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• 01 Feb 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Sida et sciences humaines et sociales

  Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV

  For the second International Conference for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV we invite papers that address the theme of "Knowing practices". This dual concept poses questions about the multiple practices that comprise the dynamics of the epidemic and how the practice of knowing itself, is engaged and operationalised. While papers that address the conference’s theme "Knowing practices" are especially relevant, papers contributing to the advance of rigorous social scientific and humanities approaches to HIV and take other perspectives on the social sciences and humanities are also encouraged.

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• 25 Jan 2013

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Britons and Americans in Transnational Projects, 1830s-1914

  Anglo-Saxonism and Anglobalisation in Question

  Les relations anglo-américaines sont abordées le plus souvent dans le cadre de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la diplomatie. Nous proposons de les étudier plutôt à travers l’histoire de projets internationaux, qu’ils relèvent du commerce et des affaires ou qu’ils poursuivent des objectifs politiques ou réformateurs au sens large. Le but de la journée d’études est de préciser dans quelles circonstances britanniques et américains évoquent leur histoire et leurs traditions communes, ou à l’inverse mettent l’accent sur ce qui les différencie. D’une manière plus générale, il s’agit d’enrichir la réflexion sur les pratique et les cultures de « l’anglo-saxonisme » au XIXe siècle.

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• 15 Feb 2013

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Representation

  Diasporic Subjectivity, Intimacy and Memory

  This will be the fourth meeting in the series organized by the research centre EMMA (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France) over 2011-13 which has gathered leading scholars in the field to identify and assess the joint evolutions of “Diaspora Studies” and  “Race studies” to better understand: 1) how these approaches can be cross-fertilising; 2) how socio-economic and political changes have affected race relations and diasporic communities; 3) how literature and the arts, the social sciences and cultural studies have seized that question. This project entails a redefinition of terms and concepts and the confrontation of different, but not necessarily divergent, perspectives.

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• 15 Feb 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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• 02 May 2013

  Call for papers - Representation

  Violence, genocide, wars, killings, feminicide, crime, deaths, and aesthetic representations in Latin America (19th-21st c.)

  We propose that this number be an interdisciplinary approach, one which makes use of history, sociology, anthropology, diplomacy, gender and otherness: aesthetic representations of any kind. The historical period that focuses on the eighth issue of Amerika goes from the nineteenth century to the present day. All the work relating to the past prior to the nineteenth century, linking it to the more recent periods, is welcome as well. This reflection is the product of the exchange and discussion between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and the Université de Rennes 2 (France).

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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 Feb 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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• 23 Jan 2013

  24 Jan 2013

  25 Jan 2013

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Action publique et problèmes sociaux dans les villes intermédiaires

  A Ação Pública resulta da interseção e, cada vez mais, da interdependência entre as ações que decorrem das responsabilidades respetivas das Políticas Públicas, através dos diferentes elos que a concretizam e da Sociedade Civil, através das iniciativas que a consubstanciam, entre movimentos sociais e iniciativas locais e as organizações e dispositivos que lhes dão consistência. A Ação Pública manifesta-se na construção e gestão dos problemas públicos ou sociais. O próprio processo de construção e os modos de gestão dos problemas sociais são analisadores potentes das relações de poder que existem entre os atores e das dinâmicas sociais no interior dos coletivos analisados. 

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• 07 Jan 2013	08 Jan 2013	15 Jan 2013
  17 Jan 2013

  Paris

  Lecture series - Asia

  Rob Jenkins conference cycle

  Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York

  Rob Jenkins, professeur de sciences politiques à Hunter College, City University of New York, invité par le CEIAS, donnera quatre conférences en janvier.

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• 16 Jan 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond

  Fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5)

  Historians, anthropologists as well as specialists of various scholarly traditions are invited to reflect on the question of production, transmission and preservation of administrative and legal documentation in pre-colonial Africa. The aim of this panel is to foster dialogue between scholars working on non-narrative sources, whether land charters, weddings contracts, deeds, funerary inscriptions or other archival materials. Presentations of methodological issues rather than case-studies would facilitate a comparative approach leading to a renewed understanding of the social organizations that produced these documents.

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• 07 Jan 2013

  08 Jan 2013

  09 Jan 2013

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

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  19 Oct 2012

  Mexico City

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Las cosas de la noche

  Colloque international organisé par le CEMCA

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• 09 Oct 2012

  Mexico City

  Conference, symposium - America

  Circulation internationale des connaissances

  Enjeux académiques et scientifiques dans les pays en développement

  Este Coloquio Internacional pretende reunir en México, lugar emblemático de encuentros de ideas y situado en el cruce de las Américas, a investigadores de todas las disciplinas y los invita a que presenten trabajos sobre la circulación internacional de saberes entre los países del norte (industrializados) y los del sur (en desarrollo). Con esos propósitos, busca abrir un espacio de diálogo para dar cuenta de cómo se tejen las colaboraciones internacionales entre lugares distantes y distintos, por su posición geográfica, su lengua, su historia y sus ubicaciones en un universo de producción científica globalizado. Entre las temáticas atendidas, sobresaldrá en particular la manera en que estas relaciones se inscriben en las tradiciones de cooperación disciplinaria, algunas consolidadas desde hace más de un siglo, o rompen con ellas. Asimismo, nos interesará establecer las formas en que las prioridades de la cooperación internacional en investigación han sido influenciadas por los procedimientos de garantía de calidad, aplicados desde hace casi dos décadas, y por la homogeneización creciente de los valores y parametros científicos, auspiciada desde hace unos quince años, por los organismos rectores en los campos científicos nacionales. En esta perspectiva, analizaremos las continuidades y las fracturas que en diversas disciplinas han caracterizado las cooperaciones intelectuales, cuyas modalidades de ejercicio oscilan entre la reciprocidad y la dependencia.

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• 16 Dec 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  Approaches to Complex Predicates (ACP 2013)

  CALL FOR PAPERSDeadline:  16 December 2012Complex predicates can be loosely defined as a sequence of items that behave as a single predicate, projecting a single argument structure within a clause. Each of the members of the predicate contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head.Complex predicates are of various types and are found in typologically different languages. They give rise to important empirical and theoretical issues cutting across various subfields of linguistics, such as:- Syntactic and semantic modeling of complex predicate formation: compositionality, argument structure, event structure, etc.- Typological issues in complex predicate formation- Resemblances/dissemblances between syntactic and morphological processes of lexeme formation: idiomaticity, semantic groupings, lexicalization, analogical formation, exemplarity, etc.- Production and processing of complex predicates: storage vs. online processing, acquisition, etc.- Complex predicates and multiword expressionsThe purpose of the conference is to bring together those working on complex predicates in different perspectives and with a variety of approaches.

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• 10 Dec 2012

  Paris

  Seminar - Political studies

  Methods for synthesizing knowledge

  Tools of Evidence-based policy

  The Network of Researchers on Policy and Programme Evaluation of the French Evaluation Society is pleased to invite you to a free research seminar on: Methods for Synthesizing Knowledge, to beheld on December 10th 2012 at Paris-Dauphine University, Amphitheater 11. The promotion of evidence-based policy by an increasing number of national governments and international organisations has triggered the issues of gathering available evidence on the impact of public interventions, assessing its credibility, and providing policy-makers with knowledge syntheses. Two state-of-art methods have emerged up to date. The first approach builds on the tools of evidence based medicine: systematic review and meta-analysis. The second approach, called realist synthesis, is rooted in social sciences methodologies. This research seminar will present and discuss the available methods (see programme below). The Network of Researchers on Policy and Programme Evaluation 

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• 19 Nov 2012	17 Dec 2012	21 Jan 2013
  29 Oct 2012

  Münster

  Lecture series - History

  The young generation of French medievalists invited to Munster

  Cette série de conférences vise à mieux faire connaitre les centres d’intérêts et les méthodes des jeunes collègues français en histoire médiévale en Allemagne et de stimuler les échanges  entre  médiévistes français et allemands.

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• 27 Jan 2013

  Venice

  Call for papers - Thought

  Philosophy of Social Science

  The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable invite contributions to their first joint conference. Contributions from all areas within the philosophy of the social sciences, from both philosophers and social scientists, are encouraged.  

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• 22 Nov 2012

  23 Nov 2012

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Armed Forces in Times of Decolonisation

  Workshop international organisé par l’IHA (D. Leroux, S. Prauser) dans le cadre du réseau européen "Armed forces in the Times of Decolonisation" en coopération avec l’université Paris 1 (R. Branche), l’université de Birmingham (P. Gray) ainsi que l’université de Sienne (N. Labanca).

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• 02 Nov 2012

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Science studies

  II Simposio de Becarios y Ex Becarios CONACyT en Europa

  La Maison Universitaire Franco-Mexicaine (MUFM), en collaboration avec le Conseil  National de Science et Technologie (CONACyT) et le Bureau du Parlement Européen, convoquent  toute la communauté étudiante mexicaine en Europe pour participer au Il Symposium de Boursiers et ex Boursiers du CONACyT en  Europe, qui aura lieu au siège du Parlement Européen á Strasbourg, le 29 et 30 novembre 2012. Grâce au succès du premier Symposium organisé en octobre 2011, ayant réunit une  partie des étudiants mexicains en France et en Grande Bretagne, ces institutions ont décidé de  reconduire l’expérience en mettant d’avantage l’accent sur la dimension européenne de la manifestation en convoquant toute Ia communauté mexicaine étudiante en Europe. Ce Symposium cherche à construire un espace de réflexion sur les avancées des projets de recherche des étudiants mexicains qui se trouvent actuellement en Europe. Il veille aussi à fortifier les liens au sien de la communauté scientifique du CONACyT, et à encourager l’échange d'expériences dans diverses disciplines. De plus, c’est l’occasion d’établir des relations avec les différents réseaux et associations mexicains en Europe ainsi qu’avec des personnalités et autorités mexicaines et internationales présentes pour cette rencontre.

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• 31 Jan 2013

  Call for papers - Representation

  Franco-German relations and the issues of transnational networks

  Le Franco-Allemand ou les enjeux des réseaux transnationaux

  L'année 2013 est marquée par la célébration des 50 ans du Traité de l'Elysée. C'est à cette occasion que le département des études interculturelles sous la direction de Prof. Dr. Dorothee Röseberg organise un colloque franco-allemand qui a pour sujet le Franco-Allemand. La manifestation aura lieu du 14 au 16 juin dans les bâtiments de la LEUCORA à Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Le colloque s'adresse particulièrement à de jeunes chercheurs francais et allemands qui travaillent dans le cadre de leur qualification sur des aspects du transnational.

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