International tango conference in Paris, October 2011

[jantango]

International conference
Tango : Creation, Identification, Circulation
October 27-28, 2011, Paris, France
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales(EHESS)
Scientific Committee: Christophe Apprill (Centre Norbert Elias), Carmen Bernand
(Paris X), Denis Constant-Martin (Science Po Bordeaux), Didier Francfort
(Université Nancy 2), Julien Mallet (IRD), Rafael Mandressi (CNRS-Centre Koyré),
Emmanuelle Olivier (CNRS-CRAL), Michel Plisson
Organized by: Marina Cañardo (EHESS-UBA), Sophie Jacotot (Université Blaise
Pascal CRAL), Esteban Buch (EHESS-CRAL)
This international conference held in Paris will gather together researchers
from diverse disciplinary orientations (historical, sociological,
anthropological, musicological) working on the tango and its various aspects
(music, dance, poetry). This interdisciplinary conference, organized by the
Center for Research in Arts and Language (CRAL, EHESS-CNRS) and affiliated with
the ANR GLOBALMUS research program, takes place after UNESCO’s official
recognition of the tango as international Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The conference will focus on three contemporary scientific themes concerning
tango:
- Creation: aesthetic trends of current tango; a history of creative
initiatives; links with means of expression and techniques of the body; tensions
between creation and tradition, invention and homogenization;
- Identification: national identities; nomadism and diaspora; black origins of
the tango and the question of metissage; political uses and claims of autonomy;
questions of gender and sexuality;
- Circulation: technological resources in the context of globalization; new
means of broadcasting and their effects on the pedagogy and interpretation of
tango; commercial strategies and alternative networks; the impact of naming
tango as cultural heritage.
The languages of the conference will be French, English and Spanish.
All proposals (350 words max.) should also include your name, surname, phone
number, email address and a brief presentation of the author. Please submit your
proposal by email to: <colloque@globalmus.net (colloque@globalmus.net)>
Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2011

[Dave Bailey]

I can't find a website for the "Center for Research in Arts and Language" - am I being stupid? Is the site French-only?

[bordertangoman]

I can't find a website for the "Center for Research in Arts and Language" - am I being stupid? yES Is the site French-only? yES

WWW.ehss.FR

[pascal]

Well there is a site http://cral.ehess.fr/
but yes it's all in french and it does not mention the conference. There is a Globalmus site too http://www.globalmus.net which does not say anything either. Here http://pciich.hypotheses.org/682 you can find the info posted by JK (also in french and spanish)
All these sites mention the same names and many publications not directly about dance but around the dance (you know, inter-ethnicity, trans-globalisation, pluri-sensoriomorphism, meta-compositionnalistic postsemantization) so I imagine that they all are researchers in sociology, some of them tango dancers or former dancers, and they've been organizing conferences and publishing monographies for years.

[JohnEm]

Well there is a site http://cral.ehess.fr/
but yes it's all in french and it does not mention the conference. There is a Globalmus site too http://www.globalmus.net which does not say anything either. Here http://pciich.hypotheses.org/682 you can find the info posted by JK (also in french and spanish)
All these sites mention the same names and many publications not directly about dance but around the dance (you know, inter-ethnicity, trans-globalisation, pluri-sensoriomorphism, meta-compositionnalistic postsemantization) so I imagine that they all are researchers in sociology, some of them tango dancers or former dancers, and they've been organizing conferences and publishing monographies for years.
Yawn, yawn . . . . . zzzzzzzz

[bordertangoman]

Well there is a site http://cral.ehess.fr/
but yes it's all in french and it does not mention the conference. There is a Globalmus site too http://www.globalmus.net which does not say anything either. Here http://pciich.hypotheses.org/682 you can find the info posted by JK (also in french and spanish)
All these sites mention the same names and many publications not directly about dance but around the dance (you know, inter-ethnicity, trans-globalisation, pluri-sensoriomorphism, meta-compositionnalistic postsemantization) so I imagine that they all are researchers in sociology, some of them tango dancers or former dancers, and they've been organizing conferences and publishing monographies for years.

zoot allors!

its all semiotics to me
( semioticians are people who call a spade "an artisanal earth moving implement")

[v22TTC]

its all semiotics to me
( semioticians are people who call a spade "an artisanal earth moving implement")

Wouldn't that be a semanticist?:p Have I fallen into your irony-trap?

I suppose a semiotician card player would call a spade a sword....

Tra-la-la-la-laaa...

[Dave Bailey]

Well there is a site http://cral.ehess.fr/
but yes it's all in french and it does not mention the conference. There is a Globalmus site too http://www.globalmus.net which does not say anything either. Here http://pciich.hypotheses.org/682 you can find the info posted by JK (also in french and spanish)
That's no bleedin' good, it's all In Foreign.

Mind you, so's this:
(you know, inter-ethnicity, trans-globalisation, pluri-sensoriomorphism, meta-compositionnalistic postsemantization)
You're making those terms up, aren't you?

so I imagine that they all are researchers in sociology, some of them tango dancers or former dancers
Christ, I hope I don't dance with them by mistake, they sound scary.

[Peaches]

Seems to me this is either: 1)The most brilliant ruse ever to go to Paris for a work conference as an excuse to dance tango (in which case I am wildly jealous, and ticked I didn't think of it first...there's gotta be some econ/tax thing or other I can use as an excuse to go to BsAs), or 2)way too much talk and not enough dancing.

[Dave Bailey]

Seems to me this is either: 1)The most brilliant ruse ever to go to Paris for a work conference as an excuse to dance tango (in which case I am wildly jealous, and ticked I didn't think of it first...there's gotta be some econ/tax thing or other I can use as an excuse to go to BsAs)
There's a guy in London who managed to get a government grant (several thousand pounds I believe) to convert the ground floor of his house into a Tango dance studio.

"Jammy get" as we would say in the UK.