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• 29 sep 2017

  Call for papers - History

  Archives, the Digital Turn and Governance in Africa

  “History in Africa” Journal

  This featured section of History in Africa will address the wave of digitisation of archives in Africa over the last fifteen years. With the rise of information technologies, an increasing part of public – and to some extent private - African archives are being digitised and made accessible on the internet. This wave of digitisation is usually seen as a progress with the help of ambitious initiatives applying new technologies to cultural heritage of humanity such as the rescue of the manuscripts of Timbuktu or the Endangered Archives programme at the British Library. Yet as much as these new technologies raise enthusiasm, they also prompt discussions amongst researchers and archivists, which go from intellectual property to sovereignty and governance.

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• 06 fév 2015

  Vincennes

  Study days - History

  Military health and colonial health

  Wars, illnesses and empires throughout the 19th century

  Organisée par le Centre d’histoire de sciences po et le Service historique de la Défense, la journée d’études examinera – à partir d’études de cas concernant des colonies françaises, allemandes et néerlandaises en Afrique, en Asie sud-orientale et aux Antilles – les liens entre expansion militaire, la gestion des colonies, les services sanitaires des forces armées, ainsi que la production et circulation de savoirs médicaux.

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• 15 sep 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Experts and Expertise in the League of Nations Mandates

  Figures, Fields and Tools

  Our vantage point is to consider the growing in importance of expertise during the twentieth century within the management of the colonial world and hence to study the emergence of the international sphere as a level of decision making. The purpose of this conference is to investigate the influence of early international agendas, advanced across the colonial world by experts operating in the orbit of international organizations. The investigation should also focus on the procedures and framework of international recognition of expertise at the intersection of the colonial and the international spheres. A first line of enquiry tackles the relations between the epistemologies that underpinned scientific knowledge in the colony and the metropolis. Another one looks into the sites of production of Mandatory expertise. Finally, we want to investigate the explicitly evolutionary conceptual framework for the mandates and its influence on the work of experts. We invite contributions dealing with the figure of the expert, whether official or not, and the various fields and tools of Mandatory expertise. Part and parcel of our reflexion is also a study of the limits and scope of expertise.

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• 31 jui 2011

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Place of the African University in the Emerging Global Higher Education Space

  Os decanos de faculdades das ciências sociais e humanas nas universidades africanas que desejam participar nesta conferência dos decanos terão de enviar um resumo da sua comunicação e o seu currículo. Os resumos de comunicação terão de dar entrada no CODESRIA o mais tardar a 31 de Julho de 2011.

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• 13 mai 2009

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  15 mai 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  La fabrique des savoirs en Afrique subsaharienne. Acteurs, lieux et usages dans la longue durée

  Ce colloque se propose de réfléchir à la construction, aux formes d’appropriation, aux maniements et aux usages des savoirs en Afrique subsaharienne sur la longue durée. Il s’agit moins d’identifier des processus cognitifs et conceptuels que d’étudier l’incorporation et la mise en situation, par des acteurs, d’un corpus de connaissances et de pratiques spécifiques dans des contextes historiques, politiques et socioculturels variés. La notion de savoir ne se limite pas au monde des lettrés, des érudits ou des scientifiques. Elle est conçue dans une acception plus large, intégrant les compétences, les « manières de dire et de faire » (Jacob, 2007) qui déterminent des modes d’appartenance à une communauté dès lors qu’elles permettent de constituer un capital social, politique ou culturel perçu et transmis comme tel. L’objectif est aussi de mieux comprendre les médiations, anciennes ou nouvelles, qui participent de la fabrique des savoirs en Afrique.

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• 30 jan 2008

  Paris

  Call for papers - Africa

  Journée d'étude Jean Suret-Canale

  Appel à contributions pour la journée d'étude consacrée à Jean Suret-Canale à l'occasion du premier anniversaire de sa disparition.(date limite d'envoi des propositions,: 30 janvier 2008)

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