The aim of this conference is to shed new light on the study of extreme violence in the 20th century, particularly from a gender perspective, and to discuss our conceptual tools collectively. The conference will study testimonies of extreme violence (colonial violence, gender-based violence, disappearances, torture, mass deaths and genocide) from a multidisciplinary and multilingual perspective. The aim is to examine the conditions which allow words to emerge as well as their corollary, a framework for listening, so that they become audible in a given period and social sphere. The paradox of experiences that are both intimate and collective, unspeakable and yet spoken, taboo and widely documented, is at the core of such reflections.
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10/01/2024
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15/04/2024
The democratization of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (from now on AI) software that generates images (Stable Diffusion, Imagen, MidJourney and Dall-E 2), videos (Renderforest, Lumen5 and Moovly), music (MusicLM, Moises) and translations (DeepL) raises questions, in the field of language and culture pedagogy, about teaching and learning practices that have already been transformed by digital technology (design of language teaching material, automation of assessments, digital literacies, etc.). Specific tools for teaching practices and resources are also designed based on AI (Magicschool.ai). This call for papers aims to question such uses both for teaching and learning language, and for pedagogical design and training in the field of language pedagogy.
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15/04/2024
Cet appel vise à prolonger les observations de Mathieu Quet à partir de l’étude des circulations des objets de seconde main à des échelles internationales et transnationales, qui soulèvent plusieurs enjeux. Ces objets connaissent, acquièrent ou perdent différents statuts (importation légale, contrebande, contrefaçon), formes (déchets, marchandises…) et valeurs tout le long de leur parcours, et des routes empruntés. Les circulations sont la condition même d’une requalification et valorisation de l’objet, qui ne passe pas seulement d’un marché à un autre mais aussi d’un système normatif et d’évaluation à un autre.
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20/12/2023
From the nineteenth century onwards, the various medical specialities took an interest in the problem ofalcohol(ism), allying themselves with or confronting other authorities, primarily the law and justice system. However, the wide range of realities that the discourse of authority has since tended to cover remains largelyunexplored. The aim of this conference is to examine the ways in which the various medical specialities,particularly psychiatry and alienism, play a part in the differential management of illegalisms related toalcohol consumption.
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17/11/2023
The aim of this Franco-German study day is to bring together different international research traditions. The aim is to compare research angles, concepts, frameworks and methods relating to life-course transitions. The widespread approach to the concept of 'bifurcation' in French-language research offers many possibilities for convergence with the 'Doing transitions' approach developed in recent years by the 'Doing transitions Graduiertenkolleg' research group. This comparative exercise will be considered not only between two countries, but also between two concepts that become fertile methodological tools for the emergence of new lines of thought, allowing both possible exchanges between the two traditions to generate a common field, but also the contribution of new epistemological avenues to fuel the debate on each side of the Rhine.
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20/12/2023
Since no one knows the future, no one can claim to be an expert on it. Nevertheless, as we all project ourselves into the future, a narrative is inevitably constructed and even a number of multiple ones, in which all possible questions are intertwined. This call for papers therefore draws on a wide range of disciplines to intuitively envisage probable, plausible or possible futures (Voros, 2006) or those being significant in terms of what we are provided with to consider and live vicariously through. While other literatures of the imaginary (Fantasy, Fantastique) are based on a leap out of reality, In this call, we'd like to take a look at our relationship to changes in the world, which is more akin to science fiction, even though there are several definitions of the “science fiction” genre.
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20/11/2023
This conference will offer an interdisciplinary and international platform to examine the various representations of social benefit recipients, the variations in these representations, their impact on social protection policies, and what they reveal about the experience of welfare.
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14/11/2023
In recent years, scholars in historical and secular studies have become increasingly interested in communist attitudes towards religion, communist regimes’ efforts to uproot religion, and interactions between Marxists and Christians. This conference will explore transnational communist perspectives on atheism in the twentieth century and Marxist-inspired attempts to explain and influence the evolution of atheism. Building on work on “scientific atheism”, “atheist establishments” and “thought collectives”, the conference explores differences and commonalities within the Soviet bloc – within which scholarly debates on atheism took place in what might be called a limited international scientific community.
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15/03/2024
Il s'agit de réfléchir sur ce que disent les larmes, comme forme d'expression dans toutes sortes de contexte et dans les arts. Les organisatrices de ce colloque souhaitent une ouverture des perspectives culturelles et anthropologiques. C'est pourquoi les points de vue sur l'histoire de la représentation des larmes ou sur leur distribution genrée sont également attendus.
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14/12/2023
Ce colloque international a vocation à interroger la place du podcast en France et en Europe. Pourquoi, alors qu’il ne présente pas une innovation de rupture majeure et qu’il existe depuis longtemps, le podcast s’est-il récemment développé aussi rapidement et aussi fortement ? Comment expliquer les ressorts et les enjeux sociaux, économiques, technologiques de ce succès et de ses ambivalences ?
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03/11/2023
The Belvedere Research Center is pleased to announce the sixth iteration of its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums. We invite conference participants to explore the potential of digital technologies in the museum sector, focusing primarily on strengthening art and cultural institutions as hubs of knowledge exchange for the future.
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02/02/2024
The aim of this conference is to examine the uses of the notion of ‘forgery’ in policing any given trade or economic activity in the early modern town and/or its peripheries. In other words, to question whether there existed one or more models of such suitable policing through the qualification of what was ‘fraud’. To state the ‘fraudulent’ character of a thing implied mobilizing an expertise, but also to recall and endorse an authority, including and perhaps especially in a context of existing competing jurisdictions, or standards. Is this accusation based primarily on legal, economic, social or religious dimensions? Is pointing at ’fraud’ a manner of making room for obedience or prohibitions, in search of the integrity of goods, prices and services to the public, or on the contrary a manner of circumscribing a status to the happy few? Does this accusation draw lines to exclude, serve to include by means of a constrained procedure, or merely reaffirm an existing rule?
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02/02/2024
The symposium, international and interdisciplinary, will address a topical issue: forests, in all their diversity. They appear to be in “crisis” at a time of climate change, and their management is raising concerns. The subject will be approached from the angle of transitions, taking into account the polysemy of the concept: transition of the forests themselves; concept of forest transition; ecological, environmental, energy transitions... The purpose is to question the changes underway as a result of climate change, in connection with or in response to it, within the framework of mitigation and/or adaptation strategies. But other evolutionary factors need to be taken into account: the “greening” of society, other pressures arising from the Anthropocene, belonging to global change. These transitions will be questioned through 3 axes: 1) Concepts et methods; 2) Assessments et analysis ; 3) Prospective.
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31/12/2023
There is abundance of literature on African Catholicism but it is unvenly distributed across disciplines in humanity and social sciences. Theology takes the lion's share followed by historical sciences. Overall, Catholicism in Africa has been neglected in the social sciences first in favour of African Independant Churches and, more recently, of Pentecostalism. This volume is interested in contributions which take a social scientist approach (based on empirical data) to any aspect of African Catholicism.
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27/11/2023
François Hotman (1524-1590) was born five hundred years ago. To mark the occasion, we thought it a good idea to dedicate to him an international conference in Geneva on November 21-22, 2024. A famous Calvinist jurisconsult, a virulent pamphleteer and a political thinker who is now part of the European philosophical tradition, Hotman remains a figure whom research only embraces through a few major works that receive recurring scrutiny. In reality, his writings as a humanist and jurist, his international correspondence, his connections with the most important Protestant theologians of the century, and his family of Ligue and royal officers are all objects of study that call for a re-problematisation of our interpretation of this dominant figure in Calvinist legal thought.
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29/09/2023
L’objectif de ces journées est d’étudier la citadinité révolutionnaire, afin de nourrir la réflexion sur une série de notions connexes : habitat / logement / propriété. Chacune de ces notions renvoie à des rapports sociaux structurés par une série d’oppositions (sédentaires et nomades, propriétaires et locataires, résidence recensée et logement clandestin, logés et mal-logés) et à un spectre large de pratiques plus ou moins normées ou alternatives. Intégrer ces différents termes, étudier leurs variations, permettra non seulement de revenir sur les apports de différentes disciplines des sciences sociales, mais aussi d’être attentif aux variations des sources en fonction des contextes révolutionnaires.
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15/10/2023
The aim of this conference is to build a transdisciplinary dialogue to explore how certain perceptions create certain images, convey information and its interpretation(s) around the “event”, broadly understood here as an occurrence perceived as significant, whether it is singular or part of a sequence or even a series of sequences (assassination, conclave, embassy, battle, jubilee, canonization...). The focus is placed on the early modern period because the increase of writing and the greater circulation of images and information “fixed” events on an unprecedented scale; often, these new ways of viewing events were forged thousands of kilometers away from the place where the event occurred. Rome and the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth century will be at the heart of our interrogations both as represented space(s) and as place(s) of projections onto the world.
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03/11/2023
The first aim of this Special Issue is methodological: the renewed interest in development archives raises questions, particularly among young researchers, about how to identify, collect, and use them, and about their limits. The special issue will thus offer a set of methodological reference points to anyone wishing to use such archives. The second aim will be to lay the foundations for a more ambitious project to study development archives from a perspective at the crossroads of “connected history” and “global historical sociology”.
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20/11/2023
The French association les Têtes Imaginaires (publisher of the journal Fantasy Art and Studies) organises a new online symposium on February 2-3 2024, dealing with Fantasy clothing. Proposals can address specific case studies or broader analyses, taking into account the question of clothing representation in Fantasy and its impact on narrative construction and reception. Analyses could also extend to clothing accessories such as hats, scarves, gloves, shoes, etc.
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30/11/2023
“The body of an athlete and the soul of a sage - these are what we require to be happy”, wrote Voltaire to Helvetius. At RITA, although we don’t claim to have athletic bodies, we humbly hope that our journal does lead to the path of wisdom. As Paris will host the Olympic Games in 2024, we thought it relevant to invite researchers to show wisdom and gain some critical distance to question the role and function of sports in the Americas, from North to South.
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22/12/2023 - Tübingen
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31/03/2024 - Oran
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06/12/2023 - Pau
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14/12/2023 - Caen
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01/12/2023 - Manouba
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15/12/2023 - Paris
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02/12/2023 - Le Mans
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11/12/2023 - Lyon
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19/12/2023 - Paris
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15/01/2024
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15/12/2023 - Paris
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28/11/2023 - Aix-en-Provence
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15/12/2023 - Saumur
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27/11/2023 - Geneva
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15/11/2023 - Nantes
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10/12/2023 - Rome
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01/09/2023 - Basel
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15/03/2024 - Paris
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01/02/2024 - Villeneuve-d'Ascq
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07/12/2023 - Paris
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07/12/2023 - Paris
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01/12/2023 - Paris
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29/11/2023 - Paris
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17/11/2023 - Paris
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16/11/2023 - Paris
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24/11/2023 - Lisbon
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24/10/2024 - Santiago de Compostela
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31/01/2024 - Fribourg
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31/12/2023 - Prague
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18/12/2023 - Istanbul
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15/01/2024 - Helsinki
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31/12/2023 - Sétif
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24/11/2023 - Paris
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