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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 31 oct 2016

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Law

  Freedom of expression and its judges - new issues, new perpectives?

  Ce colloque n’entend pas reprendre les thèmes liés à l’histoire de la liberté d’expression et à ses dimensions théoriques. Prenant le terrain pour objet d’analyse, il doit permettre d’observer les effets du renouvellement des supports de la liberté d’expression en ce début de siècle pour envisager son traitement quotidien, au fil des espèces et des situations, par les pouvoirs publics. L’on devra ainsi s’interroger sur la mutation de la liberté d’expression dans ses rapports avec le droit et les institutions, avant de décortiquer la manière avec laquelle l’autorité étatique – administrative et juridictionnelle, en amont comme en aval – trace les contours de cette liberté, ses conditions d’exercice et ses limites. L’objectif de ce colloque est ainsi de questionner – dans une approche comparative ouverte sur différentes expériences nationales – les ambigüités de la liberté d’expression telle qu’elle apparaît dans les pratiques récentes des individus, des professionnels du droit et de la sécurité.

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• 15 jui 2016

  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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• 22 avr 2016

  23 avr 2016

  Tokyo

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Research on Ancient History in Colonial Korea under Japanese Rule

  Archaeology, History and Heritage Policies in East Asian Modern History

  This international conference will explore Japanese academic practices towards Ancient Korea (history, archaeology, heritage protection policies), while also considering the precedent established by French archaeological practices in colonial Cambodia and the case of continental China. 

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• 31 mar 2016

  Bangkok

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Political studies

  Field grants in South East Asia, 2016

  Assistance in research and publication

  L’Irasec, Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine dont le siège est à Bangkok, met à concours deux bourses couplant aide à la recherche et aide à la publication. S’adressant en priorité à des doctorants en fin de thèse et à des postdoctorants, ces bourses sont destinées à reprendre des premières enquêtes de terrain en vue d’approfondir des recherches déjà engagées (chapitres de thèse etc.). 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, histoire contemporaine).

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• 15 jan 2016

  Ulan Bator

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Can regions understand each other?

  Europe and Asia: challenges and crisis-management

  Further to the first Europe-Asia conferences exploring regional regime dynamics (France, 2004), policies of regional cooperation (Korea, 2005), interregional competition (France, 2012) and the limits of regional constructions (Kazakhstan, 2014), this 2016 edition will look at the reciprocal understanding of regions and how that is conducive to their capacity (or lack thereof) to monitor crises they undergo, both specific crises and interregional ones. Papers must address original research, in regional dynamics of Asia and Europe, since the end of the cold war and focus on one area among.

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• 01 nov 2015

  Taipei

  Call for papers - Asia

  Young researchers days in Taiwanese studies

  L'antenne de Taipei du Centre d’études français sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC Taipei) et l’Association francophone d’études taïwanaises (AFET) vous informent de la tenue de leur seconde journée d'études jeunes chercheurs en études taiwanaises à Taipei les vendredi 4 et samedi 5 décembre 2015, dans le locaux du CEFC Taipei, à l'Academia Sinica.

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• 18 jui 2015

  19 jui 2015

  Tokyo

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  70 ans après la seconde guerre mondiale

  Ombres et lumières de la pensée japonaise d'après-guerre

  Au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale, les intellectuels japonais reviennent sur la dérive impérialiste et réfléchissent sur les conditions d’une démocratie à reconstruire. Que reste-t-il aujourd’hui de ces débats ? Encore méconnus en Europe, ils glissent vers l’oubli au Japon. Pourtant, nombre de questions soulevées alors n’ont pas perdu de leur actualité. Des chercheurs japonais, coréens, suisses et français, discuteront des enjeux à relire ces auteurs aujourd’hui et entamerons une réflexion commune sur leur héritage par-delà les frontières.

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• 15 mai 2015

  16 mai 2015

  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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• 31 déc 2014

  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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• 15 nov 2014

  16 nov 2014

  Kyoto

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  The idea of medieval architecture in Europe and Japan

  L'idée d'architecture est aujourd'hui universellement partagée. Qu'en était-il au Moyen Âge au Japon et en Europe ? Comment percevait-on alors les abbatiales romanes et les cathédrales gothiques, les temples Zen et le style Grand Bouddha ? Et, de nos jours, quelle perception de l'architecture médiévale ont les historiens de l'art en Europe et au Japon ? Le XIX^e siècle a insisté sur les convergences entre les cultures japonaises et européennes. Ne faut-il pas réévaluer les différences, qui sont aussi des signatures culturelles ? Ces questions, qui trouvent une application concrète dans la conservation du patrimoine médiéval, engagent profondément notre présent.

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• 23 jui 2014

  Nablus

  Call for papers - Modern

  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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