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Erfurt
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies
Scholarships for Doctoral Researchers
Reference number: KFG 05/2020
The Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG, a DFG-funded “Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies”) „Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal Formations” at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt invites applications for Scholarships for Doctoral Researchers starting from January 2021 at the earliest. Scholarships are granted for a period of 12 months.
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Fossaz
Conference, symposium - Language
Narrative folklore in becoming: persistance and innovations
In a comparative perspective on the very long distance, the conference invites specialists in the field of Alpine narrative, western, central and eastern, to discuss with their colleagues who work on the Pyrenees and the Himalayas, via the Corsica, the Apennines or the Balkans. The main aim is to draw up new reflections on the evolution of these narrative practices and to understand their changing, profoundly heterogeneous, but at the same time universal.
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Paris
Artistic Activism in India (History, Practice, Paradigm and Circulation)
“Artivism” encompasses artistic actions, which tackle social and political issues, reviving agitational practises defined in resistance to the planetary ideological hegemony they refer to as neoliberalism. This resurgent awareness of the political nature of artistic creation questions consensual discourses on the neutrality of art and aesthetics, often confined in their "autonomy" and impervious to the disorders of the world. Within artistic activism a dialectic between two entities, traditionally perceived as being of a different nature, is played out: on the one hand the field of art (too often defined as autonomous, with no other functionality than its own) and on the other hand in the field of politics and social activities on the other hand (thought out as a praxis of the exercise of the power in an organized society). The central question posed by artistic activism could be stated in this way: How can we evaluate the capacity of art (visual arts, performing arts, literature, theatre, dance, video art, cinema, etc.) to function as social and political protest?
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Nanterre
Le séminaire Asie du Sud-Himalaya (ASH) est ouvert à différentes disciplines et de multiples thématiques. Les séances peuvent prendre différentes formes en fonction des intervenants : Présentation de travaux en cours : articles, chapitres de thèse, données de terrain, matériaux audiovisuels… ; Présentation d'un domaine de recherche : 3 à 5 références majeures sélectionnées par l'intervenant et transmises au préalable seront discutées, offrant ainsi la possibilité de se familiariser avec un domaine de recherche particulier ; Lectures critiques d'ouvrage : mise en perspective d'ouvrages récents et classiques ; Cours sur un thème particulier.
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Paris
History of Science, History of Text
The seminar examines the various types of documents produced in the context of scholarly practices in order to understand how the shaping of textual forms and inscriptions is part of the scientific activity. The seminar also aims to understand how these works make it possible to better interpret the sources on which historians of science draw to conduct their research.
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Paris
Call for papers - Political studies
Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries
This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.
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La Plaine-Saint-Denis
Presenting communities in front of the cinema screen
En quoi le spectacle cinématographique fait-il communauté ? Doit-il être considéré comme une instance de division ou un moteur consensuel au sein de celles-ci ? Comment se forgent les publics en situation minoritaire ? Il s’agira de questionner côte à côte, parfois d’un seul tenant, deux types de processus : les phénomènes d’homogénéisation culturelle et ceux de coexistence, forcée ou consentie, entre des groupes multiples au sein d’un même territoire en explorant le large éventail de pratiques collectives politiques et sociales émergeant au sein et en marge des espaces de projection animée.
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Zurich
Conference, symposium - Political studies
The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia
Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.
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Zurich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
Vacancy PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich
We are looking for a doctoral student to be part of the research project “Visions of the Social: The Transformation of State Planning in Postcolonial India” which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The PhD student will examine local implications of financialized forms of social service provision in North India. We offer employment for four years with a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and innovative research setting in a lively department with a motivated faculty interested in collaboration and academic exchange.
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Zurich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
Vacancy Postdoc Position in Social Anthropology
at the University of Zürich
There is a vacancy for a postdoc-position in Social Anthropology at the Institut for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zürich. A PhD in Social Anthropology or related disciplines, as well as experience in research and teaching. Desired, but not necessary are theoretical and empirical interests in the fields of the anthropology of religion and/or ethics and/or knowledge/science and/or medical anthropology, interest in South Asia as well as German language skills.
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Nanterre
The body in law - doctoral workshops in the history and anthropology of law
Journées doctorales d'histoire et d'anthropologie du droit
Autorisation de la gestation pour autrui (GPA), statut des embryons congelés, réflexion sur l’euthanasie, légalisation de la prostitution, réattribution sexuelle, la question du corps est plus que jamais d’actualité pour le législateur, le juge et le justiciable. L’absence de consensus sur ces questionnements et les débats passionnés qu’entrainent toutes les problématiques liées au corps sont la conséquence directe de la difficulté à définir juridiquement ce concept. Nous allons modestement tenter de faire le point sur le statut juridique du corps. Pour ce faire, nous convierons l’Histoire du Droit, l’Anthropologie juridique, la Philosophie du droit et le droit positif. Surtout, tout au long de ces deux journées, nous nous transporterons en différents lieux et à différentes époques pour, au moyen de ce voyage temporel et spatial, tenter de dessiner une histoire et une géographie de l'appréciation du corps par le droit.
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Aosta
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Feeding death - funerary rituals and alimentary practices in the Alpes and Himalayas
Les pratiques et les gestes funéraires constituent une prérogative uniquement humaine depuis au moins 100.000, datation attribuée par les archéologues aux sépultures de Skhül (Mugharet es-Skhül), en Moyen Orient, les plus anciens exemples de sépulture volontaire de l’espèce des Homo Sapiens. Les récentes découvertes archéologiques des équipes dirigées par Aldenderfer et Eng (2016) dans le Upper Mustang (Népal) ont mis en évidence des aperçus inédits de l’histoire des populations himalayennes de haute altitude et de leurs rituels de la mort. Ce colloque permettra aussi d’aborder des aspects secondaires inhérents les rituels funéraires tels que certaines pratiques alimentaires spécifiques, appelées à jouer un rôle précis sur le plan social et symbolique.
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Le Mirail
Le projet ERC MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms) embrasse l'ensemble des épithètes divines attestées dans les inscriptions et les textes littéraires grecs et ouest-sémitiques entre 1000 av. et 400 de n. è. Grâce aux épithètes, les dieux se déclinent en une multitude d'aspects et dessinent des configurations qui demandent à être analysées. L’objectif de ce premier séminaire semestriel est d’élargir notre réflexion collective sur les noms des dieux et les stratégies de dénominations dans la fabrique du divin, en accueillant toutes les deux semaines, à Toulouse, deux invités venus de divers horizons thématiques – études grecques et sémitiques, mais aussi monde biblique, égyptologie, anthropologie – dans un atelier de travail au cours duquel les intervenants apporteront des idées issues de leurs domaines de recherche, des pistes de documentation, des questionnements méthodologiques à explorer, des cas d’étude stimulants.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Asia
Internship as coordinator of the 25th European conference of South-Asian studies (ECSAS)
Le CEIAS (Centre d’Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud, UMR EHESS-CNRS 8564) recrute un(e) stagiaire pour une durée de 6 mois du 1er février au 28 juillet 2018. Il/elle sera plus particulièrement chargé(e) de l'organisation de la 25e édition de la conférence européenne d'études sud-asiatiques (ECSAS) qui se déroulera à Paris les 24-27 juillet 2018.
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Lisbon
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries)
Les récits de vies d'esclaves semblent beaucoup moins courants dans les mondes ibériques que, par exemple, anglo-américains. Ils sont pourtant une source de première importance pour comprendre les subjectivités des esclaves eux-mêmes. D'autres sources (archives de l'Inquisition, actes notariés, actes de manumission, etc.) peuvent parfois permettre de traquer cette voix des sans-voix. Ce colloque, organisé en commun par l'Instituto de ciências sociais (Lisbonne) et la Casa de Velázquez / École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Madrid), voudrait permettre d'avancer dans l'étude de la vision des asservis, dans le cadre ibérique.
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Pessac
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
South Asian Diasporic Cinema: Encounters
The fourth issue of /DESI/ will focus on the question of encounters in diasporic South Asian cinema: Afghanistan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh Nepal and Sri Lanka. The transformation of this contemporary human condition into filmic material coincides with a turn in the scientific study of diasporas. Forced migrations, which generate a movement of displacement and settlement in home territories, movements of arrivals, caught in a logic of deterritorialization, diasporas – and more particularly South Asian diasporas – are all relocated in transnational and transcultural spaces. Cinema holds a mirror to this experience of movement through this new “ethnoscape” (Appadurai) made up of shifts and disjunctures, free flows and political hurdles, border-crossings and assignment of identity.
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Paris
Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market
This workshop, organized by the AJEI (Association des jeunes études indiennes) and the CESSMA (Centre d'étude en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques), aims at investing the dynamics of competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market.
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Paris
Constitutional migrations today and yesterday - 4th CDPC international conference
Quatrième colloque international du CDPC
Transferts, fertilisation, emprunts, greffes, les vocables ne manquent pas pour désigner la circulation des idées et doctrines de droit constitutionnel à travers le monde. Les migrations constitutionnelles ont connu un spectaculaire développement depuis la chute du mur de Berlin. Mais les résultats ne sont pas toujours conformes aux espoirs initiaux. Comment expliquer qu’une migration réussisse dans un pays et échoue dans un autre ?
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Paris
Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market
Hegemonic neo-liberal discourse assumes that free competition on all levels sparks a virtuous cycle of economic growth, which eventually trickles down to poor populations. Over the past three decades, the idea that restrictive labour laws hamper such competition has justified the deregulation of labour in the North and the un-regulation of labour in the South, notably in South Asia, where labour relations had already mainly been informal. Various sociologists have noted that intensified economic interactions and the rise of competition have made individuals more likely to activate their social networks to protect their individual interests. In this respect, to what extent do social networks shape relations in the diverse South Asian labour markets? How do new forms of social groupings reconfigure competition and solidarity relations? What forms of social interactions prevail, emerge and weaken in the market: chosen solidarity and inherited solidarity; inter-caste and intra-caste solidarity; class solidarity; corporate solidarity etc.?
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Paris
Performance and literature in South Asia 2
Theories and the uses of emotions
La première journée d’étude du projet DELI sur la performance de la littérature, tenue le 15 décembre 2016, a réuni des chercheurs de différentes disciplines et aires linguistiques autour de thématiques liées aux usages politiques de la performance en Asie du Sud. Les pistes de réflexion interdisciplinaires que cette première journée a permis d’ouvrir ont notamment fait apparaître l’importance des liens entre émotion, performance et mobilisation politique, du Telangana jusqu’au Sindh. Dans le prolongement de cette première journée, nous nous proposons de poursuivre la réflexion sur la place et la fonction des émotions dans la performance littéraire en Asie du Sud, tant au niveau théorique que pratique.
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