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• 01 fév 2016

  Call for papers - History

  The horse in the Arabian Peninsula

  Arabian Humanities number 8

  This issue of Arabian Humanities on the horse in the Arabian Peninsula is addressed to archaeologists, historians, archaeozoologists, rock art experts, as well as the disciplines that address the horse’s place and the practice of furūsiyya in modern society (anthropologists, linguists, sociologists ...).

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• 01 mar 2016

  Liège

  Call for papers - Geography

  Sustainability of Rural Systems

  Balancing Heritage and Innovation

  Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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• 15 jan 2016	12 fév 2016	11 mar 2016
  08 avr 2016

  Saint-Denis | Rabat | Tunis

  Seminar - Sociology

  Cultural and media industries in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) regions

  Le séminaire du réseau de recherche sur les industries culturelles et médiatiques dans les pays de la région MENA (Middle East North Africa) est financé par le Labex ICCA. Les différentes séances seront diffusées simultanément en visioconférence depuis les différents lieux indiqués ci-dessous, qu’il s’agisse de Rabat, Paris, Tunis et Istanbul (hormis pour la première séance).

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• 15 jan 2016

  Call for papers - Asia

  Young researchers days in Taiwanese studies

  Le principal objectif des journées jeunes chercheurs en études taïwanaises est de mettre l’accent sur les recherches réalisées par les jeunes chercheurs venant d’universités et centres de recherche du monde francophone. Ces journées se situent dans le cadre à la fois de leur formation sur les spécificités du terrain taïwanais et d’échanges avec des chercheurs et enseignants familiers de la réalité empirique de Taïwan et qui ont ici le statut d’encadrants.

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• 17 jan 2016

  Rethymno

  Call for papers - History

  Revealing Ordinary Jerusalem (1840–1940)

  New archives and perspectives on urban citizenship and global entanglements

  The Open Jerusalem project aims to unlock and connect different archives and sources in order to investigate the ordinary entangled history of a global city through the lens of the concept of urban citizenship (citadinité). The objective is to produce historical narratives focusing on the way residents interacted with each other, inhabited and appropriated space(s). The symposium intends to be a forum for deepening discussions and opening scientific debates, based on contributions by scholars specializing in related topics, urban historians and specialists of the region. Therefore all participants are kindly requested to stay in Rethymno for the whole duration of the symposium.

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• 13 nov 2015	11 déc 2015	22 jan 2016
  19 fév 2016	18 mar 2016	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  "Arabic" Mathematics

  This monthly seminar will aim to invite researchers to come and present their work in progress or recently published that address the "Arab mathematics", understood in a broad sense to be studied not only mathematics itself, but science "mathematized" of the era, such as astronomy, optics and static; Furthermore, we do not restrict themselves to only written in Arabic mathematics, but we can address their writings in other languages extensions, like Latin, Hebrew and Farsi. The texts studied will be discussed at sessions of three hours. Emphasis on reading and commenting on sources.

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• 04 jan 2016

  Puducherry

  Call for papers - Asia

  Multifaceted Inequality in Contemporary India

  The "Association des jeunes études indiennes" (AJEI) is a student organization whose members are young researchers coming from various disciplines of the human and social sciences (from masters degree to postdoctoral level) whose area of research is South Asia. Every year, a research seminar in France and a workshop in India bring students and scholars together in order to discuss the topics and papers presented. Since 1998 the AJEI organizes an annual workshop in India with the support of international and local partners. This year we propose a three day workshop with an opening lecture, daily presentations discussed by senior researchers, methodological workshops, and a concluding session. One of our goals is also to interact informally, and build relationships, towards creating a strong international network of researchers.

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• 30 jan 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Politics in South Asia: International and Domestic Dimensions

  International Graduate Conference on South Asia

  The Conference aims to provide opportunities for Ph.D. students working on South Asia in the areas of political science and international relations to discuss their research projects and to improve their theoretical and methodological approaches. The broad objectives of the conference are to foster collaboration and the creation of trans disciplinary research projects on South Asia, while discussing a common issue that transcends our area of study: the difficulties of applying theories of predominantly Western origins to a Non-Western context.

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• 16 jan 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Between China and Africa, the emergence of new social figures

  Fourth conference of African Studies in France (REAF 2016) "Cosmopolitan Africas"

  Depuis une décennie, de nombreuses publications ont exploré les formes de mobilité et les stratégies des acteurs économiques – entrepreneurs, commerçants chinois et africains – qui contribuent à orienter les relations d'interdépendance entre la Chine et l'Afrique. Nous proposerons ici une autre perspective, en mettant au centre de l'analyse les multiples formes d'articulations du politique, de l'économique et des stratégies de catégories sociales qui semblent émerger avec le développement des relations entre la Chine et les pays africains.

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• 16 nov 2015	14 déc 2015	11 jan 2016
  15 fév 2016	07 mar 2016	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  History and Philosophy of Mathematics

  The seminar is the meeting point between different SPHERE teams that are interested in mathematics. It fosters dialogue between philosophers and historians of mathematics while focusing on textual sources. Speakers are encouraged to make their sources available to the participants.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Hamburg

  Study days - History

  War and population movements in the Ottoman Empire (14th-18th century)

  The Ottoman Empire is one of the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional and transcontinental empires that, for centuries, shaped the history of Europe and the world. Despite their collapses, their effects can be felt up to the present day. The Ottoman Empire’s history is usually divided into two phases: its construction and consolidation from the 14^th to the 17^th century, and its decay and collapse from the 18^th to the 20^th century.

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• 16 déc 2015

  17 déc 2015

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - History

  The king and the river: examples of the plural usage of space

  Le colloque Le roi et le fleuve : exemples d'usages pluriels de l'espace vise à explorer, à partir d'exemples pris dans le monde antique, comment les rois utilisèrent les fleuves dans la construction, la mise en valeur, le contrôle de leur territoire ainsi que la légitimation de leur pouvoir.

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• 10 déc 2015

  11 déc 2015

  Nogent-sur-Marne

  Study days - Asia

  Researching contemporary China today - young researchers, new objects and methods

  Jeunes chercheur·e·s, nouveaux objets et nouvelles méthodes

  En l’espace de 20 ans, l’intérêt des chercheur-e-s en sciences sociales pour la société chinoise est allé croissant. L’espace universitaire international a ouvert largement ses portes aux étudiants et collègues chinois. Le nombre de doctorant-e-s chinois-e-s en France et à l’étranger et de Français en Chine s’est multiplié, tandis que le gouvernement chinois encourageait une ouverture du pays propice à la recherche en sciences sociales. Ces journées d’étude s’inscrivent dans ce contexte et ont une double visée. Leur ambition est de questionner de nouveaux objets d’études, quasi-impossibles ou improbables il y a encore deux décennies ou de revisiter des questions plus anciennes dans un contexte de libéralisation économique. Partant de là, le second objectif de ces journées, à travers l’exemple chinois, vise à réfléchir sur les modalités plus générales de l’enquête en sciences-sociales, à ses enjeux et ses limites, en particulier dans une perspective intergénérationnelle.

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• 03 déc 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  The literatures of India: questions of delimitation

  Project for an encyclopedia/dictionary of Indian literature (DELI)

  La première journée d’étude du projet « Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l'Inde » (DELI) se propose de mener une réflexion commune sur ce que nous entendons par « littératures de l’Inde ». Comme cela est clairement apparu lors de précédentes discussions, l’expression pose en particulier des problèmes aigus de délimitation. Si « l’Inde » ne désigne pas une entité géographique et politique nettement et durablement définie, le critère des « langues indiennes » n’est guère moins problématique et la notion de littérature telle qu’elle a été élaborée en Occident depuis le XIX^e siècle impose à la production littéraire des divisions qui lui sont largement étrangères.

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• 03 déc 2015

  02 déc 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Beyond the "North-South": New territorialities between Africa and Asia

  Beyond the "North-South": New territorialities between Africa and Asia

  Au cours des vingt dernières années, jamais les relations entre l’Afrique et l’Asie n’ont été aussi intenses qu’aujourd’hui, à commencer par l’accroissement significatif des échanges commerciaux entre les deux régions, et les investissements massifs des pays asiatiques dans les diverses contrées du continent africain. Les rapports économiques jouent donc un rôle primordial. Mais il ne s’agit pas uniquement de cela. Les interactions sociales, politiques et culturelles ne cessent de s’intensifier entre les deux continents. Une tendance qui est favorisée par le phénomène de la mondialisation. L’objectif de la journée est d’étudier les nouvelles mouvances sociopolitiques, économiques et culturelles qui traversent les deux continents, en s'appuyant sur des travaux géopolitiques, macro ou micro-économiques, sociologiques ou encore ethnographiques.

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• 01 mar 2016

  Cincinnati

  Call for papers - Modern

  World Cinema and Television in French

  This interdisciplinary conference will examine cinematic and televisual cultural productions that fall under a broad "French-language" umbrella in order to map out significant trends as well as new directions in the study of global French-language cinema and television and its points of contact with other languages and industries. It also aims to explore the opportunities and limitations of adopting labels such as cinéma-monde, transnational, Francophone, and World Cinema, as critical frameworks.

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• 04 déc 2015

  Strasbourg

  Study days - Asia

  Religious diversity: comparative views East (Asia) and West (Europe)

  Issues in diversity have become crucial all around the planet for political and social reasons. In a world whose cultural and religious plurality is expanding it nevertheless expands in a variety of forms and for somewhat different reasons: diversity in the West assumes somewhat different logics and shapes than in the East. The comparison between different forms of religious diversities therefore supposes to take into account the role of religious systems themselves and the political context in which they are embedded. It otherwise requires a parallel comparison of the logics of diversity (opposition, coexistence, hybridity, syncretism …) and the social acceptation of religions and religious relationships in their specific cultural backgrounds.

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• 25 nov 2015	10 déc 2015	07 déc 2015
  11 fév 2016	10 mar 2016	...

  Paris

  Study days - Science studies

  History of Science, History of Text (2011-2016)

  In 2015-2016, the seminar "History of Science, History of Text" will keep exploring textual problems related to the ERC Project SAW (“Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World”) As in previous years, the seminar will address the following issues regarding scientific sources: how textual sources bear witness to the social groups that produced them; how textual sources testify to knowledge; history of compilations; how actors structure their texts and knowledge into parts; how textual sources reflect the material environment in which they were produced In line with the beginning of phase 3 of the project SAW, devoted to facets of the history of the historiography of ancient mathematics, the seminar will pay special attention to the sources attesting to work in the history of mathematics.

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• 15 déc 2015

  Coimbra

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Lusophone mobilities: between past and present, which future?

  6th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology - panel T047

  This panel is meant to discuss these migrating populations’ mobility procedures in lusophone countries, while seeking to construct through the different presentations a broaden mosaic of reflexions about when and how these populations have moved, and how they have used and instrumentalized the "imagined" and politically constructed idea of a "lusophone community".

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• 20 jan 2016

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Asia

  The Chair of Asia

  Constrained bodies and the rationalisation of individuals in eastern societies

  Les études portant sur le corps en tant qu’objet des sciences sociales ont foisonné depuis une trentaine d’années, dans le sillage des études novatrices de Michel Foucault à partir des années soixante. Pourtant, ce champ de recherche a été très peu investi par les études asiatiques. En effet, les recherches traitant du corps en Asie concernent majoritairement les rapports genrés, dans lesquels la question du corps, et plus particulièrement de ses composants, est souvent reliée à celle des sciences religieuses et aux tabous qui en découlent. Nous nous intéresserons aux multiples modalités de dispositions, de représentations et de modifications du corps des individus au sein des sociétés asiatiques. Les réflexions analysant les contraintes imposées au corps, institutionnellement et socialement, retiendront plus particulièrement notre attention.

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