La séance s’articulera autour de deux temps : une présentation de Febe Armanios, (professeure d’histoire au Middlebury College) autour de ses travaux sur le télévangélisme chrétien au Proche-Orient; puis, une lecture croisée de trois articles portant sur le « tournant matériel » dans l’étude des religions animée par Annalaura Turiano (IREMAM).

Febe Armanios is Professor of History at Middlebury College. She specializes in the history of Christian communities in the Middle East, especially of Egypt’s Copts, in the study of comparative religious practices, as well as food history and media studies. Armanios is the author of Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford UP, 2011) and co-author with Boğaç Ergene of Halal Food: A History (Oxford UP, 2018). She’s now completing a book-length project on the history of Christian television (terrestrial and satellite) in the Middle East (ca. 1981-present) and has also begun research for another book project, which looks at the history of Christian food practices in Ottoman and post-Ottoman regions, including in Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Greece, and Turkey.