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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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• 09 jan 2015	06 fév 2015	13 mar 2015
  10 avr 2015	22 mai 2015	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Africa

  The cultural performances of gender

  Ce séminaire interdisciplinaire se propose d'explorer différents espaces, « lieux » et « lisières » de la culture pour penser le genre comme une pratique singulière et mouvante et la performance comme son espace de prédilection. 

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• 27 nov 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Of animals and men. Shared heritage, and futures to be built

  Colloquim on the modernity of human/animal relationships

  Ce colloque invite à une réflexion historique, philosophique et anthropologique sur la pluralité des relations que notre société entretient avec les animaux. Il interrogera également les pratiques pour mieux pouvoir imaginer notre devenir commun. Aujourd’hui un débat s’est engagé sur la façon de percevoir, classer, aimer, utiliser, travailler avec les animaux. Depuis l’animal (être singulier et abstrait des animalistes), aux animaux (êtres vivants avec qui nous, êtres humains entretenons des relations multiples et millénaires), il y a une différence notable. D’un point de vue culturel on observe aussi certaines remises en cause de notre modèle alimentaire et de notre régime omnivore avec l’abandon de toutes les nourritures d’origine animale et il nous semble important d'en analyser les fondements.

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• 21 mai 2014

  Paris

  Seminar - Asia

  When Books and Art Hurt

  Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia

  This workshop aims at exploring issues of literary and artistic censorship in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) by focusing on the way anticipated "hurt" often justifies the policing and regulation of the artistic sphere (cinema, visual arts, literature). Our point of departure is, in the words of Arjun Appadurai, the observation that culture is today the field "where fantasies of purity, authenticity, borders and security can be enacted" and that the same censors patrol the boundaries of politics and aesthetics (Coetzee). In the Indian subcontinent "hurt feelings" are often reactivated or cultivated, staged and mass-mediatised to claim recognition and legitimacy in the public sphere, to require compensation or "redressal". Many artists, writers and academics point to a politics of ultra-sensitivity and a thriving "marketplace of outrage". Our objective in this workshop is to question the vocabulary, topicality and tangibility of "hurt" in the public sphere on these issues of artistic regulation in South Asia, and to understand what it means to say that words or images wound.

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