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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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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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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
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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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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Paris
Singapour mon amour : The emergence and vicissitudes of an art scene
This colloquium proposes a theoretical perspective on the visual art, film, performance and literature modules of the project Singapour mon amour curated by Lowave. Thematic sessions according to these art genres will draw a bigger picture of the artistic creation in Singapore and will inscribe it into an international art discourse. As a young country, Singapore's art history is still the process of being written and the colloquium aims to collect as many direct sources and witnesses as possible.
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Lyon
Extrême-Orient : collectionneurs et collections d'aujourd'hui
L’objet de ce colloque sera d’étudier les collections privées ou publiques liées à l’Extrême-Orient dans une perspective contemporaine. Si notre ambition sera d’accorder une large place à l’art contemporain, les collections envisagées pourront également rassembler des objets plus anciens, et pas seulement des objets d’art. Le terme « Extrême-Orient » sera ici compris dans un sens large, incluant les îles de l’Asie de l’Est et du Sud-Est. L’approche sera interdisciplinaire, mêlant histoire de l’art, esthétique, anthropologie, sociologie, économie ou même politique.
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Paris
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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Le Havre
The Hallyu or Korean wave: a partial assessment, 15th years after
Groupe de recherches identités et cultures (GRIC) study days
Quinze ans après le début de l'engouement régional et international pour la vague coréenne, cette journée d'études se propose de tirer un bilan interdisciplinaire de ce phénomène. En effet, le Hallyu est aujourd'hui en passe de parvenir à engendrer une sorte d'unité de l'Asie, marquant ainsi un tournant décisif dans l'après-guerre froide quant à la dynamique postcoloniale et interrégionale des rapports Est-Ouest et Nord-Sud. Seront mobilisées les approches anthropologique, littéraire, lingustique, civilisationniste, philosophique, sociologique, économique, historique et politique.
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Paris
Islam and Regional Cultures in Pakistan
CEIAS conference
With the hope of throwing new light on the transformations of Pakistani society, this one-day conference intends to move the focus away from two dominant discourses on Pakistan : that is, on the one hand, the security discourse of political and media circles that reduces Pakistan to a state on the fringe of failure, trying to cope with radical Islam and terrorism; and, on the other hand, Pakistan’s official nationalism, which rests on a unitary conception of the nation that disregards the cultural and religious diversity of the country, stressing instead Islam and Urdu as national unifiers while relegating regional cultures to folklore. This conference hopes to partly fill this gap by inviting participants to illustrate the complex, lived experience of Islam in Pakistan, the identity component of religious practices that do not fit in the dominant norm, and their inscription in local political and ethnic relations. Papers would ideally use first-hand observation and/or analyses of cultural productions to examine circumscribed case studies.
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Paris
East-Literatures: freedom in modern and contemporary Arab literatures
IISMM-EHESS interdisciplinary seminar
La littérature arabe connaît un extraordinaire renouveau. Rarement autant d’écrivains s’étaient colletés aussi passionnément aux sujets qui agitent aujourd’hui les sociétés arabes : la liberté politique, la dignité, les droits des femmes, la religion, l’intégrisme, les effets oppressants de la tradition, de la famille et des préjugés. Les écrivains se sont lancés en avant du mouvement pour la liberté et le changement. Dans le cadre du séminaire, une table ronde sera organisée autour de l'oeuvre de l'écrivain libanais Charif Majdalani. Les séances se dérouleront tous les jeudis du mois, de 15h à 17h dans la salle de réunion au 1er étage. Entrée libre.
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Paris
Parij Uyghurshunasliq Heptiliki
Les Ouïghours sont un peuple vivant dans l’Ouest de la Chine, au sein de la région autonome ouïghoure que traversait jadis la route de la soie. L’exceptionnelle richesse de leur culture est un domaine d’étude que privilégient les universitaires de nombreux pays. La semaine d'études ouïghoures à Paris (INALCO, EPHE / GSRL / CNRS, Sciences-Po / CERI / GRAC et université Paris 7) aura lieu du 18 au 22 novembre, et sera l'occasion d'un colloque international, d'ateliers (lectures, calligraphie, cuisine et danse), de dégustation de la cuisine ouïghoure et de deux concerts.
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Nanterre
Seminar - Ethnology, anthropology
Modes of existence and forms of action in the auditive experience
CREM seminar 2013
Série de trois séances sur le thème : « Modes d'existence et formes d'action dans l'expérience auditive ». Le séminaire du CREM est ouvert aux chercheurs et étudiants de toutes disciplines. Organisé par Jean Lambert, Nicolas Prévot, Christine Guillebaud, Victor A. Stoichiţă.
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Lisbon
Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology
O Portugal atlântico, europeu e lusófono: uma nação de portas abertas
A presença dos Portugueses no mundo não é mais do que um reflexo de uma certa curiosidade tipicamente portuguesa, misturada com um empreendedorismo aventureiro, uma vontade inata de procurar descobrir onde nos leva o caminho. E, historicamente, o caminho levou-nos para todos os cantos do globo, desde o Oceano Atlântico e Mar Mediterrâneo ao Oceano Índico, do Mar do Sul da China até ao Oceano Pacífico. Estas extensas viagens deram a oportunidade aos Portugueses de interagirem com culturas muito diferente. Mas deram-lhe também uma capacidade incomum para abrir as suas portas a outras culturas, outras formas de viver, de fazer negócios, de comunicar e de construir pontes e caminhos.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Representation
Cultural heritage - what's the goal?
Reflection on the means of action
La culture et le patrimoine sont essentiels à la constitution des identités individuelles et collectives et à la construction du lien social. Consciente que la sauvegarde du patrimoine est une cause humanitaire, l’association Patrimoine sans frontières (PSF) agit dans des contextes d’alerte, d’oubli ou de déshérence, ainsi qu’après les conflits et les catastrophes. Depuis 20 ans, PSF est l’unique association française à travailler en ce sens, et s’emploie à sauvegarder et à valoriser le patrimoine pour venir renforcer la cohésion et le lien social dans les situations de rupture et de crise. Le 1er décembre 2012, quatre tables rondes seront organisées pour faire le bilan de ses actions, dégager les éléments de continuité et de cohérence qui font sa spécificité et impulser une réflexion sur le rôle du patrimoine dans la vie contemporaine.
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