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London

Conference, symposium - History

Decentring the “Flâneur”: walking the early modern city

Ideas about the origins and context for the flâneur have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the flâneur with modernity and European cities has continued to dominate studies of its variant forms. This conference aims to de-centre the concept and expand such critique by identifying and analysing forms of pedestrian observation in the early modern period taking note of the fact that strolling, seeing and being seen—and walking the city—emerged well before Europe and the 19^th century in urban experiences in cities like Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi and Beijing.

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Saint-Denis

Call for papers - Early modern

The evolutions of board games: materials, practices, and design

23th colloquium of the International Society for Board Game Studies

The 23th colloquium of the International Society for Board Game Studies will be held In Paris from 12 to 15 May 2020 in collaboration with the EXPERICE (University Paris 13) research center, Game in Lab and the LabEx ICCA. The Board Game Studies Colloquium is a platform aimed at bringing together game scholars from all fields, as well as independent researchers, curators, game inventors, collectors and enthusiasts from all around the world. The theme for this edition is “the Evolutions of Board Games”.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Sociology

Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East

Lebanon Support is seeking submissions for the 2021 issue of the Civil Society Review on Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East. This CSR issue is interested in exploring the current landscape of gender and social justice activism both in Lebanon and across the MENA region through the lens of the myriad power dynamics embedded within the fields of “gender” and “gender equality” work and activism.

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Berlin

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Emotional attachment to machines

New ways of relationship-building in Japan

Currently, technologies that foster emotional connections between humans and digital beings are perceived as a threat by many. Because emotional devices are considered to be make-believe systems based on ‘simulation’ (which is often confused with lying, deceit or fraud), emotional technologies could potentially be suspected of affecting human sexual identity or disrupting social bonds. This Symposium will examine the ways in which humans form intimate relationships with ‘emotionally-intelligent entities’ (robots, digital characters, downloadable boyfriend…) and what purposes these relationships to machines serve for them.

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La Rochelle

Call for papers - Representation

Popular and political cultures

L’ambition de ce colloque est de révéler les liens étroits, quoique souvent cachés ou implicites, entre cultures populaires et politique. En effet, que cette dernière se joue d’elles, soit ridiculisée ou louée par elles, il apparaît intéressant d’interroger ce champ de recherches encore peu étudié en France croisant deux sphères parfois contradictoires et conflictuelles.

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Paris

Call for papers - Asia

Ethonographic investigations in Japan, feedback and discussions on recent experiences

Partant du constat que de plus en plus d’enquêtes portant sur la société japonaise contemporaine ont recours à la méthode ethnographique, l’objectif de cette journée est de proposer un espace de discussion autour d’expériences récentes et d’initier une réflexion méthodologique sur les pratiques ethnographiques des chercheurs travaillant sur le Japon contemporain.

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Paris

Study days - Sociology

Korean cinema: construction and deconstruction (1919-2019)

Alors que Bong Joon-ho vient de remporter la Palme d’or du 72e Festival de Cannes, le cinéma coréen fête son centenaire, invitant à s’interroger sur son évolution historique. En effet, que reste-t-il comme patrimoine cinématographique dans ce pays scindé en deux depuis 1948 ? Si l’année France-Corée, en 2015, avait été l’occasion de mener des réflexions sur le cinéma coréen dans ses formes, ses représentations et sa diffusion – notamment à travers le colloque international « Regards croisés sur le cinéma coréen » –, son centenaire incite à se pencher sur son histoire et son actualité. Cette journée d’études cherche à son tour à explorer le cinéma sud-coréen contemporain en le mettant en regard avec sa propre histoire et celle de son pays. Cette indispensable introspection se double également ici d’une analyse réflexive du cinéma sud-coréen en dehors de ses frontières et des moyens par lesquels il atteint un public international.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - History

The plurality and identity of the Free French

Ce colloque international souhaite s'interroger sur les différentes formes de diversité d’origines parmi les Français libres et sur les dynamiques qui ont pu constituer des facteurs d'unité, aux divers moments de leur épopée et au-delà.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Abysses, chasms and exo-worlds. Explorations in limit-environments and techniques of confinement

Techniques & Culture journal (autumn 2020)

Quelle est cette « nature “terrestrielle” » qui nous définirait et nous empêcherait de « prendre la mesure » des mondes souterrains ? Axel Lidenbrock, l’explorateur dépeint par Jules Verne, tente de conjurer cette discontinuité en recourant à la comparaison avec d’autres mondes, extraterrestres en l’occurrence. En s’inspirant de l’invitation de Jules Verne à s’intéresser aux mondes lointains et mystérieux, ce numéro de la revue Techniques et Culture se penche sur les modes d’exploration et d’habitation d’univers souvent conçus comme hostiles mais qui stimulent la curiosité et l’inventivité. Il invite à penser les relations, médiées par les techniques, que les êtres humains entretiennent avec des milieux pour eux délétères voire fatals. Quels dispositifs techniques corporels, matériels mais aussi « imaginaires » ou représentationnels, ces mondes requièrent-ils pour être « vivables » ?

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Lomé

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Circulations in the global South: Ethnographic explorations of globalized exchanges

15th Association for the anthropology of social change and development (APAD) Conference

The 2020 edition of the Association for the anthropology of social change and development (APAD) conference will focus on the multiple forms of large-scale circulation of goods, ideas, techniques, information and models that increasingly cross the global South and link it to the rest of the world. Panels or papers focusing on smaller-scale, regional or neighbouring countries’ circulations, or showing the consequences of scale change in circulations, are also welcome. We also invite visual anthropologists and filmmakers to propose panels or submit films for public screenings.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

"Creative State-Making" & Some (Un)intended Consequences of Islamization

Surprising Trajectories in Islam, Gender & Politics in Southeast Asia

Islam in Southeast Asia has enjoyed a thriving trajectory in recent years. This is in large part attributable to various state-led Islamization movements that have succeeded in weaving the values and tenets of Islam into the very fabric of Muslims’ everyday life, thereby fortifying the power of the state that claims to embody the divine authority and immutability of Islam. But while the state imagines itself to be the legitimate (and only) “guardian” of Islam, its attempts to monopolize Islamic interpretations and institutions also – perhaps unintentionally – open up a more complex, discursive space that allows non-state actors to submit to, challenge, or appropriate and refashion various forms of symbolic state power, often in unpredictable ways.

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Conference, symposium - Asia

Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China

The formation and transformation of elites in modern China

The ERC project “Elites, Networks, and Power in Modern Urban China” investigates how elites and elite networks in their various configurations and articulations emerged and operated not just in major cities in China, but beyond, across the Western and Japanese empires, and the power nations (Great Britain, France, United States, Japan) themselves. It focuses specifically on individual actors rather than state institutions or community organizations. The workshop seeks to address a number of core issues about the individuals and groups that emerged as elite and the modalities and processes of elite formation and (re)deployment of elite networks; the vectors, patterns and timelines of the involvement of elites in public action, from acting in an official capacity, in self- organized associations but also assuming the role of opinion leaders

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Paris 05 Panthéon

Call for papers - History

Towards a New Social History of Sudan

Cette conférence, qui est également un programme de recherche, souhaite remettre au centre de l’histoire moderne et contemporaine du Soudan les « gens ordinaires ». Nous souhaitons également nous intéresser à tous les thèmes liés à l’histoire des gens « exceptionnellement normaux » (Grendi 1977) : le quotidien, les croyances, les horizons et désirs, dans toute leur diversité selon classe sociale et origine, mais aussi dans tous leurs liens et circulations. Même si la microhistoire a surtout marqué l’historiographie européenne, elle a inspiré aussi des nombreuses études en histoire du Moyen Orient et de l’Afrique (voir l’historiographie de l’Afrique du Sud). Elle a aussi des affinités avec des historiographies non-européennes comme les Études subalternes (malgré leurs différences reconnues). Nous croyons que le croisement de ces approches ne peut que mener à une meilleure connaissance des acteurs et actrices « ordinaires ».

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

"Waza on the Move". The ineffable art of apprenticeship

Techniques & Culture journal

Au Japon, sous le terme « Waza » (わざ) on entend le savoir-faire incarné, la maîtrise d’un acte artisanal et aussi les procédés et formes d’astuces qui vont avec. Ce terme est chargé de sens profond dont l’intensité n’a d’équivalent que celle du plaisir éprouvé à réaliser ou voir réaliser une action manuelle efficace. Ce mot, les conceptions, pratiques et dispositifs qu’il implique, serviront de fondement pour questionner à nouveaux frais – en mêlant étroitement interaction et culture – la question de l’apprentissage et de la transmission autant dans des univers formalisés et institués qu’informels ou performatifs. En mobilisant la psychologie du développement, l’éthologie des primates, l’anthropologie des chasseurs-cueilleurs, mais aussi le design, l’histoire, la sociologie ou les sciences de l’éducation, nous entendons reprendre la main sur ces questions centrales de la technologie culturelle francophone en partie héritière des cultures populaires et savantes du Japon.

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Hammamet

Call for papers - Urban studies

Urban and architectural identities in Mediterranean cities

Identités urbaines et architecturales dans les villes méditerranéennes

The architectural and urban diversity characterising mediterranean city is inseparable from their identity. It seems clear at that this diversity and multiplicity of different identities shoud be considered as one of the greatest cultural and human values. The coexistence of forms in time and space, the blending of urban and architectural cultures, influences and contaminations, even the contrast and and contradictions of identity that are revealed in the mediterranean urban territory reflect the stratification of the city in its pragmatics implications and its identity meanings. Today, in a context of a competition and attractiveness betwen territories, several mediterranean cities are going through a period of profound changes. Faced with these transformations, the reference to "identity territories" (Troin, 2004) and the ability of the city to build an identity and speared it among the population are called into question.

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Leipzig

Call for papers - Asia

Locating negative affects in post-reform China

This panel takes the prevalence of positivity in post-reform China as an invitation to investigate its opposites: the variety of negative ordinary affects that can be viewed as ensuing from state-induced “situations of restricted agency”. What can we learn from the various forms of negativity that morph out of the socio-political circumstances of post-reform China, and how to tread a fine line between the risk of romanticization and analytical dismissal? Under what conditions do the expression and performance of negative affects constitute “a manifestation of autonomy from state directives” in the context of pervasive “happiness” campaigns? Or is their work ambivalent, if not problematic, especially when they come to be associated with specific marginalized groups?

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Tours

Call for papers - Language

Renewal, Rebirth, Renaissance

Postcolonial Literary Panel, SAES (French Society for English Studies) Conference

“Rebirth” may also imply looking back at past historical moments with a new perspective, which for instance led Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies to be associated with Neo-Victorianism, and more precisely the “Neo-Victorian at sea” and a “global memory of the Victorian” (Elizabeth Ho). This panel will also discuss “renaissance” movements: can we consider that an indigenous literary renaissance has taken place in Canada, Australia or New Zealand? Has an increasing awareness of the need to protect the environment led to new literary practices and movements? The Renaissance involved the development of vernacular languages in literature; what has been the place of vernacular languages and oral literary practices in postcolonial literatures? Theory also evolves constantly: has postcolonial theory been renewed since the 1980s? In what ways?

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Madrid

Call for papers - History

Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

Methodological encounters and (dis)encounters

The aim of this workshop is to launch a methodological exchange forum to analyze the panorama of the late medieval Mediterranean from different and complementary perspectives. During the last years, an increased number of projects focused on the relations between East and West, Christianity and Islam or North Africa and Al-Andalus had emerged in the international scenario. In the framework of these current research projects, this workshop has been proposed to achieve two main objectives: to create a dialogue space to share the recent research results of these projects, as well as to establish new research networks integrated by senior and young researchers which allow the development of multidisciplinary research lines about the late Middle Ages.

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Budapest

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Visible and invisible borders between Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern World

It has traditionally been argued that with the rise of the modern nation state, borders increasingly became lines demarcating the spatial limits of state power. Recent efforts have been made to re-examine this territorial argument and pay close attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious networks that created, reinforced, and also traversed borderlands. Though war, conquest, and diplomacy repeatedly redrew the dividing lines between empires and kingdoms, extensive interactions and exchanges left the borderlands with deeply entangled roots and routes. These patterns, mechanisms, and forces had a deep impact on all aspects of life and are still felt today. Arguably, no single element has been more dominant in shaping this complex relationship than the regional historiographies and historical memories that tried to write the empires out of their pasts entirely.

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Nanterre

Call for papers - History

Afro-Asian literary circulation

Writing, publishing and translatin after Bandung

L'objectif de ce colloque est de mettre en évidence et d'interroger les circulations intellectuelles, en particulier littéraires, entre les continents africains et asiatiques depuis la conférence de Bandung. Que celles-ci aient pris la forme de solidarités postcoloniales, comme dans le cas du Afro-Asian Writers' Bureau, ou d'échanges plus récents, elles restent en effet méconnues dans le champ francophone. Parmi les thèmes qui pourront être développés se trouvent notamment les trajectoires individuelles d’auteur·e·s ou d’intellectuel·le·s impliqué·e·s dans ces dynamiques, le rôle des traducteur·rice·s et des traductions dans ces circulations, le rôle du multilinguisme dans la création, les questions relatives à la diplomatie culturelle et au soft power, les réseaux et les solidarités s’étant tissés au cours de l’histoire récente...

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