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• 15 nov 2018

  Manila

  Beitragsaufruf - Ethnologie, Anthropologie

  Disasters, Indigenous Knowledge, and Resilience

  The Center for Applied Research in the Social Sciences (CARESS) is an autonomous research center created through a consortium of international universities geared towards initiating and coordinating multi-disciplinary and inter-university research endeavors in various fields in the Social Sciences. Disaster studies have emerged in the past thirty years in different social sciences. The objective of the Conference is not just a simple superposition of disciplines, but an increased interaction seeking to understand local problems...

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• 15 mar 2017

  Tokyo

  Beitragsaufruf - Geschichte

  Présence africaine : Vers de nouvelles perspectives politiques et culturelles

  Identités, mémoires, résistances entre l’Afrique, l’Europe et les Amériques de la colonisation à la post-colonie

  Ce projet de recherche porte sur la revue littéraire et culturelle « noire » Présence Africaine, créée par le sénégalais Alioune Diop en 1947 et qui continue d’être publiée jusqu’à nos jours. En tant que revue majeure de l’intelligentsia « noire », elle a joué un rôle politique et culturel particulièrement important dans la période de la décolonisation autour des années 1950.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Taipeh

  Beitragsaufruf - Ethnologie, Anthropologie

  Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

  8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

  Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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