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Florence

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age

The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.

Algiers

Call for papers - Thought

"The Balfour Declaration" : What centenary

In order to address this notorious Declaration, we propose a debate on the historical, political and geostrategic circumstances that led to the Balfour Declaration, and how practical politics influences the making of Britain’s foreign policy. The Balfour Declaration and its ramifications at the local and global levels could be tackled with reference to a myriad of theoretical frameworks such as the postcolonial/political theory, new historicism, ethnography, to name but a few.

Marburg

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Representations of Change

Time, Space, and Power in Qualitative Research on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region and Europe

Since the start of the 21^stcentury seemingly unpredictable change, in all its different guises, has fueled the preoccupations of academic and non-academic publics. The financial crisis, the “Arab Spring”, protest movements in southern Europe, the rise of Daesh and right-wing populism, as well as the environmental crisis all make it very difficult to rely on Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “end of history”, which now seems to merely reflect the euphoria of liberal elites following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1992). This workshop intends to reflect more closely on the webs of power affecting both the researcher and‚ the researched when they intend to represent change.

Cairo

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

The emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge, 4th/10th and the 8th/14th century

2ᵉ Colloque de l'Idéo au Caire

One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using intellectual tools foreign to the Islamic tradition to read and interpret the Qurʾān and texts of the classic Islamic heritage. Is it permissible and appropriate to use contemporary human sciences to study the texts of the Arab-Islamic patrimony or should it be limited to the Ḥadīṯ? IDEO would like to contribute to this debate by studying the emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge in the Islamic sciences between the 4^_ᵗʰ/10ᵗʰ and the 8ᵗʰ/14ᵗʰ century.

Kuwait City

Call for papers - Urban studies

Urban Images and Imaginaries: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula through their representations

Arabian Humanities Journal, n.11 - Special issue

Four years after a special issue of Arabian Humanities tackled the subject of cities and urban dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula, the present call for papers aims to take another look at the specific urban forms of the region, this time through the lens of the images and imaginaries of the city.

Call for papers - Sociology

Security issues in desert areas - Averroès journal

Revue « Averroès »

Le désert du Sahara, les régions du Sahel et du Sinaï, sont autant d’exemples d’étendues mobiles, fébrilement animées par les flux mouvants qui les traversent. Loin de l’image courante d’espaces vides et inanimés, ces territoires sont l’objet d’une attention particulière et sont intégrés au processus de mondialisation. Gestion des réservoirs d'eau souterraine, exploitation des hydrocarbures et des ressources minérales, augmentation des migrations, présence de groupes armés et conflits territoriaux sont autant d’enjeux prenant place au cœur de ces régions arides. Ces questions d'ordre économique et énergétique, humain et environnemental sont intimement liées aux représentations géopolitiques de ces espaces et présentent ainsi un aspect sécuritaire important.

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

Travel in Antiquity - the corruption of civilisations in Antiquity

Volumen journal – vol. 17/18 (2017)

Volumen est une revue de vulgarisation scientifique consacrée à l'Antiquité méditerranéenne, européenne et proche-orientale. Chaque numéro annuel est consacré à un ou deux thèmes. Le prochain tome sera consacré aux voyages, ainsi qu'à la corruption dans les civilisations de l'Antiquité. Les auteurs peuvent donc choisir d'aborder l'un ou l'autre de ces thèmes dans leur contribution. Par ailleurs, chaque numéro se compose également d'une section varia.

Rome

Call for papers - History

In partibus fidelium - missions in the Levant and knowledge of the Christian East

19th-21st centuries

Ce colloque international se penchera sur l’assimilation en Europe de connaissances relatives aux cultures chrétiennes-orientales, à partir surtout du dernier tiers du XIX^e siècle, et sur le rôle que les missions ont joué dans ce processus. Ces connaissances nouvelles sont fondées en grande partie sur les travaux menés sur le terrain, au Moyen-Orient, en particulier sur les manuscrits conservés dans les monastères et les patriarcats, et plus généralement sur le patrimoine littéraire, linguistique, archéologique, cartographique et musicologique, des communautés chrétiennes installées.

Tunis

Call for papers - Religion

الإصلاح الديني والديمقراطية المسيحية والإسلام السياسي

سجالات، مقارنات، استشراف

تحل هذه السنة الذكرى المئوية الخامسة لانطلاق حركة الإصلاح الديني في أوروبا، التي دشّنها اللاهوتي الألماني مارتن لوثر، وهي التي امتدت آثارها تدريجيا وبأشكال متفاوتة خارج موطنها الأصلي. ومع تباين السياقات بين الفضاءين الأوروبي والعربي، فإن قضية الإصلاح الديني تظل محلّ مطالب متعاظمة في "أرض الاسلام"، رغم أن البعض يدعو إلى مرحلة "ما بعد الإصلاح الديني" أو تنسيب حجمها ، لاعتبارات مختلفة تتعلق بتعدد المداخل الى الاصلاح ذاته خصوصا اذا ما أخذنا بعين الاعتبار أهمية الدولة الوطنية ومنوال التنمية الاقتصادية والثقافة السياسية و التربية و القانون الخ. لذلك تبدو اليوم الحاجة ماسة إلى مقاربة التطور المقارن لأحزاب الإسلام السياسي في الواقع العربي-الإسلامي وأحزاب الديمقراطية المسيحية في الواقع الغربي، ضمن السياق الفكري والتاريخي، ووضع ذلك على محك الدراسة والبحث مع طرح إشكالية تطوير الفعل السياسي من زاويتين: الأولى تخصّ الإصلاح الديني، والثانية تتابع رصد التطورات الاجتماعية وتغير "الممارسات السياسية للمؤمنين". لكن ينبغي ألا تُختزل أبعاد الندوة في مجرد عقد مقارنة تاريخية لعملية "الإصلاح" في كلا التجربتين لا غير بل يقتضي الحال القيام بخطوة علمية أبعد غورا تذهب صوب استكشاف تطور هذا "الإصلاح" وتأثيراته على العمل السياسي والاجتماعي في الوقت الحاضر ومعرفة ديناميكية ذلك في العملية الديمقراطية عموما.

Tunis

Call for papers - Religion

Religious reform, Christian democracy and political Islam - comparisons, debate and prospection

Comparaisons, débat et prospection

Cette année coïncide avec le cinquième centenaire du mouvement religieux réformateur (octobre 1517-octobre 2017) initié en Europe par le théologien allemand Martin Luther et qui avait eu progressivement un important impact en dehors de son pays d’origine. Pourtant, quelques siècles après, ces reformes accompagnées par de multiples changements, restent d’une grande actualité. Le monde arabo-musulman a connu lui aussi d’importantes expériences initiées par des mouvements réformateurs et ce depuis la fin du 18ème siècle. Dans le sillage de ces efforts réformistes, sont nés des mouvements (groupes) politiques qui se considèrent comme étant un prolongement de cet héritage réformiste et qu’ils essaient, dans un effort de se constituer une légitimité, de le mobiliser et de se l’approprier.

Call for papers - Sociology

The associative sector in Lebanon: economies and networks of dependency

Civil Society Review

The polysemic nature of the concept of civil society refers to a diversity of social actors other than the state, and to multiform practices, strategies, and modes of action. This has lead to a myriad of publications by practitioners and academics. This call for papers does not seek to further investigate the associative sector in Lebanon conceptually nor in practice. We rather seek to critically explore the underlying intricate relations, economies, and networks of dependency, as identified by actors.

Paris

Call for papers - History

The massacres of 1894-1896 in the Ottoman Empire: Genesis, Consequences and Continuities of Extreme Violence

Theme issue of the journal Études arméniennes contemporaines (EAC n° 8 – Decembre 2017)

The history of the large-scale massacres committed against the Armenians under the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, in 1894-1896, is still largely unknown, its sources underutilized or not studied at all. This period of extreme violence, a watershed in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, raises many questions about the similarities and differences with the genocidal process of 1915-1916. We invite submissions on a broad range of topics and disciplinary approaches for this special issue. Relevant studies may include chronological analyses of the events of the 1890s themselves, as well as analyses of the consequences of that era of violence up to the present day. At the heart of this issue lies the question of the precedent: what links can be established between the genocide and the mass crimes that preceded it – an issue relevant to the study of other twentieth-century genocides.

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