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• 15 jui 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Book-keeping and book-keepers: a new approach to court culture in medieval and modern times

  Project for a special thematic issue of the online journal Comptabilités

  This call for papers invites historians of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period to consider the role played by accounts and other types of pragmatic literacy, from the way they are produced to the way they are used, in the functionning of the court in all its aspects, as a place for governing, socialising and representing oneself.

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• 03 jui 2015

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  Operative knowledges of matter, from Renaissance to industrialization

  Following the renewal of the history of Technology and of the history of chemistry, this Research Seminar intends to explore operative knowledge in chemistry in connection with several fields including economics, political management, consumption and production processes. It seeks to shed a light, since the Early modern period, on various configurations where experimentation, exploration, transformation of Matter were held, through a wide range of technical devices. We will underline cross-skills, transfers and hybridization of processes, and we will show how operative knowledge fostered multiple appropriations: we will then explore the diversity of practices and know-how which allowed specific actions on substances and transformations of matter, and which were the basis of innovation and industrialization and of the reshaping of environment on the long run.

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• 07 sep 2015

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  D’al-Afghani à al-Baghdadi : histoire de la mobilisation islamiste

  Pourquoi, dans des contextes historiques et dans des configurations sociopolitiques différenciées et évolutives, des acteurs politiques ont-ils opté pour l’usage en politique du lexique islamique ? L'enjeu du présent ouvrage est d’offrir une historicisation et une périodisation « longue » de ses traductions successives afin de restituer les modalités d’élaboration et de reproduction de l’alchimie identitaire qui fait choisir le lexique islamique. Chaque contribution doit s’inscrire dans un contexte spatial et temporel clairement défini et s'appuyer sur une documentation innovante.

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• 26 mai 2015

  27 mai 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space (1800-1914)

  This 2-day workshop will bring together historians, anthropologists and linguists working on the making of law in the Ottoman space. The aim of the workshop is to problematize the legal phenomena from a multidisciplinary aspect and beyond the normative and descriptive dimensions of laws and legislations.

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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 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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• 30 jui 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Revisit Patrick Geddes

  In the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international dimensions and the timeliness of his ideas, but also given the misunderstanding of his work in France, Espaces et Sociétés devotes its next folder issue to Patrick Geddes, pioneer of modern urbanism and interdisciplinary methods, precursor of environmentalism.  In effect, the environmental question has not emerged suddenly in urbanism, it goes back to the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century with authors such as Geddes.   The choice of Geddes reflects the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international reach and the novelty of his ideas, but also by the lack of his work in France; it was necessary, in fact, to wait until 1994 for the first translation of his work Cities in Evolution (1915).  Equally this number wishes to address this oversight by understanding and by calling for a critical rereading of his work.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Geography

  Floods as Heritage: the heritage value of floods

  This workshop will explore the possibilities of considering floods as heritage. Floods are usually considered as destructive forces, but here we wish to focus on their creative aspect. There has been considerable work on the heritage value of rivers, but we want to explore the potential of considering floods themselves as heritage. What is the intellectual and practical potential of making this connection? What are the possible dangers involved? How and why does the process of remembering floods differ in different places and among different people? How can the memory of floods be considered a creative process?

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• 26 nov 2015

  27 nov 2015

  Besançon

  Call for papers - 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 considers 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 will be open to various contributions allowing to understand the representations (whether they be historical, sociological, anthropological, literary, semiotic, psychological…etc…) of sport in comics. This scientific event will be organized within the premises of the UPFR Sports in Besançon on 26th and 27th November 2015.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Tours

  Call for papers - History

  La figure martinienne, essor et renaissances de l'Antiquité tardive à nos jours

  As part of the Saint Martin's year 2016 (1700th anniversary of the birth of Saint Martin), an international conference will be held at the University of Tours on the theme of “Saint Martin, expansion and revivals in his popularity from the origins to the present day”. The conference concerns not only the historical field but archeology, art history, sociology, theology, literary studies. The focus will be on the lesser known aspects of the theme, e.g. the revivals of saint Martin's cult in some regions of Europe at different periods; or ethnological and anthropological dimensions and their impact on art and literature; or theological appropriation of the saint Martin's figure.

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• 29 mai 2015

  30 mai 2015

  Villetaneuse | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  « L’insociable sociabilité » au cœur des tensions sociales et culturelles en Grande-Bretagne

  "Unsocial sociability" and socio-cultural tensions in Enlightenment Britain

  Dans le cadre du projet international HIDISOC (History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832)), ce colloque interdisciplinaire a pour objectif de comprendre les mécanismes qui mettent à l’épreuve la sociabilité et de chercher les manifestations de « l’insociable sociabilité » des hommes (Kant). Il s’agira d’identifier les tensions culturelles et sociales et les formes de résistance qui définissent la sociabilité britannique au cours du long XVIII^e siècle.

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• 23 mai 2015

  Khartoum

  Call for papers - Geography

  Migration and exile in the Horn of Africa

  State of knowledge and current debates

  Cette conférence internationale vise à faire un état des lieux de la recherche en sciences sociales sur les migrations de la corne de l’Afrique à partir des travaux récents menés à la fois dans les régions d’origine, les régions de transit et celles de destination des migrants et des réfugiés. Avec la recrudescence des naufrages provoquant la mort de milliers de migrants éthiopiens, érythréens, somaliens et djiboutiens à proximité des rivages de l’Europe du Sud ces dernières années, particulièrement en 2015, les médias et les responsables politiques ont porté leur attention sur des zones jusque-là considérées comme marginales voire extérieures aux champs migratoires européens. Les formes de mobilités à l’œuvre dans la corne de l’Afrique sont multiples et anciennes. Ces drames auxquels l’Union européenne est confrontée, comme à Lampedusa en octobre 2013 ou aux larges des côtes libyennes en avril 2015, constituent la face la plus dramatique de dynamiques migratoires complexes.

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• 20 mai 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Transnationalizing the Arabian Peninsula: local, regional and global dynamics

  Arabian Humanities No 7

  The seventh issue of Arabian Humanities explores regionalisation and globalisation processes in the Arabian Peninsula from a transnational perspective: it focuses on practices, institutions, networks and spaces as powerful factors that structure the sub-region’s social, cultural, economic and political dynamics and evolution.

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• 03 jui 2015	04 jui 2015	05 jui 2015
  06 jui 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Un art documentaire : enjeux esthétiques, politiques et éthiques

  Documentary art: aesthetic, political & ethical issues

  La question de la pratique documentaire traverse la modernité artistique et ne cesse de l’interroger. Elément hétérogène et perturbateur, le document a souvent été utilisé, dans la représentation picturale, théâtrale ou littéraire, comme outil de remise en question de l’autonomie de l’art et de la clôture qui souvent guette la représentation. De façon plus radicale, des arts comme la photographie ou le cinéma ont érigé l’enregistrement du réel en paradigme esthétique, suivant en cela l’idée moderniste d’une vocation spécifique des médiums. Le présent colloque vise ainsi à poser le problème de la nature et de la possibilité d’un « art documentaire » dans un contexte de renouvellement et d’extension des pratiques documentaires, manifeste ces quinze dernières années.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Inventer le Grand Paris

  Regards croisés sur les métropoles des années 1940 à la fin des années 1960

  This conference is part of a multi-year programme on the history of the Greater Paris region, harnessing urban research in an international, interdisciplinary perspective. The first conference (held in December 2013 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine) began by studying the work of the Commission for the Extension of Paris in 1913; this commission is considered to be the first expression of a project to plan and organise “Greater Paris”. The second conference (held in December 2014 at the Petit Palais) focused on the context of the 1934 Development Plan for the Paris Region (Plan d’aménagement de la région parisienne, or PARP), better known as the “Prost Plan”. The third conference will aim to reassess the planning of Greater Paris between the Second World War and the initial implementation of the Master Plan for Development and Urban Planning in the Paris Region (Schéma directeur d’aménagement et d’urbanisme de la région de Paris, or SDAURP) published in 1965, in a comparative approach including other metropolitan areas. Like the two previous conferences, the aim will also be to cast light on current events related to Greater Paris.

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• 26 jui 2015

  Paris

  Summer School - History

  L’édition scientifique de textes en langues latine et française (de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle)

  Digital Humanities Summer School at the Sorbonne Universities

  Dans le cadre de Sorbonne-Universités, l"université Paris-Sorbonne et l'école des chartes (en collaboration avec le labex OBVIL, l'université de Friboug, la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, et l'Universität Wien) organisent une école d'été consacrée à l'édition scientifique de textes littéraires et historiques, en langue latine et française, de l'Antiquité tardive à l'époque contemporaine. Elle s'adresse aux étudiants de niveau master ou doctorat, en littérature, en langue et en histoire.

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• 08 jui 2015

  09 jui 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Rethinking Precarious Neighborhoods

  Works, paths and interventions

  The international conference "Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods" will be organised following two major thematics. First, it will reread and analyse pioneer works on constitution and meanings of precarious habitat, including how ideas and concepts have been mediatized. On a second hand, it will explore the new tendencies of research on these spatial entites and their developments, focusing on land tenure security.

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• 30 mai 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Historic figures and collective memory/ies

  The use of heroes in colonial and postcolonial contexts

  Cette journée d’études doctorales s’intéresse à la représentation des figures historiques dans les Antilles, dans les Afriques et en Asie, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire à l’articulation de la littérature, de l’histoire et de l’anthropologie. L’objectif est de cerner les différents usages du passé dans la mise en récit, et de décrire comment la narration structure les discours mémoriels et participe de la construction identitaire et nationale.

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• 01 jui 2015

  Munich

  Call for papers - History

  Munich for medievalists

  Glimpse of German research in medieval history

  L’Institut historique allemand (IHA) offre aux étudiants et doctorants allemands et français, en 2015, une excursion à Munich du 30 août au 3 septembre 2015.

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