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Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Propagation and Modelling (ReaDi)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Our goal is to accomplish a leap forward in the knowledge on propagation phenomena in reaction-diffusion equations, in heterogeneous media and/or non standard diffusion, systems as well as non local interactions. This proposal deals both with the general theory of nonlinear PDE’s of elliptic and parabolic type as well as with the development and study of some specific models. These range from ecol ...
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A computational approach to early language bootstrapping (BOOTPHON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"During their first year of life, infants become attuned to the phonemes, words and phonological rules of their language, with little or no adult supervision. After 30 years of accumulated experimental results, we are still lacking an account for the puzzling fact that these 3 interdependent components of language are acquired not sequentially, but in parallel. Drawing tools from Machine Learning ...
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Immanence and Social Normativity. Spinoza and the invention of sociology in France and Germany 1871-1918 (Imma-Norm)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

My proposal focuses on the uses of Spinoza’s thought in French and German sociological literature from the last three decades of the 19th century up to the end of the First World War. It was in these countries and this period that sociology was progressively institutionalized as an academic discipline. Sociology’s claim for institutional and epistemological autonomy provoked an inevitably tension ...
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Social Understandings and Representations of Deafness In Theory and Education through Cinema (SURDITE CINEMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Deafness raises profound questions about language acquisition, learning, and thinking including mediation of experiences of the world, self and others and socio-cultural identity and belonging. France has an important place in the history of deaf education. In 1791, two years after the Revolution and as a result of the rights of deaf people being recognized in the constitution, France became the ...
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Migration, integration and labour market: skilled workers and building sites in Turin in the Eighteenth Century (work and migration)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Apr 12, 2016,

The purpose of this research is analysing the migration of skilled workers from Switzerland and from the State of Milan to Turin in the Eighteenth Century. First of all, it will be necessary to define this particular migration phenomenon and to analyse the mobility of the population in relation to the socio-economic conditions of the country of origin, in order to identify the factors that determi ...
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Corpses of Genocide and Mass Violence: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approaches of Dead Bodies Treatment in the 20th Century (Destruction, Identification, Reconciliation) (Genocide)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

In Europe and all over the world, genocide and mass violence have been a structural feature of the 20th century. This project aims at questioning the social legacy of mass violence by studying how different societies have coped with the first consequence of mass destruction: the mass production of cadavers. What status and what value have indeed been given to corpses? What political, social or re ...
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Catania and Valencia’s way to modernity. A multidisciplinary comparison between two port cities within Mediterranean Europe (1850-1915) (CTA-VLC COMPARISON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

This project compares the two cities of Catania and Valencia in order to theorise a new growth model related to industrialisation and maritime traffics between the 19th and 20th centuries. The comparison between similar urban entities represents a fundamental approach in urban historiography. The similarities are many. Both cities expand their port infrastructures and enjoy the transition to indus ...
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"Scale of governance, the UN, the States and Indigenous peoples human rights: the meanings and issues of self-determination in the time of globalization" (SOGIP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"This proposal describes a multi-scale research project investigating the social, cultural and political issues relating to governance and Indigenous Peoples. Recent international mobilization has led to a major shift, culminating in the adoption by the UN of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007. This highly symbolic and moral document is expected to induce changes ...
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Re-linking suburban youths in Madrid and Paris. The “new localism” and the rol of social and ethnic networks in the integration of youth from immigrant origin (LOCALYOUTH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In global European cities, youth from immigrant origin who live in disadvantaged areas are disconnected from the networks likely to offer them educational and work opportunities. However, in these poor areas, the negative structural conditions contrast with the capacity of action led by the social networks. We are witnessing the rebirth of localism as a way of condemning the weakening of the Welfa ...
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Beyond the Frontiers of Latin Christendom: The Avignon Papacy and the East (AvOri)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

This research conjugates the history of the Avignon Church and the history of East West relations in the Late Middle Ages, shedding new light on the intellectual debates that developed within the Avignon Curia concerning Greeks, Armenians, Mongols, and Muslims.Despite an increasing scholarly interest in these research areas, studies on the Avignon Papacy have been characterized by an overwhelmingl ...
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Power unveiled: Muslim women participation in European civic and political life (Power unveiled)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

This project intends to challenge assumptions of passivity among women of Muslim background and to investigate their participation in European civic and political life. The purpose of the project is to uncover how these women constitute themselves as social actors in the life of the cite. It is based on a comparison between three countries, Britain, France and Spain through in-depth empirical rese ...
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The invention of a diaspora: the case of Arbëresh (Albanian diaspora)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

This project will study the formation of the Arbëresh minority, currently one of the twelve officially recognized linguistic minorities in Italy.This proposal aims to address the problem of identity construction as started by diverse immigrant groups that, notwithstanding their common origin roughly corresponding to present-day Albania, were at first very different from one another in terms of rel ...
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Reception and Integration of Muslims in France, Quebec and English Canada (MUSLIMFRANCECANADA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

This project compares the experiences of Muslim minorities in three contexts: France, Quebec, and English Canada. The objective is to assess the extent of integration of Muslim minorities in each setting, to identify key similarities and differences, to find the most important reasons for any differences, and to relate findings to previous research and public discourse in each setting. The three ...
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An Environmental History of Haiti (1492-present) (Haiti's environment)

Start date: Jun 7, 2011, End date: Jun 6, 2014,

This project will aim to reinforce the international dimension of the applicant's career and give him the opportunity to be professionally trained in the United States as an Environmental Historian. He will acquire new knowledge and research methods and will return to the EU well-equipped to teach and publish in this relatively new field of study, still under-represented in Europe. The project wil ...
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