Τετάρτη 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022

Cultural Heritage - Communities and Place Conference June 28, 202 Czech Republic

 


Subject Fields: 
Humanities, Popular Culture Studies, Cultural History / Studies

The Czech Technical University, Prague, welcomes contributions from a full range of fields across the humanities and social sciences to its June 2023 conference:

 

Cultural Heritages Past and Present - Built and Social

Dates: June 28-30, 2023

Abstracts: Nov 25, 2022 (Round 1) |  April 15, 2023 (Round 2)

https://amps-research.com/conference/heritages-prague/

 

 

CALL Summary:

2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Heritage. That event came three decades after the World Heritage Convention. Through that, UNESCO had set up its World Heritage List of protect sites and buildings. The intervening years have seen multiple shifts in how we define heritage – as both material objects and social traditions. Today more than ever before, the distinction is blurred. The streets on which we live, the edifices we design and the monuments we protect are all connected to the lifestyles, traditions and social groupings we celebrate and safeguard.

What we mean by heritage today then, is an open and diverse question. Our cultures, communities and traditions, our buildings, cities and artworks are all component parts of what we understand as ‘preservable’ history. The dynamics at play are, however, complex. Community traditions are threatened by globalization. Conserving architectural heritage can conflict with community development models. Monuments are often focal points for cultural contestation. Archaeological sites are valued in themselves and simultaneously erased by both the forces of conflict and ‘progress’.

This conference seeks to open debate on these changing, complex and at times contradictory definitions of cutture and heritage.

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Czech Technical University with AMPS and Intellect Books

https://amps-research.com/conference/heritages-prague/

 

 

Contact Info: 

Joseph Reid, Jitka Cirklová, Václav Liška, Raj Kumar

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Sisters in Resilience: Women’s Movements in Muslim Contexts (Hybrid), October 28, 2022, United Kingdom

 




Subject Fields: Islamic History / Studies, Middle East History / Studies, Political History / Studies, Social History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies

Women’s movements have been one of the most resilient and influential drivers of democratisation and social justice in Muslim contexts. From the legal reforms they initiated to the social transformations they shaped, they have not only been important political actors, but also evolved into diversified mass movements more visible and vocal than ever in contemporary public debates.

This panel discussion brings together renowned feminist scholars and activists to overview the trajectory of women’s movements and feminist activism in predominantly Muslim countries. As part of AKU-ISMC’s 20th Anniversary Events, the panel aims to celebrate the achievements of the women’s movements for gender equality in Muslim contexts and discuss their legacies. It will analyse the main issues of struggle for women’s rights movements, the past and present of organisational structures, and forms of activism by reflecting especially on the cases of Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Tunisia. The discussion will provide comparative insights into contemporary challenges women’s activisms face in Muslim contexts as well as avenues for transnational feminist collaborations.

Chair

Sevgi Adak is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London. She is on the editorial board of the Contemporary Turkey book series published by I.B. Tauris and co-editor of the In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts book series of the Edinburgh University Press. Her book Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic was published by I.B. Tauris in February 2022.

Speakers

Hind Ahmed Zaki is Assistant Professor of Political Science with a joint appointment in the Department of Language, Culture, and Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is specialist in comparative politics with a special emphasis on gender and politics and the Middle East and North Africa. Her current book project analyses the politics of women’s rights and nationalist projects of state feminism in Egypt and Tunisia. She is an elected board member (at large) of the Association of Middle East Women Studies (AMEWS).

Deniz Kandiyoti (Discussant) is Emeritus Professor in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her work on gender and rural development, implications of Islam and state policies on women, and theories of patriarchy has inspired generations of scholars in gender, women’s, and development studies. Among her numerous influential publications are Women in Rural Production Systems: Problems and Policies (1985), Concubines, Sisters and Citizens: Identities and Social Transformation (1997, in Turkish), Women, Islam and the State (ed., 1991) and Gendering the Middle East (ed.,1996).

Nida Kirmani is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Nida has published widely on issues related to gender, Islam, women’s movements, development and urban studies in India and Pakistan. Her book Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality was published in 2013 by Routledge.

Nazanin Shahrokni is Assistant Professor of Gender and Globalisation at the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. She is on the executive board of the International Sociological Association and serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Her book Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran was published by California University Press in 2019.

*The discussion will be followed by a reception.

Date and Time

Friday 28 October 2022, 17:00 - 19:00  (London).

Venue (+ online)

Aga Khan Centre (Atrium Conference Room),
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking

The event is free, but booking is essential:

To attend in person, register via Eventbrite.
To attend online, register via Zoom.

Organiser

The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London.

Contact Info: 

 

Layal Mohammad
Manager, Marketing & Communications
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
The Aga Khan University (International)
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
Tel: +44 [0] 20 7380 3839
Incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee no. 4448389 | Registered Charity Number 1179136

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Studying Everyday Life at War

 


Im Rahmen der ISEK-Populäre Kulturen-Vortragsreihe finden in diesem Semester vier Vorträge statt, die sich aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit dem Krieg gegen die Ukraine beschäftigen. 

 

Die Reihe «Studying Everyday Life at War» beginnt diesen Mittwoch, 28. September 2022, um 18:30 Uhr: 

 

Vasyl Cherepanyn (Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv): Culture at War: Ukrainian Revolution, Russian Fascism, European Decolonization

Abstract und weitere Informationen: https://www.agenda.uzh.ch/record.php?id=51746&group=148  

Ort:  Campus Oerlikon, Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum AFL E-015.

Zeit: 18:30 Uhr

 

Weitere Vorträge in der Reihe:

19.10. Sylvia Sasse (Zürich): Disinfotainment: Wie in russischen Fake-News-Shows (nicht) über den Krieg berichtet wird

26.10. Maria Mayerchuk (Lviv/Greifswald): Difficult Affinities at the War-Torn Buffer Periphery

14.12. Anatolyi Podolskyi (Kyiv): Holocaust Memory in Modern Ukraine: How Can We Speak about Holocaust History after 24 February? (Online-Vortrag)

https://www.isek.uzh.ch/de/popul%C3%A4rekulturen/veranstaltungen.html

 

Die Vorträge können online per Zoom mitverfolgt werden; die Anmeldung ist jeweils bis 16 Uhr am Veranstaltungstag möglich per Mail an pk-veranstaltungen@isek.uzh.ch.

 

Beste Grüsse

Olga A. Reznikova & Moritz Ege

 

Τρίτη 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022

Καλαμιώνας στην δυτική πλευρά του Νησιού των Ιωαννίνων



 

Ο Πνιγμός της Κυράς Φρυσύνης και των άλλων Γιαννιωτισσών στη λίμνη Ιωαννίνων, Μουσείο Ραπακούση, Νησί Ιωαννίνων








 

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Ανδρέας Γ. Λαζἀνης, Τα Κατσάνικα Δημοτικά Τραγούδια.Εκδόσεις Δωδώνη 2012