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Video of online Book Launch “Cuba & Africa…”

Here is the video record of online Book Launch “Cuba & Africa 1959-1994 : Writing an alternative Atlantic History” (Thursday 6 May 2021) held by Wits University Press, the Wits History Workshop and IFAS-Research with Sophie Dulucq, Research Director of IFAS, Editors Giulia Bonacci and Adrien Delmas, contributors João Felipe Gonçalves and Shamil Jeppie and Robert van Niekerk (Wits School of Governance). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLnQjI98hh4

Online Book Launch | Cuba & Africa 1959-1994 : Writing an alternative Atlantic History

Thursday 6 May @ 18:00 South African Time – BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION
Wits University Press, the Wits History Workshop and IFAS-Research invite you to participate in an online book launch event

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Assassination of Lokman Slim: homage from the academic community

The URMIS joins in the tribute paid by colleagues, friends and relatives to Lokman Slim, who was cowardly murdered in Lebanon in February 2021. Humanities and social scientists working in the Near East have regularly benefited from Lokman Slim’s work through Umam Research & Documentation, an association he co-directed with his wife Monika Borgmann.

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Cuba and Africa, 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History

Edited by Giulia Bonacci, Adrien Delmas and Kali Argyriadis, Witts University Press, Johannesburg, November 2020. […]

E-demonstrate your support to Fariba’s fight: One year of detention already…

Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, both researchers at CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS, were arrested in Iran on June 5th, 2019. On March 20th this year, Roland Marchal was released, traded for a Revolutionary Guard engineer arrested in France on an international arrest warrant issued by the United States. Fariba Adelkhah is still in prison. […]

Nathalie Schipounoff’s PhD Dissertation Defense

On Thursday 19th of December 2019 at 14:30 at Université Paris Diderot, (Building Olympes de Gouges, room Laplanche – 576), Nathalie Schipounoff is defending her PhD Dissertation in Social Anthropology and Ethnology, supervised by professor Pascal Dibie. Title: Affable startuppers for a better world or a better social position ? Ethnology of startup mode in a Parisian incubator. PhD examination committee members: Pr. Jean-Philippe Bouilloud, ESCP Europe Pr. Nabyla Daidj, Institut Mines Telecom – Business School HDR (Rapporteur) Pr. […]

Race, Gender and Migration

International Conference,conceived and organized by the Center for Maghrib Studies, Arizona State University, december 15-17, 2019, hosted by Inlac Institute, Fez, Morocco.

International Conference “América central 1979-2019. De la Revolución sandinista a las caravanas de migrantes”

November 4-7th in Mexico…
This conference aims to shed light on recent Central American events (the violence, the corruption, but also the massive mobilizations for human rights and the new forms of political action) all in light of their past. What are the continuities and ruptures since 1979, since the triumph of the Sandinista revolution and the explosion of internal wars in the region? And what challenges for the new generation? […]

The Globalization of Gender : Knowledge, Mobilizations, Frameworks of Action

Edited by: Ioana Cîrstocea, Delphine Lacombe, Elisabeth Marteu, London: Routledge, 2019.
This book provides an insightful approach to understanding the contemporary circulations of feminist repertoires and shows how the international/transnational circulations of gender are interconnected, even coextensive, with the globalization process itself. […]

Video of Andreas Wimmer’s conference: How to improve on Barth’s theory of ethnic boundaries

Please watch here or on Canal U Urmis Channel the video of Andreas Wimmer’s conference: How to improve on Barth’s theory of ethnic boundaries, Urmis Nice Research Seminar, 22th of March, 2019.

Methodology Workshop Slafnet

Methodology Workshop Slafnet: Memory Of Origins, Location And Life Stories In African Slave And Post-Slave Societies.
Thursday 6th June, MSHS, Nice, France […]

Feedback of Slafnet Spring School in Addis Ababa

A Spring school was held at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, on April 15-19, 2019, in the framework of the European project SLAFNET (https://slafnet.hypotheses.org) that has the objective of implementing dialogue between European and African researchers and students around the thematic issue of slavery in Africa. This Spring school was organised by Prof. Ahmed Hassen (IES, Université d’Addis Ababa), Alexander Meckelburg (Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, […]

Slavery and Slave Trade in Ethiopia and Beyond

This is the program of Slafnet Spring School “Slavery and Slave Trade in Ethiopia and Beyond”, in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 15-19 April 2019. […]

Master’s specialization in Migration Studies (Nice)

The Master’s specialization in Migration Studies (MMS) is a new international, interdisciplinary specialization provided by Université Côte d’Azur within 3 Master’s programs: international and European law, social sciences and political science. Located in Nice and drawing on the expertise of specialized researchers and professionals, it provides students with in-depth knowledge and specific skills in the field of migration and ethnic relations. It will therefore provide excellent preparation for further academic […]

School education, nation and otherness Comparative approaches to school systems in the South

International Symposium, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est (MSHS Sud Est), Nice (France), Thursday 13th February Access map This international conference will explore how the school contributes, along with other spaces and institutions, to building a national ‘imagined community’ in the so-called ‘South’. It will examine how school discourses and practices combine, in various ways and to different extents, an objective of cultural homogenization of the […]