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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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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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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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Aix-en-Provence
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Law
Le/la chercheur/e travaillera au sein du l'Institut des mondes africains (IMAF, UMR 8171). Il/elle sera en charge du repérage et du fichage de sources historico-juridiques intéressant le projet et il/elle collaborera à la réalisation du volet numérique de la recherche (carnet de recherche, bibliothèque numérique, exposition virtuelle). Les échanges avec les membres de l'équipe ainsi que la recherche se feront en langue française.
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Ivry-sur-Seine
Ethiopian Studies and Digital Humanities: tools and projects
Beta maṣāḥəft, Ethiopian Manuscript Archives, EthioMap
The objective of this workshop is to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community using digital collaborative tools within Ethiopian studies. There is no need to recall the scientific and technological context in which we live to understand the importance and challenges of this methodological revolution. Many initiatives have emerged over the past two decades, both in terms of the availability of digitized documentation and the tools to use it. After the first experiments, interoperability and sharing have become the key words, and Ethiopian studies must respond to these good practices.
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Bordeaux
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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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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Yaoundé
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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