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• 31 déc 2015

  Khartoum

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Sudan, five years after the independence of South Sudan

  Which reconfigurations, transformations, and evolutions in the “North”?

  South Sudan officially gained independence on the 9^th July 2011. This was the outcome of the peace agreement signed in January 2005 and in accordance with the national referendum of January 2011. This historic event, which should have put an end on the historical conflict between the Northern and Southern regions and communities, constituted a real challenge in term of adaptation, resilience and innovation for the whole of the society. In this unprecedented context of the birth of a new national territory, and the remodelling of existing spatial and political configurations, South Sudan has logically been at the centre of attention – whether this be from political actors, researchers or humanitarian donors. However, the North has been profoundly affected by this rupture as well.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Resistance and Empire, new approaches and comparisons

  Since the early twentieth century, the notion of resistance became common currency in colonial language and anti-colonial ideologies to refer to military, political, and other forms of countering the authority of the colonizing institutions and agents in the colonies. After World War II and the boom of decolonization, it became an important tool in the critical and conceptual analysis of colonialism as a relationship of domination and opposition. Consequently, a wealth of studies was produced that focused on the ways though which indigenous people actively opposed, rebelled, or contested – militarily, politically, symbolically, culturally – the colonizing presence of Europeans. In the 1990s-2000s the validity of taking on “resistance” as a privileged concept and empirical topic was criticized for reducing the colonial phenomenon to a simplistic dichotomy – and since it appeared to have lost much of its early vitality in historical and anthropological research on empires and colonialism. Yet, since decolonization, ideas of “liberation” and anti-colonial resistance did not lose their significance as powerful tropes in retrospective nationalist readings of the birth of post- colonial nation-states. More recently, across the social sciences, “resistance” as a concept and a research trope seems to be revived, and a trans-disciplinary field of ‘resistance studies’ appears to come into emergence. What it means to study “resistance” both conceptually and comparatively in colonial and imperial history today?

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• 09 déc 2015

  Nogent-sur-Marne

  Call for papers - Africa

  Democratic Aspirations and “Authoritarian Democracies” in Central Africa

  This issue will endeavor to illustrate the strategies of the different players and forces that support or oppose these democratic aspirations, by combining various fieldwork approaches across countries. It is obvious that these democratic aspirations are not only related to politics or to regional and international geopolitics; they correspond to ethical standards and refer to a value system that appears to go beyond pre-existing factions and divides.

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• 01 déc 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Africa

  Africa colour x - creation and use, perception and denomination

  Fabrique et utilisation, perception et dénomination

  Cette journée d'étude, qui aura lieu le 19 février 2016 à l'INHA, s’adresse aux historiens et anthropologues de l’art, physico-chimistes, restaurateurs, sociologues, politistes, linguistes, géologues, botanistes, économistes, etc. pour penser ensemble les différents aspects de la fabrique, de l’utilisation, de la perception et de la dénomination des couleurs en Afrique à travers les siècles, et croiser les approches. Il s’agit de voir comment les couleurs sont créées, perçues, nommées, et utilisées dans la vie politique, sociale et religieuse pour communiquer et représenter soi-même et les autres.

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• 25 sep 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Historic figures and collective memory/ies

  The use of heroes in colonial and postcolonial contexts

  Cette journée d’études doctorales s’intéresse à la représentation des figures historiques dans les Antilles, dans les Afriques et en Asie, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire à l’articulation de la littérature, de l’histoire et de l’anthropologie. L’objectif est de cerner les différents usages du passé dans la mise en récit, et de décrire comment la narration structure les discours mémoriels et participe de la construction identitaire et nationale.

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• 15 jan 2015

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Study days - History

  Gouverner en islam (Xe-XVe siècle)

  La question posée en histoire médiévale au programme du CAPES et de l’Agrégation pour les sessions 2014-2016 invite à réfléchir aux pratiques de gouvernement et à la culture politique dans les espaces proches-orientaux et occidentaux du Dâr al-islâm entre le X^e et le XV^e siècle. Dans ce cadre, cette journée d’études offrira quatre approches sur l’organisation et la représentation des pouvoirs dans le cadre des dynasties qui dominèrent la période, principalement au Maghreb et dans l’espace syro-égyptien. Seront notamment abordés l'implantation de l’État, aux époques almoravide et almohade, dans des terres maghrébines marquées par le tribalisme ; l’usage légitimant et symbolique de la monnaie par les dynasties pré-mongoles du Proche-Orient ; la guerre et l’organisation des armées islamiques dans le Proche-Orient de l'époque des croisades ; l’étude archéologique de la forteresse ayyûbide de Kawkab et de son territoire. La manifestation, organisée en premier lieu pour les étudiants préparant les concours de l’enseignement, est ouverte à tous ceux qu’une approche renouvelée des pouvoirs en terre d’Islam intéresse.

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• 09 jan 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Legal repression of protests, revolts and resistance in Central Africa

  VIth European Conference on African Studies (2015)

  Having long remained in the shadows, the issues of legal history and colonial justice are now experiencing a revival. For about a decade, researchers of different imperial spaces have placed this issue on their agenda. The panel we propose aims to deepen and explore the role of justice in the policies of Central Africa. More specifically, we wish to highlight the intervention of colonial courts in dealing with disputes, revolts and resistance (open or silent) of the African population. The analysis of the repression of resistance leads to consider the implications of colonial policy on local populations and that of the dynamics of power between the administration, the magistrates and the natives.

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  Paris

  Seminar - Middle Ages

  The history and archaeology of Islam and the medieval Mediterranean

  Seminar of the Medieval Islam team of the UMR 8167, East and Mediterranean - texts, archaeology, history

  Ce séminaire s'organise selon 4 thématiques : institutions, théories et représentations politiques entre Orient et Occident du monde islamique ; histoire et archéologie de l’Occident islamique : sciences sociales et histoire de l’Occident islamique médiéval ; représentations et pratiques du pouvoir dans le Proche-Orient islamique médiéval (VII^e-XV^e siècle) ; actualités de la recherche en archéologie et en histoire des mondes musulmans.

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