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• 16 oct 2012

  17 oct 2012

  Santiago de Compostela

  Conference, symposium - History

  James Zebedee, the "translatio" and the Jacobean pilgrimages

  7th International Colloquium Compostela

  The 7th International Colloquium Compostela aims at analysing the myth of the "translatio" of the body of Saint James from Palestina to Santiago de Compostela and its impact in the historical construction of the Jacobean pilgrimages.  As in the former editions, focusing on an interdisciplinary approach, the Colloquium analyzes the state of the art in the archeological research of Palestinian and Compostela in the early centuries, the studies about the traditions of the translatio, the iconography and the literary and social impact of the "translatio" and the current reality of pilgrimages to Compostella.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Taipei

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

  8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

  Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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• 10 aoû 2012

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Identity, Religion and Ethnicity

  New Patterns, Realities and Pitfalls

  The workshop will analyse the interaction and the interpenetration of nationality, ethnicity and identity through the problematic of transnationalism, globalization and nation-state perspectives. The workshop will be supplemented by practical visits to local communities. Participants are invited to consider the theoretical debates and issues in differing local areas with a variety of social practitioners and representatives to gain further insights of demographic, economic, philosophic, legal and socio-anthropological approaches.

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• 31 aoû 2012

  Saint-Denis

  Call for papers - Modern

  Between generational continuities and ruptures: Research on the Algerian war of independence Fifty years later

  La guerre d’indépendance algérienne, en tant qu’événement fondateur majeur de l’après-seconde guerre mondiale, peut constituer, en termes de « générations », un espace-temps bien défini et homogène. Dès lors, il est légitime de mieux comprendre et d’interroger la nouveauté des paradigmes d’une génération de chercheurs inscrits dans un champ de recherche en construction. Peut-on déceler des ruptures ou des continuités dans les objets, les sujets, les méthodes, les approches macro et micro-historiques ? Quelle place les sources ont-elles dans ces travaux ? Existe-t-il des changements entre les travaux qui se veulent plus larges et exhaustifs et ceux qui se fondent sur des aspects plus localisés ? Quels sont les déplacements de paradigmes explicatifs que l’on peut observer ? Cette nouvelle génération évite-t-elle encore les présupposés idéologiques liés à une mémoire militante ? Au-delà des résultats et conclusions des travaux, le colloque devra aussi mettre en exergue les méthodes, les matériaux, les perspectives d’enquêtes engagés. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux propositions des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs.

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• 10 jui 2012

  Leuven

  Call for papers - History

  Religion and Modernity

  International summer school in research on Religion, Culture and Society in Europe (1750-)

  The summer school offers its students an introductory training by means of a balanced programme of seminars, lectures and field trips. Established researchers on the field develop specific topics and cases, students have the possibility to present their own work and discuss their ideas in a relaxed and open atmosphere and within a multidisciplinary framework.

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• 13 mai 2012	14 mai 2012	15 mai 2012
  16 mai 2012

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  Minhagim: custom and practice in jewish life

  International Conference about Minhagim: custom and practice in jewish life, in Tel Aviv.

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• 31 jan 2012

  Gothenburg

  Call for papers - Religion

  Elective affinities. Critical approach of religious heritage-making in the Mediterranean

  Workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies

  This workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (Gothenburg, 5 June 2012) focuses on the relationships between religion and heritage in the Mediterranean. It aims to study the entwining of these two phenomena and reveal the eventual particularities of religious heritage-making, as well as to discuss the conceptions of heritage embedded in the monotheistic religions, and re-examine the cultural matrix that religion and heritage share, redefine or negotiate through memory practices.

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• 11 jan 2012

  Manchester

  Call for papers - Religion

  Religion and territory

  Un appel à contribution est lancé pour un colloque international « Religions et territoire », organisé à l'occasion de la rencontre Eurel, réseau scientifique de juristes ou spécialistes des sciences sociales et humaines des religions, par l'UMR 7012 PRISME-SDRE et le Centre for Research. / Papers are invited for an international conference jointly organized by the Eurel network of sociologists and legal scholars of religion (www.eurel.info, led by the research centre PRISME-SDRE UMR 7012, University of Strasbourg), and CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester).

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