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Addis Ababa

The Field of the ‘Photographable’: From the Global North to the Global South and from the Global South to the Global North

This 2 days-activities (a workshop, a forum, a conference) aim to offer a platform to discuss how photographers and researchers make use of photography to account for social realities they are not part of, which is often the case when it comes to photography in Africa.

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - Urban studies

Through local eyes

Place-based approaches to emerging architectural, urban design and planning challenges in Africa and the Global South

The fast paced urbanization and mushrooming of metropolitan areas in Africa and the Global South especially in connection with rights and access to basic services, have attracted much attention in the last decades from the public, local experts, decision-makers and international stakeholders. In parallel, other built environments such as emerging small towns, shrinking cities and rural areas are now experiencing important pressures and changes, and are increasingly coming under the spotlight.

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - History

The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1912-1924)

"How, because of two wild beasts the world was set alight"

Writing the history of the first World War from an African perspective is the main ambition of this conference. The Global approach challenges the traditional center and periphery model. What we would like to suggest in this conference is the adoption of a combination of different scales of analysis: local, national and transnational. The goal of the conference is to bring together experts, academics, early-career historians and doctoral students from different disciplines to share new scholarly work and to enrich the history of the first World War in Africa and the Middle East.

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - Africa

Making heritage in Ethiopia

Faire le patrimoine en Éthiopie

Annales d’Éthiopie, the academic journal of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa), launches a call for papers for its issue 31 (2016) about "Making heritage in Ethiopia".

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - Sociology

East-African athleticism and the social sciences

Bien que amplement étudié par des chercheurs en sciences de la vie depuis plus de trois décennies, l’athlétisme est-africain a rarement retenu l’attention des spécialistes en sciences sociales. Dans le même temps, le phénomène de la course à pied a atteint localement un niveau de développement sans précédent, surtout dans certaines régions du Kenya et d’Éthiopie où il affecte maintenant de nombreux secteurs de la vie sociale : développement économique, migrations intra et internationales, tourisme sportif, développement des activités et des infrastructures sportives, entre autres. Dans les régions concernées, des questions liées au genre, ainsi qu’à la participation de personnes handicapées, ont également émergé. Aborder la course de fond est-africaine sous l’angle des sciences sociales représente aussi une rupture vis-à-vis de la tradition qui réduit souvent les coureurs à leur seule biologie (la génétique) ou à leur environnement (l’altitude), ouvrant ainsi un nouveau champ de recherche sur les déterminants sociaux de leurs performances.

Addis Ababa

Conference, symposium - Africa

From a Sudan to Another

Political and Social Restructuring Underway

The CEDEJ-Khartoum and the CFEE-Addis Ababa are organizing a roundtable conference in Addis Ababa on June 10-12, 2013 regarding Sudans’ reconstruction. The separation between the two Sudans in July 2011 opens new research fields in social sciences. The analysis themes regarding ongoing political and social restructuration are various, and for a majority of them, not much studied, given the recentness of the partition. Therefore, the CEDEJ-Khartoum and the CFEE-Addis Ababa launched a scientific dialogue process on Sudans. That work finds its originality in the will to give an academic content to the debate, often missing in official talks. Moreover, this process of prolific scientific meetings contributes to compensate for the lack of current and searched academic works led by Sudanese and South Sudanese researchers together. The 2013 conference aims at opening the debate to a large panel discussion, in the perspective of publishing the conference’s proceedings.

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - Africa

From A Sudan to Another

Political and Social Restructuring Underway

The separation of the two Sudans in July 2011 created as many opportunities as it aroused difficulties and threats, therefore opening new research fields in Social Sciences. The themes of analysis regarding political and social reshuffling are many, and for a majority of them, yet to study. The CEDEJ-Khartoum and the CFEE-Addis Ababa are willing to give an academic content to the debate, which official talks often miss to address; and to convey discussions between Sudanese and South Sudanese scholars, as well as international specialists of the region.

Addis Ababa

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa

Field work and writing of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies

The CFEE, research center (UMIFRE 23) of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) offers to researchers and students in the human and social sciences working on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa funding for field trips research or for the preparation of publications (writing scholarship) All applications must reach the CFEE by email (cfee@ethionet.et) before January 15, 2013. All applications will be examined and outcomes will be sent to the applicants by email before February 15, 2013. The applications can be written in French or English and it is advised to ask for an acknowledgment of receipt by email.

Addis Ababa

Conference, symposium - Religion

The Roles and Values of Menzuma : Islamic panegyrics in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

The songs of praise called menzuma, sung by a soloist accompanied by a choir and percussion are popular all over the Muslim areas of Ethiopia where the practice of Sufi Islam is still well rooted. The purposes of this workshop are many : to study Menzuma genre from different perspectives and in the different languages in which it is performed ; to study the role of Menzuma as a social performance in public or private spheres ; to understand the relations between the oral performance and the written text of Menzuma ; to explore the different levels of significance of Menzuma texts, i.e. Religious, moral, historical, artistic, etc. ; to observe the circulation, exchange and transformations of Menzuma among different societies of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Addis Ababa

Conference, symposium - Africa

Territoires d'Éthiopie. Histoires, espaces, pouvoirs

L’histoire des territoires de l’Éthiopie s’est souvent écrite du point de vue du pouvoir central, l’État chrétien, par un biais inhérent à la documentation employée. Effectivement, la majeure partie des textes historiques sont le produit de l’État central et livrent par conséquent une vision centrée et idéalisée de la construction de cet État depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. Le propos de ce colloque est de décentrer le regard afin d’examiner les relations qui unissent un souverain installé dans une région centrale mobile et un espace constitué de multiples territoires qui n’ont pas tous le même statut ni le même degré d’interaction avec l’administration royale. La particularité de ce colloque est d’envisager la territorialisation de ces espaces dans son rapport au temps, particulièrement en considérant les utilisations politiques de l’histoire.

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