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• 05 nov 2015

  07 déc 2015

  Paris

  Lecture series - Asia

  Other perspectives on the world

  La Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) rassemble des collections sur les langues et civilisations des aires culturelles de l'Europe balkanique, centrale et orientale, du Moyen-Orient et de l'Asie centrale, de l'Afrique, de l'Asie, de l'Océanie et des civilisations amérindiennes. Le cycle de conférence « D'autres regards sur le monde » invite chercheurs et bibliothécaires à faire découvrir la richesse des collections en langues vernaculaires de la BULAC.

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• 12 mar 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Literature and Society in Central Asia

  By focusing on the societal challenges reflected in Central Asian literary production, this workshop would like to bring answers, as well as new kinds of questions regarding the way the various societies and peoples of this geographic area have depicted their history throughout time. With the view of studying the way literature can be used as a source of historiography, and more generally speaking with the aim of assessing the interconnectedness of society and literature, the speakers will devote specific attention to the issue of the relationships between culture and power. In this regard the period covered extends from the 15^th century up to the 1990s, beginning with the end of the Medieval Times, when the "Timurid Renaissance" achieved the production of its finest hours of the on-going symbiosis of Turkic and Persian elements, and ending with the Perestroïka looked at from the point of view of Kyrgyz literature.

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