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• 15 jan 2021

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  Locating the Lost Archive of Arab Cinema

  This special issue asks how our histories of Arab cinema might change if we tackle the problem of Arab cinema’s lost archive(s). From most of the films made in Lebanon prior to 1975 to the cinemas of Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere, there are many reasons why films and their histories may have been lost to current memory. From structural and environmental issues and the lack of investment in proper storage facilities and maintenance.

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• 31 déc 2019

  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 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.

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• 30 nov 2019

  Amman

  Call for papers - Modern

  Puppets on screen

  In this symposium project, puppets are considered through their tangible links with a manipulator who could be visible, hidden by a classical stage device (curtain, base...) or acting off-camera, “between the frames” (stop motion). It excludes, at first glance, the 3D modeled figurines, even if they often are mentioned as “puppets”. These creatures, made of foam, wood, paper, and who can be realistic or abstract, are considered through a media existence (television, cinema, web) which has enriched the subgenres of post-war fiction, deals with subjects that could not be filmed in real capture, or offers the opportunity to experiment a great variety of tones and points of view in video practice, without geographical or temporal restrictions. Thus, the symposium will provide the opportunity to explore fields on the margins of research as well as to present the current knowledge on the topic, eventually opening new perspectives in the studies.

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• 31 mai 2019

  Amman

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Post-doctoral grant in contemporary studies

  L’Ambassade de France à Amman et l’Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) proposent une allocation post-doctorale pour un séjour de recherche de quatre mois en Jordanie durant l’année 2019, sur l’une des thématiques suivantes : la question palestinienne en Jordanie face à la politique américaine actuelle dans le conflit israélo-palestinien ; les différentes facettes de la politique turque actuelle en Jordanie ; réformes politiques et contestation sociale en Jordanie.

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• 30 avr 2019

  Kuwait City

  Call for papers - Thought

  Pop Culture in the Arabian Peninsula

  Arabian Humanities No. 14 (Spring 2020)

  The literature on pop culture in the Arabian Peninsula is particularly thin. While a rich scholarship has analyzed oral culture and vernacular poetry, less ink was spilled on those forms of culture that use new media, from tape recording to mobile phone aps and from TV production to YouTube. This issue of Arabian Humanities seeks to fill that gap and to analyze pop culture in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. 

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• 28 mai 2019

  29 mai 2019

  30 mai 2019

  Beirut

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  New Middle-Eastern digital research archives - sound, image, film and web

  Data sharing between Lebanon, Jordan and Syria

  Les chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales qui ont choisi le Proche-Orient comme terrain d'investigation scientifique depuis le XIX^e siècle ont constitué des fonds documentaires comprenant tous les types de sources. Chercheur·e·s libanais·es, syrien·nne·s ? Jordannien·ne·s et Français·es ont produit et mobilisé des corpus de notes et carnets de terrain ou de fouilles, photographies, films et enregistrements sonores, sites web... Ces ensembles constituent des collections qui sont susceptibles d'éclairer l'histoire de la région et d'aider à la compréhension du temps présent. Ces collections restent pourtant souvent difficilement accessibles, parfois même inconnues du monde académique et culturel et bien plus encore des différents publics concernés.

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• 15 mai 2019

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Body in all its states. Aesthetics of the body in the Arab World

  "Regard" Journal

  The current issue of Regards will focus on the relations between the arts (cinema, theater, dance, visual arts…) and the body in the Arab societies and, more broadly, in the Mediterranean region. This sensitive subject suffers from prejudgment and prejudice in both audience’s and critics’ minds.

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• 09 mar 2019

  Tokyo

  Conference, symposium - History

  Otherness and religious deviance - for a comparative approach to heresy in the history of religions

  Pour une approche comparatiste de l’hérésie en histoire des religions

  Ce colloque international réunira des conférenciers japonais et européens. Le but est d'entamer une réflexion sur l'hérésie comme catégorie conceptuelle en histoire et en histoire des religions, avec une vaste ouverture chronologique (de l'Antiquité au XIX^e siècle) et géographique (Japon et Europe). Selon la méthode comparatiste, il s’agira d’affiner ou de nuancer la compréhension de son propre domaine en se confrontant à une matière différente. Une telle approche permettra de proposer de nouvelles perspectives afin de dépasser les acquis de domaines restés longtemps en vase clos. Cette conférence s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche Pouvoir, hérésie et religion dans l'Occident et le Japon médiéval : étude comparée mené à l'université de Neuchâtel soutenu par le Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS).

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• 04 mar 2019

  05 mar 2019

  Nagoya

  Conference, symposium - History

  The discourses of heresy - East-West comparison exercises

  Exercices de comparaison Est-Ouest

  Ce colloque international réunira des médiévistes japonais et européens, dont les recherches portent sur la légitimation religieuse de la violence, la répression de la dissidence ou sur des formes de religiosité ayant été considérées comme déviantes dans leurs contextes respectifs. Les différentes contributions porteront sur des aspects particuliers tirés des recherches personnelles des conférenciers. Selon la méthode comparatiste définie par M. Détienne et affinée par P. Borgeaud, il s’agira de se confronter à une matière différente de son aire de spécialité, dans le but d’affiner ou de nuancer la compréhension de son propre domaine. Une telle approche permettra de proposer de nouvelles perspectives afin de dépasser les acquis de domaines restés longtemps en vase clos.

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• 30 mar 2019

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Modern

  International migration in the 21st century

  La quatrième conférence intitulée « Migrations internationales au XXI^e siècle » du Centre de recherche sur l’éducation et culture globales de l’université Yeditepe avec la participation des académiciens et spécialistes de migration internationale, aura lieu les 10-11 octobre 2019 dans le campus de l’université Yeditepe à Istanbul.

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• 17 fév 2019

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Modern

  Litera: the research journal of language, literature and culture – Varia section

  Volume: 29, no. 1, Year: 2019

  L’objectif de la revue est de publier des recherches disciplinaires et/ou interdisciplinaires, méthodologiques et/ou appliquées autour de la littérature, de la linguistique, de la culture, du média, de la traductologie et de l’enseignement de langue étrangère, focalisées sur les langues et littératures occidentales.

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• 31 oct 2018

  Ariel

  Summer School - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Mapping Ancient Gods

  ERC Advanced Grant MAP project (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency)

  The ERC Advanced Grant MAP project (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency; 741182; http://map-polytheisms.huma-num.fr1) works on the naming systems for the divine in the Greek and Western Semitic worlds, from 1000 BCE to 400 CE and views them as testimonies to the way in which divine powers are constructed, arranged and involved within ritual. The analysis deals both with the structural aspects of the religious systems and with their contextual appropriation by social participants. Considered to be elements of a complex language, the onomastic channels are related to the gods, therefore providing access to a mapping process of the divine, to its ways of representation and to the communication strategies between men and gods.Within this framework, the MAP Team proposes a Summer School in collaboration with the French Research Centre in Jerusalem (http://www.crfj.org) which covers the project’s themes and tools.

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• 11 jui 2018	12 jui 2018	19 jui 2018
  20 jui 2018

  Tel Aviv | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  The Renaissance of origins

  Beginnings, genesis and creation in 15th-16th century arts

  Cette manifestation, ouverte gratuitement au grand public, souhaite interroger les multiples et diverses modalités de représentation des origines au sein des arts figuratifs à la Renaissance. Quelles sont les conditions d’émergence et d’existence d’un discours figuré sur les origines ? Y-a-t-il des thèmes, motifs ou figures qui invitent plus spécifiquement à une telle mise en scène ? Quelles sont les fins de la convocation de ces figures de l’origine ? Le colloque aura lieu au mois de juin 2018, à Tel Aviv puis à Paris, le temps de quatre journées et réunira une trentaine de spécialistes principalement français et israéliens.

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• 18 mai 2018

  Kaohsiung City

  Call for papers - Language

  Euro-Asian Overlook on the Innovation and Development of the Teaching of European Languages and Literature

  2018 International Conference on European Asian Languages ​

  This symposium focuses on the Innovation and Development of the Teaching of European Languages and Literature in European-Asian, in which scholars and experts from Euro-Asian countries/areas focusing on various strands in French, German and Spanish are invited to deliver a wide range of talks on related topics.

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• 31 mar 2018

  Bangkok

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Fieldwork grants in South East Asia, 2018

  L’Irasec met à concours chaque année deux bourses d’aide à la recherche sur le terrain. Ces bourses s’adressent en priorité à des doctorant·e·s et à des post-doctorant·e·s français ou étrangers (inscrits dans une université française pour les doctorant·e·s ou associé à un laboratoire de recherche français pour les post-doctorant·e·s) poursuivant des recherches sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine. Elles sont destinées à mener des enquêtes de terrain sur la thématique du doctorat, approfondir des recherches déjà engagées en thèse ou entamer un nouveau terrain post-doctoral. Les problématiques doivent apporter une perspective originale et novatrice sur l’Asie du Sud-Est, relevant des champs disciplinaires suivants : sciences politiques, sciences économiques, sciences sociales (anthropologie, sociologie, géographie, droit, histoire contemporaine).

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• 15 jui 2017

  Beirut

  Summer School - History

  Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources

  During the four-day programme we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, but postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at local, provincial and imperial levels. We concentrate mainly on materials from the 16^th and 20^th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives.

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• 01 jui 2017

  Tel Aviv | Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Renaissance of Origins

  Beginnings, Genesis and Creation in the Art of the VXth and XVIth Centuries

  This conference seeks to introduce a variety of different approaches and interpretations of the concept of “origins” within the visual arts during the Renaissance. However, to consider the question of origins necessitates establishing a distinction between an original beginning such as the creation of the world, an event which initiated historical time, and the symbolic exercises of re-creation that follow it. These phenomena of echo or aemulatio are defined by their manifest desire to capture the primal energy of the original beginning. Such re-creations attempt to reproduce the vitality inherent in the original beginning, and are characterized, above all, by a fundamental desire to reestablish a link to an ideal and initial origin.

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• 04 mar 2017	05 mar 2017	06 mar 2017
  07 mar 2017

  Abu Dhabi

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Middle East and Europe: cross-cultural, diplomatic and economic exchanges in the early modern period (1500-1820)

  This conference is an international symposium that proposes to study the entire range of exchanges and relations established between these two areas during the Early Modern Times (1500-1820). Its main objective is to think about diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural links between Europe and the Middle East by calling upon over twenty researchers with specializations in the Arab, Persian and Muslim world. In addition, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview to date of the Arabian Gulf at a time of major political change, including the successive arrival of the European “trading empires”. It will focus on some of the methodological challenges raised by a global, connected and cross-cultural thinking approach to the History of the Middle East and Europe”.

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• 30 jan 2017

  Byblos

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  How globalisation is transforming cities?

  Organisées par l'Institut d'urbanisme de l'Alba - université de Balamand - les 19^e rencontres de l'APERAU 2017 se dérouleront du 21 au 26 Mai au Liban dans la ville de Byblos. La thématique principale portera sur le rôle de la mondialisation / globalisation dans la transformation des villes. Pour conduire cette exploration, nous proposons six entrées thématiques : les nouvelles centralités, les normes mondiales et les systèmes d'ajustement, les modèles et les logiques d'investissement, le rôle des objets métropolitains iconiques, le patrimoine et la mondialisation, et finalement le tourisme urbain et la mondialisation.

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• 18 nov 2016

  Ariel

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Jewish Perceptions of the Revolutionary Transition (1789-1814)

  World Congress of Jewish Studies

  We are putting together a proposal for one session at the World Congress of Jewish Studies focused on Jewish perceptions of the revolutionary period in Europe (1789-1814). Our goal is to generate a discussion about Jewish responses to the French revolutionary transition and emancipatory paradigm in the European broader context, as we believe that Jewish sympathies and resistances should be reconsidered from a multidisciplinary perspective involving political as well as cultural, religious, social and economic issues.

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