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Ixelles-Elsene
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia
Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile
PhD position in Asian Studies
This Ph.D. position is funded by a MIS (Mandat d’Impulsion Scientifique/ Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) project: “Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile”. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people based at the border of Central Asia and the north-western part of China. Massive internments and arrests of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have taken place in the region since 2016, including the Uyghur elite. In these conditions, centers of the cultural production of the Uyghurs have shifted from their native land to the diaspora spread across the world. This project looks at Uyghur diasporic cultural production that aims at drawing the world’s attention and bearing witness to the various abuses perpetrated at home by the Chinese government. The whole project analyses selected poems, short films, video clips, and dance and music performances to tackle new transmedial forms of testimonies in the Uyghur case.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Logics, stakes and limits of cultural heritage transmission in Eurasia
The thematic issue is about cultural heritage and patrimonialization. It aims at comparing the varying notions of “tradition” and “safeguarding of culture” within an empirical approach.We focus on conflicts about the creation of culture and how these globalised and specific contexts shape a changing self-perception of “ethnic identity” in Northern Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.The articles may be on local as well as global expressions of cultural heritage: poetical genre, engraving or wood carving, architecture, ethno-parks or ecomuseums, cultural tourism, opposition to projects of valorization, etc. Analysis may also focus on the role of actors involved in local projects, on historical contexts or on international fashions.
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Paris
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan
In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?
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Beirut
Call for papers - Representation
Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas
Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom
Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content as well as narrative and aesthetic forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This edition of Regards aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.
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La Plaine-Saint-Denis
Presenting communities in front of the cinema screen
En quoi le spectacle cinématographique fait-il communauté ? Doit-il être considéré comme une instance de division ou un moteur consensuel au sein de celles-ci ? Comment se forgent les publics en situation minoritaire ? Il s’agira de questionner côte à côte, parfois d’un seul tenant, deux types de processus : les phénomènes d’homogénéisation culturelle et ceux de coexistence, forcée ou consentie, entre des groupes multiples au sein d’un même territoire en explorant le large éventail de pratiques collectives politiques et sociales émergeant au sein et en marge des espaces de projection animée.
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Beirut
Call for papers - Representation
Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas
Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom
Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content and narrative forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This conference aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.
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Paris
Japanese Pop Culture Week
La culture populaire du Japon a pris une place singulière au sein des sociétés occidentales contemporaines. Elle se décline en divers modes d’expression (animation, manga, musique, jeu vidéo...) et constitue un prisme original sur la société. Professeurs, artistes, amateurs, acteurs influents de la pop culture japonaise vont se réunir au cours d’une semaine, du lundi 18 au vendredi 22 mars 2019.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - History
À l’occasion de la parution du numéro 82 de la revue Histoire de l’art consacré aux relations entre Asie et Occident, une table ronde réunira quatre personnalités qui ont renouvelé ce champ d’étude. Elle permettra de revenir sur les héritages de l’orientalisme, des études postcoloniales et transculturelles pour envisager leurs usages en histoire de l’art et ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension.
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Call for papers - Representation
Portraits/autoportraits in the artistic practices of the Mediterranean region: an overlooked site?
The journal focuses on Film Studies, Theater Studies and Visual Arts in general, in the MENA region as well as Mediterranean countries. It is published twice a year and is trilingual (French, English and Arabic). It comprises a call for papers section, a Varia section and a reviews section. For its second issue, Regards launches a call for papers for its thematic dossier as well as for its Varia section.
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Paris
Kites in Japan - at the intersection of the arts
À la croisée des arts
Dans le cadre du programme « Japonisme 2018 » célébrant le 160e anniversaire des relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Japon, mais aussi à l’occasion du 60e anniversaire du Pacte d’amitié et de coopération entre les villes de Paris et de Kyoto, en partenariat avec l’International Research Center for Japanese Studies de Kyoto, et avec le soutien de Sciencescope – Association des étudiants et chercheurs francophones au Japon, le Centre de Recherche sur l’Extrême-Orient de Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS) organise les 20 et 21 décembre 2018 un colloque de deux jours consacrés aux cerfs-volants japonais.
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Nanterre
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Techno-realities and affective creations - love simulation games
Les jeux de simulation amoureuse
The techno-realities are seen as a threat to human relationships in “real” life, in particular when they relate to love. Such human-shaped products however multiply: domotic spouse, tactile screen’s boyfriend, holographic companion, bride for Virtual Reality glasses, interactive downloadable partner, otome games and bishôjo games characters... The purpose of this symposium is to analyze Love Simulation Devices as signals allowing users to express a variety of messages, even contradictory ones, yet to be deciphered within their specific contexts. Working on the Japanese products will provide a revealing insight of processes that still have not been analyzed and may serve as an eye-opener in the field of comparative studies in the western cultures.
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Florence
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age
The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.
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Algiers
"The Balfour Declaration" : What centenary
In order to address this notorious Declaration, we propose a debate on the historical, political and geostrategic circumstances that led to the Balfour Declaration, and how practical politics influences the making of Britain’s foreign policy. The Balfour Declaration and its ramifications at the local and global levels could be tackled with reference to a myriad of theoretical frameworks such as the postcolonial/political theory, new historicism, ethnography, to name but a few.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Interactions between the Twelver Shia and Christians - history, theology and literature
Les interactions et échanges entre des représentants chiʿites duodécimains et chrétiens, catholiques ainsi que protestants, ont rarement donné lieu à une étude détaillée. Pourtant, les contacts réciproques ont été nombreux comme l’indiquent les récits de voyageurs, les rapports de missionnaires, les textes théologiques et polémiques, les lettres diplomatiques, etc. Ces sources présentes dans les archives et bibliothèques européennes, mais aussi en Iran et Irak, restent pour une très grande part à étudier. Ce colloque s’assigne pour objectif d’identifier la nature de ces relations interculturelles selon les époques, les milieux, les géographies.
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Nantes
Conference, symposium - Language
Valentine de Saint-Point and the avant-garde
Art, dance, performance and politics - between Europe and Asia
Ce premier colloque international consacré à Valentine de Saint-Point vise à explorer l'ensemble des chemins empruntés par cette femme complexe, au parcours biographique enchevêtré, à l'œuvre foisonnante. Car si Valentine de Saint-Point a gagné, désormais, une certaine reconnaissance critique, les réalisations de cette expérimentatrice hors du commun restent encore peu étudiées dans le détail, et paraissent presque éclipsées par son personnage : la poétesse semble avoir été victime de son existence trop encombrante, de sa trajectoire trop romanesque, de ses turpitudes trop omniprésentes. Comme si le pittoresque de sa vie amenait à oublier ses créations ou ses textes, ou à ne les considérer que de loin, comme des documents secondaires d'une aventure personnelle construite hors des sentiers battus.
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Toulouse
Antiquity and the Near-East - identity issues and contemporary heritage
Appel à posters
Dans le cadre du colloque international Le Maghreb antique : enjeux identitaires et patrimoniaux contemporains, les organisateurs souhaitent préparer des ouvertures plus largement méditerranéennes en proposant une session poster consacrée au Proche-Orient. L’étude du riche patrimoine antique de cette région dans son rapport aux constructions identitaires nationales et arabo-musulmanes contemporaines promet des comparaisons particulièrement intéressantes avec le domaine maghrébin.
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Paris
Vénus Khoury-Ghata and transcultural dialogue
Cette journée d'étude est la première consacrée à l'ensemble des oeuvres de Vénus Khoury-Ghata, poète et romancière libanaise francophone. Il s'agit d'un premier état des lieux des études sur cette oeuvre majeure, encore largement inexplorée par la critique.
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Call for papers - Science studies
Musicologies / ethnomusicologies : évolutions, problèmes, alternatives
NEMO-Online, volume 4, n°6 et 7
These issues continue the debate initiated in NEMO-Online n°5 concerning the usefulness of the science, the problems raised due to powerful and contradictory non-scientific characteristics, and the alternatives which may be proposed.
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Lyon
Persona: the Power of Human Images in the Ancient Near East
Ce colloque reunit les spécialistes de l'iconologie et des textes sur les problèmes du corps et de l'identité dans la région syro-mésopotamienne. Il s'articule sur 4 thèmes principaux : le corps à travers les âges ; le corps à travers le genre ; le corps à travers le statut ;du corps « idéal » au corps déformé/battu/grotesque.
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Brussels
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
PhD position in Chinese studies and cultural studies
This project will explore how young Chinese cosplayers engage with the public at large to express new identities in spaces that are heavily regulated by social and political censoring mechanisms. On the one hand, this doctoral research will explore the structural organisation of Chinese cosplay (associations, conventions); on the other hand, it will look into specific bodily performances in public spaces.
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