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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Desired Identities

    New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan

    In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?

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  • Ait Melloul

    Call for papers - History

    The archaeology of Morocco: history, reality and perspectives

    L’objectif de cette rencontre consiste à tracer le parcours de l’archéologie marocaine depuis ses débuts ; à la fin du XIXe siècle, jusqu’à nos jours. Il y sera aussi question de la réalité et des perspectives de la recherche archéologique au Maroc et des possibilités de préservation et du développement des acquis enregistrés ce qui accorde à notre pays ; aujourd’hui et dans l’avenir, la place qu’il mérite dans l’archéologie mondiale. En marge de cette rencontre, on envisage organiser une exposition portant sur les sites archéologiques majeurs, sur les trouvailles phares et sur les archéologues qui ont contribué au développement de la discipline. Cette rencontre sera l’occasion de rappeler que l’archéologie marocaine dépasse la frontière nationale pour concerner tout ce qui est lié à l’histoire de notre pays, plusieurs dizaines de fois millénaire.

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  • Ferrare

    Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Meeting at the borders: Mediterranean hybrids in pre-Roman Italy

    Le colloque « Se rencontrer aux frontières : hybridations méditerranéennes dans l’Italie pré-romaine » entend promouvoir une réflexion sur le thème des frontières et des modalités de rencontre et d’hybridation entre populations d’origine différente dans l’Italie préromaine dans un cadre analytique pluridisciplinaire, associant l’étude des données archéologiques à une vision historique et anthropologique des relations ethno-politiques et sociales.

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  • Brussels

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Home Away From Home

    Seminar HOME II

    After a first series of seminars called Home: Heaven and Hell that explored the relations of a subject to his places of origin in contemporary narratives, a next series of HOME will dwell on the reconstruction of an imagined home. What characterizes this new home that follows the wandering, exile or migration? This time under the title of Home Away From Home, a second series of seminars wishes to examine present-day literary and artistic representations of adopted spaces as to understand how these representations emerge in interaction with a subject who is confronted with a territorial quest that is coming to an end.

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