Jokes can be tasty, cheesy, crusty, corny, sour, saucy, stale, canned, elaborate. Moreover, humour can demonstrate good or bad taste. What is there to understand from this affinity between humour and food metaphors? The international conference “Tasting Funny?” will examine this question. We welcome papers on any humorous cultural production (literature, music, film, graphic arts, sculpture, architecture, design, fashion, advertisement, etc.), from any time period or language area. We also welcome papers on the translatability of jokes, whether food-related jokes or ones that would be unequally tasteful in different cultures.
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01/06/2023
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03/06/2023
L’Année sociologique is launching a call for papers in order to prepare a special issue on Biographical temporalities challenged by transformations of work. This call for papers aims to contribute to the updating and renewal of sociological reflections on the development of professional biographies, which have been put to the test by the transformations of the working world that have disrupted Western societies since the 1970s. In the process, it aims to document more broadly a certain state of society, whose institutional dynamics contribute to structuring and recomposing professional temporalities.
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01/04/2023
The characteristics of the activities that fall under the economic sector of music show a huge variety of places, schedules and work conditions, in addition to the informality of work contracts for a vast majority of musicians. Obviously, these factors interfere with the activity of preparation for music performance, with study habits, and most likely with public performance. In spite of that, the attention given to research and intervention regarding this category of workers is clearly scarce and there is not enough research to investigate the various aspects linked to performing music activities -- training, teaching and study practices, professional performance. Laboreal makes room for papers interested in the musicians’ activity, and invites researchers involved in these issues to contribute to the publication of this number.
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07/05/2023
The 43rd event of the Nice Côte d’Azur International Meeting of Archaeology and History will deal with the division and social organisation of labour, as defined by material remains (tools, finished products, images, biological witnesses, etc.), considered at various spatial scales (domestic units, workshops, sites and territories) and over the long duration. The objective will therefore be to reflect, between specialists from different disciplines, cultures and periods, upon the social organisation of productive activities within ancient and present-day human communities, with a particular focus on the links between technical phenomena and social arrangements, and on the methods that enable to account for them.
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31/05/2023
A growing interest in the question of archives, from the point of view of institutions, epistemology and ethics has gradually emerged since the end of the twentieth century. The “documental turn” or “documentary turn” has highlighted the need to reflect on new ways of exploring archives and cultural data (especially relating to artistic use) and on the dynamics of circulation, accumulation and extraction underlying their creation. While the conservation of archives often entails a lessening of their use, their artistic and civic exploitation launches a new phase of their existence, and opens up the way for acquiring new knowledge and rethinking common heritage. The special issue seeks to explore the creative potential of sound archives, often neglected by those institutions responsible for the management, conservation and safekeeping of cultural heritage.
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31/03/2023
The 2023 Association for the study of modern and contemporary France (ASMCF) annual conference will seek to explore the concept of spatiality: the physical and social dimensions of space and how they shape our experiences, identities, and cultures. The theme builds on last year’s conference on “presence, absence, hybridity” and interrogates the occupation of spaces as a means to understand modern and contemporary French and Francophone cultures and identities. This is of particular importance at a time when people are (re)occupying spaces that had been restricted during the covid-19 pandemic and reflecting on the new relation to space brought about by this crisis.
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09/06/2023
This thematic issue of Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère proposes to question the place of uses and users in the processes of design, implementation, development and evaluation of design projects. Although exceptional cases are not excluded, the aim is to understand the construction of architecture and the city through the analysis of ordinary and, if possible, unknown fields of experimentation. With this call for papers, we encourage the consideration of this research subject over the long term, inviting contributions from the various academic fields that analyze architecture, the city and the landscape. From a transdisciplinary perspective, the aim is to cross historical and sociological approaches by drawing on new sources and historicizing the question of use.
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15/04/2023
The undisputed icon of world reggae since the death of Bob Marley, Alpha Blondy offers in the musical universe, a reggae both committed and tinged with proverbs, these tablets of wisdom that facilitate digestion. Author of twenty albums and more than 220 songs, the artist has addressed, in 40 years of career, many themes ranging from politics to religion, social problems and ideological issues. This symposium aims to bring together intellectual skills from around the world, in a multidimensional approach to lead the reflection on the career of Alpha Blondy and beyond, on the evolution of reggae music in the world. His goal is to draw up a critical assessment of the artist’s career while daring to project the future of reggae on the African continent.
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05/05/2023
The editors of Archivo Papers Journal are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 3, Issue 2: “Decolonial Visualities: Indigenizing Visual Culture Studies”. This issue aims to contribute to ongoing discussions in decolonial thought and visual culture studies regarding the potentialities of othered approaches to image-making beyond Western-centred conceptualizations of the image and its visualities. Drawing upon the ideas of decolonial aesthesis, the right to look, and Indigenous visual sovereignty, this issue welcomes submissions addressing the Indigenization of visual culture as a means for decolonizing the fields of visual culture studies and contemporary art studies.
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02/06/2023
Cet appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial pour la revue Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire porte sur les réfugié∙es et déplacé∙es de l’après-seconde guerre mondiale. Il cherche à interroger le retour à la norm(al)e pour ces personnes, c’est-à-dire les normes explicites et implicites, juridiques et administratives, mais aussi familiales, sexuelles, raciales et, plus généralement, comportementales et affectives qui présidèrent à la vie collective et intime de ces personnes, au long de leur trajectoire de réfugié∙es ou déplacé∙es, du camp et de la zone d’occupation, jusqu’au retour au pays ou au lieu de réinstallation. Les articles en français et en anglais sont acceptés.
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30/06/2023
At a time when there will be multiple proposals for perspectives on the fiftieth anniversary of April 25, 1974, a revolution marked by a euphoria that surpassed the day before and that surprised the day after, in an unlocking of the future, we suggest a look at the threshold of several disciplines in this cross-sectional issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, between the social and human sciences, the arts, literature and other forms of intervention in reality, through four areas.
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20/03/2023
The last two decades have seen major changes on a global scale: the uncontrollable development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the “emergence of real smart city”, automation, cybernetics, but also the alarming increase in climate change accompanied by the depletion of raw resources, health crises and the weakening of social ties. Closely related, these factors have had an impact on places, practices and human lifestyles that have become resilient, connected, active and sentient. The Smart Cities and the interconnected territories, in all their dimensions, their aspects and their future, are the subject of studies and exchanges of this colloquium, in accordance with three axes: Cities, artificial intelligence and sustainable territories, Image and imagination of the city, City and creativity.
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10/03/2023
This study day intends to interrogate the notion of “demand for state” in different fields and from different social sciences disciplines such as sociology, history and political sciences. By “demand for State” we mean the process by which social groups come to invoke a certain ideal of the state through criticism, demands and reflexive practices. We will pay attention to the different levels at which these demands for state manifest themselves: in the practical tensions and daily affairs of social groups, in the formulation of a critique of the State in intergroup conflict, in the formation of public controversies leading to state reforms, and finally in political crises related to struggles for the state.
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15/05/2023
As the “Orient” became a central object of Western knowledge and representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the workshop will examine the way in which visionary drawing took hold of it. It aspires to open up the approach to the visionary drawing in order to comprehend its participation in epistemological and philosophical changes of modern times. It seeks to renew the methods of art history by opening up to the intersecting history of artistic, scientific and political knowledge, which will encourage - beyond the definition of a visual culture - a reflection on their convergences and divergences in terms of images and graphic processes. It will thus focus on the way in which the visionary drawing of the 19th and 20th centuries participates in, or differs from, forms of visual orientalism already well studied in art history.
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07/04/2023
Le colloque « Matières de la mort » souhaite rassembler des chercheur·euses, principalement issu·es des sciences humaines et sociales, mais aussi des pratiques médicales et juridiques, pour interroger les liens contemporains entre la mort et la matérialité. Les cadavres et les charognes, les pratiques mortuaires et les techniques d’embaumement, les aspects matériels du deuil ou de la mort périnatale sont autant d’exemples qui cristallisent l’importance et la complexité de ces liens. Cette rencontre vise ainsi à mettre en lumière ce que le prisme de la matière donne à penser de la mort et des mort·es, et, à rebours, comment la mort et les mort·es rejouent et étoffent la compréhension de la matérialité. Il s’agira en somme de questionner l’inscription des matières de la mort dans la vie des vivant·es.
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30/06/2023
This conference’s main argument lies at the crossroads of these two somewhat similar yet different traditions, offering specialists an opportunity to discuss a vast array of topics in relation to the musical tale and the opera for children, with a particular focus on the role of young audiences and young musicians in the field of musical entertainment and musical productions intended for young audiences in the contemporary world.
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31/03/2023
Another discussion on the institutional position of the churches in relation to slavery will be resolutely avoided. What will be analysed is the concrete confrontation —or cohabitation— with slavery. What did missionaries know about their slave environment? How did they learn about it? How did they take a stand? How did they act–or not? Same questions as far as indentured labour and the colonial forms of forced labour were concerned. Were there confrontations, mediations and misunderstandings?
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20/05/2023
“Architectural photography (kenchiku shashin 建築写真)” is an expansive and multifaceted notion, approached differently by architects, urban planners, interior designers, developers, publishers, amateur photographers, commissioned professional photographers, or artists. This confrontation of meanings and uses is what interests us. Indeed, while architectural photography has been widely and regularly displayed since the 19th century, through albums, dedicated magazines, serial publications, photobooks, and exhibitions, there is currently no in-depth study that allows for a global understanding. Therefore, we have decided to initiate a seminar that aims to formulate a definition of this notion that encompasses all of its complexity.
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28/02/2023
This conference would like to explore the manifestations and transformations of the interplay between text and image in the writings and thought of the philosopher and theoretician of representation Louis Marin (1931-1992), and their resurgence in other disciplines, but also to situate them in a multiplicity of contemporary attempts to reconfigure the links between image and text, work (of art) and discourse, art and literature.
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30/03/2023
In the context of the profound digital transformation of scientific research, and in particular in enhanced knowledge dissemination, the epic of Episciences finds its roots in the beginning of the years 2000, when scientists want to take back in hand the whole process of publication. Nowadays, the platform contains close to 30 journals, covering a wide range of disciplines, from mathematics and computer science to the humanities and social sciences, among which diverse subjects like environmental studies and mechanical engineering. Throughout the presentations, the experience reports and a round table bringing together the journals that have made the choice to join the platform Episciences, these days aim to focus on the status of open access scientific publication, to consider the perspectives of the model of overlay journals and to place Episciences in the landscape of open science, on a national, European and international scale.
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23/04/2023 - Paris
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07/05/2023 - Douala
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30/06/2023 - Oran
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03/04/2023 - Lewarde
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24/05/2023 - Nancy
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04/04/2023 - Paris
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29/03/2023 - Paris
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05/04/2023 - Aubervilliers
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07/04/2023 - Liège
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30/03/2023 - Suresnes
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21/04/2023 - Nanterre
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12/06/2023 - Paris
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30/04/2023
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18/06/2023
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30/03/2023 - Pisa
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27/03/2023 - Shippagan
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27/05/2023 - Susa
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30/04/2023 - Valencia
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22/05/2023
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22/05/2023 - Paris
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22/05/2023
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28/03/2023 - Paris
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19/04/2023
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15/04/2023 - Paris
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28/03/2023 - Geneva | Lausanne | Neuchâtel
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23/03/2023 - Paris
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23/03/2023 - Paris
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30/06/2023 - Oran
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15/06/2023 - Paris
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21/04/2023 - Toulouse
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03/04/2023 - Lewarde
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02/06/2023 - Batna City
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30/05/2023
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27/05/2023 - Susa
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31/03/2023 - Paris
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15/04/2023 - Paris
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30/04/2023 - Castelo de Vide
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20/04/2023 - Bordeaux
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02/05/2023 - Nice
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30/04/2023 - Oum el Bouaghi
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31/05/2023 - Maroua
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03/04/2023 - Paris
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04/04/2023 - Paris
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16/04/2023 - Milan
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07/07/2023 - Paris
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15/04/2023 - Bordeaux
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21/05/2023
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28/03/2023 - Ixelles-Elsene
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01/06/2023 - Basel
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30/03/2023 - Pisa
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30/03/2023 - Limoges
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03/06/2023 - Paris
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01/04/2023 - Paris
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25/04/2023 - Perugia
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01/04/2023
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12/06/2023 - Paris
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30/04/2023 - Geneva
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07/05/2023 - Nice
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20/03/2023
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18/03/2023 - Berne
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31/05/2023
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31/03/2023 - Prague
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31/03/2023
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15/06/2023
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31/03/2023 - Zurich
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22/03/2023 - Pierrefitte-sur-Seine | Paris
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30/08/2023
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10/03/2023 - Montreal
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03/04/2023 - Berlin
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30/06/2023 - Dakar
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28/04/2023 - Leuven
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15/04/2023
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31/03/2023 - London
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15/04/2023
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03/05/2023
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15/04/2023 - Paris
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09/06/2023
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01/04/2023 - Brussels
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15/03/2023
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15/04/2023 - Abidjan
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05/05/2023
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01/03/2023
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10/04/2023 - Paris | Champs-sur-Marne
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02/06/2023
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15/07/2023
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12/04/2023
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15/05/2023 - Florence
