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• 01 déc 2017

  Florence

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Constructing Kurgans

  Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age

  The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.

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• 14 sep 2017

  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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• 11 mai 2017

  12 mai 2017

  Nantes

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Valentine de Saint-Point and the avant-garde

  Art, dance, performance and politics - between Europe and Asia

  Ce premier colloque international consacré à Valentine de Saint-Point vise à explorer l'ensemble des chemins empruntés par cette femme complexe, au parcours biographique enchevêtré, à l'œuvre foisonnante. Car si Valentine de Saint-Point a gagné, désormais, une certaine reconnaissance critique, les réalisations de cette expérimentatrice hors du commun restent encore peu étudiées dans le détail, et paraissent presque éclipsées par son personnage : la poétesse semble avoir été victime de son existence trop encombrante, de sa trajectoire trop romanesque, de ses turpitudes trop omniprésentes. Comme si le pittoresque de sa vie amenait à oublier ses créations ou ses textes, ou à ne les considérer que de loin, comme des documents secondaires d'une aventure personnelle construite hors des sentiers battus.

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