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    Conference, symposium - Africa

    The Routes of Medieval Africa

    11th-17th centuries

    This symposium will take stock of the theoretical ambition of this programme, relative to the disciplinary tools available to us today, to disclose, to distinguish and above all to ponder the historical connections established. If the plants, epidemics, commercial goods or written materials are proof of often-forgotten connections, they inform us only indirectly on the intensity and consequences of these economic, political and cultural connections for the societies of Southern, Eastern or Western Africa. Starting from this observation, the historians, archaeologists, linguists, and philologists involved in this release will reflect on multidisciplinary models that go beyond the observation of a connection and switch towards a more integrative concept of “route,” understood, in the broader sense, as a connection in progress. I this respect, the third and final objective of this symposium will stimulate further reflection on the routes that crisscrossed medieval Africa, and the practices, mobilities, and representations that they created.

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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - History

    Travelling the Eritrian Sea

    Organisé dans le cadre du programme ANR MeDIan – Les sociétés méditerranéennes et l’océan Indien, ce séminaire de recherche autour du Périple de la mer Erythrée s’intéressera essentiellement au texte en tant qu’outil de « découverte » et/ou de connaissance de l’océan Indien pour les sociétés méditerranéennes de son époque de rédaction (Ier s. ap. J.-C.). Trois thèmes de réflexion sont proposés : en premier lieu, le texte du Périple en tant que source d’information ; en second lieu, les réseaux de navigation décrits par ce texte ; enfin, l’apport de l’archéologie aux données textuelles. Cette rencontre devrait laisser une grande place aux discussions, avec un public d’auditeurs aussi large que possible.

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