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Beirut

Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content as well as narrative and aesthetic forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This edition of Regards aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

Beirut

Call for papers - Sociology

Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East

Lebanon Support is seeking submissions for the 2021 issue of the Civil Society Review on Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East. This CSR issue is interested in exploring the current landscape of gender and social justice activism both in Lebanon and across the MENA region through the lens of the myriad power dynamics embedded within the fields of “gender” and “gender equality” work and activism.

Beirut

Call for papers - Representation

Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content and narrative forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This conference aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

Nablus

Call for papers - Modern

Living, Consuming and Action in Glocal Palestine

More often than not, Palestine, characterised by conflict, is analysed through the sole lenses of its political or cultural idiosyncrasy. Yet, new ways of living, consuming and acting that are embedded in the global reality, have emerged in the previous years and remained understudied. This global dimension may be understood as an imposed and inescapable reality, yet it is also adopted, integrated, amended and applied to a local dimension, so as to create a purely Palestinian form of it.This event will gather mostly researchers and PhD students in social sciences specialised in Palestine but will also pursue a comparative approach by resorting to other cases in the Middle East, North Africa or Europe. The conference also aims at confronting various approaches at the crossroads between art and science, research and action; it will create the frame for a dialogue between social sciences and the works of artists, architects as well as the new actions and philosophy of citizen and activist societies.

Arbil Governorate

Call for papers - Modern

The evolving relations between nation-states and Kurdish areas

What impact on the modes of local governance?

The departments of contemporary studies of IFEA (Istanbul) and IFPO organize a workshop in Erbil, the 29th of May 2014. This workshop aims at analysing the evolving dynamics of the Kurdish populated areas in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. More precisely, it will focus on the changing interactions between the nation-states and the Kurdish political actors, and on the impacts of these transformations on the modes of local governance.

Ramallah

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Contestations, Emotions! Social and artistic expressions in the Public Space

A theoretical and practical perspective from the ground

During the recent movements of contestation in Mediterranean countries different kind of aesthetic gestures using the streets and the public spaces as places for a public manifestation of some social, ordinary -or radical- critic. They proceed from an ordinary culture that is transformed, adapted then spread out upon a new form in artistic tracks taking place in public spaces. These actions have both a critical and aesthetic dimension. They rely on the environment, mobilize cognitive, memorial and cultural or ordinary patterns. They also mobilize a common culture . This is the case of rap, new uses of old music, villages against occupation, graphic art in Palestine, in Egypt or in Syria. The conference will present and analyse some forms of experimentations, and public and critical commitments. What kind of “public spaces” is in use nowadays? How it configures new spaces of critic and public space and a new environment ? The panel will adopt a trans-disciplinary perspective by bringing together social scientists and practicers or activists.

Beirut

Study days - Sociology

Law and property in Lebanon : empirical investigations

Longtemps ignorées par les sciences sociales, la question du droit de propriété et de sa transmission au Liban, ainsi que celle des usages de la propriété et de ses droits dans différentes arènes méritent de faire l'objet d’une réflexion pluridisciplinaire privilégiant les méthodes d'enquête empiriques. Cette journée d'études, qui a lieu dans le cadre des programmes de recherche (ANR) PROMETEE et ANDROMAQUE (http://www.cjb.ma/205-andromaque-et-prometee.html) réunira ainsi des sociologues, des anthropologues, des historiens, des politologues et des juristes pour réfléchir à travers des études de cas et des travaux en cours sur ce que peut apporter l'étude des pratiques juridiques et judiciaires liées à la propriété à l'analyse du droit, de la norme et du politique au Liban et dans les pays voisins.

Amman

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan and the Near East

Living, Planning and Managing a Lasting Temporariness

Workshop on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan and the Near East, Living, Planning and Managing a Lasting Temporariness, Monday, March 7th, 2011, 9.15am-5.45pm, At the British Institute (CBRL), Tla' Al-Ali, Amman. Organized by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo). With the support of the French Embassy (Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle). Panel 1: Living a ‘lasting temporariness’: social practices and politics of daily life and panel 2: The governance and planning of ‘temporary’ spaces.

Beirut

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

The Ifpo is Recruiting its Head of the Urban Observatory Program - Beirut

L’Ifpo recrute son Responsable du programme Observatoire Urbain (Beyrouth). Prise de poste le 1er septembre 2011 ; dépôt des candidatures avant le 15 décembre 2010. Descriptif du poste : élaboration et mise en œuvre de recherches individuelles et collectives en sciences humaines et sociales sur le Proche Orient contemporain (programme « Observatoire urbain »).

Amman

Call for papers - Sociology

Workshop on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan

A Lasting Temporariness: Population, Space and Social Practices, 1990-2010

This one day workshop will focus on the social and spatial organization of the camps, the social practices of their inhabitants, and the influences, interpretations and effects of what we call a lasting temporariness on the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Due to their significance and status, the camps represent key social spaces for exploring patterns of interaction between different religious groups and national minorities, for examining governance, for studying development and planning issues (infrastructure and services), for mapping the constitution of territories and identities, and for analyzing the development of an intricate network of economic and political connections inside and outside of their spaces.

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Beirut

Conference, symposium - Modern

French-Iraqi scientific meeting

La vocation de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient est non seulement d’encourager la recherche française dans la région, mais aussi de jouer un rôle actif dans le développement des relations entre communautés universitaires française et proche-orientale. C’est dans cet esprit qu’a été organisée cette rencontre franco-irakienne à Beyrouth, en vue de renouer les liens ébranlés par la situation de guerre en Irak.

Beirut

Study days - Information

Mobilisations on Stage. Image of the Real and the Verity of the Image

Beirut Media Forum 2009

Cette nouvelle édition du Beirut Media Forum (BMF) se propose d’interroger la diversité notionnelle et la polysémie des usages des images « documentaires ». Nous nous attacherons particulièrement à l’analyse des procédures et des dispositifs de fabrication de ces images ainsi qu’aux rôles et aux fonctions qu’elles recèlent dans des contextes de sensibilisation, d’influence et de mobilisation au Moyen-Orient ou, au-delà, dans le regard qui est porté sur lui.

Beirut

Study days - Language

Beyrouth, carrefour de la traduction

Journée de réflexion organisée par l'Institut français du Proche-Orient, l'École de traducteurs et d'interprêtes de Beyrouth (ETIB - Université Saint-Joseph, Faculté des Lettres et des sciences humaines), l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie et la revue Transeuropéennes

Amman

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

Deux postes de chercheur à l'Institut français du Proche-Orient - Département des études contemporaines

Deux postes de chercheur (Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes) est à pourvoir à Amman, au sein du Département des études contemporaines, pour une prise de fonction en septembre 2010. Les candidatures doivent être déposées avant le 30 octobre 2009.

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