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• 11 déc 2013

  Johannesburg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa

  French Institute of South Africa Funding Application 2014

  Masters, Doctoral, Postdoctoral students, Senior Researchers

  Within the framework of its research programming, the French Institute of South Africa (UMIFRE 25, USR 3336) finances certain research projects in the Human and Social Sciences on Southern Africa. All funding applications from research units, researchers and students for research work, field work, events or publications for 2014 must imperatively reach us before the 11^th of December 2013. Nationality will not be a condition for application, although the existence or prospect of a long-lasting partnership between France and Southern Africa is essential. Financial contribution from another institution is highly desirable. In all cases, funds allocated by IFAS will not exceed 40 000 ZAR or 4 000 EUR. Applicants will receive replies by email during the first quarter of 2014, after their projects have been examined by the members of the Research Council for Africa of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. All applications will be taken into consideration. However, priority will be given to applicants whose research is in line with the research programmes of the Institute

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• 28 nov 2013

  Dakar

  Call for papers - Africa

  Public Policies and Mobile Development Practices

  Opportunities, Constraints and Role of Stakeholders

  This panel intends to examine firstly the place of public policies (or lack thereof) through the role of government and regulatory bodies, and secondly, concrete practices and trends of mobile applications and mobile uses for development (mHealth, mEducation, mEconomics, mAgriculture etc.). Papers should focus on constraints, opportunities, practical experiences of various formal and informal groups of mobile application development.

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• 25 sep 2013

  Vitoria-Gasteiz

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Ist International Conference of Anthropology in Morocco : Discourses, encounters and networks

  The conference will host keynote lectures, plenary sessions and different workshops concerning the anthropology of Morocco. 

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• 15 jui 2013

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the African Independences: Marginalized, Forgotten, and Revived Political Actors

  The fiftieth anniversary of the African Independence has been an occasion for the East African countries and their diasporas, the international academic community and the former colonial nations to assess the economic, social and political achievements and failures of the past fifty years. However, such inventories tend to focus on the upheavals of the social, economic and political structures, sometimes on the memory of the fathers of the nation and former grand nationalistic narratives, but usually overlook political actors, whether individual or collective, which were marginalized by the men in power during the early post-independent years.

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• 20 avr 2013

  21 avr 2013

  Sfax

  Conference, symposium - History

  Al Moltaka 2013 - first young history researchers conference

  L'association nationale des jeunes chercheurs en histoire organise le 20 et le 21 Avril 2013, à Sfax (Tunisie) la première rencontre des jeunes chercheurs en histoire. les communications évaluées par un comité scientifique ont été organisées autour de quatres thèmes majeurs : la société au regard du patrimoine ; relecture des sources de l'hitoire Maghreb ; acteurs dynamique sociale et résistance ; Architecture, lien social et ancrage historique.

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• 18 avr 2013

  19 avr 2013

  Turin

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Political transfomations and religious revival in the arab world

  Cette conférence internationale est consacrée à l'analyse des dimensions économiques et sociales du « Printemps arabe » et aux significations politiques multiples et plurielles que l'islam peut assumer. Par une approche d'économie politique seront analysées différentes manifestations du religieux dans la société, et diverses configurations sociales au-delà des considérations d'ordre sécuritaire, d'intégration ou de compatibilité entre l'islam et la démocratie. En adoptant une perspective comparative seront explorées, à partir de recherches de terrain en cours et aussi au-delà du monde arabe, des nouvelles façons d'interpréter les transformations politiques en cours et les multiples significations que l'islam peut avoir (et ne pas avoir). 

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• 16 jan 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond

  Fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5)

  Historians, anthropologists as well as specialists of various scholarly traditions are invited to reflect on the question of production, transmission and preservation of administrative and legal documentation in pre-colonial Africa. The aim of this panel is to foster dialogue between scholars working on non-narrative sources, whether land charters, weddings contracts, deeds, funerary inscriptions or other archival materials. Presentations of methodological issues rather than case-studies would facilitate a comparative approach leading to a renewed understanding of the social organizations that produced these documents.

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• 31 aoû 2012

  Saint-Denis

  Call for papers - Modern

  Between generational continuities and ruptures: Research on the Algerian war of independence Fifty years later

  La guerre d’indépendance algérienne, en tant qu’événement fondateur majeur de l’après-seconde guerre mondiale, peut constituer, en termes de « générations », un espace-temps bien défini et homogène. Dès lors, il est légitime de mieux comprendre et d’interroger la nouveauté des paradigmes d’une génération de chercheurs inscrits dans un champ de recherche en construction. Peut-on déceler des ruptures ou des continuités dans les objets, les sujets, les méthodes, les approches macro et micro-historiques ? Quelle place les sources ont-elles dans ces travaux ? Existe-t-il des changements entre les travaux qui se veulent plus larges et exhaustifs et ceux qui se fondent sur des aspects plus localisés ? Quels sont les déplacements de paradigmes explicatifs que l’on peut observer ? Cette nouvelle génération évite-t-elle encore les présupposés idéologiques liés à une mémoire militante ? Au-delà des résultats et conclusions des travaux, le colloque devra aussi mettre en exergue les méthodes, les matériaux, les perspectives d’enquêtes engagés. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux propositions des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs.

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• 29 jui 2012

  Kigali

  Call for papers - Education

  Rwanda: Genocide and Reconstruction

  A journey through the Genocide of Tutsi

  Organized in Rwanda by the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center. The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center based in Kigali, Rwanda continues their two/three-week US/Rwanda exchange program in order to deepen students’, researchers’, and artists’ knowledge of the Rwandan genocide. In the last years, the program started in 2004 has enabled teachers and students from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Singapore, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, and the USA to develop narratives that engage questions of social justice, conflict resolution, and peace building. The program has involved theater artists, filmmakers, academicians, researches, and students from various disciplines and countries, whose practice engages questions of peace building.

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• 07 mar 2012

  08 mar 2012

  09 mar 2012

  Jaji

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Managing National and International Security in a Globalized World

  Annual conference of the SPSP in collaboration with IFRA-Nigeria

  Du 7 au 9 mars 2012, l’IFRA Nigéria participera à la sixième conférence annuelle de la SPSP (Society for Peace Studies and Practice), organisée à Jaji (Kaduna State – Nigeria) en collaboration avec le Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Cet événement réunira chercheurs, doctorants, professeurs et membres des différents corps d’armée engagés dans les programmes de pacification et de résolution des conflits au Nigéria. / From March 7-9, 2012, IFRA-Nigeria will participate to the sixth Annual Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), organized at Jaji (Kaduna State, Nigeria) in collaboration with the Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Scholars, professors, PhD students and members of security agencies involved in conflict resolution in Nigeria will be part of this event.

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• 17 fév 2012	12 mar 2012	02 avr 2012
  21 mai 2012	25 jui 2012

  Saint-Denis

  Seminar - History

  Frontières

  Frontières research group seminar EA 1569

  Programme du séminaire frontières, du groupe Politique étrangère et migrations, pays anglophones, sous-équipe de l'EA 1569. Le « groupe Frontières » a pour vocation d’étudier la politique étrangère des pays anglophones et les migrations à travers ces frontières ainsi que leur impact sur ces nations. Il y a une réunion par mois.

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• 15 fév 2012

  Cape Town

  Call for papers - History

  Encountering the exotic

  The collecting, trade and exchange of exotic goods between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, from the 16th century to 21st century

  Appel à contributions pour une session sur le commerce et la consommation des objets exotiques dans le monde du XVIe siècle à nos jours pour le World Economic History Congress (Cape Town, 12 et 13 juillet 2012).

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• 17 nov 2011

  16 nov 2011

  Rabat

  Conference, symposium - History

  الأركيلوجيا الوسيطية بالمغرب بين النص التاريخي والعمل الميداني

  Premier congrès national sur l'archéologie islamique au Maroc

  عرف البحث الأثري المغربي حول الفترة الإسلامية طفرة متميزة خلال العقدين الأخيرين، ساهم فيها إحداث المعهد الوطني لعلوم الآثار والتراث كمؤسسة وطنية مختصة، وبفتح وحدات بحث ببعض الجامعات المغربية صبت اهتمامها على عدد من المواضيع الأكاديمية المتعلقة بالعمارة والفنون والمواقع الإسلامية، من بينها دراسات معمارية وفنية همت معالم ذات وظائف مختلفة حضرية وقروية، وأبحاث ميدانية تمحورت حول إشكاليات تهم مدنا مندرسة ومواقع محصنة واستغلاليات وورشات إنتاجية، منها ما يرتبط بالمجال الزراعي (السقي وتوزيع المياه)، ومنها ما يرتبط بالصناعة والتجارة والحرف، ومنها ما يرتبط بهما معا (زراعة قصب السكر وإنتاجه). كما انكبت أبحاث ميدانية أخرى على دراسة مجالات شاسعة، معتمدة في ذلك على تقنيات المسح الأثري، بقصد فهم آليات الاستقرار البشري خلال الفترة الإسلامية، والاستغلال المجالي وتنظيمه بمناطق عديدة من المغرب الوسيطي والحديث، وكذا محاولة التوصل إلى معطيات علمية تساعد على فهم التطور العمراني أو تراجعه خلال مختلف الحقب التي مر بها المغرب

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• 09 nov 2009	16 nov 2009	07 déc 2009
  11 jan 2010	25 jan 2010	...

  Berlin

  Seminar - History

  Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar (2009-2010)

  Post-Ottoman Cities

  What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies. Séminaire organisé par Ulrike Freitag et Nora Lafi.

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