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• 30 Sep 2022

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  The animal in the Asian imagination : alter or alter ego ?

  This conference proposes to explore the polysemy of the imaginary of the animal, especially the wild animal, in Asia and its functions: is it an "alter ego", a protective animal, bringing to humanity its own powers or a radical "alter", which represents a world other than humanity; what are the stakes of these various representations for humanity as well as for the sharing of the planet with the animal world? It seems to us that if man symbolically acquires the power of the animal, it is on the condition that he remains beyond a real or metaphorical man/animal border. Faced with the disappearance of primary spaces and non-modernized populations, the wild animal thus seems the ultimate reservoir of the anti-modern, of what escapes the anthropocene, what is not "for" humanity. 

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• 30 Aug 2021

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  Seeing the forest behind the trees

  Notre réflexion a pour point de départ la pratique japonaise d'immersion dans une forêt appelée Shinrin-Yoku ou « bain de forêt » (ou encore sylvothérapie). Cette pratique populaire née dans les années 1980, au moment même où les bienfaits des paysages « verts » se développaient aux États-Unis (Wilson 1984) a été étudiée exclusivement d'un point de vue physiologique et psychologique, dans le cadre des sciences de la santé. Nous postulons au contraire que cette pratique s’inscrit dans un paradigme de relation à la nature qui est déterminé non seulement par des facteurs organiques mais aussi par un imaginaire de l'arbre, des souvenirs associés au paysage, des pratiques culturelles et qu'elle a donc des fondements à la fois universels et relatifs qu’il nous semble nécessaire d'interroger.

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• 31 Oct 2018

  Call for papers - Asia

  Sinophone musical worlds and their publics

  China Perspectives / Perspectives Chinoises

  Recent success of Chinese reality television singing competitions broadcasted on national television or streamed directly on the internet, has shown the extent of musical genres represented in the Chinese world, from pop to folk via hip-hop or rock ’n’ roll. The popularity of new musical styles up to then considered as deviant as well as the recent attempts of the State to intervene directly on musical contents, tend to blur the distinctions between “mainstream” (流行) music, “popular” (民间) music as non-official, “underground” (地下) music or even “alternative” (另类) music. This call for papers aims at promoting a better understanding of the transformations of Chinese “musical worlds”, in the sense that Becker gave to “art worlds”, which stresses the role of cooperation and interactions between the different actors of the artistic sphere.

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