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• 19 fév 2021

  Douala

  Miscellaneous information - Language

  Advances and challenges of NLP (Natural Language Processing) for african languages

  How far have we come?

  This workshop will bring together NTeALan’s large community of members living in Cameroon and abroad, invited researchers, partners and other members of the scientific community. This workshop aims at bringing together professionals, researchers and experts in African languages and Natural Language Processing (NLP), whose research work focuses on machine learning techniques and electronic lexicography applied to NLP and language pedagogy/didactics. We will also discuss the main challenges that arise in this context for the constitution of corpora in African languages. We will define possible directions for future progress.

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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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• 20 mar 2017

  Call for papers - History

  Daily life in the Lake Chad basin and the challenge of Boko Haram

  La montée en puissance du terrorisme est l’un des défis auquel certains pays africains font face de façon aigue depuis quelques années. Shebabs, Al-Qaida au Maghreb Islamique (AQMI), Mouvement pour l’unicité et le djihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (MUJAO) et Boko Haram sont quelques-unes de ces organisations qui font la une de l’actualité. Leur simple évocation provoque la psychose. Une attention particulière au bassin tchadien permet de se rendre compte que Boko Haram en a fait son sanctuaire (Seignobos, 2015), provoquant des perturbations, des déséquilibres des plus extrêmes et rarement vécus par le passé. Nous voulons inviter les chercheurs intéressées à construire, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire, une intelligibilité de la manière dont la menace Boko Haram a été vécue, observée et comment elle est racontée par les différents témoins.

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• 30 déc 2016

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Popular music, aesthetics and poietics: forms and meaning in Congolese rumba

  Le décès du chanteur Papa Wemba a remis à l’ordre du jour la question de la patrimonialisation de la rumba congolaise dont Kinshasa demeure le lieu d’expression par excellence. Cette musique se donne à lire comme un puissant facteur d’identité, d’identification et de transformation de la société congolaise qu’elle reflète autant qu’elle en constitue le produit. L’ouvrage qui se situe à la croisée des disciplines scientifiques et des thèmes se donne pour objectif de dégager les harmoniques variées de cette musique.

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