Von Territorien lernen / Territorium lehren (de) Aprender com os territórios / Territórios que ensinam (pt) تَعَلُّم المجال / تَعْلِيمْ المجال (ar)
Welcome to the website of the 6th CIST international conference which will be held from 15 to 17 November 2023 on the Condorcet campus (Paris-Aubervilliers).
You will find here all the information you need to participate to the conference. The call for sessions is closed since June 6th, and the call for papers since February 27th. You will be able to use this platform first to propose a paper, then later to register.
For these different steps, you need to identify yourself (top right: "Login"). If you do not have an account yet, you need to create one: if needed, a documentation is available; you can also contact us or the technical support of the platform.
The call for papers has closed on February 27th, 2023 (17 sessions).
“Man is a semiotic animal whose geographical existence is shaped by languages, systems of signs and codes.” Raffestin C., 1987 The 6th CIST conference will focus on two questions: how to teach about territories (academic knowledge, empirical methods, disciplinary approaches, etc.) and how to learn from territories (observing, exploring, describing, experiencing, etc.). Whether defined as a theoretical object of scientific knowledge that can be taught or as a body of practices that can be passed on, there is no escaping the need to address the issue of the relationship between the apparent universality of the concept of territory, on the one hand, and the variety of uses to which the term is put and the range of practices associated with it, on the other. Unlike the concept of space, which has given rise to numerous theoretical models, the notion of territory directly addresses the relationship between individuals, groups or societies and real places, involving interactions between these people and the territories in question. The objective of the following sessions is to highlight, on the one hand, the specific features of the teaching methods used in territorial sciences in the various disciplines involved, specifically by examining how they vary from one discipline to another and between countries; and on the other, to demonstrate how research in the territorial sciences develops specific methodologies for investigating places and individuals depending on whether the times being studied are periods of calm or of crisis; and on whether the territories in question are unremarkable in their ordinariness or exceptional in some way.