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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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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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Kuwait City
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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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
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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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
Graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Education in Arab Universities: Quality and Added Value
This conference is organized by the Arab Educational Information Network Shamaa and the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies and will be held in November 2013 in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference's objective is to provide a platform for educational researchers to present their perspectives on the current state of research studies in graduate programs in education and to raise questions regarding the quality of these studies. Papers presented will be subject to peer review process to be eligible for publication in the refereed conference proceedings. We hope that this conference will help capture the current practices in MA and PHD programs in education in the Arab countries, and will allow for a rich professional dialogue among its participants toward developing ideas and recommendations for improving these programs as well as the quality of their graduates and the studies they produce.
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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. -
Beirut
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia
IFPO unit director position, 2013
Le poste de Directeur de l'Institut français du Proche-Orient sera renouvelé en avril 2013. L'appel à candidature est publié sur le site du Ministère des affaires étrangères. -
Hebron
Conference, symposium - Economy
The Palestinian Political Economy: Daily practices, sustainability and prospects
Ce colloque scientifique, organisé à Hébron, ambitionne d’aller au-delà des approches institutionnelles. Il vise à permettre aux différents participants de présenter leurs travaux de terrain mais également à favoriser l’échange et le débat. Les contributions mettent l’accent sur différentes études de cas à Jérusalem, Gaza et en Cisjordanie, et liant approches micro et macro-sociales. Sans ignorer les problèmes de dépendance, les participants ont été encouragés à étudier les marchés, le secteur privé et les flux transnationaux. Cet événement scientifique, rassemblant une vingtaine de chercheurs palestiniens et internationaux ainsi que des acteurs économiques, entend aborder une un large panel de questions en confrontant les points de vue et les expériences. La diversité des analyses permettra sans doute de présenter une analyse nuancée de la complexité de l’économie palestinienne et de ses perspectives. -
Beirut
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
From suburbs to city, spaces and actors of urban negotiation
Colloque organisé par l’Institut français du Liban et l’Institut français du Proche-Orientavec le soutien du Fonds d’Alembert, à Beyrouth, les 31 octobre et 1er novembre 2011. -
Istanbul
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
Oryantalizmin Panzehiri
Le but de ce colloque n’est pas de revisiter l'univers d’Edward Saïd et d’analyser à nouveau la propension à projeter exotisme et clichés sur l’Orient. Les interventions s’interrogeront plutôt sur la façon dont la création contemporaine (artistique, architecturale) dans les pays d’Orient ressuscite, relit, réinterprète, s’approprie, récuse, ou tourne en dérision le regard orientaliste. Les domaines investigués seront l’architecture et l’esthétique urbaine, le roman et les arts contemporains. Les artistes seront invités à exposer leurs productions qui reflètent ce dialogue avec l’orientalisme. -
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
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. -
Damascus
Conference, symposium - History
New trends in the writing of Arabic history
Colloque organisé par l'Ifpo, coordonné par Maher Charif (Ifpo, Damas). Les 15 et 16 avril à l'Ifpo Damas, site de Abou Roumaneh.
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