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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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• 10 oct 2014

  Blois

  Miscellaneous information - Religion

  Rebel islam: what textual and historical foundations?

  Round table - 17th "Rebels" history conference

  Face à une mondialisation souvent perçue comme vecteur d’une domination occidentale, la religion musulmane nourrit, en plusieurs régions du monde, des postures de rebellions qui militent, au nom de la légitimité divine, pour un contre-projet social et moral. Que disent les sources de l’islam de l’autorité légitime et de sa contestation ?

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• 31 oct 2013

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult

  Panel to be held at the Eighth Celtic Conference in Classics

  Despite recent and widespread interest in Greek hero and ruler cult, evaluating the processes that lead to the bestowal of cultic honours on Hellenistic sovereigns still remains a controversial matter. Political readings of such honours within the framework of contemporary international diplomacy and euergetic discourse have picked up on polarities widely discussed by previous bibliography, such as "dynastic vs. civic", "living vs. posthumous", etc. Yet the main focus is still limited to a "top-down" perspective, which leaves aside the fascinating dialectics between "private" and "public", or to perhaps phrase this more accurately, between "institutional" and "non-institutional" actors.

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• 31 jan 2012

  Gothenburg

  Call for papers - Religion

  Elective affinities. Critical approach of religious heritage-making in the Mediterranean

  Workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies

  This workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (Gothenburg, 5 June 2012) focuses on the relationships between religion and heritage in the Mediterranean. It aims to study the entwining of these two phenomena and reveal the eventual particularities of religious heritage-making, as well as to discuss the conceptions of heritage embedded in the monotheistic religions, and re-examine the cultural matrix that religion and heritage share, redefine or negotiate through memory practices.

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• 15 oct 2011

  Paris

  Call for papers - Religion

  Justice, religion, réconciliation

  Comment le lexique religieux – réconciliation, pardon, aveu, repentir, etc. – fournit-il un cadre pour les situations postérieures à une période de violence ? Comment est-il interprété et mis en pratique par les acteurs concernés ? Quelle force propre peut-on lui prêter pour venir à bout des demandes de justice des « victimes » ? Quelles méthodes peut-on employer pour décrire ces situations souvent très complexes, tant pour la pluralité d’acteurs et d’institutions qu’elles impliquent que pour les jeux d’échelle qu’elles exigent de ceux qui envisagent de les étudier ?Voici les questions très générales que le colloque « justice, religion, réconciliation » souhaite aborder à travers des études de cas particuliers relevant de pays (Rwanda, Afrique du Sud, Algérie, Liban, Maroc, Bosnie, Italie…) qui ont été récemment confrontés à différentes formes de violence (raciale, génocidaire, religieuse, mafieuse…).

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