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Ghent

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

Revolution from Afar: Egyptian artists in Europe and Northern America after 2013 – PhD Position

The Department of Languages and Cultures (Section Middle East Studies) at Ghent University is looking for a PhD-student to conduct a research on Egyptian artists who left their country for living in Europe and Northern America after 2013. The general aim of the project is to understand how these artists positioned themselves in their new surroundings and towards the situation in Egypt, particularly concerning their art production.

Ghent

Call for papers - Geography

What does carceral geography bring to carceral studies?

19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology : convergent roads, bridges and new pathways in criminology

The term ‘carceral geography’ describes a vibrant field of geographical and space-centred research into practices and institutions of incarceration, ranging from prisons to migrant detention facilities and beyond. Although rapid, its development is far outpaced by the expansion, diversification and proliferation of those strategies of spatial control and coercion towards which it is attuned. The dictionary definition of carceral is ‘relating to, or of prison’, but as Routley notes ‘carceral geography is not just a fancier name for the geography of prisons’. Carceral geography is in close dialogue with longer-standing academic engagements with the carceral, most notably criminology and prison sociology. Dialogue initially comprised learning and borrowing from criminology, but within a more general criminological engagement with spaces and landscapes recent years have seen criminologists increasingly considering and adopting perspectives from carceral geography.

Ghent

Conference, symposium - Modern

Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art

The conference will probe, challenge and expand upon the academic narrative of male homosociality through the lens of art history. It aims to establish an overview of a variety of male bonds that underpinned nineteenth-century art, and to consider the theoretical and methodological implications of the study thereof. In so doing, it seeks to build a bridge between traditional art-historical scholarship and the fields of gender and gay and lesbian studies: an interdisciplinary exchange of which the full potential for scholarship on the nineteenth century remains to be exploited.

Ghent

Call for papers - Representation

Male bonds in nineteenth-century art

Male Bonds is a two-day international conference that aims to explore the place of male bonds in nineteenth-century artistic practice and visual arts. The conference invites participants to reflect on the ways in which changing notions of masculinity and male sexuality impacted forms of sociability between men in the artistic scene of the long nineteenth century. In so doing, it seeks to build a bridge between traditional art-historical scholarship and the fields of gender and gay and lesbian studies.

Ghent

Call for papers - History

Collecting Cases: Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries Visions of Society

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries case studies focusing on deviant behaviour (such as crime, suicide or mental illness) and exceptional situations became an important part of both popular culture and the emerging human sciences. The goal of this workshop is to explore how these collections of cases, through their inclusions, exclusions and narrative and rhetorical strategies, comment on and convey an image of the society of their times or of the (recent) past. The long-term aim of this project is to publish an edited volume exploring these issues.

Ghent

Call for papers - History

Historical Network Research

This conference follows up the Future of Historical Network Research (HNR) Conference 2013 and aims to bring together scholars from all historical disciplines, sociologists, other social scientists, geographers and computer scientists to discuss the emerging field of historical Social Network Analysis. The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are no longer merely used as metaphors but are increasingly applied in practice. With the increasing availability of both structured and unstructured digital data, we should be able to analyze complex phenomena. Historical SNA can help us to cope with the organization of this information and the reduction of complexity.

Ghent

Call for papers - Sociology

Doing Empirical Research on Sexual Diversities: Methodological and Ethical Challenges

CFP INSEP2013 - Special Session

This session is part of the INSEP2013 Conference – The Value(s) of Sexual Diversity. The conference focuses on the legal, political and ethical boundaries of diverse sexualities, “troubling” current assumptions, dispositions and claims for the boundaries between legitimacy and illegitimacy in diverse sexual identities, sub‐cultures and practices in both national and international contexts. We welcome paper proposals reflecting on the ethical and methodological criticalities associated with doing empirical research on sexual diversities and (in) sexual (sub)cultures.

Ghent

Call for papers - Political studies

The Majority Decides? Blending Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy at the Local Level

Depuis plusieurs dizaines d’années dans plusieurs pays européens les collectivités territoriales ont expérimenté l’émergence de formes variées de démocraties participative et directe comme complément à leurs soutiens représentatifs traditionnels. Une moindre attention a été accordée aux effets de leurs usages réels sur ceux qui sont gouvernés (les habitants), ceux qui gouvernent (les élus et les administrateurs) et aux politiques résultants de l’action de ces derniers. En particulier, au niveau local, la question de la compatibilité et de l’articulation entre les dispositifs participatifs, directs et ceux qui sont représentatifs se pose et constituera la question centrale de ce colloque.

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Ghent

Conference, symposium - Law

Dialogue and concertations between philosophies, religions and public authorities in Europe

Challenges and limits of new forms of governance

Comment les organisations internationales ou les États européens prennent-ils en compte ou mobilisent-ils des ressources produites par diverses formes de plateformes multiconvictionnelles? Mais aussi à l’inverse, comment les acteurs de ces interactions vivent-ils les attentes ou le regard porté sur leur action religieuse par des autorités publiques ? Quatre jours de débats universitaires pour une approche comparative et interdisciplinaire.

Ghent

Call for papers - Urban studies

Neighbourhood and urban government in Western cities, from the Early Modern period to present

Tenth International Conference on Urban History

Les politiques urbaines ont aujourd’hui tendance à se centrer sur le quartier comme unité d’intervention ; celui-ci est ainsi souvent perçu comme le principe organisateur du développement social urbain. En cherchant à renforcer la présence des centres sociaux, des conseils de quartier, en développant la police de proximité et en encourageant les citadins à s’organiser autour de projets comme le « neighbourhood watch », les autorités locales entendent améliorer la qualité de vie urbaine et consolider la cohésion sociale. Ce faisant, les concepteurs des politiques publiques reprennent à leur compte la notion de quartier, telle qu’elle a été définie par les sciences sociales – unité socio-spatiale cohérente – et espèrent pouvoir à leur tour susciter le développement du lien social dans la ville. Ces politiques posent dès lors la question de la nature même du « quartier », entre concept administratif lié à un projet politique et unité urbaine mouvante, informelle et extrêmement personnelle telle qu’elle est vécue par les usagers.

Ghent

Call for papers - History

Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries

Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010

Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries).

Ghent

Call for papers - Sociology

Sensing Masculinity. Thinking about the Masculine Body

CFP – Social science history conference – Ghent, 13-16 April 2010

Thinking about representations of and discourses surrounding the male body usually entails thinking about the visible or tangible body. Studies concerning the history, sociology or anthropology of men’s bodies tend to focus on esthetical ideals (such as the muscular look), the ability to inflict or experience pain (most notably in times of war) or to give or experience pleasure (within or outside the hetero-normative bedroom). This CFP is an invitation to think about the masculine body once again, and to think beyond ‘seeing’ and ‘feeling’ as the only means to experience, analyse or represent bodies.

Ghent

Call for papers - Religion

Network Religion

European Social Science History Conference 2010

This is a call for papers for the Network Religion of the next European Social Science History Conference, which will take place at the beautiful Bijloke Site in Ghent, Belgium, from 13 to 16 April 2010. The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 28 networks, which cover a certain topic, on of these being Religion.

Ghent

Call for papers - Urban studies

Analogous Spaces

Architecture and the space of information, intellect and action

The International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their ‘structure,’ ‘form’ and ‘architecture’. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate? The conference will be organized around three main themes: 1. The first theme explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. 2. The second theme deals with the space of knowledge and memory. 3. The third theme explores the space required for speed, action and decision making.

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Miscellaneous information	2,247
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