Between the 6th and the 9th of November, IFRA-Nigeria organised a training in photogrammetry and 3D modelling as part of its research project on the religious architectural heritage of Ibadan. The training was provided by Marjorie Coulin, an Engineer at ICONEM. Founded in 2013, Iconem is an innovative French startup that specialises in the digitisation of endangered cultural heritage sites in 3D.
On the 16th of November, Gernot Klantschnig, Ediomo-Ubong Nelson and Janet Ogundairo gave a methological seminar shedding light on the ethical considerations and methodological obstacles researchers may encounter while doing sensitive research, with the goal of contributing to the knowledge necessary to navigate the intricate terrain of studying illicit activities and building capacity to conduct academically rigorous research with far-reaching policy and governance implications.
On the 31st of October, Dr. Katharina Oke gave a methodological seminar on the following theme “Working with Newspapers & Reflections on further developing Research Projects: from Master to PhD and Beyond”. The seminar had in attendance, researchers from various background who also shared their experiences on working with/on newspapers. Some also spoke about how they have been able or plan to develop their research work from MA to PhD and Post-doctoral level.
The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), using The Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects (FSPI) awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is funding a project entitled “Protecting Political activists archives to write another history of Nigeria”. This project, which is a component of the 'Nigerian Heritage Digitisation Programme', aims at digitising important and imperilled archival holdings of Nigeria’s radical and prodemocracy activists to increase accessibility to these materials as well as to preserve them for posterity.
On the 18th of October, a team consisting of Dr. Saeed Husaini of CDD, Mr. Sola Babalola of IFRA-Nigeria, and Mr. Joseph Ayodokun FSPI project manager visited Baba Omojola's family house to conduct an onsite assessment of the archives.
On October 18, Dr Manetta, presented the methods she mobilized to conduct a political ethnography of south-west Burkina Faso. She discussed fieldwork experiences that led her to analyze social relations throug moves, place & space.
The interdisciplinary project INFRAPATRI aims to study the local knowledges and forms of attachment to urban plants in four sub-Saharan African cities : Yaounde in Cameroon, Ibadan in Nigeria, Porto-Novo in Benin and Dakar in Senegal. Our reflection is based on the notion of "heritage from below", allowing us to understand the relationship of city dwellers to plants in terms of memory and conceptions of the past, rarely recognized by institutional approaches to heritage conservation. Plants in the city, which cover multiple figures and spaces, are in fact used in a variety of ways based on practical or symbolic knowledge. Together, this knowledge and uses are produced by various urban collectives based on family, ethnic identity, religion, neighbourhood, profession or political representation, etc.
As part of both its programs on Digital Humanities and Nigerian History and Heritage Conservation, IFRA-Nigeria has launched a research project on the digitization of the Archives of the National Museum Lagos in Collaboration with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in its ongoing project that is funded from the grant that forms a part of a wider project entitled Fonds de Solidarité pour les Projets Innovant (FSPI Project).
As part of both its programs on Digital Humanities and Nigerian History and Heritage Conservation, IFRA-Nigeria has launched a research project on the digitization of the Archives of the National Museum Lagos in Collaboration with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in her ongoing project that is funded from the grant that forms a part of a wider project entitled Le Fonds de Solidarité pour les Projets Innovant (FSPI Project).
On the 4th October 2023, Dr Barbara Morovich and Dr Delphine Manetta were invited to take part in a round table on "The Resurgence of Coups in Africa" organised by Prof. Irene Pogoson, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan.
Between the 10th and 13th of july, IFRA-Nigeria participated in a methodology workshop program coorganised by the department of history of the University of Ibadan and the University of Leipzig on the theme of "deepening research skills". The topics discussed were varied. Amongst others, Prof. O.C Adesina gave a class on comparative historiography, Prof. Dmitri van den Bersselaar gave a class on theory in historical research and Dr. Barbara Morovich gave a class on doing fieldwork in stigmatised contexts.
Le 3 avril, une journée d’étude sur le thème des matrimoines et des patrimonialisations expérimentales de la « nature » en ville prenait place. Cet évènement, coordonné par Barbara Morovich (AMUP et IFRA-Nigéria, membre du réseau LIEU) et Géraldine Djament (UMR SAGE, associée à l’EIREST), faisait suite à deux journées d’études. La première traitait des enjeux épistémologiques liés aux patrimonialisations « minoritaires » et la seconde abordait le thème des patrimonialisations populaires et postcoloniales « minoritaires » en France et à l’étranger.
L’InSHS lance un nouvel appel destiné à favoriser la mobilité, à donner l’opportunité de séjourner à l’étranger pour y effectuer des terrains, enquêtes, travaux sur archives, manuscrits, etc., de développer son réseau international de recherche, d’y mener une recherche susceptible de déboucher par la suite, sur la proposition d’un réseau international de recherche soutenu par le CNRS, l’élaboration d’un projet européen (projet collaboratif, réseau COST, ERC, dont ERC Synergy etc., dans le contexte de l’Europe de la recherche), la réponse à un appel à projet ANR, international ou autre, portant sur des sources étrangères, etc.
L’InSHS ouvre un appel à propositions de sujets de thèse pour l’attribution de quatre contrats doctoraux de 36 mois avec mobilité internationale, qui débuteront au 1er octobre 2023. L’appel est ouvert jusqu’au 7 avril 2023.
La neuvième édition des cahiers de l'UMIFRE est sortie et elle est accessible gratuitemet en cliquant ici
Pour sa 9e édition, le Cahier des UMIFRE entend mettre en avant la manière dont les activités scientifiques des Unités Mixtes/Instituts français de recherche à l’étranger (UMIFRE) contribuent à éclairer la réflexion sur des thèmes centraux de l’actualité internationale.
The fifth issue of Sources just came out and is accessible here.
As Sources welcomes new editors-in-chief (see editorial), this fifth issue builds bridges between past and future publications. The interview conducted by Florent Piton with Rwandan historians on the question of using local sources to write the history of the genocide of the Tutsi, initially published in French, is here translated into Kinyarwanda. Together with Maëline Le Lay's article on the uses of the transcript of a round-table discussion on post-genocide theatre in Rwanda, they form a mini-dossier questioning the historical and artistic sources through which to approach genocidal violence.
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