[ Informação Olga Magano, UAB ]
XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB) e 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa
Call para comunicações para o XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB) e 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa ocorrerá em 2020, no ano em que se celebram os 30 anos sobre a data do primeiro encontro, que reuniu investigadoras/es do espaço luso-afro-brasileiro, a que mais tarde se juntou Timor-Leste. O congresso terá lugar entre 2 e 4 de setembro de 2020, em Coimbra, Portugal, sob o lema “Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento”.
GT25: Diversidades culturais e identitárias de minorias em situação de segregação e discriminação social
Coordenação: Olga Maria dos Santos Magano (Universidade Aberta e CIES-IUL); Maria Manuela Mendes (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa e CIES-IUL); Maria Patrícia Lopes Goldfarb (Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa)
As minorias social e culturalmente segregadas e discriminadas, frequentemente entendidas como minorias étnico-raciais como, por exemplo, ciganos, indígenas, imigrantes, quilombolas, migrantes internos, refugiados, etc. debatem-se com a falta de reconhecimento da sua cultura e saberes específicos por parte da sociedade maioritária que tem posturas etnocêntricas e im-põem modelos de socialização e aculturação dominantes tendo por foco a cultura dominante. De facto, as sociedades contemporâneas são complexas e colocam desafios interculturais de convivência entre pessoas de diferentes origens sociais, culturais e geográficas mas muitas vezes são adotadas medidas etnocêntricas que não têm em conta a multiplicidade cultural mas sim a tentativa de homogeneização e seguimento de modelo único. No entanto, as expressões de diversidade cultural espelham-se nas relações sociais, no quotidiano, nos espaços sociais e institucionais e, entre eles, também nas escolas. Neste contexto de convivência multicultural os processos educativos e formativos devem promover a pluralidade de saberes e experiências de modo a considerar a diversidade cultural, étnica e social das crianças e jovens de várias origens. Dos contactos culturais entre pessoas de origens culturais diferentes há processos de acul-turação, inserção, integração que se substanciam em formas de miscigenação, hibridismo, pluralismo cultural, transformações identitárias e transformação social. Este painel pretende refle-tir e discutir sobre diversidades culturais e identitárias de minorias culturais em situação de segregação e discriminação social que aportem tipos de abordagens, metodologias e experiências ao nível da promoção da convivência intercultural em contextos sociais segregados, profissionais, formativos e educativos, expressões artísticas e culturais com impacto na promoção cultural de diferentes saberes nos vários países de língua oficial portuguesa e que revelem processos de ajustamentos identitários e de mestiçagem cultural.
link para submissão de propostas: https://www.conftool.pro/conlab2020/https://www.conftool.pro/conlab2020/
Para questões relacionadas com o envio de propostas, por favor, contacte: conlab2020gt@ces.uc.pt
[ Informação Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, CIES-IUL & ISUP ]
1st International Conference on Night Studies
The 1st International Conference on Night Studies is an international event that aims to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practices related to the study of the urban night in multiple contexts around the world.
This event aims to be a platform for sharing ongoing or recent research, open a critical and interdisciplinary debate, and boost networking, bringing together academia and society.
ICNS.LX will be held in Lisbon on July 2nd and 3rd, 2020 at ISCTE-IUL.
In parallel with the conference sessions, there will be field excursions, and other activities related to the night in the Portuguese capital.
ICNS is a collaborative effort of the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), the Interdisciplinar Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (ISUP) and the LXNIGHTS Network.
Call for Submissions
The night has been the subject of multiple readings by the social and human sciences, as well as it has inspired multiple narratives throughout history, literature and popular culture. However, the study of nightlife, practices, and actors only gained attention in recent years.
The appearance of “mayors of the night” with the intention of improving urban governance during this period and thus guaranteeing needs, rights and services is the result of a progressive change in the local political paradigm, which begins to face this space-time as a “new” opportunity for its economic, social and cultural development. We could say that the night and the activities that take place in it begin to be projected as forms of tourist attraction, whether for their leisure activities such as discos, parties or other forms of fun; or because of its cultural potential, such as the White Nights.
Contemporary urban night implies having active professionals, capable of reacting to any incident, such as the case of health professionals, but also maintaining those professions – often illegal – that tend to be considered problematic or hidden as could be prostitution. Surveillance and control during this period is also a good example of active professions, such as the case of the police, surveillance companies, video-doorman, or firefighters.
It has never been so easy to commute in the urban space, public transport normally meets the needs of users, and the emergence of new forms of transport resulting from the circular economy, both of people and goods, completes the demand, not without controversy.
There are many different ways to approach the night, many issues that could be addressed and we invite all researchers, professionals, and artists to participate with outstanding works.
The 1st International Conference on Night Studies is an international event that aims to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practices related to the study of the urban night in multiple contexts around the world.
This event aims to be a platform for sharing ongoing or recent research, open a critical and interdisciplinary debate, and boost networking, bringing together academia and society.
ICNS will be held in Lisbon on July 2nd and July 3rd, 2020. In parallel with the conference sessions, there will be field excursions and other activities related to the night in the Portuguese capital.
The topics include, but are not limited to:
· Myths and prejudices associated with the night
· Experiences in night management
· Public policies and night
· Urban development and the 24h city
· Work and night workers
· Urban regeneration practices associated with night and nightlife
· Night transportation and urban mobility
· Nightlife, tourism, and consumptions
· Nighteconomy
· Culture and arts
· Lighting in urban space: artistic, functional and environmental practices
· Security and vigilance
· Nightlife, culture, and inclusion
· Informality, exclusion and/or marginality in the nocturnal city
· Nocturnal soundscapes, atmospheres, and ambiances
We invite paper and poster submissions, but nontraditional formats will be considered too.
Important Dates
– January 27th, 2020
Deadline for Submitting Proposals
– February 10th, 2020
Latest notification of acceptance
– May 15th, 2020
Deadline: paper submission
– July 2nd – 3rd, 2020
More information
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[ Informação Patrícia Pereira, FCSH-UNL ]
Call for Sessions da IV Midterm Conference (September 2020, Bologna, Italy) do RN37 da ESA (Urban Sociology)
Description: The year 2020 commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Max Weber. Unquestionably recognized as one of the forefathers of Western Sociology, Weber’s scholarship is notable for its breadth and its ability to connect the spheres of economics, politics, and culture in the study of Western and non-Western societies. Alongside his many indirect contributions to the field of Urban Sociology, Weber also focused directly on urban spaces, particularly in his The City, a posthumously edited volume (1921) later incorporated in his Economy and Society, where he tried to lay the foundations for a systematic theory of urbanism and urban development.
For this conference, we take the centennial anniversary of Weber’s death, and the 99 years since the publication of The City, as an opportunity to reflect about the past, present, and future of cities, urban theories and urban practices, through and beyond the works of Weber.
The last century has provided us with a wealth of theoretical perspectives on the city and its development, from ecological theory à la Chicago School, to neo-Marxist and political economic approaches, to the more recent advent of poststructural, postmodern, and postcolonial urban studies. Different methods of analysis have accompanied these changes, from urban (ecological) modelling, to the use of quantitative, qualitative (especially ethnographic), and case-based (oftentimes comparative) approaches. And cities and urban livelihoods have themselves changed considerably in recent decades, in interaction with macro-level processes such as international migration and the commodification and globalization of cultural artifacts and economic activities.
We encourage contributions looking at urban changes, as well as focusing on recent and contemporary processes of urban development broadly conceived, in all cases with a vision towards social action and the creation of better cities and urban experiences for the future. In other words, in this conference, we are interested in uncovering: 1. What are the past, present and future developments of urban research (urban theory)? And, 2. How have cities, both in and through the multiple actors living and working in/on them, themselves develop(ed) in the past, present and future (urban praxis)?
Conference themes: For the next midterm conference we will first open a call for session proposals. After the list of sessions has been finalized, a second call for individual abstracts to be integrated in the accepted sessions will be opened. For the sessions, while all submissions bearing on a topic related to the sociological study of past, contemporary, and future cities from a theoretical and/or applied perspective are welcome, contributions on the following topics/themes are especially encouraged: (1). Classical and contemporary urban theories and theorists, (2). Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods of urban research, (3). Urban politics and urban actors, (4) Processes of urban growth and urban restructuring, (5) Urban stratification and urban inequality, (6) Identities and subjectivities in the contemporary city, (7) Urbanization in a global context. If the session you intend to propose does not directly fit with any of the topics outlined, please submit your proposal as an open submission in the submission form (8).
Sessions format: We expect the majority of sessions to follow a traditional format based on an open call for abstracts (at a later date) and equal time allocation (expectedly 15 minutes, in time slots of 90 minutes) for each participating presenter. Nonetheless, session proponents are encouraged to consider other formats, such as: author-meets-critics sessions, open panel debates, roundtables, and lightning talks. The specificities of these formats will be discussed on a case-by-case basis. For session proponents wanting to propose a session in a non-traditional format, please contact the organizing committee as earlier as possible, no later than two weeks before the final deadline to assess the viability of that format.
Language: As a rule, English will be the official language of the conference. Session proponents who would like to submit a session in a language, or languages, other than English, please contact the organizing committee as earlier as possible, no later than two weeks before the final deadline to assess the viability of that format. In any case, please note we the organizing committee will not be able to provide translation support during the conference.
Session proposal guidelines: Session proposals should include the following items:
– Session title and topic: The title should informative and concise. Information about the topic (out of the previous list) most fitting should also be provided (note: if the session you want to propose does not directly fit any of the topics or conference themes outlined, please sign-up for “8. Open Submission”).
– Organizer(s): Names, affiliations and contact details of the session chairs/proponents.
– Session format: Traditional format, author-meets-critics, open panel debates, roundtables, lightning talk sessions.
– Session participants: Sessions must not include a predetermined list of participants, as they are expected to lead to an open call for abstracts at a later date.
– Session abstract: 500 word maximum, excluding the previous items.
Please send proposals to: rn37.esa@gmail.com until January 10, 2020.
Individual abstracts (2nd stage): After decisions have been made regarding the sessions accepted for the conference, an open call for individual abstracts (of single authored or coauthored works) will ensue.
Key dates: Please watch out for the following key dates. Please note that these dates are final and there will be no extensions.
– November 11, 2019: Call for sessions opens.
– January 10, 2020: Session proposal deadline.
– January 20, 2020: Notification of session organizers.
– February 3, 2020: Call for individual abstracts opens.
– April 3, 2020: Abstract (individual papers) submission deadline.
– April 30, 2020: Notification of abstract presenters.
– May 2 – May 31, 2020: Early-bird registration for individual participants and registration for session organizers.
– June 1 –June 15, 2020: Full rate registration for individual participants.
– September 2 – 4, 2020: IV Midterm Conference of the ESA-RN37, Urban Sociology.