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• 25 oct 2019

  26 oct 2019

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Prisons of Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany : Questioning Prison Violence

  Almost twenty years after the European Court of Human Rights affirmed the right to decent conditions of detention, has this aspiration for a violence-free sentence succeeded in counteracting operation modes usually described as inherent to prison? Has the European project for common minimum standards succeeded in overcoming national penological conceptions and professional cultures, in other words overcoming the historical inertia of prison? What resistance/adaptation strategies have deployed prison administrations in response to these reform injunctions? In view of these experiences, what are the ways out of prison violence? Can civil society actors force these transformations? In particular, can lawyers help maintaining vigilance? The Seminar is held as part of the European Lawyers' Day and will bring together former detainees, researchers, civil society leaders and lawyers to discuss the issue of prison violence as is manifest in Western (Germany, France) and Eastern former soviet (Russia, Ukraine) European prison systems.

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• 01 mai 2019

  Mainz

  Call for papers - Europe

  Crime, Justice and Elites

  6th Colloquium on Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Modern and Modern Times

  The colloquium provides an open forum for discussion, debate and the presentation of PhD-, postdocand other research projects related to the history of crime and justice in the early modern and modernperiod. It aims for an interdisciplinary exchange between scholars of a wide range of subjects suchas history, legal history, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, humanities, political science and others. Core issues that will be addressed are various forms of crime and delinquency, law and normativity, criminal prosecution and justice, punishment and social control as well as sources and methodicalapproaches. We also invite contributions of scholars who would like to enter into a dialogue with researchers from the field of crime and criminal justice even though the mentioned topics would onlyconstitute a part of the respective projects. The colloquium focuses on elites in a political, economic, social or cultural context, their role inthe administration of justice and the legal system as well as specific forms of deviance and delinquency of such groups.

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• 01 déc 2012

  02 déc 2012

  03 déc 2012

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Practices, actors and spaces of confinement : circulations and transferts

  International congress, Berlin, 1th-3th December 2011

  Les lieux d'enfermement – prisons, hôpitaux, monastères, centres de rétention, centres éducatifs, casernes, etc. – ont fait l'objet ces dernières décennies d'un nombre croissant de travaux historiques et sociologiques. Une partie de ces recherches, doublement inspirée des projets goffmanien et foucaldien d'étude des « institutions totales » et des « institutions disciplinaires », a notamment permis d’affiner la compréhension sociologique de ces lieux en encourageant leur appréhension par l’ethnographie. Un autre volet de recherche très fourni a porté sur leur inscription dans l’histoire, en visant notamment à mettre en évidence les éventuelles continuités existant entre les formes contemporaines de confinement et leurs précédents historiques. Ces différents travaux ont ainsi permis de dégager des « modèles » permettant de penser ensemble les différentes formes de gouvernement des populations par l’enfermement. Ils ont également contribué à mettre en évidence les superpositions pouvant exister entre ces différentes institutions, par exemple en termes de groupes enfermés ou de pratiques et de logiques d’enfermement.

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• 15 jui 2008

  Bielefeld

  Call for papers - Sociology

  École d'été franco-allemande : violence et contrôle de la violence

  Deutsch-Französische Summer School

  Invitation aux candidats de doctorat en sciences sociales et histoire à un Summer School franco-allemand, organisé par le Groupe de recherche internationale « Contrôle de la violence » du Centre de Recherche interdisciplinaire (ZIF) à l’Université Bielefeld (avec la collaboration de l’Université franco-allemande et de l’EHESS).

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