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• 22 nov 2019

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Theatre on the barricades? Art and the challenge of revolutions

  Research cycle: "Revolts, revolutions and performance in the Near and Middle-East in the 21st century"

  Depuis près de deux décennies, les pays du Proche et du Moyen-Orient ont connu de nombreux mouvements politiques, de révoltes, et de contestations. Dans des sociétés où la liberté d’expression était limitée et le discours contrôlé, ces mouvements de révoltes se sont accompagnés de l’émergence et d’un renouvellement de la création artistique, notamment dans le domaine des arts de la scène. Le cycle de recherches que nous avons mis en place a pour objectif d’étudier la trajectoire politique et sociale des pays des régions du Proche et du Moyen-Orient par le biais de la création artistique, en particulier les arts de la scène et de la performance. Cette troisième et dernière journée de réflexion a pour objectif de se concentrer à l’étude des arts du spectacle en temps de Révolution, sur le lien entre théâtre et événement dit « révolutionnaire », en particulier celui des printemps arabes de 2011.

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• 12 nov 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Hong Kong: protests, politics and identity

  What factors are at the origin of these protest movements? What will be the impact in the formation of a new Hong Kong identity? What can be expected from the political evolution in Hong Kong and the relations between the city and the continent and the outside world? This symposium, organized by Professor Lun Zhang, attempts to clarify these issues. Several important Hong Kong academics and intellectuals, both actors and privileged observers of these protests and the political and cultural evolution of these last few decades to Hong Kong will be present to show their analysis. They will also dialogue with French Hong Kong specialists.

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• 30 sep 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

  This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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