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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Predatory Museum

  39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

  Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator?  Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

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• 15 mar 2016

  Lorient

  Call for papers - History

  New ports, pioneer ports (XIVth-XXIth centuries)

  The Conference will address four topics: the creation of a port, the major enlargement of an existing port, the rapid transformation of a small port into a big harbour, or the temporary establishment of a port for economic or military reasons. The analysis includes commercial harbours and naval bases, as well as mixed ports. The concept of an “Atlantic port” refers to its location on the Atlantic Ocean or its extensions in the Channel, the North Sea and the Caribbean Sea. This includes the ports of the European, the African and American Atlantic littoral, as well as the metropolitan European and the African and American ports both as colonial ports and after their independence.

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• 20 jan 2016

  León

  Call for papers - History

  Hispanic World: Culture, Art and Society

  2nd International Congress of Young Researchers at University of León

  2^nd International Congress of Young Researchers at University of León like to invite all researchers not doctors  to participate with their proposals in any of the sections or lines of research in which it was decided to organize the conference, which correspond with humanistic disciplines : history , art history , information and documentation, archeology , anthropology , geography , philosophy , philology , linguistics and music, related to the Hispanic world.

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• 01 avr 2016

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Writing under constraint. Mystics, contemplatives and the spectre of the judge

  Discursive practices and strategies. Spain, Portugale, Latin America (15th-18th centuries)

  Ce numéro des Cahiers d'études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines (CECIL) invite ainsi à s'interroger à l’époque moderne sur les stratégies d'écriture, de réécriture et de construction du discours afin de  mystifier les censeurs de la fin du Moyen Âge et de la modernité. Par delà les pratiques d'écriture propres aux auteurs mystiques et ascétiques, les contribution d'études replaceront la médiatisation du texte ascétique dans son rapport à la norme juridique et canonique.

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• 01 fév 2016

  Tunis

  Call for papers - History

  Dirāsāt Hispānicas journal – misc section, issue 3, 2016

  Número 3 – 2016

  Dirāsāt Hispānicas, Revista Tunecina de Estudios Hispánicos solicita para su próxima entrega (número 3 – junio de 2016) artículos inéditos y reseñas bibliográficas que se ajusten a la temática y a las normas editoriales de la revista. El plazo para el envío de las propuestas de artículos para la sección miscelánea estará abierto hasta el 1 de febrero de 2016. Las contribuciones serán sometidas al criterio de dos expertos externos que, de manera anónima, evaluarán el valor científico, la calidad metodológica y la originalidad de la contribución, el conocimiento de la bibliografía reciente, la adecuación a la exigencia intelectual y formal de los trabajos científicos y la corrección en la expresión.

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• 30 déc 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Global Latin-America

  Atelier d'histoire globale, connectée et internationale

  Le colloque se propose d'explorer l’histoire de l'Amérique latine aux XVIII^e, XIX^e et XX^e siècles à travers trois domaines : l'histoire mondiale, l'histoire connectée et l'histoire des relations internationales. La présentation des travaux en cours et la discussion entre les participants autour des convergences et des divergences dans ces trois approches sont les principales activités de l'événement.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Dakar

  Call for papers - History

  Repentance

  Origin(s) and latest developments

  The question of repentance now applies to the public sphere and concerns huge collective bodies as well as individuals. It has a complex relationship with history. Repentance has even become a global issue and now concerns a wide range of geographical and cultural areas as well taking on many forms referring to facts whose scale, temporal distance or context are in no way comparable with it.  Indeed, the roots of repentance are to be found in many traditions (religious, cultural, national and community) and nowadays, announcements (through the media at large) give rise to secular forms of repentance which are devoid of the dimensions that traditionally form the definition of repentance.    

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• 26 nov 2015

  27 nov 2015

  Besançon

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Comics and sport

  During the final talks of the fruitful international conference named “body languages in comics” set up by the junior drawn sciences laboratory of the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) in Lyon on 8th and 9th October 2014, the idea to carry on, in a more precise way, the numerous debates on the occasion of a later scientific event was mentioned. In light of this, the C3S laboratory (“culture, sport, health and society”) of the University of Bourgogne/Franche-Comté organises holding an international symposium in order to study how sport is depicted in comics. Researchers in the C3S laboratory dedicate their work to sport sciences with a theoretical and epistemological commitment marked by interdisciplinarity. According to this stance, the international conference is open to various contributions allowing to understand the representations (whether they be historical, sociological, anthropological, literary, semiotic, psychological…etc…) of sport in comics.

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• 15 déc 2015

  Albi

  Study days - Political studies

  Spanish syndicalism within the framework of international relations

  The case of the General Workers Unions (1888-1986)

  The emergence of a labour movement, of socialist obedience, more specifically, in Spain, goes hand in hand with internationalism. From its creation, in 1888, the General Union of Workers (UGT) has tried to incorporate the international labour movement. Thus, through time, UGT joined the main organizations such as the International Federation of Trade Unions, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the European Trade Union Confederation. The UGT also takes part in the work by the International Labour Organization and fosters relations with other foreign organisations. Finally, the UTG is involved with international solidarity groups and organisations dealing with social security like the Democratic Solidary organisation in Spain. To this day, few studies have been conducted on the importance of those links on the growth of the UGT, notably at some crucial moments of its existence such as the Francoist dictatorship and the transition towards democracy. These relations played a decisive part in the survival of  socialist trade unions.

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• 01 avr 2016

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Zone: the space of a life on the margins

  Espaces et sociétés

  While the everyday of "suburban youth" occupies the attention of French sociologists, the other face of the youths that have been relegated to "dropouts" (“zonards”) remains virtually invisible in terms of the social sciences. This issue aims to provide a first synthesis of French work on “the zone” as an area of life on the margins, and a presentation of pioneering English-language research in this field of study. This will be explore the range or meanings of  experiments whose originality derives from a shared nomadic lifestyle, keeping a distance from institutions, as well as normative territories. The expected proposals will favor the investigation of spaces and the constituent cultures of dropouts (squatters, punks, ravers ...).

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• 20 nov 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Demographic statistics as a tool for the construction of States in Europe and Latin America

  Association de démographie historique (GEHA) conference, session no. 26

  Ce symposium a pour objectif d'étudier le rôle joué par la création et le développement des statistiques historiques dans le cadre de la construction des États en Espagne et en Amérique latine.

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• 08 oct 2015

  09 oct 2015

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - America

  Canada – Quebec – Caribbean: transamerican connections

  Les liens entre la région Caraïbe, la province de Québec et le Canada sont anciens et diversifiés. Tourisme, coopérations scientifiques et techniques, extractions de ressources, migrations sont autant de ponts tracés entre le centre géographique des Amériques et son extrémité septentrionale. Plus récemment, c’est dans les secteurs de la préservation de l’environnement, de la participation aux projets régionaux de développement, des migrations transnationales et de l’étude des mémoires partagées que ces relations transcontinentales opèrent leurs mutations afin de se présenter comme des éléments essentiels à la compréhension de « notre Amérique ».

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• 25 oct 2015

  Salamanca

  Call for papers - Modern

  Social and tecnical Innovations for water management

  8th congress CEISAL

  De tout temps l’innovation tant technique que sociale, a fait partie de l’histoire de la maîtrise et de la gestion de l’eau : procédés d’irrigation développés par les grandes sociétés de la Mésopotamie Antique et de l’Espagne musulmane, organisation sociale du partage de l’eau dans les sociétés indiennes ou latino-américaines, transferts interbassins ou barrages, etc. Mais dans un contexte plus récent de dégradation quantitative et qualitative de cette ressource, de changements climatiques, de croissance urbaine accélérée des grandes métropoles, d’une agriculture irriguée largement sollicitée, d’un cadre institutionnel en évolution, l’innovation est de nouveau interrogée pour répondre aux besoins en eau.

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• 04 sep 2015

  Medellín

  Call for papers - Language

  Rewriting: logic of repetition?

  III International Conference in Narratives

  The third International Conference in Narratives, organized by Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia) and Università degli Studi di Padova, proposes rewriting as an object of reflection from the arts, humanities, social sciences and communication sciences. To interrogate the gesture of writing a text again, it involves accounting for an operation that, in its apparent simplicity, shows the experience of time and repetition, the recording of memory, the tension between imitation and difference, and the means of reproduction and creation. Along its relationships, objects and notions that it implies, the gesture of rewriting is exemplary and heuristic; it has become a model for understanding various phenomena and cultural practices.

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• 15 oct 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Social movements and powers - distances and spaces

  Amnis journal issue 15

  Alors qu’au tournant du XXIe siècle on s’accordait pour reconnaître que l’État était fragilisé par la mondialisation, mais aussi par les différentes modalités de décentralisation, la montée des identités territoriales et ethniques et l’accélération des processus d’intégration économiques et politiques, on constate à présent que de nouveaux facteurs amplifient cette érosion. Dans de nombreux pays, les élites gouvernantes sont remises en question par une partie importante de la société civile, qui exige parallèlement – et paradoxalement – la mise en place d’un État fort d’un nouveau type. Si l’on regarde de près ces « nouveaux » mouvements sociaux, on observe que certains refusent d’être récupérés par l’État, que d’autres adoptent une « forme syndicale » ou, encore, se constituent en partis politiques et deviennent la cheville ouvrière du changement de nature de l’État.

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• 15 jui 2015

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - History

  Migrations and exiles

  One of the 20th century's main features was the large movements of people abandoning their places of origin for economic, political and social reasons. Migration-fostering conditions, like the search for sufficient means of subsistence, escaping from armed conflict and political and religious persecution, are intensified by economic crises and the advent of authoritarian Governments. In the host countries, emigrants, exiles and refugees form associations, publish periodicals, hold commemorations and foster socialisation tools, which make them a group with a national identity and/or a specific political positioning. Concomitantly, they undergo acculturation, as a result of their inevitable adjustment to the new reality, translated into the activities they perform and the structure of the relations they keep with the host country.

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• 08 jui 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Cities we don't talk about

  The cities of urban research have long been and still are widely today, the "great cities". But the realities of urban are not limited to them. In France for example the small and medium-sized cities house more than a quarter of the population. What does the observation of these cities bring to knowledge of the urban phenomenon? On the other hand, in the research devoted to major metropoles, it is often very specific neighborhoods that are the subject of attention of research as well as the media: social housing developments or the central gentrified neighborhoods. But more "ordinary" neighbourhoods are not often the focus. What does the observation of these neighbourhoods that we do not talk about "say" about the city? In other words, we would like to call on work that offers openings of the typologies of cities as the typologies of neighbourhoods that are subjacent to the discourse and debates on the urban.

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• 30 mai 2015

  Santiago

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Corps et handicaps : tensions et convergences

  IIe colloque franco-Latino-Américain de recherche sur le handicap

  Ce colloque permettra à des chercheurs, des professionnels et des militants, intéressés par différentes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales et originaires de pays francophones et latino-américains, de confronter leurs recherches, leurs expériences et leur positionnement sur le handicap. L'objectif du colloque est de favoriser les échanges entre les chercheurs francophones et latino-américains afin d'enrichir les perspectives de recherche de chacun, et d'envisager des collaborations internationales sur des thématiques de recherche.

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• 30 sep 2015

  Call for papers - Education

  Émancipation et formation de soi

  Revue « Recherches et éducations »

  The issue of the journal Recherches et éducations entitled "Empowerment and Self-Training". It solicits by the authors a conceptual clarification of the concept of educational empowerment, presentation of research results defining the emancipatory processes at work and/or presentation of educational and pedagogical guidance offering prospects in the institutional game. Its preferred field are those of adult education, popular education and coaching people.

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• 22 mai 2015

  23 mai 2015

  Cachan

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Worlds of work and labour markets in Southern Europe

  Contractual uncertainty: Freedom and constraints at work

  Dans la dynamique de spécification du travail et des activités productives à l’égard des autres activités sociales, les institutions juridiques jouent un rôle crucial. L’élaboration d’un droit de travail et le développement d'assurances sociales reposant sur la cotisation des employeurs et des salariés introduisent des catégories nouvelles dans la vie sociale et économique. Ils enjoignent les acteurs économiques à se reconnaître dans l'une ou l’autre catégorie. Mais que se passe-t-il avant l’entrée en vigueur d'un Code du travail, la reconnaissance d’un contrat de travail ou l’identification d'une catégorie de « chômeur » permettant de regrouper dans une condition commune ceux qui travaillent pour un même « employeur » ?

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