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• 10 Oct 2022

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Sustainable Development Goals under scrutiny

  « Revue internationale des études du développement » n°253 (2023-3)

  A new international framework for development, called the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, emerged in 2015 as a result of the rise of sustainable development as a dominant paradigm for development and of the criticisms addressed to the MDGs. The new agenda established 17 development goals instead of 8 (MDGs). The SDGs made some progress compared to the MDGs. Because they target common challenges like climate change, the reach and legitimacy of the SDGs were extended. As we stand midway towards the set deadlines for achievement, it is time to question the relevance, foundations and the implementation of the SDGs. It also seems legitimate to question their universal and inclusive character, and their actual outcomes since 2015 by using critical and contexual approaches.

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• 15 Dec 2022

  Médéa

  Call for papers - Africa

  L’utilité du référentiel dans un curriculum d’enseignement de langue étrangère

  In this call for papers, we would like to interest our potential contributors in the notion of the reference framework and its relation to the curriculum and its satellite notions such as : program, competences, tasks, activity, didactic or fabricated text, etc., as well as its relation to societal goals. It should be noted that this notion is also related to the notion of “competences” and “situations”, certainly at the academic level, but also at the professional level due to the concrete situations in which the language would be used by the learner. The action-oriented approach and possibly other methodologies will be questioned in this connection with the reference framework.

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• 10 Sep 2022

  Call for papers - Geography

  Géographies du Sahara : nouveaux enjeux de recherche et renouvellement des méthodes

  Cahiers « L’Ouest saharien »

  The Sahara is one of the most difficult regions in the world for researchers to access. Despite this, geographical research on the Sahara remains dynamic. A desert space often considered as "empty", it offers strong and constantly renewed problems and issues: desertification, resource management and gold rush, migration and smuggling, border issues, etc. At the time of the Anthropocene, what can living, working and circulating on the margins of the ecumene teach us today? Three axes are proposed: memories, mutations, marginalities and Saharan centralities.

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• 02 Feb 2023

  03 Feb 2023

  Saint-Germain-en-Laye

  Study days - Epistemology and methodology

  Pre- and Protohistoric deep pit systems in France

  Assessment of the National Mapping Project

  Several research projects have been carried out over the last ten years on the general theme of Mesolithic and Protohistoric deep pits - mainly Neolithic and Bronze Age. In the course of discussions and thanks to field discoveries, some milestones have been set, both from a methodological point of view and in terms of scientific achievements in typology and chronology. This round table marks a stage in the project undertaken within Inrap in 2015 by reviewing the state of regional discoveries and the main lessons that can be drawn from this theme at the national level.

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• 15 Sep 2022

  16 Sep 2022

  Evora

  Study days - History

  São Bento de Cástris na diáspora cisterciense. Desafios actuais e futuros

  Xª Residência Cisterciense São Bento de Cástris

  The Cistercian Residence proposed for the monastery of São Bento de Cástris aims first and foremost to reinvent in contemporary times the historical density of the Cistercian discourse, integrating the geography of this monastery in Évora into a wider geography of the Cistercian Order. Inspired by the questions of Cistercian History, Art, Heritage and Landscape, the Residence, governed by the daily rhythm of the Benedictine Rule, will focus on the experience of the monastery's spaces and on the debate of current issues related to monastic spaces and their future, focusing on the original character of the initiative.

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• 16 Sep 2022

  Cayenne

  Call for papers - Education

  American pop culture in languages and history classrooms

  This roundtable, that is organized around the publication of the book, In the Cogwheels of American Pop Culture, aims to reflect on the strengths and limitations of using the objects of American popular culture in language and history classes. American popular culture, being a mirror of American society conveys its tensions and antagonisms. It is therefore paramount to be able to highlight how its contents can be useful in classrooms, but also the inaccuracies, prejudices, and discriminations that they can vehicle. This reflection will stress the methodology adopted by teachers to integrate these materials into their lesson plans, but also the reception that learners make of them.

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• 30 Nov 2022

  Call for papers - Representation

  Animals

  In vivo arts, n° 1

  After the publication of a pilot issue centred around the topic of Crisis, and a special issue, Beyond Binarities: Representations and Performances of Gender and Sexuality, the In Vivo Arts collective is launching a call for papers for the first issue of the platform, dedicated to Animals. Following the transdisciplinary approach espoused at the launch of the platform, we are seeking to harmonise the different disciplinary clusters: aesthetics(s), philo-performance(s), humanities, queerness, pluralities, and dialogue(s).

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• 15 Sep 2022

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Performance of Medieval Monophony (12th-16th centuries)

  The journal Textus & Musica seeks contributions for a conference and a special issue of the journal, which will address the performance of medieval monophonic or monodic song (liturgical, sacred, or secular). We welcome proposals that treat a wide variety of written and visual representations, from all of Europe and beyond, in the High and Late Middle Ages focussing less on the notated chant itself than on technical, pedagogical, poetic, literary, or artistic descriptions and/or representations of the practice and performance of song for one voice. Visual sources might be artistic, representational, or iconographic, but also architectural or archaeological. Written sources might include musical or textual sources in the official languages of the practiced religions or also in vernacular languages. The multiple disciplinary perspectives should each ground interpretation in concrete historical examples and case studies.

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• 21 Aug 2023

  Call for papers - History

  Les savoirs scientifiques, technologiques, et médicaux dans l’histoire de la France et du monde francophone

  « French Historical Studies » – Special Issue, 2025

  The editors of French Historical Studies seek articles for a special issue on the histories of science, technology, and medicine to appear in 2025. Topics may range chronologically from the medieval period forward; they may focus on France or move beyond the hexagon, exploring colonial, imperial, transnational, or global dimensions.

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• 30 Sep 2022

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Information

  Artificial intelligence and social equity conference

  Le développement de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) a ouvert les champs du possible. En effet, l’IA joue un rôle de plus en plus important dans nos sociétés. Nos vies sont régies de manière croissante par la diversité des applications techniques associées à l’IA. C’est pour cela qu’il est important que le développement de l’IA se fasse conformément à des valeurs centrées sur l’humain, telles que les libertés fondamentales, l’égalité, l’équité, etc. Ce colloque se fixe pour objectif de générer une convergence des savoirs par une approche interdisciplinaire sur les implications de ce développement technologique sur l’équité sociale.

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• 15 Oct 2022

  Call for papers - Information

  Museum libraries

  Issues and recent trends

  Issue 45 of the Cahiers de Mariemont will focus on the museum library as a specific department directly dependent on a museum institution. The few studies devoted to museum libraries show that researchers, museologists and bibliographers have so far shown little interest in this issue. However, museum libraries, like the museums to which they belong, are today affected by the changes that have led to a “market” organisation of the cultural institutions. In this model, attendance rate has become a crucial evaluation criterion. This change of paradigm is pushing professionals in the sector to rethink the orientations and missions of museum libraries. It is with this in mind that we propose to analyse the issues and characterise the most recent trends in the sector. The focus will not be limited to an examination of the situation in the French-speaking world as there is much to be learned from a more global analysis, integrating the libraries of museum institutions throughout the world.

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• 03 Oct 2022

  Tours

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Author and “his” Translator: the Genealogy of an Asymmetric Relationship

  The international conference The Author and “his” Translator intends to offer researchers from all fields of humanities and social sciences an opportunity to question the functioning of contemporary cultural field from the point of view of the place that translators are bound to occupy within it. In order to allow for an in-depth examination of this subject, the programme of this scientific event will include various forms of work: in addition to individual papers and thematic panels proposed by several researchers, the conference will comprise a series of talks with a writer and his/her translator, round tables with publishers and directors of foreign literature collections, workshops devoted to the key points of the conference.

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• 15 Oct 2022

  Call for papers - Representation

  Narrating the North in Contemporary Cultures

  Telling stories is inherent to the human beings, they are homo narrans (Fisher, 1984), and thus the storytelling activity participates in the structuring of his imagination. The act of telling therefore makes the apprehension of the surrounding world and of the unknown phenomena possible. While the North often represents an idealized space, it is also a geographical, cultural and historical reality where various influences converge, articulated within narrative practices. The question we wish to address during this conference is that of the specific narrative characteristics of the Nordic space in the modern and contemporary periods, vectors of a multiplication of media supports and discourses. That is to say, the reciprocal influence of a narrative genre or a medium and the images of Nordic places.

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• 20 Sep 2022

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Religion

  Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī, between Islamic Studies and the Social Sciences

  Dans le sillage des travaux de Sabrina Mervin, ce colloque international aborde la vie et l’œuvre d’al-Sanūsī à travers des approches croisées, entre l’islamologie et les sciences sociales. Ainsi, si la doctrine et l’œuvre du théologien seront évidemment abordées, les aspects anthropologiques de la transmission et la traduction de ses traités en contexte africain ou asiatique seront également mis en avant. Enfin, l’émergence récente d’un enseignement des ʿAqāʾid dans les mosquées et instituts en ligne en contexte européen et anglo-saxon doit susciter l’attention des sociologues, à l’heure du retour d’un traditionalisme « maḏhabique ».

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• 01 Dec 2022

  Pantin

  Call for papers - History

  Competing?!

  While the Paris Olympic and Paralympic games are set to begin in 2024, this international conference wishes to interrogate the history and practice of dance competitions, in connection to competitive sports events. If much has been written on competing, especially in an Olympic setting, dance has received less critical attention when it comes to its physical, artistic and social dimensions.

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• 30 Sep 2022

  Call for papers - Psyche

  Résilience, re-production littéraire et psychanalyse, l’écriture maniaque ?

  From a psychoanalytical point of view, at least from the French perspective, the notion of resilience experiences contrasting fates between its media success on the one hand and the precautions taken by academics for its use on the other. It is open to interpretation, as the spectrum of meanings of this notion is so wide. Indeed, resilience can refer to the idealization of the narcissistic rebound, to the exaltation of the memorial scar, as well as to the after-effects of the - passive - work of mourning. In this session, we propose to discuss the epistemological and even ethical conditions of use of the notion of resilience, through the act of writing - of French literary works of the 20th century - as a symbolic attempt to elaborate the conflict between the depressive position and mania defenses.

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• 31 Aug 2022

  Paris

  Call for papers - Law

  7th Academic days on Open Government and Digital Issues

  Cette conférence internationale sera la trente-et-unième édition des conférences internationales de l’Institut du monde et du développement pour la bonne gouvernance publique (IMODEV) sur le droit et la gouvernance de la société de l’information. Cet événement pluridisciplinaire permet d’associer le droit, les sciences politiques, l’économie, la gestion, les sciences mathématiques, les sciences informatiques, les sciences sociales, l’histoire, la sociologie, les sciences environnementales, les arts, et toutes les autres matières susceptibles d’être reliées à ces enjeux.

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• 30 Sep 2022

  Paris | Nogent-sur-Marne

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Data and Sustainable Development

  The Association Sorbonne Développement Durable (SDD) invites you to submit proposals for the first edition of its annual international symposium “Data and Sustainable Development”. The theme of this year's symposium is the contribution of data to the analysis of sustainable development. The interdisciplinary symposium is structured along three thematic days about sustainable development issues in the light of current events; Remote sensing as a tool for research on sustainable development; Epistemological reflections on the data used to analyze sustainable development.

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• 29 Mar 2023

  30 Mar 2023

  Gennevilliers

  Call for papers - Europe

  Dining at the Castle in Europe, from Past to Present

  Beyond a better understanding of what made the refinement and the magnificence of the royal and princely tables in Europe in the past, we will examine the question of the safeguard, the transmission and the promotion of the European cultural heritage of dinner at the castle. It is both the heritage of a social practice featuring the economic or political power of European elites as well as a ritual and a ceremonial of a bygone era. Dining at the castle also corresponds to a contemporary diplomatic practice (such as the State dinners at the Château de Versailles), to a cultural and festive gastronomic experience associated with tourist practices, or even to a literary theme or an artistic and cinematographic motif which builds its imagination in European culture.

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• 17 Oct 2022

  Call for papers - History

  The Sources of Madness

  “Sources. Materials Fieldwork in African Studies” - Special issue

  This special issue on the sources of madness in Africa—on the continent and in the diasporas—takes place within the framework of the recent epistemological renewal of studies related to mental disorders on the African continent. Its starting point is that investigations by researchers on the nature and the diversity of sources in this field are scattered and partial. These sources can be from archives (colonial, institutional, medical, personal archives), printed material (press, books, photographs) or ethnographic studies (oral surveys, participative observation, field notes). Through these different corpuses, the positioning of the researcher vis-à-vis lives that are often fragile and precarious emerges as an issue to be explored. By looking at the sources available for studying madness, researchers are faced with a series of ethical questions which will run through all the contributions in this special issue.

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