Gouvernance et pilotage scientifique du r?eau Ramses?

1. Cl?ure de la premi?e p?iode

Le r?eau d?excellence Ramses? a cl? en f?rier dernier le troisi?e Appel ? Manifestation d?Int?? pour les travaux de la troisi?e phase d?activit?lanc? en septembre 2007 par Thierry Fabre le coordinateur scientifique du r?eau autour des trois axes de recherches : M?oires ; Conflits et Echanges qui se d?linent en ateliers pluridisciplinaires.

Les propositions sont r?arties entre les 4 grandes cat?ories d?activit? Scientifique ; Int?ration ; Diffusion et Coordination-Gestion et qui constituent l?ensemble du programme Ramses?

Il est important de rappeler les diff?ents crit?es fix? pour discerner entre les nombreux projets re?s : l?excellence scientifique ; la pertinence (un projet doit ?re appr?i? en fonction de la th?atique ? dialogue culturel et soci??europ?nne ? dans laquelle s?inscrit Ramses? ; la contribution ?l?int?ration du r?eau :la circulation et l??hange au sein du r?eau gr?e ?des outils communs ; la mobilisation de toutes les institutions participantes ; la diffusion des r?ultats de la recherche scientifique et la prise en compte de la th?atique et de la visibilit?du Genre.

En fait, chaque p?iode du programme d?ute et finit avec une Assembl? g??ale qui ?alue les rapports, vote les projets et les moyens financiers.

Le r?eau d?excellence Ramses?, vers la troisi?e phase d?activit?/span>

Conseil scientifique ; Comit?ex?utif ; Assembl? g??ale 2008

Ainsi, le r?eau Ramses? mobilise depuis plus de deux mois tout son dispositif et ses ressources pour la pr?aration de la troisi?e Assembl? g??ale le 18 avril 2008 ?la MMSH d?Aix-en-Provence en pr?ence de tous les chercheurs internationaux membres du r?eau qui vont ?re mandat? par leurs institutions respectives. Par le biais de cette participation, les partenaires confirment leur volont?de s?inscrire dans la dur? en contribuant ?la dynamique de lancement de la troisi?e phase du programme.

Le Conseil scientifique compos?de chercheurs et d?experts internationaux, va si?er le 11 avril 2008 ?la MMSH pour sa troisi?e session afin de donner un avis sur les propositions de projets soumis par les partenaires et ainsi permettre la d?inition du programme d?activit?? Joint Programm of activities ?

Le Comit?ex?utif est pr?u pour le 19 avril 2008, la derni?e session s??ait d?oul? ?Istanbul le 23 novembre 2008.

L?analyse et l??aluation des actions du reporting pour l?ann? 2007 sur la base des crit?es ?ablis par la Commission europ?nne et la coordination du r?eau vont b??icier d?une attention particuli?e.

La pr?aration des travaux est pilot? par Thierry Fabre le coordinateur scientifique du r?eau et l??uipe de Coordination (Gestion, valorisation-communication et ?ition ?ectronique) de Ramses? : Nathalie Llorca, Chlo?Chatelin ; Abdelmajid Arif et Nacira Abrous. Avec la participation active la direction de l?USR (MMSH) et de son ?uipe administrative.

 Synth?e des propositions de projets la semaine prochaine

    ateliers, s?inaires, colloques

M?iterran? en partage

Contacts et ?hanges technologiques entre Grecs et indig?es ?la fronti?e des territoires des colonies grecques

Cet atelier cl? les travaux de la premi?e p?iode du workpackage ? Circulation des mod?es technologiques ? et int?re les activit? du sous atelier Contacts et ?hanges technologiques entre Grecs et indig?es ?la fronti?e des territoires des colonies grecques (VIIIe-IIe s. av. J.-C.) dirig?par Henry Tr?iny, arch?logue au Centre Camille Jullian-CNRS.

La mobilit?des populations en M?iterran? et le brassage qui en sont les produits ont entra??de mani?e continue, un transfert de savoirs, une circulation de savoirs- faire, d?outils technologiques, artistiques et de pratiques diverses. En revanche, les cons?uences de cette circulation sont per?es diff?emment, selon la discipline qui se propose pour en rendre compte. Par cons?uent, Ramses? se veut ?re une approche qui fusionne les savoirs ?travers une lecture comparatiste et approfondie dans l?expression de ces ph?om?es sur le temps long. Circulation des mod?es technologiques est, donc, l?atelier d?i?dans l?axe ?ECHANGES ? aux r?ultats de cette circulation des hommes et des outils, en l?occurrence l??ude des usages linguistiques et onomastiques en M?iterran?.

La pr?entation g??ale a ??anim? par Dominique Mulliez, directeur de l?Ecole fran?ise d?Ath?es, et une conf?ence inaugurale d?E. Greco, directeur de l?Ecole italienne d?Ath?es. Des sites arch?logiques en M?iterran? ont ?? l?objet d?analyses entres approches et lectures diverses :

 Le sixi?e et dernier s?inaire organis?dans le cadre de cet atelier s?est tenu ?la MMSH d?Aix-en-Provence, salle Georges-Duby, le Jeudi 28 f?rier 2008

Grecs et indig?es en M?iterran? Occidentale : langue, ?riture, onomastique, Javier De Hoz, Universit?Complutense, Madrid et Paolo Poccetti, Universit?Tor Vergata, Rome,

Quant aux discussions elles ont ?? anim?s par Michel Bats (CCJ) et Mario Lombardo (Universit?de Lecce) et Henri Tr?iny.

M?oires en M?iterran?

Male and Female He Created Them, April, 1, 2008

The Jerusalem conference of Ramses? Network will take place from March, 31 thru April, 1, 2008, in the Centre recherche fran?is de J?usalem. The topical interest of the conference is summarized in the headline ?Male and Female He Created Them? ? Masculine and Feminine in the Mediterranean Religions and Their Influence on Matrimonial Religious Law?.

According to this interest, aspects of matrimonial law in the cultures of the Mediterranean will be discussed with regard to their background and sources in religious law and ethics. Participants from a wide variety of both cultural backgrounds and religious affiliations contribute to this discussion of current interest. From Old Testament and Hebrew Bible backgrounds, issues in ancient Judaism and early church to Islamic Law and Ethics, a broad span of detailed studies on the various religious traditions will be presented. Building on these grounds, there will be also outlooks on contemporary religious practice and matrimonial law in contemporary Jewish, Christian, and Muslim practice.

A major common denominator of the contributions will be the question of gender as concerned by the legal theory and actual religious practice of matrimonial law in the respective traditions. With this critical investigation, the discussion of the conference clearly touches upon one of the crucial questions of the day.

The workshop is organized by Katell Berthelot (CNRS-CPAF), Mathias Morgenstern (Univ. of Tubingen) and Christian Boudignon (CNRS-CPAF)

Gender& M?iterranean

One of the vocations of the network of excellence Ramses ? since its launch is the integration of the study of relationships between men and women across different disciplines and themes that cross the network. Indeed, the challenge remains unsettled because the program brings together academic institutions, traditions and modes of operation may be different. So many actions take into account, in a phased manner, the parameters of visibility in a multidisciplinary approach. Obviously, this type of business can not be decreed, it requires consultations and exchanges in an "action" and that through tools and objectives.
During the first period of activity of the network of excellence, historical and anthropological dimension has been stressed because it participates in a diachronic and thorough reading of the state of "Gender" in the ensembles embraced by the action network. It also contributes to the establishment of the state of the art and, upstream, the collection of evidence and analysis of data in preparation for further action in favour of Gender.
In this perspective, working space is dedicated to the collaborative platform to develop a database of sites and working groups involved in the field of Gender. The aim is to sensitize partners and encourage them to explore this dimension when proposals for areas of research and dissemination

 ?  The role of women in science and research, by Maria Christina CHATZIIOANNOU, Research Director in Institute of Neohellenic Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation

?The scientific world has been formed by men, at a time when gender issues were not an institutionalized subject matter. All through the 19th century and up to the early 20th century the university laboratories and research centers have been considered a predetermined male field. Creating a professional identity in research has not been easy for women. It is interesting to take a life- course approach, e.g. the polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867- 1934), or the greek doctor Amalia Fleming (1909-1986), and explore the complex interplay between personal and professional lives with a view to understanding how changes in their society affected their career developments and professional identities. Women followed diverse paths in their struggle to construct a professional identity. The world of science and research was based on stereotypical concepts concerning the behaviour, capabilities and needs of women on the basis of established ideas concerning the division of society on gender lines. One of the most compelling questions today regards the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge.?

Athens, 4-5 April 2008, Social Groups and Practices of Trading in the Mediterranean (17th-19th centuries)

The wokshop is organized by the the Institute for Neohellenic Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation, Centro Interdepartmental di Studi Europei e Mediterranei / University of Trieste, Istituto di Studi Sulle Societa Mediterranean/CNR ? Napoli, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche/ Universita diBari, CNRS-TELEMME, Universit?de Provence.

The main objective of the Workpackage is to provide maps of their rightful place in the analysis of discourse by treating them as cultural products full-fledged, both partial and biased, in that they inform practices.
The WP, backed by the centre of competence here, and uses representations of the MMSH and its network of partners on cartographic documentation, aims to promote exchanges - Academic and documentaries - between researchers interested in these performances to different terrain and different times. In more concrete terms, this is to consider three aspects of map production in the Mediterranean during period?s modern and contemporary works. These aspects are very different but we will examine them on the basis of two assumptions:
-- Cartographic material is always partial and biased;
-- They represent both the real and the views of their sponsors.

The Mediterranean constitutes a transnational site that links separated peoples and cultures; it is also small enough to connect these same peoples and cultures. In this basin and throughout recorded history, specific kinds of knowledge have been produced and circulated through the medium of travellers, conquerors, pirates, refugees, merchants, scholars, and slaves from all the shores and islands. The subject to be explored in the Athens workshop is the open economic world of merchants. From early modern times up to the industrial era a unified economic world had been created in Europe through commercial transactions, currencies and the ethics of the business transactions. This international trade was halted in many cases in the 19th century due to the creation of new national states and the slow dissolution of great empires, like the Ottoman and the Hapsburg Empire.

The development of the ?merchant?s class? can be studied in relation to the economic crises and the shifts of the centre of world trade and regional markets. Private enterprises, ethnic groups and religious minorities were ?living organisms?? that created adaptations, differentiations and geographic shifts in the centre of the growth of markets.

Recent research on business culture draws a distinction between ?pre-modern? period (17^th ? early 19^th century) during which business practices such as piracy itinerant coastal trade and small-scale business in the Mediterranean prevailed and a ?modern? period during which trade became specialized and was assisted by institutionalized financial services The decline of the old hegemonies and the creation of new are particularly evident in the Mediterranean of that period. For a long period of time old and new merchants? practices co-existed. Which were the determinant factors that altered long time micro- structures that were thriving in various Mediterranean regions? Did modern trade practices dominate in the Mediterranean in the 20^th century?

The thematic of this workshop

1. Merchants under foreign dominion and as foreign dominion. The role of merchants that acted in places that had different ethnic, national, political structure than their own, e.g. the world of commerce under the Ottoman, Venetian, Genoese and Hapsburg dominance (16^th- 19^th c.). Foreign merchants as a dominant trading elite in various markets of the Mediterranean. For example Genoese in Contantinople, Venetians in the Morea, Greeks in Smyrna, Jews and others religious minorities in Trieste etc. The scope of this workshop will be to investigate the transformations and adaptations of common mercantile characteristics of the firm, of ethnic-religious networks through individual strategies and collective economic behavior.

2. Merchants as social agents in a comparative perspective creating/ affecting institutional and network hierarchies. Networking as a systematic organization pattern for exchanging information. Forms of collaboration, competition between various religious and ethnic minorities and groups.

3. Crises as a decisive feature of trade in the Mediterranean: effects and causes. Investigating entrepreneurship through individual or collective reactions/adaptations to crises.

4. Maritime trade in the Mediterranean was conditioned by the technological evolution of shipping while at the same time it contributed to the development and communication of technical knowledge. The diffusion of technology through commercial networks is a poorly researched subject up to now.

Action d?int?ration

Le r?eau des biblioth?ues de la M?iterran?
Bibmed V2, int?ration&diffusion

L?int?ration de la recherche dans le r?eau Ramses? est une priorit? cela suppose l??aboration d?outils de travail en commun et la circulation de sources et de m?hodes partag?s et qui, de plus, pourraient se p?enniser et offrir aux partenaires l?occasion de travailler ensemble dans la dur?. La Biblioth?ue de la M?iterran? a ?? initi? dans le cadre d'une d?arche collaborative entre les membres du R?eau th?atique des centres europ?ns de recherche en sciences humaines sur l'ensemble euro-m?iterran?n. Concr?ement, la mise en r?eau de biblioth?ues m?iterran?nnes est n? avec le programme REMSH et a pris forme dans les travaux de l?atelier WPI 6 lors de la premi?e p?iode afin de constituer un champ documentaire euro-m?iterran?n en sciences humaines et sociales.

Le projet se poursuit aujourd'hui, dans le cadre du R?eau d'excellence RAMSES? coordonn?par La MMSH (Abdelmajid Arrif, Hassan Moukhlisse & Samir Zardan) et par la Fondation Abdulaziz de Casablanca (Abderrahmane Rachik & Hammadi Safi). Les activit? du r?eau de biblioth?ues initi?s dans le cadre du (WPI 6) ont permis la mise en place l??aboration progressive d?une base de donn?s de r??ence sur le champ des ?udes m?iterran?nnes.

La premi?e rencontre de l?atelier pour la deuxi?e p?iode d?activit?du r?eau Ramses? s?est tenue ?la MMSH du 29 f?rier au 1^er mars 2008 coordonn? par Abdelmadjid Arrif avec la participation de nombreux partenaires du projet dont : La Fondation Abdelaziz de Casablanca, la biblioth?ue d?Alexandrie, la Freie Universit?de Berlin le Centre d?Archives de la Banque ottomane ainsi que la M?iath?ue et le service informatique de l?UMS-MMSH. En premier lieu, la rencontre vise ? r?nir le r?eau des biblioth?ues et asseoir l?int?ration des nouveaux partenaires. Cette phase de travail a vu aussi se confirmer l??argissement du r?eau des biblioth?ues avec l?arriv? de l?Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre, Istanbul

Par ailleurs, le travail par le biais d?un outil professionnel de biblioth?onomie, ?savoir Flora permettra de g?er de fa?n optimis? le multilinguisme : fran?is, anglais, arabe, turc, espagnol, allemand?). Il permettra ?alement de mieux connecter les bases des biblioth?ues partenaires et mieux g?er la requ?e fondamentale qui d?init le champ m?iterran?n dans ces bases. La question de l?articulation des projets : Dictionnaire de la M?iterran? et Cdrom ? La M?iterran? en 100 000 titres ?Bibmed a ??? l?ordre du jour et a b??ici?d?un d?at enrichissant. L?exp?ience de la biblioth?ue num?ique est donc ?alement l?expression d?un engagement autour d?outils communs pour l??hange de ressources dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales.

Les r?es de diffusion et de valorisation des connaissances et des outils d?int?ration de seront jou? en compl?entarit?avec d?autres outils d?int?ration et de diffusion ?apporter le savoir et l?expertise des diff?entes disciplines pr?entes dans le r?eau RAMSES? ?tous les types de publics dont l?activit?poss?e un lien avec la M?iterran? et les th?atiques du r?eau RAMSES?.

A titre d?exemple, Bibmed a particip?en octobre 2008 de fa?n active au programme de la F?e de la Science : Nouvelles archives, nouveaux acc?

 Pr? de 950 000 visites sur son site t?oigne de l?int?? qui est port?aux travaux de recherche r?lis? sur le monde m?iterran?n. C?est l?un des outils privil?i? de la diffusion de la recherche scientifique comporte de diff?ents niveaux de documentation et axes d?information.

Bibmed vient de s?enrichir des apports documentaires (notices bibliographiques en turc, anglais, fran?is et allemand) de l?Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre, Istanbul.