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Conference, symposium - Representation
La liberté académique dans la démocratie universitaire
Ce colloque entend explorer les liens qu’entretiennent la liberté académique et la démocratie universitaire. L’université est, en effet, une institution singulière puisqu’elle est la seule à être dirigée par une autorité élue dans le cadre d’un principe d’autogouvernement.
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Social margins, statistical margins and spatial margins in the Indian Ocean
In the second half of 2027, Tsingy plans to publish an issue on social margins and marginal practices in the Indian Ocean. This issue will address the question of measurement as well as the mutual influences between norms and margins, questioning in particular the role of margins (social, spatial, or statistical) in the transformation of social norms.
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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 - Ethnology, anthropology
Narratives, persuasiveness, heroes
L’association « Réseau chercheurs Népal » (RCN) organise à l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) (Paris) une rencontre scientifique sur le thème des récits, des convictions et des héro∙ïne∙s. Sont invitées toutes communications scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales, ciblant le Népal, portant sur des « récits », « convictions », « héro∙ïne∙s » permettant de mettre en lumière les thèmes et personnages caractéristiques issus de tous types de contextes au Népal.
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Saint-Denis
Ecologies of the Indian Ocean Worlds
TrOPICS journal
This issue of TrOPICS journal examines ecologies in the broad sense in the Indian Ocean. The approach is multidisciplinary and proposes to invest two main axes : ecologies of spaces and (sub)marine and aquatic ecologies.
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Call for papers - Representation
Figures de l’art n° 42, revue d’études esthétiques
The question of a “decolonization of knowledge”, instilled in large part by cultural and postcolonial studies, today questions all of our university fields. Decolonization studies have nowadays acquired a wide audience in Anglo-Saxon universities.
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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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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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Call for papers - Urban studies
Traditional Water Systems of India
A Heritage For The Future
In the global context of climate change and particularly water scarcity the traditional water heritage of India is more relevant than ever. With that background this seminar focuses on thematic area of traditional water systems in semi-arid zones of India.
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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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« 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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Quebec City
Mystical, spiritual, ascetic and monastic kindergartens
Explorations at the intersection of religions and kindergarten care
Ce colloque propose d’explorer un point particulier de l'intersection entre le religieux et le maternel. À travers les figures de femmes mystiques, saintes, enseignantes spirituelles, sages-femmes, activistes, guerrières, martyres, ou ayant d’autres formes d’engagement dans une vie religieuse hors du commun ou, au contraire, tout à fait ordinaire, nous vous invitons à découvrir ce que disent des traditions religieuses de cette intersection rarement examinée. Dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, avec des approches littéraires, historiques, anthropologiques, sociologiques ou théologiques, nous posons la question de la maternité en examinant des récits sacrés et hagiographiques ainsi que d’autres témoignages historiques et contemporains.
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Erfurt
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies
Scholarships for Doctoral Researchers
Reference number: KFG 05/2020
The Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG, a DFG-funded “Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies”) „Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal Formations” at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt invites applications for Scholarships for Doctoral Researchers starting from January 2021 at the earliest. Scholarships are granted for a period of 12 months.
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Paris
Artistic Activism in India (History, Practice, Paradigm and Circulation)
“Artivism” encompasses artistic actions, which tackle social and political issues, reviving agitational practises defined in resistance to the planetary ideological hegemony they refer to as neoliberalism. This resurgent awareness of the political nature of artistic creation questions consensual discourses on the neutrality of art and aesthetics, often confined in their "autonomy" and impervious to the disorders of the world. Within artistic activism a dialectic between two entities, traditionally perceived as being of a different nature, is played out: on the one hand the field of art (too often defined as autonomous, with no other functionality than its own) and on the other hand in the field of politics and social activities on the other hand (thought out as a praxis of the exercise of the power in an organized society). The central question posed by artistic activism could be stated in this way: How can we evaluate the capacity of art (visual arts, performing arts, literature, theatre, dance, video art, cinema, etc.) to function as social and political protest?
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Nanterre
Le séminaire Asie du Sud-Himalaya (ASH) est ouvert à différentes disciplines et de multiples thématiques. Les séances peuvent prendre différentes formes en fonction des intervenants : Présentation de travaux en cours : articles, chapitres de thèse, données de terrain, matériaux audiovisuels… ; Présentation d'un domaine de recherche : 3 à 5 références majeures sélectionnées par l'intervenant et transmises au préalable seront discutées, offrant ainsi la possibilité de se familiariser avec un domaine de recherche particulier ; Lectures critiques d'ouvrage : mise en perspective d'ouvrages récents et classiques ; Cours sur un thème particulier.
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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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