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Call for Papers
SOCIAL TIME AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD
A debate for Social Sciences and Humanities
Guest Speaker: Barbara Adam (Univ. Cardiff)
Date: 9 - 10 july, 2012
Place: “Sala de atos do ICS” – University of Minho
Purpose
This seminar aims to provide discussions on the diversity of times and
temporalities.
Time is lived, experienced and manipulated. In modern societies, the
transformation in
the modes of use, performance and time control reaches into the deeper
structures of
institutions, manifesting itself in various ways: in decision-making,
in organizational
planning, in institutional interactions, as well as in the
construction of individual and
collective identities.
Today, the analysis of temporal phenomena as well as changes in
temporalities leads
us to debate many aspects of society and politics, including those
related to the
immediate spheres of everyday life (working time and leisure), and to
the mega-social
temporalities (relationship between the natural and social world,
change and
reproduction).
The themes to be included in the seminar will have a broad character,
and can
accommodate several proposals for subject areas in various formats,
including
performance. The only requirement is that they address time,
temporality and duration
as primary objects of analysis.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Time-space compression and the time-spaces of global capitalism
2. Media, time and technology
3. Time in economy, economics of time
4. Time and Law. Time and Justice.
5. Temporality (of) politics, drama and media
6. Reproduction, planning and forecast
7. Temporal horizons, self-identity and biography
8. Language, body, space and discourse
9. Systems, organizations, time and evolution
10. Time, calendar and symbol
11. Utopia and time
Abstracts, maximum 300 words for oral communications, posters or
performance
should be sent to the seminar organization ((temposocial2012 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(temposocial2012 /at/ gmail.com)>) no later
than april 20th
*The results of the accepted proposals will be communicated on May
5th*, 2012.
Enrolment: 10 euros for general audience; 5 euros for students (with
participation
certificate) up to June 30.
Contacts:
Seminar “Social times and the contemporary world”
Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade do Minho (Campus Gualtar)
4710-057 Braga
Scientific Committee:
Eduardo Duque (CICS/Univ. Minho)
Emília Araújo (CECS/Univ. Minho)
Helena Sousa (CECS/Univ. Minho)
Jean-Marc Ramos (Univ. Montpellier)
Manuel Carlos Silva (CICS/Univ. Minho)
Maria-Helena Augusto (Programa de pós-graduação Programa de Pós-Graduação
em Sociologia - FFLCH - Universidade de São Paulo)
Maria Johanna Schouten (CICS/Univ. Minho e CES/Uni. Beira Interior)
Moisés Martins (CECS, Univ. Minho)
Mónica Franch (Programa de pós-graduação Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Sociologia - FFLCH - Universidade de São Paulo)
Organization:
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS-Universidade do Minho)
Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais (CICS -Universidade do Minho)
Associação Portuguesa de Estudos do Tempo e SociedadeFormat for abstracts
SEMINAR
SOCIAL TIMES AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Please send the abstract to (temposocial2012 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(temposocial2012 /at/ gmail.com)> , in the following format:
Borders:
Upper border 2.5 cm
Lower border 2.5 cm
Left border: 3 cm
Right border: 3 cm
Text structure:
• Title: Arial, 12, bold
• Author (s) identification:
a) Name and surname: Arial, 10, bold
b) Institution, contacts and e-mail: Arial, 10.
• The text:
300 words (maximum): Arial, 11, normal, justified
Spacing: 1.5pt
