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Espagne-Maghreb : migrations croisées, du Moyen-Âge à nos jours

Appel à communications - Date limite : 31/03/2021

Between Spain and North Africa:
crossed migrations since the Middle Ages

Université Grenoble Alpes, 4 & 5 November 2021
Organisation : Alice Carette (Université Grenoble Alpes/ILCEA 4), Claire Marynower
(Sciences Po Grenoble/IUF, PACTE), Rocío Velasco de Castro (Universidad de Extremadura)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Spain and North Africa have long established relations and privileged exchanges, for obvious geographic and geopolitical reasons. North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula are indeed border territories, both separated and connected by the Strait of Gibraltar, a few kilometers of liquid frontier. Migratory exchanges and population transfers between these territories started very early. Added to this, since the end of the 15th c. the enclaves of Ceuta (formerly Portuguese) and Melilla created land frontiers between Spain and Morocco.
On a long-time perspective, the current migratory “crisis” is no other than one of the many and diverse ways in which population movements go North and South in the Western Mediterranean space. Depending on the times and socio-political contexts, the main direction of migrations alternates, between the settlement in North Africa of populations coming from Iberian regions (Vandals in the 5th c., Jews and later on Moriscos expelled from Spain at the end of the 15th c. and beginning of the 17th c., Spanish settlers in Western Algeria from 1830 to 1914…) and, on the opposite, North-South migration flows (Carthaginians in Spain, Arab-Berber conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711, Almoravid and Almohad conquests in the 12th and 13th c., occasional return of Moriscos to Spain, “return” of Jews to Spain under the Primo de Rivera government in the 1920s, “return” of French settlers in Algeria, called pieds-noirs, to Alicante…). While Spain is, along with Greece and Italy, one of the main entry points to Europe, the current situation may be analyzed as a global process of rebordering (G. Popescu, 2011), i.e. the hardening of state borders, which become strong instruments for migration control.
In this context of rising “violent borders” (R. Jones, 2016) the conference, open to specialists of different disciplines (Arabic and Hispanic scholars, geographers, historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists) will reflect on the realities, representations and products of these migrations and crossed exchanges over time. It aims to question the way the border between North Africa and Spain, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has
functioned, in order to identify the pivotal moments of its evolution.
The main points we wish to explore are the followings (this isn’t an exhaustive list):
- The two shores of the Strait of Gibraltar as a horizon of conquest throughout history, from South to North (Arab-Berber conquests and invasions until the 14th c.) and from North to South: imperial projections, realities and fantasies of occupation and colonization (Spanish conquests in North Africa at the end of the 15th c. and the beginning of the 16th c., Francoist project of colonization of Western Algeria…);
- Border cities and pivotal territories of the Hispano-Maghreb border as places of contact, exchanges and crossing between Africa and Europe but also as places of division, separation, loss of liberty, violence and death;
- Representations of the Hispano-Maghreb border: be they mental (fear of the Other, fear of invasion, projections and illusions), linguistic (the words of the border), literary or artistic expressions (including cinema), also historiographical discourse;
- Spanish migrations and settlements in North Africa/North African migrations and settlements in Spain: Sephardic diaspora in North Africa after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, exile of Moriscos’ communities after 1609, Spaniards in colonized Algeria, Republicans exiled to North Africa after the Spanish civil war, Moroccan community (since the 1990s in particular), unaccompanied minors in Spain (notably Moroccans and Algerians)...
- Figures and actors of the Hispano-Maghreb border through the ages: pirates, corsairs, alfaqueques, defectors, spies, converts, merchants, seasonal workers, prisoners, smugglers, human traffickers, members of NGOs ...
- Cultural hybridity and interbreeding: mixed identities, dual cultural traditions, bilingualism, Spanish-speaking community in North Africa, Moroccan literature in spanish...

Key-words : migrations- frontiers- rebordering- population movements- Spain- Andalusia-
Algeria-Morocco-Tunisia-Mediterranean- representations of the Other
Scientific board :
Youssef Akmir (Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir)
Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard (University of Oxford)
Houssem Eddine Chachia (Université de Sfax)
Bernabé López García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Gabriel Martinez-Gros (Université Paris X-Nanterre)
Carmelo Pérez Beltrán (Universidad de Granada)
Nicolás Sesma Landrin (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Languages : Spanish, French, English
Submissions : Proposals for papers, including a title and an abstract (450 words approx.) must
be submitted to the organizing committee before March 31, 2021 : alice.carette@univ-
grenoble-alpes.fr, claire.marynower@iepg.fr, rvelde@unex.es
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SdBS Featured Translation 2022

Call for Nomination - Deadline: February 15, 2021

SdBS Featured Translation 2022

Call for Nominations - Deadline: February 15, 2021 

Do you know of a previously published article or book chapter that is an exemplar of outstanding scholarship but has not yet received the international and interdisciplinary attention that it deserves? Do you want to recognize a text that has had the greatest impact on your thinking and has changed the ways that you read Beauvoir’s work or consider topics that are in conversation with her legacy such as gender studies, sexuality studies, feminism, existentialism, political responsibility, literary theory, and so on?

Consistent with its mission of promoting international and cross-cultural exchange, Simone de Beauvoir Studies selects one article-length work per year that has already been published and translates it into either English or French in order to emphasize its significance to the field and increase its readership. The SdBS Featured Translation showcases writing of the highest quality, often authored by established scholars, full professors, or others who have produced exceptional work. 

Eligible works for the 2022 award are any article or book chapter (ideally less than 10,000 words) that was published recently or long ago in any language other than French. Nominations should be submitted by February 15, 2022 and be in the form of a one-page letter that recommends the work and that follows the guidelines posted at https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/SdBS_Translation_Nomination_Guidelines_7-7-20.pdf. Multiple nomination letters for the same work, multi-authored nomination letters, and self-nominations are welcome.

Featured Translation / Traduction annuelle Honorees

2019 “The Blood of Others: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir by Emmanuel de Saint Aubert (SdBS 30.1 and 30.2)

2020 “Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir et Le Deuxième Sexe” by Margaret A. Simons (SdBS 31.1)

2021 TBA, SdBS 32.1 (May 2021)

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[Recruitment] Two Faculty Positions in History

Deadline: 2021/02/15 and 03/04
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[RECRUITEMENT] A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, SPECIALIST IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

Application Deadline : 15 February 2021

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[RECRUITEMENT] A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, SPECIALIST IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES, WITH A FOCUS ON EUROPE

Application Deadline : 04 March 2021

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Recrutement ATER Université Le Havre Normandie

Date limite : 22 janvier 2021

L’université Le Havre Normandie propose un poste d'ATER à pourvoir en 22e section à 100% à l’UFR Lettres et Sciences humaines (contrat de 6 mois à temps plein).

Prise de poste prévue le 1 février 2021 jusqu’au 31 juillet 2021 à 100%
Ouverture des candidatures du vendredi 8 janvier 2021 au vendredi 22 janvier 2021 à 16h.

La procédure de recrutement est entièrement dématérialisée.
La fiche de poste ainsi que les modalités de candidature sont présentées sur le site de l'université, à la rubrique "Travailler à l'université - recrutement ATER" : https://www.univ-lehavre.fr/spip.php?article472
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