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Zurich

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Contemporary ethnographic research in the Middle East

Many parts of the contemporary Middle East are confronted with war, sectarianism, transnational interferences, uprisings, and a comeback of authoritarian regimes. This brings about various difficulties for ethnographic research as a practice of knowledge production based on the immersion of researchers in given social contexts and the subsequent writing up and publishing of texts. The international conference No country for anthropologists? Contemporary ethnographic research in the Middle East explores the obstacles to do ethnography in the Middle East and take them as the starting point for reflection upon the role of anthropology with a view to the Middle East of today.

Saint-Denis

Seminar - Political studies

Epistemology and politics - research into the Near and Far East

Le projet « Épistémologie et Politique – Recherches en Proche et Moyen-Orient » réunit des démarches de recherche en Proche et Moyen-Orient dans la globalisation, qui portent sur les nouvelles formes d’agir politique et les productions théoriques du post-national, les généalogies de la violence et les langages de la mémoire, la construction des appartenances multiples, l’expérience des frontières, et les politiques des savoirs et de la traduction. Il confronte un corpus élargi dans les sciences humaines et sociales vers les arts et médias, les études politiques et décoloniales dans un contexte d’échange international.

Marburg

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Representations of Change

Time, Space, and Power in Qualitative Research on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region and Europe

Since the start of the 21^stcentury seemingly unpredictable change, in all its different guises, has fueled the preoccupations of academic and non-academic publics. The financial crisis, the “Arab Spring”, protest movements in southern Europe, the rise of Daesh and right-wing populism, as well as the environmental crisis all make it very difficult to rely on Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “end of history”, which now seems to merely reflect the euphoria of liberal elites following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1992). This workshop intends to reflect more closely on the webs of power affecting both the researcher and‚ the researched when they intend to represent change.

Zurich

Miscellaneous information - Education

Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom

Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?

Zurich

Study days - Sociology

Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of women and gender in transnational perspective

The Department of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies of the University of Zurich is organizing the first workshop of the Gender in University and Society (GENiUS) network on “Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of Women and Gender in Transnational Perspective”. GENiUS is an informal Swiss-Arab Network of academics specialized in the field of Gender Studies in and on the Arab region that aims at fostering scientific exchange on the levels of research, teaching and institution building.

Barcelona

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

Méthodes, approches et thèmes des recherches actuelles sur les arts visuels au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb

Double panel organisé par Silvia Naef et le SAP dans le cadre du dixième WOCMES

Dans le champ qui nous occupe, le cadre de travail offert aux chercheurs reste souvent très peu performant, comme le montrent les choix qui s’ouvrent aux doctorants. Seuls quelques rares enseignements tiennent compte d’un phénomène qui caractérise pourtant les sociétés musulmanes depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, que ce soit en Europe ou en Amérique du Nord, tout autant que dans les pays concernés qui, encore aujourd’hui n’offrent à leurs jeunes candidats artistes et historiens de l'art qu’un apprentissage tourné vers l’histoire de l’art des pays occidentaux.

Damascus

Study days - Urban studies

Damas : métamorphoses urbaines

Séminaire de recherche

La capitale syrienne se transforme : impact de la mondialisation et des migrations, mutations spatiales et sociales, extension urbaine rapide, évolution des marchés fonciers et immobiliers,nouveaux projets urbains et plans d’urbanisme, apparition de quartiers neufs, progression de l’informel, renouvellement des centralités commerciales… Ce séminaire propose d’interrogerles nouveaux visages de Damas. Comment la ville se fabrique-t-elle aujourd’hui ? Par quels mécanismes les évolutions économiques, démographiques et sociales ont-elle un effet surl’espace et inversement? Assiste-t-on à l’émergence d’une métropole régionale, avec ses atouts et ses difficultés ?

Marseille

Miscellaneous information - Sociology

L'Europe et le Moyen-Orient

Conférence-débat, Marseille, mercredi 22 mars 2006, 18h-20h

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Summer School	304
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