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• 27 avr 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Africa

  Working on/with archives and the written word in anthropology and literary studies

  Perspectives on the Swahili world

  This theme is intended to reflect the rapprochement of the research objects and theoretical perspectives of anthropology and literary studies. This rapprochement offers opportunities to discuss commonalities and differences in how archives and texts are explored and analysed. It also intends to interrogate the relations between the written word and orality and performance. As historians and philologists working on Arabic and Swahili manuscripts have demonstrated, due to early Islamization and the preservation of documents, the Swahili world is characterized by the pervasiveness of the written word. As a result it is a particularly relevant site in which to engage in such theoretical and epistemological reflections.

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• 30 mai 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Historic figures and collective memory/ies

  The use of heroes in colonial and postcolonial contexts

  Cette journée d’études doctorales s’intéresse à la représentation des figures historiques dans les Antilles, dans les Afriques et en Asie, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire à l’articulation de la littérature, de l’histoire et de l’anthropologie. L’objectif est de cerner les différents usages du passé dans la mise en récit, et de décrire comment la narration structure les discours mémoriels et participe de la construction identitaire et nationale.

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