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  • Brussels

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

    PhD Grant in Urban Anthropology of Youth in Laos

    EASt provides a PhD grant for a research titled: “Negotiating Identities in Public Spaces Among Old and New Groups of Young City Dwellers in Vientiane, Laos”. The research will explore how young migrants experience, use and appropriate public spaces, including cyberspace, in the Lao fast-developing capital, Vientiane. How are their social maps structured and negotiated in relation to public spaces? How do they interact and perceive their relationship with the local youth born and bred in Vientiane? How do they coexist and socialise in urban public spaces?

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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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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Ships of the desert

    The presence and uses of the camel (Camelus dromedarius) between the Tigris and the Nile in the middle 1st millenium

    Le dromadaire ou chameau à une bosse (Camelus dromedarius) n’est pas une espèce autochtone en Égypte, ni même au Proche-Orient ou dans la péninsule Arabique. L’animal, surnommé « vaisseau des déserts », est pourtant particulièrement bien adapté aux environnements arides et semi-arides de ces régions. Il a des utilisations multiples (transport de charge, transport de personnes, labour, course, consommation humaine etc.), mais son élevage est délicat et requiert un savoir-faire précis. Il a donc semblé opportun de réunir pour la première fois des philologues, des archéologues et des archéozoologues, spécialistes de leur discipline, pour confronter les informations et tenter de mieux cerner l’histoire du Camelus dromedarius, de son élevage et de ses utilisations dans les déserts d’Égypte, du Proche-Orient et de la péninsule Arabique, du milieu du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. à l’époque romaine.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Thought

    Irrationality in the Middle East and Islām

    Atelier thématique – IIe congrès du GIS « Moyen-Orient et Mondes musulmans »

    If rationality denotes what complies with the mind, irrationality, by contrast, deals with all that, at first sight, can't be explained and controlled by the ʿaql. In other words, irrationality is a negatively defined notion marked by lack or loss (ʿadam-, ġayr-ou lā-ʿaql), distance (ibʿād)or deviation (inirāf) from the intellect, or even it is the result of reduced rationality (qillat al-ʿaql). An irrational behaviour is considered rather strange, abnormal, and sometimes contrary to sound norms and moral principals. Consequently, this is the case of liminal states or of more or less voluntary marginal conducts: the insane and the mental ill, the drunk or the intoxicated, the silly, the foolish, the madly in love with beloved or with God, etc.

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  • Call for papers - History

    Bringing the nation back in. Plural national identifications in the contemporary Arabian Peninsula

    Arabian Humanities No. 9's thematic issue deals with the transformation of national identifications in a region characterized by many transnational mobilities and circulations, and at a time — from the Gulf war till today — when these dynamics have intensified and are now blurring or exacerbating feelings of belonging.

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  • Call for papers - Geography

    The iconography of India - a cultural approach to an unusual new form

    Géographie et cultures journal

    Ce numéro de Géographie et cultures porte sur l’iconographie de l’Inde dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Les textes pourront aborder les représentations de l’Inde dans une perspective à la croisée de la culture, de l’économie et de la politique ou traiteront de tel ou tel aspect de la culture indienne, dans ses aspects les plus contemporains comme dans une optique géo-historique, à l’échelle nationale, régionale ou locale. 

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Geography

    Globalization and its actors

    A study on conflicts in emerging countries

    The creative potential of conflicts has often been forgotten in social sciences. Solutions often emerge from contradictions, as illustrated by climate change negotiations (and agreements). Many actors stand at the core of contemporary conflicts, promoting their interests on different scales, in many different forms, with various rationale. Consequently, we need to identify the new actors of globalization in order to grasp the development dynamics in emerging countries, eventually paving the way for interdisciplinary conversation.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Asia

    Chinese resonances. Oil painting in China - history and perspectives

    Ce colloque accompagne l'exposition « Résonance chinoise » (Paris, 2016) et est consacré à la peinture à huile chinoise.

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  • Saint Petersburg

    Call for papers - History

    Third annual international conference dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Carl Fabergé

    The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg owns the world's largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé, including nine of the famous imperial easter eggs, and aims to become the main international platform for the study of the art and life of the famous jeweler. In this year marking the 170th anniversary of Carl Fabergé, the museum dedicated its annual academic conference to Carl Fabergé, his firm's activities in Russia and abroad, its place within Russian culture as well as to Fabergé's influence on modern and contemporary jeweler’s art. 

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  • Oran

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Women and social and politica changes in Arab countries

    Les mouvements sociaux qui ont secoué les pays arabes, depuis 2011, n’ont cessé d’interpeler les chercheurs sur les enjeux et les perspectives liés aux changements survenus sur les plans politique et social. Leur impact, sur les rapports sociaux de genre et les représentations qui les sous-tendent, mérite d’être analysé. En effet, les femmes des pays arabes sont particulièrement touchées par ces changements et cela est visible à travers leur présence active dans les mouvements sociaux. Elles jouent un rôle relativement important comme vectrices de modernisation dans la société. Le renversement de certains régimes n’aurait pas été possible sans l’insurrection des masses urbaines et dont la mobilisation des femmes a été un facteur important. Défiant certains tabous et stéréotypes, elles se sont imposées comme actrices des « révolutions arabes », non seulement en prenant part à la contestation, mais et en la nourrissant.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Asia

    How to study Asia in social sciences and humanities?

    Some Methodological Reflections

    This conference aims to provide opportunities for PhD/Post Doctoral fellows working on Asia in areas of History, Political Science, International Relations, Economics, Anthropology and Sociology, to present their research and to improve their theoretical but especially methodological approaches. The broad objectives of the conference will be to foster collaboration and the creation of trans-disciplinary research projects on Asia, while discussing common issues that transcends our areas of study: the necessity and possibility of articulating disciplinary knowledge and area studies, as well as the necessity and possibility of applying theories (often of predominantly Western origins) to a local context (Non Western).

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  • Berlin

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Art History for Artists: Interactions Between Scholarly Discourse and Artistic Practice in the 19th Century

    The development of art history as a discipline during the 19th century has been variously associated with the politics of national identity, the needs of a growing bourgeois public in search of cultural capital, or of an expanding art market. However, the role of art training, and art practitioners themselves in the shaping of the discipline remains unexamined. Courses in art history had been systematically introduced in the curricula of art and architecture academies since the late 18th century, and spaces of art education count among the first institutional homes of the discipline, well before the establishment of autonomous university chairs. This conference aims to explore the interactions and productive tensions between art practice and art scholarship in the 19th century. 

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Modern

    Appropriating Space in Colonial and Imperial Contexts

    Since their renewal in the 1980s, colonial and imperial studies have often focused on cultural representations and social practices. More recently, scholars have shown increased interest in the spatial dimensions of colonial phenomena, producing thematic atlases and analyzing imperial cartographies. Using the concept of appropriation, this call for papers seeks to stimulate further research on concrete connections between human interactions and spatial transformation in colonial and imperial settings. This multidisciplinary international conference will focus on modern (post)colonial and imperial spaces (19th–21st century), including both urban and rural environments. We aim at decrypting complex dynamics of spatial appropriation and their impact upon social relations. How does the radical transformation of a particular space impinge upon resource accessibility and use, local human experience and the construction of social identities?

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  • Paris

    Study days - Representation

    The role of archaeologist, art historian or curator in a devastated heritage

    Contemporary reflexive practices in the Near East

    L’actualité médiatique relative aux désastres de la crise politique au Proche-Orient insiste particulièrement sur les offenses faites aux patrimoines : utilisation de sites archéologiques comme bases stratégiques ou lieux d’atteinte à la vie humaine, pillages, dégradations, voire destructions massives. Dépassant, et l’état des lieux connu des destructions en Syrie et en Irak, et la question des difficultés pratiques à se rendre sur place (risque sécuritaire, baisse du nombre de visas délivrés, etc.), cette journée d’étude de troisième cycle de l'École du Louvre souhaite soulever les conséquences de la crise politique et de sa médiatisation sur les études des objets et sites archéologiques du Proche-Orient menées par des archéologues, historiens de l'art ou conservateurs.

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  • Paris

    Study days - Asia

    Cyber-geopolitics in Asia

    Avec une croissance exponentielle de ses utilisateurs et le développement de son économie numérique, l’Asie est devenue le nouveau centre de gravité de l’internet. Cette journée à pour but de présenter toute la complexité et les enjeux du cyberespace asiatique. La première partie de la journée sera consacrée à la cartographie du paysage cyber en Asie et l’élaboration de normes et de cyber pactes pour prévenir l’escalade des conflits. La deuxième partie de la journée offrira des regards croisés entre l’Europe et l’Asie, sur des questions d’intérêt commun : les risques et opportunités du marché de la cybersécurité et le rôle de l’industrie dans la stabilité globale ; la notion de souveraineté des États dans le cyberespace ; les cadres juridiques et la coopération régionale et internationale pour la protection des données et la lutte contre la cybercriminalité. Cet événement réunira de nombreux chercheurs et experts internationaux venus d’Asie, des États-Unis et d’Europe.

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  • Nantes

    Call for papers - Thought

    Valentine de Saint-Point and the intersection with the avant-garde

    Art, dance, performance and politics between Europe and the East

    Ce colloque organisé en mai 2017 par l'université de Nantes (laboratoire L'AMo) et l'université Paris 3 (UMR Thalim) est le premier événement international consacré à cette femme d'avant-garde hors du commun, qui a révolutionné l'art et rédigé des textes poétiques, critiques, politiques, romanesques ou théâtraux, pendant près d’un demi-siècle, de 1904 à 1951.

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  • Marseille

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

    The political issues of the circulation of a collection object between Europe and Hong Kong

    Dans le cadre de l’ANR VIPOMAR « La vie politique des marchandises » dirigée par Boris Pétric au Centre Norbert Élias à Marseille (EHESS / CNRS), il est proposé un contrat doctoral en anthropologie / sociologie de 36 mois portant sur les enjeux politiques de la circulation d’un objet de collection entre l’Europe et Hong Kong.

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  • Tokyo

    Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

    Recognising social margins within social dynamics in France and Japan

    Ce colloque aborde à la question des marges, en France et au Japon. Par « marges », nous entendons toute population reléguée en périphérie, ignorée des discours, non prise – ou mal prise – en compte dans la définition des normes les plus partagées.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Political studies

    Post-soviet dis-integration and dis-connections (1991-2016)

    25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this conference aims at investigating its transversal consequences from two original standpoints: patterns of integration/disintegration combined to logics of connection / disconnection. These issues have various expressions in societal, normative, linguistic, regional or international fields. The conference will hence tackle a general question: how do political choices, economic contingencies or social phenomena foster or disrupt all kinds of links throughout the post-soviet area?

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Cultures of resistance, peoples and minority languages

    Organized by Paris 8 research center on media, technologies and internationalization, the international conference “Cultures of resistance, minorized peoples and languages” aims at questioning the way States deal with minorized languages and cultures within their national territory, as well as the modes of resistance minorized people deploy to defend their rights.

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