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Istanbul

Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders

XIIth European Days of Galatasaray

Since 2002, the European Days of Galatasaray constitute an annual opportunity to bring together researchers interested in interdisciplinary topics related to Europe. The theme of the 12th European Days, is entitled: “Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders”.The goal of the conference is to tackle issues such as borders, new forms of mobility, migration policies and securitization in a changing context strongly marked by the financial and economic crisis in the region.

Kyoto

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

The idea of medieval architecture in Europe and Japan

L'idée d'architecture est aujourd'hui universellement partagée. Qu'en était-il au Moyen Âge au Japon et en Europe ? Comment percevait-on alors les abbatiales romanes et les cathédrales gothiques, les temples Zen et le style Grand Bouddha ? Et, de nos jours, quelle perception de l'architecture médiévale ont les historiens de l'art en Europe et au Japon ? Le XIX^e siècle a insisté sur les convergences entre les cultures japonaises et européennes. Ne faut-il pas réévaluer les différences, qui sont aussi des signatures culturelles ? Ces questions, qui trouvent une application concrète dans la conservation du patrimoine médiéval, engagent profondément notre présent.

Nablus

Call for papers - Modern

Living, Consuming and Action in Glocal Palestine

More often than not, Palestine, characterised by conflict, is analysed through the sole lenses of its political or cultural idiosyncrasy. Yet, new ways of living, consuming and acting that are embedded in the global reality, have emerged in the previous years and remained understudied. This global dimension may be understood as an imposed and inescapable reality, yet it is also adopted, integrated, amended and applied to a local dimension, so as to create a purely Palestinian form of it.This event will gather mostly researchers and PhD students in social sciences specialised in Palestine but will also pursue a comparative approach by resorting to other cases in the Middle East, North Africa or Europe. The conference also aims at confronting various approaches at the crossroads between art and science, research and action; it will create the frame for a dialogue between social sciences and the works of artists, architects as well as the new actions and philosophy of citizen and activist societies.

Beirut

Conference, symposium - History

Literature, art and the contemporary world

Narratives, history and memory

Parallèlement à l’évolution de la critique littéraire qui revient à considérer aujourd’hui l’objet littéraire à l’intérieur du contexte historique et politique de sa production, l’une des tendances de la littérature postmoderne consiste à mettre en scène des histoires individuelles dans leurs relations avec les événements collectifs. Aussi la production culturelle contemporaine réside assez généralement dans le recours à l’histoire comme d’un topos autour duquel se nouent des enjeux aussi bien esthétiques que mnémoniques et thérapeutiques. Dans les pays arabes où les pratiques culturelles sont liées à des contextes de conflits cette tendance prend tout son sens. Colloque autour des pratiques littéraires et artistiques au Liban et les écritures de l'histoire et de la mémoire qu'elles permettent de mettre en place.

Amman

Call for papers - Geography

Circulation, borders, and migratory control in the Middle-East

L’Institut français du Proche-Orient organise un colloque à Amman les 29 et 30 mai 2014 sur la thématique des circulations humaines dans la région du Moyen-Orient (Turquie, Iran, Proche-Orient, Golfe). L’objectif est de réfléchir à la manière dont s’articulent les flux de circulation avec les contextes conflictuels qui caractérisent l’espace régional et la manière dont les différents États tentent de s’adapter à ces flux et de les encadrer. Dans un contexte de crise, les transformations spatiales des espaces frontaliers, des villes d’accueil, des zones où séjournent et se regroupent migrants et réfugiés seront au centre de ce colloque. De plus, le contexte socio-historique où des flux de migrants, de marchands, de pèlerins ou de réfugiés participent, depuis fort longtemps déjà, aux recompositions socio-spatiales de lieux qui servent de transit et d’accueil à ces populations mobiles, sera abordé pour questionner les flux actuels.

Abu Dhabi

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Assistant lecturer position in history

Le département « Histoire, civilisations et enjeux internationaux » de l'université Paris Sorbonne Abou Dhabi recherche un professeur assistant pour la prochaine année académique. Ce professeur assistant enseignera en Licence et Master (234 heures/année académique) et fera de la recherche. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées avant le 4 mai 2014.

Beirut

Miscellaneous information - Early modern

Language, Science and Aesthetics

Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia

International Summer Academy, 11-19 September 2014 at the Orient-Institut Beirut. This Summer Academy offers early-career scholars an opportunity to follow up on the debates about modernity, its preconditions and its aftermath by focusing on the multifarious processes in which societies outside Europe have adopted, translated, rejected or produced the global, the modern and tradition since the seventeenth century. It places a specific focus on the notions of subjectivity and objectivity as discursive practices which are intrinsically linked to each other.

Arbil Governorate

Call for papers - Modern

The evolving relations between nation-states and Kurdish areas

What impact on the modes of local governance?

The departments of contemporary studies of IFEA (Istanbul) and IFPO organize a workshop in Erbil, the 29th of May 2014. This workshop aims at analysing the evolving dynamics of the Kurdish populated areas in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. More precisely, it will focus on the changing interactions between the nation-states and the Kurdish political actors, and on the impacts of these transformations on the modes of local governance.

Taipei

The Geopolitics of Film and Entertainment Industries Across the Taiwan Strait

Franco-Taiwanese Workshop

The Taipei office of the HK-based French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CEFC, http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=73) is inviting you to join a limited number of researchers in freely exchanging ideas about Cross-Taiwan Strait cinema and entertainment industries in a geopolitical perspective.

Istanbul

Call for papers - Urban studies

CODATU XVI

Climatic change, air quality and energy challenges: the role policy in urban transport and preventative measures in developing countries and emerging economies

Transport is an integral component of sustaining livelihoods: without efficient urban transport mankind would not survive and develop and nor would economies. Yet, despite the immense benefits that transport enables, such as access to jobs, markets, education, and consumer goods and services via global supply chains, the transport sector generates substantial disbenefits. These include dependence on non-renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions, local pollutions, road accidents and inequalities of access. Such disbenefits clearly demonstrate that the transport sector is currently unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially.

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