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• 30 oct 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  Irrationality in the Middle East and Islām

  Atelier thématique – IIe congrès du GIS « Moyen-Orient et Mondes musulmans »

  If rationality denotes what complies with the mind, irrationality, by contrast, deals with all that, at first sight, can't be explained and controlled by the ʿaql. In other words, irrationality is a negatively defined notion marked by lack or loss (ʿadam-, ġayr-ou lā-ʿaql), distance (ibʿād)or deviation (inḥirāf) from the intellect, or even it is the result of reduced rationality (qillat al-ʿaql). An irrational behaviour is considered rather strange, abnormal, and sometimes contrary to sound norms and moral principals. Consequently, this is the case of liminal states or of more or less voluntary marginal conducts: the insane and the mental ill, the drunk or the intoxicated, the silly, the foolish, the madly in love with beloved or with God, etc.

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• 13 mai 2016

  Rome

  Summer School - Africa

  Politics, secularism and religion in the Mediterranean (POLARE)

  Cette formation, ouverte à un public académique (doctorantes et doctorants, enseignants-chercheurs, chercheuses et chercheurs), et non-académique, répond à la mise à l’ordre du jour politique des questions de laïcité et de régulation du culte et de l’expression de la conviction religieuse. L’actualité invite à dépasser les discours médiatiques ou politiques simplificateurs. Cette école thématique participe ainsi de la normalisation et de la diffusion de connaissances sur le religieux, qui a longtemps été un objet de recherche au statut problématique au sein des Sciences humaines et sociales.

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• 31 jan 2016

  Fès Jedid

  Call for papers - Religion

  Maghrebi Sufism in its global context

  2nd international IACSAS conference

  Ces congrès visent à introduire les soufis maghrébins les plus influents et inspirants qui ont transmis cet héritage soufi vivant à travers différents temps et lieux. Ils ont transmis des connaissances, des informations, des hagiographies, des textes traduits, des poèmes de dévotion et des expressions artistiques. Ils ont prêché la tolérance et la coexistence dans un contexte spirituel comme celui du Maroc. Cela a inspiré Ibn Qunfudh, chercheur algérien et spécialiste du Hadith, de dire: « La terre du Maroc engendre les Bons comme elle produit les pâturages ».

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• 30 jan 2016

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Water Management in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC

  IIIe symposium international HYDRΩMED

  The aim of the meeting is to compare the different modes of adaptation of the Ancient Mediterranean populations to the environmental resources, especially their hydric resources. In a climate marked by unequal distribution of water, the ancient societies, whether Phoenician-Punic, Greek or Etruscan, responded in different ways to the various situations, let alone the hydric crises which may have affected them. The meeting will associate systemic theoretical reflections as well as case studies on ancient sites, to outline the mutations and the permanencies, the possible technological transfers from one society to another. Here, as in other fields of human activity, we shall query the existence of an ancient Mediterranean koine around the knowledge and the technical practices, around the cultural and cultural traditions. The chronology considered runs from the 8^th to the 1^st century BC, i.e. before the diffusion of the Roman models and techniques.

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