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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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• 15 avr 2016

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa

  The Ovahimba years, contemporary multimedia ethnography

  Call for researchers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2016-2017)

  Ethnographe, cinéaste et photographe, élève de Jean Rouch, Rina Sherman a vécu entre 1997 et 2004 au sein d’une communauté ovahimba d’Afrique australe (Namibie et Angola). Lors de son séjour, elle a filmé, photographié et écrit sur la vie quotidienne et rituelle des Ovahimba et d’autres communautés dites de langue otjiherero. De cette étude, elle a rapporté des centaines d’heures de vidéo et de sons et des milliers de photographies, ainsi que des notes et des dessins, qu’elle a donnés à la BnF en 2014.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Information

  Formation, recherche, appui au développement

  les sciences et métiers de l’information documentaire face au défi d’« émergence » de l’Afrique

  Ce colloque ambitionne d'intérroger les mécanismes d'intégration des métiers et sciences documentaires en Afrique dans les universités et institution de formation, de lrecherche et d'appui au développement. Il a pour objectifs de : dresser un bilan du niveau d’appropriation du champ des connaissances scientifiques et professionnelles en information documentaire par les pays africains ; interroger les modèles institutionnels de formation en Afrique, et les résultats obtenus au niveau de la formation, de la recherche et de l’appui au développement ; montrer, au-delà d’une vision militante,  quelle peut être la contribution de l’organisation, de la gestion et de la conservation des savoirs et des informations dans les politiques africaines de développement ; identifier les transformations, les distanciations, les bifurcations, les « bricolages » et les innovations qui se sont produits dans la cohabitation entre la culture occidentale dite écrite et celle africaine dite orale afin de mettre en évidence les mécanismes qui rendent possibles des modèles innovants de développement endogène des sociétés et institutions africaines.

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