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• 12 jui 2017

  13 jui 2017

  Bristol

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture

  This conference aims to reflect on the critical spaces of reading and listening that occur in and around popular cultural texts in Africa – from songs, magazines, romance fiction, and hip-hop lyrics, to blogs, facebook posts, and urban inscriptions. Drawing on the methods of cultural studies, material print cultures, and the sociology of reception, we seek to engage with the critical vocabulary generated by those spaces of reception at a time of transition for the book object and the reading practices which accompany it. How can this material be researched (archives, interviews, ethnographic observation, digitisation, databases)? How is/might it be integrated into teaching across disciplines? 

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• 16 oct 2017

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Printing and misprinting: Typographical mistakes and publishers’ corrections (1450-1600)

  This one-day symposium – opening with a keynote lecture by Anthony Grafton (Princeton) – aims to explore the notions of typos and manuscript or stop-press emendations in early modern print shops. Building on Grafton’s seminal work, scholars are invited to present new evidence on what we can learn from misprints in relation to publishers’ practices, printing and pre-publication procedures, and editorial strategies between 1450 and 1600.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Paris | Arles | Stirling | New Haven

  Call for papers - Language

  The humanities factory

  New training program for translators in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences

  ATLAS, association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, lance un appel à candidature pour quatre ateliers intensifs d’une semaine en résidence, consacrés à la traduction en sciences humaines et sociales (anglais-français). Encadrés par deux traducteurs expérimentés, ces ateliers réunissent de jeunes chercheurs francophones et anglophones pour approfondir leurs compétences traductives dans leur domaine de recherche. Consacrées aux domaines de l'histoire, de la philosophie, de la sociologie et de l'anthropologie et de la pensée critique, ces quatre sessions se tiendront respectivement à l'université de Stirling (du 04/12/17 au 08/12/17), à Arles (CITL, du 18/12/17 au 22/12/17), à Paris (EHESS, du 08/01/18 au 12/01/18) et à l'université de Yale (États-Unis, du 16/01/18 au 20/01/18).

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• 24 avr 2017

  London

  Call for papers - America

  Radical Americas 2017: Legacies

  The fifth Radical Americas conference will take place at UCL Institute of the Americas, London on 11th and 12th September 2017. The conference falls in a year of many anniversaries, offering an opportunity to examine the legacies of various radical movements, events, writers, artists and activists. Yet the careful examination of the past should not distract us from the urgent tasks of the present, and we will consider the challenges for radicals in the Americas in the current conjuncture.

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• 08 avr 2017

  Belfast

  Call for papers - History

  Formal and informal networks of migrant women and men in settlement process (14th-19th centuries)

  Panel at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)

  This panel aims to study settlement patterns of migrants, according to a gendered approach. It aims to bring together scholars working on migration and settlement dynamics, by focusing on the extension and quality of relationships that newcomers could develop in the new environment and by highlighting differences between men and women. In addition it aims to investigate how these ties influenced, successfully or not, their settlement process: the daily life, the research of a job or a house, the access to credit networks, to poor relief or to other urban resources etc...

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• 01 mar 2017

  London

  Call for papers - History

  Remembering early modern revolutions

  England, North America, France and Haiti

  The “turn to memory”, as Geoffrey Cubitt has described it, has been a major feature of recent historiography. This one-day conference will explore the memory of the major revolutions of the early modern period (England 1649 and 1688/9; North America 1776, France 1789 and Haiti 1791-1804). By addressing these events collectively, the conference will explore the interconnectedness of these revolutions in the contemporary mind.

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• 16 fév 2017

  Huddersfield

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Finding Democracy in Music

  For a century and more musicians have sought to relate their practices to the values of democracy. But political theory teaches that democracy is a highly contested category. This symposium aims to interrogate claims for the “democratic” nature of music.

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• 15 fév 2017

  Bristol

  Call for papers - Language

  Paper, waves and screens - from text to public in African popular culture

  Les textes propres à une culture populaire africaine forment un abondant corpus composé de matériaux textuels, sonores, et visuels : depuis les chansons, les magazines, la littérature sentimentale, les paroles de hip-hop, jusqu’aux blogs et messages sur Facebook, en passant par les inscriptions urbaines ou les tro-tros à Accra. La culture populaire englobe aussi les nombreuses manières par lesquelles ces objets culturels sont reçus et interprétés, à une échelle locale, nationale, et/ou internationale . Ce domaine de recherche mobilise des méthodes propres aux études culturelles, à l’histoire matérielle de l’imprimé, ainsi qu’à la sociologie de la réception . Le matériau en question reste cependant relativement peu étudié et enseigné, du fait de difficultés d’accès et de débats méthodologiques persistants.

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• 31 jan 2017

  Glasgow

  Call for papers - Europe

  France, Europe and the world

  31st annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History

  L’histoire de la France a été profondément influencée par ses engagements européens et mondiaux. Que ce soit par ses engagements diplomatiques ou militaires, ses interactions coloniales, les échanges culturels ou intellectuels ou les interconnections du commerce, le caractère fluide et perméable des frontières de la France a apporté une variété d’influences sur l’histoire de la France. Pendant que le rôle et le statut de la France dans l’Europe et le monde ont changé, les perceptions et les représentations de la France ont changé aussi.

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• 12 jan 2017

  13 jan 2017

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Genealogical rationality and social status in the Enlightenment

  La généalogie est un puissant idiome de hiérarchisation sociale dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime et garde son efficace bien au delà des transformations sociales portées par l'âge des Lumières. On s'interrogera dès lors sur les transformations qu'a subies, dans l’espace temporel qui va de Fénelon à Kant, cette forme particulière de connaissance qu’est la raison généalogique, ainsi que les usages qu’en faisaient les différents acteurs sociaux.

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• 15 mar 2017

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Geography

  Spatialising the social sciences in post-colonial contexts

  This workshop proposes aims at creating a platform of debate between scholars engaged on the spatialisation of the social sciences and humanities on post-colonial contexts. It will promote interdisciplinarity between the various areas of social sciences and of human geography, through theoretically-informed empirically-grounded researches.

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• 15 jan 2017

  Norwich

  Call for papers - History

  Europe and the East

  Self and Other in the History of the European idea

  Throughout the centuries, Europe has constantly defined and imagined itself in opposition to or in conjunction with the East. From Montesquieu and Boulanger’s Oriental despotism to Marx’s Asiatic mode of production and twentieth-century fears of Soviet aggression, intellectuals, writers, and politicians have conceived of Europe as the place of liberty and progress in opposition to ‘its’ East. Such ideological creations and clichéd attitudes continued into the twentieth century, when during the Cold War Europe was once more identified with the free and ostensibly more advanced western half of the Continent. It is the aim of this international and interdisciplinary conference, to bring the ‘East’ back in, i.e. to shed light on its role and significance, as a geopolitical and geo-cultural notion, in defining discourses and images of Europe from the seventeenth century onwards.

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• 15 mai 2016

  Manchester

  Call for papers - History

  Music and nation, 1918-1945, Europe and the Americas (II)

  Music, nationalism and transnationalism - diplomacy, politics and aesthetics

  Ce colloque constitue la deuxième étape du programme de recherche « Musique et nation dans l’entre-deux-guerres - Europe-Amériques ». Il fait suite à la journée d’études « Musique et nation dans l’entre-deux-guerres » qui s’est tenue le 10 décembre 2015 à Paris. Y sera développée une réflexion sur la mobilisation de la musique par des acteurs publics ou privés dans des contextes locaux, nationaux et internationaux. Trois axes seront privilégiés : les usages de la musique dans la diplomatie culturelle ; la musique dans les commémorations et les répertoires à dimension commémorative et la place des imaginaires nationaux et nationalistes dans le discours sur la musique.

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• 23 nov 2016

  24 nov 2016

  Manchester

  Conference, symposium - History

  Music and nation, 1918-1945, Europe and the Americas (II)

  Music, nationalism and transnationalism - diplomacy, politics and aesthetics

  Ce colloque constitue la deuxième étape du programme de recherche « Musique et nation dans l’entre-deux-guerres - Europe-Amériques ». Il fait suite à la journée d’études « Musique et nation dans l’entre-deux-guerres » qui s’est tenue le 10 décembre 2015 à Paris. Y sera développée une réflexion sur la mobilisation de la musique par des acteurs publics ou privés dans des contextes locaux, nationaux et internationaux. Trois axes seront privilégiés : les usages de la musique dans la diplomatie culturelle ; la musique dans les commémorations et les répertoires à dimension commémorative et la place des imaginaires nationaux et nationalistes dans le discours sur la musique.

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• 06 fév 2017

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Medical Anthropology Beyond Academic Borders

  MAYS Annual meeting 2017

  This conference is intended to instigate conversations that acknowledge, but sidestep debates about whether or not medical anthropology should or should not be applied beyond the discipline. Rather, this conference is aimed at questions of how. Our goal with this conference is to create dialogue about practical ways and directions medical anthropological work can be used and made available outside academia, spark collaboration with other professionals, and provide the foundation for a professional career.

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• 08 déc 2016

  09 déc 2016

  10 déc 2016

  London

  Conference, symposium - History

  Replacement

  The “Replacement” conference includes 5 keynote talks, 36 shorter papers, an art exhibition and three film-showings: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940), A Secret (Claude Miller, 2007) and 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015).

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• 01 nov 2016

  Oxford

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Study grants at the Maison Française in Oxford

  La Maison française d’Oxford, avec le soutien du Service science et technologie de l'Ambassade de France à Londres, propose des bourses d’un mois destinées aux doctorants de toutes disciplines inscrits, ou en co-tutelle, avec une université ou un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français.

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• 30 sep 2016

  01 oct 2016

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - Law

  The Commons, plant breeding and agricultural research

  How to face the challenges of an increasing world population ant the preservation of agrobiodiversity

  The joint challenges of food safety and conservation of agrobiodiversity are making us rethink the issue of agricultural production. We have to produce more, but especially better in order to sustain biological diversity, mitigate climate change and adapt to it. This prospect urgently calls for the development of a sustainable crop production system that relies less on natural resources (soils, wateraquifer), fertilizers and protection products. There are probably many ways to address these challenges, and it is undisputed that science and technology have a major role to play in this respect.

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• 21 nov 2015

  Reading

  Call for papers - History

  Liberation struggles, the “falling of the empire” and the birth [through images] of African nations

  The fortieth anniversary of Portuguese decolonisation of Africa has acted as a catalyst in discussing how Portugal “imagined” colonial politics through moving images and how these propagandist portrayals began to be questioned by the Portuguese “Novo Cinema”. This can be seen in works that were censured and prohibited. Portuguese colonial cinematographic representations were later challenged by films made in the context of the liberation movements and by images that emerged out of the national cinematographic projection (Frodon) of the new Portuguese-speaking African countries. This conference intends to go some way in highlighting common aspects in the emergence of cinema in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, which have all been studied individually.

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• 06 oct 2016

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Genealogical rationality and social status in the Enlightenment

  La généalogie est un puissant idiome de hiérarchisation sociale dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime et garde son efficace bien au delà des transformations sociales portées par l'âge des Lumières. On s'interrogera dès lors sur les transformations qu'a subies, dans l’espace temporel qui va de Fénelon à Kant, cette forme particulière de connaissance qu’est la raison généalogique, ainsi que les usages qu’en faisaient les différents acteurs sociaux.

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