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The life of a new word: Audism. Practices, areas of knowledge, and social change
International SignASLLSFVersion française PresentationThe term audism first entered a general dictionary in 2008 with the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary. Following a lively debate hosted in part on the Internet, the editors...
Pesticide Politics in Africa
The current economic boom in many sub-Saharan countries is accompanied by an unprecedented increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) due to industrial pollution, including pesticides. While local and international mobilizations call for more...
Political Jews
Program9:00 – Welcome by Davide Mano (EHESS, Paris)9:15-10:45 Session 1A Jewish revolutionary ? New perspectives on Moses DobrushkaSaverio Campanini (Università degli studi di Bologna) – Scholem’s Dobrushka: the political career of a...
“Conversion” Religions and Multi-Religious Entanglements in South Asia (8th to 19th c.): Contexts and Perspectives
Religious conversion and coexistence are concepts at the forefront of contemporary political debates in the subcontinent. Political actors are currently mostly busy wielding distinctions such as indigenous vs. foreign and playing a dangerous game of...
Social Exclusion, Body, and Movement : Yoseba Day Laborers in Postwar Japan
ConferenceJieun KIM (University of Leeds)11 April 2019In postwar Japan, certain districts in major cities have been administered separately as day laborers’ enclaves. Known as yoseba today, these enclaves have served to contain day...
Diversity of Asian Capitalisms: An Islamic Pattern
This international workshop is held in the framework of the PSL IRIS-Etudes Globales project “Global Islamic Market: Asian Perspectives on Diversity of Capitalism”.Elaborated on the principle of the genuine logic for “equity” instead of indebtedness...
Diversity of Asian Capitalisms: An Islamic Pattern
This international workshop is held in the framework of the PSL IRIS-Etudes Globales project “Global Islamic Market: Asian Perspectives on Diversity of Capitalism”.Elaborated on the principle of the genuine logic for “equity” instead of indebtedness...
ENIS Spring School 2019
© Spoonism-Courtesy of Pascal Hachem and Federica Schiavo Gallery Patronage and Clientelism in the Muslim WorldThe ENIS Spring School 2019 takes place from Monday March 18th to Friday March 22nd 2019 in Granada, Spain. ThemeThe umma is the...
Literary meeting with Amit Chaudhuri
CEIAS - LibraryDiwan Wilson - "In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri"Amit Chaudhuri discusses his writing, his latest books and more with Tirthankar Chanda Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic,...
Buddhism and Violence in Medieval Japan : The Ideological Context
Conference Mikael Adolphson, University of Cambridge4 April 2019, 11:00-13:00The role of religious institutions and monastics in the violent world of medieval Japan has long befuddled later observers. Seemingly at odds with the precepts of...
Male Family Caregiver’s Well-being: Balancing Work and Elderly Care in contemporary Japan
Conference Hiroko UMEGAKI (Sciences Po) "Male Family Caregiver’s Well-being: Balancing Work and Elderly Care in contemporary Japan"28 March 2019, 11:00-13:00Rapid demographic ageing of industrialised countries makes problems related...
Changing border landscapes in East Asia: The cases of Kinmen (Taiwan) and West Sea 5 Islands (Korea)
ConferencePark, Bae-Gyoon, professeur invité de l’EHESS"Changing border landscapes in East Asia: The cases of Kinmen (Taiwan) and West Sea 5 Islands (Korea)"29 March 2019, 10:00-12:00, Maison de l’Asie, 22 avenue du président Wilson, Paris 16e....