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• 08 jan 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Rethinking halal: Genealogy, current trends, and new interpretation

  The issue of halal sprang up in the early 1980s, but only in the past 10 years has it become a salient concern, especially in Europe and Asiatic non-Muslim countries, mainly for business purposes and other economic activities. Since then, halal has progressively encompassed all aspects of modern human life, including halal food-processing, halal hotel, halal sauna, halal cosmetics, halal drugs, halal fashion, halal taxi, halal airline, etc.  From this halal phenomenon, many new things arose: halal certificate bodies (HCB), Islamic marketing, Islamic finance, and the like. Accordingly, halal has been continuously normalized and standardized by modern rationality that has turned it into a practice and policy for regulating Muslims in their whole daily life. These new practices in economy progressively required new kinds of scholars (‘ulama) committees to deal with new discoveries in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, in order to issue fatwas on such issues, which did not exist or were different in the past within classical-fiqh discussion.

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• 10 déc 2015

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Modern

  Defeating impunity, promoting international justice

  The Belgian Experience (1870-2015)

  This conference seeks to discuss the Belgian record of engagement with international law and justice and to put this national experience in international perspective. It specifically questions the way in which the judiciary dealt with gross violations of international law in the wake of war and how legal actors responded to the challenges of an emergent and developing set of international laws, from 1870 to 2015. 

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• 10 nov 2006

  Brussels

  Call for papers - America

  El fraude monetario en los espacios atlanticos: pasado y presente (siglos XV al XX)

  Simposio (HIST/RI-5) del V° Congreso Europeo CEISAL de Latinoamericanistas: Las Relaciones intercontinentales entre Europa y las Americas

  Le symposium s'adresse à ceux qu'intéressent l'histoire sociale de la fraude monétaire en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes sur la longue durée (XVe-XXe siècles). Le thème de ce symposium est considéré dans un sens large, comprenant aussi bien le faux monnayage que la contrebande monétaire et ses représentations. L'objectif de cette rencontre est d'analyser le rôle des fraudes monétaires dans les rapports entre le continent américain et l'Europe.

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