VISUAlFest
13 dicembre 2013
Aula VOLPI
Via Milazzo 11/b – ROMA
visualfest1REGOLAMENTO VISUALFEST
1. La rassegna VISUALFEST è organizzata dall’Università Roma Tre e si terrà nell’Aula “Volpi” in via Milazzo 11/b il 13 dicembre 2013.
2. La rassegna intende favorire la diffusione delle opere realizzate da studiosi che utilizzano l’immagine come metodologia e metodo di conoscenza scientifica nel campo delle discipline umane e sociali, in tutte le forme ed in uno spirito di libertà e di dialogo.
3. SELEZIONE UFFICIALE
4. ISCRIZIONE E PARTECIPAZIONE
5. Dopo la proiezione pubblica delle opere in concorso si procederà all’assegnazione dei premi delle giurie (Premio VisualFest 2013 e Menzione Speciale) e del pubblico, per ciascuna delle tre categorie del concorso: lungometraggi, mediometraggi e cortometraggi.
Call for Proposals and Films
The Bodily and Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation
The Bodily and Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/call-for-proposals-religious-subjectivation
Program Details
Intended date of conference: 17-18 June, 2014.
Venue: UCL, Dept. of Anthropology.*
Deadline for CFP: 31 December, 2013.
Conference Convenors: Jean-Pierre Warnier and Urmila Mohan.
For further information please contact Urmila Mohan (u.mohan.11@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:u.mohan.11@ucl.ac.uk).
Statement of Purpose
There is no known religious practice that does not involve bodily motions (bowing, standing, walking, fasting, feasting, etc.) and their associated emotions, nor the use of given material things (shrines, musical instruments, substances of various kinds). Both involve the sensory apparatus of touch, sight, smell, etc. Without disregarding religious discourses and creeds, the conference will focus on the cultures of religious practice with a strong emphasis on both ethnographic documentation and theoretical elaboration based on a few basic principles — the importance of Bodily and Material Culture, and Religious Subjectivation involving technologies of the self.
Call for Proposals and Films
We welcome proposals from students, faculty and independent researchers based on ethnographic fieldwork focused on both bodily and material cultures of religious practice as part of the production of a religious subject in different areas and religious settings (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Asiatic, African and other religions, etc.). The papers should address theoretical issues, whatever theoretical references may be put to use, provided they articulate bodily and material cultures. We aim at establishing discussions between various academic traditions on both sides of the Atlantic and the Channel. Short documentary films (e.g. 20 min maximum as a rule) showing the intertwinement of bodily and material cultures in religious practice are welcome. The proposals (of ca. one page) should be addressed to the convenors. They will be assessed by the organizing committee of the conference. Ultimately, we expect to end up with an edited volume.
*This event is organised by UCL Anthropology<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropologytogether with the Interdisciplinary Research Group (GDRI) “Anthropology and Art History” http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/enseignement/research/the-gdri-anthropology-and-art-history.html
at the Musée du Quai Branly.
SIGNIFICATIONS FORWARD
DR. CHARLES H. LONG
AND HIS WORKS
Monday, September 30th, 2013, 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013; 10am – 5pm
Kellogg Center, Michigan State University
Historian of Religion, Charles H. Long, received his B.D. and Ph.D. at University of Chicago, studied with Professor Joachim Wach – pioneer of the History of Religionsfield; co-founded the international journal, History of Religions; founding Editor, Studies in Religion Series Univ. North Carolina Press; co-Editor in Chief of Religions of the Americas Series, University of New Mexico Press; co-founder, Society for the Study of Black Religion; past President of the American Academy of Religion, Professor Emeritus from University California, Santa Barbara, and Syracuse University. His volume Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion continues to inspire new research.
For More Info Contact :
AART Office, 300 Berkey Hall, MSU, 517-432-8668
john1956
Dear All,
The Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) invites you to attend a Symposium on Pentecostalism and Transnationalism.
The Symposium will take place on Thursday 1 August, 2013 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM at UWS Bankstown Campus (Building 3 Room 55).
Andrew West from the ABC will open the event which will feature presentations by Dr Mark Hutchinson (UWS), Professor Marion Maddox (Macquarie University) and Dr Cristina Rocha (UWS).
There will also be a screening of the documentary ‘Enlarging the Kingdom: African Pentecostals in Italy’ followed by a Q&A session with one of its directors, Dr Annalisa Butticci (Harvard).
Further details are provided in the attached flyer.
For catering purposes, we ask that you confirm your attendance with us no later than Monday 29 July via e-mail to Ms Eva Garcia (E.Garcia@uws.edu.au)
International Workshop: The Future of Religious Pluralism in Europe
Friday, May 17th – Saturday, May 18th 2013
Academic Direction: Volker Heins (KWI), Riem Spielhaus, (EZIRE)
Location: Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen, Germany
Organizer: Research Unit “Interculturality” at the KWI & Erlangen Centre for Islam & Law in Europe (EZIRE)
Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center indicate that globalization and migration are changing the relations between the state and religion, because the world population, with the notable exception of Europeans, is becoming more religious and devout. Through immigration, particularly from Muslim-majority countries, the ramifications of this trend are increasingly felt in Europe too. With regard to Muslims, we are witnessing new combinations of well-known forms of xenophobia and racism with a more subtle and insidious anti-religious impulse of the “enlightened” sections of the population. These new ideological combinations have found expression in recent public controversies about Muslim headscarves, halal/kosher butchering, the ritual circumcision of Jewish and Muslim boys and, more generally, on the place and visibility of religion in European society. Overall, these controversies – and the policies they inspire – have a tendency to restrict the freedom of cultural and religious minorities and to favour a shift from a “passive” or “open” to a more “coercive” or “fundamentalist” type of secularism, in line with the broader European trend away from multiculturalism.
However, this trend doesn’t go unchallenged. As forces from both ends of the political spectrum join hands to restrict the space for minorities, other unlikely coalitions are forming to reshape European societies in the light of more inclusive ideals of civil solidarity. While we acknowledge that the “backlash against multiculturalism” is real, we believe that not enough attention has been given to the meaning of the intellectual and political responses and contributions of relevant minorities themselves to the current situation.
The forthcoming conference at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) will address this gap. Focusing on Muslim and Jewish communities in Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Denmark, the conference will explore various aspects of the triangular relationship between those two paradigmatic minorities and mainstream society. What are the available cultural strategies and spaces to express religious minority identity within late modern Western Europe? What significance does the activism of Muslims and Jews have on their mutual perception as well as on the perception of their situation within society? What strategies are available to groups that are historically perceived in terms of their stigmatized ethno-religious practices or cultural heritage? Are there structural similarities between exclusivist tendencies towards Jews and Muslims (“Islamophobia” and Antisemitism)? Do we see connections between an emergent European identity and new forms of ethno-religious hierarchization of non-European populations within Europe?
Academic Direction:
Volker Heins<http://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/en/home/profil-vheins.html>, Senior Fellow and Head of the Research Unit “Interculturality” at the KW
Riem Spielhaus<http://uni-erlangen.academia.edu/RiemSpielhaus>, Research Fellow at the Erlangen Centre for Islam & Law in Europe (EZIRE)
Contributors (et al.):
Michal Bodemann (Dept of Sociology, University of Toronto)
Gerdien Jonker (Erlangen Centre for Islam & Law in Europe, EZIRE)
Riva Kastoryano (CERI, Paris) Brian Klug (Dept of Philosophy, Oxford University)
Tariq Modood (Dept of Sociology, University of Bristol)
Yasemin Shooman (Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin)
Contact:
Volker Heins, Senior Fellow and Head of the Research Unit “Interculturality” at the KWI, volker.heins@kwi.-nrw.de
Please register (until May 10th 2013) at:
Maria Klauwer, KWI, Tel. 0201 7204-153, maria.klauwer@kwi-nrw.de
Event-Link: http://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/en/home/event-509.html
Dear all,
Some events coming up at the Centre for Society, Religion & Belief (SRB) at the University of Derby. All SOCREL members and colleagues are welcome to come along.
1) The Nationalism, Identity & Belief symposium takes place on 25th March, featuring keynote speaker Daniel Trilling, author of Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right (London: Verso, 2012), assistant editor The New Statesman, columnist for The Guardian. The conference is being organised by SRB’s Andrew Wilson and Frauke Uhlenbruch, with Jason Lee from the Identity, Conflict & Representation Research Centre. Details of how to register to attend the conference will follow.
2) The Centre for Society, Religion & Belief & the Multi-Faith Centre Seminar series. This semester’s seminars resume with speakers from the Islamic Foundation and the Universities of Derby, Birmingham and Canterbury Christ Church. We are working with the Identity, Conflict & Representation Research Centre to screen (on 13th February, 1.30-3pm) a fascinating new film on space and spirituality by the Derby-based film-making collective leere/SpektiFilms. Please come along to these free events and do invite others. Directions to the Multi-Faith Centre can be found here: http://www.multifaithcentre.org/contact-us The programme for the semester is:
23rd January 1.30-3pm Multi-Faith Centre Dilwar Hussain (Head of the Policy Research Centre at the Islamic Foundation) British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State
13th February 1.30-3pm Multi-Faith Centre leere collective & Spektifilms (film screening) The Sacred and the Personal (What Makes Places Special?)
6th March 1.30-3pm Multi-Faith Centre Dr Giselle Vincett (Lecturer, Centre for Postgradate Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham) Young People, Deprivation and Religion in the UK: Coping and Resistance
17th April 1.30-3pm Multi-Faith Centre Jamie Bird (Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Arts, University of Derby) Imagining the Past; Remembering the Future: Using Visual Stories to Understand Domestic Violence
8th May 1.30-3pm Multi-Faith Centre Dr Robert Beckford (Reader in Theology & Religious Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University & award-winning broadcaster)Title TBC
Looking forward to seeing you at these events.
Best wishes,
Dr Kristin Aune
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Director, Centre for Society, Religion & Belief
Faculty of Education, Health & Sciences
University of Derby
Kedleston Road
Derby DE22 1GBTel: 01332 591428
TAKING PART: Muslim Participation in Governance – Report Launch
31 January 2013, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Bishopsgate Institute, London
– Launch of the final report from the large 30-month study of Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance at Bristol University led by Dr Therese O’Toole and Professor Tariq Modood.
– Research findings and public policy insights on issues such as Muslim-government relations, integration, equality, participatory democracy, and countering extremism.
– Panel discussion with Dilwar Hussain, Humera Khan, and Professor Maleiha Malik.
For more details see http://www.bris.ac.uk/ethnicity/takingpart.pdf (650kb).
Registration required at http://takingpart.eventbrite.co.uk<http://takingpart.eventbrite.co.uk/>.
The Association Français de Sciences Sociales des Religions (AFSR) is sponsoring a conference on “Religion and the Internet”, to take place on February 4th and 5th, 2013. The conference will take place at 61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris.
The organizers have posted the program at http://www.afsr.cnrs.fr/spip.php%3Farticle103.html
RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION AN INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME
Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, University of Kent
18-22 February 2013
This training programme is available for doctoral students registered at any higher education institution in the UK/EU. It is based on previous training developed by the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, funded by the AHRC, which led to the development of the Religion Methods website (www.kent.ac.uk/religionmethods), and aims to provide students with a core training in fieldwork approaches to the study of religion.
Topics covered by the training will include:
· Conceptualising religion for research
· Key elements and processes of research design
· The role of theory in social research
· The politics and ethics of research
· Sampling
· Rigour and validity in research
· Using quantitative data-sets for research on religion
· Ethnographic approaches in theory and practice
· Visual methods
· Developing research interviews
· Using qualitative data analysis software
· Researching objects and spaces
· Producing research proposals
To attend this training programme, students not registered at the University of Kent will be required to pay a £100 registration fee, which would cover attendance at all sessions and the costs of training materials. Delegates would need to make their own arrangements for accommodation, and there is a wide selection of affordable B&B provision in the Canterbury area. For those planning to commute on a daily basis, Canterbury is now less than an hour from London St Pancras on the high speed train link.
Space on the programme is limited and the deadline to register your interest to attend this programme is Thursday 13 December. To register your interest, please email Lois Lee (l.a.lee@kent.ac.uk) with a short statement outlining the university at which you are currently registered, the focus and method of your doctoral project and the stage of the project you are currently at.