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• 15 nov 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Africa

  Cosmopolitan Africas

  4th African Studies conference in France

  Les REAF 2016 s’inscrivent dans le prolongement des précédentes rencontres (2014 et 2015), soutenues par le GIS Afrique, qui s’intéressaient à la façon dont les sociétés africaines réorganisent en permanence leur relation au monde. Ces rencontres font le choix de poursuivre la réflexion sur des manières de voir et de faire (sur le continent et ailleurs) dans un espace globalisé marqué par des processus de normalisation, d’interdépendance et d’accélération. Ces derniers se sont développés souvent avec violence dans des sociétés et des territoires inégalement fragiles et vulnérables, en fonction d’ancrages locaux et identitaires multiples. 

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• 09 nov 2015

  Saint-Denis

  Conference, symposium - Law

  French nationality in the Indian Ocean

  Les organisateurs du colloque se donnent pour mission d’offrir un espace de réflexion aux juristes universitaires et aux praticiens français et étrangers pour réfléchir aux questions théoriques et pratiques que soulève le droit de la nationalité dans l’océan Indien.

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• 26 mar 2015

  27 mar 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Experts and expertise in the mandates and of the society of nations

  Figures, fields and tools

  Our vantage point is to consider the growing in importance of expertise during the twentieth century within the management of the colonial world and hence to study the emergence of the international sphere as a level of decision making. The purpose of this conference is to investigate the influence of early international agendas, advanced across the colonial world by experts operating in the orbit of international organizations. The investigation should also focus on the procedures and framework of international recognition of expertise at the intersection of the colonial and the international spheres. A first line of enquiry tackles the relations between the epistemologies that underpinned scientific knowledge in the colony and the metropolis. Another one looks into the sites of production of Mandatory expertise. Finally, we want to investigate the explicitly evolutionary conceptual framework for the mandates and its influence on the work of experts. We invite contributions dealing with the figure of the expert, whether official or not, and the various fields and tools of Mandatory expertise. Part and parcel of our reflexion is also a study of the limits and scope of expertise.

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• 28 fév 2015

  Neuendettelsau

  Call for papers - History

  Collapse and Resilience of German Missions 1914-1939

  World War I had a devastating impact upon German Missions (Roman Catholic and Protestant). A general description of German mission fields A.D. 1914 will be the starting point of the Conference. Case studies are welcome on particular territories such as Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, South-West Africa, South East Asia, Pacific area, China, India, Middle East. Attention will be paid to the predicament of local "orphaned" Christian churches and communities, and to the relationships between the local leadership with the new foreign missions authorized by the Allies instead of German personnel.

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