Tag: France

CFP The Communication Histories Project (France and England)

The Communication Histories Project

Call for Papers
SFSIC Congress: 8th-10th June 2016, Metz, France
IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI Conference: 27th-31st July 2016, Leicester, England

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the Société Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (SFSIC) will organize a series of events to encourage the building of international bridges between researchers across different communities.

The first workshop in this series will be dedicated to research in the histories of communication studies.

We invite contributions which are concerned with the ways in which contemporary social problems are addressed by our research into communication, information, and media.

We call for original historical analyses of the concepts, paradigms, methods, institutions, educational programmes, features and figures which have structured communication studies, and which are firmly located in the many contexts which have produced them.

Our aim is to gather a diversity of perspectives on the history of our field, that together will demonstrate its complexity and interdisciplinarity, as well as historical contestations and counter-narratives.

It is anticipated that there will be publications emerging from this project.

We call for interested colleagues to submit a 1,000-word proposal for presentation in a specific workshop at the SFSIC Congress (June 8-10th, 2016, in Metz, France) and/or IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI conference (July 27th-31st, 2016, in Leicester, UK). As these are separate workshop, the resulting papers will not be included in the conference proceedings.

Proposals will be accepted in English, French and Spanish, and should be sent for review by February 29th, 2016. Please make sure to specify if you are making a proposal for the SFSIC Congress, the IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI Conference, or for both events.

Send proposals to chp@iamcr.org, chp@sfsic.org

CFP Paris Institute for Advanced Study

The Paris Institute for Advanced Study welcomes applications from high level international scholars and scientists in the fields of the humanities, the social sciences and related fields for periods of five or nine months, during the academic year 2017-2018.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016, 3:00pm (Paris, France time)


Applicants may request residencies for one of the following periods:
• September 1st, 2017 to January 31st, 2018 (5 months)
• October 1st, 2017 to June 30th, 2018 (9 months)
• February 1st to June 30th, 2018 (5 months)

CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY
Researchers from all countries are eligible.
Applicants who have spent more than a total of 12 months in France during the 3 years prior to the application are not eligible.

This call for applications is open to:
• Senior university professors or researchers holding a permanent position in a university or research institution and having a minimum of 10 years of full time research experience after their PhD (at the time of the application).
• Junior scholars having the status of postdoctoral researcher or holding a position in a university or research institution, and having a minimum of 2 and maximum of 9 years of research experience after the PhD (at the time of the application).

CALENDAR
• Opening of the online application system: January 15th, 2016
• Application deadline: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016, 3:00 pm (Paris, France time)
• Preselection: Mid-March 2016
• Final selection: June 2016
• Publication of results: End of June 2016
• Starting dates of the fellowships: September 1st 2017; October 1st

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CFP Transatlantic Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects

Transatlantic program for collaborative work in the field of digital humanities – Call 2016
Deadline : 16 May 2016

The Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme has published 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 its activity in the broad sphere of Digital Humanities, the FMSH seeks at present to implement a new international program of “digital philology”. To date, funded interactions in this area have been limited to exchanges within Europe. The purpose of this proposal is to create a formal organizational and funding structure for collaboration between the US and Europe in “digital literary studies”. For too long, Europe’s major projects in the digital humanities have been on a different track, as it were, from American projects. The present initiative is intended to help US and European researchers work together in an entirely new way in the field of digital literary studies, to share knowledge and methods, disseminate common practices and tools, and publicize their works.

The Program will support only research projects whose goal is to set up or to strengthen collaborations between US and European universities. It will co-finance up to 80% of the total cost of the research project per year.

Deadlines:
Applications due –  16 May 2016
Notification given – September 2016
Grant period commences – October 2016

Before submitting a proposal, potential applicants are encouraged to contact the FMSH.  Applications must be submitted electronically via the online application form

IMERA Call for Fellowship Applications (France)

IMéRA Calls for applications
IMéRA – Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University – is issuing calls for applications for residencies between September 2016 and July 2017:
A general Call for individual applications: open to scientists and artists
Specific Calls for individual applications: open to scientists
A general Call for team applications: open to scientists and artists

Deadline: 27 November 2015 (included)
Announcement of the results: 19 February 2016
IMPORTANT NOTICE – Eligibility conditions vary according with applications:
General calls are open to scientists and artists with or without official status and residing outside France, and are not targeted;
Specific calls are open only to persons with university or researcher position in a foreign institution, and cover research disciplines or themes.

Applications can only be submitted on IMéRA’s website.

Short–term post-doctoral fellowships (France)

The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme and its partners offer post-doctoral fellowships to researchers in the social and human sciences for periods from 1 to 6 months.

The program breaks down into two sections
1. The INCOMING program
This program targets researchers affiliated with an institution of higher education and research or a public/private research institute based aboard wishing to undertake a research stay in France.
2. The OUTGOING program
This program targets researchers residing and affiliated with a French institution of higher education and research or a public/private research institute who would like to benefit from a research stay in another country.

Applications
Please refer to the different calls to find out what arrangements apply to the competition you have chosen (geographical area, length of the fellowship) and the application procedure.
OPEN Calls for applications
Africa  FMSH-IFAS : France > Southern Africa (french) (outgoing)
America FMSH-IFEA : France > Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (french) (outgoing)America FMSH-CEMCA :  Mexico > France (french) (incoming)
America FMSH-CEMCA : France >  Mexico (french) (outgoing)
Asia  FMSH-EFEO : France >  Asia (french) (outgoing)
Asia FMSH-IFEAC : France> Central Asia (french)  (outgoing)
Asia FMSH-IFEAC :  Central Asia > France (incoming)
Europe FMSH : South Caucasus > France (incoming)
Europe FMSH-CEFR- : Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine  > France (incoming)
Europe FMSH-IFEA : France > Istanbul (outgoing)

COMING Calls for applications
Asia FMSH-ICSSR : France >  India (outgoing)

Associate Research Directors (France)

Associate Research Directors (DEA) | Second call for proposals 2016
Deadline : November 9th, 2015

Created in 1975 upon the initiative of Fernand Braudel, in collaboration with the French Secretary of State for Universities, Department for Higher Education and Research, the DEA Programme (Directeurs d’Études Associés, or Associate Research Directors) is the oldest international mobility programme at Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. It provides funding to invite international scientific experts from across the globe for one month to six weeks and enables them to carry out work in France (field enquiries, library work and archives).

Participation requirements
The programme is intended solely for professors and senior researchers with a PhD, or equivalent, working in institutions of higher education and research.
Applicants must be no older than 65 at the time of their stay.

Benefits
An allowance of 3 300 € is awarded for transport and stay expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries).

Applications and deadline
Applications must be sent before November 9th 2015.

Content of the application
• A curriculum vitae (with date of birth)
• A list of scientific publications
• A research project (4-5 pages) with the dates of stay, and a bibliography
• A letter of support by a French researcher is welcome
• Applications should be sent via our online platform

Once on the platform, in your online application for DEA, please select for the year of the call : 2016 and for the session of the call : November 2015.

For further information or if you encounter difficulties, contact candidatures.dea@msh-paris.fr

After a scientific expertise of the research projects, decisions regarding invitations are made by a commission made up of the administrator, scientific directors of the FMSH, as well as various specialists.

Results will be communicated directly to applicants by the end of March 2016.

The research stay must start no later than November 1st 2016.

CFP LusoFrance: Cultural Productions by and about the Portugues and Lusodescendants in France

CALL FOR ARTICLES
For a special issue of The InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies
“LusoFrance: Cultural Productions by and about the Portuguese and Lusodescendants in France”

Since the nineties, the Portuguese in France can no longer be considered an invisible minority (Albano Cordeiro, Jean-Baptiste Pingault). Although they have long been the focus of scholarly inquiry in sociology (e.g. Michel Oriol, Maria Do Ceu Cunha, Maria Beatriz Rocha Trindade, Albano Cordeiro, Christine Volovitch-Tavares, Irène dos Santos, Jorge de la Barre, Manuel Antunes da Cunha, Maria Baganha, etc.), political science, history (e.g. Victor Pereira, Cristina Clímaco) and linguistics (e.g. Michele Koven, Roselyne de Villanova), their cultural productions have remained understudied.

In order to explore the diversity of cultural productions of “Luso-France,” we wish to expand the field of cultural studies on the Portuguese diaspora in France in this special issue. To date, scholarship in this emerging area of inquiry has addressed literature (Ana Paula Coutinho, Isabelle Marques, Marie Isabelle Vieira, Martine F. Wagner), immigrant life stories (Elsa Lechner), film and documentary (José Cardoso Marques, João Sousa Cardoso), poetry (Dominique Stoenesco), drama (Graça dos Santos), the graphic novel (Michael Gott), and humor (Michèle Koven and Isabelle Marques). We seek papers that expand on this approach, welcoming work that explores how the cultural productions of the Portuguese in France can illuminate contemporary debates in Francophone, postcolonial and migration studies, and more specifically on issues related to national, transnational, diasporic, and ethnic identities, gender and sexuality, travel writing, (post)memory, history, and trauma. We invite original contributions with a multidisciplinary approach on the diverse genres of Portuguese and lusodescendants’ cultural productions in France (literature, migrant and life writing, film, poetry, theater, comics and graphic novels, humor, multimedia, music).

Unpublished and original papers in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French are welcome. Possible areas for consideration include, but are not limited to:
– Memories of o salto, clandestinity, border crossings, travel writing
– Exile, nostalgia, saudade
– Working lives of immigrants, labor bodies, disability
– Political engagement, écriture engagée, writing politics
– Representations of identity, hybridity, transnationalism, sexuality, LGBT
– Transgenerational memories, postmemory of the dictatorship and Portugal’s Salazar
– The Portuguese and lusodescendants in history, national, regional or local French history
– The status of women, women writing, gender
– The myth of return, return narrations, road movies
– Languages, dialects, multilingualism, lyrics, music, humor
– Images of the Portuguese in comics, photographic, film, digital representations

Submissions: All articles will be double-blind peer refereed. An invitation to submit a paper to the special issue in no way guarantees that the paper will be published; this is dependent on the review process. Prospective contributors should email all inquiries and submissions to the issue editors, Martine F. Wagner and Michèle Koven. Please send an abstract (400-500 words) with a bio-paragraph by June 30, 2015. Articles will be due by December 1, 2015.

Details: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically as word documents. When submitting your paper, please use the following checklist to match your submission with the editorial guidelines: 1. On a separate page, please include the following author’s information: name, address, and email address, professional affiliation, biographical note (maximum 150 words) 2. Title of the paper 3. Abstract (400-500 words), and Keywords (5-7 maximum, separated by commas) 4. Research Paper: a) Length: 20-25 pages maximum. This length includes only the text of the article and not the abstract, references, notes and appendices. b) Paper should conform to the MLA preparation guidelines for punctuation, spelling, capitalization, italics, abbreviations, headings, subheadings, quotations, numbers, tables, figures, citations, and references. c) Papers should use: double-spaced text – 12-point standard font -(Times, Times Roman)- 1 inch (2,54cm) margins (i.e., top, bottom, left, right) – italics, as needed, but no underlining – page numbers, in the upper right corner of the page header; – section headers, as needed- endnotes – any acknowledgements of persons, institutions, or granting agencies should be brief. – tables, figures and other artwork: Number tables, figures or illustrations consecutively throughout the text. Each should include a title. All labels on figures and illustrations must be typeset. Images must be accompanied with proof of copyright permission.

CFP IMéRA residencies (France)

IMéRA : Call for applications 2015-2016
Application deadline: Wednesday, 7 January, 2015 – 23:59
IMéRA: Laboratory for Cross-disciplinary Exploration
A foundation of Aix-Marseille University, IMéRA is an Institute for Advanced Study, a unique research centre where both emerging and top-level scientists can take advantage of residence schemes to carry out innovative research projects.

IMéRA is specifically aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary projects. It receives scientists and artists of all disciplines (in residence between 3 and 12 months), as well as a few cross-disciplinary teams with joint projects for short stays (2 to 4 weeks). Research undertaken at the Institute is meant to develop interaction within social science, within science, between social science and hard, experimental and health sciences, and links between art and science. The Institute thus contributes to the emergence and development of world-class cross-disciplinary research approaches on Aix-Marseille University ground and grooms young researchers for such approaches. IMéRA also enthusiastically welcomes projects bearing on Mediterranean territories or submitted by researchers from the Mediterranean rim.

In their applications, candidates should clearly demonstrate their interest in cross-disciplinary projects on the basis of their research or itineraries, by:
*providing a list of already experienced cross-disciplinary collaborations or of publications calling for such collaboration schemes; or
*proposing to start one such collaboration and specifying its characteristics; or
*detailing expected contributions from cross-fertilisation of their own research program with perspectives and intellectual resources of other disciplines.
IMéRA gives preference to high-aspiring research projects conducive to inter-disciplinary collaboration on complex science issues or major society challenges. 

Residents carry out their research in connection with Aix-Marseille University (AMU) teams and laboratories or with partner bodies. It is advisable to include a letter of interest by an Aix-Marseille University researcher to the application.

A – SCHEDULE
Deadline: 7 January 2015 (this date included)
Duration of residences: 5 or 10 months
Residence periods (to be chosen by the candidates, several choices are possible):
*14 Sept 2015 to 12 Feb 2016 (5 months)
*22 Feb 2016 to 13 July 2016 (5 months)
*14 Sept 2015 to 13 July 2016 (10 months)

B – WHO CAN QUALIFY
This call is open to scientists and artists of all disciplines, both junior and senior, with or without official status.

To be eligible, scientist applicants must meet the following 3 conditions:
*Not to have lived in France more than 12 months during the three years preceding this call for applications;*
*Hold a Doctorate or PhD;
*Have at least two years’ post-doctoral experience in full-time research as at the call for applications deadline.

To be eligible, artist applicants must meet the following 2 conditions:
*Not to have lived in France more than 12 months during the three years preceding this call for applications;*
Carry out a research project in connection with science.

C – SELECTION CRITERIA
Application assessment criteria include, but are not limited to:
*The candidate’s quality;
*Project and researcher’s value and potential;
*Connection of project with IMéRA’s cross-disciplinary framework (capacity to link with other disciplinary domains);
*Relevance of the research project in terms of its connection with the Aix-Marseille area (potential interaction with local facilities, teams and research centres; use of local resources – field, archives, etc.).

D – LIVING CONDITIONS
1- REMUNERATION
IMéRA will pay an allowance or a salary to residents depending on their candidate status.
Scientist remuneration
Scientists fall into two classes:
*Junior: €2,300 net monthly allowance or salary;
*Senior: €3,500 net monthly allowance or salary.

Junior class: Researchers who have 2 to 9 years of  full-time research experience after obtaining the PhD (PhD training is not considered in the calculation of experience) as at the closing date of the call for applications.
Senior class: Top-level researchers with minimum 10 years’ experience in full-time research after obtaining the PhD (PhD is not considered in the calculation of experience) as at the closing date of the call for applications, and university professors.
Artist remuneration
Artists will receive a €2,300 net monthly allowance.

2. ACCOMMODATION
IMéRA provides free accommodation to residents  in a flat within the Institute premises.

3. TRANSPORT
IMéRA will pay for the residents’ ticket from their usual place of residence to Marseille and back.

4. RESEARCH MEANS
IMéRA invites residents to organise an international research seminar on a theme related to their project during their stay, with the possibility of asking several external specialists to participate.
IMéRA does not finance production means for resident artists planning to make pieces of work.

E –CANDIDATURE
Deadline: 7 January 2015 (this date included)
Applications must be in English or French.
Candidates must submit their applications EXCLUSIVELY on IMéRA’s website. Applications sent by e-mail or by post will NOT be considered.

Online applications must include
*Duly completed application form (mandatory fields);
*One sole file (to be downloaded) including:
– Curriculum Vitae with a list of publications and/or creations/exhibitions;
– Presentation of research project (maximum 5 pages) with selective bibliography;
– For junior researchers: one to three letters of recommendation;
– A letter of interest by an Aix-Marseille researcher (not compulsory).

Period of residence:
14 Sept 2015 to 12 Feb 2016 (5 months)
22 Feb 2016 to 13 July 2016 (5 months)
14 Sept 2015 to13 July 2016 (10 months)

CFP Research Visits to France

Associate Research Directors (DEA) | Call for proposals 2015
Deadline: Applications must be sent before November 30th of 2014

Created in 1975 upon the initiative de Fernand Braudel, in collaboration with the French Secretary of State for Universities, Department for Higher Education and Research, the DEA Programme (Directeurs d’Études Associés, or Associate Research Directors) is the oldest international mobility programme at Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. It provides funding to invite international scientific experts from across the globe for one or two months and enables them to carry out work in France (field enquiries, library work and archives).

Participation requirements
The programme is intended solely for experienced scientists with a PhD or equivalent, working in institutions of higher education and research. Applicants must be no older than 68 at the time of their stay.

Benefits
A monthly allowance of 3 300 € is awarded for transport and stay expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries).

Applications and deadline
Applications must be sent before November 30th of 2014.

Content of the application
*A curriculum vitae
*A list of scientific publications
*A research project (4 pages minimum) and a bibliography
*A letter of support by a French researcher is welcome

Applications should be sent to the head of programme, Dominique Richard.

After a scientific expertise of the research projects, decisions regarding invitations are made by a commission made up of the administrator, scientific directors of the FMSH, as well as various specialists.

Results will be communicated directly to applicants by the end of January 2015.

The research stay must start no later than November 1st 2015.

CFP IADA: Anthropologies of Dialogue (France) 2015

ANTHROPOLOGIES OF DIALOGUE
Nancy, August 27-29, 2015
25th anniversary of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA)

Since the Conference is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA), this event’s theme will be the anthropologies of dialogue. According to Kant, anthropology refers to the study of the human beings in their essence and progress. Given the omnipresence and omnitemporality of dialogue, we can claim that it constitutes one of the principal characteristics of humanity, i.e., what makes human beings who they are. Thus, the study of dialogue is simultaneously concerned with the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. The 25th anniversary of IADA is an excellent opportunity to examine the progress made in our knowledge of dialogue and this will be the subject of the plenary conferences.

The conference will be organized as follows: plenary conferences will focus on the main  theme of dialogue, while workshops and poster sessions will offer the opportunity to discuss all the aspects, properties and applications of this knowledge. Workshops will host panels and lectures devoted to the most recent fields of social practices, such as tele-medicine, dialogical therapeutic tele-interviews, robotic care for the elderly, and dialogue in its various contexts: education, politics, mental or somatic health care, labor, legal, etc.

The conference language is English.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Please read all instructions carefully.
Note that IADA membership is required for presenting during the conference. Membership can be arranged instantly by going to IADA Website.

DEADLINES
*   October 30, 2014 for panel proposals
*   November 30, 2014 for individual submissions (lectures and Posters).

INSTRUCTIONS
*   Panel proposals (deadline October 30, 2014): max. 500 words. Within four weeks of this deadline, the conference committee will, on the basis of the outline, decide whether the proposal is accepted. The minimum number of presentations planned for one 90-minute session, however, should be three.
*   Individual proposals for lectures and posters (deadline November 30, 2014): max. 300 words.

Proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments to Alain Trognon and Martine Batt.