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  • Algiers

    Call for papers - Thought

    "The Balfour Declaration" : What centenary

    In order to address this notorious Declaration, we propose a debate on the historical, political and geostrategic circumstances that led to the Balfour Declaration, and how  practical  politics  influences the making of Britain’s foreign policy. The Balfour Declaration and its ramifications at the local and global levels could be tackled with reference to a myriad of theoretical frameworks such as the postcolonial/political theory, new historicism, ethnography, to name but a few.

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  • Paris

    Seminar - History

    Operative knowledges of matter, from Renaissance to industrialization

    Following the renewal of the history of Technology and of the history of chemistry, this Research Seminar intends to explore operative knowledge in chemistry in connection with several fields including economics, political management, consumption and production processes. It seeks to shed a light, since the Early modern period, on various configurations where experimentation, exploration, transformation of Matter were held, through a wide range of technical devices.

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  • Zurich

    Miscellaneous information - Education

    Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom

    Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as  critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?

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  • Rome

    Call for papers - History

    In partibus fidelium - missions in the Levant and knowledge of the Christian East

    19th-21st centuries

    Ce colloque international se penchera sur l’assimilation en Europe de connaissances relatives aux cultures chrétiennes-orientales, à partir surtout du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle, et sur le rôle que les missions ont joué dans ce processus. Ces connaissances nouvelles sont fondées en grande partie sur les travaux menés sur le terrain, au Moyen-Orient, en particulier sur les manuscrits conservés dans les monastères et les patriarcats, et plus généralement sur le patrimoine littéraire, linguistique, archéologique, cartographique et musicologique, des communautés chrétiennes installées.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Science studies

    The oriental fable - perspectives on the Middle East in the classical age (1630-1780)

    Regards sur le Moyen-Orient à l’âge classique (1630-1780)

    « On attribue ordinairement l’origine des fables à l’imagination vive des orientaux », affirme Fontenelle dans De l’origine des fables (1724), faisant écho à une idée formulée avec éclat dès 1670 par Huet dans son Traité de l’Origine des romans, publié en tête de la mauresque Zayde de Mme de Lafayette. Orient et fabulation sont indissolublement liés pour la conscience occidentale à l’âge classique. C’est ce rapport du Moyen-Orient et de la fable, entendue en son sens le plus large, qu’il s’agit ici d’explorer : on se propose non seulement d’examiner pourquoi la pensée occidentale s’est alors plu à imputer aux orientaux l’invention des mythes et des fables originaires, mais aussi et surtout de s’interroger sur les mille et une manières dont l’imaginaire de l’Occident classique (singulièrement en France) n’a cessé de fabuler autour du Moyen-Orient.

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