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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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• 01 déc 2009

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Representation

  L'orientalisme désorienté ? La Turquie contemporaine au miroir des approches postcoloniales

  Les études turques se sont-elles entièrement dégagées du paradigme « orientaliste » ? Ce colloque a pour objet de réévaluer le regard porté sur la Turquie par les sciences sociales : les études sur la Turquie, considérées encore trop souvent comme relevant d’une « aire culturelle » irrémédiablement singulière, paraissent relativement hermétiques aux avancées théoriques, notamment vis-à-vis des interrogations induites depuis une trentaine d’années par les apports des différentes branches des postcolonial studies. Dans cette perspective, nous proposons deux axes centraux.

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