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• 25 sep 2020

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - History

  2021-1821-1521. The construction of Mexico: conflicts, otherness and communities

  Le colloque international « 2021-1821-1521. La fabrique du Mexique : conflits, altérités, communautés » répond à une double ambition : offrir un espace scientifique pour tous les mexicanistes francophones, en relation étroite avec les chercheurs mexicains et étrangers ; penser l’objet « Mexique » dans le temps long en faisant dialoguer toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales.

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• 10 oct 2020

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Associated worlds. The living in all their states

  Communications journal (2022)

  Des recherches, renouant avec les notions de coopération, voire d’altruisme, renouvellent la question des rapports des humains avec la nature et les autres vivants. S’appuyant sur ces études, dans le contexte d'inquiétudes écologiques croissantes, divers courants critiques, alternatifs ou militants entendent développer des perspectives opposées à celles de la loi de la jungle et de la consommation destructrice. Cet appel à contribution porte sur ces expériences et modes de vie conformes à de nouvelles philosophies des rapports avec la nature et ses vivants, tant en France qu’à l’étranger. On attend des enquêtes sociologiques ou ethnographiques, animées par un regard anthropologique et/ou historique.

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• 07 sep 2020

  Quebec City

  Call for papers - Modern

  Indigenous Governance and Development

  How Do Community Members Respond?

  The journal Ethnologies invites submissions for a special thematic issue on "Indigenous Governance and Development: How Do Community Members Respond?" This special issue of Ethnologies aims at exploring how members of Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained and/or adjusted their social and cultural practices to tackle such developments in current times.

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• 01 sep 2020

  Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - History

  Reparations and slaveries

  Revue « Esclavages et post-esclavages / Slaveries and post-slaveries »

  This issue of the journal Esclavages & Post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries is about reparation claims related to the slave trade and chattel slavery in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This issue aims to comprehend how contemporary social actors link the history of slavery to contemporary debates in order to address the reproduction of unequal geopolitical, social and racial relations.

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• 20 aoû 2020

  São Leopoldo

  Call for papers - Political studies

  In Search of Rights: social movements, judicial institutions and public policies

  Ciências Sociais Unisinos Vol. 56, nº 3 (september - december 2020)

  The global expansion of the judiciary and access to justice has highlighted institutions of the justice system that focus on defending social rights. Realizing the judicial path as an important way in the search for access to health rights, education, social assistance, among others, social movements began to equip themselves legally to work with judicial institutions. Judicial and also extrajudicial appeals, without the so-called judicialization, are increasingly frequent. The proposed Dossier aims to present the debate on the effects of interaction between social movements, judicial institutions and public policies, theoretically and empirically discussing questions about how social movements mobilize law and judicial institutions to claim and guarantee access to rights? How does this interaction impact the production of public policies? How do mobilizations through judicial institutions affect the different stages of public policy? What are the new governance standards installed from these interactions? And, on the other hand, what are the effects of the use of judicial strategy on social movements?

   

   

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• 10 jui 2020

  São Leopoldo

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Institutions, Public Policies and Development in Times of Global

  Ciências Sociais Unisinos

  Ciências Sociais Unisinos is published three times a year by Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos/Brazil) and prints unpublished articles that contribute to the reflection and the interdisciplinar study of Social Sciences. 

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• 10 jui 2020	15 jui 2020	20 jui 2020
  25 jui 2020

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  LGBTI and Queer Art, Culture and Activism

  In France, a few years after the law authorizing same-sex marriage, LGBTQ associations are now facing new struggles, fighting for access to assisted procreation or the creation of a communal archive center. Drawing on these dynamics, this conference aims at interrogating the bonds between LGBTQ forms of arts, cultures and activisms. We look forward to opening a space for academics and grassroots activists, whether they be engaged in institutional collectives or not, to exchange, reflect and dialogue. LGBTQ-related topics appear to be often overlooked in French research networks. We aim to make it more visible and richer, and make it dialogue with local, national and international networks of academics and activists. The « LGBTI and Queer Art, Culture and Activism » online conference is jointly organised by the Université de Lorraine and its research centres (2L2S and CREM), with the support of the French ministry of culture (DRAC Grand-Est), and the LGBTIQ centre Couleurs Gaies.

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• 30 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The discreet mobilisations of the popular classes: tactics of adaptation or forms of alternative life?

  Le concept de mobilisation a longtemps été surdéterminé par son rapport au politique, tout particulièrement dans la perspective de la « structure des opportunités politiques » (Tarrow, 1990), comme si toute forme de résistance ne pouvait se positionner que par rapport au pouvoir en place et en fonction de lui. La mobilisation soignante contre le COVID 19 a rappelé pourtant qu’il existe tout un champ de pratiques en apparence consensuelles, mais porteuses de dimensions égalitaires et émancipatrices (ou au contraire conservatrices), dont la portée politique n’est ni un préalable, ni une conséquence inéluctable. Ces pratiques participent d’une définition ouverte des mobilisations et du mouvement social, dans la mesure où elles sont collectives, largement intentionnelles et portées vers le changement social, entendu ici comme pratique de subversion (partielle) d’un rapport social de domination. Elles se rapportent aux mœurs et aux formes de vie partiellement autonomes par rapport au champ politique, en tout cas elles ne se positionnent pas hic et nunc par rapport au politique – elles sont discrètes. Mais comment une mobilisation peut-elle être discrète ?

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• 15 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Labour and Migration in the Age of Borders

  The recent focus in politics and the media on the “migration crisis” and the rise of populisms in Europe is an invitation to interrogate migrations in the light of geopolitical, ethical or identity approaches. With this thematic issue we wish to complement, not contradict, these approaches by reintroducing the economic dimension of migration through a study of the multiple forms of work and labor; and address the entanglements between migration policy and work. This special issue asks the following question: what can we learn from the exploration of migrant labor in an age of advanced capitalism and border consolidation? It will look at the relation between migratory statuses, legal and professional situations, under a juridical and socio-economic perspective: at the articulation of power relations within forms of migrant labor; at the impact of processes of borderization on the various worlds of labor; at the forms of resistance to exploitation and subjugation of migrant workers or employees working with migrants. These multiple forms of action at the margins indicate that rather than being depoliticized, labor — and especially labor as it is transformed by migration — remains today a privileged site for understanding the political effects of greater flexibility when it comes to working conditions, the denial of recognition for workers and the hidden face of authoritarian capitalism.

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• 29 mai 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Scientific and material support to research projects FMSH, 2020

  The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) is launching a call for projects dedicated to innovative themes in the humanities and social sciences (SHS): Digital Humanities; Philanthropy and Education; Ecological Transition and Social Justice. This call for projects is a feature of one of the main missions of the FMSH, which is to provide scientific and material support to research projects that are in the early stages of their development and can use the support of the FMSH to develop further their scientific content, methodology, and research networks.

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• 15 mai 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Writing the History of Political Graffiti

  Graphic rebellion and the appropriation of public space (19th – 21st century)

  Objet d’attention croissante des sciences sociales, le graffiti est resté trop souvent pour l’historien une source occasionnelle. Le présent appel entend rassembler des communications qui s’interrogent sur les modalités d’intervention dans l’espace public du graffiti, que ce soit d’un point de vue contestataire ou par les pouvoirs eux-mêmes. Souvent stigmatisés comme une forme de délinquance, les graffitis politiques ont une histoire et portent la trace d’une modalité de communication politique, dont les spécificités méritent d'être précisés par des études de cas portant sur des époques et des cadres géographiques différents. Une attention aux méthodes permettant aux historien·nes de se saisir de cet objet particulier et son rapport au politique serait bienvenue.

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• 31 mai 2020

  Genoa

  Call for papers - Modern

  MemWar. Memory and forgetting of war and trauma in the 20th century

  Le XXIe siècle nait de l’histoire tourmentée du XXe, avec ses deux guerres mondiales et les autres conflits de dimension européenne, comme la Guerre civile espagnole. Ce colloque, organisé par le groupe de recherche « MemWar. Mémoires et oublis des guerres et des traumatismes du XX^e siècle » du Département de Langues et cultures modernes de l’Université de Gênes, vise à analyser les modalités de transmission mémorielle de ces conflits au XXI^e siècle, les représentations de ces derniers, les points aveugles et/ou obscurs de ce processus mémoriel, y compris dans une optique critique (Ricoeur, 2003) et, enfin, comment se développent les rapports de force entre discours officiel et contre-discours.

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• 02 oct 2020

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Violence and environmental crisis

  Violence: An international journal

  Violence: An international journal is launching a call for papers on the theme “Violence and environmental crisis”. Can we speak about violence when describing biodiversity loss, the destruction of natural sanctuaries like Amazonia and the Great Barrier Reef, or when observing the spillage of illegally polluting wastes? How long is the chain of violence related to environmental crisis? And who are the perpetrators and the victims of such violence? In which way can we speak about violence, and can this violence be legitimated or condemned? All this raises theoretical, normative, linguistic and empirical questions to be discussed in the articles fostered by this call.

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• 31 mar 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Tilting

  Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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• 15 jui 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The impact of terrorism

  Violence: An international journal

  Terrorism has an impact on the societies that it affects or targets. While this impact can be one-off or limited, nowadays—with the terrorism of radical Islamic groups such as al-Qaeda and, more recently, ISIS—it tends to be heavy and long lasting, even if it does change over time. Its political implications relate first and foremost to democracy and the separation of powers, and can lead to the unraveling and abuse of existing structures, in ways that work to the government’s advantage. If the impact of terrorism is lasting, it becomes cultural: individuals change their habits and behaviors, learning for example not to be passive in the event of a terrorist attack, and going about their daily lives keeping in the back of their minds the possibility that a terrorist attack could take place. Terrorism changes people’s understanding of reality. Terrorism also gives rise to policies that are repressive, but also preventive, or those aimed at exiting violence, using deradicalization programs for example. 

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• 19 avr 2020

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The decolonization of museology: museums, mixing and myths of origin

  43rd Annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) Symposium

  ICOFOM is proposing a symposium around two themes inspired by the process of renewing the definition of the museum and the major trends that contribute to transforming museums (Mairesse, 2015; 2016). These two central themes raise many questions about the primary mission of the museum. Decolonization is at the heart of the fundamental questioning of the social function of the museum. Consequently, these are the discourses, or even the myths of origin of the nations, that are contested.

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• 02 mai 2020

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - History

  Transnational Biographies. Destinies at the Crossroads throughout the 20th Century

  This call for papers seeks methodological and case-study perspectives on 20^th century biographies, interpreted within a framework of cross-national/transnational connections, surpassing the nation-centered apprehension of history. The contributions should acknowledge and interpret destinies and existences as subjected to transnational spaces and structures, while considering actors as non-state (or multi-state) entities. Moreover, we seek contributions that surpass the “center-periphery” paradigm, focusing on a “horizontal” approach, while also reversing the spotlight from diplomatic and political history towards the social and cultural dimension of it. Editors welcome contributions from different fields of research: history, political science, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, gender studies or any other related areas of interest.

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• 16 jan 2020	13 fév 2020	12 mar 2020
  09 avr 2020	14 mai 2020	...

  Marseille

  Lecture series - Sociology

  Lifestyles in the Mediterranean

  How to change our lifestyles?

  La Méditerranée est sans doute une des régions du monde parmi les plus affectées par le réchauffement climatique et les bouleversements de notre écosystème. Ce constat est le point de départ de notre réflexion collective sur les changements de nos modes de vie. Comment vivre ? Sans doute bien différemment, dès aujourd’hui, et plus encore demain, compte tenu des fragilités de longue date du monde méditerranéen. Changer nos modes de vie ? Telle est la question qui servira de fil conducteur au cours des six séances de notre atelier de recherche, en 2020.

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• 13 mar 2020

  Metz

  Study days - Political studies

  Democracy and populism: dangerous liaisons?

  Cette journée d’étude à deux objectifs : discuter la pertinence même de la notion de populisme et étudier les modalités de son application dans différents contextes nationaux (France, Italie, Hongrie). Devant la variété des formes de populisme et la banalisation du terme dans le champ médiatique, la notion a été critiquée, affinée voire affirmée. Que faire alors de cette catégorie d’analyse ? Faut-il l’abandonner dès lors qu’elle sert à qualifier des partis aussi divers que le Rassemblement national, la France insoumise, le Mouvement 5 étoiles, la Ligue du Nord ou le Fidesz-Union civique hongroise ? Doit-on y voir avant tout un style politique ? Que nous apportent la science politique, l’histoire et les sciences de l’information et de la communication pour appréhender ces phénomènes ?

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• 09 mar 2020	06 avr 2020	11 mai 2020
  08 jui 2020	14 sep 2020	...

  Mont-Saint-Aignan

  Seminar - Sociology

  Risk, technique and democracy

  Sociology in the face of industrial and environmental risks

  Depuis le 26 septembre 2019, la ville de Rouen est touchée par les conséquences de l’incendie de l’usine de produits chimiques Lubrizol et l’entreprise Normandie Logistique. Les membres du DySoLab, le laboratoire des dynamiques sociales de l’université de Rouen, ont décidé d’engager un programme collectif de réflexion visant à analyser les effets sociaux et politiques d’un tel événement. Dans ce cadre, le séminaire général du laboratoire de l’année 2020 sera entièrement consacré à la question des risques sanitaires et environnementaux, appréhendés sous des angles variés. Ce séminaire a pour ambition de mener une réflexion à la fois théorique et méthodologique et d’ouvrir des pistes pour les recherches actuelles et futures sur l’après Lubrizol.

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