[ Informação Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, UMinho ]
2ª Chamada de artigos
Revista Configurações
Número temático “Arte Política e Social: discursos e práticas”
A call for papers para esta Revista Configurações encontra-se permanentemente aberta.
Contudo, o próximo número dedicado ao tema “Arte Política e Social: discursos e práticas”, abre uma 2ª chamada para submissão de artigos até 04 de fevereiro de 2018.
A equipa editorial deste número temático convida ao envio de artigos científicos nas áreas das ciências sociais e humanas e dos estudos artísticos.
Coordenadores: Teresa Mora (CICS.NOVA.UMinho); Francesca Rayner (CEHUM, UMinho); Natália Azevedo (Instituto de Sociologia, UPorto)
Desde o final dos anos 1990, no contexto mundial, e em particular na Europa, a arte política tem vindo a reavivar-se enquanto discurso e prática de questionamento dos modos de organização da vida coletiva nas suas estruturas de poder e de dominação, quer por instâncias e agentes do mundo da(s) arte(s), quer por interlocutores do mundo científico.
Em tempos de crise, da economia, da democracia, do Estado, do ambiente, do trabalho e emprego, da inclusão social (das minorias aos refugiados), multiplicam-se os eventos (exposições, espetáculos, instalações, filmes/documentários) por meio dos quais, em declinações várias (das artes visuais às artes performativas) e com múltiplos formatos (festivais, ciclos, trienais…), os agentes artístico-culturais (artistas, curadores, diretores) assumem um papel ativo na reflexão crítica e no debate público sobre o estado do mundo e os modelos vigentes de sociedade. Na sua dimensão social (ou relacional), a arte intervém junto de indivíduos, grupos, ou comunidades, em escalas simbólicas e territoriais diversas – no espaço público, na rua, no bairro, na escola, na prisão, na casa-abrigo, no hospital, na comunidade terapêutica –, em modalidades de agenciamento várias (de sensibilização, de participação, de cidadania, de sustentabilidade), com o objetivo social de melhorar situações reais de pessoas e de populações, em contextos (políticos, económicos e culturais) de transgressão, segregação, exclusão, guetização, estigmatização, discriminação, periferialização, privação, degradação.
Valorizados em várias escalas de poder (municipal, nacional, supranacional) como um outro meio para tentar minorar esses “problemas sociais”, os projetos artístico-culturais configuram-se, também, enquanto objetos, instrumentos e resultados de políticas públicas. No seu papel de agentes de intermediação entre artistas e públicos, os mediadores culturais (curadores, galeristas, críticos, editores, e com os mais diversos graus de institucionalização) adquirem crescente visibilidade, com destaque para a figura do curador independente, a par da prática curatorial institucionalmente enquadrada. Entre artistas e cientistas contraem-se práticas de aproximação, diálogo e cruzamento, na reflexão (teórica), na ação (metodológica e técnica), na intervenção (social). Em rutura com a tradicional divisão institucional do trabalho arte/ciência, as práticas colaborativas que cientistas sociais e artistas realizam entre si põem em causa, por um lado, uma visão normativa da prática da(s) ciência(s) assente no pressuposto de uma clara demarcação entre os seus procedimentos metódicos e discursivos e os que configuram a prática da(s) arte(s); e, por outro, um pressuposto distintivo incorporado pelo mundo da(s) arte(s) quanto à inviabilidade dos discursos e das práticas reflexivas e interventivas das ciências sociais e humanas sobre aquele mundo.
Este número temático da Revista Configurações pretende contribuir para esta reflexão. Os artigos poderão ser provenientes de qualquer domínio das ciências sociais e humanas e dos estudos artísticos e poderão reportar-se a investigações empíricas, apoiadas na análise e reflexão teórica e metodológica, e a práticas de intervenção artística. Os artigos devem ser enviados para cics@ics.uminho.pt até 04 de fevereiro de 2018 e devem conformar-se às normas da Revista, as quais são disponibilizadas em anexo.
Informações adicionais encontram-se disponíveis em: http://configuracoes.revues.org/
[ Informação DEA ]
3e Appel à candidatures Directeurs d’Etudes Associés 2018 – jusqu’au 2 mars
Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l’appel à candidature Directeurs d’Etudes Associés 3e Appel 2018, programme de mobilité internationale invitant des personnalités scientifiques étrangères originaires de tous les continents.
Le formulaire de candidature en ligne seulement, ainsi que le détail de l’appel, des conditions d’admission et de sélection sont disponibles à l’adresse suivante, http://www.fmsh.fr/fr/international/29072.
[ Informação Marta Kolodziejska ]
Submission deadline extended for the ESA RN34 Midterm conference “Religions and Identities in the European Migration Crisis”
The relation between immigration, citizenship, integration/participation in host societies, and religion has been for quite some time central to the interest of scholars. Over time, the increase of migrations from non-European countries has further enriched the debate, drawing attention to various religious traditions. The increase in the number of Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists (as well as other religious affiliations) has re-directed scholars to the question of whether religious belonging (leading to convinced behavior) improves or hinders the process of integration of immigrants and, above all, of their children in the host society. At the same time, migration patterns have become quite complex. Migration from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe has intensified and traditionally emigrant countries, particularly in Southern Europe, have also become destination countries. In addition, refugees and asylum seekers, associated with what has been usually termed as the “Mediterranean Crisis”, have prompted a profound social and political crisis across different European countries, contributing to anti-immigrant feelings. The issue of religious pluralism has thus become linked to wider interrelated issues such as citizenship rights; “deserving” and “non-deserving” migrants; how states and other institutions, including old and new religions, and in particular educational institutions, are managing the rising number of migrants; relations between different types of secularities and religious identities; understandings of cultural identities and so on.
The aim of the ESA RN34 mid-term conference is to respond to such challenges by welcoming papers that may contribute to:
– clarifying the relations between migrants and faiths in host societies;
– understanding the role played by ethnic churches/mosques/worship associations in the broader integration process;
– investigating about how native Europeans develop their identity in response/ relationship to the religious identities of the newcomers;
– addressing the relations between the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of regional and local authorities in managing religious pluralism;
– scrutinizing the issues of anti-religious racism, right-wing extremism, radicalization and fundamentalism;
– interrogating the treatment of various religious identities and different secular identities in host societies;
– exploring the relations between religions and gender in the context of migration;
– examining the implications for how immigrants, belonging both to first- and second-generations, (re)configure religious arrangements in the context of anti-immigrant discourse;
– contributing to an innovative research agenda on to what extent religions matter in migrants’ daily life.
Other topics related to the theme of the conference are also welcomed.
Beside papers, session /panel proposals are welcomed too.
PhD students and post-doc fellows are particularly encouraged to submit a paper. There is a possibility to propose also a poster session, including work in progress. The best poster will get a small, but nice prize.
A specific workshop will be organized on “Mixed-methods in exploring religiousness within diaspora communities” for nonacademic researchers.
We look forward to your proposals and to welcoming you in Turin!
The conference will take place in Turin, Italy, on 30 August -1 September 2018.
If you have questions about the conference, please write to: turin2018.rn34@gmail.com
[ Informação Conference Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender ]
Call for Papers: “The Pursuit of Excellence in Contemporary Universities and the ‘Business Case’ for Gender Equality: Critical perspectives from gender studies, the humanities and the social sciences”
Panel at the 10th European Feminist Research Conference
“Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions”
12-15 September 2018 in Göttingen (Germany)
The claim that the excellence of research integrally involves an equity component has been an important element in the most recent push to improve diversity in universities internationally and appears everywhere as part of the ‘business case’ for gender equality. To a large extent, the focus of concern has been STEM disciplines, where the under-representation of women is held to create research deficits both through under-utilisation of the best human resources and through depriving research of the full ‘diversity’ of perspectives. In this context, humanities and social science (HASS) disciplines have rarely been discussed as posing specific issues. Yet HASS disciplines have had much to say about the feminist transformations of knowledge necessary for gender equality, besides suffering their own stark gender imbalances in many areas. Given that the idea of a feminist transformation of knowledge is largely absent from the current discussion, there is a real risk that accounts that have been given of the positive relationship between the pursuit of gender equality and disciplinary excellence not only lack depth, but present an idealization of knowledge that covers over the real histories of gender relations in disciplinary contexts, and ignores complex inequalities associated with androcentric research priorities, male-dominated mainstream influence on judgments of excellence or outright hostility to feminist work. If the analysis of the relationship between inequality and distortions in knowledge is wrong or misleading, so too may be the proposed remedies. It is therefore urgent to form a deeper theoretical, historical and sociological account of these issues.
We invite papers that explore contemporary discourses on the intersection of gender equality and excellence in knowledge-production from a perspective that opens out critical questions concerning what this relationship may really be or what it might mean. The critical investigation of leading discourses on the relationship of equality and excellence is timely given the ways in which these are currently becoming established in research and higher education institutions. How does gender inequality affect the construction of knowledge claims? Does gender inequality in academia produce knowledge that distorts our understanding of social, economic and political realities? How do disciplinary differences in evaluation practices intersect with gender? Evidence has been amassed of persistent but perhaps also various forms of gender inequality within and between different disciplines. This invites critical reflection on the terms on which excellence is understood, and the specific forms of its relationship with gender inequality in the contours of disciplinary research.
Both junior and senior scientists are invited to submit an abstract (length: max. 2.500 characters including spaces) in form of a word- or pdf-document. Abstracts should also include FULL contact details, including your name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
Abstracts should be sent until 07th February 2018 to both panel organizers: Fiona Jenkins (fiona.jenkins@anu.edu.au) and Heike Kahlert (heike.kahlert@rub.de),
More information about the organizing chairs can be found at: http://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/people/associate-professor-fiona-jenkins and http://www.sowi.rub.de/sozsug/index.html.en.
More information on the 10th European Feminist Research Conference can be found at: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/572444.html.
Please note: We apologise for the fact that no funding, travel or other bursaries can be offered for attending the conference! However, the conference organizers offer some grants (see: https://www.unigoettingen.de/en/travel+and+accommodation+grants+for+conference+participants/574637.html).
[ Informação IDN Relações Públicas ]
III Seminário IDN Jovem (Covilhã, 5 e 6 de abril de 2018)
Numa organização conjunta de diversos Núcleos de Estudantes de Ciência Política e de Relações Internacionais de Estabelecimentos de Ensino Superior Portugueses em parceria com o Instituto de Defesa Nacional (IDN), realizar-se-á a 5 e 6 de abril de 2018 o “III seminário IDN Jovem” que terá lugar na Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), na cidade da Covilhã, destinado a todos os estudantes do ensino superior que entendam concorrer.
Assim, e de acordo com os procedimentos descritos no Call for papers, em cada instituição de ensino superior, estudantes de licenciatura, mestrado, doutoramento ou pós-graduação, a título individual ou em grupo (não mais de 5 elementos), são incentivados a elaborar papers a serem submetidos ao IDN até 9 de março de 2018, sobre um dos seguintes temas, consensualizados com os núcleos de estudantes:
• Ameaças Transnacionais
• Política Externa e Defesa Nacional
• O Mar como Vetor Estratégico
• Segurança Energética e Defesa Nacional
• Migrações e Segurança
• Informação e Segurança no Ciberespaço
• Economia e Defesa Nacional
• Direitos Humanos
Call for Papers (Regulamento): http://www.idn.gov.pt/conteudos/documentos/Call for Papers_III_Sem_IDN_Jovem.pdf
Inscrição: http://www.idn.gov.pt/index.php?mod=8000&id=167
Mais informações: jorge.campos@defesa.pt 213804294; monica.coliveira@defesa.pt 213804278
[ Informação ST Famílias e Curso de Vida APS ]
CfP: “Digitising Early Childhood International Conference”
(9th – 13th July 2018, Perth, Australia)
Contemporary children and their parents are inventing what it is to have a digital childhood, and in doing so are introducing families, schools and policy makers to new ways of thinking, doing and being. This conference discusses and expands research trajectories through these uncertainties and also aims to build bridges across the different discipline interests and many strands of research in this area. It will forge a new way forward and consolidate the base of what we already know, revealing what we have yet to investigate and address, and what important insights are emerging that must be taken seriously. Paper abstracts (350 words) and panel proposals (90 minutes) should be forwarded to digitisingearlychildhood@ecu.edu.au prior to 16th March 2018. This conference welcomes papers that address the broadest possible construction of early childhood and the digital. There will be publication opportunities and selected papers will be invites as chapters for an edited collection; papers from the 2017 Conference resulted in a forthcoming volume published by Cambridge Scholars. Topics may include, but are by no means restricted to, the following:
– Digitisation of early childhood education
– Literacies at home and school
– Research methods with very young children
– Policies, regulations and guidelines
– Children and their data
– Children’s online presence(s)
– Parenting the digital child
– Children’s culture
– Cultural difference and digital children
– Risks and benefits
– Digital health
– Changing discourses of childhood
– Privacy, security and children’s rights
– Designing digital experiences for children
– The child in the digital public sphere
– Online activism and children
– Gendering (or not) the digital child
Web: http://www.digitisingearlychildhood.com | Email: digitisingearlychildhood.ecu.edu.au