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• 17 oct 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  From Byzance to Samarkand

  Sources and Documents on the Reign of Husraw I

  The sixth century – in particular Husraw I’s reign, the most brilliant one during the Sassanid dynasty – was pivotal in the history of ancient Iran. During that period, the military was expanded, the state apparatus restructured, and many cultural aspects were assimilated from conquered or neighbouring countries. The sources enabling us to reconstruct the history of that reign come from various fields and in several languages. This great diversity of sources, both in terms of type and expression, can pose an obstacle for historians looking for pertinent information among such heterogeneous material.

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• 17 nov 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Actualités de la recherche en archéologie orientale

  Appel à courtes contributions pour la revue Routes de l'Orient

  Pour le deuxième numéro de sa revue éponyme à comité de lecture, l'association étudiante inter-universitaire Routes de l'Orient appelle les chercheurs débutants ou confirmés en archéologie orientale à soumettre de courtes présentations de leurs campagnes de fouilles récentes.

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• 09 mai 2014

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Late Antiquity in the north-western half of the Arabian peninsula: material culture, chronology, exchanges and territorial entities

  PhD fellowhip Labex Dynamite 2014-2015

  The very quick recent development of archaeological and epigraphic work in Saudi Arabia brought deep changes in our knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula — which until the middle of the 2000's was only based on research on the periphery: Kuwait, Bahrayn, Qatar, The Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. That development reveals how wide the gaps are, of the interpretative frame in particular, for broad geo-historical segments. That is true especially for what is generally called Late Antiquity (4th- early 7th centuries AD), and here "Late Pre-Islamic" or even in local religious terms jâhîliyah, "ignorance" — a term which actually reflects correctly the state of knowledge. The amount of data collected within less than ten years within a large North-Western half of the Peninsula makes possible to see that except for the extreme North (current Joradanian border and Jawf Oasis) the Christianity does not penetrate and Byzantiums unifying power is absent. One is even unable to name what the field teams are dealing with. The proposed doctoral work must produce the state of that question, for which there if a rich evidence in stratigraphy, architecture, objects, and even epigraphy due to the recent demonstration of the Nabataean-Arabic continuum. The comparison with the Byzantine and christianized areas of the extreme North must be one of the leading strands but no way the only one, since the heart of the subject lyes, on the contrary, in the currently unnamed culture(s) of the Peninsula itself.

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• 12 jui 2014

  13 jui 2014

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - History

  Religions in crisis, the crises of religions

  Comparative approaches to religion, philosophy and ancient representations

  Dans le cadre de ce colloque, nous souhaitons explorer la question de la crise en lien avec le monde religieux, au sens large. Il s’agit notamment d’investiguer la notion même de crise : à partir de quand y a-t-il crise ? La crise se définit-elle essentiellement par ses conséquences ou davantage par les réponses (ou leur absence) apportées pour lui faire face ? La caractérisation des causes (ponctuelles / récurrentes ; externes / internes…) des crises ouvre également un vaste champ de réflexion. Plus précisément, la thématique s’oriente vers la crise « religieuse ». Le spectre d’investigation est volontairement large afin de toucher tant les religions, au sens traditionnel du terme, que les philosophies et les systèmes de représentations.

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• 22 fév 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Devoted to Ishtar

  Syria, January 1934: André Parrot discovers Mari

  À l’occasion du 80^ème anniversaire de la découverte de Mari et de l’exposition qui le célèbre, ce colloque permettra de dresser le bilan de la recherche sur un des monuments les plus importants de cette métropole du III^e millénaire (ca. 2500-2300), le temple de la déesse du pouvoir et de la guerre.

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• 20 fév 2014

  17 mar 2014

  24 mar 2014

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Lecture series - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Centre d'étude des mondes antiques conferences

  UCLouvain - in collaboration with ARC "A world in crisis"

  En collaboration avec l'ARC "A World in Crisis?" le Centre d'étude des Mondes Antiques (UCLouvain-Belgique) a le plaisir de vous inviter aux conférences suivantes : 1) "L’iconoclasme byzantin: crise religieuse ou crise de croissance ?", le 20 février 2014 (Prof. Dr. Michel KAPLAN, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) ; 2) "La fin de la République romaine. Guerre civile ou guerre mondiale ?", le 17 mars 2014 (Prof. Dr. Giusto TRAINA, Université Paris-Sorbonne-Paris IV) ; 3) "Ager des imperatores, guerre des géomètres : cadastres et guerrecivile en Gaule du Sud", le 24 mars 2014 (Martine ASSENAT, Maître de conférences d’histoire romaine à l’Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III).

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• 25 jui 2014

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (IIIrd Century B.C. – IIIrd Century A.D.)

  Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique et romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)

  It seems clear that, in the Greek-speaking regions of the Roman Empire, Hellenistic models (civic, military or institutional) exercised considerable influence over “Italic” colonial projects. Within this field, relations between military colonists and indigenous peoples demand special attention, considering the degree of social, cultural, economic, political and geopolitical transformation brought about by the installation of certain groups upon those lands as a result of the will of the great power(s) that ruled over them. As for the Roman colonization, modern scholars have often described Roman colonies as vectors of Romanization inserted in alien lands, writing that these communities must have functioned as images of a “small Rome.” While the existence of Latin-speaking colonists ruled by a favorable juridical system such as the Ius Italicum cannot be denied, such a reductionist model can no longer be accepted without qualification, especially in the context of the Greek-speaking provinces of the Roman East. The regions of the Eastern Mediterranean world saw the coming of a number of groups of Roman colonists and thus their cultural climate, their agrarian structures and their geopolitical environment changed. The aim of this panel is to explore new research paths based on broader studies in time and space.

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