidental

  Le projet a été conçu à partir de quatre européens qui ont fortement influencé la pensée occidentale au cours du XX^e siècle. Leurs œuvres sont une référence quand il s’agit de questions impliquant la transdisciplinarité, et, en même temps, d’une perspective non-eurocentrique. Malgré la spécifité de chacun de ces discours, on peut les rassembler autour tant de la problématique du privilège du temps présent que de la production de subjectivité. La répercussion de leurs travaux au Brésil et en Amérique Latine n’a jamais cessé de jeter des lumières sur les enjeux concernant l’ethos de ces pays et ses lectures possibles.

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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Toward a new extractivist paradigm in the Global North?

  24th World Congress of Political Science (IPSA 2016)

  This panel aims to critically analyze the ongoing revival of subsurface natural resources extraction in Western countries. Considering the new mining projects emerging in France and in Quebec, for example, but also the recent boom for unconventional oil and gas across the globe, questions on the political aspects of these projects emerge: Which political factors contribute to relocate extractive industries in Western countries where they tended to be declining? Is there qualitative change during the planning and implementation phases of projects, towards public participation and consultation or community profit-sharing?

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• 19 oct 2015

  Addis Ababa

  Call for papers - Africa

  Making heritage in Ethiopia

  Faire le patrimoine en Éthiopie

  Annales d’Éthiopie, the academic journal of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa), launches a call for papers for its issue 31 (2016) about "Making heritage in Ethiopia".

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• 15 nov 2015

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Modernist Emotions

  The second international conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies

  In continuation of the society’s inaugural conference on Modernist communities, we now propose to explore the debate over emotions in the Modernist era. We hope to foster reflection and discussion that will go beyond the paradox of a passionately anti-emotional Modernism towards a reconsideration of the large extent to which Modernism attempts to channel, remotivate, and revalue the power of emotion.

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• 05 sep 2015

  Jendouba

  Call for papers - Thought

  Social change in Tunisia in the contemporary era

  A tribute to Hédi Timoumi

  Les participants à ce grand événement sont appelés à présenter des actes qui ont un rapport avec un des thèmes sur lesquels Hédi Timoumi a travaillé. En réalité, l’occasion nous sera donné, non seulement de rendre un hommage au travail réalisé par si Hédi, mais d’élargir les perspectives qu’il ouvre et de continuer la discussion qu’il a ouverte par ses écrits, des interventions et son enseignement.

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