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Turin
“Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya
The trilingual conference “Colonial Communities” in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya seeks to address a still relatively unexplored topic: the study of Italian communities abroad, with particular attention to the Mediterranean world in the period between national unification (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911). At the core of this reflection lies the close, and not merely chronological, relationship between the migratory dynamics that characterized the early decades of unified Italy and the rise of colonial expansionism. The seminar therefore aims to investigate this connection through the specific lens offered by the Italian presence in North Africa and in the Ottoman Empire before the occupation of Libya.
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Strasbourg
British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914
This conference aims to interrogate some of these British visions of rival empires in narrations published between 1783 and 1914. It would be interesting to analyse the practice of imagined colonialism, that is, how the British travellers cast a domineering gaze upon their imperial rivals when travelling in lands that were not colonies of the British crown.
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Paris
Un luxueux Dioscoride illustré, entre la Syrie gréco-arabe et l'Italie méridionale : Paris. gr. 2179 (IXe siècle)
À travers les manuscrits de l’une des plus importantes collections au monde, ce séminaire qui s’adresse aussi bien au grand public qu’aux spécialistes vise à aborder des questions cruciales et débattues de la tradition dans les domaines de la littérature, de la philosophie et de l’art grecs et byzantins. La discussion s’organisera autour des manuscrits qui seront exposés dans la salle.
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Musical and Artistic Circulations between Italy and Jerusalem (16th–21st c.)
This conference re-examines four centuries of musical and artistic exchange between Italy and Jerusalem. It asks how sound, performance and visual practice have shaped social space, identity and cultural diplomacy at this East–West crossroads, inviting scholars, practitioners and community actors to present new research on archives, networks and hybrid repertoires from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Étudier les polices au Moyen-Orient
Penser les formes d’États du VIIIe siècle à nos jours
Le Moyen-Orient est longtemps resté le parent pauvre des travaux de sciences sociales consacrés à la police. Cette marginalisation n’est pas propre au monde arabe. La France a elle-même investi tardivement ce champ de recherche, privilégiant l’analyse de ceux qui subissent la répression plutôt que ses commanditaires et exécutants. Pour saisir les dynamiques de construction de l’ordre public et les relations États-société dans le Proche Orient, nous proposons de décentrer le regard en partant de l’appareil répressif et en privilégiant une perspective diachronique.
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Paris
Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970)
This call for papers aims to prepare a collective publication focused on the actors and practices of assistance to migrant populations in Europe and the Middle East between 1945 and 1970. The project adopts an innovative perspective, emphasizing on-the-ground dynamics and the interactions among the various actors involved in migration-related aid, between cooperation, competition and entanglement.
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Lyon
Attractiveness and mobility networks: seducing, welcoming and integrating
As part of the study day "Attractiveness and Mobility Networks," PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars are invited to explore the dynamics of attractiveness in individual and collective mobilities, from the Bronze Age to the modern era. The event focuses on the legal, political, and social mechanisms implemented to attract, welcome, and integrate individuals into networks. It also examines the formal and informal circulation of information, as well as the processes of community clustering. Particular attention will be given to both the successes and failures of these mechanisms of attractiveness.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Political studies
Table ronde autour de l’ouvrage collectif « Gaza, une guerre coloniale »
La guerre déclenchée à Gaza après le 7 octobre 2023 s’inscrit dans une continuité qui n’implique pas seulement la bande de Gaza mais également le reste de la Palestine historique, ainsi que les sociétés alentour, de longue date concernées par l’actualité palestinienne. De quoi la guerre actuelle à Gaza est-elle le nom ou l’apogée ? Quels processus et quelles logiques, poussés à leur terme, sont-ils à l’œuvre dans les massacres en cours ?
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Frankfurt
The Mixed Courts of Egypt, 1876-1949
Between imperial internationalism and shared legal knowledge
How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question.
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Amman
Lexis, framing, timings, 19th‒21st century in the Middle East
Is preaching consubstantial with crisis? Did the different religious traditions present in the Middle East come to grip with the notion of crisis during the contemporary period? This workshop examines the similarities and divergences between preaching endeavours by the different religious traditions and the transformations in religious discourse in the Middle East from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a comparative and diachronic analysis, it aims to identify what "constitutes a crisis" for particular religious actors at a given moment in the contemporary history of the Middle East (e.g. military defeat, feelings of inferiority vis-à-vis Europe, demographic decline of a given religious group, secularisation of institutions, rise of atheism, etc.)
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
On the Roads of Arabia: Itineraries by Land and Sea
From the Bronze Age to the Islamic Period
The aim of the symposium is to study the overland and maritime routes of the Arabian Peninsula and the exchanges they made possible, through archaeology, history, philology, religion and life sciences. This topic will be addressed in the longue durée, from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. The symposium will also examine the networks of exchanges with border regions such as the Indian subcontinent, the Horn of Africa and Egypt, as well as the empires of the Ancient Near East, and the Greek and Roman empires.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Law
Artistic Censorship and the Creation of Israel (1948-1967)
This article discusses the artistic censorship of German and Germany in Israel between 1948-1967. During these years, with various fluctuations, the Israeli Film and Theatre Review Board, the agency in charge of artistic censorship, actively censored films, plays and concerts in German. Relying on previously undiscussed archival data, the article tracks the contours of this censorship, from its adoption upon the establishment of the state, to its eventual demise after full diplomatic relations were established between Israel and West Germany.
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Basel
The Ottoman Governance of Diversity
12th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late and Post-Ottoman Studies
The Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies is a two-day workshop in Basel, Switzerland, designed for international doctoral students conducting research on the Near and Middle East. The workshop consists of a two-day, intensive program in which select students work closely with invited experts. Successful completion of the workshop entitles students to 3 ECTS credits. This year, we are thrilled to host Dr. habil. Nora Lafi of the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, to lead our 12th annual workshop on the topic of “The Ottoman Governance of Diversity.”
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Journée Bibliothèques d'Orient
La BnF et ses partenaires de Bibliothèques d’Orient convient le public à un parcours à travers des fonds documentaires remarquables sur l’histoire, les sociétés et les cultures du Moyen Orient. Conservateurs et chercheurs présentent des documents et des corpus identifiés, conservés ou valorisés dans le cadre de Bibliothèques d’Orient, le programme de coopération de la BnF avec des établissements de conservation au Moyen Orient et autour de collections relatives à cette région.
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Lyon
Mobilités, transferts et circulations au Moyen Âge (Ve-XVe siècle)
Journées d’étude des doctorants du CIHAM (Histoire, Archéologie, Littératures des mondes chrétiens et musulmans médiévaux)
Mobilités, transferts et circulations : le triptyque formé par ces termes place la réflexion que les Journées d'étude des doctorants du CIHAM 2024 aspirent mener dans une perspective dynamique – dynamique des structures politiques et administratives, dynamique des mobilités humaines et des infrastructures qu’elles nécessitent, dynamique des motifs et des modèles littéraires qui se diffusent au sein d’aires culturelles et linguistiques connectées. Ces journées d'étude souhaitent susciter une réflexion transdisciplinaire, entre littérature, histoire et archéologie ; à la croisée des mondes médiévaux chrétiens et musulmans, conformément aux intérêts fondateurs du laboratoire du CIHAM – UMR 5648.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Du Grand Tour à l’Orient-Express : curiosité, exploration, sociabilité
Au cours de ce colloque, nous nous proposons d’étudier la manière dont les voyageurs sillonnant les Balkans et la Méditerranée orientale, entre le Grand Tour en Orient et l’épopée de l’Orient-Express, ont pu appréhender ces pays, leurs habitants et leurs passés. Nous nous donnons pour but d’explorer les représentations sociales des voyageurs, mais aussi celles des populations visitées. Sans se limiter à reproduire les schémas classiques de compréhension de ces discours, redevables à Edward Saïd, il s’agira d’historiciser, de contextualiser et de décliner ces perceptions ambivalentes en fonction des considérations géopolitiques, des orientations idéologiques, mais aussi des affinités personnelles de ceux qui ont produit ces discours. En parallèle, nous aimerions étudier ces lieux de sociabilité que sont les navires ou et des trains, à l’instar de l’Orient-Express et de son successeur, le Simplon-Orient-Express, ainsi que son prolongement asiatique conduisant en Iraq et en Égypte, le Taurus-Express.
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Hamburg
Towards a History of European Developmentalism
Development, Modernization and Europeanization from the 19th to the 21st century
As historical narratives on international politics of development and modernization are now consolidate, a genuinely European perspective, that considers the multiplicity of governmental and non-governmental actors, still seems to be missing. This conference aims to understand to what extent a politically integrated Europe might be understood as the result of practices of development policies within Europe and its (semi-)colonial periphery during the past two centuries.
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The Levant and the Mediterranean
Technè, n°59, 2025-1
At the crossroads of the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean, the Levant has always been a multicultural area, a zone of contact between Asia, Africa and Europe. Since the 19th century, archaeological digs have been revealing the archaeology and history of this region. This issue of Technè reflects the changes and challenges facing archaeology in this region, and highlights the contribution of a multidisciplinary approach to the knowledge and preservation of the Levant's heritage, from the Neolithic period to the end of the Middle Ages.
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Paris
Algérie-Palestine : des sentiers qui s’entrecroisent
La Palestine occupe désormais une place centrale dans le champ des études comparatistes sur les colonies de peuplement. Réunissant des chercheurs d’horizons divers, des militants, des diplomates et des artistes, l’ambition de cette journée est de dépasser les boîtes noires idéologiques construites par les historiographies coloniales et les régimes politiques pour restituer les liens profonds qui unissent les sociétés algérienne et palestinienne. En fin de compte, il s’agit de créer un espace pour penser non seulement les espoirs mais aussi les tensions et les contradictions inhérentes aux luttes décoloniales à différents moments de l’histoire.
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Paris
From the Grand Tour to Orient-Express: curiosity, exploration, sociability
In this colloquium, we propose to study how the travelers crossing the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, between the “Grand Tour en Orient” and the Orient-Express, were able to apprehend these countries, their inhabitants, and their past. Our aim is to explore the social representations of travelers, as well as those of the populations they visited. Without limiting ourselves to reproducing the classic schemes for understanding these discourses, indebted to Edward Saïd, we shall historicize, contextualize and define these ambivalent perceptions according to the geopolitical considerations, ideological orientations, and personal affinities of those who produced these discourses.
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