Community – the career of a concept between compassion, tribalism and intention
A key concept in the constitution of modernity which has been influential in all the human and social sciences is that of community, which, according to Raymond Plant’s judgement in 1974, suffered from insufficient questioning, analysis and theory. While we find the term community, Gemeinschaft, communauté, comunidad in use in the cultural areas we propose to deal with primarily, we find that that the social and political debates have, to an extent, been cloistered within languages, with periodic openings through cultural transfers, notably through the translation of academic works, leading to international debate. Community shall be at the centre of an international conference, entitled “Community: the career of a concept between compassion, tribalism and intention” organized at the research centre IHRIM within the excellence cluster, Constitution de la Modernité (COMOD) at the Institut des Sciences de l’Homme in collaboration with numerous partner research centres. It will take place at the ENS de Lyon and the University of Lyon. The conference shall take place in French, German and English. Papers can be submitted in French, German and English with an abstract of no more than 1000 characters and a brief CV mentioning institutional affiliation (Times New Roman 12 font) should be uploaded to the site https://ccccti.sciencesconf.org/ and sent simultaneously to niall.bond@univ-lyon2.fr before Friday, October 27, 2017. The papers that have been accepted shall be announced before Friday, December 15, 2017. To allow for the professional simultaneous interpretation of the papers, the version that will be presented must be sent to the organizers prior to April 21, 2018. The deadline for the final version for publication is September 3, 2018.
