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• 05 mar 2019

  07 mar 2019

  06 mar 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  The Routes of Medieval Africa

  11th-17th centuries

  This symposium will take stock of the theoretical ambition of this programme, relative to the disciplinary tools available to us today, to disclose, to distinguish and above all to ponder the historical connections established. If the plants, epidemics, commercial goods or written materials are proof of often-forgotten connections, they inform us only indirectly on the intensity and consequences of these economic, political and cultural connections for the societies of Southern, Eastern or Western Africa. Starting from this observation, the historians, archaeologists, linguists, and philologists involved in this release will reflect on multidisciplinary models that go beyond the observation of a connection and switch towards a more integrative concept of “route,” understood, in the broader sense, as a connection in progress. I this respect, the third and final objective of this symposium will stimulate further reflection on the routes that crisscrossed medieval Africa, and the practices, mobilities, and representations that they created.

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• 31 mar 2019

  Sfax

  Call for papers - Africa

  From one Syrtis to Another: The two Syrtes between the Desert and the Sea Through History

  Places of Exchange, Co-operation and Conflicts

  The vast territory of the two Syrtes between the Sahara and the Mediterranean coast of NorthAfrica represents, through the different historical moments, a place of exchange and interaction with the rest of the Mediterranean and the continental world; a place of trade, knowledge transfer and mobility. It was also a border subject to conflicts between peoples andinternal and external powers.

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