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Ixelles-Elsene

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia

Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile

PhD position in Asian Studies

This Ph.D. position is funded by a MIS (Mandat d’Impulsion Scientifique/ Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) project: “Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile”. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people based at the border of Central Asia and the north-western part of China. Massive internments and arrests of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have taken place in the region since 2016, including the Uyghur elite. In these conditions, centers of the cultural production of the Uyghurs have shifted from their native land to the diaspora spread across the world. This project looks at Uyghur diasporic cultural production that aims at drawing the world’s attention and bearing witness to the various abuses perpetrated at home by the Chinese government. The whole project analyses selected poems, short films, video clips, and dance and music performances to tackle new transmedial forms of testimonies in the Uyghur case.

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Charleroi

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Women of glass, glass-making women

Cette rencontre internationale, inédite, alterne communications à caractère historique et témoignages vivants, associant ainsi le regard de scientifiques et universitaires à ceux de professionnels de la pratique du verre, des cheffes d’entreprise, des musées et tout simplement des passionnés. Y sera cernée la place occupée par la gente féminine en verrerie, monde que l’on disait pourtant réservé aux hommes, aussi loin que remontent les études réalisées. Or, en faisant le choix de multiples aller-retour entre le passé et le présent, l'on comprend désormais combien la femme a toujours été présente en verrerie et l'est toujours.

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Liège

Call for papers - Asia

Replaying Japan, 2020

Ludolympics 2020 – The 8th International Japan Game Studies Conference

This year’s conference theme will be “Ludolympics 2020”. Particular attention will therefore be paid to the relationship between games and sport in Japan, to the Japanese esport scene and its cultural specificities and to competitive video game practices, but also, more generally, to the notion of video game performance and to the mediatization or spectacularization of this performance. Through the prism of this theme, fundamental aspects of games and play will be questioned: the physicality of the playing practices, the place of competition in Japanese game culture, the role of rules and conventions in games and play, as well as the possibilities of bypassing these rules (through cheating, for instance) or the spaces of appropriation that they allow (visible in the amateur practices, fan creations or doujin circles, among others).

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Middle Ages

Commentaries on Ibn Sīnā’s Qaṣīdat al-nafs

Two postdoc research grants

Suite à la nomination à un poste définitif d’un de nos chercheurs, nous avons le plaisir d’offrir deux bourses de recherches postdoctorales pour une durée de 12 mois et de 9 mois respectivement pour le projet « Avicenna East & West I : Commentaries on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs ». Le objectifs du projet sont : (1) Comprendre la diffusion de la pensée avicennienne au sens large dans l’Orient musulman à travers l’analyse des commentaires du Poème de l’âme. (2) Procéder à une analyse transversale des commentaires pour déterminer sur quelles questions précises, en quels termes, en utilisant quels types d’arguments, quelles références, quel type de discours, les commentateurs s’affrontent au texte et entre eux.

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Brussels

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Public space in East Asia. Visuality, performativity and interactions in socialist contexts

Journal Civilisations (vol.69)

Les espaces publics des différents contextes socialistes d’Asie orientale (limitée ici à la Chine, au Vietnam, et au Laos) connaissent une série de mutations que les sciences sociales n’ont guère explorées dans leur complexité et leurs intrications. Ce dossier propose un regard transversal inédit sur des sociétés dont les convergences ont depuis longtemps été soulignées. Nous aborderons les transformations des espaces publics en restant constamment attentifs à leur qualité d’espace physique, visuel, interactionnel. Nous définirons plutôt l’espace public par son accessibilité, théoriquement offerte à tous ; par la visibilité de ce qui s’y déroule; ainsi que par un certain type de sociabilité qui va au-delà des « interactions minimales » du trafic en milieu urbain décrites par Hannerz. Visualité, performativité, interactions sont ainsi au coeur des enjeux conceptuels que ce dossier entend mettre à l’honneur. Au départ de matériaux empiriques recontextualisés dans l’histoire, les auteurs sont invités à adopter une perspective réflexive sur leur approche méthodologique, conceptuelle, théorique et éthique, afin de favoriser les apports heuristiques mutuels. Le dossier entend mettre l’iconographie à l’honneur.

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Ghent

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

Revolution from Afar: Egyptian artists in Europe and Northern America after 2013 – PhD Position

The Department of Languages and Cultures (Section Middle East Studies) at Ghent University is looking for a PhD-student to conduct a research on Egyptian artists who left their country for living in Europe and Northern America after 2013. The general aim of the project is to understand how these artists positioned themselves in their new surroundings and towards the situation in Egypt, particularly concerning their art production.

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Ixelles-Elsene

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

PhD in Anthropology of youth and public space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam

EASt, centre for East Asian Studies, invites applications for 1 PhD in Anthropology of Youth and Public Space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam - deadline: 27 June 2019. EASt is a research unit within the Maison des sciences humaines of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Conference, symposium - Asia

Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” Thought

The aim of this meeting is to bring together confirmed and emerging specialists in order to gain some perspective on the current academic research on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” thought and to discuss research directions for the future. It will also bring to light questions arising from the reading and use of Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas today, taking into account the new approaches and better access to the texts provided by recent tools for textual analysis, and evaluating how our present-day situation shapes our understanding of his works, and conversely, what an informed reading can bring to current re-appropriations and (mis)use.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought

Temporary postdoctoral research grant for the "Commentaries on Ibn Sīnā’s Qaṣīdat al-nafs" project

(FRS-FNRS ; UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Les objectifs généraux du projet sont de comprendre la réception de la pensée avicennienne dans l’Orient musulman à travers l’analyse des commentaires du Poème de l’âme et de déterminer sur quelles questions précises, en quels termes, en utilisant quels types d’arguments, quelles références, quel type de discours, les commentateurs s’affrontent au texte et entre eux.

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Brussels

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

The contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples in Belgium and Asia

Doctoral grants

Deux bourses de doctorat en sciences politiques et sociales sont disponibles (financement « Actions de Recherche Concertée (ARC) » de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles). Les deux doctorant(e)s recruté(e)s seront basé(e)s dans le Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Conference, symposium - Thought

Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context

This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the exegetical aspect, in order to see in what extend philosophical hermeneutics can contribute to rethink the understanding of the Koran in the contemporary context; the interpretative aspect, to address different contemporary attempts to reinterpret the classical – philosophical, spiritual or legal – heritage; the critical aspect, to present different political and critical issues raised by the question of the encounter between philosophical hermeneutics and Islamic thought.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Call for papers - History

Missionary trajectories in the Chinese world in the 20th century

Le colloque projeté a pour objectif, en se penchant sur les trajectoires missionnaires dans le monde chinois au XX^e siècle, de tenter de cerner les différents cas de figure repérables, de répertorier les facteurs susceptibles d’en rendre compte et d’en dresser un premier essai de typologie.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Call for papers - Thought

Philosophical hermeneutics in the Islamicate context

This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the interpretative dimension, to address contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged with philosophical hermeneutics; the comparative dimension, in order to deal with possible transactions on the basis of common traits and divergences; and the creative dimension, to present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts.

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Brussels

Study days - Religion

Thou shalt not partake of it. Food as religious distinction

Cette réunion académique a pour objectif de réfléchir sur les multiples facettes de l’alimentation comme manifestation de la distinction et de la différence dans les systèmes religieux. Dans cette journée d’étude on explorera les différentes manifestations de la distinction alimentaire, comme les jeûnes et les interdits, la relation entre la consommation d’aliments et la hiérarchie religieuse, les critères d’élection ou d’exclusion d’aliments comme reflet de l’appartenance à un système religieux ou comme différenciation à l’intérieur du même groupe. Notre perspective est comparative et diachronique.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Summer School - Sociology

Islam and contemporary worlds

Sources, figures and stakes in the power relation between young people and the authorities in globalised societies - the case of the Islamic world and Europe

Lors de cette Summer School, il sera question de faire un état des débats contemporains en France et en Belgique dans les milieux musulmans concernant les logiques de légitimation et dedélégitimation du savoir religieux et de l’autorité religieuse dans la pensée sunnite contemporaine. Il sera aussi question d’en analyser les enjeux principaux, en prenant en compte la diversité des positions et des courants, mais aussi les logiques dominantes et les concurrences et tensions.

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Brussels

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

PhD Grant in Urban Anthropology of Youth in Laos

EASt provides a PhD grant for a research titled: “Negotiating Identities in Public Spaces Among Old and New Groups of Young City Dwellers in Vientiane, Laos”. The research will explore how young migrants experience, use and appropriate public spaces, including cyberspace, in the Lao fast-developing capital, Vientiane. How are their social maps structured and negotiated in relation to public spaces? How do they interact and perceive their relationship with the local youth born and bred in Vientiane? How do they coexist and socialise in urban public spaces?

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Brussels

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

PhD position in Chinese studies and cultural studies

This project will explore how young Chinese cosplayers engage with the public at large to express new identities in spaces that are heavily regulated by social and political censoring mechanisms. On the one hand, this doctoral research will explore the structural organisation of Chinese cosplay (associations, conventions); on the other hand, it will look into specific bodily performances in public spaces.

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Louvain-la-Neuve

Call for papers - Middle Ages

The political martyr (11th-16th centuries)

Le Moyen Âge occidental connaît, en particulier dans le dernier tiers de la période, un déplacement des logiques martyriales vers des sphères laïques – celles des autorités politiques, mais aussi des sujets et fidèles qui participent à la fabrique de ces « martyrs politiques » médiévaux. Oubliant l'utilisation politique du martyre chrétien, c'est la piste des martyrs « hors la foi » que nous nous proposons d'explorer, à travers quatre thématiques principales : les sources – leur nature, leur diffusion, les échos qu'elles ont suscités ; les figures – le potentiel d'identification qu'elles possèdent ; la mort – le message qu'elle véhicule, ses éventuelles récupérations ; les contextes favorables au développement de ce phénomène.

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Liège

Call for papers - Geography

Sustainability of Rural Systems

Balancing Heritage and Innovation

Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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Brussels

Conference, symposium - Asia

Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage. See, Listen and Share

SOIMA 2015 International Conference

The conference is based on the collective experience of ICCROM’s multi-partner programme on Sound and Image Collections Conservation (SOIMA), which organized five capacity building initiatives (four international and one regional) in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America during 2007-2014. Building on SOIMA’s global insights from bringing together 89 sound and image professionals from 55 countries to date, the 2015 conference is making a strong case for looking beyond professional and institutional boundaries, actively listening to each other and sharing strategies to ensure a safe and creative tomorrow for sound and image heritage. The conference aims to promote the sound and image heritage held by diverse and lesser-known cultural and research institutions, as well as individual collectors.

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