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• 18 déc 2013

  19 déc 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  The sensitive archive

  Personal memoires and the historiography of dictatorship and colonialism in Imperial space of contemporary Iberian worlds

  À partir d'une perspective pluridisciplinaire, ce colloque se propose d’apporter de nouveaux éléments à une réflexion sur la relation entre mémoire et histoire liée aux expériences de domination – colonialisme et dictatures – dans le contexte des espaces (ex)impériaux des mondes ibériques contemporains. Cette manifestation scientifique cherchera à revoir cette relation de domination et de dépendance sous le prisme de ce que nous appellerons l’archive sensible. Ce qui sera ici en question, c’est un travail qui concerne les mémoires intimes, familiales, domestiques, individuelles ou collectives, qui se confronte, en ce sens, avec des vérités émotionnelles comme source de savoir. De cette option découle un deuxième volet d’analyse : penser l’apport et le rapport de ces sources à l’historiographie tout en proposant une refléxion sur le concept même d’archive qui l'ouvre à de nouvelles utilisations. 

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• 29 nov 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Promised memory

  Mémoire promise, tourné en 2012, entre les villes de Ouidah, ancien comptoir et port négrier, et Abomey, ancienne capitale du royaume esclavagiste du Danhomé, se veut la chronique de la quête de deux mémoires qui se cherchent, se croisent, font corps et se séparent sans cesse : celle de la traite transatlantique et celle des cultes dits vodun.

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• 05 nov 2013	06 nov 2013	07 nov 2013
  09 nov 2013	10 nov 2013	...

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Thirty second international Jean Rouch festival

  En plus de trente ans d’existence, le Festival international Jean Rouch est devenu un lieu unique de rencontres entre le monde du cinéma et celui des sciences sociales, ce qui en fait un événement culturel incontournable. Cinéastes, scientifiques et publics de tous les horizons se rassembleront pour partager et débattre autour de documentaires exceptionnelles, où la diversité reste une fois encore le mot d'ordre de l’événement. Ce rassenblement est organisée par le Comité du film ethnographique avec le CNRS Images et le Muséum national d’histoire naturelle.

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• 12 jui 2013

  Paris

  Study days - Africa

  Bodies and heritage in the African choreographical space

  "Bodies, dance and heritage" group workshop, FMSH "African heritage" program

  Réunissant des recherches menées sur les espaces et les pratiques chorégraphiques en Afrique (Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinée, Kenya, Tanzanie), le groupe de travail « Corps et patrimoine » est à l’initiative d’une journée d’étude sur la danse contemporaine et ses rapports avec les politiques culturelles en Afrique. À partir de la présentation de recherches et d’expérimentations artistiques en cours, l’atelier propose de mettre en débat l’articulation patrimoine et création. Il s’agira d’envisager les formes de patrimonialisation chorégraphique des États africains et les processus créatifs à partir desquels les danseurs s’approprient et gèrent au quotidien des régimes de savoir hétérogènes ainsi qu’aux manières dont ils composent avec des héritages passés. Dans le sillage des heritages studies, ce groupe vise également à mettre à jour la manière dont les sociétés et les acteurs pensent leurs héritages dans des formes alternatives aux labellisations internationales (UNESCO, IUCN etc.). 

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• 25 jui 2013

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Representing South African cities

  This conference proposes to present the latest developments in the research on South African cities, but also to offer an opportunity for academics from various fields (literature, social sciences, architecture, geography, visual arts, etc.) to compare their respective analysis and their theoretical conclusions with the imaginative, artistic representations of the cities of South Africa. The convenors therefore not only invite researchers from all fields to come and present their latest work on South African cities, but also strongly encourage papers which offer a cross-disciplinary approach, or joint presentations between researchers from various fields or academics and artists (writers, directors, photographs). Some major actors of the literary and art scene will be present to expose their views and discuss their works with researchers as well as with a wider, more general audience.This conference is part of the Official Season of South Africa in France.

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• 17 jan 2013	18 jan 2013	19 jan 2013
  20 jan 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Black Portraiture(s)

  The Black Body in the West

  The city of Paris, as an international cultural hub and a Western metropolis wielding considerable influence over the notions of art and modernity, was deemed the perfect setting for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in a series of conferences that have been hosted by Harvard University and NYU since 2004. Black Portraiture[s] aims to explore the various means of manufacturing and promoting self-representation, as well as the notion of exchange, from the 19th century to the present day in fashion, film, art, and archives.   How are these - positive and negative - images displayed, and how do they define, replicate, and transform representations of the Black body? How and why did the black body become a tradable commodity in the global marketplace and what gives it its legitimacy? And just as importantly, what are the responses given and their implications? Can the representation of the Black body be truly liberating both for those who are identified with its image and for its beholders? Could a deracialisation of the black body take place, thus promoting cultural reunification and fostering reappropriation as well as various forms of expression beyond the limits of race? The Black body, as imagined by the West, has always been fertile ground for observation and debate. Yet the representation and depiction of Black people has often been predicated upon prevailing attitudes on race and sexuality. The conference draws on the ideas and works of both leading and emerging writers, photographers, scholars, artists, curators and filmmakers of our time, and will address the broader issue of Africa in the popular imagination. It is also significant that this project has benefitted from the widest possible collaboration.  

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• 30 jan 2013

  Washington

  Call for papers - Representation

  American Art in Dialogue with Africa and the African Diaspora

  Since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, Africa has played an important — albeit shifting, contested, and often unseen — role in the history of art of the United States. Conference organizers seek original, innovative scholarship investigating heretofore unexamined aspects of this transatlantic dialogue, from the visual culture of slavery and abolitionism to American modernism; from the Black Arts Movement to the contemporary art world.

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