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Siena
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Classicamente. Dialoghi Senesi sul Mondo Antico
The junior researchers and PhD students from the Anthropology of the ancient world curriculum of the PhD course in Classics and Archeology are promoting the fourth edition of the seminar cycle Classicamente. Dialoghi Senesi sul Mondo Antico. This year's edition will focus on the varied methodologies and hermeneutical perspectives which represent the scientific guidelines followed by scholars in anthropology of the ancient world ever since its development. It will also focus on those approaches that today contribute to a constant enrichment and renovation of this field of study. Our goal is to offer to all those who take part the chance to present their work, be it the result of long research or elements of a work in progress, in an enviroment open to discussion between different perspectives (anthropological, philological, historical, archeological, semiotic etc.).
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Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology
An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo launch a call for papers related to this theme.
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Conference, symposium - History
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Christian Initiation from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
On the occasion of this meeting dedicated to baptism and baptisteries, we intend to highlight the spatialization of baptismal rituals and their evolution between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, by comparing different geographical areas within the boundaries of the Roman Empire and its neighbouring regions. Through the dialogue between written sources and archaeology, we would like to investigate whether baptismal practices could assert regional or confessional Christian identities.
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Toulouse
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity
Postdoc position ERC "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms"
The ERC Advanced Grant Project 741182 MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Inteface between Religious Systems and Human Agency), led by Corinne Bonnet, is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position (100%) from the 01/10/2020 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. The research may require scientific missions in France and/or abroad.
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Toulouse
Seminar - Prehistory and Antiquity
Exploring the potentials of the name in images, in narratives
The ERC MAP Seminar “The Names of the Gods! 4: Exploring the potentials of the name in images, in narratives” pursues the investigation on the systems of naming of the divine. By focusing on names, images and narratives, we will look for connections but also discrepancies, in order to highlight, from duly selected cases or files, the specifications of the different languages used to unfold the potentials of the divine names. In the spirit of the MAP project, we will pay special attention to the links that the names, the images and the narratives convey.
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Jarandilla de la Vera
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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Málaga
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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Toulouse
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity
Postdoc position – ERC “Mapping Ancient Polytheisms”
The ERC Advanced Grant Project 741182 MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Inteface between Religious Systems and Human Agency), led by Corinne Bonnet, is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position (100%) from the 16/09/2019 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. The research may require scientific missions in France and/or abroad.
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Nantes
The singular nature of Egyptian images
3rd day of Egyptology studies devoted to the reading of images
Après avoir étudié la relation entre image et écriture puis les dénominations et modes de représentation, nous nous pencherons cette année sur les particularités de l'image égyptienne. De nombreuses représentations ainsi que leurs éléments constitutifs – scènes, personnages, animaux, objets, etc. – ne sont en effet pas reproduits selon les conventions qui régissent habituellement l'art égyptien. L'objectif de cette journée est non seulement d'apprendre à repérer ces particularités et à les définir mais aussi et surtout de comprendre leurs fonctions au sein du vocabulaire iconographique égyptien.
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Jarandilla de la Vera
Dressing Divinely: clothed or naked deities an devotees
The XVII International Colloquium of the Association ARYS (Antiquity, Religions and Societies) is dedicated to the study of the links between religious identity and clothing within the framework of ancient societies and religions, from the perspective of the images either of the gods or of their devotees. Within the topic of religious clothing will be included the religious use of clothes and attributes, accesories, ornaments, body modifications such as mutilations or tattoos, hairstyles, nudity and, of course, the action itself of dressing or undressing, its conception and positive, neutral or negative consideration, or the act of assuming any of those human or divine complements, adornments, attributes or modifications of the body. We welcome the participation of consolidated as well as early-career specialists in the field of ancient history, archaeology, religious sciences, art history and historiography of religions.
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Toulouse
Ancient percussion instruments
Organology - perceptions - multi-functionality
Percussion instruments have a renewal of interest for a few years, after being a long time poor relatives of academic research and very often relegated to the end of the catalogues of musical instruments. However, recent studies show the complexity of uses of these items which, beyond their only sonorous mechanism, are mobilized in a wide range of contexts (ceremonies, theater, funerary field, votive offerings, etc.) for numerous reasons. Special attention will be paid to idiophones, but also to membranophones when data allows it.
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Nantes
Denominations and modes of representation of Egyptian imagery
2nd Egyptology study day devoted to the reading of images
Après avoir étudié la relation qui, dans l'art égyptien, unit l'image et l'écriture, la deuxième journée d'études consacrée à la lecture de l'image égyptienne portera cette année sur les dénominations et les modes de représentation, autant d'éléments qui permettent, entre autres, de déterminer la nature et la fonction des images reproduites dans les contextes sacrés que sont la tombe et le temple.
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Paris
Arboresences and exegesis of the Bible from Antiquity to the present day
Né en 2015, le projet « Trames arborescentes » a pour vocation de favoriser, à travers des groupes de travail et des journées d’étude, la rencontre de chercheurs dont l’arbre et l’arborescence sont au centre ou en périphérie des travaux. Une journée d’étude spécialisée, consacrée à l’usage des trames arborescentes dans l’exégèse biblique, aura lieu le 6 février 2018.
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Lisbon
Miscellaneous information - History
Literatura funerária do Antigo Egipto
Textos das pirâmides. Textos dos sarcófagos
A produção de literatura funerária teve lugar em todos os períodos da história do antigo Egipto, sendo constituída sobretudo por textos inscritos nas paredes dos túmulos ou gravados em objectos tumulares, como sarcófagos e papiros. Estes textos, que representam o género de corpus mais amplo de todos os géneros do antigo Egipto, funcionariam como auxiliares para o morto atingir o Além na companhia dos deuses.
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Madrid
Sensorium : Sensory Perceptions in Roman Polytheism
The Institute of Historiography “Julio Caro Baroja”, at the University of Carlos III of Madrid, is organizing an international conference titled, “Sensorium: Sensory Perceptions in the Roman Religion”. Researchers of ancient history, religious history, archeology, anthropology, classical literature, and other related disciplines, are invited to present their research relating to the poly-sensorial practice of religion in the Roman world.
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Toulouse
The spectacle of religion - individual commitment and community constructions
Les historiens de l’Antiquité ont admis le caractère profondément pluriel des pratiques religieuses qui sont articulées, en particulier, au politique, au culturel ou encore aux modèles éducatifs. Or le lien entre religion et spectacle, souvent évoqué dans les études sur les religions anciennes, n’a suscité à ce jour que peu d’études approfondies. Il s’agira pour le colloque de s’interroger sur les modalités de participation des acteurs du rituel en prenant en compte ce que nous pourrions appeler le caractère « spectaculaire » des célébrations religieuses.
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Rome
Incense and religion in ancient societies
Although several studies have drawn attention to the role of incense as an ingredient in ritual and a means of communication between men and gods, there remains no comprehensive examination of the practical functions and cultural semantics of incense in the ancient world, whether as a purifying agent, a performative sign of a transcendent world, an olfactory signal to summon the deity, a placatory libation, or food for the gods. Moreover, recent archaeological research has provided evidence (alongside literary, epigraphic and iconographic evidence) that the physical origins and chemical constituents of incense are complex and diverse, as are their properties : resins, vegetable gums, spices, and a welter of aromatic products that could be exhibited and burned before ancient eyes and noses. These were components of a multi-sensory religious experience in which music, colourful costumes, lavish banquets and tactile encounters defined the ritualsensibilities of the community.
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Montreal | Quebec City
Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity
Katábasis in the Ancient Greek Literary Tradition and Religious Thought
Les croyances sur l'au-delà sont universellement répandues, ainsi que l'idée de pouvoir se rendre aux enfers, grâce à un « voyage vers le bas » (katábasis). La première catabase connue remonte aux premiers textes grecs conservés (l'Odyssée d’Homère), et l’omniprésence du thème dans les mentalités anciennes est telle qu’elle rend impérieuse un approfondissement de la recherche. Au-delà de la définition superficielle, « une descente aux enfers », il faut comprendre que ce voyage met en action toutes les tensions entre vie et mort, entre humanité et divinité, entre ici-bas et au-delà. Si la catégorie générale de catabase est logique, elle est plurielle et cache tout un système de représentations de la mort et de l'au-delà, des possibilités de s'y rendre dès son vivant et d'en revenir, de ses chemins et des puissances divines qu’on y croise. La représentation du phénomène emprunte des voies très variées : narratives, plastiques, symboliques ou encore conceptuelles, sans oublier les relectures et les recouvrements sur un millénaire d’histoire. Le thème enfin est à la croisée de multiples chemins : religion grecque et histoire comparée des religions, philosophie ancienne, mythologie et littérature, philologie, histoire, archéologie, iconographie et anthropologie culturelle.
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Paris
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Religion
Labex RESMED grants and post-doc contracts, 2014-2015
Le laboratoire d’excellence « RESMED » (« Religions et sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen ») du « PRES » Sorbonne universités propose : trois contrats postdoctoraux « RESMED » d’un an à partir de septembre 2014 et quatre bourses postdoctorales Fernand Braudel « IFER-RESMED» de 9 mois à partir de septembre 2014.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Religion and alimentary prohibitions: arche-zoology and literary sources
International conference as part of LABEX RESMED Religions in the Mediterranean
La confrontation des sources littéraires et des données archéologiques s'avère importante pour essayer de comprendre tout à la fois la mise en place des interdits alimentaires particuliers à une religion, les limites de la mise en pratique des interdits alimentaires et leur évolution dans le temps. Les interdits alimentaires et les restrictions sur la commensalité permettent à différents groupes religieux d’établir une frontière entre « eux » et « nous ». Il existe donc un corpus de textes normatifs appartenant aux droits religieux et civils interdisant la consommation d’aliments particuliers. Cet aspect a été souvent étudié pour le judaïsme ou l’islam, moins souvent pour les polythéismes, le zoroastrisme ou le christianisme. Nous espérons présenter la littérature normative et faire réfléchir sur les limites de sa mise en application, tout en s'appuyant sur l’archéozoologie qui peut fournir des données sur le décalage entre norme et pratique.
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