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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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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.

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Amman

Call for papers - Urban studies

Contemporary Amman and the Right to the City

A city of four million inhabitants today, Amman’s expansion has become disproportionate to its urban history. Amman has experienced an impressive urban growth over the past fifty years, driven by forced migration and market laws. Developing from a small rural settlement at the end of the 19^th century, Amman evolved into a regional crossroad at the end of the 20^th century, and has become today a symbol for the consolidation of Hashemite rule, and as a result, the site of its contestation. Amman’s exceptional position among other regional capitals and its recent urban history has forced its inhabitants to create narratives concerning the city’s foundation, invent urban traditions, and negotiate ways of socialization.

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Kuwait City

Call for papers - Urban studies

Urban Images and Imaginaries: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula through their representations

Arabian Humanities Journal, n.11 - Special issue

Four years after a special issue of Arabian Humanities tackled the subject of cities and urban dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula, the present call for papers aims to take another look at the specific urban forms of the region, this time through the lens of the images and imaginaries of the city.

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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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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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Baku

Conference, symposium - Modern

Identities on the move: the Caucasus between the local, the regional and the global

With a focus on Azerbaijan

Most of the time, the countries of the South Caucasus are being scrutinized from Moscow, Istanbul, and Tehran, the capital cities of the former empires that ruled the region for centuries and struggled for control over these territories. And indeed, be it the Russian, and then the Soviet empires, or the Persian and Ottoman empires, the Caucasus has been, and still is, very much affected by the influence of regional powers in a wide range of areas. As far as identity issues in the Caucasus are concerned, they tend to be studied mainly through post-Soviet lenses due to the influence of the Soviet nationalities policy. Although this inheritance still appears relevant today, the conference aims to put the emphasis on the complex set of processes that shape identities in a broad meaning.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Urban studies

Recherche en urbanisme : Moyen-Orient – Europe

Cet atelier a le double objectif de mettre au premier plan des questions qui intéressent les villes et l'urbanisme du Moyen-Orient et de l'Europe et de constituter un atelier international de jeunes chercheurs et de chercheurs confirmés pour aider à la préparation des thèses liées à l'urbanisme dans différents pays.

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Istanbul

Call for papers - Sociology

Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders

XIIth European Days of Galatasaray

Since 2002, the European Days of Galatasaray constitute an annual opportunity to bring together researchers interested in interdisciplinary topics related to Europe. The theme of the 12th European Days, is entitled: “Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders”.The goal of the conference is to tackle issues such as borders, new forms of mobility, migration policies and securitization in a changing context strongly marked by the financial and economic crisis in the region.

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Amman

Call for papers - Geography

Circulation, borders, and migratory control in the Middle-East

L’Institut français du Proche-Orient organise un colloque à Amman les 29 et 30 mai 2014 sur la thématique des circulations humaines dans la région du Moyen-Orient (Turquie, Iran, Proche-Orient, Golfe). L’objectif est de réfléchir à la manière dont s’articulent les flux de circulation avec les contextes conflictuels qui caractérisent l’espace régional et la manière dont les différents États tentent de s’adapter à ces flux et de les encadrer. Dans un contexte de crise, les transformations spatiales des espaces frontaliers, des villes d’accueil, des zones où séjournent et se regroupent migrants et réfugiés seront au centre de ce colloque. De plus, le contexte socio-historique où des flux de migrants, de marchands, de pèlerins ou de réfugiés participent, depuis fort longtemps déjà, aux recompositions socio-spatiales de lieux qui servent de transit et d’accueil à ces populations mobiles, sera abordé pour questionner les flux actuels.

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Abu Dhabi

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Assistant lecturer position in history

Le département « Histoire, civilisations et enjeux internationaux » de l'université Paris Sorbonne Abou Dhabi recherche un professeur assistant pour la prochaine année académique. Ce professeur assistant enseignera en Licence et Master (234 heures/année académique) et fera de la recherche. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées avant le 4 mai 2014.

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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.

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Beirut

Conference, symposium - History

Exploring time in the Lebanon and Near-East

On assiste depuis deux décennies à un regain d’intérêt des sciences sociales pour la question du temps et des temporalités. Le monde arabe et musulman n’a toutefois suscité que peu de réflexions en ce sens. Pourtant, l’historiographie sur le temps, qui puise essentiellement dans l’expérience occidentale (centralité du christianisme, de la culture marchande du Moyen Âge puis de la Révolution industrielle…), doit sans doute être révisée et ajustée à la réalité du terrain proche-oriental. L’objet de ce colloque est d’explorer la question du temps, dans ses dimensions concrètes et abstraites, au Liban et au Proche-Orient, afin d’en restituer les spécificités et de mettre au jour les mécanismes sociaux, les déterminants qui ont fait évoluer, sur le long terme, cette notion complexe dans la région.

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Beirut

Call for papers - History

Literature, art and the contemporary world: accounts, history, memory

Parallèlement à l’évolution de la critique littéraire qui revient à considérer aujourd’hui l’objet littéraire à l’intérieur du contexte historique et politique de sa production, l’une des tendances de la littérature postmoderne consiste à mettre en scène des histoires individuelles dans leurs relations avec les événements collectifs. Au Liban en particulier, face à ce qui est vécu comme une amnésie collective entreprise depuis 1990, sponsorisée et entretenue par l’État et la volonté de reconstruction, tandis que des travaux mettent au contraire l’accent sur le travail du deuil et de l’oubli qu’ils envisagent comme une pratique nécessaire par laquelle le passé est interrogé et le présent confronté, artistes, cinéastes et romanciers se donnent pour mission de raconter et de réactiver les processus qui permettent de comprendre le passé refoulé, mobilisant pour ce faire les paradigmes du récit et de la mémoire, voire questionnant et bouleversant l’usage de ces derniers. Ce colloque se donne pour objectif de donner à voir, dans le cadre d’une approche interdisciplinaire (esthétique, historique, sociologique, philosophique, psychologique ou narratologique) comment littérature et arts interagissent face à ces problématiques communes.

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Abu Dhabi

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Boom Cities: Urban Development in the Arabian Peninsula

Cities in the Arabian Peninsula are at the intersection of global energy markets, local and regional politics, international investment, religious networks, and labor migrations. This conference convenes international specialists of urban studies to map the latest evolutions in the field.

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Beirut

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

L'Ifpo recrute en 2013 son directeur du département scientifique « Études contemporaines »

Le poste de Directeur du département des études contemporaines de l'Institut français du Proche-Orient sera renouvelé en septembre 2013. L'appel à candidature est publié sur le site du Ministère des affaires étrangères.

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Beirut

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia

IFPO director of the "Archaeology and history of Antiquity" directorship, 2013

Le poste de Directeur du département scientifique « Archéologie et histoire de l’Antiquité » de l'Institut français du Proche-Orient sera renouvelé en septembre 2013. L'appel à candidature est publié sur le site du Ministère des affaires étrangères.

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Amman

Study days - Geography

Borders and Circulations in the Middle East

Dynamics of Border Spaces and Transborder Circulations

« Frontières et circulations au Moyen-Orient ». Dynamiques des espaces frontaliers et des circulations transfrontalières, les mardi 12 juin et mercredi 13 juin 2012, à partir de 10h à l'Ifpo-Amman.

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Beirut

Conference, symposium - Religion

Les communautés religieuses dans le Bilâd al-Shâm (XIe-XIVe siècle)

Contacts et visions croisées

Ce colloque, qui aura lieu les 19 et 20 novembre, s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Le Bilâd al-Shâm face aux mondes extérieurs (XIe-XIVe s.) » co-dirigé par Denise Aigle et Katia Zakharia (à partenariats multiples). Il réunit des chercheurs de l' Ifpo, de plusieurs UMR du CNRS en France et des chercheurs syriens, libanais et jordaniens.

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Amman

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa: Disciplines in Dialogue

International Conference organised by the British Institute in Amman, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan, theFrench Institute for the Near East ( IFPO) and the University of Bern, from January, 14th to January, 16th.

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