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Paris

Conference, symposium - Africa

The Routes of Medieval Africa

11th-17th centuries

This symposium will take stock of the theoretical ambition of this programme, relative to the disciplinary tools available to us today, to disclose, to distinguish and above all to ponder the historical connections established. If the plants, epidemics, commercial goods or written materials are proof of often-forgotten connections, they inform us only indirectly on the intensity and consequences of these economic, political and cultural connections for the societies of Southern, Eastern or Western Africa. Starting from this observation, the historians, archaeologists, linguists, and philologists involved in this release will reflect on multidisciplinary models that go beyond the observation of a connection and switch towards a more integrative concept of “route,” understood, in the broader sense, as a connection in progress. I this respect, the third and final objective of this symposium will stimulate further reflection on the routes that crisscrossed medieval Africa, and the practices, mobilities, and representations that they created.

Aix-en-Provence

Conference, symposium - History

Argument for argument's sake. Disputes and religious conversion from Antiquity to the 17th century

ANR Pocram fourth thematic conference

Quatrième colloque thématique du programme ANR Pocram, Disputer pour disputer. Disputes et conversions religieuses de l'Antiquité au XVIIe siècle s'intéresse aux interventions du pouvoir politique dans la confrontation religieuse sous la forme de « disputes », rencontres orales et agonistiques entre adversaires religieux.

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2017

Call for papers - Africa

Epic sagas and colonial wars - connected histories

Cette livraison de Recueil Ouvert propose une recherche interdisciplinaire sur les emplois et les réemplois du genre épique liés aux guerres coloniales. Elle offre un espace de réflexion doublement comparatiste qui vise à penser les circulations entre les continents soumis à la colonisation européenne mais aussi les resémantisations de la guerre coloniale en contexte postcolonial.

Ivry-sur-Seine

Ethiopia and the West

Representations, circulations and knowledge (Medieval and Modern times)

Cette journée d’étude s’inscrit dans le prolongement d’une table-ronde, organisée par Robin Seignobos et Benjamin Weber, qui s’est tenue en 2011 autour de la question des rapports entre Occident et Éthiopie dans le contexte des croisades. La période envisagée est ici élargie de façon à aborder les modalités de la rencontre entre Éthiopie et Occident dans une temporalité plus longue incluant aussi l’époque moderne. Lors de la précédente journée, les discussions avaient mis en lumière la nécessité d’orienter les recherches du côté des circulations, matérielles ou immatérielles, celle des informations et des textes mais aussi celle des personnes et des objets qui en sont les vecteurs. C’est autour de cette thématique qu’est bâtie la présente rencontre qui entend ainsi faire converger des champs historiographiques évoluant le plus souvent en parallèle et proposer un regard moins univoque des relations entre l’Occident et l’Éthiopie.

Paris

Christian and Islamic Manuscripts: A Comparative Approach (12th–20th century)

Since the middle of the first millennium of our era, Ethiopia has seen the development of two manuscript book cultures which seem to have evolved separately, on geopolitical territories for a long time distinct, in the service of different religions and administrations. These manuscript cultures also developed in various languages and scripts which have compartmentalised research on the subject. Research today into Ethiopian manuscripts as Islamic and Christian renews the questions as to the points of contact between the histories of these books: whether they were produced in Ethiopia, or whether they are to be sought in the exchanges between Ethiopia and neighbouring countries, as they left their mark in the texts or in the different aspects of manuscript books. One could also investigate other traditions and manuscript practices which existed in the same area.

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