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• 30 avr 2015

  Manchester

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Economic Life: From the Economy to the Economical?

  MANCEPT 2015

  Without living beings there would be hardly no economy. The crucial question is, however, how to conceptualize the relationship between different ways of comprehending life and different ways of understanding the economy. There seems to be at least two main possibilities, which we would like to discuss and confront with each other in this workshop.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Belfast

  Call for papers - America

  The Future Canadian Soldier and Enhancement of Human Performance

  A Research meets Policy

  This workshop, entitled "The Future Canadian Soldier and Enhancement of Human Performance: A Research meets Policy" will gather scholars and policy experts from multidisciplinary fields to assess the merits of various current developments in military-focused Human Performance Enhancement.

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• 15 fév 2015

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Thought

  The century of lightness: emergences of a paradigm from the 18th century in France

  Au dix-huitième siècle, le concept de légèreté semble envahir tous les domaines des connaissances humaines, de la morale à la physique, des inventions aérostatiques aux créations artistiques. Perpétuant cette image d’un âge léger, depuis le dix-neuvième siècle bourgeois, industrieux mais aussi nostalgique du temps des fêtes galantes, jusqu’à notre époque célébrant la frivolité (et la commercialité) des années de Marie-Antoinette et de Fragonard, le dix-huitième siècle français en sa légèreté n’a jamais cessé de séduire. Ainsi, qu’elle soit l’objet d’une conquête (scientifique, morale, esthétique, etc.) ou de constructions historiques, la légèreté du dix-huitième siècle s’impose comme un paradigme dont il s’agira de soulever les enjeux, dans une perspective critique et historiographique.

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• 10 fév 2015

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Language

  How to write the Great War?

  Francophone and Anglophone poetics throug the war and its aftermath

  Colloque international bilingue organisé conjointement par la Maison Française d'Oxford et Madgalen College. L'objet de cet événement sera d'interroger à travers des perspectives littéraires, historiques, stylistiques et linguistiques les littératures de témoignage anglophones et francophones de la Grande Guerre, en questionnant les moyens que mobilisèrent les écrivains pour répondre aux bouleversements occasionnés par le conflit. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux évolutions de la langue, des genres ou encore du personnel romanesque, mais aussi à leurs permanences respectives, tout aussi instructives dans l'optique d'une saisie des enjeux éthiques, esthétiques et politiques de la période.

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• 01 fév 2015

  Exeter

  Call for papers - Geography

  Proximity and intraregional aspects of tourism

  RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

  This session intends to discuss the role of proximity and intraregional aspects in the ways tourism works. In a context of intense mobilities, classic dichotomies such as tourist-resident, home-away or self-other are being challenged and several questions are arising as a result. What does exotic mean in a globalized context? Which is the relationship between everyday life and tourism? What are the implications of proximity and intraregional tourism for land planning and tourism policies? (How) can tourism play a role in connecting people and nearby places? Is there a future for ‘tourism without travel’? How does proximity tourism relate to local citizenship and community responsibilities? This session welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers aiming to share new approaches in the understanding of these phenomenons.

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• 09 jan 2015

  Exeter

  Call for papers - History

  Locality and globality

  Cette journée d'études pour les doctorants invite des communications liées aux thèmes indiqués dans le titre de la journée, « Localité et globalité ». Elle est ouverte aux doctorant-e-s qui spécialisent dans les domaines d'histoire, de la littérature, des sciences sociales, et tout ce qui est lié à l'étude de la civilisation française. Il y aura aussi des séances de formation et approfondissement professionnel au matin, plus une intervention keynote de Claire Eldridge (Southampton).

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• 30 jan 2015

  Belfast

  Call for papers - History

  San-Antonio international: representations, circulation, translations, exchanges

  The subject of this two-day conference is the exchange processes between French and International cultures at play in and around the work of Crime Fiction author Frédéric Dard. Having started his literary career in 1938 and published more than 250 books until his death in 2000, the author is not only one of the most prolific and successful in the history of European literature, he is a very public figure too, having enjoyed intense media and critical attention in the last decades of his career. Identified mainly with the almost 200 San-Antonio novels he wrote between 1949 and 2000, the most popular and longest series of Crime novels written by a single French author, his image has been distorted by the bulk, preponderance and largely domestic nature of San-Antonio’s success.

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• 15 jan 2015

  Belfast

  Call for papers - Modern

  Representations of Rurality in Crime Fiction and Media Culture

  Interdisciplinary Approaches to "Setting the Scene"

  The Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University organises a two day Symposium in June 2015  (15 & 16th) as part of its theme of "Creativity in Imagined and Material Worlds". Devoted to representations of the rural,  it will bring together studies in crime fiction and media culture looking at a variety of outlets such as fiction, film, television, comics, games and many others and inspect their various engagements  with the concept of "rurality". Interdisciplinary papers are welcomed, but not contained to, Anthropology, Modern Languages, English, Film and Media Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Historical/Cultural/Rural Geography, Sociology, Spatial Planning. By bringing together an interdisciplinary group we will address how cultural constructions of the rural often ‘set the scene’ for crime fiction.

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• 01 déc 2014

  Exeter

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Panel interdisciplinaire « anthropology and heritage studies »

  Conférence annuelle de l'ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth), 13-16 avril 2015, Exeter

  Ce panel a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs d’horizons disciplinaires et professionnels différents (anthropologie, archéologie, cultural studies, muséologie, métiers du patrimoine...) afin de mener une réflexion interdisciplinaire sur les collaborations et fertilisations théoriques et méthodologiques entre l’anthropologie et les heritage studies. Nous nous interrogerons également sur l'impact de nos recherches sur les publics, les perceptions et les savoirs indigènes, les politiques institutionnelles, et sur l'engagement social et éthique des chercheurs.  

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• 30 nov 2014

  St Andrews

  Call for papers - History

  Turning Points in French History

  Society for the Study of French History 29th Annual Conference

  This is a call for papers for the 29th Annual Conference of the UK and Ireland Society for the Study of French History. This conference will take place at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, on 28th-30th June 2015, and will be hosted by the university’s Centre for French History and Culture. The theme of the plenary sessions will be “Turning Points in French History”. This theme has been chosen because of the number of significant anniversaries that fall in 2015 (1415 Azincourt, 1515 accession of François Ier, 1615 closing of Estates General until 1789, 1715 death of Louis XIV and accession of Louis XV, 1815 end of the Napoleonic era, 1940 fall of France). 

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• 15 nov 2014

  London

  Call for papers - America

  Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era

  The UCL Americas Research Network invites doctoral students and early career researchers of the Americas (Central, South, and North America, as well as the Caribbean) from across the humanities and the social sciences to submit their proposals on the theme Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era. We welcome research that ranges both geographically and temporally, encouraging interdisciplinary conversations on national, regional and local topics and those whose focus is comparative, transnational and global. By facilitating a space for debate, this conference aims to create an ongoing platform for collaborative exchange.

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• 03 nov 2014

  Glasgow

  Call for papers - History

  France and the Second World War in Global Perspective, 1919-1945

  As the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War approaches, this conference seeks to re-evaluate the experiences and roles played by France during the war and its lead-up. Its aim is to explore France in the Second World War from a global as well as domestic perspective, including the interwar years of shifting foreign relations, international entanglements, political upheaval and military build-up. What new approaches might scholars bring to the history of the Vichy regime, collaboration, resistance, liberation, and the German and Italian occupations of France and Corsica? How have historians’ understandings of the roles played by the French colonial empire and colonial forces changed? How might international, transnational or comparative approaches contribute towards developing new avenues of research in this area?

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• 15 mai 2014

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Education

  Working group on Serious Gaming

  "Video games culture project" international conference, Oxford 17-19 July 2014

  Session de travail sur le Serious gaming autour de deux axes principaux : jeux commercieux utilisés à des fins de serious gaming ; expériences de level design à des fins de serious gaming.

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• 11 avr 2014

  Cambridge

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  The Carolingian frontier and its neighbours

  We are launching a call for papers for 'The Carolingian frontier and its neighbours', a three-day conference to be held at the University of Cambridge, 4 - 6 July 2014.

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• 21 fév 2014

  Durham

  Call for papers - History

  History and meaning

  28th annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History

  De l’école des Annales à la phénoménologie, historiens français et intellectuels ont joué un rôle pionnier dans l’exploration et l’interprétation de l’expérience sensible. Nous invitons cette année les chercheurs à soumettre des propositions de communications ou de panels sur ce thème des sens. Cet appel à communication s’adresse à un large éventail d’historiens, ceux dont le travail concerne les cinq sens mais aussi ceux qui étudient le sens sous d’autres formes : sens de l’espace et du temps, sentiment d’appartenance ou sens de la communauté, voire « sixièmes » sens moins immédiatement évidents et tangibles. Les chercheurs, quelle que soit leur période de prédilection, se sont intéressés aux sens comme à des moyens de reconstruire l’expérience vécue du passé, ou de réfléchir à la nature du témoignage historique ou de l’écriture de l’histoire.

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• 25 avr 2014

  Brighton

  Call for papers - Sociology

  African Spatial mobility, colonial memory and patterns of social differentiations

  Panel of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) conference 2014

  The aim of this panel is to look at how spatial mobility and the reference to a territorial homeland (‘real’ or ‘imaginary’) influence the processes of appropriation, reappropriation and disapprioriation of colonial memory in the African diasporas. In a context of the liberation of subalterns memories, many authors consider that slavery and colonization have become since the 2000s, the controversial memorial repositories in both Europe and the United States as in Africa. However, processes of selection, denial and invisibility remain, particularly in old European cities. The emergence of new migratory routes, particularly overseas, can sometimes be associated to liberating acts from social actors fleeing multiple discriminations they have experienced or are afraid of in Europe.

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• 31 jan 2014

  London

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Violence of War

  Experiences and Images of Conflict

  Although historians dealing with war will inevitably be called to concentrate their attention on violence, often the understanding of how violence itself was perceived, understood, imagined and experienced by combatants and civilians is neglected. Much still needs to be said about how war was shaped by and, in turn, influenced, modern perceptions of violence. Considering war, as John Keegan has put it, first and foremost as ‘a cultural act’, this conference calls attention to the ways in which warfare violence was imagined and understood during the modern era, focusing on the distance between expectations and experiences of war; on the distance between – or coincidence of – ‘imagined’ and the ‘real’ wars. The period considered ranges from the Crimean War to the Second World War and its aftermath.

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• 20 nov 2013

  Glasgow

  Call for papers - Representation

  The philosophical issues of the work of J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Les Cahiers J.M.G. Le Clézio issue 8

  Créée en 2008 en collaboration avec les éditions Complicités, la revue annuelle Les Cahiers J.M.G. Le Clézio réunit textes critiques, témoignages, entretiens, notes de lectures et documents inédits relatifs à l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio. Ce numéro 8 des Cahiers Le Clézio « Les enjeux philosophiques de l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio » se propose d'examiner le rapport entre l'œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio et les thèmes philosophiques présents à travers ses romans et ses essais. 

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• 25 jui 2014

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (IIIrd Century B.C. – IIIrd Century A.D.)

  Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique et romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)

  It seems clear that, in the Greek-speaking regions of the Roman Empire, Hellenistic models (civic, military or institutional) exercised considerable influence over “Italic” colonial projects. Within this field, relations between military colonists and indigenous peoples demand special attention, considering the degree of social, cultural, economic, political and geopolitical transformation brought about by the installation of certain groups upon those lands as a result of the will of the great power(s) that ruled over them. As for the Roman colonization, modern scholars have often described Roman colonies as vectors of Romanization inserted in alien lands, writing that these communities must have functioned as images of a “small Rome.” While the existence of Latin-speaking colonists ruled by a favorable juridical system such as the Ius Italicum cannot be denied, such a reductionist model can no longer be accepted without qualification, especially in the context of the Greek-speaking provinces of the Roman East. The regions of the Eastern Mediterranean world saw the coming of a number of groups of Roman colonists and thus their cultural climate, their agrarian structures and their geopolitical environment changed. The aim of this panel is to explore new research paths based on broader studies in time and space.

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• 31 oct 2013

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult

  Panel to be held at the Eighth Celtic Conference in Classics

  Despite recent and widespread interest in Greek hero and ruler cult, evaluating the processes that lead to the bestowal of cultic honours on Hellenistic sovereigns still remains a controversial matter. Political readings of such honours within the framework of contemporary international diplomacy and euergetic discourse have picked up on polarities widely discussed by previous bibliography, such as "dynastic vs. civic", "living vs. posthumous", etc. Yet the main focus is still limited to a "top-down" perspective, which leaves aside the fascinating dialectics between "private" and "public", or to perhaps phrase this more accurately, between "institutional" and "non-institutional" actors.

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