Building on the hypothesis of an interconnection between auditory cultures, perception regimes, and listening techniques, the Tele-Phonies study day proposes an analysis of the regimes of perception and cultures of listening linked to the multifaceted notion of distance. By taking into account not only telephone communication networks and mass radio media but, more broadly, acknowledging listening as a set of practices and media techniques of listening at a distance within or on the margins of these networks, we will try to understand their profound impact on sound arts and auditory cultures.
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26/05/2025
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13/04/2025
The complexity of haunting lies in its ability to encapsulate the interplay between the seen and unseen, the tangible and intangible, inviting scholars to unravel its intricacies and understand its implications across diverse facets of human experience. This two-day conference aims to bring together a diverse range of global researchers in any discipline whose works draws upon ‘haunting’ in some capacity, to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussions and establish a network of scholars working at the forefront of research in this area. We invite expressions of interest from anyone whose research engages with any aspect of haunting and is working in literature, philosophy, history, cultural and media studies, music, modern languages, sociology, and others.
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15/05/2025
The Maison de la création et de l’innovation (MaCI), UGA’s Center for the Humanities, is launching its annual Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme funded by the France 2030 ANR project GATES (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS). The postdoctoral fellows will be hired on a fixed-term two-year contract.
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30/04/2025
Ce colloque interdisciplinaire entend susciter le dialogue entre tous les arts et toutes les disciplines qui, d’une façon ou d’une autre, s’attachent à raconter ou à faire parler les traces et histoires que la migration laisse dans les différentes strates des sociétés européennes contemporaines. Pensé dans un esprit comparatiste, il encourage aussi la rencontre d’études menées sur les récits de la postmigration dans différents contextes culturels et linguistiques européens (Allemagne, Belgique, France, Italie, Espagne, Scandinavie, Royaume-Uni, etc.).
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04/04/2025
This conference proposes to explore the concept of ecological grief and the fast-growing body of theoretical work that is developing around it against the background of the ongoing sixth-mass extinction and biodiversity loss. With this conference, we also wish to think about the longer history of ecological grief from the eighteenth century onwards, including by exploring some of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Is nature grievable? How do we grieve for it? What is the role of writers and artists in this individual and collective process? While to some, environmental grief gives way to desolation or an irredeemable sense of melancholy, others view it as a form of resilience or even a spur to action, a source of activism in art.
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15/06/2025
Our conference aims to investigate those aspects of the history of ancient and late-antique pharmacology that remain unexplored, not only by examining the substances used for healing but also by exploring the linguistic, cultural, and material contexts in which ancient remedies were acquired, prepared and administered.
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04/04/2025
With this dossier of Laboreal, we invite authors to contribute with articles that address work in the health field today, considering the diversity of situations in which care and treatment activities are developed and the plurality of protagonists involved. Based on the understanding that such activities are characterized by service relations, cooperation, and the articulation of knowledge, we aim to gather articles that focus on how workers collectively mobilize to provide care and the strategies constructed to meet the demands of clients/users.
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30/03/2025
The workshop aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discussion by convening linguists along with scholars from other disciplines with an interest in language, such as philosophy or psychology, who share a common interest in end-of-life, death and bereavement issues. It will be informed by the following research questions: what are the linguistic representations of death and end of life? What are the similarities and differences between healthcare practitioners, patients and (bereaved) relatives in terms of their representation of death and end of life? To what extent can health care practitioners’ communication practices impact the process of bereavement? What linguistic resources can be put in place to avoid the silence that surrounds death-related topics?
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27/05/2025
In the digital age, online platforms collect and exploit huge quantities of personal data, profoundly influencing social, economic and political dynamics. Yet their opaque operation limits access to the information essential for analyzing their mechanisms and measuring their impact. These infrastructures act like black boxes, making the study of their practices particularly complex. The DATARights seminar examines the right of access to personal data as a lever for transparency, particularly in the context of scientific research. Through several sessions in French and English, it will bring together researchers and experts from various disciplines to examine the concrete uses of this right, its limits and the challenges linked to its collective exercise in the face of algorithmic and data governance issues.
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The Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in France: milestones for a plural history31/03/2025
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers who have carried out work on the history of Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), using a variety of approaches, while helping to identify and stimulate new work on issues that have yet to be fully addressed. Between its creation in 1943, on the foundations of the Centre artistique et technique des jeunes du cinéma (CATJC) established in Nice in 1941, and its merger-absorption by La Fémis in 1986, the IDHEC was a central institution in cinema education in France, whose history it accompanied. Yet the school has never been the subject of a monographic publication covering its entire history.
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30/04/2025
Le colloque propose une réflexion sur l’héritage de Satie aux XXe et XXIe siècles, en favorisant la comparaison entre différents répertoires et expériences, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire. Il sera également question de poser le problème en termes transdisciplinaires étant donné la propension de l’auteur à élargir les frontières sémantiques et esthétiques de la musique elle-même. Cette perspective élargie ne devra cependant pas exclure l’interrogation purement musicologique et sont attendues des contributions novatrices – surtout dans le domaine analytique – en vertu des compétences spécifiques exprimées par le partenariat avec les Conservatoires de Turin et Catane.
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17/03/2025
The aim of this issue is to examine the relationship between public housing and the reproduction of social order in colonial and post-colonial contexts from an intersectional perspective through the lenses of class, gender, race and/or nationality. The aim is to examine spaces that are often considered separate – the colonies and the metropole – in the same analytical frame, in order to uncover circulation between the metropole and colonies, understand colonial legacies, and explore the effects of decolonization.
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07/04/2025
On the occasion of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory’s 30th anniversary, this one-day conference aims to examine Oasis’s place in British popular culture and invites multidisciplinary contributions within the fields of English / British studies, literature, history, musicology, linguistics, and political science.
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01/03/2025
This issue of Bellica journal aims to bring together articles dealing with the archaeology of conflicts in a broad chronological perspective ranging from the earliest periods of time to the 20th century. The goal of the collection is to reflect upon and to trace the development of a trend that began three decades ago in the field of archeology and which has witness unprecedented growth since then. The increase in the number of archaeological sites corresponds to a strong institutional and social demands. This is particularly the case when it comes to the conflicts of the twentieth century, but in fact the entire chronological spectrum is concerned by this new trend. The archaeology of conflicts has also greatly contributed to the development of war studies in the broadest sense of the term.
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04/02/2025
For the past twenty years or so, the history of the circus has benefited from an undeniable scientific dynamism. While the circus is essentially an international art form, until now its history has mainly been written from a national perspective. The aim of this conference is to decompartmentalise these historiographies by inviting researchers in history and, more broadly, in the arts and the social sciences (performing arts, art history, sociology, anthropology, etc.), as well as those involved in the artistic and cultural world, to combine their approaches.
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15/03/2025
Autumn 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the second volume of Gilles Deleuze’s diptych on cinema, The Time-Image. As the centenary of his birth draws to a close, this will be an opportunity to celebrate the philosopher and his importance for thinking about the seventh art, by collectively exploring the current uses of The Movement-Image and The Time-Image in film studies.
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15/02/2025
This conference explores the multiple dimensions of desire in contemporary art worlds, examining its forms, tensions, and implications. It aims to rethink the role of desire as a driving force of creation, the artist’s condition in the face of inequalities and violence, the place of desire in artistic work, the norms that shape desired or excluded bodies, and the practices that seek to frame or regulate these dynamics. By engaging with these perspectives, the conference invites participants to reflect on the relevance of desire as an interpretative key and to envision new representations for art and its actors.
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15/01/2025
Several studies in environmental history and the sociology of science have already shown how, regarding asbestos as other toxic substances, the narrative of the sudden “awareness” of their harmful effects was a fiction, actually and that a number of stakeholders were well aware of asbestos pathogenic effects as early as the early 20th century. The circulation and appropriation of this knowledge did not take place in linear fashion. Now, what are the possible trajectories of a toxic substance after it has been banned? This is the question this conference aims to answer.
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12/01/2025
Is preaching consubstantial with crisis? Did the different religious traditions present in the Middle East come to grip with the notion of crisis during the contemporary period? This workshop examines the similarities and divergences between preaching endeavours by the different religious traditions and the transformations in religious discourse in the Middle East from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a comparative and diachronic analysis, it aims to identify what "constitutes a crisis" for particular religious actors at a given moment in the contemporary history of the Middle East (e.g. military defeat, feelings of inferiority vis-à-vis Europe, demographic decline of a given religious group, secularisation of institutions, rise of atheism, etc.)
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15/01/2025
From historiography to the epistemology of history, what are the "new problems, new approaches, new objects" - taking up and updating the postures of Pierre Nora and Jacques Le Goff - new periodizations, new geographical areas of architectural history? This symposium aims to clarify the complexity of these narratives, which are both plural and situated, in order to better understand the methodological questions they raise and the contemporary issues they illuminate. It will question these new data and make them resonate with approaches that claim to be postcolonial and/or environmental. It will examine the epistemological implications of the use of certain notions, such as the anthropocene, and their mobilization in the field of architectural research.
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02/06/2025 - Clermont-Ferrand
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04/07/2025 - Lyon
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01/06/2025 - Lyon
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21/05/2025 - Lyon
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10/06/2025 - Le Havre
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15/05/2025 - Aubervilliers
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13/06/2025 - Paris
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16/05/2025 - Aubervilliers
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11/04/2025 - Montpellier
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09/05/2025 - Alès
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16/04/2025 - Lyon
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06/06/2025 - Nîmes
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23/05/2025 - Aussois
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30/06/2025 - San Miniato
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05/05/2025 - Lyon
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31/05/2025 - Paris
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31/05/2025 - Paris
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10/04/2025 - Brussels
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05/04/2025 - Lausanne | Neuchâtel | Geneva
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14/05/2025
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25/06/2025 - Lyon
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13/06/2025
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05/05/2025 - Nanterre
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30/06/2025 - San Miniato
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15/05/2025 - Bordeaux
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30/06/2025 - Sousse
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06/06/2025 - Nîmes
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26/05/2025 - Paris
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31/05/2025 - Paris
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29/04/2025 - Lyon
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15/04/2025 - Dijon
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15/05/2025 - Casablanca
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10/04/2025 - Cergy
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24/04/2025 - Paris
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05/06/2025 - Ghent
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29/05/2025 - Porto
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05/05/2025 - Paimpont
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13/04/2025 - Cardiff
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10/06/2025 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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30/05/2025 - Palaiseau | Paris
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15/05/2025 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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30/04/2025 - Louvain-la-Neuve
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31/07/2025 - Abu Dhabi
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27/05/2025 - Susa
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15/05/2025 - Craiova
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30/06/2025
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20/04/2025 - Palermo
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25/04/2025 - Galaţi
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02/05/2025 - Douala
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30/06/2025 - Halle
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01/05/2025 - Montreal
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23/06/2025 - Paris
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01/05/2025 - Fribourg
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15/05/2025 - Nancy
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01/06/2025 - Strasbourg
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04/04/2025 - Paris 13e Arrondissement
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29/03/2025 - Durham
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15/06/2025 - Bologna
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25/06/2025 - Paris
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05/06/2025 - Bruz
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