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• 10 Jan 2022

  Call for papers - Thought

  Thinking the Anthropocene debate with Merleau-Ponty

  Chiasmi International 24, thematic section on “Thinking the Anthropocene debate with Merleau-Ponty,” will investigate the possible convergences and divergences between Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thinking and the notion of Anthropocene as well as the contributions that the work of the French thinker can offer the latter, in view of its possible enrichment and its further problematization.

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• 07 Jan 2022

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Europe

  The Fourth Conference in Balkan Studies

  Connected Balkans

  The Fourth Conference in Balkan Studies, organized by the French Association of Balkan Studies (AFEBalk), will be held at the MuCEM in Marseille between June 30 and July 2, 2022. This conference aims to pursue the work carried out during previous meetings and to bring together the driving forces of research on the Balkans around a transversal theme. This year, the theme “connected Balkans” will allow a general conference in area studies open to all relevant disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences. It encourages critical reflection on regional approaches and on the organization of knowledge, by engaging both with comparative and multi-scaled analysis.

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• 20 Jun 2022

  31 Jan 2022

  Call for papers - History

  The Boundaries of Water

  Frontière·s. Revue d’archéologie, histoire et histoire de l’art

  By its nature, its cycles and the diversity of its states, watermaterializes different notions of the border. It can representand indicate a limit, a rupture, a separation betweenspaces and human groups. Conversely, it is also a mediumof exchange and contact between communities andacts as a bridge between the terrestrial and spiritual worlds. For this seventh issue, the authors are invited to examine, amongother things: the physical boundaries of water as topographic and hydrographicobstacles, political and territorial boundaries, the social boundaries of water and symbolic boundaries based on the values attached to water.

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• 15 Dec 2021

  Lille

  Call for papers - Europe

  The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550)

  How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities

  The AGRELITA project ERC n° 101018777 has been launched on October 1st 2021. It is a 5-year project (2021-2026) financed on an ERC Advanced Grant 2020 through the European Union’s Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020.

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• 10 Dec 2021

  Aubervilliers

  Study days - History

  Telling, exhibiting and commemorating minority histories in the United States

  U.S. museums and historic sites, and minority narratives

  Critical perspectives have contributed to the development of research on minority histories, which can be approached in two ways: on the one hand from the point of view of the domination that is exercised, on the other hand from the point of view of the experiences of members of the minority. Minority narratives mobilize collective memories and processes of patrimonialization and different mediations of history, notably in the school and medias. We propose to focus on one of their concrete forms, namely museums and heritage sites. Museums are indeed at the focus of political and historiographic issues in the way they articulate, or not, the narrative of minorities and the national narrative.The question of the mediation of history, here approached through the prism of museum institutions and heritage sites, as well as the articulation between past and present, will be our focus.

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• 20 Dec 2021

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Directors of Associated Studies program (DEA), 2022

  Créé en 1975, à l’initiative de Fernand Braudel en accord avec le secrétariat d’état aux universités, direction des enseignements supérieurs et de la recherche, le programme « directeurs d’études associés » (DEA) est le plus ancien programme de mobilité internationale de la fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. Il permet d’inviter des personnalités scientifiques étrangères originaires de tous les continents pour une durée de quatre à six semaines afin de soutenir leurs travaux en sciences humaines et sociales en France ainsi que la création de réseaux de recherche internationaux et la prise de contact avec des chercheurs sur place.

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• 13 Dec 2021

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Darkness

  Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, n° 2023 – 1

  For its 2023 – 1 issue, coordinated with the Indian art historian Kavita Singh, the journal Perspective turns towards darkness as a theme to question our largely habitual and reflexive association of light with knowledge, positivity, clarity, and, on the other hand, of darkness with non-knowledge, negativity, obscurity. It invites reflections on the discipline of art history through the prism of shadows.

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• 09 Jan 2022

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Chercheur∙se pour le département d’histoire contemporaine (XIXe–XXIe siècle) à l’Institut historique allemand

  Researcher at the department of contemporary history (19th-21st century) at the German Historcal Institute in Paris

  L’institut historique allemand (IHA), centre de recherche de la fondation publique Max Weber – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, recrute un∙e chercheur∙se pour le département de recherche en histoire contemporaine (XIX^e–XXI^e siècle). L’institut historique allemand travaille sous la devise « Recherche – Médiation – Qualification » dans le domaine de l’histoire française, franco-allemande et ouest-européenne, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, et joue un rôle de premier plan dans la médiation entre l’Allemagne et la France. L’histoire numérique et l’Afrique subsaharienne constituent des axes de recherche complémentaires.

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• 20 Jan 2022

  Liège

  Call for papers - History

  Did you say “authentic”?

  6th International Doctoral Days of “Transitions” (ULiège)

  On the 5th and 6th of May, 2022, the sixth edition of the Research Unit Transitions (Research Department on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period)’s international Doctoral Days will be held at the University of Liège. Organised in partnership with the Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM) of the University of Poitiers, these days will be structured around the theme of authenticity. The notion of authenticity is by its very nature polysemous and complex to define. The aim of these Doctoral Days is to examine authenticity in its various meanings and according to the various methodological approaches pertaining to different fields of research. The presentations will be oriented according to two distinct, but complementary axes: “The object to the test of time” and “Authenticity, a guarantee of truth?”.

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• 10 Dec 2021

  11 Dec 2021

  Conference, symposium - History

  Crossed views on the construction of river landscapes

  Today's rivers are the result of a complex and continuous metamorphosis in which the human footprint has become major since the industrial revolution. Its recent impact has largely obscured the characteristics of older river landscapes. The aim of this conference is to question, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the sources for studying the dynamics and/or the social, technical, legal and political contexts of fluvial or fluviomaritime spaces, to outline their reconstitution and to model their evolution until the beginning of the 20^th century. Facilities and port spaces, temporalities of construction of fluvial landscapes and causes, modalities and consequences - ecological, hydrological, archaeological - of the transition to new landscape sequences will be questioned.

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• 17 Nov 2021

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  19 Nov 2021

  Brest

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  What is a flag? Socio-history of political unveiling

  World, 19th-21st centuries

  What is a flag? The question is apparently very banal. Many works are interested in its symbolism. The symposium intends to take a step aside. The flag as an expression, minor, major, of a political unveiling (the flag is considered here as a latent ready-to-use resource), will exclusively hold our attention. The meeting will not only focus on national emblems. The flags of the unions, of the movements of identity claim, the banners of the supporters or those used in apparently folkloric frameworks have their place there as soon as their uses, the gestures and the practices of their actors formally or informally register on a political terrain.

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• 01 Dec 2021

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Revue « Territoires politiques » - Varia

  The research group called the “groupe d’études sur les dynamiques politiques” of the association Groupe d’études sur le Cameroun (GEC) launches for the promotion and dissemination of research, a scientific journal entitled Territoires politiques; a journal devoted to the study of politics in its many manifestations, it intends to give prominence to empirical research by publishing thematic issues and various issues three times a year. The journal Territoires politiques aims to be the place par excellence for debates and controversies as long as they are informed and respectful of ethics and the requirements of scientific courtesy. This first issue will be devoted exclusively to unpublished articles with a strong empirical basis.

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• 30 Jun 2022

  Call for papers - Education

  From improvisation to formal debate

  Revue « Études en didactique des langues » n°39

  Spontaneous speaking and oral interaction between students are necessary in foreign language teaching and learning. One of the key educational issues in teaching, and particularly in pre-vocational learning, is that of expressing oneself well orally, of convincing and persuading through speech, through example, through discourse. This EDL issue aims at considering the various forms of debating within the foreign language acquisition process.

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• 01 Dec 2021

  Orléans

  Call for papers - History

  Ireland in the Concert of Nations, 1922-2022

  2022 SOFEIR Congress

  This SOFEIR (société française d’études irlandaises) Congress wishes to mark the centenary by questioning Ireland's place as an island, as a state and a society or societies within the international context, down the years ever since partition, and also from a contemporary perspective. It will also look at the cultural, social, political and economic developments of the country in a comparative manner, and by including all possible objects of study without omitting literary, artistic or cinematic representations.

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• 08 Dec 2021

  La Plaine-Saint-Denis

  Study days - Geography

  Scientific congresses and knowledge networks

  Issues and methods for processing event participation data

  This research day focuses on scientific congresses and conferences as both geographical and disciplinary spaces for the circulation of knowledge. Emphasis is placed on the methods available for studying data on events’ participation, noting that unlike the study of bibliographic corpora, which benefit from well-stabilised bibliometric methodologies, the study of scientific events not as well established. Different approaches will be addressed: ethnography, analysis of co-participation networks, content analysis. By bringing together historians working on congresses from the turn of the 20th century with social scientists working on congresses from the second half of the 20th century and today, the day will bring out similarities but also differences in approaches, types of sources, questions and methodological obstacles.

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• 24 Nov 2021

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  Whither the Spiritual? Rethinking Secularism’s Legacy in post-Ottoman Art

  This dossier examines—and challenges—the implications of art history’s secular tilt—what Shaw has called an over-reliance on “Christian-based ideas of visuality” - on the study of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East. It aims to consider what new explorations in this field can offer for rethinking both art history and spirituality’s relationship to empirical argument and experience as cornerstones of modernity in a western modality.

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• 18 Nov 2021

  19 Nov 2021

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Xérographie : artistes femmes (1965-1990)

  Xerography: Women Artists, 1965-1990

  This symposium offers a state of the field reflection on women artists’ use of xerography, a practice that, to date, has not been the subject of any in-depth study. Appearing in the artistic field during the 1960s, xerography (from the Greek xeros, “dry” and graphein “to write”) appears as an in-between practice bordered upstream by photography and downstream by the advent of the digital image. While male artists did explore the new technology in their work, the emergence of this phenomenon and its development, particularly on American soil, were essentially the work of female artists. Xerography was an Intermedial practice par excellence; it challenged the notion of medium specificity by the production of an infinitely reproducible mechanical image and was thus experienced as a threat to the dominant doctrine of medium specificity.

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  13 Nov 2021

  Quito | Mexico City

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Climate change and digital sound and audiovisual preservation

  IV International Congress of Digital Archives

  El cambio climático es el proceso que pone en riesgo la vida, la salud y el desarrollo de las naciones. De acuerdo con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, en muchos países las temperaturas han presentado niveles máximos sin precedentes, los niveles de gases de efecto invernadero están aumentando, el nivel del mar está subiendo y los desastres naturales se agravan. Las soluciones encaminadas a crear economías verdes y sustentables van acompañadas de cambios en diferentes aspectos de la actividad humana. La investigación científica ocupa un espacio relevante y necesario para formular aportaciones que minimicen el impacto del cambio climático en la sociedad. Uno de los ámbitos poco estudiados, con incidencia en el cambio climático, es el relativo a los archivos digitales sonoros y audiovisuales. No obstante que la preservación digital de archivos sonoros y audiovisuales genera de forma constante basura tecnológica y requiere del uso continuo de energía.

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• 15 Apr 2022

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  To the rescue of minority groups. Gender, migration and racism in heritage and museums

  The gradual transformation experienced by museums in the last few years has fostered the incorporation into exhibition spaces of social minorities hitherto barred from them due to their social invisibility, exclusion and marginalisation. Occidentalism and European-centred perspectives gave rise to decontextualised, distorted and racial exhibition criteria constructed from a biased view of otherness.

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• 20 Nov 2021

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Hierarchies of knowledge production and power relations in academic postcolonial settings

  The controversial concept of decolonization gives rise to various mobilizations in sometimes very different contexts. In the form of militant claims or scientific projects, this concept has both a transformative potential and a political and normative content. In light of the debates in intellectual and activist circles, “decolonizing” is not unanimously accepted. The concept creates polarizing debates, marked by multiple forms of violence, and questioning privilege and discrimination. This special issue intends to explore empirically the expressions, experiences and reshuffling of asymmetrical relations in the production and dissemination of knowledge within academia, in light of post- and decolonial debates. 

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