The conference will focus on the study of nomadic societies throughout the world, from prehistory to the present day. This transdisciplinary event will discuss new approaches for analysing nomads, their societies, their cultures (material or immaterial), their territories and the relationships they maintain with the latter.

Presentation

The project Nomad’s Lands, économies, sociétés et matérialités des nomades (pdf) invites you to its final conference, from the 16th to the 18th of November 2022 in Lyon (France) under the auspices of the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean-Pouilloux (MOM).

The project "Nomad’s lands. Economies, societies and materialities of nomads" is organising its final conference focusing on the study of nomadic socie­ties throughout the world, from prehistory to the present day.

It proposes a common and transdisciplinary framework of reflection favourable to the development of new approaches for analysing nomads, their societies, their cultures (material or immaterial), their territories and the relationships they maintain with the latter

This symposium is based on three complementary topics into which the contributions can be inserted:

Knowledge and management of environments by nomads

How do nomadic societies interact with their environment(s)? What is the influence of environmental factors on these societies? How do nomadic activities transform environments? What knowledge and perceptions do nomads have of their environment and how does this influence their management of sometimes constrained resources? To what extent are these management methods transmitted over time and do they adapt to environmental changes?

Unity and diversity of material cultures

Can we define material cultures of mobility and nomadism? What common features can be found from one place to another and from one period to another? What are their differences? What do people take with them and, conversely, what do they leave behind? What do they produce again? What remains in time? And what are our tools and/or methods for understanding the materiality of cultures that leave few traces?

Relations between nomads and sedentary people

How can we envisage the relations of nomadic societies with each other and with sedentary societies? What are the modalities of their insertion in local, regional, national, macro-re­gional and/or global socio-economic or political networks, whether nomadic or sedentary? Are the contacts and exchanges only one way? Are there cultural transfers?

Programme

Wednesday 16 november

Palais du travail, Villeurbanne

13h30–14h | Welcoming word, R. Bouchon, referent Axe 5 of the MOM and Nomad’s Lands work group

Session 1 - Chairpersons: Carole Ferret and Maël Crépy

• 14h-14h30 | Régulariser la loi de la toundra : bouleversements socio-écologiques et propriété privée chez les Nenets des forêts (district Purovskij, Yamal-Nenets, Russie), Sophie Gleizes, EHESS, Paris
• 14h30-15h | Les campements estivaux des Inuit du Nunavik : une survivance du nomadisme traditionnel, Véronique Antomarchi, Université Paris Cité

Session 2 - Chairpersons: Bérangère Redon and Isabelle Goncalves

• 15h-15h30 | Perceptions des nomades en ancienne Égypte : quels mots et quels peuples ? Elena Panaite, ASM, CNRS
• 15h30-16h | How much mobility is necessary to be (still) a nomad? Jeuthe Clara, DAI, Cairo
• 16h-16h30 | Mobile Life-Strategies seen through Pottery from the Eastern Marma­rica (NW-Egypt) Heike Möller, DAI, Berlin & Anna-Katharina Rieger, Gratz, Autriche

16h30-17h | Coffee break

• 17h-17h30 | The nomad factor: nomadic communities, towns and medieval states in Central Somaliland, Jorge de Torres Rodriguez, Incipit-CSIC
• 17h30-18h | Understanding the dead, understanding the living. A study of nomadic funerary architectures in north-eastern Horn of Africa, Pablo Gutierrez de León Juberias, Incipit-CSIC; Safa

18h-18h30 | Discussion

Thursday 17 november

University Lyon 3, Campus des Quais

Session 3 - Chairpersons: Laurent Gagnol and Quentin Cecillon

• 09h-09h30 | Les Bédouins de la nation : particularisme et intégration des sociétés bédouines nomades dans la Syrie sous mandat français (1920-1946), Mehdi Sakatni, Aix-Marseille Université
• 09h30-10h | Les enjeux des politiques de sédentarisation des nomades en Syrie cen­trale depuis la fin de l’ère ottomane, Mohamed Al Dbiyat, Archéorient, Lyon
• 10h-10h30 | Nomadisme, Conflits et patrimonialisation au Kurdistan irakien, Michaël Thévenin, URMIS, Paris
• 10h30-11h | Qashqai people between nomadism and sedentarism: Analyze of a politi­cal confrontation, Tavakkoli Amirpasha, Science Po, Paris

11h-11h30 | Coffee break

Session 4 - Chairpersons: Friederike Jesse, Yassir Benhima & Valentin Lafont

• 11h30-12h | Inventorier la tente : Enjeux sociaux et politiques d’adaptation et de transmission d’une culture matérielle nomade ouest-saharienne, Sébastien Boulay, Université Paris Cité

12h-12h30 | Aspects de la culture matérielle des nomades du Maroc Oriental entre changement et persistance, Mohamed Mahdi, Association Targa-aide-Rabat

12h30-14h30 | Lunch at the Maison de l’Orient

• 14h30- 15h | On both sides of the mountains: A ceramic technique perspective on the relations between sedentary and nomadic communities at the dawn of the proto-ur­ban world in Mesopotamia, Johnny Samuele Baldi, CNRS, Archéorient
• 15h-15h30 | Adventures in the Flint Trade: The desert-to-sown Tabular Scraper Ex­change System, Francesca Manclossi, Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem

15h30 -16h | Coffee break

16h -16h30 | Discussion

Friday 18 november

ENS, site Descartes, Buisson building

Session 5 - Chairperson: Frédéric Abbes and Ninon Blond

• 09h-09h30 | Apprendre le territoire – le cas du nomadisme pastoral des Évènes éleveurs de rennes de Iakoutie (Fédération de Russie), Nicolas Bureau, TEMPS, CNRS, Nanterre
• 09h30-10h | Relations entre les nomades et les plantes : le cas des Evenki chas­seurs-éleveurs de rennes de Selemdzha (région de l’Amour, Fédération de Russie), Elina Kurovskaya, EHESS
• 10h-10h30 | Evolution contemporaine d’une société pastorale dans les savanes Camerounaises : une écologie interdisciplinaire face à la stigmatisation des feux de brousse et des nomades qui les allument, Juliette Duval, IRD, Montpellier

10h30-11h | Coffee break

• 11h-11h30 | Les chasseurs-collecteurs des derniers 20 000 ans du Paléolithique ouest européen : quels nomades étaient-ils ? Fontana Laure, ArScAn, CNRS, Paris
• 11h30-12h | Not all those who wander are lost.Territorialité et mobilité des néandertaliens du techno-complexe Quina, Erwan Vaissié, TraceoLab, Liège et PACEA, Univ. Bordeaux, et al.

12h-12h30 | Closing words Nomad’s Lands

12h30-14h | Lunch

Information

The admission is free. For further information and registration, please contact us at nomads@mom.fr or nomadslandsmom@gmail.com 

If you are unable to travel to Lyon to attend the conference, contact us to receive a link and watch the event online.