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    Conference, symposium - History

    Modernizers: Changing science and society in the Middle East and North Africa (1870s-1930s)

    Re-constructing a local genealogy of the scientific modernization in North Africa and the Middle East is still a pending task. Research on modern Arab-Islamic scientists, physicians and engineers will help expand the collective memory of modernization in those countries by adding new, often badly-known or forgotten actors to its ranks. Biographies will also help illuminate the intrinsic connection existing between science and society, showing how science has always been a necessary element in plans for national independence, social change and democratic rule. This conference will focus on the biographies of some late 19th-early 20th century scientists from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria

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  • Paris

    Seminar - History

    Scholars, Artists, Mediators: Approaches and Knowledge of the Maghreb (2010-2011)

    Depuis quelques années, ce séminaire s’attache à déterminer la façon dont s’est constitué à l’époque coloniale un corpus de savoirs sur le Maghreb à partir de perspectives multiples, professionnelles (médecins, militaires, interprètes) ou disciplinaires (études arabes, archéologie, ethnographie, géographie). Il s’interroge notamment sur les modes et les types de connaissance des sociétés musulmanes de l’Afrique du Nord à l’époque coloniale – langues, pratiques religieuses, usages profanes – en relation avec les projets de réforme de la société et le développement de nouvelles pratiques culturelles,

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