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Addis Ababa

The Roles and Values of Menzuma : Islamic panegyrics in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

The songs of praise called menzuma, sung by a soloist accompanied by a choir and percussion are popular all over the Muslim areas of Ethiopia where the practice of Sufi Islam is still well rooted. The purposes of this workshop are many : to study Menzuma genre from different perspectives and in the different languages in which it is performed ; to study the role of Menzuma as a social performance in public or private spheres ; to understand the relations between the oral performance and the written text of Menzuma ; to explore the different levels of significance of Menzuma texts, i.e. Religious, moral, historical, artistic, etc. ; to observe the circulation, exchange and transformations of Menzuma among different societies of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Brussels

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

"African Churches" in Europe. Mediating Imaginations

"African Churches" have been present in Europe for some decades now, but their developments have taken a new dimension with the intensification of African migrations to Europe in the 80s and 90s. Beyond their doctrinal and institutional diversity and divergences, these churches have in common to be carried by African populations who all too often remain stigmatized and marginalized at the social, political and juridical levels. From the diverse issues of identity, networks and circulations of religious actors, relations to the public sphere, and gender, contributions to the conference will seek to show how African Christian worlds of Europe are now situated at the very heart of dynamics of reconfiguration of African imaginations of Europe, but also of European imaginations of Africa.

Conference, symposium - History

Religious Community and Modern Statehood

The passage from the Ottoman empire to modern states

The conference aims to explore various aspects of the communal organization in the Ottoman Empire for regions such as Asia Minor, Middle East and the Balkans, and to present the changes that occurred within the religious communities during the 19th century and particularly during the period from Tanzimat reforms until the First World War. Key questions in relation to the modernization process of the Ottoman state and the functioning of religious communities, are a) how does the Sublime Porte understand the process of structuring a modern state with respect to religious communities, b) who is responsible for the modern institutions: the state or the religious communities, c) what is the reaction of the religious communities regarding the modernization process d) why and in what way the religious communities are changing on the light of this process.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Things and Spirits: new approaches to materiality and immateriality

This conference is aimed at exploring new ways of approaching the tensional and intimate connections between ‘things’ and ‘spirits’ across distinct practices and epistemologies. In recent decades, the theme of materiality has gained wider currency and centrality in social sciences and anthropological theory. A growing number of scholars in the anthropology of religion, material culture studies, and history and sociology of science and technology have been reexamining the partition between humans, material objects, and immaterial entities, along with the ideas of agency, evidence, and materiality itself.

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08 fév 2010	11 jan 2010	19 oct 2009
02 nov 2009	30 nov 2009	...

Lisbon

Seminar - Ethnology, anthropology

Seminários CRIA (2009-2010)

Programa dos seminários do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia.

Copenhagen

Conference, symposium - Religion

Muslims and Political Participation in Europe

Conférence internationale sur les musulmans et la participation politique en Europe, qui prendra en compte la triple dimension de participation politique effective des musulmans ainsi que du débat religieux interne et du discours public que cette participation suscite.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

People Make Places: Ways of Feeling the World

10th International Congress of the Société internationale d'ethnologie et de flokore

The ways in which people construct their views, opinions, values and practices are constantly being re-negotiated and re-interpreted in various creative forms. The 10th SIEF International Congress intends to elucidate and develop perspectives on this topic by focusing on the making of places, and invites colleagues and other scholars to present new perspectives on how people's lives, memories, emotions and values interact with places and localities.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Sociology

National culture and globalization: articulations and interplay

EGOS 2010 on globalization Sub-theme 14

Dans le contexte de la mondialisation, nombre de pratiques d’outils de gestions et plus largement, d’idées, sont perçus comme globalisés. Dans cette perspective, il revient au « local » de s’approprier ces outils et pratiques avec la possibilité de les « glocaliser ». De fait le local apparait un peu comme un chainon manquant dans les relations entre le « global et le local ». Le thème 14 du colloque EGOS 2010 considère les interactions entre le global et le local en plaçant le local au centre de l’analyse. Nous sollicitons des communications portant sur des études contextualisées de situations permettant d’expliciter ces interrelations entre le local et le global. Les travaux ethnographiques sont particulièrement bienvenus.

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Call for papers	18,002
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Study days	7,629
Seminar	4,274
Miscellaneous information	2,247
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Summer School	304
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