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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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• 01 oct 2019

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Media and propaganda in decolonisations and the first decades of African independence (1945-1975)

  Le premier numéro de la Revue d'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique a pour but d'examiner le rôle des médias dans les empires coloniaux tardifs, les décolonisations et les premières décennies des indépendances africaines. S'intéresser au rôle des médias (presse, cinéma, radio, télévision...) durant cette période s'impose pour trois raisons. Il s'agit d'abord d'un moment médiatique très riche avec un premier âge d'or de la presse, l'essor du cinéma et de la radio, la première implantation de la télévision au moment où le continent s'émancipe de la tutelle coloniale. C'est ensuite un champ qui reste l'apanage de la littérature scientifique anglophone et qui est peu étudié par la recherche francophone. Enfin, le choix d'une chronologie qui encadre les principales décolonisations permet de mettre à jour les continuités et les ruptures médiatiques au delà de l'obtention de la pleine souveraineté.

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• 19 oct 2009	23 oct 2009	20 oct 2009
  21 oct 2009	22 oct 2009

  Dakar

  Seminar - Representation

  Semaine internationale des archives à Dakar

  L’Association internationale des archivistes francophones (AIAF) et le Portail international archivistique francophone (PIAF) organisent en partenariat avec la Direction des archives du Sénégal, l’EBAD et le Conseil international des archives (Branche Ouest africaine, WARBICA) une semaine internationale des archives à Dakar.

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