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Thinking from the Dual – Ontology, Theology and the Humanities through the Lens of the “Muthannā”
This international conference explores the philosophical and theological implications of the Arabic grammatical dual (al-muthannā). Situated between the paradigms of unity and multiplicity that have long structured philosophical thought, the dual offers a distinctive relational structure in which two terms are held together without fusion or hierarchy. Taking this linguistic form as a conceptual starting point, the conference investigates the possibility of thinking relation itself as originary. Particular attention will be given to the concept of ʿahd (covenant, pact, commitment) as a relational event in Islamic theology and beyond. Bringing together philosophers, theologians, and scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the conference seeks to open a field of inquiry devoted to the ontological, theological, and anthropological significance of the dual in contemporary thought.
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Berlin
This workshop seeks to explore the links between preaching and socio-humanitarian action in the contemporary Middle East. Contexts of social and humanitarian crises appear as privileged sites for understanding this constitutive device of faith experiences, beyond the sole framework of the sermon or religious discourse. The chosen approach is deliberately cross-cutting: it brings Islam, Judaism, and Christianity into dialogue, while situating the Middle East within a global perspective. How does preaching accompany and shape social and humanitarian action? In what forms and according to which modalities does it unfold? How does it influence the understanding and implementation of aid?
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Thought
Le colloque Croyances, sciences et raison propose de réfléchir sur les enjeux contemporains des religions et sur leur place dans l’ordre des savoirs. Il ne s’agit pas seulement d’engager un dialogue entre les religions, à travers l'approche comparatiste et l'intertextualité, mais de façon plus fondamentale encore de comprendre comment ce dialogue s’axe à partir de leur exigence de rigueur, de leur volonté d’arrimer la croyance à des savoirs solides et rationnellement fondés comme les mathématiques (la problématique de l’infini), la physique, l'histoire ou encore la philosophie etc.
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Aix-en-Provence
Ces assises, qui auront lieu les 23 et 24 juin 2026, ont pour but de dresser un panorama des études sur les religions et les croyances au Japon, et de définir des thématiques communes qui pourront structurer la recherche actuelle et à venir sur la question.
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Louvain-la-Neuve | Brussels | Montreal
Polymorphism and polycentrism in women’s religious engagement
Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1400–1900
This conference is intended as an opportunity to examine the manifestations of religiosity of women who were not fully considered by the Catholic Church as members of its body, such as beatas, consecrated virgins, beguines, bizzoche, penitents, tertiaries, puellae, as well as sisters of religious congregations, from 1400 to 1900.
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Abu Dhabi
Philosophers and the Abrahamic Religions
Centuries of Reciprocal Influence
The Abrahamic Family House and the Munich School of Philosophy will organize a two-day conference in Abu Dhabi (UAE) to explore the contributions of the Abrahamic religions to philosophical debates and the reciprocal influence of philosophy on these traditions. Academic scholars and distinguished figures in interfaith dialogue will engage in discussions.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Cycle de conférences de Nicholas Boylston à l’Institut supérieur de philosophie
Université catholique de Louvain
Du 12 au 16 mai 2025, l’Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) accueillera Nicholas Boylston au sein du Centre De Wulf-Mansion. Durant son séjour, Nicholas Boylston donnera une conférence sur ʿAṭṭār, intitulée A Wondrous Pain: Meaning, Metaphor and the Poetic Integration of the Self in Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār et animera deux séminaires sur textes arabes, autour du concept de maʿnā et des traités lexicographiques du taṣawwuf.
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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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« Revue d’Histoire Méditerranéenne » - varia (Juin 2025)
La Revue d’Histoire Méditerranéenne, indéxée dans ERIH Plus et Arcif, classée dans la catégorie B par la DGRSDT, est une revue semestrielle de la faculté des sciences humaines et sociales de l’université de Bejaia, ouverte aux contributions en langue amazigh, arabe, anglaise, française et espagnole, lance un appel à contribution pour un numéro « Varia » qui paraitra en juin 2025.
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Lille
Le dialogue intermonastique entre Europe et Asie
Un dialogue d’expériences ?
Depuis 1983, un groupe de Dialogue Inter Monastique (DIM) est venu, en Europe, structurer des rencontres, en premier lieu avec des moines japonais relevant du bouddhisme zen. Le DIM est une structure reconnue par le Vatican. Il favorise un dialogue de vie, où le dialogue peut être compris comme un chemin d’approfondissement de soi. De fait, les initiatives du DIM interrogent la notion même de « dialogue », et sa justification en milieu chrétien.
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Sherbrooke
3e Congrès Biennal SQER 2025
Dans le contexte contemporain, le concept de « crise » est devenu un outil analytique central pour appréhender les dynamiques sociétales. Qu’elles soient financières, écologiques, géopolitiques, sanitaires ou sociales, les crises s’imposent comme des points de rupture ou de transformation. Le domaine religieux et spirituel, en tant qu’éléments fondamentaux des structures sociales, n’échappe pas à ces bouleversements. Ce congrès se propose d’explorer comment les sciences humaines et sociales des religions mobilisent la notion de crise pour analyser les transformations des croyances, des institutions et des pratiques religieuses, aussi bien dans le passé qu’à l’époque actuelle.
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Aix-en-Provence
Religious Conversions. Believing and Doing on the Move in the Mediterranean Area
This issue looks at religion in terms of its ability to mobilise institutions, groups and individuals around plural dynamics that contribute to the redefinition of the religious field itself. It looks at religious conversion through the prism of multidirectional and communicating trajectories, ’bifurcations’ in which movements of diversions, decentering and return to the self come together. Religious conversion is understood here beyond the dualistic categorisation of rupture and continuity. This leads us to think of it not simply as an opaque process of religious disaffiliation and affiliation, but as a movement from self to self, involving a constant tension of negotiation between reconfiguration of the ways in which people believe and do religion, and the significance of the identities and sensibilities of individuals in a given social environment.
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Lille
Les littératures des mondes de l’Islam à l’épreuve des contestations
Représenter, d’Europe en Orient, le refus de la norme
Ces deux journées se donnent pour objectif d’étudier les mises en forme littéraires des contestations, qu’elles soient de nature politique, sociale, culturelle, religieuse ou linguistique, en rapport avec les mondes de l’Islam (pays de langues arabe, turque et persane). Ouvertes à des chercheurs d’horizons variés pour ouvrir un dialogue interdisciplinaire et comparatiste, les journées auront pour vocation d’interroger les spécificités de l’opposition aux normes dans les littératures d’un espace traversé par des dynamiques proches. Nous réfléchirons également aux textes européens qui élaborent un discours critique sur le monde qualifié d’oriental (contestation des normes orientales, contestation des postulats européens sur l’Orient…).
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Rome
Despite their numerical preponderance among the missionary workforce exercising a Christian apotolate at the end of the Ottoman Empire, women have long attracted less work than men. A rebalancing is in progress, spurred on by the gender studies and extended to the whole Muslim world. We will focus on real encounter and conflict situations, avoiding an essentialist approach to Islam and considering the extreme diversity of the field strategies and practices. This approach will be carried out in equal parts, in a decentering and critical way, far from denominational approaches.
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Cairo
Le sens littéral entre mondes chrétiens et mondes musulmans (VIIe-XVe siècles)
En pointant du doigt le « littéralisme » ou le « fondamentalisme » de tel ou tel mouvement religieux, l’actualité met volontiers sur le devant de la scène la notion de sens littéral des textes sacrés, qu’il soit revendiqué comme le seul sens authentique ou dénoncé comme une simplification abusive. Le colloque se donne pour objet non pas toutes les thématiques liées au littéralisme, mais bien l’explicitation des sens du sens littéral. Les propositions attendues porteront donc sur la place de ce sens littéral dans le questionnement herméneutique.
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Lisbon
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
Ele trouxe uma mensagem de tempos antediluvianos
Jornadas sobre Literatura Antiga da Mesopotâmia
O Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (CH-ULisboa) organiza as Jornadas sobre Literatura Antiga da Mesopotâmia: “Ele trouxe uma mensagem de tempos antediluvianos” no âmbito das actividades de investigação do Grupo de Investigação Usos do Passado. Este evento contará com a participação de especialistas do CH-ULisboa e do CHAM/NOVA FCSH e serão apresentados trabalhos de investigação em desenvolvimento sobre história, cultura e literatura da Mesopotâmia.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - History
Serving the Sultan: Religious Diversity in Gujarat Under Islamic Rule
The Serving the Sultan conference will re-visit and cross-examine the processes that forged and shaped this religiously multi-layered, and ethnically plural society during the Islamic period in Gujarat (1298 - 1756 AD). This will be achieved by focusing on religious minorities, either in the numerical sense (Jains/Parsis), or minorities in the sense of not sharing the religion of power (various Hindu traditions). These communities’ intellectual, artistic, and literary contributions at the Islamic courts, their relation with the Islamic rulers, their everyday lives, and their mutual interactions will emerge as the common thread throughout this conference. Moreover, this colloquium seeks to explore how these local actors are embedded in trans-regional socio-political and cultural processes, thus connecting the developments in Gujarat with the broader South-Asian context.
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Boulogne
Judas the Galilean: the Man and his Significance
In 6 CE, while Quirinius was taking the census of Judea, the first Jewish opposition aroused against Roman presence in the region, led by a man known as Judas the Galilean (or the Gaulanite). According to Josephus, all subsequent troubles were the fact of this man. But who was Judas? Was he so important in the history? Was he even challenging Roman authorities? As usual in similar cases, the scholarly debates are endless about the man and his significance. This conference aims to survey all of the many faces of Judas in recent historiography and to discuss each evidence in order to estimate the true place of Judas in history.
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Arbil Governorate
From the disconnected letters to the science of letters: a meeting of knowledges in the Middle East
In order to interpret the disconnected letters of the Qur’an (ḥurūf muqaṭṭa‘a), Muslim thinkers have based their work on esoteric concepts, sometimes handed down from Antiquity, which have flourished in Islamic lands under the name of the science of letters (‘ilm al-ḥurūf). This international symposium aims to study the various representations of the mysterious letters within the wider framework of the science of letters, and to put them in perspective against similar readings from languages and cultures close to Arabic. Part of the symposium will be held in the historic citadel of Erbil in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, “the land of the two rivers”, the cradle of early writing.
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Saint-Maurice
La professionnalisation des acteurs de la mission
Transfert, déploiement, diversités et évolution des ministères et des métiers en mission (XIXe-XXIe siècle)
L’objectif de ce colloque est de tenter une approche comparative des différentes stratégies adoptées par les missions chrétiennes dans le temps et dans l’espace. Il s’intéressera d’abord au transfert des modèles apportés par les missionnaires étrangers et aux adaptations imposées très vite par le terrain. Il observera ensuite les transformations qui touchent à la conception, la nature, la pratique des ministères importés. Ce colloque ambitionne essentiellement de découvrir la « fabrique » des divers ministères et professions laïques dans la mission outre-mer à l’époque contemporaine (XIXe-XXIe siècle), soumise aux pressions politiques et sociales, d’en décrire la naissance, les mutations, ce qui naît et ce qui meurt, les héritages et les ruptures au sein des jeunes églises.
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