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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

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  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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• 16 Oct 2012	17 Oct 2012	18 Oct 2012
  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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• 15 Dec 2012

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Scholarship program : Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives

  The Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives) sponsors a scholarship program that aims at supporting young scholars of all fields. The program is directed to applicants from the United States of America, Great Britain, France and the countries succeeding from the former Soviet Union. The applicants should be working on projects concerned with Berlin, Germany or German-international questions or should want to use research facilities in Berlin in all other fields.

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• 28 Sep 2012

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships in the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris (2013-2015)

  Grâce au mécénat de la Terra Foundation for American Art, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) a le plaisir de reconduire pour deux ans (2013-2015) le programme d’enseignement et de recherche sur l’histoire de l’art américain et des échanges artistiques transatlantiques, qui existe depuis 2009 sous forme de bourses distribuées un post-doctorant(e) et à deux professeur(e)s invité(e)s de langue anglaise. 

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• 08 Dec 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Les villes morcelées : quelles approches alternatives pour la rénovation urbaine ?

  Tackling Urban Fragmentation. Alternative Approaches to Urban Regeneration

  This one day conference invites researchers working on initiatives aiming at introducing innovative urban regeneration projects in cities across Europe, particularly cities affected by radical re-modellings over the last twenty years. We are looking for instances of administrative traditions being challenged towards exploratory strategies by lobbying groups of architects/designers, or local communities, or even local governments. This conference wants to explore if and how the expertise of uses from inhabitants and field workers in urban regeneration processes may be integrated to learn about possible ways of challenging the emerging patterns of urban fragmentation.

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• 18 Oct 2012

  19 Oct 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Democracy Promotion and Nation Building in United States Foreign Policy

  The U.S. Model Reconsidered, From the Post-Cold War Balkans to the Arab Revolts

  Le  German Marshall Fund of the United States-France et l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, sont heureux de vous convier au colloque international « Democracy Promotion and Nation Building in United States Foreign Policy. The U.S. Model Reconsidered, From the Post-Cold War Balkans to the Arab Revolts », les jeudi 18 et vendredi 19 octobre 2012, à France-Amériques (9 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris 8e).    Cette conférence sera l’occasion d’examiner les évolutions du débat sur la ‘Democracy Promotion’ de la fin de la Guerre froide jusqu’à l’administration Obama, ainsi que de comprendre  la manière dont les  évènements récents en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient ont refaçonné les concepts et la pratique de la  ‘Democracy Promotion’. Les réponses que peuvent apporter le partenariat transatlantique à ces défis seront tout particulièrement examinées.  Les intervenants présenteront et analyseront les grandes problématiques du sujet telles que l’adaptation de la culture stratégique américaine aux transformations  du contexte international, la capacité du modèle de la démocratie américaine à inspirer ou à façonner les transitions vers la démocratie, s’interrogeront sur le rôle de l’armée américaine comme un vecteur  de ‘Democracy Promotion’ sur certains théâtres d’opérations, ainsi que sur les nouveaux instruments de politique étrangère employés par l’administration américaine pour promouvoir la démocratie. Les panels discuteront ainsi de l’avenir de la pratique américaine de la ‘Democracy Promotion’ et privilégieront une approche comparative en consacrant un panel à la conception et la pratique européennes de la ‘Democracy Promotion’ ainsi qu’à l’émergence d’autres modèles de démocratie, dans un contexte où le modèle américain se trouve de plus en plus contesté.   La conférence réunira des experts et chercheurs américains et européens reconnus. Toutes les sessions se déroulent en anglais. 

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• 12 Oct 2012

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - Language

  Variation and Variability in the Language Sciences: analysing, measuring, contextualising

  JéTou 2013, international conference for young researchers in the Language Sciences

  The doctoral students in the Language Sciences laboratories at Toulouse University (France) are organizing the fourth edition of JéTou (Journées d’Etudes Toulousaines), an international conference aiming at gathering doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) together, from the different disciplines of the Language Sciences, on an open and multidisciplinary theme. This 2013 edition will be devoted to a reflexion on the following theme: “Variation and Variability in the Language Sciences: analysing, measuring, contextualising”. The notions of variation and variability are central to various studies in the Language Sciences. The linguist can investigate these notions as a research object or focus on the methodological issues these same notions raise.

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