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Paris

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Narratives, persuasiveness, heroes

L’association « Réseau chercheurs Népal » (RCN) organise à l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) (Paris) une rencontre scientifique sur le thème des récits, des convictions et des héro∙ïne∙s. Sont invitées toutes communications scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales, ciblant le Népal, portant sur des « récits », « convictions », « héro∙ïne∙s » permettant de mettre en lumière les thèmes et personnages caractéristiques issus de tous types de contextes au Népal.

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Paris

Call for papers - Science studies

Science, Technology and Nationalism in India

Although the question of nationalism in India has been of interest to many social science scholars, the relationship between science and nationalism has seldom been discussed in an in-depth manner. STS perspectives and debates allow a framework that investigates the pivotal role and position of science and technology in the realization of state policies in India through several technoscientific projects and illustrates how deeply it is enmeshed within the larger political and social goals of national growth and development. Therefore, we would like to investigate the role science and technology play in these imbrications, the challenges they pose, and how these new assemblages reconfigure power relations between the Global North and the Global South within India, between States and markets.

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Saint-Denis

Call for papers - Africa

Ecologies of the Indian Ocean Worlds

TrOPICS journal

This issue of TrOPICS journal examines ecologies in the broad sense in the Indian Ocean. The approach is multidisciplinary and proposes to invest two main axes : ecologies of spaces and (sub)marine and aquatic ecologies.

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Call for papers - Representation

Art and decoloniality

Figures de l’art n° 42, revue d’études esthétiques

The question of a “decolonization of knowledge”, instilled in large part by cultural and postcolonial studies, today questions all of our university fields. Decolonization studies have nowadays acquired a wide audience in Anglo-Saxon universities.

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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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Ahmedabad

Call for papers - Urban studies

Traditional Water Systems of India

A Heritage For The Future

In the global context of climate change and particularly water scarcity the traditional water heritage of India is more relevant than ever. With that background this seminar focuses on thematic area of traditional water systems in semi-arid zones of India.

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Lahore

Call for papers - Asia

Understanding Gradients of Political Engagements

Citizenship and Identity in South Asia

Historian and political scientists of South Asia have been dealing with the ascent of postcolonial state and the form of citizenships in South Asia. The meteoric rise of postcolonial theory, subaltern school of historiography to be precise made efforts in bringing the role of ideas and culture in shaping state, community and political narratives. Notwithstanding these insights still this literature failed to bring in one very important thing; a comparative lens to study informal politics in the region. The social transformation and process of democratization has appeared to be inching ahead across the region from Nepal to Bangladesh. Therefore, increasingly a cross country perspective is required combining interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies (qualitative, quantitative) to develop a comparative perspective of way social and cultural factors influence informal politics in South Asia.

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Toulouse

Call for papers - Asia

Rethinking Knowledge, Reshaping the University

17th Annual and International Colloquium of the Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World

University is one of the places (among others) of training, production and transmission of knowledge. If the goal of training is to participate in the process of social transformation, universities are one of the "unconditional" spaces (in the words of Derrida) to exchange with one's contemporaries. University remains a place where people mix, where people meet and where hospitality as a value still holds true to some extent. These attributes can also make it a place that can generate power struggles by holding up a mirror to society.This conference will address some issues regarding the future of higher studies in India, and in the Global South: How to continue to "produce" and share knowledge in the face of endless liberalization? What choices, what paths, what research projects can be on offer in the training programs at universities in the 21st century? How can we rethink knowledge and reshape the university? How can we reinvent the missions of academic transmission and research to meet the challenges of our time and anticipate those of the next generations?

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Passau

Call for papers - Modern

« Chacun est un monde en soi. Chacun porte en soi un monde entier, un monde en désordre. »

Colloque international sur l’œuvre de Shumona Sinha avec la participation de l’autrice

Née en 1973 à Calcutta – la ville de Tagore et le chef-lieu du Bengale-Occidental – et originaire ainsi d’un véritable « atelier du monde » (Éric Paul Meyer, 2019, 205), Shumona Sinha, s’est établie en France en 2001, devenant l’une des « étrangères de Paris », pour reprendre l’expression de Florence De Chalonge (2020, 281). Elle occupe un espace singulier sur la scène littéraire de notre époque. Sa création romanesque, composée jusqu’à présent (février 2022) de cinq livres – Fenêtre sur l’abîme (2008), Assommons les pauvres ! (2011), Calcutta (2014), Apatride (2017) et Le testament russe (2020) – appartient à la production littéraire féminine contemporaine, entraînant de nouvelles façons de penser les relations entre les différents espaces et identités qui constituent notre monde. Nous invitons les chercheuses et les chercheurs qui s’intéressent à l’œuvre de Shumona Sinha à présenter leurs travaux lors du premier colloque international consacré à son œuvre.

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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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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Eros and Thanatos in the Arts of Asia

Revue « Art Asie Sorbonne »

From Plato to Saint Augustine to Freud, the pairing Eros / Thanatos occupies a place that is both central and multi-faceted in Western thought and art. It appears as a celebration of love as a vital energy that allows the (male) soul to escape its mortal body and reach the divine, but also as a threat when under the effect of carnal desire, or of feminine, maternal power, the soul is exhausted. This is also the case in Asian thought and art, whether in popular beliefs and images, religious icons, classical, traditional or contemporary representations.

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Paris

Call for papers - Asia

Artistic Activism in India (History, Practice, Paradigm and Circulation)

“Artivism” encompasses artistic actions, which tackle social and political issues, reviving agitational practises defined in resistance to the planetary ideological hegemony they refer to as neoliberalism. This resurgent awareness of the political nature of artistic creation questions consensual discourses on the neutrality of art and aesthetics, often confined in their "autonomy" and impervious to the disorders of the world. Within artistic activism a dialectic between two entities, traditionally perceived as being of a different nature, is played out: on the one hand the field of art (too often defined as autonomous, with no other functionality than its own) and on the other hand in the field of politics and social activities on the other hand (thought out as a praxis of the exercise of the power in an organized society). The central question posed by artistic activism could be stated in this way: How can we evaluate the capacity of art (visual arts, performing arts, literature, theatre, dance, video art, cinema, etc.) to function as social and political protest?

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Paris

Call for papers - Early modern

The night in Asian art: perceptions, imagination, representations - "Asie" journal

Revue « Asie »

Pour ce numéro thématique de la revue Asie, nous attendons des propositions de communications ayant trait au thème de la nuit dans les arts plastiques asiatiques de toutes époques. À la fois familière et mystérieuse, la nuit exerce sur l’être humain une fascination liées aux émotions qu’elle suscite, de la peur à l’exacerbation des sens. « Quand le monde des objets clairs et articulés se trouve aboli, notre être perceptif amputé de son monde dessine une spatialité sans chose. C’est ce qui arrive dans la nuit », écrit Merleau-Ponty. Dès qu’il est question de la nuit, la frontière entre perception et imaginaire devient ténue. La nuit peut apparaître alternativement comme un moment de libération et de lâcher-prise favorable à l’inspiration, ou comme un intervalle de vacuité, de méditation, voire comme une métaphore de la mort. La lune, si ambivalente, tantôt maléfique, tantôt bienveillante, suscite en Extrême-Orient une contemplation admirative et inspire les lettrés.

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Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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Delhi

Call for papers - Asia

Of mediation and power : Intermediaries in the South Asian societies

XXIe ateliers de l'Association des jeunes études indiennes (AJEI)

Les XXI^e ateliers de l'Association des jeunes études indiennes (AJEI) se tiendront à Delhi du 22 eu 25 avril 2019, dans les locaux du Centre des sciences humaines sur le thème de l'intermédiation et du pouvoir. L'AJEI est une association de jeunes chercheur·e·s sur l'Inde, qui depuis plus de 20 ans organise des evènements scientifiques permettant de visibiliser sa recherche, d'en discuter, de la confronter à l'avis de chercheur·e·s seniors. L'appel à contributions ci-dessous donne les axes centraux mais nous restons ouverts à toute contribution recoupant la thèmatique et se basant sur des données empiriques solides.

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Call for papers - Asia

Animal ethics in Asian literature

Special issue of "Impressions d'Extrême-Orient" (IDEO)

Human beings, as well as animals, feel pain…and are therefore sensitive and capable of empathy. The special issue of Impressions d’Extrême-Orient aims to address the issue of animal ethics in Asian literature. Through articles and/or translations of philosophical, historical, spiritual, religious and literary works, this issue endeavours to figure out if ancient and contemporary Asian authors do invite us to think about animal ethics, and if they have imagined another form of human-animal relationship that would not be based on the domination and oppression of other species.

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Call for papers - Asia

New formats and metamorphoses of Asian literary genres

Après avoir ébauché un panorama plutôt généraliste des « Nouvelles tendances des littératures d’Asie » lors d’une journée d’étude dédiée en juin 2016, l’axe « Littératures d’Asie et traduction » souhaite continuer sur sa lancée et pousser la réflexion un peu plus loin. Il se propose cette année d’interroger la notion du format des œuvres contemporaines, ainsi que la manière dont les différents genres littéraires se transforment et se métamorphosent à partir des années 2000.

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Delhi

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Image(s) of India

What do we picture when we evoke India? For its 20 th annual Workshop, The “Association des jeunes études indiennes” (AJEI) invites young researchers to share their knowledge and to propose a critical approach of the concept of ‘Images’ in the subcontinent: To what extent do images reflect the many realities and representations of India and how does the Indian imagery affect scholarly, artistic and touristic as well as political perceptions, from a western and an Indian point of view? The Workshop is aimed to develop a cross-disciplinary dialogue in social sciences for a better understanding of the multiple roles that Images have been playing from antiquity to nowadays in the perceptions and the foundations of culture and identities in Indian society. The aim is also to open some reflexive discussions on the use and construction of images.

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Lisbon

Call for papers - History

Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries)

Les récits de vies d'esclaves semblent beaucoup moins courants dans les mondes ibériques que, par exemple, anglo-américains. Ils sont pourtant une source de première importance pour comprendre les subjectivités des esclaves eux-mêmes. D'autres sources (archives de l'Inquisition, actes notariés, actes de manumission, etc.) peuvent parfois permettre de traquer cette voix des sans-voix. Ce colloque, organisé en commun par l'Instituto de ciências sociais (Lisbonne) et la Casa de Velázquez / École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Madrid), voudrait permettre d'avancer dans l'étude de la vision des asservis, dans le cadre ibérique.

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Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Asia

Attitudes and latitudes of the translator of Asian literatures

Les doctorants et les enseignants chercheurs de l’axe de recherche « Littératures d’Asie et traduction » de l’Institut de recherches asiatiques (IrAsia, UMR 7306), en association avec le Département d’études asiatiques (DEA, Aix-Marseille université-UFR Arts, lettres, langues et sciences humaines), organisent une journée d’études autour de la traduction des littératures d’Asie. Elle vise à permettre aux doctorants de l’école doctorale 354 spécialistes de littératures de Chine, du Japon, de Corée et du Vietnam d’intervenir pour confronter leurs travaux à ceux des spécialistes et des professionnels de la traduction littéraire. Son thème est l'exploration des attitudes et des latitudes du traducteur des littératures d’Asie.

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