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Paris

Study days - History

Destiny, chance and games of luck in China

Cette journée portera sur de nouvelles recherches consacrées au thème du jeuet de la chance sur une période s'étalant de la Chine ancienne à l'époque contemporaine. Des pistes de réflexions novatrices seront proposées, entre autre, sur le jeu du liubo dans l'antiquité, le jeu divinatoire du dragon chinois et plus récemment sur les limites de l'influence de Las Vegas sur l'univers des casinos à Macao. Les communications sont en français et en anglais.

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Marseille

Study days - Asia

Thai-Lao studies

L’objectif de cet atelier organisé par l'IrAsia est de rassembler les spécialistes français de ces deux pays afin d’établir un état des lieux de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de la documentation sur cette aire, de prendre conscience des forces et des faiblesses et de voir ensemble comment préparer l’avenir. L’atelier est prévu sur un jour et demi afin de favoriser les échanges et de prendre le temps d’aborder différents aspects.

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Paris

Study days - Geography

Post-Conflict Territories

Europe, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa

One of the aims of this meeting is to contribute, by a comparative approach, to the positioning of geography as a tool for a territorial reading of post-war periods and dynamics, according to regional and local contexts.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Asia

Islam and Regional Cultures in Pakistan

CEIAS conference

With the hope of throwing new light on the transformations of Pakistani society, this one-day conference intends to move the focus away from two dominant discourses on Pakistan : that is, on the one hand, the security discourse of political and media circles that reduces Pakistan to a state on the fringe of failure, trying to cope with radical Islam and terrorism; and, on the other hand, Pakistan’s official nationalism, which rests on a unitary conception of the nation that disregards the cultural and religious diversity of the country, stressing instead Islam and Urdu as national unifiers while relegating regional cultures to folklore. This conference hopes to partly fill this gap by inviting participants to illustrate the complex, lived experience of Islam in Pakistan, the identity component of religious practices that do not fit in the dominant norm, and their inscription in local political and ethnic relations. Papers would ideally use first-hand observation and/or analyses of cultural productions to examine circumscribed case studies.

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Paris

Study days - Political studies

Karachi : Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

With a population exceeding twenty million, Karachi is one of world’s largest ‘megacities’. It is also one of the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, Karachi has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. In the process, Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature’, has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially.

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Toulouse

Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

Bodies and monks

Between virtuosos and ordinary followers

L’intuition de Marcel Mauss que des techniques particulières du corps représentent une base somatique indispensable à l’expérience du religieux semble confirmée par résultats ultérieurs de l’anthropologie et d’autres sciences sociales. À leur lumière, il apparaît qu’une certaine négation des fonctions organiques ordinaires à travers les restrictions alimentaires, la continence sexuelle, les pratiques vestimentaires et les ornements, etc., de même que l’emploi des techniques corporelles extra-quotidiennes telles que les danses, les prosternations, les tournoiements, constituent une condition obligée de toute expérience religieuse ou, du moins, des formes virtuoses de l’engagement religieux.

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Paris

When Books and Art Hurt

Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia

This workshop aims at exploring issues of literary and artistic censorship in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) by focusing on the way anticipated "hurt" often justifies the policing and regulation of the artistic sphere (cinema, visual arts, literature). Our point of departure is, in the words of Arjun Appadurai, the observation that culture is today the field "where fantasies of purity, authenticity, borders and security can be enacted" and that the same censors patrol the boundaries of politics and aesthetics (Coetzee). In the Indian subcontinent "hurt feelings" are often reactivated or cultivated, staged and mass-mediatised to claim recognition and legitimacy in the public sphere, to require compensation or "redressal". Many artists, writers and academics point to a politics of ultra-sensitivity and a thriving "marketplace of outrage". Our objective in this workshop is to question the vocabulary, topicality and tangibility of "hurt" in the public sphere on these issues of artistic regulation in South Asia, and to understand what it means to say that words or images wound.

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Saint-Denis | Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

Conference, symposium - History

The Cold War and Entertainment Television

An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. A great deal of work, for example, has been done on cinema, especially with regard to the United States although other nations, both East and West, have received increasing attention. But with certain noteworthy exceptions (primarily in the areas of science fiction and espionage series) relatively little has been done on this subject in relation to television. Yet, television was a technology and popular cultural form that emerged during the Cold War. This project hopes to rectify that absence by providing a forum for examining the impact of the Cold War on entertainment television. We intend to underline the comparative aspect by studying programs from both blocs – without forgetting, of course, the outsize impact of American television.

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Paris

Call for papers - Modern

Students and popular music

L’objet de cette rencontre d’étudiants est de créer un espace ouvert d’échanges, de discussions et de découvertes autour des « popular music » organisée par et pour les étudiants provenant d’institutions et d’horizons disciplinaires différents. Elle sera l’occasion de faire un état des lieux des recherches en cours, des problématiques abordées et des approches choisies, qu’elles soient scientifiques ou artistiques, transdisciplinaires ou non, en offrant une liberté formelle de présentation (communication, tables rondes, performances, vidéo, et toute autre forme jugée pertinente).

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Paris

Lecture series - Asia

The notion of "individual" in Japan

Observations on a keyword in the understanding of intellectual history in an extra-western world

Monsieur Yoichi Higuchi est professeur de droit constitutionnel et membre de l'Académie du Japon. Invité par l'assemblée des Professeurs, sur la proposition du professeur Anne Cheng, titulaire de la chaire Histoire intelectuelle de la Chine, il donnera deux conférences au Collège de France.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Asia

Censorship and Women's Resistance in the Performing Arts, from Continental Asia to Insular Southeast Asia

This two-day conference entitled Censorship and Women's Resistance in the Performing Arts, from Continental Asia to Insular Southeast Asia brings together scholars and artists from Asia, Europe and North America concerned with censorship and the various forms of struggle and resistance that female performing artists from Central, South and South-East Asia have engaged with in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Paris

Study days - History

Common Experiences, Common Desires ? Tracing an Intellectual History between China and Africa

Conférence ANR Espaces de la culture chinoise en Afrique (EsCA)

In his 1954 presentation to dignitaries from across Asia and Africa, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai acknowledged the differences between the two cultural spheres; nevertheless, Zhou stressed, a more important factor in all future relations should be the “common experiences and desires” of people from across the two continents to create a new world from the ashes of war and colonialism. Building on Zhou’s insight into commonalities of experience, this presentation will trace the cultural intersections that have existed between China and African since the 1920s.

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Rabat

Conference, symposium - Information

The production and transnational circulation of media assets in the Arab and Islamic world

Examples of journalism, TV programs and cinema

Ce colloque coordonné par des membres du Centre Jacques Berque (CJB, Rabat) et l’Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA, Istanbul) se propose d’analyser les productions et les circulations transnationales des biens médiatiques dans les mondes arabes et musulmans en vue de structurer un réseau de chercheurs sur ce thème. Les terrains privilégiés par les membres de l’équipe sont des productions médiatiques populaires (au double sens du terme), c’est-à-dire l’information produite par les journalistes, les programmes télévisés et les films de cinéma. Le colloque, qui a reçu une dotation importance du GIS Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans, donnera lieu à une publication CJB-IFEA.

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Tunis

Call for papers - Political studies

Diasporas, migrants and exile

The role of revolutions and political transitions in the Arab world?

Le programme de recherche, fondé par l’European research council When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World (WAFAW), invite les universitaires, chercheurs et étudiants, travaillant en science politique, relations internationales, études migratoires, sociologie ou économie politiques, a envoyer leur proposition de communications pour apporter des éléments de réponse aux questions telles que : Comment l’événement, la rupture et la nouvelle palette des possibles ont-ils suscité ce nouvel élan de « nationalisme à distance », au delà des cercles déjà politisés et en exil ? Comment les soulèvements, leur répression et la reprise en main autoritaire a donné une saillance renouvelée aux groupes d’opposition à l’étranger ? Comment les régimes gèrent-ils les relations avec ces acteurs transnationaux ?

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Paris

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

Late Antiquity in the north-western half of the Arabian peninsula: material culture, chronology, exchanges and territorial entities

PhD fellowhip Labex Dynamite 2014-2015

The very quick recent development of archaeological and epigraphic work in Saudi Arabia brought deep changes in our knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula — which until the middle of the 2000's was only based on research on the periphery: Kuwait, Bahrayn, Qatar, The Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. That development reveals how wide the gaps are, of the interpretative frame in particular, for broad geo-historical segments. That is true especially for what is generally called Late Antiquity (4th- early 7th centuries AD), and here "Late Pre-Islamic" or even in local religious terms jâhîliyah, "ignorance" — a term which actually reflects correctly the state of knowledge. The amount of data collected within less than ten years within a large North-Western half of the Peninsula makes possible to see that except for the extreme North (current Joradanian border and Jawf Oasis) the Christianity does not penetrate and Byzantiums unifying power is absent. One is even unable to name what the field teams are dealing with. The proposed doctoral work must produce the state of that question, for which there if a rich evidence in stratigraphy, architecture, objects, and even epigraphy due to the recent demonstration of the Nabataean-Arabic continuum. The comparison with the Byzantine and christianized areas of the extreme North must be one of the leading strands but no way the only one, since the heart of the subject lyes, on the contrary, in the currently unnamed culture(s) of the Peninsula itself.

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Call for papers - Asia

Drinking and eating in Asian literatures

Les habitudes et les pratiques culinaires sont, en effet, autant les marqueurs d'une société et de son état de développement, que ceux de sa culture, des interdits qu'elle s'impose, des rites et des coutumes qui sont les siens. Pour son cinquième numéro, Impressions d'Extrême-Orient se penche sur le thème de la nourriture et la manière dont les littératures d'Asie en rendent compte.

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Amman

Call for papers - Geography

Circulation, borders, and migratory control in the Middle-East

L’Institut français du Proche-Orient organise un colloque à Amman les 29 et 30 mai 2014 sur la thématique des circulations humaines dans la région du Moyen-Orient (Turquie, Iran, Proche-Orient, Golfe). L’objectif est de réfléchir à la manière dont s’articulent les flux de circulation avec les contextes conflictuels qui caractérisent l’espace régional et la manière dont les différents États tentent de s’adapter à ces flux et de les encadrer. Dans un contexte de crise, les transformations spatiales des espaces frontaliers, des villes d’accueil, des zones où séjournent et se regroupent migrants et réfugiés seront au centre de ce colloque. De plus, le contexte socio-historique où des flux de migrants, de marchands, de pèlerins ou de réfugiés participent, depuis fort longtemps déjà, aux recompositions socio-spatiales de lieux qui servent de transit et d’accueil à ces populations mobiles, sera abordé pour questionner les flux actuels.

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Abu Dhabi

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Assistant lecturer position in history

Le département « Histoire, civilisations et enjeux internationaux » de l'université Paris Sorbonne Abou Dhabi recherche un professeur assistant pour la prochaine année académique. Ce professeur assistant enseignera en Licence et Master (234 heures/année académique) et fera de la recherche. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées avant le 4 mai 2014.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Gender, migration and citizenship

Revisiting Southeast Asian international marriages

In the current context of economic crisis, international marriages and family-related migrations are becoming increasingly restricted in many developed countries in the Global North, whereas countries in the Global South are adopting measures to protect local women from the trafficking and sexual exploitation that may arise from international marriages. These regulations of the “marriage market” pose challenges to single men and women looking for partners of a different nationality and for bi-national couples pursuing a family-formation project. For those who successfully immigrated in the country of their partner, social incorporation and cohesive family life are the next challenges in line. To shed light on the multi-faceted life of marriage migrants in the current age of economic crisis and increased border controls, this edited volume will take a closer look at Southeast Asian international marriages. It will also attempt to capture the dynamics of the interaction among macro-, meso- and microsociological factors that shape migrants’ trajectories, while taking into account their subjectivities and agency.

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Nice

Conference, symposium - History

Consuls, figures of sales intermediation in Europe and in the Mediterranean world (17th-19th century)

Le colloque « Les consuls, figures de l’intermédiation marchande » est organisé dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Les figures de l’intermédiation marchande en Europe et dans le monde méditerranéen (XVI^e -XXI^e siècle) », inscrit dans l’axe 1 du programme quinquennal 2012-2016 du Centre de la méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (université de Nice Sophia Antipolis). Ce projet, à travers l’étude de figures de l’intermédiation marchande (commis voyageurs et agents de commerce, consuls, courtiers, commissionnaires, capitaines de navires), entend développer une réflexion sur les principales transformations qu’a connues la pratique du commerce à distance durant les époques moderne et contemporaine.

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