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• 15 avr 2010

  Dnipropetrovs'k

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Approaches to post-Soviet transformations

  Summer school in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

  Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, evolutionary paths travelled by post-Soviet societies are spectacularly diverse - posing analytical challenges for social scientists. In the first post-Soviet years, these societies were expected to “Westernize” and so social transformations were supposedly transitional. Later, it became obvious that genuine evolution observed in the former USSR needed genuine analytical tools. Dramatic change exhibiting a strange (at times conflict-ridden) coexistence of transformation and continuity neither elicits comparison to “normal” social evolution, nor can it be explained as a chaotic or un-analysable specificity. The aim of the summer school is to discuss different approaches / concepts used to analyse post-Soviet transformations and to question their heuristic effectiveness. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international.

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• 18 mar 2010

  Antwerp

  Study days - History

  Rethinking European (Homo)Sexual Modernity

  On 18 March 2010 the University of Antwerp hosts three keynote lectures by Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York), Dan Healey (Swansea University) and Rudi Bleys (Independent scholar) on the problem of modernity in the history and historiography of (homo)sexuality in Europe. These lectures are followed by a concluding panel discussion that will be introduced and moderated by George Chauncey (Yale University) For more information and registration: www.ua.ac.be/sexualmodernity. Organised by the Department of History of the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the Yale Research Initiative for the History of Sexuality as the prelude to a two-day (closed) workshop conference. Supported by the Flanders Research Foundation.

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• 09 nov 2009	16 nov 2009	07 déc 2009
  11 jan 2010	25 jan 2010	...

  Berlin

  Seminar - History

  Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar (2009-2010)

  Post-Ottoman Cities

  What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies. Séminaire organisé par Ulrike Freitag et Nora Lafi.

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• 02 oct 2009

  03 oct 2009

  Corfu

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Society and Politics in South-Eastern Europe during the 19th century

  There has always been a negative image attached to South-Eastern European politics and polities and rarely has it been widely acknowledged (Mazower) that the process of state formation in the region was not just a pale and gruesome caricature of Western European models but rather a complicated affair involving juggling with various institutional models (local as well as imported ones), coping with societies of a sometimes inextricable ethnoreligious diversity and varying degrees of political allegiance to central power, dealing with foreign interference and tampering. 19th century visitors of the region contributed a lot to this negative image which still clings to the region (Todorova) and culturalists still like to refer back to the 19th c. as the genealogical matrix of all the region’s evils.

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• 31 jui 2008

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - Representation

  Le cinéma à travers la critique

  Cinéma, théorie, littérature et critique de cinéma dans la péninsule ibérique

  Le Centre d'études interdisciplinaires du XXe siècle de l'université de Coimbra (CEIS20 - UC) et le GELYC (Groupe d'études sur la littérature et le cinéma) de l'université de Salamanca, appellent à des propositions de communication au colloque international « Le cinéma à travers la critique. Cinéma, théorie, littérature et critique de cinéma dans la péninsule ibérique », qui aura lieu à Coimbra, Portugal, à 20 et 21 novembre 2008. Ce colloque cherche à réunir des contributions des disciplines les plus variées sur les relations entre la critique et le cinéma au Portugal et en Espagne.

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