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• 18 avr 2013

  19 avr 2013

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - History

  Histoire de l’Algérie coloniale

  Longue durée et désenclavement

  Historians have long focused on the independence war, and this has given rise to a rich historiography. Consequently, the longer term colonial period was less extensively explored. However, recent historiography shows that new ground has been broken. It is perhaps now time to pause and reflect on the historiography. The purpose of this conference is two-fold: firstly, can we have a better understanding of the colonization of Algeria in the longue durée, beyond the traditional focus on periods of conflict? The second aim is to take the history of Algeria out of its isolation and place it instead within the broader picture of imperial history – whether in relation to hexagonal France or the other French colonies.

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• 01 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Arabic Chancellery Documents through the Prism of Historicity

  Writing, Vocabulary, Syntax, and Intertextuality from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib (d. 750) to al-Qalqashandī (d. 1418)

  This conference will address the evolution of chancellery styles, their regional diversity, and the history of the rhymed prose (sajʿ), this language of authority that was supposed to obey rules definitively fixed by the Prophet or the first secretaries of the Islamic Empire. What were the technical modalities for innovation? On what semantic, lexical, syntactical, and/or graphic levels did it manifest? Rather than on norms, codes, and rules, studies will focus on writing styles, orthographic variants, atypical handwriting, deletion, the transgression of norms, semantic revitalization, neologisms, and the variety of styles for citing the Quran or referencing ḥadīth. We are seeking to renew study of a corpus considered not as a fixed and ossified text, technical and off-putting, but as a living, evolving, and diverse ensemble.

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• 17 jan 2013

  18 jan 2013

  19 jan 2013

  Tunis

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Thawra(t)... A comparative approach to revolts and revolutions (19th-21st century)

  Thawra ? Inqilab ? Intifadha ? Révolte ? Révolution ? Soulèvement ? La terminologie encore flottante incite à tester des approches diverses d’autant que les faits, leurs origines et leurs conséquences sont loin d’être établis. Les précédentes journées d’étude intermédiaires ont contribué à sérier quelques aspects historiques qui relient, par des comparaisons plus larges cette histoire immédiate et encore en train de se faire à des phénomènes de moyenne et longue durée, à des espaces plus lointains, à d’autres mouvements historiques. La rencontre de janvier 2013 est destinée à élargir la dimension dialogique et le croisement des disciplines.

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