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• 18 mai 2015

  Gembloux

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Information Literacy Training in the age of web 2.0 and discovery tools

  Web 2.0, information dans le cloud, discovery tools, learning centers, bibliothèque sans livres, library as a service ... Le monde de l’information se transforme en profondeur au rythme des avancées technologiques mais aussi des évolutions dans la façon de produire, diffuser, collecter, traiter l’information. La formation aux compétences informationnelles s’adapte-t-elle au(x) même(s) rythme(s) ? De longue date, la formation à la maîtrise informationnelle (recherche, sélection, critique...) (pré-)occupe enseignants et bibliothécaires. En Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgique francophone), une enquête sur les compétences documentaires des étudiants commençant des études supérieures a été menée en 2007. Outre un état de la question et une mise en perspective, le colloque du 18 mai 2015 a pour ambition de produire des recommandations et des pistes concrètes.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Africa

  African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

  Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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