This conference aims to reexamine Adorno's music-philosophical texts in light of unexpected (or extreme) musical phenomena. It also seeks to consider music that never appeared in Adorno's texts through his own aesthetic categories. In other words, it is about exploring the less-traveled tensions that arise from the connection between Adorno's music writings and certain types of music (whether popular or classical) that would not initially conform to traditional interpretations of the author of "Minima Moralia". Ultimately, exploring these new territories would broaden the limits of Adorno's musical aesthetics and allow for reflection on its relevance or contemporaneity.
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03/03/2024
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23/02/2024
Women played an important role in the history of decorative arts and design. Recent exhibitions (Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today at the Vitra Museum in 2021 and Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2023) displayed an overall approach of the question. But in some countries as France, what is the state of the issues and how is the contribution of women to be placed in this general context? This conference aims to discuss and to provide a state of research on the question but also to shed light on an aspect of artistic creation. It aims also to give an overview of the evolution and role of women in the decorative arts and design in France since the mid-19th century, in order to complete a current knowledge related to an ongoing field of research in the history of art and creative industries.
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25/03/2024
The revival of the Christian faith in the European and North American continents (GreatAwakenings – the Higher Life Movement) during an age of technical and technological innovations inmeans of transportation and communication prompted many Protestant and Catholic missionaries, withthe support of their respective churches, to sail to foreign lands for religious proselytizing. Evangelicalmissionaries and their sending organizations have been, to varying degrees, major actors of social andcultural mutations among the people and societies they worked with. To fully comprehend the impactof European and North American evangelical missions at the turn of the twentieth century, we mustnot only consider missionaries’ social and religious agency at the local level, but also develop thediscussion to the regional, national, and transnational levels.
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30/04/2024
La journée scientifique que nous organisons souhaite explorer l’olfaction sous l’angle des sciences humaines et sociales. Comment les odeurs prennent-elles place dans nos vies ? Quels usages, effets, pensées, émotions, sublimations produisent-elles ? Comment organisent-elles nos vies ? Nous souhaitons définir et explorer des questions que les odeurs soulèvent au regard de notre existence et notre humanité au travers de recherches, d’expérimentations, de retours d’expériences qui concernent la façon avec laquelle des sujets au statut varié appréhendent les odeurs, qu’ils soient enseignants, formateurs, éducateurs, parents, apprenants, créateurs, artistes, soignants (...), dans différents contextes : famille, école, association, formation commerciale, lycée, université, restauration, salle d’exposition, lieu de soin…
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14/03/2024
This 2-day international colloquium which will take place at Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers) will bring together scholars, from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, who observe Armenian diasporic dynamics in the 21st century. The event will provide an opportunity to compare views and examine the contemporary reshapings of the Armenian dispersion, which, 40 years after the emergence of diaspora studies, has undergone numerous spatial, structural, social, political, economic and cultural changes.
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31/03/2024
This international conference will explore the cultural differences, similarities and potential bridges between the eastern and western worlds as envisaged during the medieval and early modern periods, including their represention in art, texts and legends, poetry, and pictorial and cinematographic productions. Since the areas of investigation are expansive, Japan is granted a primary place as the pivotal axis for the eastern world. This does exclude Persia, India or China. The northern, English and Mediterranean European areas will primarily represent the occidental world.
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01/04/2024
The jester is a paradoxical figure: a subordinate included in elite social circles. Thus, he is an outsider, albeit a remarkably proficient one. Jesters, comprising fools, dwarfs, and other “monsters” – both men and women, often with disabilities – are itinerant, travelling from one court to another or from the precursors of psychiatric hospitals to the realms of royalty. The conference aims to scrutinise the competition between artists and jesters, with the latter frequently obtaining more stable patronage than poets and painters. Our goal is to establish the status of jesters between subalternity and disability, applying the methodologies of historical anthropology, social history, and art history.
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15/03/2024
This conference aims to deepen our knowledge of the norms governing emotional expression in Rome and their evolution, from Republican times to Imperial era. It is part of a wider research project looking at the role of collective emotions in Roman civic life. This conference will focus more specifically on episodes of emotional transgression which are described as such in our sources, when an individual or a specific group expressed unexpected or inappropriate emotions depending on the circumstances.
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31/01/2024
In their quest to improve lifestyles, contemporary societies find themselves faced with a whole range of waste, the quantity of which has increased considerably. It includes objects that are not biodegradable on a human scale, as well as compounds that are likely to damage certain natural resources (water, soil and atmosphere). The effects of today’s chemical waste on human health and the environment can be chemical, bacteriological or parasitic. People can feel the effects in different ways, for example in the short term, pollution can be detected by the human senses (olfactory or visual nuisance) and in the longer term, there can be health risks for people and the environment. This situation calls for reflection on public policies for urban waste management and their effects/impacts on people’s health, in line with the SND30 guidelines. The aim of this study day is to analyse the issues involved in appropriate waste management with a view to proposing solutions to public authorities for better management of urban waste, with a view to preventing harm to public health.
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15/01/2024
The European Sociological Association (ESA) conference, themed "Tension, Trust, and Transformation" provides a unique opportunity for sociologists, researchers, and academics to come together, exchange ideas, and contribute to the advancement of sociological knowledge. The 16th ESA Conference promises to be a landmark event, fostering collaboration and innovation within the sociological community.
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31/12/2023
Maritime areas - seas and oceans - cover 70% of the Earth's surface, but remain relatively unknown and scarcely studied by social sciences, despite their importance today. This conference will aim at studying examine the role played by maritime areas in the exercise of political and military authority, the forms of legal control over the seas, the use and economic exploitation of the seas, as well as their territorialisation.
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15/03/2024
L’Observatoire national de la protection de l’enfance (ONPE) propose comme chaque année un appel à projets de recherche ouvert aux équipes de recherche de toutes les disciplines concernées par les phénomènes de maltraitance et/ou de mise en danger des mineurs ainsi que les effets des mesures de protection et d’éducation mises en œuvre. Cet appel à projets ouvert 2024 a pour objectif de développer l’étude de questions émergentes dès lors que leur approfondissement peut contribuer à éclairer l’action des intervenants ou responsables techniques et politiques exerçant dans le champ de la protection de l’enfance, de l'adoption et de l'accès aux origines personnelles.
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10/01/2024
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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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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18/03/2024 - Rouen
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23/03/2024 - Paris
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13/03/2024 - Lyon
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15/03/2024 - Paris
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28/03/2024 - Vannes
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27/02/2024 - Paris
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20/02/2024 - Talence
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27/02/2024 - Paris
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05/03/2024 - Nancy
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30/03/2024
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28/04/2024 - Andé
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05/04/2024 - Tours
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05/02/2024 - Fontainebleau
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15/02/2024 - Quebec City
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28/01/2024 - Montreal
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15/03/2024 - Paris
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07/03/2024
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22/02/2024 - Paris
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13/03/2024 - Paris
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15/04/2024 - Saint-Étienne
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12/02/2024 - Lyon
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01/02/2024 - Aubervilliers
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15/03/2024 - Paris
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15/03/2024 - Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
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16/02/2024 - Belval
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30/04/2024 - Charenton-le-Pont | Paris
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05/04/2024 - Tours
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31/03/2025
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30/06/2024
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15/07/2025 - L'Isle-Jourdain
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08/03/2024 - Oran
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31/03/2024 - Vienna
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03/03/2024 - Paris
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07/03/2024
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31/03/2024 - Târgovişte
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11/03/2024
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15/03/2024 - Brussels
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15/03/2024 - Orléans
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23/02/2024
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29/02/2024
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01/03/2024 - Târgovişte
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25/03/2024
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01/03/2024 - Esch-sur-Alzette
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30/04/2024
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15/04/2024
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14/02/2024 - Cagliari
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La communauté économique des États de l’Afrique centrale (CEEAC) face aux enjeux de paix et sécurité29/02/2024 - Libreville
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31/03/2024
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29/02/2024 - Paris
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30/04/2024 - Niort
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31/03/2024 - Béjaïa
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14/03/2024 - Aubervilliers
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20/09/2024
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15/03/2024 - Rabat
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22/03/2024
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25/04/2024 - Niš
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13/03/2024 - Paris
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01/03/2024
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31/03/2024 - Poitiers
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30/04/2024 - Montpellier
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31/05/2024
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08/03/2024 - Paris
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15/02/2024 - Orléans
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25/02/2024 - Tunis
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01/04/2024 - Paris | Charenton-le-Pont
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10/02/2024 - Mostaganem
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06/02/2024
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28/03/2024 - Paris
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08/02/2024 - Palermo
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29/02/2024 - Reims
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