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• 18 Nov 2025

  Call for papers - Language

  Describing Creole Languages in the 19th Century: Ideology, Sociology, and Intertextuality

  How do beliefs about Creole languages influence the their descriptions by 19^th-century creolists? This issue of Archipélies seeks to answer this question, focusing on the beliefs, representations, and, more broadly, ideologies that permeate descriptions of Creole languages from the documentation of Haitian Creole by Ducœurjoly in 1802 to the naturalistic portrayal of Creoles around the turn of the century1. Far from being reduced to simple nomenclatures, descriptions of Creole languages reproduce an ideological background that must be examined in order to better understand the gradual development of a linguistic discourse on the genesis and structures of Creole languages. As linguistic practices born out of colonial situations, forced contact, and historical ruptures, Creoles and their descriptions crystallize the ideological and conceptual divisions of coloniality, threatening its coherence and uniformity.

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• 16 Jun 2024

  Call for papers - Language

  Social and economic uses of creole languages

  17th International Colloquium of Creole Studies (CIEC)

  Who can truly contest the vitality of Creole languages? They are indeed young languages, born of the encounter between peoples of different civilisations, carriers of idiosyncratic visions of the world. In addition, they were effectively developed in different regions, but achieved similar results. Questioning the vitality of creole languages thus takes on its full meaning. How do the uses of creoles materialise in among the different social spaces of creolophone territories? Outside of the “classic” circuits of the language (schools, media, churches, etc.), do economic actors use language as a tool of economic market development? Our colloquium seeks to explore this key question of the social and economic uses of Creoles, their commoditisation in diverse domains. 

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• 24 Apr 2024

  25 Apr 2024

  Amiens

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Reconsidérer les savoirs, perspectives plurielles : relecture, réécriture

  Selon Michel Foucault, l’histoire est un outil de pouvoir qui façonne notre compréhension du monde et influence les systèmes de domination à travers le traitement sélectif des informations. Les contre-savoirs et les contestations de l’histoire officielle révèlent la nécessité de perspectives critiques et alternatives, qui incitent à reconsidérer les fondements du savoir par le prisme d’analyses pluridisciplinaires, la remise en question des méthodologies, l’exploration de nouvelles sources. Ce colloque de jeunes chercheures et chercheuses vise à explorer les nouvelles perspectives offertes par les pratiques littéraires et artistiques dans cette entreprise de réévaluation des savoirs.

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• 15 Nov 2018

  Port-au-Prince

  Call for papers - America

  Haitian Oraliture: Identity(ies), Structure(s), Memory(ies) and Representations through the Prism of Human and Social Sciences

  In tribute to Maurice Sixto on the occasion of the centenary of his birth

  This conference is an opportunity to pay tribute to Maurice Sixto, for his significant lodyans. The year 2019 is indeed the centenary of birth of this master of the spoken word, born in May 1919, and the 35^thanniversary of his passing, which occurred in May 1984. The contemporaneous legacy of Maurice Sixto encompasses various categories of lodyanseurs, among whom former cultural colleagues, talented impersonators, original interpreters and contemporaneous storytellers who, directly or indirectly, recognize themselves through the influence of the master. This event will be the occasion to discuss the multidimensional, psycho-sociological, didactic and aesthetic value of Sixto’s work.

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• 30 Aug 2015

  Call for papers - Sociology

  NGOs in Haiti - towards new explanatory paradigms

  La revue Chantiers, revue des sciences humaines et sociales de l'université d'État d'Haïti lance un appel à contribution portant sur les ONG en Haïti. Ce prochain numéro essayera de saisir les contours du phénomène, tant du point de vue ontologique, dialectique qu'historique. Il sera aussi question de voir son impact sur la société haïtienne dans sa globalité.

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