Sciences Po-CERI: colloque « L’Europe, terre du droit de vote pour les étrangers? Un état des lieux » (14 décembre, Paris)

Maison de l’Europe
35-37 rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75004 Paris

Co-organisée par le Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (Ceri-Sciences po) et l’Association européenne de défense des droits de l’Homme (AEDH). Soutenue par la Ligue des droits de l’Homme et le collectif Votation citoyenne.

Inscriptions : votation.citoyenne.ldh-france.org
Programme détaillé

Call for paper, ECAS 2013, Panel Revolution 3.0: « Iconographies of Utopia in Africa and its Diaspora »

Convenors :
Katharina Fink (University of Bayreuth) : frl.fink@uni-bayreuth.de
Nadine Siegert (Bayreuth University): nadine.siegert@uni-bayreuth.de

Short Abstract :
The main question guiding the panel is the emergence of images in the context of imaginations of futures. Images as seismographers of radical shifts within societies – especially the iconography of revolution as the epitome of social change – will be discussed from interdisciplinary perspectives; .
Long Abstract

This panel investigates the emergence of images as imaginations of futures. As seismographers of radical shifts within societies, images often anticipate changes before they appear in the political and social discourse. Revolutions as epitomes of social change produce visual figurations in art, film and popular cultures.

Africa is rarely discussed with a perspective on revolution and utopia in the sense of positive powerful concepts of futures. We argue that the investigation of visual archives of African revolutions may provide knowledge about appearance and trajectories of dynamic icons and the ‘agency’ of images (Gell 1998). Their affiliations and clusters in different media provide a deeper understanding of projections of futures and their relation to the past. If revolutions aim at something new, a « concrete utopia » (Bloch 1985), this has to be reflected in images as well. New images, we argue, can only emerge in the field of aesthetics, where imaginations of utopian space and time (Rancière 2006) are possible. Art emerges not as a tool for propaganda, but as powerful element of social and aesthetic discourse.

We invite interdisciplinary perspectives from literature, cinema and art studies, visual anthropology and cultural studies. We ask for different projections of the future from Africa and how these imaginations are traceable in art, film, and popcultures. How are they related to historical moments: revolutions, independences and the aftermaths? How can they (re-)define historical events? How can new images, imaginations, concepts of future be generated? How do aesthetic practice and politics relate in situations of change?

Chair: Katharina Fink & Nadine Siegert
Discussant: Ulf Vierke

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2081

Call for paper, ECAS 5 Conference Scheduled for Lisbon, Portugal, June,2013 : » Religion, Secularism and Developmentalism: Interrogating Contemporary African Philosophy of Religion  »

Convener: Dr.Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Senior Lecturer of  Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religions, University of Abuja, Nigeria: ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com

Other Panelists:
Professor Malachy Okwueze-Deputy Vice Chancellor, (Department of Religion), University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Professor Mogobe Ramose,Department of Philossophy,University of South Africa,Pretoria

Dr. Munyaradzi Felix Murove-Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Abstract :
Conceiving philosophy in broad terms as a critical investigation into the fundamental assumptions underlying beliefs, ideas or values; this panel sets out to apply the critical tools of philosophy to (i) point out the hidden tension between secularism and religion in contemporary Africa and the competing presence of both in African social and political life. It will (ii)articulate  how and why  both of them qualify to be categorized as agents of development in a contemporary African context and (iii)interrogate this state of affairs with the view to pointing out the dilemma of development ethics implied by this scenario. In particular the panel will attempt to locate the expectations contemporary Africans make both of religion on the one hand and of secularism on the other hand to see the extent to which these expectations could be right. It will address such questions as: Under what ethical framework will contemporary Africa emerge as a strong,
organized and powerful human community? Does religion or religious ethics deserve any role in contemporary African life? Is secularism or secular ethics a basic condition for proper development in Africa? What role should be assigned to religion in contemporary Africa, assuming that it is the case that religion is a basic demand of contemporary African life and why? How can this be done without  the reversal of the African mind to the overbearing  influence of dogmatism and anachronistic thinking that discourages the critical turn which leads to new forms of life that can properly reconfigure the African world?

The call for papers is open and closes on the 16th January 2013.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=xxxx

Altermondes n°32 : La fin du sida est-elle vraiment pour demain ?

Conférence mondiale sur le sida, Washington, juillet 2012. L’expression est sur toutes les lèvres, s’étale à la une des médias : la fin du sida, c’est possible, c’est pour demain. Après trente ans d’une lutte tout aussi acharnée qu’exceptionnelle, la communauté internationale est enfin en mesure de mettre fin à l’épidémie. Pourtant une question demeure, lancinante : s’en donnera-t-elle les moyens ? En 2011, le sida a encore fait 1,7 million de morts, 2,2 millions de personnes ont été infectées. Et ce ne sont pas les renoncements de certains gouvernements – comme celui de François Hollande sur la taxe sur les transactions financières – ou les réformes inquiétantes comme celles en cours au Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme, qui rassurent sur la volonté politique à réellement relever le défi. Afghanistan, Afrique du Sud, Brésil, Burundi, Cameroun, Caraïbe, France, Grèce, Inde, Maroc, Niger, Thaïlande… Altermondes donne la parole à des associations, des activistes et des experts qui réaffirment que, oui, la fin du sida est possible mais à certaines conditions.

Un dossier réalisé en partenariat avec Act Up Paris, AIDES, Arcat/Journal du Sida, Coalition Plus, Médecins du Monde, One, Oxfam France, Sidaction, Solidarité Sida et Solthis.

http://www.altermondes.org/

Invitation à la prochaine rencontre-débat de la CADE : « Valoriser le potentiel énergétique de l’Afrique en création de richesses » (12 décembre, Paris)

Divers Etats africains s’engagent dans des politiques de croissance économique en souhaitant transformer leurs économies de rente en économie de production. Cependant l’un des obstacles majeurs au développement et à la compétitivité des entreprises, à l’épanouissement en bien-être des populations, réside dans le déficit en infrastructures énergétiques. Cette carence fait perdre à l’Afrique, selon les pays, entre 0,5 et 1,5 % de points de croissance du PIB par an. Paradoxalement l’Afrique possède un potentiel énorme en ressources énergétiques d’origines fossiles et renouvelables : gaz, pétrole, hydraulique, géothermie, solaire, biomasse, etc. Les demandes internes en consommation d’énergie, notamment en électricité, augmentent de plus de 6 % par an.

Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) amphithéâtre Parodi. 2, avenue de l’Observatoire – Paris 6^ème ( RER B : Luxembourg, Bus : 38 et 82 ). De 18h à 20h.

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Point Info N°67 du CERCOOP Franche-Comté – Vendredi 7 décembre 2012

La Lettre d’information du CERCOOP Franche-Comté regroupe des informations d’actualité concernant la coopération et la solidarité internationale à destination des collectivités, des associations, des institutions… particulièrement franc-comtoises. Le but étant d’informer, de partager des connaissances et des savoir-faire, contribuant à l’amélioration de la qualité des projets menés avec nos partenaires ici et là-bas.

http://www.cercoop.org/

CES-Actu – Concours chercheurs – De nombreux appels ANR – Ile-de-France- projets – manifestations – chaires Allocations …Campagne Noémi ouverte ….

Appel à communication ECAS 2013 Lisboa 26-28 juin 2013 – productions culturelles dans le contexte de l’esclavage

Cultural productions in context of slavery: slave narrative, narrative of the self and religious configurations

Convenors

Camille Lefebvre (CNRS)
Emmanuelle Kadya Tall (IRD)
M’hamed Oualdi (INALCO) 

Short Abstract

This panel will examine cultural productions in context of slavery to point out social change both through slave narratives collected in the 19th and 20th century and through the religious configurations on both sides of the South Atlantic.

Long Abstract

In this panel, we wish to examine cultural productions in context of slavery to point out social change in two ways.

The first one is to trace through slave narratives collected for most of them in the 19th and the 20th century mainly by foreign individuals or institutions for public use (as propaganda for the abolition of slavery or in order to collect various kinds of knowledge on African societies), how these narratives still address contemporaneous African societies and what do they tell us about narratives of the self. These narratives have usually been transmitted after a process of translation and rewriting and even after having been heavily transformed, they still are perceived as life stories or autobiographies. One will question what has been socially and historically constructed in those accounts and what they are telling us about self-perception and self-representation in West and North Africa during this period.

The second one is to take the example of the religious field in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, to show how the religious field organized itself in a global world on both sides of the South Atlantic. Speaking in terms of syncretism or diffusion processes does not take in account the changes endured on African soil, making its religious cosmologies something out of history. In Africa also, the slave trade did transform the religious field, upheaving for example, ancestry cults into territories deities to legitimate new political configurations. As such, one should not consider Afro-American religious productions as syncretism or conservatism from Africa but as productions born from the Atlantic slave trade, whose different ranges have more to do with their local context development.

To conclude, we will question the interweaving between slave narratives and African diaspora religions’ narratives in the construction of narrative of self.

For more informations : http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2323

Seminaire CERMA « Le ‘constructionnisme’ racial de W.E.B. Du Bois: race et couleur dans l’Amérique ségrégationniste » (19 décembre, Paris)

Prochaine séance du Séminaire CERMA (19 décembre) avec la philosophe Magali Bessone (Université de Rennes 1) qui interviendra sur le thème suivant: « Le ‘constructionnisme’ racial de W.E.B. Du Bois: race et couleur dans l’Amérique ségrégationniste ».

Résumé de l’intervention

Présentation de la séance

Colloque : « From Precarity to Conviviality (or Buen vivir), as Observed in Latin America Social Movements » (7 décembre, Université Nanterre)