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• 05 nov 2020

  06 nov 2020

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Catholic migrants in a plural society: religious and social anchoring

  Ce colloque s’intéresse aux catholiques migrants, originaires de sociétés africaines, créoles, asiatiques et latino-américaines en France, notamment à Paris et Lyon. Il privilégie une approche anthropologique-ethnologique tout en faisant appel à la sociologie, l’histoire, la géographie et le droit.

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• 01 mai 2020

  Leuven

  Call for papers - History

  Christian-Muslim Missionary Encounters, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Mission and Modernity Research Academy (MiMoRA#3)

  The study of missionary work occupies a central place in the interdisciplinary body of scholarship on relations and exchanges between Christianity and Islam in pre-modern as well as modern times. Most notably from the nineteenth century onwards, missions became an essential aspect of the globalization and modernization of these two ‘world religions’. Scholars from various disciplines have discovered the missionary encounter as a ‘space’ par excellence to observe and analyze Christian-Muslim interactions, which range from rejection and conflict to dialogue and mutual exchange. This research requires the breaching of the boundaries between disciplines, languages, scripts, archival heuristics, geographical and chronological specialisms; and the creation of an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. The aim of this international and multidisciplinary week-long research academy is to stimulate further critical study of the multilateral research on Christian-Muslim contacts and relationships in missionary contexts.

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• 30 nov 2019

  Naples

  Call for papers - History

  Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement

  The aim of this workshop is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe. Our assumption is that the Balkans, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula form an axis of circulation which is especially significant for our understanding of the Mediterranean Sea as a comprehensive space of cultural, political and religious contact.

   

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• 19 nov 2019

  20 nov 2019

  21 nov 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture

  Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture

  Rethinking Nancy Jay’s opposition between sacrifice and childbirth in what she defines a “remedy for having been born of woman”, the conference aims to explore new approaches to the maternal sacrifice as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor in the context of Jewish culture.

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• 30 oct 2019

  Jarandilla de la Vera

  Call for papers - Religion

  Ancient religion in rural settlements

  XVIII International ARYS Conference

  This conference aims to deconstruct the ideas of rural religion as mechanically reproducing urban rituals and religious hierarchies and of the rural world as a space of cultural and religious resilience against urbanity. Rural areas represented an arena for very situational processes of negotiation between, on the one hand, administrative patterns and related social configurations, and, on the other hand, processes of social conformance to the very characteristics of a local specific rural environment, of adaptation to its peculiar habitus and religious customs, possibly involving gods whose competences directly mirrored a geophysical environment made of mountains, rivers, woods, etc.

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• 30 oct 2019

  Málaga

  Call for papers - Religion

  Calling upon Gods, Offering Bodies

  Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social Reproduction

  The Department of Historical Science at the University of Málaga and the Institute of Historiography “Julio Caro Baroja” at the University of Carlos III of Madrid are organizing an international conference titled “Calling upon gods, offering bodies. Strategies of human-divine communication in the Roman Empire from individual experience to social reproduction”. Researchers of Ancient History, History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, and other related fields are invited to present their research on this topic. The conference aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative.

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• 06 jui 2019

  07 jui 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Controversy in the canteen: secularism, religion and nations (19th-21st centuries)

  Espace central dans la construction d’un habitus national républicain, en principe laïque, la cantine est un lieu pour inculquer les valeurs françaises aux enfants. Ces deux journées de colloque permettront d'identifier de nouvelles pistes de recherche pour aborder ces questions à partir des travaux historiographiques, ethnographiques, littéraires, et sociologiques sur la cuisine « française » ; la nourriture dite « religieuse » entre public et privé au passé et au présent ; et le corps « pratiquant » comme cible d’intervention étatique. Des practicien·ne·s venue·s d'écoles, de mairies et d'institutions aborderont ces mêmes questions pour élargir le cadre de ces discussions, et des chercheur·e·s évoqueront des comparaisons transnationales ainsi que d’autres controverses politico-religieuses. 

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• 30 mar 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Religion

  Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture

  Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture

  The phrase “maternal sacrifice” combines two complex terms entangled in an even more complex dynamic. First of all, “sacrifice”, a word whose definitions have been considered inadequate to describe the multiformity of practices and meanings it evokes as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor. James Watts distinguishes between “narrative traditions about killing people”, oriented towards an evaluation of killing and murder, and “the ritual killing of animals”, focused on the social functions of ritual and religion (Watts 2011, 8). To those categories a third level can be added that is related to the metaphorical use of the notion of sacrifice as the act of giving up something in order to attain a higher goal.

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• 02 avr 2019

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Gender, religions and media: emerging themes and perspectives

  ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies - Volume 12, no. 2(24)/ 2019

  Le présent numéro d’Essachess - Journal for Communication Studies tente de combler cette lacune en explorant les thèmes et les perspectives émergents qui se situent à la triple intersection du genre, de la religion et des médias. Les propositions d’articles se focaliseront sur des approches théoriques et des études de cas axées sur les problèmes des femmes...

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• 31 déc 2018

  Porto

  Call for papers - Religion

  O Gesto e a Crença

  Percursos, transferências e intermedialidade

  O colóquio O Gesto e a Crença, organizado no âmbito das atividades do grupo Sociabilidades e Práticas Religiosas (CITCEM), pretende ser uma plataforma de debate internacional e interdisciplinar para jovens investigadores que desenvolvam o seu trabalho no âmbito dos Estudos de Religião. Com o intuito de difundir novas perspetivas sobre as diversas vivências do religioso, este colóquio encontra-se aberto a contributos das mais diversas áreas das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, de modo a desenvolver campos de análise plurais e comparativos.

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• 31 déc 2018

  Porto

  Call for papers - Religion

  Gesture and Belief: routes, transfers and intermediality

  In the last decades, the body’s role and its agency have gained new centrality in the analysis of the religious experience. Through its connection with materiality, the religious expression surpasses the spiritual to be understood as a chain of relationships and encounters between bodies, objects and sensory stimuli. Accordingly, under the premise of “routes, transfers and intermediality”, this event seeks innovative readings on subjects that discuss, question and rethink dynamics of circulation, transmission and alterity, through an exchange of ideas and objects of study, which crosses borders and disciplines.

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• 29 oct 2018

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - Sociology

  When art reveals social problems

  Blaise Pascal était à la fois, un scientifique reconnu et un auteur de talent, une palette de compétences complémentaires, appréciée et alors facilement admise de tous. L’évolution de la société a conduit à ce que, petit à petit, culture académique et culture artistique soient séparées, limitant de facto des interactions entre ces deux domaines. Actuellement, de nombreuses initiatives visent à renouer les fils qui les unissaient et à créer de nouvelles synergies entre art et recherche. C'est le cas du projet Voilées qui, associant recherche, création artistique et cinématographique dans une démarche commune, a l'ambition, en partant d'un point de cristallisation, d'ouvrir les perspectives et d'interroger les a priori. Ce colloque est l'occasion de rendre compte de cette recherche action spécifique menée en sciences de l'information et de la communication, mais aussi et surtout d'élargir la réflexion à l'ensemble des sciences sociales.

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• 06 déc 2018

  Montpellier

  Study days - Asia

  China and modernity

  Si la modernité est incarnée en Occident par la rationalisation de l’État et de la société qui met à bas les mythes de la tradition et fait s’effondrer l’autorité de la religion et du pouvoir absolu, elle s’exprime dans l’Empire du Milieu d’une autre façon et sous une autre forme. Depuis les guerres de l’Opium au milieu du XIX^e siècle, la Chine se trouve sous l’influence massive du monde occidental, et prend l’Occident comme modèle à suivre pour se moderniser. Mais le processus de modernisation de la Chine est cependant marqué par le rejet d’une occidentalisation totale. La modernité occidentale semble étrangère aux Chinois, alors que ces derniers l’ont en réalité adaptée aux circonstances propres à leur pays. Cette journée d’étude vise à étudier les divers aspects de la question de la modernité dans la Chine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, afin de s’interroger sur les différentes formes de la modernisation « à la chinoise », au niveau politique, dans la société, dans la pensée, dans la littérature, dans les arts et dans la religion.

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• 30 sep 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Religion

  Thinking freely in religion in English-speaking countries

  This conference will explore the different ways by which thinking freely in religion has been understood and practiced in English-speaking countries since the Middle Ages. The starting point is the peculiar way by which freethought has been historically associated with hostility to religion. What is, therefore, thinking freely in religion? The conference calls for papers about the free spaces created by religious traditions and institutions in the English-speaking world and about how these spaces relate to freethought and to any way of thinking freely that is hostile to religion. The conference aims for a long-term perspective on the interactions between freethought and thinking freely, and calls for papers on any historical period from the Middle Ages to the present.

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• 19 jui 2018

  Ivry-sur-Seine

  Study days - History

  Jewish archives - a mirror of the relationship between the Jews, the State and the nation

  Dans le cadre de la thématique générale « Universalités et particularités en monde juif » du programme « Judaïsmes contemporains » du groupe « Sociétés, religions, laïcité » (GSRL), cette journée d'études analysera les processus de constitution d'« archives juives » comme miroir du rapport des juifs à l'État et à la nation. En quoi la conception d'« archives juives », séparées ou au contraire intégrées aux patrimoines écrits nationaux, reflète-elle les diverses formes de l'intégration des juifs aux États-nations aux XIX^e et XX^e siècles ? Les différentes contributions permettront d'explorer la place des juifs dans les récits nationaux à travers la place accordée par les institutions des différents États-nations concernés au patrimoine écrit de leurs minorités juives.

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• 30 avr 2018

  Écully

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Sharing meals. Social aspects of eating and cooking together

  Eating involves many other dimensions than just ingesting food. It is especially a social act, as it involves the social position and relationships of the individual in all of the included practices: supplying, cooking, dressing, ordering, ingesting, clearing, washing-up, managing left-overs, etc.  This symposium offers to explore, with a social science approach, the different dimensions associated with sharing meals (non exhaustive): Cultural differences in the manners of sharing meals; Specificity of the sharing of cooking times regarding the sharing of meal times; Use of commensality as a social action mean; Symbolic representation of the benefits of sharing meals (psychological, physiological, social); Comparison of meals regarding other eating times (snacking); Political/Diplomatic use of meals; Organization, perception and role of meals in institutions (school canteens, hospital, nursing homes, prisons…).

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• 02 mai 2018

  Montpellier

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Pluridisciplinary approaches to emotion

  Young researchers study day at the laboratory for studies and research in sociology and ethnology in Montpellier (LERSEM)

  Cette journée d’étude a pour but de cerner le thème de l’émotion à travers une approche pluri-disciplinaire comprenant, anthropologie, sociologie et les masters reliés au parcours sciences sanitaires sociales. Sont invités à intervenir des étudiants de masters des différentes disciplines qui présenteront des travaux sur l’émotion. Par ce biais, les étudiants de l’UFR 5 bénéficient d’une première expérience en matière de communication et d’organisation d'événements scientifiques.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berne

  Call for papers - Religion

  “Contemporary spiritualities” and “New Age”

  Ethnographic and historical-comparative approaches to a transnational field

  While the first theorists of secularization foresaw the gradual disappearance of religion from the public sphere, others observed a reorganization or even a “return of the sacred” on a worldwide scale. Aside from fundamentalisms which strongly uphold the idea of “tradition” and strengthen borders, new forms of religious expression have appeared transnationally, most often deinstitutionalized and integrated in civil society: for example, the “new religious movements”, and especially the more diffused and nebulous networks, groups and movements known under the generic terms of “New Age” and “contemporary spiritualities”.This session seeks to explore these new forms of transnational religiosity expressed through the notions of “spiritualities” and “New Age” from the perspectives of ethnography and the comparative social history of religion.

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• 10 déc 2017

  Bologna

  Call for papers - Religion

  Litany in the Arts and Culture

  The litany derives from ancient religious rites. Throughout the ages, however, it spread across many countries and became much more than a mere form of prayer. As has been demonstrated by our recent studies on the litanic forms in European poetry it is possible to reconstruct a cultural and literary map of European regions that traces the level of their participation in and contribution to the litanic tradition. The litanic verse is marked by religious semantics, but it also bears the mark of inter-European divisions, such as those experienced between and within various denominations, countries and nations, as well as the original folk cultures. Therefore, the litany may be of interest to scholars specializing in areas such the emergence of national identities and religious minorities, the crossover between art and religion as well as between music and poetry, the history of liturgy and spiritual life, the cultural exchanges between various nations.

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• 26 sep 2017	17 oct 2017	14 nov 2017
  05 déc 2017	19 déc 2017	...

  Paris

  Lecture series - Sociology

  Democracy, secularism and religion

  By the historian and sociologist, Dominique Schnapper

  Construire un lieu public commun à tous est apparu progressivement comme le moyen d’unir dans une même organisation politique les individus que leurs affiliations et leurs convictions personnelles opposaient les uns aux autres. Dans nos sociétés modernes ce principe démocratique s’inscrit entre particularisme et vocation universelle. Les habitudes communautaires couplées à des pratiques culturelles spécifiques peuvent créer une tension avec la modernité politique. Le renforcement de la démocratie passe alors par l’intégration républicaine et par une compréhension éclairée et une acceptation des valeurs qui la fonde.

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