The year 2023 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Invention of Tradition, a collective work edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Since this publication, the invention of tradition has become a key concept in cultural studies. While the book edited by Hobsbawm and Ranger brings together contributions on the invention of the Scottish kilt tradition, Welsh national culture, scouting, and British monarchical ceremonies, which cover the period from 1840 to 1914, this conference invites us to explore other invented traditions over a longer period, from the 1840s to the 1940s. It will also analyze the reactivation of certain traditions at key moments in history.
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In focus
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20/05/2023
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15/06/2023
In Western space, mapping the Other is not a prescriptive notion to assign ossified identities. Rather, it is about questioning the link between these intersectional identities of otherness and the specificities of the various Western spaces. In other words, it invites a reconsideration of how the Others autonomously define themselves in the dominant and marginal spaces of the “normative order” of hegemonic societies, and how they integrate them to make them theirs—therefore challenging the systems of oppression implemented.
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30/04/2023
Migrants today find themselves in an “emergency” context aggravated by the pandemic. The uncertainty of their condition, due to practical, legal and institutional matters, has been worsen by the current issues related to health and security, which is weakening their integration process even more. In such a context, it is also urgent to reconsider the language needs of migrants, in other words, to address, in terms of language training, the urgency of their integration through language as well as the new difficulties in meeting the needs that they express as learners. Thus, this issue of Lidil seeks to deepen the reflection on topics related to second languages for migrants in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic emergency.
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10/06/2023
How can we look at Iranian cinema and the visual arts in relation to Iran today when the country has been experiencing an important episode of uprising and resistance, since September 16, 2022? Indeed, as in 1979, 1999, and 2009, and as in 2017 and 2018, it is obvious that images play a decisive role in the constitution of events. Iranian artists and filmmakers are indeed demonstrating an exceptional mobilization and effervescence in order to bear witness to the ongoing protests, but also to support them and mobilize international public opinion.
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10/10/2023
Les liens et les processus de médiation entre Cuba et une grande partie de l’Europe au cours du XXe siècle n'ont pas fait l’objet d'une analyse détaillée, en bonne partie car ils ont été éclipsés par les dynamiques de la Guerre froide et la longue histoire des influences exercées sur l’île tant par les États-Unis que par l’URSS. Nous nous proposons d'examiner ces « rapports oubliés » sur une période historique étendue qui, contrairement à l’écrasante majorité des travaux sur Cuba, ne divise pas la chronologie entre un avant et un après la victoire castriste de 1959. Ce cadre chronologique étendu a pour objectif de nous permettre de mettre en lumière les continuités et les ruptures des liens entre Cuba et l’Europe avant et après le renversement du dictateur Fulgencio Batista, nous incitant à réfléchir sur le « caractère fondateur » de la rupture de l’année 1959.
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01/06/2023
As awareness of climate emergency and the sixth mass extinction has permeated the mainstream in recent years, there has been an explosion of environmentally themed comics, in the context of a broader trend in cultural productions and debates. This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential.
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16/04/2023
However, if the popularity and impact of this multiform opus seems undeniable, one may wonder why it has not more frequently been the subject of scholarly research. This conference aims to help bridge that gap and to fully understand the importance of the transmedial nature of Maupin’s opus.
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01/06/2023
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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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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19/06/2023
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16/06/2023
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15/07/2023
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26/06/2023 - Poitiers
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06/06/2023 - Nice
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14/06/2023 - Paris
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07/06/2023 - Paris
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01/06/2023 - Paris
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20/06/2023 - Namur
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05/06/2023 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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15/06/2023 - Aubervilliers
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02/06/2023 - Paris
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15/06/2023
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18/06/2023 - Munich
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16/06/2023 - Orléans
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15/06/2023 - Strasbourg
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26/05/2023 - Lyon
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15/05/2023 - Lausanne
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11/09/2023
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15/09/2023
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12/06/2023 - Paris
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06/06/2023 - Toulouse
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05/05/2023 - Saint-Denis
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16/05/2023 - Lisbon
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03/06/2023 - Paris
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26/06/2023 - Paris
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19/06/2023 - Mulhouse
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05/06/2023 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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20/06/2023
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16/07/2023 - Douai
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18/06/2023 - Munich
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30/06/2023 - Paris
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30/06/2023 - Paris | Aubervilliers
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30/06/2023 - Naples
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15/06/2023 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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15/07/2023 - Paris
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03/07/2023 - Paris
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02/06/2023
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30/06/2023
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30/06/2023 - Aubervilliers
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01/06/2023 - Frankfurt
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30/07/2023 - Yaoundé
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26/05/2023 - Rome
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24/05/2023 - Berlin
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01/06/2023 - Paris
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12/06/2023 - Cagliari
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15/07/2023 - Montreal
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30/06/2023
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01/07/2023 - Brussels
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01/06/2023 - Le Bourget-du-Lac
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15/12/2023 - Korhogo
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19/05/2023 - Crescentino
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01/06/2023 - Vienna
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27/05/2023 - Yaoundé | Bandjoun
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07/07/2023 - Saint-Martin-d'Hères
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02/06/2023 - Paris
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27/05/2023 - Fribourg
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16/05/2023 - Berlin
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26/05/2023 - Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville
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25/05/2023 - Honolulu
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05/09/2023 - Korhogo
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23/05/2023 - Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville
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08/06/2023 - Venice
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06/11/2023
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20/05/2023 - Mulhouse
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12/06/2023
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17/05/2023
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08/06/2023 - Villeneuve-d'Ascq
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20/06/2023
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15/05/2023 - Bucharest
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15/05/2023 - Lausanne
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31/07/2023
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25/05/2023 - Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville
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20/05/2023
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07/06/2023 - Paris
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31/12/2023
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15/05/2023
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01/09/2023
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17/05/2023 - Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville
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30/05/2023 - Palermo
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15/05/2023 - Lausanne
