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Paris
Myths of origin in Asian societies
Un proverbe indien dit qu’il ne faut pas chercher l’origine d’un fleuve, ni l’origine d’un saint. L’observation directe conduit à peu de chose. Mais l’esprit va au-delà. Il crée un mythe. Qui n’a pas rêvé de son origine, de l’origine d’une nation, d’une langue, d’un thème littéraire ou artistique, de l’origine de l’homme, de l’origine du monde, de l’origine des dieux ? Le mythe n’est cependant pas le rêve incontrôlé. Il est un imaginaire qui transpose la nature profonde d’une âme humaine, d’une société, d’une religion, d’une civilisation. Un mythe d’origine définit un commencement, pose une limite initiale. Or la raison ne peut concevoir une origine absolue. Un mythe d’origine pose un jalon, un repère dans un continuum de temps ou d’espace. Chaque civilisation d’Asie dit par un mythe d’origine quel repère elle a choisi pour le début de son histoire. Et ceci est révélateur des caractères dans lesquels elle s'affirme.
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Aix-en-Provence
Conference, symposium - Religion
From the Thames to the Euphrates - texts, paratexts, forms and uses
Suite à l’intérêt croissant pour l’étude des Bibles médiévales tardives, cette rencontre cherche à encourager une réflexion davantage transversale et synchronique que diachronique ou en fonction d’espaces culturels déterminés au Moyen Âge. Il s’agira de discuter en interdisciplinarité de ce qui peut être propre ou commun, de ce qui peut procéder d’un échange, d’un transfert culturel, d’un Zeitgeist.
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
Religion of the Ancient Near East: New Developments (RANEND)
Among the Near Eastern research programs of interest to Ghent, ULille and UCLouvain universities, the study of religion in the Near East has been chosen as a central theme of a new cooperation project, as several teachers-researchers, doctoral and post-doctoral students are already involved in this field. in 2018, we will start with a masterclass on Hittite religion with Dr Alice Mouton (CNRS - UMR 8167), a well-known scholar of the Hittite world and a specialist of religion in ancient Anatolia, first step to renew the approaches and to develop a reflection of the importance of this subject in ancien Near Eastern societies. Other conferences on the theme of religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt will be delivered on the same day by other scholars from England, France and Belgium.
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Nanterre
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Techno-realities and affective creations - love simulation games
Les jeux de simulation amoureuse
The techno-realities are seen as a threat to human relationships in “real” life, in particular when they relate to love. Such human-shaped products however multiply: domotic spouse, tactile screen’s boyfriend, holographic companion, bride for Virtual Reality glasses, interactive downloadable partner, otome games and bishôjo games characters... The purpose of this symposium is to analyze Love Simulation Devices as signals allowing users to express a variety of messages, even contradictory ones, yet to be deciphered within their specific contexts. Working on the Japanese products will provide a revealing insight of processes that still have not been analyzed and may serve as an eye-opener in the field of comparative studies in the western cultures.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Conference, symposium - Thought
Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context
This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the exegetical aspect, in order to see in what extend philosophical hermeneutics can contribute to rethink the understanding of the Koran in the contemporary context; the interpretative aspect, to address different contemporary attempts to reinterpret the classical – philosophical, spiritual or legal – heritage; the critical aspect, to present different political and critical issues raised by the question of the encounter between philosophical hermeneutics and Islamic thought.
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Le Mirail
Le projet ERC MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms) embrasse l'ensemble des épithètes divines attestées dans les inscriptions et les textes littéraires grecs et ouest-sémitiques entre 1000 av. et 400 de n. è. Grâce aux épithètes, les dieux se déclinent en une multitude d'aspects et dessinent des configurations qui demandent à être analysées. L’objectif de ce premier séminaire semestriel est d’élargir notre réflexion collective sur les noms des dieux et les stratégies de dénominations dans la fabrique du divin, en accueillant toutes les deux semaines, à Toulouse, deux invités venus de divers horizons thématiques – études grecques et sémitiques, mais aussi monde biblique, égyptologie, anthropologie – dans un atelier de travail au cours duquel les intervenants apporteront des idées issues de leurs domaines de recherche, des pistes de documentation, des questionnements méthodologiques à explorer, des cas d’étude stimulants.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Philosophical hermeneutics in the Islamicate context
This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the interpretative dimension, to address contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged with philosophical hermeneutics; the comparative dimension, in order to deal with possible transactions on the basis of common traits and divergences; and the creative dimension, to present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts.
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Halle
The aim of the conference is to check to what extent we can write a connected history of messianism and apocalyptics in the monotheistic religions from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The conference is conceived as a framework for discussing hypotheses and exploring possible connections between Islamic, Jewish and Christian believes about the Last Days.
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