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• 14 fév 2019

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Rock-cut architecture: communities, landscapes and economy

  Rock-cut architecture are known since prehistoric times. These kinds of buildings, carved out from solid rock, is widespread throughout of ancient communities. On their walls, this particular architecture preserves stratified layers that relate of their carving process and/or of their use. They are like vertical test-pits that archaeologists can study.

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• 21 sep 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  African Ivories

  In the Atlantic World, 1400-1900

  Since April 2015, the international team working on the project “African Ivories in the Atlantic World: a reassessment of Luso-African ivories” (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: PTDC/EPH-PAT/1810/2014), composed of 27 researchers from the University of Lisbon, the University of Évora and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, has been researching the trade, circulation and production of raw and carved African ivory in the Atlantic area from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The team has identified and listed objects from Portuguese and Brazilian (Minas Gerais) collections, also collecting references and descriptions extant in written Portuguese sources. For the first time a selection of ivory pieces was subjected to lab tests with a view to helping establish their age and origin. The project research team has submitted proposals for re-interpreting material culture in the framework of its African contexts of production. 

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• 20 sep 2015

  Call for papers - Geography

  Beyond the acacia tree: nature, landscape and ecology in Africa

  Africa e Mediterraneo Issue 83/2015

  The empty and uncontaminated landscapes of Africa – that the oriental perspective has idealized with the strong support of the tourism industry, and that have been pictured in stereotypical images (like covers and posters portraying the common acacia tree during the sunset) as opposed to the alienating anthropization of the first world – are nowadays put at risk by a growing and hazardous pollution, as denounced by many.

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• 03 nov 2015

  04 nov 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Worship Sound Spaces

  Sound perception of places of worship (of different religions) via a multidisciplinary anthropological and acoustic approach

  The aim of this workshop is to explore, with a trans-disciplinary perspective, the various sonic issues project managers encounter when building or rehabilitating worship spaces in different cultural contexts. Building or rehabilitating such spaces should not only answer to requirements dictated by the building but should also take into account the practices, perceptions and expectations of the various actors and users of those spaces (religious officiants and practitioners, etc.).

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• 20 nov 2011

  Vienne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Birds as Food: Cross Cultural and Health Perspectives

  La trente-cinquième conférence internationale de la Commission internationale d'anthropologie de l'alimentation et de la nutrition (ICAF) aura pour thème « les oiseaux comme nourritures : perspectives interculturelles et questions de santé ». Elle se tiendra dans les locaux de l'Université de médecine de Vienne (Autriche) du 13 au 15 juillet 2012.

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• 30 jui 2010

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Listening to film?

  Film soundtracks and cultural memory

  Dans une perspective résolument transversale, l’enjeu de cette journée d’étude est de croiser réflexion poétique et étude anthropologique pour repenser l’écoute filmique en inscrivant l’analyse de la bande son d'un film dans le contexte social, culturel et esthétique contemporain de son élaboration.

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