Deadline for application: December 4h 2023, 17:00 (Paris time)

The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), in collaboration with the Institut français d’études anatoliennes of Istanbul, offers short-term fellowships of two or three months in France for postdoc researchers from Turkey who have presented their thesis from 2017.

This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. 

This call is part of the Atlas short-term postdoctoral mobility programme offered by the FMSH and its partners.

Financial details

Laureates will receive a monthly stipend of 1 700€. This financial contribution is intended to cover expenditure such as transport and accommodation costs.

Besides, the FMSH and the IFEA Istanbul provide support for visa and logistical support to organise the stay (possibility to have a workspace, letter for the libraries...).

Eligibility criteria

Nationality: This program is open to researchers originating from Turkey (nationality is a requirement) and affiliated with an institution of higher education and research or a public or private research institute based in one of these countries. 

Educational Degree: Applicants must have obtained their PhD doctorate and presented their thesis from 2018.

Theme: Applicants   must   be   involved   in   research   in   social   and   human   sciences.

French host institution: Before submitting their application, applicants will have to find a French research institution to host them for the time of their stay. Applicants will have to provide a letter from the hosting institution addressed to the FMSH expressing the institution’s willingness to host the applicant during the time of fellowship and explaining the work conditions offered.

Researcher’s obligations

At the end of their stay, laureates will have to provide the FMSH with a report presenting the work done during their stay and the benefits for their research project.

Application procedure

Applicants will be required to submit an online application form and a scientific dossier (research project + appendices). The online application form will be available on the FMSH website as of September 18th, 2023. Completed proposals can be uploaded to the application portal at any time before the application deadline of December 4h 2023, 17:00 (Paris time).

Online application and scientific dossier can be submitted in French or English.

Content of scientific dossier

The research proposal: the research proposal should consist in a short presentation from 10 000 characters to 20 000 characters (spaces and references included) composed with:

1. State of art, problematic, objective and specific aim of the research project, methodology.
2. A bibliography
3. The detailed programme of the research stay (places and institutions to be visited, contacts, workplan).

Appendices:

• A Curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum)
• A list of publications
• A copy of the PhD diploma
• A letter from the director of the research institution in the country of origin
• A letter of invitation from the director of the host research institution in France expressing the institution’s willingness to host the applicant during the time of fellowship and explaining the work conditions they can offer

How to apply?

1. Reach the online application form and enter «Researcher Workspace».
2. You have to be registered on the online platform in order to use it. If you haven’t created an account yet, you will be asked to.
3. Create your profile by filling all your personal information and then enter “create a new application”.
4. Select “Programme Atlas incoming 2024” and then the specific call "FMSH-IFEA : Turquie France".
5. Fill all the information tabs.
6. In the “Documents” final tab, you will need to upload your research proposal and the appendices into one single PDF document:

• Research proposal
• Curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum)
• List of publications
• Copy of the PhD diploma
• Letter from the director of the research institution in your country
• Letter of invitation from the director of the host research institution in France

You can save your application and complete it later several times if you wish, until the closure of the call for applications. Once you have submitted your application, you will no longer have the possibility to amend it. Once submitted, you will receive an automatic email confirming the submission. Applications not submitted, incomplete application forms or applications that do not match the above description will not be taken into account.

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Evaluation process and criteria

A selection committee composed with members of FMSH and independent experts will analyse and proceed to final selection of applications regarding the following criteria:

• The quality of the scientific dossier and the methodology developed
• The relevance of a research stay in France regarding the scientific project and the candidate curricula
• The ability to identify scientific contacts in France
• Candidates that have never benefited from the programme will be prioritized.
• Candidates will be informed by email of the results early February 2024.

Le 8 septembre 2023, Youenn Gourain (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Université Paris-Est, IFEA) a défendu avec succès sa thèse intitulée : « La faille et la ville. Itinéraire d’une fabrique conjointe entre les risques et l’urbain à Istanbul » et rédigée sous la direction de Valérie November, directrice de recherche au CNRS.
Le jury était composé de : 

Laurent Devisme, Professeur à l’ENSA Nantes (Rapporteur)
Valérie November, Directrice de recherche, CNRS (Directrice de thèse)
Jean-François Pérouse, Maître de conférences HDR, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (Examinateur)
Sezin Topçu, Chargée de recherche, CNRS CEMS-EHESS (Examinatrice)
Elsa Vivant, Professeure, Université Gustave Eiffel (Examinatrice)
Albena Yaneva, Professeure, University of Manchester (Rapporteure)

Call for Papers: Conference - Revolutions Beyond "The West": Historical Connections and Comparative Perspectives (6-7 October 2023)

On the occasion of the centenary of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Tarih Vakfı and the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes organize a conference on the connected history of revolutionary movements in the long nineteenth century. We invite contributions that will tackle the centrality given by historiography to Western revolutionary movement in the era of imperialism. We also wish to inquire into the place of Kemalism in that context.

Deux membres scientifiques de l'IFEA (Philippe Bourmaud, porteur du projet et Anaïs Lamesa responsable du pôle archéologie) ont obtenu un projet Impulsion de l'Ecole française de Rome (projet en partenariat avec Chantal Verdeuil – INALCO, Marie Levant – MSCA fellow et Levon Nordiguian – Bibliothèque orientale). Le projet « Constructions missionnaires jésuites des patrimoines arméniens et turcs : un siècle d'histoire (1881-1981) » débutera courant 2024 pour un an et demi.

The Centre for International Studies at Sciences Po, together with the Consortium of European Symposia on Turkey (CEST), is delighted to invite paper submissions for a Symposium to be held on November 17-18th, 2023 at Sciences Po in Paris, France.

The topic “State, Party, Society” hints at a debate on Turkey in the last years, both in the media and academia, around the question of how to qualify the place and role of the hegemonic party in the political field. Has Turkey under the AKP/Justice and Development Party rule become a “state party” or perhaps a “party state”? To what extent do these qualifications make sense, what do they uncover and enlighten - and possibly make invisible? This questioning has also fueled debate about the single party period that Turkey went through between 1923 and 1946 and that recent historical works have questioned anew. Parallels have even been drawn between Turkey’s single party period and today’s situation. Disentangling the relations and functioning of state and party seems particularly relevant in this respect, as well as thinking about possible historical continuities and discontinuities.

This questioning requires disentangling “state” and “party” by looking at their internal organization, conflicts, and workings, and the impact of these on their relationships. As far as the “state” is concerned, several works have shown that it may be more relevant to speak about public institutions in plural in order to avoid any reification of the “state”. Regarding the party, the alliance between the AKP and the Turkish nationalist MHP since the mid-2010s appears as an important parameter. What has this alliance produced in terms of relations between party/parties and state institutions? A further question is to what extent power concentration in the AKP has come along with, or given impetus to, concentration of power in public institutions. Finally, how have the reconfigurations between party and public institutions, and especially the concentration of power, impacted state capacity over time? The aftermath of the recent earthquake casts doubt on the common idea that concentration of power leads to more efficacy.

Complicating the picture is the question of what anchors public institutions and the hegemonic party and its allies in society. Relocating both party and institutions in their social environment complicates what would seem to be a face-off between state and party by introducing other social actors and social dynamics. To what extent and how do these social anchors fuel, hinder or refract relations between state and party? Social anchoring may include organized society (NGOs, labor unions, religious communities and brotherhoods, professional chambers, business, media, activists, vigilantes, etc.), but also broader social groups. What roles are played by the social anchoring of institutions and parties in exercising, consolidating or contesting power and government, and what forms does that take? To what extent do these anchors take various shapes and have divergent implications in diverse social fields? To what extent can we speak about a “hegemonic bloc” that extends throughout state, party, and society – and throughout various social fields?

A comparative perspective is particularly relevant, bringing in cases where these questions have been much worked on (USSR, Russia, the People's Republic of China). Another important comparative angle might be how Turkey’s diasporas abroad reconfigure the triangle between party, state and society in different locations.

We welcome applications from all fields related to the study of society and politics, with a particular interest in comparative work. We would also like to stress our interest in historical studies and a critical debate on the conclusions that can be drawn from those historical cases for our understanding of the relations between state party, and society today. Our emphasis is on Turkey and its region, but we welcome comparative or conceptual work from other world regions, as long as it promises valuable insights for our regional angle.

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• an abstract of max. 300 words,
• a CV of max. 300 words,
• a full CV with publications, if applicable.

The submission deadline is 15 June 2023. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Factsheet

     Convenor: Elise Massicard

     Who can apply? Advanced PhD students and post-doctoral scholars (within six years of graduation) from Turkey and Europe

     Submission deadline: 15 June 2023

     Submission requirements: 300 word abstract, 300 word CV, publication list.

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     Expenses: Accommodation for two nights and travel expenses will be reimbursed.

                       Travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the country of your institution, i.e. for Europe up to 350 Euro.

     Submission of papers: Draft papers must be submitted by October 15.

     Publication: A publication of the best papers is planned.

     Successful applicants will be informed mid-July 2023.

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This Symposium is convened as part of the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST) which is funded by Stiftung Mercator. CEST is committed to the study of modern Turkey by bringing together the expertise of leading European research institutions: SciencesPo Paris, Stockholm University, University of Vienna,Universita Ca’Foscari, Duisburg/Essen Universität, L’Orientale Napoli.

Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th Centuries)

Canaux de transmission de la connaissance astronomique reçue et pratiquée dans le monde ottoman (15^ème-19^ème siècle)

Le but de ce colloque international est d’investiguer l’histoire et le développement des savoirs et des techniques astronomiques dont ont hérités les spécialistes des sciences des astres dans l’espace ottoman. Cette rencontre permettra une discussion approfondie sur le matériel (intellectuel et physique) astronomique et astrologique diffusé à travers diverses adaptations et emprunté à différentes sources anciennes.

Le critère astronomique nous permet de resserrer une étude transversale de la circulation de ce savoir qui mettra également en évidence le rôle des élites professionnelles capables de maîtriser de telles compétences et montrera quelques voies de transmission et d'irradiation que les milieux les plus savants pourraient jouer dans la diffusion de ces connaissances transculturelles et transreligieuses.

Cette étude permettra la réunion de spécialistes qui ont rarement l’occasion de travailler ensemble. La participation des collègues hellénistes, byzantinistes, turquisants, sinologues, iranologues, arabisants, ottomanistes ainsi que des spécialistes de l’histoire des techniques astronomiques en Europe pourra permettre de définir un champ d’investigation dans ce domaine alliant à la fois, à travers l’histoire de l’astronomie, les chercheurs des sciences humaines et des sciences de la nature. 

Nous souhaitons ouvrir des pistes afin de permettre de retracer le cheminement de la transmission des techniques et méthodes astronomiques à travers le temps et l’espace. Les contributions viseront également à mettre en lumière les moments clefs des contacts entre les détenteurs de savoirs et les commanditaires qui vont assurer la continuité historique de ces connaissances à travers un réseau antique et médiéval allant de la Chine à l’Europe.

Notre approche part d’un postulat diachronique, à savoir l’état de ces savoirs développés synthétiquement et extensivement, puis se propose de remonter le temps pour retrouver les origines des différents éléments assimilés à l’époque ottomane.

En outre, ce colloque permettra de rendre accessible une série de sources en langues diverses dont la pluralité (turc (cagataï et ottoman), arabe, persan, grec, chinois, syriaque, arménien, sanskrit, moyen-perse) n’est pas systématiquement analysée en parallèle.

Ultimement, nous souhaitons tenter de reconstituer une partie du puzzle complexe du cheminement des techniques et méthodes astronomiques dans différentes aires culturelles et historiques qui ont contribué au développement des sciences astronomiques liées à la temporalité. Ce colloque sera un premier pas vers la mise en place d’un réseau de collaborations entre les chercheurs et l’approfondissement des divers domaines utilisant l’astronomie notamment par le biais de stages de formation théoriques et pratiques. Le premier stage dans la lignée de ce colloque portera sur les instruments astronomiques utilisés à bord des navires ottomans.

Appel à communication: voir le site https://ottomanastronomy.org/

Toutes nos félicitations à Florence Somer (laboratoire CeRMI, IFEA) qui a brillamment soutenu sa thèse en histoire des religions et anthropologie religieuse intitulée "Quand les astres écrivent l’Histoire : transmission de la tradition jāmāspienne dans les textes persans, arabes et ottomans" et dirigée par Philippe Huyse et co-encadrée par Samra Azarnouche, le 30 mars 2023 à la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

Dépôt des articles prolongé jusqu'au 1^er mai – Appel à Contribution pour Anatolia Antiqua XXXI (2023)

La préparation du prochain numéro d’Anatolia Antiqua (XXXI) a commencé. La parution est programmée à Novembre 2023.

Revue scientifique annuelle de l’IFEA dédiée à l’archéologie, Anatolia Antiqua couvre un large éventail de disciplines, allant des travaux de terrain aux thématiques du patrimoine culturel en passant par l’archéométrie et l’étude de matériel. Elle se compose de deux parties : une première partie consacrée aux articles de synthèse et une seconde partie intitulée « Chroniques des travaux archéologiques en Turquie », laquelle est destinée aux rapports des fouilles et études archéologiques en Turquie et ses régions avoisinantes de la préhistoire à la période médiévale au sens large.

Les articles soumis ne doivent pas avoir été publiés antérieurement dans un autre périodique. Les articles seront soumis au comité scientifique international assisté du comité de rédaction. Les décisions en matière d’acceptation ou de refus sont souveraines.

Les articles dont les sujets relèvent du domaine susmentionné doivent être préparés conformément à nos normes de publications (https://journals.openedition.org/anatoliaantiqua/274) et peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais.

Les auteur.e.s sont prié.e.s d’envoyer leurs articles et leurs chroniques de fouille au plus tard le 1 mai 2023. Les articles soumis au-delà de la date fixée seront considérés pour le numéro de l’année suivante. L’acceptation ou le refus des articles par les comités scientifique et de rédaction sera annoncé à compter du 15 mai 2023. Il est possible et encouragé de prendre contact avec la rédaction avant l’envoi des manuscrits.

Nous vous remercions et réjouissons d’ores et déjà de votre intérêt, de votre fidélité et de vos contributions à ce prochain numéro.

Au nom du comité de rédaction,

Deniz Genceolu, secrétaire de rédaction

Adresse de communication :

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Deadline for submissions extended to May 1 - Call for papers - Anatolia Antiqua XXXI (2023)

Preparations for the next issue of Anatolia Antiqua (XXXI) have started. The publication is scheduled for November 2023.

IFEA’s annual scientific journal dedicated to archaeology, Anatolia Antiqua, covers a wide range of disciplines from fieldwork to various themes related to cultural heritage including archaeometry and materials science. The journal is composed of two parts; the first part being devoted to scientific articles and the second part, namely the “Chronicles of archaeological works in Turkey”, including reports of all archaeological excavations and studies in Turkey, encompassing a chronological span from prehistory up to the medieval period in the broadest sense.

Articles submitted for publication must be original works and must not have been published previously in another journal. Submitted articles will be reviewed by the international scientific committee, assisted by the editorial board of the journal, whose decisions regarding acceptance or rejection are sovereign.

Articles whose subjects fall within the above-mentioned scope, should be prepared according to our publishing principles (https://journals.openedition.org/anatoliaantiqua/429) and written in French or English.

Authors are requested to submit their articles and excavation reports by May 1, 2023 at the latest. Articles submitted after the deadline will be considered for the next year’s issue. The decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of articles by the scientific committee and the editorial board will be announced starting on May 15, 2023. It is possible and encouraged to contact the editorial board before submitting the manuscripts.

We appreciate your interest and loyalty, and look forward to your contributions to the next issue of Anatolia Antiqua.

In the name of the editorial board,

Deniz Genceolu, secretary of publications

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We are pleased to inform you of the organization of a colloquium focusing on the socio-political implications of quantification in Turkey, which will be held on September 28 and 29, 2023 at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul, Turkey. 

This colloquium invites young researchers at all levels (master, doctorate, post-doctorate) to share original research about the uses of numbers and their socio-political implications in the Turkish context, past and present. Numeric arguments are omnipresent in political discourse. As the time for Turkey’s presidential election approaches in the aftermath of the seismic crisis, this observation may become even more relevant. Figures and estimates on key ballot issues are generated, disseminated, and interpreted by a complex body of interconnected actors: pollsters, scholars,
think-tank members, political party advocates, and so forth. Inflation, for instance, is a daily topic in mainstream newspapers. The ‘true’ numbers of inflation are calculated by economists and then shared by journalists in the public arena where they become the subject of heated controversies
in board-rooms, coffee shops, and at dinner-tables. Competitive statistical narratives also circulate as executives and ordinary people seek to make sense of current trends and likely future scenarios. As some narratives win out over others, certain public institutions have been brought
into disrepute; whereas, conversely, private expertise companies have acquired new levels of credibility and trust.
By organizing this colloquium, we wish to build a springboard for importing and discussing the numerous studies dealing with the social history of statistics (see Anderson 1988, Desrosières 2010 [1993], 2008a; Didier 2000; Wuthnow 2015; Labbé 2019), the socio-political
life of numbers in the public arena (see Schweyer 1991; Porter 2017 [1995]; Desrosières 2008b, 2014; Bruno, Didier & Prévieux 2014; Gasquet et al. 2021), and the renewal of quantitative methodologies and techniques in the academic field (see Bugeja-Bloch & Couto 2021) along with
their impact on reframing theories (see Field 2019; Bréchon & Zwilling 2020) and shaping state policies (see Aldrin 2010). Research on quantification and the social life of numbers has been fruitful in many parts of the world but has not yet been well established in Turkey. This event
represents an effort to advance a scholarly conversation about the Turkish case, including the social history of ottoman and republican censuses (see Dündar 2001, 2005), statistics in relation to technopolitics and institutional reform (see Silverstein 2020), and the sociology of the public
opinion and market research industry (see Abadan-Unat 1991).
This colloquium aspires to focus on a twofold research axis. On the one hand, we intend to dissect the chain of production of statistical artifacts that we are likely to encounter in our3 respective research areas. This focus entails a genealogical endeavor. To prevent the risk of
anachronism or teleology, we encourage pragmatist approaches that examine each step of the quantification process as a practical and contingent accomplishment. Chronological patterns should therefore be embedded with grounded accounts of quantification as a social activity
undertaken by specific actors (interviewers, pollsters, statisticians…), integrated into various institutional networks (companies, think-tank, NGOs, administrations…), on particular objects (public opinion, social attitudes, political trends…), by relying on evolving techniques (sampling,
questionnaire design, data collection...), and requiring a handful of aptitudes (counting, calculating, estimating, predicting…).
On the other hand, we wish to study the social life of statistical artifacts, narratives, and arguments inasmuch as they provide inputs for engaging in public controversies. What kind of public issues catalyze or magnetize statistical disputes within fields as various as, for instance, state
policy, administration of religious affairs, or social movements? And how discourse and collective action are framed and reframed regarding competitive figures on controversial issues such as inflation, immigration, work-related accidents, natural hazards, or feminicides?

Applicants should submit the following materials: a 500-word abstract for a 15 to 20-minute-long communication in English, and a short resumé including past and current research activities. These materials should be sent before April 30 to the following email address: Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

Open Archaeology invites manuscripts for the Special Issue Digital Religioscapes: Current Methodologies and Novelties in the Analysis of Sacr(aliz)ed Spaces. The study of ancient religions—their materiality and practices—was subject to enormous changes, especially since different approaches from other disciplines, such as sociology, cultural studies, or anthropology, were made fruitful for the archaeology of ancient religions and subsequently enabled a qualitative approach to the research questions. This led to an understanding of religious spaces on the one hand as an outcome of social interaction, and on the other hand as a shared space with its own locally produced identity. However, the digital humanities have yet to find a meaningful way to integrate the resulting qualitative data into existing digital infrastructures and correlate it with quantitative data. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the variety of methods when gathering, modelling/visualising, presenting, and analysing digital data and to discuss the diverse ways in which these heterogeneous methods and tools can be usefully combined. Approaches that use mixed data (qualitative and quantitative), such as Story Maps or Deep Map(ping) are discussed, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of various individual tools and applications, such as network models, cartograms, modelling of movement patterns, agent-based modelling, temporalities or sensoryscapes (soundscapes, smellscapes, viewsheds), to name a few. Since we are concentrating on the methodological approaches and applications for investigating religious spaces, the special issue is opened to case studies from a variety of chronological periods and geographical regions, reaching from the circum-Mediterranean to central Asia, and at least from the Iron Age until the Early Modern Period.

The authors are kindly invited to submit their contribution via the online submission system Editorial Manager available at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/opar/Default.aspx

We are looking forward to your submission between 20 August and 15 December 2023

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