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  • Ixelles-Elsene

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

    PhD in Anthropology of youth and public space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam

    EASt, centre for East Asian Studies, invites applications for 1 PhD in Anthropology of Youth and Public Space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam - deadline: 27 June 2019. EASt is a research unit within the Maison des sciences humaines of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

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  • Zurich

    Conference, symposium - Political studies

    The Pillars of Rule

    The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

    Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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  • Marseille

    Call for papers - Sociology

    What role does dessalination have in adapting to climatic change?

    La Société hydrotechnique de France (SHF), l’Association française pour l’eau l’irrigation et le drainage (AFEID), l’Académie de l’eau poursuivent leurs travaux sur les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050. Ces travaux soulignent l’importance de considérer la palette complète des outils d’adaptation, organisationnels et techniques, tant pour l’usage économe de l’eau que pour la sécurisation de la ressource. Le dessalement fait partie de cette palette d’outils et fera l’objet de ce colloque.

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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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  • Ningbo

    Call for papers - Geography

    Tourism and the sea, a "global issue"

    2nd Sino-European tourism conference

    Pour faire suite au Premier colloque sino-européen du tourisme intitulé La troisième révolution touristique organisé en juin 2011, les universités de Ningbo (Chine) et d’Angers (France) renouvellent l’expérience en proposant une seconde manifestation autour de « la mer » comme objet privilégié de réflexions et d’échanges. La pratique recréative de la mer devient aujourd’hui un phénomène mondial avec un renouvellement incessant des pratiques et avec l’émergence des mégapoles touristiques comme Dubaï, des lieux comme l’île de Hainan en Chine, l’archipel des Maldives ou encore le Nord-Est du Brésil. Si les impacts économiques, sociaux et médiatiques des politiques touristiques et leurs effets sur les aménagements des territoires ont déjà fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches et publications en sciences économiques et sociales (sociologie et géographie en particulier), doit-on y voir une relation mécanique, un allant de soi, entre mer et tourisme telle une « ressource » invariablement destinée à accueillir des pratiques touristiques ? 

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  • Lisbon

    Call for papers - Urban studies

    Transforming South-East Asian Cities: a View from the Grassroots

    7th EuroSEAS Conference – 7th groupe "Environment, cities and housing", panel 72

    Based on empirical approaches, the aim of this panel is to analyze contemporary urban dynamics at the local scale in Southeast Asian cities. In particular we will address mechanisms of urban change, as they can be seen at the neighborhood level. With the ongoing transformations, both in city centers and in the peripheries, are there new forms of urban practices, of resistance? What is the role of the people at the grassroots in such transformations? These interactions can be read from such scales as the home, the street and the neighborhood. From this viewpoint, how can we consider urban oppositional processes, for instance a formal sector to an informal one, public actors to private ones, the authorities to citizens?

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  • Paris

    Seminar - History

    Seminar on maritime Exchange between the Iranian and Indian Worlds from the rise of the Achaemenids to Islam

    « Échanges maritimes entre les mondes iranien et indien depuis l’émergence des Achéménides à celle de l’Islam » est un séminaire pluridisciplinaire de l’UMR 7528 « Mondes iranien et indien ». Il se déroulera à la Maison de l’Asie, 4e étage, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, Paris XVIe. Organisateur : Bérénice Bellina (CNRS - UMR « Mondes iranien et indien »).

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