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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  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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• 25 jan 2019

  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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• 15 jan 2019

  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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• 14 mai 2013	15 mai 2013	16 mai 2013
  17 mai 2013

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - History

  Orientalism from the Margins

  Perspectives from India and Russia

  Projeté à l’occasion de la réunion des sections des langues orientales et slaves de l’université de Lausanne, ce colloque vise à explorer la notion des « marges » de l’orientalisme dénoncé par Edward Saïd en plaçant au centre des réflexions quelques cas de figures qui sont demeurés hors de la critique post-coloniale. Mettant en parallèle le cas anglo-indien, souvent présenté comme emblématique de l’« orientalisme classique », et le cas russo-soviétique, à la fois objet de l’orientalisme européen (et pour cette raison stigmatisé comme « euro-asiatique ») et producteur d’un discours « orientaliste », cette rencontre vise à décentrer le regard des espaces impériaux franco-britanniques pour le rediriger vers des comparaisons moins traditionnelles, tant à l’égard des histoires respectives des études orientalisantes, que par rapport aux mécanismes de l’orientalisation et des exotisations.

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