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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 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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Beirut
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.
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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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Holon | Bordeaux
Street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine
Memories, identities, politics
The exhibition will examine street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine as an outcome of dialectic processes, short and long termed, of spatial production and attached imagery and symbolism. That is, beyond being a signifier of a spatial orientation per se.
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Beirut
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 16th and 20th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives.
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Amman
Summer School - Epistemology and methodology
Training in reading and the analysis of sources in the Ottoman administration - doctoral school
École doctorale
Nous proposons, sur trois journées et demie, d’initier de jeunes chercheurs (étudiants en master, doctorants et éventuellement post-doctorants) à la lecture et l’analyse de diverses sources manuscrites issues des institutions administratives ottomanes provinciales et impériales en arabe, en osmanlı ou mélangeant ces deux langues.
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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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Nablus
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.
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Arbil Governorate
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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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.
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Ariel
Constructed spaces and historical communities
La fondation Calouste Gulbenkian soutient l'organisation d'un colloque international au patriarcat arménien de Jérusalem, les 3 et 4 juillet 2014, sur le thème : « La genèse de Jérusalem : espaces construits et communautés historiques ». Il s'agit de s'interroger sur la construction historique et sociale de la Jérusalem contemporaine en étudiant les relations entretenues par les différentes communautés de la ville avec l'espace qui les entoure, dans leurs multiples dimensions, aussi bien religieuses que séculières. Les organisateurs encouragent une approche pluridisciplinaire. Le colloque est ouvert à toutes les aires culturelles potentiellement concernées, et notamment aux spécialistes en études arméniennes. Il mettra l'accent sur les périodes moderne et contemporaine.
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Beirut
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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Beirut
Light in the Religions of the Book: A Multidisciplinary Approach
If light is a valuable tool for the development of buildings, it also meets the requirements of practical and functional needs. Beyond its purely aesthetic role, it is indeed a way to delineate the space and to organize its occupation by defining spatialities and temporalities adapted to the functions of the building. In order to assess the significance of spatial and temporal dimensions of light, a cross-reading of architectural, archaeological, textual and iconographic sources might be particularly fruitful. The theme of light which, somewhat complex, constitutes a privileged entry point not only to the study of man's relationship to space and the sacred, but also to the development – within or between monotheisms – of influences, exchanges, ruptures, continuities and legacies. The goal of the conference is to explore the theme of light in the East and in the West, during the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in a transdisciplinary perspective and within five thematic panels.
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Beirut | Tripoli
Exploring time in the Lebanon and the 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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Ariel | Bīr Zayt
Conference, symposium - History
150 years of French contributions to Palestinian archaeology
Colloque organisé par l'Ifpo, l'institut français, le Consulat général de France de Jérusalem, l'université de Birzeit et l’École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem. -
Beirut | Amman
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Ifpo international travel grants
L'Ifpo propose, au sein de ses trois départements des aides à la mobilité internationale (AMI), attribuées par le ministère des Affaires étrangères, à des étudiants doctorants inscrits en thèse dans une université française et effectuant leur recherche doctorale dans l'un des domaines suivants, correspondant aux trois départements scientifiques de l'Ifpo : Archéologie et histoire de l'Antiquité du Proche-Orient ; Études arabes, médiévales et modernes portant sur le Proche-Orient ; Études contemporaines portant sur le Proche-Orient. -
Beirut
Bulletin d’études orientales – Varia
Appel à contributions pour le numéro 62 du Bulletin d’études orientales (2013), qui sera non thématique. Les propositions de contribution doivent être soumises avant le 15 janvier 2013. -
Beirut
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Researcher position in Medieval and modern Arabic studies at the Ifpo
L'Ifpo recrute un chercheur pour son département des études arabes, médiévales et modernes. -
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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