Making and Unmaking Religious Heritage Conflict, competition and cooperation at small scale

Making and Unmaking Religious Heritage

Conflict, competition and cooperation at small scale

Interdisciplinary PhD School of MERAP-MED programme

1-5 June 2015

Lisbon and Évora, Portugal

CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora CRIA-FCSH-Nova

Argument

The Interdisciplinary PhD School “Making and Unmaking Religious Heritage. Conflict, Competition and Cooperation at Small Scale” will take place in Lisbon and Évora in Portugal during 5 days.

Open to PhD students and post-docs of social sciences and humanities working on religious and/or heritage matters. The PhD School is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) and the LabexMed (France). It involves researchers from the CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora (Portugal), the FCSH-Nova (Portugal), the PhD Programme “Antropologia. Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia” (FCSH-Nova de Lisboa, CRIA, IELT, INET-MD, et ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), the IDEMEC (UMR 7307 Aix Marseille Université CNRS), the TELEMME (UMR 7303 Aix Marseille Université CNRS), the École française d’Athènes (Greece) and the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques – Casa de Velázquez (Spain).

The PhD School aims at providing young researchers with theoretical and methodological tools to explore heritage-making processes carried out by religious or other groups, from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Participants will address different topics from a large panel of Mediterranean and European case studies such as: entanglements between religion, politics and heritage-making; community agency; international collaboration in culture and heritage; heritage conflict and cooperation; social and political uses of the past.

What are the places and the role of religion in past and present heritage practices? How can religious and cultural minorities overpass the hegemonic status of dominating elites? Through heritage-making, what are the links and the frictions between local, national and international tourism, intimate representations of cultural and self identity? How far can cultural heritage be considered as a peaceful or a conflict tool of inter-confessional and interethnic relationships? Which are the uses of heritage and tourist devices (archives, museums, private collections, and also theme parks and cultural mediation systems) in contemporary practices?

Instructors

The 15 scholars from France, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and UK are all strongly involved in innovative empirical surveys and come from a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, history, history of art, geography, museum studies, religious studies).

Coordination: Cyril Isnart (FR, Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative, UMR 7307 Aix Marseille Université CNRS); Maria Cardeira da Silva (PT, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia-FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Sossie Andézian (FR, Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, équipe LAHIC, UMR 8177 CNRS/EHESS); Raquel Carvalheira (PT, Centro Interdisciplinar História, Sociedades e Culturas da Universidade de Évora, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia); Nathalie Cerezales (FR, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) ; Antónia Fialho Conde (PT, Centro Interdisciplinar História, Sociedades e Culturas da Universidade de Évora); Jérémie Foa (FR, Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale – Méditerranée, UMR 7303 Aix Marseille Université CNRS); André Julliard (FR, Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative, UMR 7307 Aix Marseille Université CNRS); Joana Lucas (PT, Centro Interdisciplinar História, Sociedades e Culturas da Universidade de Évora, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia); Crispin Pain(UK, University College of London); Manoël Pénicaud (FR, Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative, UMR 7307 Aix Marseille Université CNRS); Ema Pires (PT, Universidade de Évora and Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia-ISCTE-IUL); Cristina Sanchez-Carretero (ES, Incipit CSIC); Pierre Sintès(FR, Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale – Méditerranée, UMR 7303 Aix Marseille Université CNRS) ; Ahmed Skounti (MA, Institut national des sciences de l’archéologie et du patrimoine).

Contents

Opening lectures, thematic talks, reading sessions, PhD students’ presentations workshops, Film screenings, Study-day visit

Application

The PhD school will receive 16 students. Travel, accommodation and food expenses will be covered by the organization.

Working languages are French and English.

Two selection sessions will be organised, by a jury composed by Prof. Cyril Isnart and Prof. Maria Cardeira da Silva: the first one for young researchers of the organizing institutions (ISCTE-IUL, LabexMed, Universidade de Évora, Universidade Nova de Lisboa); the remaining places will be open to candidates coming from any institution. Results will be announced by April 2015. Criteria of selection are: quality of the project and the CV, appropriate topics of the project, convergence of the CV with the PhD school themes.

In order to apply, candidates must be PhD students or post-doc (not later than 2 years after thesis). They must send, before 20th, February 2015 for the first selection, before March, 15th 2015 for the second, the following documentation to isnartc@gmail.com:

Application form (Download here), CV (one page), and Thesis project (2.500-5.000 characters).

One month before the PhD School, participants will be asked to send a 25.000 characters paper to be presented and commented by instructors and other participants. They will also be asked to read and prepare comments on the texts to be discussed during the reading workshops.

See more here.