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items: Workshop Globafrica, Johannesburg / March 13th
items: Wish/Fish Seminar 20 February – Living by the Gun in Chad by M. Debos
items: Documentary film – Great Zimbabwe / Archaeological Investigations
items: Night of Ideas – 26th January 2017
items: CROSSROADS AFRICA networks and global exchange: 1250 – 1750 – Seminar at Villa I Tatti, Firenze
items: Opening of Lascaux IV Cave!
items: Call for papers – IESE Mozambique
items: FISH Seminar 28 November – What the objects tell us: interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century Luso-African feira of Dambarare in northern Zimbabwe by C. Schenck
items: Call for applications Le Studium / France
items: Defeating Apartheid: Cuba in Southern Africa / HSRC Seminar 21st November
items: FISH Seminar 22 November – The state, markets and access to medecines by C. Pelletan
items: Workshop Globafrica – IFRA Nairobi / 14-16 November 2016
items: Armed Struggle Conference / 23-25 November 2016
items: Aide à la mobilité doctorats et post-doctorats / PhD and post-doctorate mobility grants
items: La violence de la vie quotidienne à Libreville / The violence of daily life in Libreville

Workshop Globafrica, Johannesburg / March 13th
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2017-03-03T14:50:29Z
subject: Archéologie
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: Histoire
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Globafrica
description: Workshop: Globafrica: Reconnecting Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to Euorpean Imperialism. 13 March 2017 09:00-16.15 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein...
encoded: Workshop: Globafrica: Reconnecting Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to Euorpean Imperialism. 13 March 2017 09:00-16.15 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Conveners: Thomas Vernet-Habasque and Adrien Delmas 09:00 | Welcome 09:30 | Opening remarks (Adrien Delmas and Thomas Vernet-Habasque) PANEL 1 | Eastern and Southern African Connectedness Chair: Thomas Vernet-Habasque (IFAS-Recherche) Discussant: Paul J. Lane (Uppsala University) 09:45-11:20 Stephanie Wynne-Jones (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study/University of York) How urban transformations affect social life, and vice versa Abigail Moffett (University of Cape Town) Global commodities and local interactions: production, exchange and consumption patterns in the Southern African interior Alexander Antonites and Ceri Ashley (University of Pretoria) Communities and connections in the Middle Limpopo Valley during the 13th century 11:20-11:35 | Coffee break 11:35-12:40 Adrien Delmas (IMAF/ANR Globafrica) Precolonial routes from the plateau to the coast Catherine Schenk (University of Cape Town) Interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century feira of Dambarare, northern Zimbabwe 12:40-14:00 | Lunch PANEL 2 | Historical Ecology in Perspective Chair: Karim Sadr (University of Witwatersrand) Discussant: Innocent Pikirayi (University of Pretoria) 14:00-15:00 Paul J. Lane (Uppsala University) ‘And all our yesterdays …’: Archaeological times for the future Per Ditlef Fredriksen (University of Oslo) Historical ecology and state formation in the Shashi-Limpopo region: project status and future prospects 15:00-15:15 | Break 15:15-15:45 Shadreck Chirikure (University of Cape Town) Dangers of a one-sided story: rethinking climate change and pre-colonial Southern African states 15:45-16:15 | Closing remarks and perspectives

Wish/Fish Seminar 20 February – Living by the Gun in Chad by M. Debos
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2017-02-16T13:59:36Z
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: FISH Seminar
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Science Politique
subject: Chad
subject: M. Debos
subject: Political science
description: Monday 20 February 2017, 15:00 Wiser Seminar Room, 6th Floor • Richard Ward Building • East Campus, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Living by the Gun...
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Documentary film – Great Zimbabwe / Archaeological Investigations
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2017-02-13T14:10:15Z
subject: Archéologie
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Publications
subject: Vidéos
subject: Archaeology
subject: Arte
subject: Zimbabwe
description: Available from February 10, 2017 at 12:00 am to April 11, 2017 at 11:59 pm The early explorers of the late nineteenth century attributed the...
encoded: Available from February 10, 2017 at 12:00 am to April 11, 2017 at 11:59 pm The early explorers of the late nineteenth century attributed the monumental ruins of Great Zimbabwe to the Phoenicians. It seemed impossible to the white colonists that Africans could be responsible for such impressive architecture. But archaeologists – even at the risk of exile – have been setting the record straight. All info available here: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/061733-019-A/archaeological-investigations-zimbabwe

Night of Ideas – 26th January 2017
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2017-01-20T10:53:55Z
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Culture
subject: Night of Ideas
subject: Science
description: Over time, numerous events have given the public the opportunity to meet researchers, artists and creators so as to discover their work and share their...
encoded: Over time, numerous events have given the public the opportunity to meet researchers, artists and creators so as to discover their work and share their thoughts and ideas. On January 26th 2017, the Institut Français takes this debating culture one step further by linking all these Nuit des Idées (Night of Ideas) on the same day, or rather the same night, organised by Embassies all around the world. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is coordinating these events worldwide and will also open the doors of its famous Quai d’Orsay to debaters from all domains for a night long session of discussions on the same date. The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) invites you to a debate on Art for Art’s Sake and Science for Science’s Sake. Must they always serve a purpose?” This event will take place at the Market Theatre Photo Workshop with four speakers: Ismail Mahomed, CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation, Lawrence Lemaoana, artist and lecturer at UNISA, Sarah Wild, science journalist, and Cynthia Kros, historian and heritage specialist, under the guidance of Michelle Constant as moderator. There have always been questions regarding the place of art and science in society, and their so-called “utility” in the social, political and economic spheres. What space can be given for research before the imperative to produce something economically worthwhile? What is the function of art? Should art produce something? Can science be unbiased? The long-debated concept of art for art’s sake is also applicable to science, whether fundamental or applied research. Théophile Gautier, French artist of the nineteenth century and theoretician of the concept of art for art’s sake, applied two conditions to it: the artist refusing to engage society and beauty as the sole end of art. If we transpose this to science, can researchers be truly distanced from society and can research be considered only for the ‘beauty of the gesture’, that is to say the sole progress of knowledge? In the Sout…

CROSSROADS AFRICA networks and global exchange: 1250 – 1750 – Seminar at Villa I Tatti, Firenze
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2017-01-12T15:09:15Z
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: Histoire
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Globafrica
description: THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY 09.45 Alina Payne: Director’s Welcome and Introductions 10.00 Suzanne Blier, Alina Payne & Gerhard Wolf: Introduction to the seminar, followed by discussion...
encoded: THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY 09.45 Alina Payne: Director’s Welcome and Introductions 10.00 Suzanne Blier, Alina Payne & Gerhard Wolf: Introduction to the seminar, followed by discussion 10.45 coffee I. EARLY HISTORY OF CIRCULATION WITHIN THE CONTINENT 11.00 Gérard Chouin (College of William and Mary)“The Path is Made by Walking”: Preliminary Thoughts on Medieval and Early Modern Traces of Circulations and Trade Networks in West Africa 12.00 Adrien Delmas (European University Institute)“From the Plateau to the Coast: New Perspectives on Zimbabwe Medieval History?” 13.00 buffet lunch II. BUILDING BLOCKS OF CROSSCULTURAL CONTACT: BOOKS, BUILDINGS, AND CRAFTS 14.30 Marie-Laure Derat (Institut des Mondes Africains) Circulations of Books and Texts between Africa, Near East, and Europe: Towards a History of the African Libraries 15.30 Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) “Atlantic Morocco: Reshaping the Coastline during the Portuguese Occupation” 16.30 tea 17.00 Susan McIntosh (Rice University) “Cosmopolitan Crafts: Early Interaction and Innovation in West African Glass and Copper-based Materials” FRIDAY, 13 JANUARY III. ITALY-AFRICA: ART AND TRADE 09.30 Hannah Baader (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) “Material Histories, African Art. Florence and Beyond” 10.30 coffee 10.45 Carlo Taviani (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome) “Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and America (15th-16th centuries)” 11.45 Ingrid Greenfield (Villa I Tatti) “Collecting Africa: Exchange and Display During the Early Slave Trade” 12.45 buffet lunch IV. NEW SPHERES OF EXCHANGE – NEW ART HISTORIES 14.00 Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago) “Envisioning Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Early Modern Kongo and Angola” 15.00 Prita Meier (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) “A Sea of Things: Toward an Art History of the Indian Ocean World” 16.00 tea V. GOING FORWARD 16.30 Roundtable Discussion and closing remarks More informations avalaible here: crossroads-africa-prog

Opening of Lascaux IV Cave!
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-12-23T08:17:06Z
subject: Archéologie
subject: Billets
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Archaeology
subject: L. Bruxelles
subject: Sciences & Avenir
description: About the opening of #Lascaux IV cave, with an analysis of Laurent Bruxelles, our CNRS Researcher in Sciences & Avenir journal!
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Call for papers – IESE Mozambique
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-12-12T15:11:43Z
subject: Billets
subject: Calls for applications
subject: Call for papers
subject: Mozambique
subject: SHS
description: 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES (IESE) Maputo, 19-21 September 2017 Challenges of social and economic research in times of...
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2273" src="http://ifas.hypotheses.org/files/2016/12/logo-iese.png" alt="logo-iese" width="175" height="174" srcset="https://ifas.hypotheses.org/files/2016/12/logo-iese.png 175w, https://ifas.hypotheses.org/files/2016/12/logo-iese-150x150.png 150w, https://ifas.hypotheses.org/files/2016/12/logo-iese-160x160.png 160w, https://ifas.hypotheses.org/files/2016/12/logo-iese-320x320.png 320w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" /> 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES (IESE) Maputo, 19-21 September 2017 Challenges of social and economic research in times of crisis On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, IESE is announcing that its 5th international academic conference, on the theme “Challenges of social and economic research in times of crisis” will be held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 19 to 21 September 2017. The inaugural conference of IESE, held on 19 September 2007, discussed the challenges of social and economic research in Mozambique, from the point of view of the theoretical, paradigmatic and methodological challenges to study, understand and respond to the dynamics and trends of political, economic and social transformation, and of the challenges of the insertion of research and its role in a political context forecast to become increasingly hostile and repressive. Ten years later, the world is witnessing a multi-dimensional and international crisis. Although the crisis is global, it has regional and national expressions and specificities. What does our research teach us? Where we are, what questions disturb us, what are we unable to understand and explain, or to change, and what do we not know? What contributions have we made, both to the social sciences and to knowledge, and to political, economic and social debates and to social struggles? What challenges are facing us, with regard both to the development of the social sciences and to their po…

FISH Seminar 28 November – What the objects tell us: interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century Luso-African feira of Dambarare in northern Zimbabwe by C. Schenck
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-20T12:58:08Z
subject: Archéologie
subject: FISH Seminar
subject: Histoire
subject: News / Actualités
subject: C. Schenck
subject: Zimbabwe
description: Monday 28 November 2016, 10:00 IFAS-Research Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, 1st floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg ________________________________________ What the objects tell us: interaction, integration, and innovation...
encoded: Monday 28 November 2016, 10:00 IFAS-Research Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, 1st floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg ________________________________________ What the objects tell us: interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century Luso-African feira of Dambarare in northern Zimbabwe Catherine Schenck (UCT) Discussant: Alexander Antonites (University of Pretoria) The Indian Ocean Trade Network, connecting large parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, was joined by the Portuguese towards the end of the 15th century. They settled on the eastern coastline of the African continent and soon attempted to move inland in order to get closer to the sources of gold and ivory which largely came from the Zimbabwe plateau. South of the Zambezi River they established trading towns with the people of the Mutapa Kingdom. Dambarare was one such 17th century trading town (or feira in Portuguese), located 40km north-east outside of present-day Harare. Although occupation lasted less than a century at Dambarare, it is visible through the material culture that a unique community emerged at this place where people of different world(view)s met. The question asked, therefore, is what can we find out about the nature of interaction at Dambarare through looking at the integration and innovation of material culture? Catherine Schenck is a Master’s student in Archaeology at the University of Cape Town, supervised by Prof. Shadreck Chirikure. She is interested in situations of culture contact and change, and how objects can inform an understanding of interpersonal interactions. More specifically for her Master’s thesis she concentrates on hinterland dynamics in south-central Africa, related to the larger Indian Ocean Trade Network during the Early Modern Era. Pr. Alexander Antonites works on the archaeology of Farming Communities in southern Africa. His earlier research concentrated on the social context of production. More specifically, he focused on discerning patterns of hou…

Call for applications Le Studium / France
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-17T09:45:50Z
subject: Calls for applications
subject: France
description: LE STUDIUM Institute for Advanced Studies is pleased to inform you that the call for applications of the Smart Loire Valley Programme* – Campaign 2017...
encoded: LE STUDIUM Institute for Advanced Studies is pleased to inform you that the call for applications of the Smart Loire Valley Programme* – Campaign 2017 – is now open. Deadline for submission of applications is set on 9th February 2017 at 5:00pm (CET Paris time). This call is open to all research disciplines and offers post-doctoral fellowships for international experienced researchers in region Centre-Val de Loire laboratories including: A 12-month fellowship in a high level laboratory Integration in an international scientific community Funding and organisation of international scientific events Enabling environment (housing, administrative support, etc…) http://www.lestudium-ias.com/content/studium-research-fellowship Please find on this link: The guidelines presenting objectives, eligibility and selection criteria as well as the selection process through independent evaluations and Scientific Council; The Indicative application format enabling to write a draft and to further copy/paste it online. The online application platform – apply Eligibility: The fellowships programme targets researchers with a least 5 years of post-doctoral experience. Candidates have to identify a research team in the region Centre-Val de Loire accepting to host the one-year residency. If necessary, LE STUDIUM can help establishing a link with a laboratory in the desired scientific field in the region.

Defeating Apartheid: Cuba in Southern Africa / HSRC Seminar 21st November
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-16T13:19:02Z
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: Histoire
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Science Politique
subject: Apartheid
subject: Cuba
subject: HSRC
subject: P. Gleijeses
description: Invitation HSRC Seminar Series, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities in Africa, UCT, the Wits History Workshop, IFAS and NIHSS Defeating Apartheid: Cuba in...
encoded: Invitation HSRC Seminar Series, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities in Africa, UCT, the Wits History Workshop, IFAS and NIHSS Defeating Apartheid: Cuba in Southern Africa Presenters: Presenter: Prof. Piero Gleijeses, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa 1976-1991 Chair: Associate Professor Shamil Jeppie, UCT Moderator: Prof. John Stanfield, DGSD, HSRC Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below) Date: 21 November 2016 Time: 15:45 for 16:00 – 17:00 Piero Gleijeses is a professor of US foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (Chapel Hill, 2013), awarded the 2014 Friedrich Katz Prize of the American Historical Association; Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill, 2002), awarded the 2003 Robert Ferrell Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (Princeton, 1991); The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention (Baltimore, 1978; rev. ed.: La Esperanza Desgarrada. La rebelión dominicana de 1965 y la invasión norteamericana, Havana, 2011). The HSRC seminar series is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The views and opinions expressed therein as well as findings and statements of the seminar series do not necessarily represent the views of the DST. Kindly RSVP by 20 November 2016 Cape Town : Video Conference Room, HSRC, 6th floor, Merchant House 116-118 Buitengracht Street Cape Town, Cape Town. Contact: Jean Witten, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or JWitten@hsrc.ac.za, or Carmen August, Tel (021) 4668099, e-mail: caugust@hsrc.ac.za …

FISH Seminar 22 November – The state, markets and access to medecines by C. Pelletan
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-16T08:24:56Z
subject: Anthropologie
subject: FISH Seminar
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Science Politique
subject: Sociologie
subject: B. Champenois
subject: C. Pelletan
subject: Health system
subject: Medecines
description: Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:00 IFAS-Research Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, 1st floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg The state, markets and access to medicines Charlotte Pelletan (LAM)...
encoded: Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:00 IFAS-Research Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, 1st floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg The state, markets and access to medicines Charlotte Pelletan (LAM) Discussant : Bénédicte Champenois Rousseau (INSERM) One of the modalities of access to medicines and drug regulation in South Africa consists in the paradoxical delegation of regulatory functions to non-state actors (namely, but not only, industry). Drug policies in capitalist neoliberal globalized states are characterized by their insertion into a global trade system promoting a growing commodification of medicines. At the same time, social claims for reforming the status of medicines rise significantly. State formation in South Africa has been characterized by continuous negotiations and compromise with business, which at first sight questions the possibilities for access policies. Opening the black box of the South African state amounts to demonstrate state’s ability to roll out a political project which aims at incorporating the notion of public goods into pharmaceutical industry in a neoliberal context. This presentation attempts to shed a light on access mechanisms through the analytical deconstruction of markets as a set of intertwined social relations. Charlotte Pelletan is a Ph.D student in Political Science at the Institute of Political Science of Bordeaux. Her Ph.D. research aims at re-thinking access to medicines through the reconnection of health systems, architecture of pharmaceutical industry and innovation dynamics. She has co-written with Palesa Sekhejane (HSRC) a book chapter entitled “HIV and AIDS Triumphs and Struggles: Developmental Gap for Biomedical Sciences and Healthcare Systems Innovation in South Africa“, which will be part of the forthcoming book edited by Busani Ngcaweni “Sizonqoba: Outliving AIDS in Southern Africa” (AISA). Bénédicte Champenois Rousseau is a independent researcher/ lecturer. She has worked for public research agencies and NGOs on Public H…

Workshop Globafrica – IFRA Nairobi / 14-16 November 2016
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-11T12:54:26Z
subject: Anthropologie
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: News / Actualités
subject: ANR
subject: Globafrica
subject: Nairobi
description: 14-16 November 2016 – IFRA Nairobi Workshop, ANR GlobAfrica Early diffusion of American and Asian plants in Central Africa The objectives of this workshop are in...
encoded: 14-16 November 2016 – IFRA Nairobi Workshop, ANR GlobAfrica Early diffusion of American and Asian plants in Central Africa The objectives of this workshop are in link with the ANR program, and especially state of knowledge and background on the historical complexity (social policy) of Great Lakes Region (GLR with the perspective to cross and link historical/archaeological data (LAM-JOOUST teams) and agro-botanic data (CIRAD team). We also approach the statement of research at mid-term, the new program 2016-2018, and the seminar opens to the other two axis. 14 November 2016 Panoramic approaches, between evidence and models, a state of knowledge, background, problematics and hypothesis Morning: reception of the participants Afternoon: Session chairs Andrew Reid / University College London & Mildred Ndeda / Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology Christian Thibon / Les Afriques dans le Monde – Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour Population growth and densities, positive management socio-political landscapes and crop diversification in the Region of the Great Lakes, peripheral and central histories. Emile Mworoha / University of Botswana Monarchies, Plants and agrarian rituals in Great Lakes Africa (15-19th centuries Elizabeth Vignati / Les Afriques dans le Monde-Sciences Po Bordeaux Iron with or without Banana. A general overview of iron working in the Great Lake Region and its implications. 15 November 2016 About Nyanza province Morning: Session chairs Paul Lane / Uppsala University & Andrew Reid / University College London Dr. Isaya O. Onjala / JOOUST, Institute of Cultural Heritage and Material Sciences Southwestern Kenya and Northern Tanzania during the Second Millennium AD: Archaeology, Environment and Social-Cultural Change. Dr. Fredrick Z.A. Odede / JOOUST, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Later Iron Age Sites and their potential in understanding the origins, spread and influence of Exotic Crops in the Nyanza Region of Kenya. Gil…

Armed Struggle Conference / 23-25 November 2016
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-09T12:57:44Z
subject: Conférences / Séminaires
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Armed struggle
subject: History
subject: Wits
description: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 23-25 November 2016, University of the Witwatersrand (Venue: John Moffat Building and Extension Building, East campus) PROGRAMME...
encoded: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 23-25 November 2016, University of the Witwatersrand (Venue: John Moffat Building and Extension Building, East campus) PROGRAMME Wednesday 23rd November Event: Registration Time: 15:00 – 17:30 Venue: Foyer – John Moffat Building OPENING PUBLIC DIALOGUE: ‘The Armed Struggle: Was it Worth It?’ Time: 18:00 – 19:30 Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium, John Moffat Building Speakers: Dumiso Dabengwa, Terry Bell, Ayanda Dlodlo Thursday 24th November Time: 08:30 – 9:00 Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium, John Moffat Building Welcome and opening remarks Time: 9:00 – 9:45 Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium First keynote address Jocelyn Alexander: ‘Storied Wars: Personal Narratives and Liberation Struggle Histories’ Time: 9:45 – 10:30 Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium Second keynote address: ‘The Hero & the New Intellectual: Writing and the Armed Struggle’ Mandla Langa Time: 10:30 -10:45 Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium Comments & questions Time: 10:45 – 11:15 Venue: Foyer – John Moffat Building Tea & Coffee Time: 11:15 – 12:25 PARALLEL PANELS 1-2-3-4 Panel 1: Strategic and tactical turning points in South Africa’s liberation struggle (part 1) Venue: John Moffat Building Room A2 1. Z.Pallo Jordan and Mac Maharaj: ‘South Africa and the Turn to Armed Resistance’ 2. Simon Stevens: ‘The “turn to armed struggle” and the “turn to sanctions”, 1960-1969’ 3. Dale McKinley: ‘Umkhonto We Sizwe: A critical analysis of the armed struggle of the African National Congress’ Chair: Tshepo Moloi Panel 2: Film Screening: Dieci Giorni con i guerriglieri del Mozambico Libero (Ten Days with the Guerrillas in Mozambique’s Liberated Areas) (Dir: Franco Cigarini, 1972), Introduced by Chiara Torcianti Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium, John Moffat Building Panel 3: Patriotic History and the Politics of Memory in Namibia and Zimbabwe Venue: John Moffat Extension Building Room 001 1. Joseph Mujere, Joost Fontein and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya: ‘”Those who are n…

Aide à la mobilité doctorats et post-doctorats / PhD and post-doctorate mobility grants
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-08T16:25:04Z
subject: Billets
subject: Calls for applications
subject: News / Actualités
subject: Mobility grant
subject: PhD
subject: Post-doctorate
description: Un ou deux postes pour des recherches doctorales ou post-doctorales sont à pourvoir à l’Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud (IFAS-Recherche). L’IFAS-Recherche est un Institut français...
encoded: Un ou deux postes pour des recherches doctorales ou post-doctorales sont à pourvoir à l’Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud (IFAS-Recherche). L’IFAS-Recherche est un Institut français de recherche à l’étranger sous tutelle du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du CNRS (UMIFRE 25, USR 3336), dont le mandat couvre onze pays d’Afrique australe : Afrique du Sud, Mozambique, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola, République démocratique du Congo, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana et Namibie. Les postes sont financés sous forme d’aides à la mobilité pour une durée de 6 à 9 mois (maximum), non renouvelable sauf exceptionnellement. Les candidats retenus recevront l’appui scientifique et logistique de l’IFAS et participeront à l’animation scientifique de l’Institut en prenant part régulièrement à ses activités (conférences, séminaires, colloques, publications, etc.). Le montant de l’aide à la mobilité s’élève à 1200 euros net par mois ainsi que le remboursement d’un billet d’avion Paris/Johannesburg/Paris en classe économique. Les candidats doivent être français ou inscrits dans une université française. La sélection des candidatures se fera sur les seuls critères scientifiques mais le potentiel d’intégration du projet dans le paysage académique de l’Afrique australe sera pris en considération. De même, priorité sera donnée aux candidatures s’articulant avec les axes de recherche de l’Institut : 1. Archéologie et préhistoire Paléoanthropologie, évolution des hominidés, Archéologie et études pluridisciplinaires des Middle et Late Stone Age, archéologie historique, Art rupestre. 2. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine des sociétés de l’Afrique australe Connexions à longue distance, intégration de l’Afrique australe dans les circulations atlantiques et indo-océaniques, circulations matérielles et culturelles depuis le Ier millénaire, Histoire sociale et histoire impériale, hiérarchies sociales et raciales, esclavage, Enjeux contemporains de la mémoire en Afrique australe, régime…

La violence de la vie quotidienne à Libreville / The violence of daily life in Libreville
type: item
creator: Ariane Bluteau
date: 2016-11-08T12:54:23Z
subject: Anthropologie
subject: Billets
subject: Ouvrages et périodiques
subject: Publications
subject: A. Aterianus-Owanga
subject: Gabon
description: À partir d’approches disciplinaires variées, les études de cas réunies dans cet ouvrage offrent une plongée dans le microcosme librevillois, en s’attachant à examiner les...
encoded: À partir d’approches disciplinaires variées, les études de cas réunies dans cet ouvrage offrent une plongée dans le microcosme librevillois, en s’attachant à examiner les formes de violence qui se manifestent dans le quotidien de ses habitants. Car s’il est un domaine que l’observation de Libreville ne peut manquer de mettre en évidence, une dimension incontournable des échanges qui se déroulent en son sein, c’est bien sa violence. De la coercition des forces de l’ordre, aux brutalités observées au sein des cellules familiales, en passant par les interactions chargées de mépris qui ont cours dans les administrations publiques, les transports, ou les commerces, les articles réunis ici examinent cette violence ordinaire et latente de la vie quotidienne à Libreville. En abordant des domaines aussi variés que ceux de la santé, du religieux, des rapports de genre, des loisirs ou du politique, les contributions réunies démontrent comment violence des rapports sociaux, violence des institutions et violence de l’invisible s’entrecroisent et s’interpénètrent dans le quotidien librevillois. Les auteurs soulèvent finalement la question complexe des échappatoires à la violence, cette violence que les Librevillois s’administrent contre eux-mêmes, et dont ils sont complices. Alice Aterianus-Owanga est anthropologue, réalisatrice de documentaires et actuellement chercheure postdoctorante de l’IFAS à Johannesburg. Maixant Mebiame Zobo est maître-assistant à l’Université Omar Bongo où il enseigne la sociologie et l’anthropologie des religions et chercheur au Laboratoire d’anthropologie (LABAN). Joseph Tonda est professeur à l’Université Omar Bongo (Gabon). Son dernier ouvrage s’intitule L’impérialisme postcolonial, Critique de la société des éblouissements (Karthala, 2015). Plus d’informations ici