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Between Eastern and Southern Europe 1960s-2014
In under two decades, authoritarian political systems collapsed across Europe – in the south of the continent in the 1970s, and then in the east between 1989 and 1991. Although much work has been done on these processes in each region, and comparative work carried out on post-authoritarian transitions and memories, there has yet to be any sustained scholarship that examines the ‘entangledness’ of these processes in the context of broader European and global processes of the late Cold War and its aftermath. Taking a longue durée approach, this conference will explore these inter-relationships between the 1960s and the present day. 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of state socialism and the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the transition from dictatorship on the Iberian Peninsula and in Greece: an ideal time to consider the relationship between these processes that have been central to modern European history.
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Leuven
Conference, symposium - Representation
Beyond monument. The future of churches: heritage or eradication?
Ninth international young researchers in heritage conference
Cette Neuvième rencontre internationale des jeunes chercheurs en patrimoine veut discuter de la patrimonialisation des églises et des chapelles des traditions religieuses historiques en interrogeant sous un angle pragmatique leur passage, depuis l’espace religieux, dans l’espace public de la société civile contemporaine. En assumant à la fois les limites du « monument historique », qui ne peut suffire à nos vouloirs patrimoniaux divers et encore moins à leur soutien financier, et le caractère inéluctable de la conversion de ces lieux de culte, c’est-à-dire de leur affectation à de nouveaux usages, l’on veut examiner le devenir civil des églises et des chapelles et les stratégies de passage qui l’étayent. On interrogera spécifiquement les dimensions suivantes : l’action publique, ses moyens et ses partenaires ; les méthodes de financement ; les moyens de conversion ; les critères de sélection aux différentes échelles territoriales.
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Leuven
Developing a sense of belonging in diverse societies
Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe
The aim of this workshop is to gather scholars who work on Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe to compare the similitudes and differences of identity practices. Hui are predominantly Chinese speaking Muslims in China’s vast territory. With a population of 10 million, they are also the most numerous recognized ethnic group in China. Muslims in Europe are hardly featured in international media, domestic politics, and scholarly discussions. Multiculturalism, radicalisation, immigration, integration, forced marriage are discussed through the Muslim visibility and presence in Europe. Recent debates on integration and secularism are focused on the "Muslim question". In contrast to the focus on Muslims in Europe, there is a notable lack of interest in Muslims in China with the exception of the Uyghur community. In this workshop, we want to study the impact of ethnic-religious interactions, state integration positions and policies to grasp the increasing influence of religious-collective-national expression of Muslims in the public sphere. We would like to examine the new patterns of expression and visibility of the Muslims in China and Europe. Tracing Muslim’s interaction with non-Muslims, this workshop investigates how Muslims encounters, accommodates and negotiates into different socio political contexts in China and Europe.
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Leuven
Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe: Consumption and Aesthetics
This workshop sets out to understand the everyday practices of Muslims living in Europe. The diverse and various (non)-religious daily life practices indicate the non-defined boundaries of Muslims whose practices can be a part of the stigmatised-open spaces in public discourses. Examining the relationship between Islam and liberal democratic values, it is important to note what kind of practices and daily life experiences are exercised in private-public areas, which also determine the views and public perception of Muslims. The identification of Muslims with one or another practice is not a simply neutral matter; this entails also an attachment to liberal, communitarian and civil meanings. Regardless of the daily life activities, these perceptions of Muslims face the challenge that Muslims are not a fixed group, but they share the same practices that others have and do. Food and eating practices, consumer way of life, marriage, salutations; these banal practices of everyday life are central to discover the subjectivity of Muslims, or in other terms, a sense of the self, a way of embodiment.
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Leuven
Even if human scientists and business executives like to argue otherwise, the human sciences have always been in-corporated. Without them, the modern business corporation would simply have been unimaginable, just as the production and consumption of working bodies within these corporations. ‘The Firm’ continues to frame itself as a fundamental human enterprise, in which the prominence of human ressources and human relations only continues to increase, yet the humanities of the business corporation largely remain to be written.
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Leuven
Second Annual Conference of ALTER, European Society for Disability Research
Scholars are invited to propose an abstract for the Second Annual Conference of ALTER-ESDR. The aim is that the members propose papers that are relevant to the lives of people with disabilities in European contexts. Scholars are encouraged to focus on issues that are scholarly, critical, and cutting-edge in disability research, including research that captures contemporary societal issues, the voice of disabled people, advocacy, and policy. -
Leuven
Call for papers - Urban studies
Beyond the monument. The fate of churches: become heritage or disappear?
IXth International Young Scholars Conference on Heritage
The Ninth International Young Scholars Conference on Heritage intends to discuss heritage-making with respect to churches and chapels of the historical religious traditions by examining from a pragmatic perspective the transition of these buildings from the religious space to the public space of contemporary civil society. The following dimensions will be specifically addressed: public action, including its means and partners; funding methods; means of conversion; and selection criteria at various territorial scales. Property plans and the appropriate or inappropriate character of eventual uses obviously remain crucial issues as well. -
Leuven
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Lecturer-researcher position in the sociology of education and socialisation
L'université de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) ouvre un poste académique en Sociologie de l'éducation et de la socialisation pour une entrée en fonction en septembre 2013. Date limite des candidatures : le 17 décembre 2012. -
Leuven
International summer school in research on Religion, Culture and Society in Europe (1750-)
The summer school offers its students an introductory training by means of a balanced programme of seminars, lectures and field trips. Established researchers on the field develop specific topics and cases, students have the possibility to present their own work and discuss their ideas in a relaxed and open atmosphere and within a multidisciplinary framework. -
Leuven
The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700)
Le 4 décembre 2013 sera le jour du 450e anniversaire de la clôture solennelle du Concile de Trente (1545-1563). Ce concile a eu un impact énorme sur le développement de la religion, de la culture et de la politique, en Europe et ailleurs. Une conférence internationale, qui se tiendra à Leuven du 4 au 6 décembre 2013, se propose d'abord de réévaluer la théologie tridentine et la vision du Concile sur le travail pastoral, comme résultat d'une volonté de réforme interne et d'une controverse avec la Réformation. Pareillement, les initiatives postconciliaires à Rome pour interpréter et appliquer le Concile seront abordées afin de mettre en valeur la manière dont elles ont formé l'identité catholique en confrontation avec les Églises protestantes. -
Liège | Leuven
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
À la suite des réflexions d’E. Kantorowicz sur les deux corps du roi, les travaux d’A. Paravicini Bagliani sur le corps du pape ont contribué à mettre en évidence combien la figure du corps du prince, qu’il soit laïque ou ecclésiastique, est au cœur des discours et des pratiques de pouvoir au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance. Au travers de contributions portant sur une cour déterminée et d’autres portant sur quelques aspects transversaux jugés particulièrement significatifs, ce colloque a pour objet de montrer l’articulation fondamentale d’un ensemble cohérent de représentations et de pratiques culturelles autour du corps du Prince. Il s’inscrit en parfaite continuité avec les travaux menés depuis plusieurs décennies par A. Paravini Bagliani. -
Rhode-Saint-Genèse
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Law
Schoralships for a Master in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy
Postgraduate Master Programme in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy, University of Genoa (Italy)
The Univerisity of Genoa offers 10 full scholarships for its International Post-graduate Master Programme in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy. This semi residential programme requires a 4-week presence in Imperia (Italy) in January/February 2012 and is limited to a maximum of 25 students. -
Leuven
European Solidarity with Chile, 1970-1990
During the Cold War, Western Europe witnessed the emergence of various social movements with an orientation to Latin America. One of the most important mobilizations for Latin America was without any doubt the movement in solidarity with Chile, which already emerged in support for the Allende government (1970-1973) but especially gained strength after the military coup of 1973. Indeed, the overthrew of the Unidad Popular government in September 1973 and the subsequent repression by the Chilean military dictatorship inspired a wave of protest and solidarity in Western Europe, which lasted until the end of the regime of Pinochet in 1990. Support for the Chilean resistance and for the many refugees which had crossed the ocean was concretized in the establishment of hundreds of Chile solidarity committees across Western Europe and in the action of a variety of other organizations, including trade unions, church groups and NGO’s. The Chilean political opposition and refugees played an active role in this solidarity, although internal political tension proved to be an important obstacle for the Western European solidarity movements. -
Leuven
European Solidarity with Latin America, 1950s-2000s
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Leuven
Normativity across the disciplines
This conference represents the final stage of the “European Doctorate in history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy of legal cultures in Europe”, a multilingual PhD programme financed by the European Commission and conceived to deepen the links between law and social sciences. The topic of the meeting, “Undoing law, framing contexts. Normativity across the disciplines”, aims to encourage a reflection on the concepts of law and context, bringing together scholars with different academic backgrounds but with a common interest in law.Many feel that a line has to be drawn between what is law and what it is not, between the text of law and its con-text. It is precisely this activity of distinguishing between the legal and the non-legal that we would like to examine more closely. -
Leuven
Conference, symposium - History
Families, Constructions of Foreigness and Migration in Twentieth Century Western Europe
How did 'family' figure in political and cultural constructions of foreignness in Western Europe in the last century? And how did these policies and stereotypes shape and were shaped by the family-related strategies, experiences and identities of migrants? What does the focus on the changing meanings of 'family' and foreignness' add to our understanding of the dynamics of gender and migration? -
Leuven
Families, constructions of foreignness and migration in 20th century Western Europe
Conference at Leuven University, Belgium, May 15-16 2008
This conference aims to discuss and compare national boundaries, policies and experiences with regard to family and migration in twentieth century Western Europe. Three perspectives will receive particular attention at the conference. First, national boundaries and related policies of receiving as well as sending societies with regard to family and migration and their implications for migrants or their relatives who stayed behind; Second, the relationship between the family situations (of mothers, fathers, single women or men, children, elders and so on) and the stereotyping of migrants of 'foreign'. or rather their invisibility. Third, the perspective of migrants and their relatives themselves. How did they construct family and how did they deal with family policies and family cultures in receiving societies as well as in their societies of origin? How were family situations and transnationalism related? -
Leuven
Domesticity and Religion
La nouvelle historiographie socio-religieuse a mis en question la thèse de la sécularisation et la dichotomie entre un domaine public et un domaine privé. Néanmoins, au 19ème et la première moitié du 20ème siècle l’idéologie de la « domesticité » se répand et la famille devient plus que jamais le lieu où les pratiques religieuses prennent forme et dès lors un élément clé dans la formation des identités socio-religieuses des hommes et des femmes. Ces journées d’études veulent analyser les différentes modalités selon lesquelles hommes et femmes organisèrent leur vie et éducation religieuse en famille, et l’impact des structures domestique, y compris l’architecture et les interactions privé - public.
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