Humanities and social science researchers, who have chosen the Near East as a scientific field of research since the 19th century, have together accumulated information holdings with a wide range of sources. Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and French researchers have produced as well as utilised a corpus of documents and notebooks with content ranging from field notes to pictures, film, sound recordings and websites... This event will bring together researchers, professors, scientific information professionals, civil society actors, students of all levels and members of the general public who are interested or work in social science archiving from the Mediterranean region. This two-day event will take place in collaboration with associate universities (Aix-Marseille University, the Lebanese University, Saint-Joseph University) and research centres (The Mediterranean House of Human Science – MMSH and the French Institute of the Near East - Ifpo) and will focus on the Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian territories. It will promote these institutions’ scientific action plans and research programs (ANR Shakk project).
This colloquium is a prime opportunity to initiate discussions around what constitutes scientific exploitation and valorises data collections in the region and to create a dialogue between participants who are concerned with the collection and archiving of data, focussing on pictures, audio-visual and the web. The conference will also call upon actors from the disciplines that use data collection to illustrate public and academic publications to address the challenges of data collection in the digital age. The two-day event will also hold discussions concerning human and social science methodologies as well as what is at stake in the production of knowledge, be it from the effects of collection tools on research practices, links between data producers, subjects of study, archivists and users, or the weight of political conflict. The accounts of researchers who work with such archives, the critical presentation of preserved data collections in the region and in Europe and specialist lectures on the topic, will together support a better understanding of Lebanese and Syrian history and culture.
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أرشيفات رقمية جديدة في الشرق الأدنى: الصوت والصورة والأفلام والويب
تحديات تبادل البيانات الميدانية في لبنان والأردن وسوريا
محاضرات وطاولات مستديرة باللغة الفرنسية مع ترجمة فورية للغة العربية
