Researching the history of medicine and health in Nigeria: themes, methods, ethics, and outputs
Date: Tuesday, 11st of October, 10am-3pm, IFRA Library, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
The second IFRA’s research training seminar of the semester will take place this week. Dr. John Manton, medical anthropologist and assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will oversee this programme.
More details…Who are we?
IFRA-Nigeria is a non-for-profit Institute set up to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa.
First established in 1990, the Institute is operating from the Universitie of Ibadan (Institute of African Studies).
Our goals
On Thursday 21st of September, 2017 IFRA Nigeria and the Alliance Francaise of Ibadan organised jointly an outstanding book launch of The Sex Thieves. The Anthropology of a Rumor by Dr. Julien Bonhomme. It took place at the Alliance Francaise at 5pm.
Date : Wednesday, 11th of October
Time: 10am-3pm
Place: IFRA Library, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
The second IFRA’s research training seminar of the semester will take place this week.
On Tuesday 26th of September at 2pm occurred an exciting IFRA’s research seminar organised jointly with the Alliance Francaise at the Alliance Francaise Ibadan in Iyaganku. The seminar was run by Dr. Julien Bonhomme, anthropologist and lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Bonhomme had presented his book The Sex Thieves. Anthropology of a Rumor (2016, University of Chicago Press) the week before at the Alliance. The seminar was entitled “Media as fieldwork. How to do ethnography with press articles”. The seminar was opened to IFRA fellows, which comprises a network of more than 70 early researchers across Nigeria and beyond.
IFRA Nigeria is glad to share the call for papers for the 17th MegaChad colloquium, to which we partner with, titled "Insecurities in the Lake Chad basin", and hold in Nice (France) from the 14th to 16th of June 2017.
