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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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• 10 Nov 2021	11 Nov 2021	12 Nov 2021
  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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• 03 Dec 2021

  Guadalajara

  Call for papers - Language

  Learning assessment in relation to both national and foreign languages and culture

  Electronic journal “Verbum et Lingua” of the University of Guadalajara

  Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua y Cultura welcomes submissions for its special July 2022 issue on learning assessment in relation to both national and foreign languages and cultures. This complex area of knowledge, characterized by a plurality of approaches, tries to respond to different contexts, needs and realities. With the publication of language reference frameworks for the teaching, learning and assessment of languages and cultures, such as the European Common Framework (CEFR) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), a new vision of assessment following strictly defined guidelines has been enacted. At present, research in this field has been carried out within institutional frameworks. However, reconceptualization in the assessment of language learning positions it in much more complex contexts as it takes into account technological distance and hybrid teaching tools.

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• 17 Jan 2022

  Tokyo

  Call for papers - Law

  The judicialization of social and environmental issues in Japan

  Continuities, transformations, evolutions

  This special edition aims to gain insight into how the use of the legal system and litigation have evolved. In Japan, recourse to the courts is relatively rare, but litigations have increased since the end of the 1980s in areas such as labour, consumer protection, family law and, more recently, climate change. Is a process of “judicialization” (shihōka) underway in Japan?

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• 13 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Petropolitics in the Countries of the South

  Revue internationale des études du développement n°250 (2022-3)

  For this special issue, we consider a broad approach to the world of hydrocarbons, ranging from economics to cultural issues, and including history, politics, demography, sociology, and anthropology. Our aim is to go beyond a conception that reduces oil-producing countries to black boxes with outgoing flows of oil and gas and incoming financial flows, thus boiling everything down to this single (economic, political, and geopolitical) issue. Before causing global warming, oil had an in situ impact on territories, human communities, and ecosystems. This approach calls for a critical rereading of the abundant literature on the oil-producing countries of the South, in order to tackle oil-related phenomena differently, to identify new connections between them, and to examine those which are only little or not studied.

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• 15 Dec 2021

  Rabat

  Call for tender - Sociology

  2022 call for projects at the Jacques Berque Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  Dans le cadre de sa programmation scientifique, le centre Jacques-Berque (CJB) finance chaque année un certain nombre de projets de recherche sur le Maroc, la Mauritanie et plus largement le Maghreb sur le temps long dans les disciplines suivantes : archéologie, histoire, sociologie, anthropologie, géographie, science politique, droit, sciences économiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux projets des jeunes chercheurs et aux programmes collectifs en rapport avec la programmation scientifique du centre.

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• 31 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Law

  Gender, History, and Law

  Special Issue of Clio@Themis

  This call for article proposals sets the stage for a special section of issue 25 (2023) of the journal Clio@Themis. It is open to all scholars—whatever their relationship to the academy—from all disciplines, who work on questions that bring law and gender into conversation. The coordinators of this special section aim to reinvigorate how these questions are studied, so we are especially eager to read work from junior scholars, who we encourage to submit.

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• 28 Oct 2021

  29 Oct 2021

  Fribourg

  Conference, symposium - History

  Leseträume. Lesen als Traum im 18. Jahrhundert

  Au XVIII^e siècle, on lit plus que jamais ; on thématise et problématise à maintes reprises la lecture. Lire, et en particulier lire des romans, est particulièrement rapproché du rêve. Le colloque Rêves de lectures. Lire et rêver au XVIII^e siècle sonde les nombreux liens entre lecture et rêve sous leurs multiples aspects, au moyen de différents types de sources : écrits personnels (ou transcriptions de rêves), sources littéraires, normatives, autobiographiques, journalistiques, ou images. Il s’attache à des rêves de lectures aussi bien « authentiques » que fictifs.

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• 17 Dec 2021

  Lille

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  The empowerment of persons with intellectual disabilities through physical activity to manage their addictive behavior (POWERPID Project)

  Post-doctorat en sciences humaines et sociales et santé publique

  Ce post-doctorat, d’une durée de 18 mois renouvelable une fois, est ouvert au sein de l’équipe HADéPas (laboratoire ETHICS - EA7446 - université catholique de Lille). Il est à pourvoir à partir du 1er février 2022. Le projet POWERPID (pour « The empowerment of persons with intellectual disabilities through physical activity to manage theiraddictive behavior ») impliquera, auprès de et avec des personnes vivant la déficience intellectuelle, la co-construction d’un dispositif d’empowerment par l’activité physique, avec évaluation qualitative et réaliste du dispositif, doublée, après déploiement sur trois différents sites géographiques, d’une évaluation quantitative.

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• 25 Nov 2021

  26 Nov 2021

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Social Sciences and Biology for Understanding Emerging Diseases

  The Inception 2021 meeting is organised jointly with a social sciences symposium “Social Sciences and Biology for Understanding Emerging Diseases”. This international symposium is part of an effort at the institut Pasteur to integrate the social sciences by building dialogues between specific social sciences disciplines and biomedical researchers with diverse approaches. Researchers from differents fields of social sciences will present talks and engage in discussions around social sciences contributions to our understandings of health and illness. The symposium will focuse broadly on COVID 19 response and recovery but other health issues will be discussed.

   

   

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• 20 Nov 2021

  Call for papers - Science studies

  The frugality of research

  The journal Socio is launching a call for papers on the theme of the frugality of research. A first approach would be to trace the genealogy of the notion of “frugality,” to identify its “cause entrepreneurs”, whether they are “gurus” or middle managers, the spaces of circulation (journals, international bodies, etc.) and the financial flows that accompany its economic development. A second way of looking at this theme is to focus on the links between frugality and research in a context where the effects of ecological change are increasingly documented by scientific work. A reflection on “scientific frugality” cannot be abstracted from the degradation of scientific work in France, especially at the end of a year caught between a research reform and the context of Covid-19.

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  29 Oct 2021

  Bouaké

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Implementation of public policies and pesticides in the Global South

  Les politiques publiques relatives aux pesticides ont été élaborées et continuent à se construire, souvent accompagnées de controverses révélatrices de l’enchevêtrement complexe d’enjeux politiques, sanitaires, environnementaux ou encore économiques. Supposées orienter et encadrer les pratiques professionnelles, elles ne sont bien souvent que très partiellement, voire pas du tout mises en œuvre, en Afrique et de façon générale dans les pays du Sud. Le présent colloque se veut un rendez-vous scientifique visant à analyser la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques relatives aux pesticides dans les pays du Sud, selon différentes approches issues principalement mais non exclusivement des sciences sociales. 

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• 20 Dec 2021

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  La presse culturelle aujourd’hui : un genre médiatique en reconfiguration ?

  Nowadays, the cultural press can take a variety of formats and aspects, depending on the angle chosen, the readership or the specific issues being tackled. This international symposium has the ambition of shedding light on this broad spectrum and outline the different ways in which media (both traditional and digital) can examine and write about visual arts, architecture, graphic design, cinema, music, literature, and so on. Our goal in this conference is to implement an interdisciplinary approach to the matter of the artistic and cultural press. Four topics are outlined: “Historical models and influence”; “Diversification of online editorial forms”; “editorial and discursive norms: from specificity to adaptation”; “the art press in the expanded field”.

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• 09 Nov 2021

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Education

  Welcome to higher education in France and the UK

  Transitions, orientations, mobility and inequalities

  This international conference will broach transition to higher education from the standpoint of welcome practices for incoming students – both home and international students - implemented by higher education institutions, state agencies and private actors. This includes first institutional contacts - even before their enrolment - as well as the support and care needed for their institutional and intellectual integration afterwards. Researchers from France and the UK will pay particular attention to processes that hinder newcomers’ inclusion in the context of internationalisation, growing managerialism and marketisation of European higher education.

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• 12 Nov 2021

  Lyon

  Study days - Asia

  Aramaic in Greek script: epigraphy and code-switching in the Roman Near East

  Épigraphie et interférences linguistiques au Proche-Orient sous l’Empire romain

  The international round table follows two Lyon symposia on the epigraphy of the Near East (2015) and Jordan (2017). It will bring Hellenists into dialogue with specialists in Semitic languages in order to draw up an assessment of the linguistic interference between Aramaic and Greek in the Near East during the Roman Empire. Together with a workshop devoted to the inscriptions of the Bayt Ras tomb, this scientific event will provide a unique opportunity to put into perspective the ongoing study of this exceptional monument.

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• 01 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Multiple Citizenships: Mobility as a Heritage and as a Horizon

  The number of people holding at least two citizenships is constantly increasing in the world. While current mobility is a major factor in this phenomenon, the mobility of past generations and changes operated by many countries in their citizenship law are also at issue here. However, French research has so far focused almost exclusively on multiple citizenships resulting from the acquisition of the citizenship of the host country by an immigrant or his/her children. The aim of this special issue is to gather case studies on other modalities of access to multiple citizenships in Europe and beyond. In doing so, it aims to examine afresh the meaning and representations associated with this phenomenon, the multiple uses that one can make of the different citizenships he or she holds, as well as the link between citizenship and the feeling of national belonging.

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• 25 Nov 2021

  26 Nov 2021

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Emerging countries at the heart of major global balances

  The purpose of the conference is to discuss the place of emerging countries in the major world balances. During a previous conference held on 24 October 2019, we identified elements of the notion of emerging countries and noted that they are looking for ways to rebalance power on the international scene. Research must be continued to determine whether their influence in many areas leads to a restructuring of international relations. After exploring international economic law in a comprehensive way, the aim is to examine in detail the positions of emerging countries on economic, political and legal issues: trade, debt and capital flows, competition, regional or global leadership, environment, climate, health and CSR, and the functioning of international organisations. The conference is therefore intended to be multidisciplinary.

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