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  • Leiden

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

    2 PhD candidates Migration and the Family in Morocco

    The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University, the Netherlands, is looking for 2 PhD candidates (1.0 FTE) for the research project Living on the Other Side: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Migration and Family Law in Morocco.

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  • Call for papers - Religion

    Religious urbanisation and development in Africa

    The volume will critically explore how processes related to religious urbanization intersect with different notions of development in African contexts. Cities are taken to be powerful venues for the creation and implementation of models of development whose moral, temporal, and political assumptions need to be examined, not least as they intersect with religious templates for the planning and reform of urban space.

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  • Conference, symposium - Language

    Language contact and translation in religious context

    Comparative approaches

    This conference brings together anthropologists and linguists working on conversion, cultural transmission and translation theory, as well as on various case studies, whose geography comprises Oceania, Amazonia, Yucatan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Europe, Alaska and Chukotka (Russia), and whose temporal frame spreads from the Hellenistic era to the Spanish colonization of the Americas and to the present time. The main questions of the conference are the modalities of the ethnolinguistic encounter and translation accompanying religious conversion, whether, and how, the language gets altered as a result of these processes, and what are the broader cognitive and sociocultural consequences that accompany the linguistic transformation.

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  • Turin

    Call for papers - Religion

    Women, Religions and Gender Relations

    International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG)

    Interest in the subject of “Women, Religions and Gender Relations” has intensified especially from the mid-1990s in Europe – more recently in Italy – spreading beyond the borders of the sociology of religion and gender studies. The call is designed to offer a platform to scholars to present their research on the topic and exchange their ideas on research findings at an international level.

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  • San Rafael

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    “Accompanying deaths”: the role of some animals in the funerary practices

    ICAZ 2014, Thematic session of 12th International Conference of Archaeozoology

    This session proposes to discuss the presence of animals in funerary practices through the concept of “accompanying deaths” or “animal companions” with the help of concrete cases or even theoretical reflexions.

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  • Montreal

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    The Transnationalization of Religion through Music

    The transnationalization of religion refers to the relocalization of beliefs, rituals and religious practices beyond state lines, in real or symbolic spaces, with the help of new imaginaries and narrative identities. Although the analysis of religious transnationalization has revealed the various ways religion transcends borders, the role of music in this process is rarely addressed. Yet this role is essential in the transnationalization of universal religions like Islam and Christianity. Music also contributes to the migration of local religions, neotraditionalist movements, and cults associated with a particular area, such as Haitian Voodoo, Cuban Santería, or Brazilian Candomble. Such musical phenomena, far from being new, gave birth to early religious globalizations.

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  • Leuven

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Developing a sense of belonging in diverse societies

    Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe

    The aim of this workshop is to gather scholars who work on Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe to compare the similitudes and differences of identity practices. Hui are predominantly Chinese speaking Muslims in China’s vast territory. With a population of 10 million, they are also the most numerous recognized ethnic group in China. Muslims in Europe are hardly featured in international media, domestic politics, and scholarly discussions. Multiculturalism, radicalisation, immigration, integration, forced marriage are discussed through the Muslim visibility and presence in Europe. Recent debates on integration and secularism are focused on  the "Muslim question". In contrast to the focus on Muslims in Europe, there is a notable lack of interest in Muslims in China with the exception of the Uyghur community. In this workshop, we want to study the impact of ethnic-religious interactions, state integration positions and policies to grasp the increasing influence of religious-collective-national expression of Muslims in the public sphere. We would like to examine the new patterns of expression and visibility of the Muslims in China and Europe. Tracing Muslim’s interaction with non-Muslims, this workshop investigates how Muslims encounters, accommodates and negotiates into different socio political contexts in China and Europe.

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  • Istanbul

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Identity, Religion and Ethnicity

    New Patterns, Realities and Pitfalls

    The workshop will analyse the interaction and the interpenetration of nationality, ethnicity and identity through the problematic of transnationalism, globalization and nation-state perspectives. The workshop will be supplemented by practical visits to local communities. Participants are invited to consider the theoretical debates and issues in differing local areas with a variety of social practitioners and representatives to gain further insights of demographic, economic, philosophic, legal and socio-anthropological approaches.

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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - History

    Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Protestantism

    L’approche anthropologique de l’histoire du protestantisme de l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) est assez courante en Allemagne, aux Pays-Bas ou dans les pays anglo-saxons, mais elle a été peu pratiquée en France. Ce colloque international entend montrer tout l’intérêt de cette démarche, en présentant des études portant sur les pays francophones, le Saint-Empire et les Provinces-Unies, dans trois domaines : la culture matérielle ; l’espace public et l’espace privé ; le temps. L’enjeu est de renouveler l’histoire traditionnelle du protestantisme en cherchant à rendre compte des actions, des représentations, des sentiments et des émotions des réformés d’autrefois.

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  • Call for papers - Sociology

    Society, communities, personality: in search of "the Eternal World"

    Le département de sociologie de l'université d'État de Tambov (Russie) organise les 7 et 8 novembre 2011 son quatrième colloque international sur internet. Cette année, les échanges porteront autour du sujet : « Sociétés, communautés, personnalité : à la recherche du monde éternel ». Face au bien connu jugement hâtif sur l'absence de dimension historique en sociologie, nous sommes invités, au contraire, à inscrire ou à repenser le travail du sociologue dans une optique de long terme. Droits de l'homme, inégalités, place de l'individu, et même croyances religieuses : ces thématiques dont la sociologie, voire les sciences sociales en général, sont coutumières, s'éclairent d'une manière nouvelle une fois replacées dans le temps long de l'histoire, et notamment face à ce qui peut en être la finalité, exclue du champ scientifique et donc son impensé majeur, à savoir la quête d'un « monde éternel ».

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  • Lisbon

    Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

    Sacred Tourism, Secular Pilgrimage

    Travel and Transformation in the 21st century

    O colóquio internacional "Sacred Tourism, Secular Pilgrimage. Travel and Transformation in the 21st century" irá decorrer no ISCTE-IUL, em Lisboa, de 7 a 11 de Julho de 2011.

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