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• 30 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Ethnic or national minorities. Between renewal and permanence

  Belgéo Review

  The coordinaters of this issue of he Belgéo review plan to reflect about the "ethnic or national minorities", two polysemous concepts here perceived in a way opened to interpretation even if they are inscribed in P. Poutignat and J. Streiff-Fénart’s definition, when they state that these groups “only exist thanks to the subjective belief their members share that they constitute a community.” The minority group is dialectically linked to the existence of a majority. It can be said “ethnic” because of racial parameters but above all because of the presence of linguistic, religious, cultural or other discriminating and specific markers. The will to be different expresses itself in various ways – instutional or not – and leads to very diverse situations, located between resistance and cooperation, forced integration and autonomy. The way to name places, individuals, but also their status – granted or claimed for – their visibility in the social and political space, are elements characterizing the notion of “otherness”.

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• 15 sep 2013

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - Modern

  Parenthèses

  Am 28. und 29. März 2014 wird das Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (LRL EA 999) der Université Blaise Pascal das im Jahresrhythmus stattfindende internationale Kolloquium der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaftler Frankreichs in Clermont-Ferrand organisieren. Das Kolloquium soll zur Diskussion dieses in allen linguistischen Perspektiven wichtigen Phänomens einen Betrag leisten und zur präziseren Erfassung des Forschungsobjekts selbst, seiner Relationen zum Ko(n)text und seiner kommunikativen und diskursiven Implikationen dienen.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  The Office as an interior (1880-1960)

  The so-called “second industrial revolution” meant a significant growth in the tertiary sector (banks, insurance companies, etc.); at the same time new administrative bodies arose both in industry and at agencies and public authorities. This went hand in hand with a massive increase in the numbers of employees. The employee became the socio-professional figure of the urban modernity, whereas the professional woman became increasingly important. The symposium addresses the development of the office in order to analyse the interdependency between physical and social space, materiality and practices, strategies and tactics, structures and individuals. Likewise, it is intended to approach the office from a historical perspective, as attention is directed towards the significance of the office for structuring and transforming the sociocultural situation from the turn of the last century through the end of the 1950’s.

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• 15 avr 2013

  Tarragona

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Ensembles résidentiels fermés

  Vingt-cinquième conférence du réseau European Network for Housing Research

  Cities all over the world are witnessing the spread of residential developments of private neighborhoods in a variety of forms: Gated Communities, common interest developments, private subdivisions, lifestyle communities, etc. These types of neighborhoods had once been the home of the rich and wealthy, but have recently encountered a large base of customers from within the general public.

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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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• 31 mar 2013

  Rome

  Call for papers - Europe

  Economic recession: interpretations, performances and reifications in the tourism domain

  Fourth EUGEO conference

  Dans le cadre de la quatrième conférence des Sociétés de Géographie (EUGEO 2013) qui sera organisée à Rome les 5-7 septembre 2013, nous proposons une session spéciale qui analysera les relations entre tourisme et récession économique.

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• 15 avr 2013

  Valence-sur-Baïse

  Call for papers - History

  Rural Archeology and Rural History (Middle Ages – Modern era)

  2nd Rural History Summer School

  “Rural Archaeology and Rural History – Middle Ages – Modern era” The theme chosen for this 2013 edition of the Rural History Summer School will allow us to consider the relationship between rural archeology and history. More than the oppositions, it seems it is the relationships, the combinations and the intertwining of disciplines, that need to be questioned through the different scientific traditions in Europe (England, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy). This European overview will be the major focus of this 2013 summer school. The emphasis will also be put on the recent development of post-medieval archaeology, practiced in England and Italy for example, but still embryonic in several European countries. The interrogations will dwell on rescue and commercial Archeology and on its methods and results.

   

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• 15 mar 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Forms and possibilities of communication in the Middle Ages

  Une définition appropriée à ce que l’on entend par « La communication au Moyen Âge » n’existe pas. Derrière le concept général de « communication » se cache une multitude de significations et d’expressions différentes. La théorie et la pratique ont la particularité de se présenter sous de multiples formes : c’est pourquoi les définitions simplifiées s’éliminent d’elles-mêmes. Pourtant, au cours de ces dernières décennies, la recherche médiévistique sur la communication a traité d’un grand nombre d’aspects, permettant des nouvelles approches avec ce problème complexe. Au cours de l’Université d’été, ces différents points d’interprétation et d’explication devront être discutés.

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• 21 mar 2013

  Florence

  Call for papers - Information

  Going digital: emerging booktrade organizations

  Livre et numérique : quelles organisations ?

  The purpose of this Research Conference, led by the universities of Paris, Oxford Brookes, Leipzig, Ljubljana, Milan, is not merely to analyse and question the book market and its economy but most of all to try to understand the evolutions led by the transformations the book is undergoing as an object, on a European scale.

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• 24 mar 2013

  London

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Healthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe. The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700)

  Vivre sainement dans l'Europe moderne. Théorie et pratique des six choses non-naturelles (1400-1700)

  This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on topics related to the role played by the six Non-Naturals in health maintenance in the late-medieval and early modern period. It is well-known that health was thought to depend on the regulation of the six key factors affecting body functions: the air one breathes, sleep, food and drink, evacuations, movement and emotions. In pre-modern medicine careful management of these spheres of life was regarded as crucial if one wished to prevent disease.

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• 25 jan 2013

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Nomadism of Social Anthropologists

  CFP Midterm Conference of the Europeanist Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists

  While anthropologists of the past decades have devoted increasing attention both to questions of reflexivity and to people “on the move” such as migrants, relatively little attention has focused on the geographical and cultural movement of social anthropologists themselves, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Even if there is growing interest in non-hegemonic anthropologies by scholars who have often lived in several countries  and recent work on “the ethnographic self as resource” argues that anthropologists’ personal experiences provide potentially insightful ethnographic data that can enrich their scientific analysis, the consequences of past and present anthropologists’ nomadism on their own research – including their training, career and grant opportunities – have not been thoroughly analysed. It is common knowledge that today, in Europe and beyond, being “on the move” has increasingly become a part of many anthropologists’ lives. 

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• 28 fév 2013

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Local Democratic Innovations

  CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and FACTS Initiative are pleased to announce a call for proposals on local democratic innovations. Contribute and send an abstract on any innovative project or initiative on governance, participation and accountability at the local and national levels. It can be selected to be published in a special issue of the FACTS Reports to be released in the summer 2013.

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• 15 mar 2013

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Economy

  12th cycle of Louis-André Gérard-Varet conference days in Public Economics

  Launched in 2002, this yearly conference aims at encouraging production and diffusion of high quality research in public economics, with a special emphasis toward results that clearly contribute to shed light on various aspects of “real world ” public decision making. In this sense, this conference is in the spirit of the project of developing the Institut d’Economie Publique (IDEP) to which Louis-André Gérard -Varet devoted the last years of his life.

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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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• 01 fév 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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• 15 fév 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 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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• 02 mai 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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