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Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
New Technology-based Metamorphosis in Japan
In Japan, characters now invade social networks up to the point where a whole industry of character-camouflage is prompting millions of web users to merge with videogames-like creatures. How can we understand this phenomenon? What social changes does it contribute to shape and to mirror?During the course of an international workshop, researchers from various disciplines are invited to share their experiences and outcomes concerning this phenomenon, which has been stamped kyara-ka, “transforming into a character” (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007). It is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls “an emerging art of self–fashioning”. Based on elaborate techniques of disguises, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices. Exploring all the aspects of this “thingification of humans”, the workshop will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters.
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Emotional attachment to machines
New ways of relationship-building in Japan
Currently, technologies that foster emotional connections between humans and digital beings are perceived as a threat by many. Because emotional devices are considered to be make-believe systems based on ‘simulation’ (which is often confused with lying, deceit or fraud), emotional technologies could potentially be suspected of affecting human sexual identity or disrupting social bonds. This Symposium will examine the ways in which humans form intimate relationships with ‘emotionally-intelligent entities’ (robots, digital characters, downloadable boyfriend…) and what purposes these relationships to machines serve for them.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Political studies
This international conference in political studies and political philosophy wishes to explore the notion of compromise in its transnational dimension, in order to test the relevance of a cultural and global approach to compromise. The topics addressed by the conference are the following: Can we develop morally right and wrong compromise typologies? Can we propose a universal ethics of compromise or does compromise vary depending on the socio-cultural history of a country? To what extent is culture relevant in shaping types and norms of compromise?
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Sheffield
New research on the History of Chinese gardens and landscapes
Organised by Dr Jan Woudstra in conjunction with the Gardens Trust, the event will look at new discoveries in the field from both professionals and post-graduate students from around the world. Dr Alison Hardie will introduce the conference and outline the importance that Maggie Keswick’s 1978 book The Chinese Garden, History Art and Architecture has played in the subject. It is a unique opportunity to hear speakers from UK and International institutions to present their new research in the field. Talks will cover subjects as wide-ranging as Jesuit water landscapes, gardens as museums, Feng Shui symbolism and botanical watercolours.
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - Representation
The development of art history as a discipline during the 19th century has been variously associated with the politics of national identity, the needs of a growing bourgeois public in search of cultural capital, or of an expanding art market. However, the role of art training, and art practitioners themselves in the shaping of the discipline remains unexamined. Courses in art history had been systematically introduced in the curricula of art and architecture academies since the late 18th century, and spaces of art education count among the first institutional homes of the discipline, well before the establishment of autonomous university chairs. This conference aims to explore the interactions and productive tensions between art practice and art scholarship in the 19th century.
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Lyon
Conference, symposium - Sociology
The social sciences and humanities have developed considerably in the last thirty years in different Asian countries where both theoretical approaches and methodologies have been constantly changing. As a result of the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheral areas have been formed and new hierarchies have quietly emerged, giving rise in turn to new competitive environments in which innovative knowledge is being produced. The centres in which knowledge in the social sciences and humanities is produced have moved towards Asia and in particular to China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India.
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Sheffield
New approaches in Chinese garden history
In honour of Dr Alison Hardie's retirement
A conference exploring new developments in Chinese garden history, created in honour of Dr Alison Hardie's retirement.
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Taipei
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning
9th International Symposium of CORPUS International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body
Le 9e symposium international de CORPUS groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps aura lieu à Taipei du 24 au 26 mai prochain. Organisé avec l'académie Sinica et l'université nationale des arts de Taiwan, il rassemblera des intervenants venus d'une dizaine de pays sur le thème « Éducation du corps et apprentissage culturel ».
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Lisbon
Conference, symposium - Representation
Face to Face. The transcendence of the arts in China and beyond
Our goals for the conference are to raise awareness of the artistic exchange and mutual influences between the Han Chinese arts and the arts from different cultural backgrounds in China itself, as well as beyond its geographical and cultural boundaries. We also aim to go through the issues on the construction of artistic identity and the balance between permeability and hegemony, tradition and innovation, convenience and misinterpretation.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Science studies
How did individuals' geographical mobility contributed the circutation of knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)? In China, Korea and Vietnam, the bureaucratic systems dictated a specific mode of mobility of the elites. But the ways in which individual itineraries shaped the circulation of knowledge need to be studied not only for civil servants, but also for various socio-professional groups, such as the scholars privately employed by high officials, craftsmen, medical doctors, traders, Buddhist monks, and emperors themselves. To these groups should be added the actors of the globalisation of knowledge during this period. -
Tokyo
Conference, symposium - Economy
Dimensions of the Labor Market Dynamics
France Japan Comparison
Le symposium Dimensions of Labor Markets Dynamics organisé à la Maison Franco-Japonaise de Tokyo les 23 et 24 mars est issu d'un programme de recherche intitulé Newdynam: Nouvelle dynamique de la gestion des âges et genre sur les marchés du travail: comparaison France-Japon. Alors que la France et le Japon se caractérisaient par la prééminence des marchés internes du travail jusque dans la fin des années 1980, il se demande comment leur déstabilisation a conduit, de façon différente dans chacun des pays, à une dynamique de la gestion d’emploi renouvelée. Pour ce faire, il utilise à la fois des méthodes comparatives quantitatives et qualitatives aux niveaux national (évolution des types d'emploi etc.) et d'entreprises (Sidérurgie, électricité, centres d'appels, universités etc.). -
Tokyo
Keisai (1764-1824) et l'art du livre illustré
D'Edo à Paris
Symposium public en japonais sans traduction, à l'occasion de la publication des Dessins abrégés de Keisai (INHA, éd. Picquier, 2011). -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Money and Economies during the 19th Century, from Europe to Asia
Round table Moneys and Economies during 19th Century (from Europe to Asia), -
Paris
The dynamics of China's Borderlands, 18th-21st Centuries
Colloque organisée par Élisabeth Allès (CECMC, CNRS-EHESS), Sébastien Colin (ASIEs, INALCO) et Sylvie Pasquet (CECMC, CNRS-EHESS). L’objectif de ce colloque est de présenter les stratégies politiques et économiques, passées et contemporaines, de la Chine en direction de ses régions frontalières et de ses voisins, ainsi que de mieux comprendre les mutations socio-spatiales et économiques que ces stratégies engendrent sur les territoires (urbanisation, migrations, tourisme, développement du commerce frontalier, présences chinoises dans les pays voisins…). Il est aussi d’analyser la situation des populations frontalières dans leur diversité. Sans pour autant les contredire, elles ne subissent pas passivement les stratégies venues d’en haut. Il s’agira d’examiner la manière dont les populations vivent cette situation et utilisent les frontières au mieux de leurs intérêts. -
Conference, symposium - Political studies
From revolution to reforms: characterizing made-in-China transitions paradigms
The 1911 revolution was motivated by anger at corruption in the Qing government, frustration with that government's inability to restrain the interventions of foreign powers, and resentment of the majority Han Chinese toward a government dominated by an ethnic minority. One hundred years later, after decades of wars and violent political thrusts, China has achieved significant progress toward becoming a major global power. How close (or how far) is China from eventually becoming what the nineteenth century Qing dynasty reformers envisioned for her, i.e. a rich and powerful state (fuguo qiangbing)? -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Readings and uses of the Great Learning
Colloque international organisé par la chaire d’Histoire intellectuelle de la Chine du Collège de France. La Grande Étude est un petit texte qui a connu un large et long destin non seulement en Chine, mais aussi au-delà, notamment en Corée et au Japon où il a donné lieu à des développements considérables. Ce sont les multiples interprétations, utilisations, instrumentalisations et reconstructions de ce texte devenu canonique qui font l’objet du présent colloque réunissant des spécialistes internationaux de disciplines et de domaines très divers. / The core idea of this conference is to look into different modes of interpretation and implementation (philosophical, political, religious, etc) of the Great Learning in various historical and cultural contexts, in China, Korea and Japan, including the most contemporary aspects related to the “Confucian revival” of the past decades. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Tradition, Statecraft and Reform
Qiu Jun 's Daxue yanyi and its influence in Ming-Qing China
Ce séminaire s’inscrit dans une série sur le thème « Statecraft and the Chinese Origins of Political Economy » initiée par Timothy Brook, dont la première réunion a eu lieu en mai 2010 à Vancouver (Canada). Comme l’an passé, les contributions seront consacrées au contenu et à l’influence du Daxue yanyi bu 大學衍義補 (supplément au sens élargi de la Grande Étude) de Qiu Jun 邱濬 (1420-1495). Ce vaste traité en 160 chapitres passe en revue les fonctions de l’État en s’appuyant sur les classiques, les histoires et les auteurs du passé, et fait des propositions pour le présent. Il passe pour avoir exercé une grande influence sur les théoriciens et les praticiens de l’« administration du monde » (jingshi 經世, statecraft) à la fin de la période impériale, que nous chercherons à évaluer. Chaque session sera consacrée pour partie à la lecture d’extraits du Daxue yanyi bu. Les débats se dérouleront pour l’essentiel en anglais. -
New Delhi
Conference, symposium - Economy
The Globalization of Production Models and Innovation in Emerging Economies
Comparative Research on Subnational Industrial Policies
This seminar will bring together scholars examining research themes pertaining to the evolution of production models in regions of India and China, in relation to the progressive opening of these large economies to trade and FDI. Of particular interest are industrial and innovation policies emerging at the state or provincial level and the manner in which these public policies interact with firm-level strategies in pursuit of more broad-based development goals. Apart from the keynote session, five thematic sessions are planned: Upgrading Regional Industries in India and China; Subnational Industrial Policies in India and China; Social Dimensions of Regional Industrial Performance; Articulating industrial policies between central and local levels; Industrial Districts and Regional Policies. -
Taipei
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Social Critique and Mobilization: A Dialogue between French and Taiwanese Sociologists
This conference will try to uncover the assumptions about social critique and mobilization and how sociology makes these things social. To say it more concretely, we will try to share our different fieldwork approach and theoretical understanding of widely used concepts such as, for example, civil society, labor movements, environmental protest… We will try to analyze the interactions between social protest and the media, the state, political parties, industries, etc. -
Paris
La Méditerranée asiatique : rivalités et complémentarités entre centres d’affaires et financiers
International Trading and Financial Hubs in East and Southeast Asia: Rivalry and Complementarity
Les métropoles de Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, et Singapore, situées àla périphérie du corridor maritime d’Asie orientale, forment un système caractérisé parl’intensité de leurs échanges économiques, les différentes relations avec leur arrière-pays, etleur degré d’intégration dans l’économie mondiale. The metropolises of Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore located on the periphery of East Asia’s maritime corridor, form a system which is characterized by the intensity of their economic links, the different relationships they have with their hinterlands, and their level of integration within the world economy.
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