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Turku | Paris
Call for papers - Political studies
Narrating violence: Making race, making difference
In collaboration with The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris, University of Turku invites scholars, students, practitioners, and activists from all fields to take part in the Winter symposium of the Nordic Summer University Study Circle Narrative and Violence. This symposium will explore questions on the production, practice, and instrumentalization of violent narratives about racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual, and political minorities and groups. While multiple theoretical perspectives will be included in both locations, the symposium will have a broader international focus at the American University of Paris and will facilitate discussions primarily pertaining to the Nordic and Baltic sphere at the University of Turku.
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Helsinki
CALLIOPE (Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire) International Conference
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine performative, embodied and acoustic histories of articulating political representation and colonial ‘otherness’. To that end, we intend to extend the focus of the conference beyond established Anglophone analyses of the metropole and colony, and indeed, beyond the disciplinary pre-eminence of Anglophone postcolonial studies.
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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Helsinki
Do what you can with what you have
How to build capacity and community for Digital Humanities teaching and research
In this two-day workshop, we will share what we have done at UCLA to build real capacity and community for digital humanities teaching and research. Drawing from our experience creating the Scholarly Innovation Lab (SIL), on Day 1 we will share our story and offer guidance and best practices for building a DH lab with modest investment. On Day 2 we will introduce and discuss two of our more successful areas of practice – 3-D modelling for cultural heritage, and Zoom pedagogy for course sharing. The format will be conversational. Our goal is to help cultivate practical approaches for next steps at the University of Helsinki.
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Venice | Helsinki
A global history of free ports
Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)
Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVIth to the early XXth century.
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Helsinki
Moral Machines? Ethics and Politics of the Digital World
As our visible and invisible social reality is getting increasingly digitalized, the question of the ethical, moral and political consequences of digitalization is getting ever more pressing. All technologies mark their environment, but digital technologies do so much more intimately than any previous technologies since they promise to think in our place. But how do they really think? What happens when they are entrusted with moral decisions? Is a moral machine possible? Who is responsible of the social and political environments and situations digitalization creates? Should they be politically controlled and how? The conference Moral machines calls together scholars in philosophy, humanities, literature and art in order to discuss these pressing issues.
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Helsinki
Inclusion and exclusion in the history of ideas
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History invites paper and panel proposals for its first international conference, which will take place 14-15 December 2017. Papers and panels should address intellectual history, broadly speaking, and relate to the general conference theme of “inclusion and exclusion”.
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Helsinki
Call for papers - Representation
XIII International Conference of European Association for Urban History – Session 29
From the late XIXth century onwards, both the competence and scale of Ministerial departments and State-run corporations have increased continuously in Western countries. This growth – which accelerated after each World War, and became a truly global phenomenon in the second half of the XXth century – necessitated the construction of large and well-equipped office buildings, which were often grouped together in the "administrative districts" of capitals and other major cities.
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Helsinki
Urban spaces, mobility and "citadinité" in the Mediterranean cities (14th to 18th century)
The panel focuses on mobility and insertion in the cities of the Mediterranean area, during the early modern age. Since the Ancient times, Mediterranean cities are centers for commercial and cultural exchanges, and crossroads of migratory streams. These "sedimented" cities have a long tradition of multi-cultural society and reception of foreigners while remaining, to this day pivotal centers for international circulation and migration, and gateways to Europe.
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Helsinki
The Noses and Eyes of the City
Reinterpreting Early Modern Politics and Administrative Practices of Hygiene
The Specialist Session welcomes contributions that deal with questions of medical and administrative debates and with techniques of controlling and monitoring of the urban space by city authorities and the urban population. The aim is to create a basis for understanding contemporary hygienic assumptions concerning life in urban spaces. The papers may be focused on questions of practice, concerning the contemporary considerations to improve city space, political agenda, procedures to implement them and the “instruments” – that is most importantly: the use of senses – to control the implementation. The Contributions of this session will therefore challenge the “modern”, deprecated view on early modern hygienic questions and replace it with a view that is based on contemporary theories and contemporary instruments: the noses and eyes of the city.
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Helsinki
Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures
Theories, practices and policies
Is culture the fourth pillar of sustainability alongside the ecological, economic and social aspects? How does culture act as a catalyst for ecological sustainability, human well-being and economic viability? What would our futures look like if sustainability was embedded in the multiple dimensions of culture? This landmark conference explores the roles and meanings of culture in sustainable development. The new ideas generated in the conference will inform and advance understandings of sustainability with cultural studies and practices, and vice versa.
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Helsinki
A comparison of Roms' immigration in Finland and France
A comparison of Roms' immigration in Finland and France
Sous la conduite du ministère des Affaires étrangères, l'Institut français de Finlande à Helsinki œuvre à la promotion de l'action culturelle et scientifique de la France à l'étranger. Dans le cadre d'une coopération scientifique entre l'Université d'histoire d'Helsinki et l'IFF, une réflexion sur la population Tsigane est entamée avec pour premier objectif de proposer un regard croisé entre les expériences françaises et finlandaises. Dans le cadre d'un séminaire de travail entre historien-ne-s finlandais-es (CENS, Centre d'études nordiques, Université d'Helsinki) et historien-ne-s français-es, l'analyse comparée de la situation des Tsiganes / Roms pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale permettra de dresser un état des lieux afin de favoriser la mise en oeuvre des axes de réflexion qui seront développés par la suite. Le séminaire aura lieu le jeudi 8 avril 2013 à l'Université d'Helsinki .
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Turku
Urbanity, plurality and the management of "differences" in the Christian Church
Session 19, Meeting of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (27th-30th June 2013). Coordinators : Yannick Fer et Gwendoline Malogne-Fer.
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Helsinki
Past and Present of National Image Management among the Small Nations of Northern Europe
Two-day conference in Helsinki and Turku (Finland) in April 2013. The theme of the conference is the History of "National Image Management" efforts (Public diplomacy, Propaganda, Nation-Branding) in the countries of Northern Europe. Deadline for abstracts is the end of November 2012. -
Turku
Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences
This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. -
Turku
Miscellaneous information - Education
Social inclusion and web 2.0: What's in store for language education?
Le 28 avril 2010, un débat en face-à-face en direct, aura lieu en ligne par vidéoconférence sur la thématique « Penser l’inclusion sociale et le web 2.0: que reserve l’avenir à l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues ? » (débat en anglais). Contactez nous pour vous inscrire gratuitement: turkuwebinar@gmail.com -
Turku
Life course and learning in history
Cultural, societal and individual perspectives on adult education and training in Europe
Le prochain séminaire du réseau de l'ESREA « History of Adult Education and Training » sera organisé à Turku (Finlande), les 8 et 9 juin 2009, couplé avec le colloque du réseau finlandais d’histoire de l’éducation. Il a pour thème : le cours de la vie et la formation (learning) dans l’histoire : perspectives culturelles, sociétales et individuelles dans l’éducation et la formation des adultes en Europe. L’appel à communications est disponible sur le site de l’ESREA : http://www.esrrea.org. Les travaux devront être présentés en anglais (ou au moins pour une part, de manière bilingue). Date limite d'envoi des propositions : 1er mars 2009. -
Helsinki
Call for papers - Political studies
EGPA/NISPACee Second Trans-European Dialogue
Treating citizens as customers has been one of the key elements in transforming public services in Europe. Many public sector innovations have focused on giving citizens more voice and more choice, and on giving them the service quality they deserve. But are we right to reduce the citizen’s role to that of a customer? What have been the implications of these changes in the public sector? Is the difference between citizens and customers a mere conceptual one, or do the differences run deeper? What is the political, legal, and economic position of citizens and consumers within the organisation of public services? Do they have a different position in different countries? At this conference, we invite perspectives from public administration, public management, political science, law, business and marketing. -
Helsinki
Les collocations dans les discours spécialisés
Cet atelier, organisé par le laboratoire "Lexiques Dictionnaires Informatique" (UMR 7187 - CNRS, Paris-Nord et Cergy-Pontoise) dans le cadre du congrès Europhras 2008, s'intéressera aux faits collocationnels dans les discours spécialisés. Les cinq tables rondes prévues aborderont (i) les aspects méthodologiques de l'extraction de collocations spécialisées à partir de larges corpus, (ii) les relations entre terminologie et collocations, ces dernières pouvant être envisagées comme le mode d'emploi du terme, (iii) le rôle des collocations dans le discours juridique - avec une attention particulière accordée au(x) discours des droits de l'homme, (iv) les collocations dans les discours scientifique, en particulier en tant qu'éléments d'aide à la rédaction technique et scientifique et (v) la question de la saisie termino- et lexicographique de ces unités langagières au sein de dictionnaires, glossaires et bases de données. -
Helsinki
Les collocations en discours spécialisés
Atelier dans le cadre du Congrès Europhras 2008
Après des débuts presque entièrement consacrés au seul terme, la recherche sur les discours spécialisés, dont l’évolution a suivi celle de la recherche en sciences du langage, a élargi son champ d’investigation pour s’intéresser progressivement à la phrase puis au texte spécialisé considéré par beaucoup à l’heure actuelle comme l’unité d’analyse fondamentale, quand ce n’est pas unique, au sein de laquelle cristallisent tous les traits caractéristiques de la communication entre experts. Sans vouloir s’engager à rebours sur cette route menant du terme au texte, cette proposition d’atelier souhaite faire une halte à un niveau intermédiaire, celui de la mise en discours du terme pour l’étude de laquelle la rencontre entre phraséologie et terminologie ne peut être que bénéfique.
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