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• 11 déc 2009

  12 déc 2009

  Thessaloniki

  Conference, symposium - History

  Religions and Politics in Europe's Orients (14th-20th c.)

  The goal of this conference is to explore a number of aspects of the relationship between the religious phenomenon and politics through the historical framework of political developments in what progressively will become, through interaction, the Orients of Europe, i.e. Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as the Eastern Mediterranean, an area so unorthodox and difficult to examine in terms of essentialist definitions. It is no accident that Samuel Huntington believed that what we call the ‘Orthodox East’ does not form a part of the West, but rather a sui generis encounter between Christianity and Islam at the borders of Europe. This theoretical scheme is not overturned by drawing the borders of Europe a little further to the East, as many believe, but by historicizing the issue of the relationship between religion and politics in the given geographical region through the comparative prism of what was occurring during the same period in Western Europe.

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• 09 nov 2009	16 nov 2009	07 déc 2009
  11 jan 2010	25 jan 2010	...

  Berlin

  Seminar - History

  Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar (2009-2010)

  Post-Ottoman Cities

  What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies. Séminaire organisé par Ulrike Freitag et Nora Lafi.

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• 15 oct 2009

  Damascus

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  Les mystiques musulmanes, chrétiennes et juives dans le Proche-Orient médiéval, VIIe-XVIe siècle

  Interculturalités et contextes historiques

  Ce colloque est une étape dans un programme quadriennal de recherche sur la mystique comparée dans les régions du Proche-Orient au Moyen Âge. La journée du 15 octobre comprendra une réflexion philosophique fondamentale : comment peut-on parler scientifiquement de l’expérience mystique, qui est très personnelle, sinon ineffable ?

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• 30 oct 2009

  Damascus

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Middle Ages

  Trois postes de chercheur à l'Institut français du Proche-Orient - Département des études arabes, médiévales et modernes

  Trois postes de chercheur (Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes) sont à pourvoir à Damas, au sein du Département des études arabes, médiévales et modernes, pour une prise de fonction en septembre 2010. Les candidatures doivent être déposées avant le 30 octobre 2009.

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• 17 nov 2008	24 nov 2008	08 déc 2008
  26 jan 2009	09 fév 2009	...

  Berlin

  Seminar - Urban studies

  Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008-2009

  Daily Life in Ottoman Towns

  What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies, with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

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