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• 31 jan 2020

  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).

   

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• 01 fév 2020

  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”.

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• 05 sep 2016

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Information

  Connected objects - perspectives for intelligent development

  Technologies et développement conference

  Ce colloque s'inscrit dans la lignée des recherches de la Chaire Unesco Pratiques émergentes des technologies et communication pour le développement. Il se fixe pour objectif d'encourager les débats critiques et transdisciplinaires sur les implications épistémologiques des objets connectés en lien avec le processus de développement.

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• 30 sep 2013

  01 oct 2013

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Nutrition and Food Production in the Congo Basin

  Nutrition is a universal human right. Population growth and a higher demand for food, together with a changing nutrition pattern, will put the environment, at global level, under a growing pressure in the coming decennia. This pressure will be very strong on regions with a high biodiversity due to the ever growing demand on arable land and an increasing demand for animal protein, which will negatively influence the global ecosystem, the global climate and the biodiversity. The aim of the conference is to highlight a number of topics dealing with nutrition, the demand for food and food production – past and future.

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• 01 jui 2010

  Cergy

  Miscellaneous information - Africa

  South Africa 2010... beyond football

  Le SIRENE 22 de l'Institut de recherche et d'enseignement sur la négociation (ESSEC IRENE) colle au thème de la saison, puisqu'il portera sur l'Afrique du Sud. Deux décennies seulement après la fin de l'apartheid, deux intervenants s'exprimeront sur les accomplissements socio-économiques du pays, et ce qui lui reste à parcourir. Barney Jordaan, Professeur à l'université de Stellenbosch (Le Cap et Directeur de l'African Centre for Dispute Settlement donnera une présentation sur le thème « Doing Business in South Africa: the Socio-Economic, Political and Legal Environment ». Laetitia Bucaille, Maître de Conférences à l'université de Bordeaux 2 et chercheur associé au CERI, s'exprimera sur le thème suivant : « Reconciliation in South Africa, Twenty Years Later » . Présenté par Aurélien Colson, directeur d'IRENE et professeur à l'ESSEC, ce SIRENE aura lieu le 1er juillet 2010 de 15h à 18h dans les locaux de l'ESSEC à Cergy Pontoise (salle F122) et se déroulera en anglais. Venez nombreux !

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• 07 déc 2009

  08 déc 2009

  Nogent-sur-Marne

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  From debt to over-indebtedness in southern countries: Processes, practices and meanings

  International Workshop, Paris-IEDES, 7-8 december 09

  Organized by UMR 201, RUME India, Mexico, Madagascar, CIESAS (Mexico) (www.rume-rural-microfinance.org). The main purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop will be a theoretical and empirical examination of over-indebtedness from the perspective of southern countries, with the following underlying hypothesis: to define and analyze the process of indebtedness requires first an understanding of the complexity and diversity of debt relationships. The following questions might be addressed: 1) The social meaning of debt, creditworthiness and over-indebtedness. 2) Financial ‘markets’ and financial providers. 3) Financial culture. 4) Impoverishment and accumulation. 5) Over-indebtedness.

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• 19 nov 2008

  Pantin

  Miscellaneous information - Africa

  La réforme agraire en Afrique australe

  La conférence réunira deux spécialistes d'économie agricole autour de la problématique des réformes de l'accès à la terre et de la question agraire au Zimbabwe, en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud.

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