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• 02 nov 2017

  03 nov 2017

  04 déc 2017

  Saint-Denis

  Seminar - Political studies

  Epistemology and politics - research into the Near and Far East

  Le projet « Épistémologie et Politique – Recherches en Proche et Moyen-Orient » réunit des démarches de recherche en Proche et Moyen-Orient dans la globalisation, qui portent sur les nouvelles formes d’agir politique et les productions théoriques du post-national, les généalogies de la violence et les langages de la mémoire, la construction des appartenances multiples, l’expérience des frontières, et les politiques des savoirs et de la traduction. Il confronte un corpus élargi dans les sciences humaines et sociales vers les arts et médias, les études politiques et décoloniales dans un contexte d’échange international.

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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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• 21 sep 2017	05 oct 2017	12 oct 2017
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  Lyon

  Seminar - Epistemology and methodology

  Borders, margins and cultural spaces

  Archéorient Reseach laboratory, looking the current state of research methods and fieldwork in the ancient Near-East

  L’enjeu est de réfléchir sur les notions de frontières et de marges, sur leurs manifestations matérielles ou idéelles, sur leur perméabilité (frontières imperméables ou espaces poreux) et sur leurs fluctuations dans le temps et dans l’espace. Une attention sera également portée aux éventuels recoupements entre ces limites et la définition des aires culturelles. Au delà, l’idée est également de revenir sur la perception que les sociétés anciennes pouvaient avoir de l’espace et de la territorialité. Le séminaire comprend onze interventions couvrant une fourchette chronologique large, allant du Néolithique à l’Antiquité. L'aire géographique concernée est celle des terrain d'Archéorient : la Méditerranée orientale et le Proche- et Moyen-Orient.

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• 04 sep 2017

  Marburg

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Representations of Change

  Time, Space, and Power in Qualitative Research on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region and Europe

  Since the start of the 21^st century seemingly unpredictable change, in all its different guises, has fueled the preoccupations of academic and non-academic publics. The financial crisis, the “Arab Spring”, protest movements in southern Europe, the rise of Daesh and right-wing populism, as well as the environmental crisis all make it very difficult to rely on Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “end of history”, which now seems to merely reflect the euphoria of liberal elites following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1992). This workshop intends to reflect more closely on the webs of power affecting both the researcher and‚ the researched when they intend to represent change.

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• 30 sep 2017

  Cairo

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  The emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge, 4th/10th and the 8th/14th century

  2ᵉ Colloque de l'Idéo au Caire

  One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using intellectual tools foreign to the Islamic tradition to read and interpret the Qurʾān and texts of the classic Islamic heritage. Is it permissible and appropriate to use contemporary human sciences to study the texts of the Arab-Islamic patrimony or should it be limited to the Ḥadīṯ? IDEO would like to contribute to this debate by studying the emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge in the Islamic sciences between the 4^_ᵗʰ/10ᵗʰ and the 8ᵗʰ/14ᵗʰ century.

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• 07 avr 2017

  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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• 07 avr 2017

  08 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Study days - Sociology

  Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of women and gender in transnational perspective

  The Department of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies of the University of Zurich is organizing the first workshop of the Gender in University and Society (GENiUS) network on “Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of Women and Gender in Transnational Perspective”. GENiUS is an informal Swiss-Arab Network of academics specialized in the field of Gender Studies in and on the Arab region that aims at fostering scientific exchange on the levels of research, teaching and institution building.

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• 30 jan 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The massacres of 1894-1896 in the Ottoman Empire: Genesis, Consequences and Continuities of Extreme Violence

  Theme issue of the journal Études arméniennes contemporaines (EAC n° 8 – Decembre 2017)

  The history of the large-scale massacres committed against the Armenians under the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, in 1894-1896, is still largely unknown, its sources underutilized or not studied at all. This period of extreme violence, a watershed in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, raises many questions about the similarities and differences with the genocidal process of 1915-1916. We invite submissions on a broad range of topics and disciplinary approaches for this special issue. Relevant studies may include chronological analyses of the events of the 1890s themselves, as well as analyses of the consequences of that era of violence up to the present day. At the heart of this issue lies the question of the precedent: what links can be established between the genocide and the mass crimes that preceded it – an issue relevant to the study of other twentieth-century genocides.

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