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• 15 déc 2017

  Holon | Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Africa

  Street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine

  Memories, identities, politics

  The exhibition will examine street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine as an outcome of dialectic processes, short and long termed, of spatial production and attached imagery and symbolism. That is, beyond being a signifier of a spatial orientation per se.

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• 10 jui 2017

  Kuwait City

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Urban Images and Imaginaries: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula through their representations

  Arabian Humanities Journal, n.11 - Special issue

  Four years after a special issue of Arabian Humanities tackled the subject of cities and urban dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula, the present call for papers aims to take another look at the specific urban forms of the region, this time through the lens of the images and imaginaries of the city.

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• 15 jui 2017

  Beirut

  Summer School - History

  Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources

  During the four-day programme we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, but postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at local, provincial and imperial levels. We concentrate mainly on materials from the 16^th and 20^th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives.

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• 31 mar 2017

  Yogyakarta

  Call for papers - Asia

  Indonesian Exceptionalism: Values and Morals of the Middle Ground

  ‘Exceptionalism’ is a borrowed political term that implies that a country or entity is somehow special. Indonesia is not small. Indonesia is not poor in cultures, religions, society, or ethnic groups. Indonesia is not unimportant economically, regionally, or politically. Historically, Indonesia has always been an exceptional place. Indonesia as ‘imagined community’ continues to be an ongoing process. Various questions that can be raised include: What are relevant Indonesian values and morals for maintaining Indonesia’s competitiveness in the global world? What is religion’s contribution to forming agreed values and ethics? To what extent is there an Indonesian contribution in balancing Islamic values and democratic practices? How do religious values impact the ethics of state governance?

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• 04 mar 2017	05 mar 2017	06 mar 2017
  07 mar 2017

  Abu Dhabi

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Middle East and Europe: cross-cultural, diplomatic and economic exchanges in the early modern period (1500-1820)

  This conference is an international symposium that proposes to study the entire range of exchanges and relations established between these two areas during the Early Modern Times (1500-1820). Its main objective is to think about diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural links between Europe and the Middle East by calling upon over twenty researchers with specializations in the Arab, Persian and Muslim world. In addition, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview to date of the Arabian Gulf at a time of major political change, including the successive arrival of the European “trading empires”. It will focus on some of the methodological challenges raised by a global, connected and cross-cultural thinking approach to the History of the Middle East and Europe”.

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• 10 jan 2017

  Marmagao

  Call for papers - Asia

  Commons in South Asia today

  Since 1998 the “Association des jeunes études indiennes” (AJEI) organizes an annual workshop in India with the support of international and local partners. This year, we propose a three-day event in Goa to debate the question of the “commons” in contemporary South-Asia. The workshop will be structured around different thematic sessions with the presentations of the works of the participants, a field visit and an open discussion on fieldwork methods. One of the main objective of the event is to give the opportunity to the participants to exchange on their works and their experience, to get feedbacks from senior researchers and to build relationships, reinforcing thus the strong international network of researchers on South Asia.

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• 15 jan 2017

  Tokyo

  Call for papers - Geography

  The construction of contemporary Japanese cities - Ebisu journal no.55 (2018)

  Revue « Ebisu », n°55 (2018)

  L’ambition de ce numéro d’Ebisu est de porter un regard renouvelé sur ce qui fait ville, sur qui fait la ville et comment se façonne l’espace urbain dans le Japon du XXI^e siècle. Il s’agit aussi d’intégrer d’autres approches : les urbanistes (architectes, géographes et sociologues) se retrouveront naturellement dans cet appel, mais une ouverture pluridisciplinaire est nécessaire pour traiter de cet objet aujourd’hui universel. Ainsi, en complément de contributions traitant des acteurs de l’urbain, des modes de vie, des formes et de la maîtrise de la ville, nous souhaiterions voir questionner, par exemple, la poétique des villes japonaises du XXI^e siècle, l’esthétique qu’elles génèrent au cinéma ou dans les jeux-vidéos, ou encore la manière dont la littérature s’empare de la ville japonaise contemporaine

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• 04 nov 2016	16 déc 2016	20 jan 2017
  24 fév 2017	17 mar 2017	...

  Bangkok

  Seminar - Ethnology, anthropology

  Societies and environments in Southeast Asia

  
This seminar, gathering Western and Asian Scholars at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), aims to discuss the relationship between Southeast Asian societies and their natural environments. The sociological approach explores the forms that connect social and cosmic orders within an hindo-buddhist context. We will consider contemporary socio-political challenges in regard to climate change, development practices and technical knowledge. 

   

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