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• 30 jui 2018

  Budapest

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence

  Call for Guest-Editors : Volume III, Issue I. 2019

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is looking for a Guest-Editor for its May 2019 issue. Preferred topics are : (1) violence and technology; (2) philosophical perspectives on modern wars; (3) reflections on conflict and violence pertaining to the work of a modern western philosopher. 

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• 03 jui 2015

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Africa

  Muslims in the Sahel: stories of jihad

  This roundtable aims at confronting the current narratives of the war on terrorism with historical perspectives on past jihad in the Sahel. Case studies include the Mad Mullah in Somaliland, the Mahdi in the Sudan, Rabih in Borno, El Hadj Omar in Senegal and Mali, the Sokoto caliphate in Nigeria and the Macina Empire in Mali. The debate is restricted to uprisings under the banner of Islam and does not cover any war involving Muslims. 

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• 10 oct 2014

  Blois

  Miscellaneous information - Religion

  Rebel islam: what textual and historical foundations?

  Round table - 17th "Rebels" history conference

  Face à une mondialisation souvent perçue comme vecteur d’une domination occidentale, la religion musulmane nourrit, en plusieurs régions du monde, des postures de rebellions qui militent, au nom de la légitimité divine, pour un contre-projet social et moral. Que disent les sources de l’islam de l’autorité légitime et de sa contestation ?

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• 29 nov 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Promised memory

  Mémoire promise, tourné en 2012, entre les villes de Ouidah, ancien comptoir et port négrier, et Abomey, ancienne capitale du royaume esclavagiste du Danhomé, se veut la chronique de la quête de deux mémoires qui se cherchent, se croisent, font corps et se séparent sans cesse : celle de la traite transatlantique et celle des cultes dits vodun.

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