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Paris
Séminaire général de critique génétique de l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (2024-2025)
Créé il y a plus d’une trentaine d’années à l’École normale supérieure, le séminaire général de critique génétique anime la réflexion théorique collective menée sur les processus de création en lettres, arts et sciences dans la période moderne et contemporaine.
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Aubervilliers
Conference, symposium - History
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the 20th Century
In recent years, scholars in historical and secular studies have become increasingly interested in communist attitudes towards religion, communist regimes’ efforts to uproot religion, and interactions between Marxists and Christians. This conference will explore transnational communist perspectives on atheism in the twentieth century and Marxist-inspired attempts to explain and influence the evolution of atheism. Building on work on “scientific atheism”, “atheist establishments” and “thought collectives”, the conference explores differences and commonalities within the Soviet bloc – within which scholarly debates on atheism took place in what might be called a limited international scientific community.
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Sex (Mis)Education in the English-Speaking World
Historical, Literary and Socio-political Perspectives
This call for papers seeks contributions that will engage with the competing forms of formal and informal sex education as they pertain to the English-speaking world with a special focus on English speaking societies from the Indian ocean. Our aim is to propose varied, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the broad question of sex education, welcoming papers from historians, linguists, literary critics, sociologists, specialists in gender studies and others. Keeping in mind Foucault’s notion that sex is both hyper visible and taboo, we aim at providing in-depth discussions which will help better understand both formal and informal sex education taking into account the fact that sex education is fraught with cultural tensions and political feuds.
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Paris
Living in the Aftermath. Catastrophes in South Asia and the Himalayas
In 2024, the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes, CNRS/EHESS) is organizing an international conference open to all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities on the topic of the aftermath of catastrophes in South Asia and the Himalayas. The theme of this conference is in keeping with recent, global-scale and transdisciplinary reflections on the way the modern world thinks about and deals with disasters and the unexpected, be they ecological, technological or health-related, whether they are collective or individual.
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Paris
Circulations des objets et des œuvres asiatiques sur le marché de l’art parisien (1789-1914)
Tout au long du XIXe siècle, des objets d’art asiatiques anciens ou récents circulent sur le marché parisien. Leur diversité est remarquable : porcelaines, estampes, bronzes ou étoffes, du Japon ou d’ailleurs. L’étude de la circulation de ces objets invite à considérer les différents acteurs et actrices permettant ces échanges. Les marchands sont rejoints par des personnalités et des institutions aux motivations plurielles. Les provenances, les moyens de circulation, ainsi que les espaces dans lesquels évoluent les acheteurs à Paris montrent également que les contacts dépassent largement la seule place parisienne.
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Paris
Call for papers - Science studies
Science, Technology and Nationalism in India
Although the question of nationalism in India has been of interest to many social science scholars, the relationship between science and nationalism has seldom been discussed in an in-depth manner. STS perspectives and debates allow a framework that investigates the pivotal role and position of science and technology in the realization of state policies in India through several technoscientific projects and illustrates how deeply it is enmeshed within the larger political and social goals of national growth and development. Therefore, we would like to investigate the role science and technology play in these imbrications, the challenges they pose, and how these new assemblages reconfigure power relations between the Global North and the Global South within India, between States and markets.
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Paris
Les fonds photographiques
En précurseur du musée imaginaire de Malraux, Jacques Doucet jeta dès la fondation de la bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie (BAA) les bases d’une vaste collection de photographies illustrant tous les domaines de l’art mondial. L’ensemble portant sur l’Extrême-Orient, complémentaire du fonds de livres et d’estampes, est exceptionnel par son ampleur comme par sa qualité, car il a été rassemblé grâce à un réseau de savants, de voyageurs et d’amateurs, dont de grands noms de l’orientalisme. Il n’a encore jamais fait l’objet d’une étude systématique. Pour mieux le connaître cette journée d’étude le comparera à des collections contemporaines de même nature, conservées en France ou à l’étranger, pour évaluer avec précision son contenu, établir ses modalités de constitution en reconstituant le réseau des « extrême-orientalistes » liés à la BAA.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies
Two post-doctoral positions for the project "Subaltern Urbanization in the Touristic Mountains of Southern and South-Eastern Asia" (URBALTOUR)
L’ANR URBALTOUR (Urbanisations subalternes dans les montagnes touristique d’Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est) analyse les convergences entre logiques urbaines et touristiques à partir des stations d’altitude fondées à l’époque coloniale en Inde, au Sri Lanka, au Myanmar, au Vietnam, en Indonésie et en Malaisie. Dans le cadre de ce projet sont proposés deux contrats post-doctoraux. Le premier pour une durée de douze mois en études urbaines et/ou touristiques consistera à étudier deux stations d’altitude de l’époque coloniale jusqu’à nos jours dans une perspective à la fois urbaine et touristique en Malaisie (Cameron Highlands) et en Indonésie. Le second, d'une durée de dix-huit mois en histoire coloniale, consistera à travailler, à partir d'archives, à l'étude des stations d’altitude à l’époque coloniale dans une perspective à la fois urbaine et touristique en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est (Malaisie, Indes orientales néerlandaises, Indochine française, Inde britannique, Ceylan).
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Understanding Gradients of Political Engagements
Citizenship and Identity in South Asia
Historian and political scientists of South Asia have been dealing with the ascent of postcolonial state and the form of citizenships in South Asia. The meteoric rise of postcolonial theory, subaltern school of historiography to be precise made efforts in bringing the role of ideas and culture in shaping state, community and political narratives. Notwithstanding these insights still this literature failed to bring in one very important thing; a comparative lens to study informal politics in the region. The social transformation and process of democratization has appeared to be inching ahead across the region from Nepal to Bangladesh. Therefore, increasingly a cross country perspective is required combining interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies (qualitative, quantitative) to develop a comparative perspective of way social and cultural factors influence informal politics in South Asia.
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Toulouse
Rethinking Knowledge, Reshaping the University
17th Annual and International Colloquium of the Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World
University is one of the places (among others) of training, production and transmission of knowledge. If the goal of training is to participate in the process of social transformation, universities are one of the "unconditional" spaces (in the words of Derrida) to exchange with one's contemporaries. University remains a place where people mix, where people meet and where hospitality as a value still holds true to some extent. These attributes can also make it a place that can generate power struggles by holding up a mirror to society.This conference will address some issues regarding the future of higher studies in India, and in the Global South: How to continue to "produce" and share knowledge in the face of endless liberalization? What choices, what paths, what research projects can be on offer in the training programs at universities in the 21st century? How can we rethink knowledge and reshape the university? How can we reinvent the missions of academic transmission and research to meet the challenges of our time and anticipate those of the next generations?
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« Chacun est un monde en soi. Chacun porte en soi un monde entier, un monde en désordre. »
Colloque international sur l’œuvre de Shumona Sinha avec la participation de l’autrice
Née en 1973 à Calcutta – la ville de Tagore et le chef-lieu du Bengale-Occidental – et originaire ainsi d’un véritable « atelier du monde » (Éric Paul Meyer, 2019, 205), Shumona Sinha, s’est établie en France en 2001, devenant l’une des « étrangères de Paris », pour reprendre l’expression de Florence De Chalonge (2020, 281). Elle occupe un espace singulier sur la scène littéraire de notre époque. Sa création romanesque, composée jusqu’à présent (février 2022) de cinq livres – Fenêtre sur l’abîme (2008), Assommons les pauvres ! (2011), Calcutta (2014), Apatride (2017) et Le testament russe (2020) – appartient à la production littéraire féminine contemporaine, entraînant de nouvelles façons de penser les relations entre les différents espaces et identités qui constituent notre monde. Nous invitons les chercheuses et les chercheurs qui s’intéressent à l’œuvre de Shumona Sinha à présenter leurs travaux lors du premier colloque international consacré à son œuvre.
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Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Eros and Thanatos in the Arts of Asia
Revue « Art Asie Sorbonne »
From Plato to Saint Augustine to Freud, the pairing Eros / Thanatos occupies a place that is both central and multi-faceted in Western thought and art. It appears as a celebration of love as a vital energy that allows the (male) soul to escape its mortal body and reach the divine, but also as a threat when under the effect of carnal desire, or of feminine, maternal power, the soul is exhausted. This is also the case in Asian thought and art, whether in popular beliefs and images, religious icons, classical, traditional or contemporary representations.
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How sustainable are India’s Smart Cities?
Critically assessing the projects and politics underpinning the Smart City Mission
Faisant suite à une première réunion consacrée à la Smart City Mission en Inde en septembre 2018, l'objectif spécifique de cet atelier international est de se concentrer sur les questions de durabilité sociale et environnementale. Sur la base d'enquêtes sur le terrain, les intervenants évalueront de manière critique les expériences de villes intelligentes au fur et à mesure de leur déroulement. Parmi les questions à discuter figurent les suivantes : Comment l'engagement de l'Inde à l'égard des villes intelligentes se compare-t-il à d'autres cas internationaux ? Dans quelle mesure les projets en Inde s'appuient-ils sur des technologies de pointe ? Comment pouvons-nous caractériser la gouvernance et la politique de l'engagement de l'Inde dans l'urbanisme intelligent ?
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New formats and metamorphoses of Asian literary genres
Après avoir ébauché un panorama plutôt généraliste des « Nouvelles tendances des littératures d’Asie » lors d’une journée d’étude dédiée en juin 2016, l’axe « Littératures d’Asie et traduction » souhaite continuer sur sa lancée et pousser la réflexion un peu plus loin. Il se propose cette année d’interroger la notion du format des œuvres contemporaines, ainsi que la manière dont les différents genres littéraires se transforment et se métamorphosent à partir des années 2000.
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Pessac
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
South Asian Diasporic Cinema: Encounters
The fourth issue of /DESI/ will focus on the question of encounters in diasporic South Asian cinema: Afghanistan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh Nepal and Sri Lanka. The transformation of this contemporary human condition into filmic material coincides with a turn in the scientific study of diasporas. Forced migrations, which generate a movement of displacement and settlement in home territories, movements of arrivals, caught in a logic of deterritorialization, diasporas – and more particularly South Asian diasporas – are all relocated in transnational and transcultural spaces. Cinema holds a mirror to this experience of movement through this new “ethnoscape” (Appadurai) made up of shifts and disjunctures, free flows and political hurdles, border-crossings and assignment of identity.
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Aix-en-Provence
New trends in Asian literature
L’axe « Littératures d’Asie et traduction » se propose d’explorer les nouvelles tendances littéraires d’Asie, aussi bien dans ce qu’elles amènent de nouveau et d’inédit que dans ce qu’elles conservent de leur héritage littéraire et culturel, en passant par la manière dont elles se développent et l’accueil qui leur est donné à travers chacun des pays d’Asie.
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Paris
As for the other two phases of the project, this conclusion will take the form of a workshop, this time for a two-month, and organized by the whole team gathered around the project: "Writing Workshop stories of ancient mathematics - Reflecting on past practices and the future opening, 18th-20th-centuries".
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Saint-Denis
Female travellers in the Indian Ocean - 19th century-early 20th century
This is a call for papers from the historians of the University of La Réunion, members of the Research centre for studies on Indian Ocean societies (Centre de recherches et d’études sur les Sociétés de l’océan Indien-CRESOI) and the Indian Ocean Research Unit/Societies and Spaces (Unité de recherches Océan Indien/Espaces et sociétés) with the aim of publishing a collective work on the theme of women travellers in the Indian Ocean during the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century.
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Rio de Janeiro
Circulation and Scientific Institutions
The Americas, Western Europe, South Asia (1750s-1914)
While historians should take into account the movements in space that constantly transform sciences, they should not lose sight of the specific locations dedicated to the daily work of scientists. In scientific facilities (museums, laboratories, hospitals, etc.), modern scientists use their research instruments, meet with members of their networks, teach, and interact with various actors from outside of their scientific community. Participants in this symposium will seek how to write the history of this dynamic between circulation and institutions of science.
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Paris
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
The seminar is the meeting point between different SPHERE teams that are interested in mathematics. It fosters dialogue between philosophers and historians of mathematics while focusing on textual sources. Speakers are encouraged to make their sources available to the participants.
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