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• 15 Nov 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  When cities meet forests

  Environmental approaches of interactions between cities and forest supplies during the Middles Ages and the Early modern period. 12th International Conference on urban History, European Association for Urban History – Main Session M16

  As places of consumption and production European medieval and early modern cities exerted a enormous pressure on neighbouring woodlands. Some historical studies have already discussed the way cities tried to impone their control on these lands emphasizing the diversity of needs which were fulfilled by forest exploitation (wood, timber, charcoal, grazing…). They often concluded that urban pressure resulted in an inexorable degradation of the forest cover. Indeed local woodlands and forests products could probably never meet the demand. In order to face shortage or, better, to prevent it, urban authorities attempted on one hand to extend their control on more and more distant forests and to attract interregional or « international » trade flows. On the other hand, they tried to regulate the local market so as to ensure access to several important needs regarding urban economy (charcoal, timber).

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• 04 Oct 2013

  05 Oct 2013

  Nájera

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  The commons in the european medieval city

  This Academic Meetings seek to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Each conference has one particular special thematic strand on an area of interdisciplinary study in a wider context. The topic of this year is about ‘The commons in the european medieval city’. We will analize: the terminology of urban popular groups: Commons, people, community, etc. ; levels of fortune ; the social and geographical mobility ; work and social identity ; political participation ; urban revolts.

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• 25 Sep 2013

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - Economy

  Global change adaptation: Impact of governance schemes on biodiversity and landscapes

  The aim of this conference is to contribute to the general ideas evolution on governance enabling to adapt to global change through biodiversity and cultural landscapes preservation. Many countries have established various institutions to facilitate their sustainable development, such as expert groups, advisory consultants, assessment procedures, evaluation clauses, incentive and regulation policies. Until very recently, policies aimed at mitigating biodiversity erosion, and maintain landscape quality. But more and more people wonder how to design policies going forward simple conservation logics towards more active policies where biodiversity elements contribute to sustainable development. Policies aiming at progressively developing biodiversity (and not only mitigating its erosion), at integrating landscapes to a global management of local development, do need design patterns that integrate human activities and involve the different actors.

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• 12 Sep 2013

  13 Sep 2013

  Villeneuve-d'Ascq

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Morphology and its interfaces

  Symposium organisé par l'UMR 8163 savoirs, textes, langage

  Le premier colloque international « La morphologie et ses interfaces » se tiendra à l'université Lille 3, les 12 et 13 septembre 2013. Le symposium abordera les questions liées aux interfaces que la morphologie peut construire avec d'autres disciplines linguistiques : les interfaces internes entre morphologie flexionnelle et dérivationnelle ou interfaces externes entre la morphologie et la syntaxe, la pragmatique, la traduction, la phonologie, le lexique, la linguistique computationnelle, et ainsi de suite.

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• 18 Sep 2013

  19 Sep 2013

  Aachen

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Franco-German cultural relationships between 1945-1960

  50 Jahre nach Abschluss der Elysée-Verträge mustert dieses Kolloquium die ersten eineinhalb Jahrzehnte der deutsch-französischen Kulturbeziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Neben einer Vergewisserung über theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen dieses Themas stehen vor allem bisher in der Forschung weniger beachtete Begegnungen, Konstellationen und Mittlerfiguren im Mittelpunkt.

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• 11 Sep 2013

  Basel

  Study days - Sociology

  Multilocal residentiality, cities and regional planning

  La multilocalité résidentielle, autrement dit habiter de façon officielle ou informelle en plusieurs endroits, est une forme de vie qui gagne en importance ces derniers temps et capte de plus en plus l’attention des médias. Ces pratiques d’habitation intermittente sur différents lieux ont des conséquences très importantes pour nos sociétés, certes pour la cohésion familiale (thème de notre précédente journée à Fribourg/Bsg) mais aussi pour la cohésion locale (participation locale) et pour l’usage des infrastructures et des services sur les différents lieux d’habitation, mais aussi par ce qu’elles créent des besoins et demandes spécifiques sur les infrastructures de transports, les offres de logements et les services (gardiennage, magasin, heure d'ouverture de l'administration, etc.). Est-ce que ces pratiques s’arrangent avec les infrastructures existantes qui ont été pensées pour la monorésidentialité ?

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• 06 Oct 2013

  Evora

  Call for papers - Sociology

  40 years of democracy (ies): progresses, contradictions and prospects

  VIII Portuguese Sociological Congress

  Portuguese singularity presents today new communication bridges in comparison to other territorial realities, offering itself as a rare laboratory of sociological analysis. Regression phenomenon’s (both structural and dispositional) of articulation of social change’s asynchronous rhythms, of risk proliferation and uncertainty, conflictive conciliation of multiple modernities, within an unfinished one, challenge us to look sociologically at these last 40 years and also to think prospectively on tendencies and future challenges.   

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• 09 Oct 2013

  10 Oct 2013

  11 Oct 2013

  San Millán de la Cogolla

  Conference, symposium - History

  Recovering the cartulary

  The digital edition of the Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla

  Le cartulaire dit Becerro Galicano du monastère de San Millán de la Cogolla est une source fondamentale pour l’histoire sociale, linguistique, politique et culturelle de l’Espagne chrétienne des IX^e-XII^e siècles. À l’occasion de la mise en ligne de l’édition électronique du Becerro Galicano, une rencontre internationale d’historiens et de philologues aura lieu à San Millán. La discussion aura pour objet les changements subis par certains aspects essentiels de la production du savoir historique. Le colloque prêtera bien entendu une attention particulière au renouveau des études sur les cartulaires, mais il veut aussi proposer un ensemble de réflexions plus générales sur les sources et sur leur emploi dans la construction de l’histoire et de la philologie. L’organisation du colloque propose des bourses de séjour aux étudiants et aux jeunes chercheurs.

   

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• 31 Oct 2013

  Duesseldorf

  Call for papers - Thought

  You were not expected to do this

  On the dynamics of production (Distraction/Interference – Resistance/Accident)

  In ordinary terms, the word production refers to an act of creation and its result, or to a process at the end of which there is a materialisation of some kind, or to the act of making something present. By productively interfering with this common idea of productionwe would like to work towards establishing different ways of thinking about this concept.

  Distraction and Interference as well as Resistance and Accident are exemplary categories of the unexpected moments that may or may not take place in the course of production. They remind us that production cannot be reduced to the momentum of "achieving a product". Rather, these categories help to reveal the physical presence of those who produce, the materiality of the objects involved and the unforeseen effects of the "product". Furthermore, they allow us to question the alleged linearity of the processes that form part of production. Thereby, Distraction, Interference, Resistance and Accident make us aware to what extent production involves a "lived" and "living" tension between the producer and what is being produced, between the subject and the world.

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• 30 Sep 2013

  Yokohama

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Embodying Another Self‏

  XVIII World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

  Considering the multiplicity of the selves, in the material life or in the virtual life, related to the individual or to the community, according to the reality or to the fiction, we can wonder how the self is constructed. This session explores how the constitution of the self is linked to an embodied dimension. Focused on case studies in different fieldworks, with notably questions of personal conceptions and social visibility, associated to different sociological and anthropological approaches, the session aims to present several analyses about the embodied dimension of various self conceptions.

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• 01 Nov 2013

  Vatican

  Call for papers - Thought

  4rth International Congress on the Square of Opposition

  The Square : a Central Object for Thought

  The square of opposition is a very famous theme coming from Aristotelian logic dealing with the notions of opposition, negation, quantification and proposition. It has been continuously studied by people interested in logic, philosophy and Aristotle during two thousand years. Even Frege, one of the main founders of modern mathematical logic, used it. This congress is an interdisciplinary event gathering logicians, philosophers, mathematicians, semioticians, artists, cognitivists, and computer scientists.

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• 15 Nov 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Narrative Matters 2014

  Narrative Knowing

  Narrative Matters 2014, the 7^th Narrative Matters conference, will be held from 23^rd June to 27^th June 2014 at the University of Paris Diderot and the American University of Paris. The conference will address the theme of Narrative Knowing / Récit et savoir. This conference will bring together scholars of all disciplines — psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, feminist and gender studies, education, medicine/healthcare, social work, biology, law, theology, computer science, visual studies, etc. — to reflect on the issue of the, sometimes, contested epistemic powers of narrative.

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• 15 Jul 2013

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  2 Promotionsstellen "Herausforderung Sozialstaat", HU Berlin

  Contrat doctoral à l'université Humboldt Berlin dans le projet "Saisir l'Europe", axe "Etat social".

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• 19 Aug 2013

  Frankfurt

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Promotionsstelle "Nachhaltigkeit"

  Ce contrat doctoral s'insère dans l'axe de recherche « Développement durable » du projet franco-allemand « Saisir l’Europe ». Le/La candidat.e retenu.e devra s’inscrire en formation doctorale à Francfort/Main (Allemagne).

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• 01 Jul 2013

  02 Jul 2013

  Paris

  Study days - Asia

  Migrations and Social Change in the Gulf Monarchies

  This conference will be looking at the consequences of mass-migration on Gulf societies, Golf Cooperation Council states and economies. One of the premises of both research and political discourses on migration to the Gulf is that immigrants have very little interaction with their host societies. Migration theory on the contrary has long been demonstrating the social impact of mobility on both host and home societies, looking both qualitatively and quantitatively at the consequences of material, cultural, financial, informational transfers on individuals and groups.

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• 31 Oct 2013

  London

  Call for papers - History

  Revisiting Early Modern Prophecies (c.1500 – c.1815)

  A three-day, international conference on prophecy in early modern Europe and the Mediterranean world. To be held at Goldsmiths, University of London on 26–28 June 2014.

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• 01 Sep 2013

  Call for papers - America

  Canada and the Commonwealth

  Special issue of the Canadians Studies review

  Call for papers (English/French) for a special issue of Revue Etudes Canadiennes/ Canadian Studies (n°75) dedicated to Canada and the Commonwealth. 

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• 15 Jul 2013

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Seventh Age of Man: Constructs, Challenges and Catch-22s

  From a Humanities Perspective

  The Institute for Transcultural and Transtextual Studies (IETT) is organising a multi-disciplinary conference on old age, interpreted as a transitional period during which individuals have to face specific issues. The conference aims to explore three major themes. The first one will lead us to address a series of questions related to aesthetic norms and social models. The second theme will focus on forms of mental and physical degeneration and will encourage us to examine the consequences of age-related disability, segregation, and exclusion. The third issue is based on the related questions of memory and transmission. It will allow us to reflect upon the transmission of traditions and on relationships within the family, partly based on authority, and/or on inherited collective values.

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• 15 Sep 2013

  Call for papers - Thought

  Speculative Realisms and Religion

  The Journal ThéoRèmes is devoting a special issue to this presence of the religious question in various philosophical studies related to “Speculative realism” or even “object-oriented ontologies”, in order both to deepen the internal understanding of this question, and to develop critical approaches. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines including religious sciences, philosophy and theology, and from a variety of perspectives.

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• 19 Sep 2013

  20 Sep 2013

  Rome

  Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity

  The archaic fortifications of Latium vetus and western Etruria (9th-6th century BC)

  Stratigraphy, chronology and urbanisation

  L’incontro sarà dedicato alla cronologia delle più antiche fortificazioni delle città storiche nel Latium vetus e nell’Etruria meridionale, ed al processo di strutturazione dei centri urbani in questi territori all’inizio del primo millenio a.C. La riflessione includerà confronti con il mondo greco, l’Iberia e l’Europa centrale. 

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