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• 28 fév 2014

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - History

  Slavery in Africa: Past, legacies and Present

  International Conference, Nairobi, Kenya October 27, 28 & 29 2014

  In Africa, the effects of slavery and slave trade are still alive and there is no doubt in their historical importance and weight in the relationships between the various components of African societies in general, and in particular, the process of building nation-states. Legacies of Slavery are numerous, diverse, sometimes painful and extremely sensitive. Important efforts have been made in African research, primarily in the study of the Atlantic slave trade, but also to some degree, the Indian Ocean islands shaped by plantation labour. However, while the voices of memory are strong in countries such as Senegal and Benin, they are just emerging in East Africa today. The question of slavery in history, its legacies and presence in African societies are at the heart of this conference which is expected to contribute to its entry into the domain of recent public debates.

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• 27 fév 2014

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Africa

  Understanding self and others: new touristic, domestic, international practices and touristic promotion of the heritage in East Africa

  This symposium will gather researchers and professional actors of the tourism with different events (symposium, exposition, public conference, field day) around the theme of the new practices and forms of touristic and patrimonial promotion in East Africa. The touristic studies are fast growing in the main universities in East Africa with the emergence of new forms of tourism. Those countries are in their national construction and decentralization phase that vivify feeling of national belonging with territorial, regional or even ethnic resilience. Therefore the developing tourism of the natural and cultural heritage becomes a serious challenge for national and regional public policies.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the African Independences: Marginalized, Forgotten, and Revived Political Actors

  The fiftieth anniversary of the African Independence has been an occasion for the East African countries and their diasporas, the international academic community and the former colonial nations to assess the economic, social and political achievements and failures of the past fifty years. However, such inventories tend to focus on the upheavals of the social, economic and political structures, sometimes on the memory of the fathers of the nation and former grand nationalistic narratives, but usually overlook political actors, whether individual or collective, which were marginalized by the men in power during the early post-independent years.

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• 15 jan 2012

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Religion

  Religious mobility in East Africa and Latin America

  Depuis les années 1970, la mobilité religieuse – transit, braconnage, « bris-collage » religieux – est au cœur des débats sociologiques. Pourtant, elle apparaît le plus souvent comme un argument explicatif des phénomènes de syncrétismes et d’hybridations religieuses, de « privatisation », d’« individualisation » et de « subjectivation » du religieux. Les pratiques religieuses s’inscrivent dans l’ensemble des pratiques sociales et cet enchâssement socioreligieux agit sur le comportement mobile du pratiquant. À partir de contributions issues des différentes recherches en sciences humaines en Afrique de l’Est et en Amérique latine ce colloque se propose d’étudier les thèmes suivants : la mobilité religieuse et les affiliations multiples ; les facteurs qui déterminent les adhésions religieuses et la participation aux services religieux ; pentecôtisme, néotraditionnalisme et les nouveaux mouvements religieux ; les influences inter-religieuses ou œcuménique sur les pratiques des individus et des institutions.

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• 22 jui 2010

  Nairobi

  Study days - Africa

  Study day on "African heritagisations"

  IFRA-Nairobi research seminar

  Le séminaire est organisé en préambule à un colloque international qui est à l’initiative du Ministère français des affaires étrangères et européennes et de l'ambassade de France au Kenya : 'Patrimoine, mémoire et politique', du 23 au 25 juin à Mombasa. Ce colloque réunira des représentants de nombreuses institutions œuvrant à la patrimonialisation du continent : EPA, CHDA, UNESCO, Musées Nationaux du Kenya, Direction Nationale du Patrimoine Culturel de Bamako, Ministère de la Culture (France), Agence France Museum, Musée du Quai Branly, IRD, AFD, etc. En marge de cette rencontre, l’IFRA souhaite inviter des doctorants et post-doctorants travaillant sur les mises en patrimoine à travers le continent africain.

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