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This symposium is part of a wider collaboration with the Africa 2020 Season, a pan-African and multidisciplinary project taking place in France from December 2020 to mid-July 2021. Africa 2020 is an invitation, by N’Goné Fall, General Commissioner of the Season, to look at and understand the world from an African perspective. In this context, the AWARE association: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions whose goal is to improve the exposure of 20th century women artists, sought the expertise of scholars, artists and curators from Africa and around the world to raise the issue of the visibility of women artists in Africa.

Abomey-Calavi

Call for papers - Language

The epistemology of social dynamics and scientific transformations in Africa

Multilingualism and the conquest of the cultural imagination

Les travaux de ces journées visent à faire émerger et discuter des initiatives originales et innovantes dont les fondements sont ancrés dans les réalités endogènes (langues, cultures, sociétés, etc.). Ces initiatives étant la face des substrats scientifiques immergée et du dévoilement d’une Afrique porteuse de développement.

Call for papers - Africa

Literary and artistic manifestos in Francophone Africa: forms and stakes

"French Studies in Southern Africa" Journal

Le présent volume souhaite recueillir des articles dont la principale problématique est de réfléchir à l’évolution des formes et des enjeux liés à la production manifestaire et programmatique des auteurs locaux et diasporiques originaires d’Afrique francophone. Dans le contexte général de la crise des idéologies et du manifeste annoncée par Claude Abastado, nous voudrons mettre en lumière les transformations structurelles du genre ainsi que celles des groupes littéraires et artistiques qui l’utilisent et le (re)pensent.

Libreville

Call for papers - Science studies

Knowledge, experiences and protocols in voluntary pregnancy termination in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

L’objet de ce colloque vise essentiellement à connaître les savoirs, les itinéraires et les protocoles dont la finalité est l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG). Cela, pour prendre en compte leurs conséquences médicales, sociales, psychologiques, économiques, politiques, juridiques et culturelles, etc. Sachant que l’interruption volontaire de grossesse ou avortement donne lieu à de nombreuses controverses quant à l’adoption de textes législatifs et/ou d’arrêts de justice, il est demandé aux participants de réfléchir sur l’impact de cette pratique et des décisions publiques prises dans les cadres législatifs, politiques et culturelles, traditionnels et modernes afin d’organiser ou d’interdire l’IVG. Il s’agira donc de se prononcer sur l’identité de cette pratique au Gabon, au Cameroun et en Guinée-Equatoriale, aux fins d’en extraire les spécificités, les caractéristiques et les conséquences fondamentales dont les États pourraient se servir dans le cadre de leur organisation.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Africa

Cave art and world heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa

Le département des Affaires européennes et internationales et la direction générale des patrimoines du ministère de la Culture organisent le 31 mars 2020 à l’Institut national du patrimoine, à Paris, un séminaire international sur l’art rupestre et le patrimoine mondial en Afrique subsaharienne. L’objectif du séminaire sera d’exposer les défis, les enjeux de recherche, de conservation, de protection et de gestion durable des sites que peuvent susciter de tel type de bien. Cette journée sera l’occasion de partager les bonnes pratiques sur ces questions, à travers des cas concrets de biens d’Afrique subsaharienne déjà inscrits sur la liste du patrimoine mondial ou bien sur les listes indicatives.

Milan

Call for papers - Africa

The Becoming of Congo: Epistemologies, Practices, and Imaginaries

V International Congo Research Network Congress (15-16 September 2020)

The conference aims to bring together junior and senior scholars across the humanities and social sciences, sharing a common interest in the DRC. It specifically aims to provide space for transdisciplinary and comparative analyses and reflections, within and beyond Congolese Studies. This edition of the Congo Research network (CRN) focuses on the concept of “becoming”: the becoming of research on/around the Congo (new paths and new relations between "knowledges/epistemologies" and agents—academics, artists, writers, cultural operators, journalists and bloggers, activists and others); the becoming of Congolese culture (new places of creation and exhibition, new ways of sharing/transmitting knowledge and cultural practices); the becoming of land and questions of mobility, not only in the Congo, but also in Africa and the world (climate change and social justice).

Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Political studies

Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries

Africa 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe).

Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Political studies

Africa 2020: Artistic, digital, and political creation in english-speaking African countries

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.

Call for papers - Africa

Literary and artistic persepectives on ChinAfrica

APELA 2020 study day

La prochaine journée d'étude de l'Association pour l'étude des littératures africaines se tiendra le 25 septembre 2020 à l'université Paris-Nanterre et sera consacrée aux représentations artistiques et littéraires de la relation sino-africaine.

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