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• 19 nov 2010

  20 nov 2010

  Addis Ababa

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  The Roles and Values of Menzuma : Islamic panegyrics in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

  The songs of praise called menzuma, sung by a soloist accompanied by a choir and percussion are popular all over the Muslim areas of Ethiopia where the practice of Sufi Islam is still well rooted. The purposes of this workshop are many : to study Menzuma genre from different perspectives and in the different languages in which it is performed ; to study the role of Menzuma as a social performance in public or private spheres ; to understand the relations between the oral performance and the written text of Menzuma ; to explore the different levels of significance of Menzuma texts, i.e. Religious, moral, historical, artistic, etc. ; to observe the circulation, exchange and transformations of Menzuma among different societies of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

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• 10 jui 2010

  Cairo

  Call for papers - History

  Everyday Life in Eastern and Western Monasticisms (4th-10th c.)

  II: Comparative studies

  Le colloque « La vie quotidienne des moines en Orient et en Occident (IVe-Xe siècle). II : Question transversales » aura lieu au Caire du 10 au 13 avril 2011. Il réunira des chercheurs spécialistes des monachismes d’Irlande, de Gaule, des mondes anglo-saxon et germanique, d’Espagne wisigothique, d’Italie, de Byzance, de Palestine, de Syrie, d’Égypte, de Nubie et d’Afrique du Nord. Les communications de 20 mn, centrées sur la vie quotidienne, prenant en compte un éventail de sources le plus large possible dans une optique transversale ou régionale, seront réparties dans sept ateliers thématiques (détails joints).

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