Call for Expression of Interest - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2022 (IF)
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Recruitment | Chaire de Professeur junior : Société civile, institutions et coopérations européennes (XIX-XXIe siècle)
Title of the contract and post concerned :
Civil society, institutions and European cooperations (XIXth-XXIth c.)
Category to which the teacher is destined for tenure: University Professor
Anticipated project duration: 5 years
Keywords: European cooperation, civil society, European, institutions, mobilisations
Scientific theme: Contemporary history of international relations
Establishment strategy :
The University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne is particularly involved in the "european studies" theme of its European association, Una europa. For all 9 partners of the European alliance, this theme must constitute a lever for the establishment of joint European degrees based on transnational European research. Finally, Paris 1 was the initiator of the creation of the GIS EuroLab, which has been housed since its creation in January 2022, at the Projects and Prospective Department of the University of Paris 1. The objective of EuroLab, which brings together 26 institutions in France, is to federate and make visible the research produced in France on this transdisciplinary object of study, Europe, this in the continuity of the LabEx ENHE of which the SIRICE research unit (Sorbonne, Identities, International Relations, European Civilizations) has been a member since its foundation. The proposed Chair is part of a global strategy of the institution, recalled in its Strategic Plan (October 2021) and the SorbRising Project (PIA4), which has already borne its first fruits (Una Europa, LabEx ENHE, EuroLab). It relies on a long-standing and recognized expertise in France and internationally, whether in history, law, social sciences or political sciences.
Strategy of the host laboratory :
Among its five priority research areas, UMR SIRICE has three areas: globalization and regionalization, political cultures, and Europe. Over the past ten years, its members have developed expertise in European studies through the LABEX EHNE, Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe. Cf. L. Badel, Diplomaties européennes (2021), L. Warlouzet, Europe contre Europe (2022), S. Bledniak, et al (coord.), Chroniques de l'Europe (2022). Because of an international situation that emphasizes the need to continue to create trans-European teaching and research spaces, and to maintain our exchanges with colleagues in Europe who are not members of the Union, the laboratory is eager to strengthen its work on European cooperation and construction by promoting new research at the junction of the history of international relations, the history of European integration, and European studies. The challenge is to articulate research on the actors involved in European policies (with an emphasis on the entry of women into decision-making processes), and to reflect on the processes aimed at establishing participatory democracy in the elaboration of EU public policies, while rethinking the question of interests in the light of a reflection on sovereignty and values.
Scientific Project :
The Chair project has three themes: 1. actors and participatory democracy, focusing on the actors of mobilizations aimed at establishing participatory democracy at the heart of European policies, and in particular the European Union. The focus will be on women's access to international political functions, the institutionalization of causes carried by women, and the dissemination of promoted norms (including trade negotiations and development aid policies). 2. Sovereignty and values to rethink the issue of national interests and European integration. The latter makes the participation of States in the Union legally conditional on the respect of a certain number of values. This axis will develop the reflection on the questions of diplomacy and defense, two regalian domains that resist integration.3. History of European Union policies: Many policies have emerged outside the European Union (culture, heritage, gender equality) and must be studied from a circulatory perspective. On certain issues (borders, conflict prevention), the EU has long "offloaded" to other organizations. This line of research will aim to develop work on European policies.
Teaching Project :
The chair (96 hours ETD per year) will give rise to teaching in L3 history (courses and tutorials) on the history of European Union public policies; a discovery unit in L2 history on the history of European cooperation and/or teaching within the professional master's degree in RIAE (International Relations and Action Abroad). The teaching could also feed into Laurence Badel's seminar on diplomatic practices, XIXth-XXIst century. The teacher must have linguistic skills in European languages and be able to teach in English. In the longer term, the chair could foster increased synergies between historians, jurists, political scientists, economists, gender studies specialists, and practitioners (diplomats, European civil servants) at Paris 1, particularly via the European studies theme of Una Europa, and feed into the work conducted within the GIS-Euro-Lab, and even the Institut du Genre.
Amount of associated funding :
In order to carry out the research and teaching project, the Chair will be financed, for the duration of the contract, to the tune of €275,160 for 5 years (or €220,128 for 4 years) for the remuneration of its holder, €150,000 for the financing of a one-year post-doctorate and a three-year doctoral contract, and €50,000 for research.
Scientific dissemination :
Scientific publications in English in international scientific journals specialized in the history of international relations and European integration (Journal of European Integration History, Contemporary European History, Journal of Contemporary History, Relations internationales, etc.) are expected to participate in the growth of the French academic community on the theme.
Open Science:
The project will follow the good practices of open science. Thus, it will offer:
- a research notebook (or portal) that will allow to follow the progress of the project;
- the deposit of publications on the HAL platform (following the policy of the University of Paris 1 on this subject);
- Communication of the results of the project in the form of scientific seminars.
Research and Society :
The project will resolutely consider communication with the general public in the form of publications in good popular historical journals, but also in other non-written forms. The location of the project on the Condorcet Campus would be a great asset in this respect: a partnership with the Grand Equipement Documentaire (organization of one or more small exhibitions) could be conceived. One can also imagine joint exhibitions with the Diplomatic Archives of La Courneuve.
Camille Robcis and Preeti Chopra, Visiting Scholars
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Camille Robcis
May 27 to June 17, 2022
Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is especially interested in the intersections of politics and ideas. Her first book, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France was published by Cornell University Press in 2013 and won the 2013 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. It examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization. Her second book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021) traces the history of institutional psychotherapy, a movement born in France during the Second World War that called for the profound transformation of the theory and practice of psychiatric care, through the lens of Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a new project, The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation which focuses on the protests against the so-called “theory of gender” throughout the world, especially in their conceptual links to populism. Her essays have appeared in Modern Intellectual History, Yale French Studies, Social Text, French Historical Studies, Discourse, South Atlantic Quarterly, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the Journal of Modern History, among others. She received her B.A. in History and Modern Culture & Media from Brown University, her Ph.D. in History from Cornell, and she taught for ten years in Cornell’s History Department. She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Contact : car2129@columbia.edu
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Preeti CHOPRA
June 1 to 30, 2022
Preeti Chopra is professor of architecture, urban history, and visual studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is trained as an architect (CEPT, Ahmedabad, India), landscape architect, urban planner, and architectural historian (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and has conducted research in western and southern India in the colonial and postcolonial contexts. Chopra is the author of A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011). She is currently working on a second book tentatively entitled, Communities of Care: The City and its Fragments in Colonial Bombay. Her work has been supported by numerous research grants and fellowships. She is an affiliate fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Contact : chopra@wisc.edu
Congruence, Nervousness, Impotence and Ecstasis : textures of power in Central and West Africa
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Congruence, Nervousness, impotence and ecstasis: textures of power in central and west africa
Workshop organized by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po, CHSP) with CERI
May 4, 2022
1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 9:00-17:00
9:00 am - COFFEE AND REFRESHMENT
9:15 am -10:45 am - PANEL I - TEXTURES OF OPRESSION, PRACTICE AND THEORY OF RESISTANCE
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G. Mathys (Veterinary as State Power, Mountain Refuge)
- A. Lauro (Right to Punish, and Consent)
- N. Eggers (Kitawala Everyday Theorists of Power)
- S. Ayimpam (Inmates' Management of the Prison)
- E. Kalema (Mulélist and Rebellion State Violence)
10:45 am -11:00 am - Break
11:00 am -12:30 pm - Panel II - A DOUBLE FIELD OF ACTION: THE MANIFEST AND THE OCCULT
6. J. Tonda (World of the Might, Africa as Monster and Utopia)
7. K. Pype (Digital Enchantment and Vulnerable/Shadow Self)
8. A. Atenrianus-Owanga (Musical Technologies of the Occult)
9. S. Demart (How the Diaspora Can Help Rethink Power as Multi-Centered and Transnational)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Lunch Break
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Panel III - POWER AS FAILURE, NEUROSIS, AND PERVERSION
10. F. Bernault (Transgression)
11. B. Henriet (Impotence)
12. A. Ceriana-Mayneri (Dispossession and Perversion)
13. T. Hendriks (Ectasis)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Break
3:30 pm -5:00 pm - Panel IV - CONCEPTUALIZING POWER AND AGENTS OF POWER
14. R. Stephens (Coneptual History, Power of Wealth)
15. P. Yengo (Independence without Decolonisation, Malformed States)
16. F. Brisset-Foucault / Banégas (How People Coneptualize Themselves as Political Actors)
5:00 pm - Conclusion
Participants
Filipa Duarte de Almeida, anthropologue à l'Université Omar Bongo de Libreville, travaille sur la notion de pouvoir et d'invisible. Elle a récemment soutenu une thèse intitulée Le moment rouge et l’ être en suspension. La violence de l’imaginaire dans le Bwété Misôkô (Gabon) (2021)
Alice Aterianus-Owanga, anthropologue spécialiste des liens entre musique et politique, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow à l'Université de Cape Town, a publié l'ouvrage « Le rap, ça vient d'ici ! ». Musiques, pouvoir et identités dans le Gabon contemporain (2018)
Sylvie Ayimpam, politiste et anthropologue, membre de l'Institut des Mondes africains (IMAF) à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille, est l'autrice de Économie de la débrouille à Kinshasa: informalité, commerce et réseaux sociaux (2014)
Florence Bernault, historienne au CHSP, est l'autrice de Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies and Histories (2019)
Richard Banégas, politiste au CERI, spécialiste de la Côte d'Ivoire, a récemment co-dirigé l'ouvrage Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self (2021)
Florence Brisset-Foucault, politiste de l'Ouganda et des médias à Paris-1, est l'autrice de Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda (2019)
Andrea Ceriana Mayneri, anthropologue au CNRS, spécialiste de la Centrafrique, a publié l'ouvrage Sorcellerie et prophétisme en Centrafrique. L'imaginaire de la dépossession en pays banda (2014)
Sarah Demart, sociologue à l'Université libre de Bruxelles, est l'autrice des Territoires de la délivrance. Enchevêtrements spatiotemporels et réveil congolais en RDC et en diaspora (2017)
Nikki Eggers, historienne à l'Université du Tennessee, spécialiste de l'Est du Congo, finit un livre intitulé Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo (à paraître)
Thomas Hendriks, anthropologue à la Katholieke Universiteit à Leuven, spécialiste du Congo, est l'auteur de Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession (2022)
Benoît Henriet, historien à l'Université libre de Bruxelles, spécialiste du Congo, est l'auteur de Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) (2021)
Emery Kalema, historien invité à l'Université libre de Bruxelles, est l'auteur de plusieurs articles sur la rébellion Mulele au Congo, dont le récent "The Mulele “Rebellion”: Bodily Pain and the Politics of Death (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1963-1968), Politique africaine (2021)
Amandine Lauro, historienne à l'Université libre de Bruxelles, spécialiste des rapports de genre au Congo, a récemment co-dirigé l'ouvrage Le Congo colonial. Une histoire en questions (2020)
Gillian Mathys, historienne à Université de Ghent, spécialiste des questions d'identités spatiales, est l'autrice de "Questioning Territories and Identities in the Precolonial (Nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu Region", Africa (2021)
Katrien Pype, anthropologue des médias et de la sorcellerie à la Katholieke Universiteit à Leuven, a publié The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa (2012) et a co-dirigé l'ouvrage à paraître Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment and Digital Media
Rhiannon Stephens, historienne à l'université de Columbia (New York), spécialiste de l'histoire ancienne des Grands Lacs, est l'autrice de A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (2013) et a co-dirigé l'ouvrage Doing Conceptual History in Africa (2018)
Joseph Tonda, sociologue à Université Omar Bongo de Libreville, est l'auteur d'Afrodystopie. Le rêve dans la vie d'autrui (2021), et a récemment dirigé un ouvrage sur La violence de la vie quotidienne à Libreville (2016)
Patrice Yengo, anthropologue, est l'auteur de nombreux travaux sur la politique au Congo-Brazzaville, et sur les conflits sorciers dans la sphère familiale. Il a publié notamment Les mutations sorcières dans le bassin du Congo. Du ventre et de sa politique (2016). Son dernier ouvrage L'Ordre de la transgression. La souveraineté à l'épreuve du temps global est paru cette année (2022).
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Postdoctoral Recruitment | North African Sufi Islamic sources | Centre for History Sciences Po
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Sciences Po Centre for History
Postdoctoral Recruitment
The European Research Council project “SlaveVoices” seeks a Postdoctoral researcher in the history of modern North Africa and the Mediterranean with an interest in the history of slavery and in North African Sufi Islamic sources (hagiographies and biographies of saints) from the mid-18th century to the 1930s.
Funded by the European Research Council, “SlaveVoices” aims at renewing our approach to the end of slavery by collecting and studying the testimonies of North African, West African and European slaves and their descendants written in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and other European and African languages from the mid-18th century to the 1930s.
Researchers involved in the project “SlaveVoices” explore the reshaping of the connections that groups of slaves built up within North African societies and between this part of the Muslim world and other adjoining societies in Africa, Asia and Europe in the abolition era.
The successful applicant will start working on the project by September 2022 for one year followed by a renewal for another year upon positive evaluation.
The project is based at Sciences-Po Paris, and directed by Prof. M. Oualdi who specializes in early modern and modern history of North Africa.
Main tasks of the researcher
The successful applicant will work full-time on the project during the term of the contract and will undertake the following tasks:
- to find, collect, transcribe and translate into English (or French) North Africa Islamic sufi primary sources dealing with enslavement, captivity and liberation from slavery in sufi hagiographies and biographies (including manāqib and tarājim) from the 17th to the late 19th century.
- to write and publish papers in peer-reviewed journal and or a monograph related to the ERC research topic;
- to present research papers at international workshops and conferences;
- to contribute to popular dissemination of the research results;
- and to undertake administrative tasks related to the project.
Qualification
The successful candidate will have a PhD in hand or will have defended a PhD before September 2022. He or she will have a major expertise in the history of North Africa. He or she will have a command of Arabic, French and English. He or she will be expected to work full time on the project and participate in the academic life of Sciences Po.
Funding
For this position, we offer:
1. a contract for one year of full-time employment as a Postdoctoral Researcher, followed by a
renewal for another year upon positive evaluation;
2. an internationally competitive salary that include social benefits;
3. an allowance for travel and research expenses.
Application procedure
The following documents are to be submitted :
● A letter of application (no more than 2 pages) explaining your qualifications and
motivation for the project and the added value that you are expected to bring;
● A curriculum vitae with a list of education, positions, teaching experience,
administrative experience, other qualifying activities and a list of publications;
● Scanned copies of relevant diplomas and certificates;
● A final report on your dissertation;
● Representative sections of your dissertation (introduction, conclusion and two chapters)
and a writing sample that is relevant to the ERC project;
● Contact information (email addresses, number phones) for two academic references
(including your supervisor or former supervisor).
All documents in English, or in French, are to be sent in a single pdf. file to slavevoices.erc@sciencespo.fr using the title “Application-SlaveVoices-Sufi sources”
All queries can be addressed to slavevoices.erc@sciencespo.fr
Application deadline : May 15, 2022
The short-listed candidates will be interviewed by the beginning of June 2022 either in Paris
or by visio-conference.
Sciences Po is the first French university which has received the label “gender equity” delivered by the French national organisation for standardisation (AFNOR).
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