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Invitation to foreign researchers about innovative themes | 2nd call of 2016
Call for projects
15
June 2016
The FMSH financially supports foreign researchers as part of the organization of events about innovative...
The Right to Land and Territory : New Human Right and Collective Action Frame
New Working Paper
19
May 2016
Resistance against the appropriation of nature, especially land, has been one of the key struggles of the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina (LVC) since its inception in 1993. The issue of access to land has become even more central after the food crisis...
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Peasants, Smallholders and Post-Global Food Crisis Agriculture Investment Programs
New Working Paper
19
May 2016
This article examines new multilateral food and agriculture development programs implemented in response to the 2008 Global Food Crisis. These programs, which seek to increase agricultural investment and production in developing countries, have gained wide currency...
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EURIAS - Fellowship Programme 2017- 2018
Call for fellowship
04
May 2016
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg,...
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Freedom and the political experience of the women in front of the crisis: the Italian feminism and their repercussions in the XXIst Century
New Working Paper
25
April 2016
In this very rich and fruitful momentum of the Italian feminism, where many topics of different political generations criss-cross and clash, obviously a theoretical and a practical reflection is essential, especially in order to face the crisis in politics, economy,...
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Diverse experiences, common causes
22
April 2016
How to imagine and conceptualize a possible way of living together, not in spite of our differences but because of them ? How to welcome singular, minority, marginalized narratives into the living polyphony of a shared world ? How to found solidarities upon the...
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Going China for study and pursue career in Africa
New Working Paper
21
April 2016
Chinese universities’ African graduates experiment staff localization in Chinese firms.
Based on interviews collected in Xi’an (People’s Republic of China), Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire (Congo), this article focuses on training and careers of...
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Associate Research Directors - Guests 2016
30
March 2016
David ARMANDO
Home institution : Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico moderno
Project : Mesmérisme et Révolution française: retour sur un débat
Discipline : Histoire
Native country : Italie
Mine Gencel BEK
Home institution : Gazi...
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Call for post-doctoral application - Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Call for fellowship
30
March 2016
As part of the partnership between the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Collège d’études mondiales, two post-doctoral grants will be awarded, for a period of 12 months, to two young researchers living outside of France.
These post-doctoral researchers will be...
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US special operations forces : on the threshold of a profound evolution?
New Working Paper
22
March 2016
Created in 1952 to wage « another type of war » (J.F. Kennedy), the US special operations forces (SOF) are, after Afghanistan and Iraq, on the threshold of a profound evolution. The context lends itself: as the Obama presidency avoids large operations, the...
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The historicisation of philosophy in France and Germany after Kant
New Working Paper
22
March 2016
This paper presents an on-going project and examines how a more and more abstract and autonomous history of philosophy developed from the end of the18th century onwards in Germany and in France. Whereas Kant drew a clear division between the empirical history of...
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Imagining Augustine’s two Cities
New Working Paper
18
March 2016
Abstract : This article points out the rhetorical dimension of the two cities defined by S. Augustine, the civitas Dei and the civitas terrena (or diaboli) ; then it considers the different treatments of...
Mass consumption and class consumption in Paris, from the 1880s to the 1920s: research findings
New Working Paper
22
February 2016
This article aims to present the main results of our PhD in modern history, on the Parisian working class’ consumption from the 1880s to the 1920s. Analysing the goods that this group possessed and the transactions that took place around them address questions...
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SSI n°55/1, March 2016 : Varia
Just published
22
January 2016
A new issue of Social Science Information is available Online and in print.
Trends and developments
1. Trend reports
Knowledge map of Latin American research on management: Trends and future advancement
Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo
Social sciences in the...
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[Closed] - Associate Research Directors (DEA) | Last call for proposals 2016
Call for fellowship
07
January 2016
Created in 1975 upon the initiative of Fernand Braudel, in collaboration with the French Secretary of State for...
First Assembly of the Dark Series: Environmental Justice
Scientific event
06
January 2016
Organized in collaboration with Françoise Vergès, Chair Global South(s) at Collège d’études mondiales de la Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, in the framework of the exhibition Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster at Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research...
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Transatlantic program for collaborative work in the field of digital humanities - Call 2016
Call for fellowship
07
December 2015
The FMSH is pleased to publish the third call of its grant program in digital humanities. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH will co-finance transatlantic collaborative projects in the field of the digital humanities.
To strengthen...
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A compromise for status quo between generations
New Working Paper
23
November 2015
This paper aims to show that generations have made an implicit pact in order to maintain unchanged the employment system based on a labor market cleaved between insiders and outsiders. The former enjoy a high degree of protection, while the latter are a key element of...
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Decentrings : the Souths and the epistemological challenges of a common world
Scientific event
20
November 2015
The souths through the gaps
The notion of decentrings refers to a process that calls for gathering different sites subsumed under the concept of souths. Thereby would be tested, both in theory and in practice, social sciences organised within the framework of a...
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Violence and Exiting Violence Platform
Research news
10
November 2015
There is currently an urgent demand, from society at large and the political sphere, for greater understanding of the phenomena of violence and the...