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Methodological seminar – Vincent Foucher

335620185 160670800183998 1049639502877168560 nOn the 31st of March, IFRA-Nigeria hosted the second session of its new series of methodological seminars. Vincent Foucher (Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), researcher at the Sciences Po Bordeaux affiliated with the laboratory Les Afriques dans le monde and senior analyst for the non-governmental organisation International Crisis Group). Vincent Foucher extensively worked on the jihadist movement Boko Haram in the north-eastern part of Nigeria.

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Conference: Vincent Foucher – summary

348366361 627663099313372 5948935565703510414 nOn the 30th of March, Vincent Foucher (Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), researcher at the Sciences Po Bordeaux affiliated with the laboratory Les Afriques dans le monde and senior analyst for the non-governmental organisation International Crisis Group) gave a conference during which he presented his current research on the Bakura Faction and the governance of jihad in the lake Chad basin. During the event, Vincent Foucher presented the Islamic State franchise centred in north-eastern Nigeria, which is now one of the most active jihadist movements in the world.

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Appel à candidatures pour des bourses de recherche en islamologie (Master 2)

Capture décran 2023 05 23 161207Le Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Etrangères et le réseau des UMIFRE souhaitent soutenir la jeune recherche en islamologie en proposant des bourses de terrain d’une durée de trois mois à destination d’étudiants de Master ayant le souhait de poursuivre des recherches dans ce domaine. Les boursiers et boursières seront accueilli/es par les centres membres du réseau des UMIFRE et d’autres instituts de recherche partenaires du programme (voir la liste des instituts concernés*). Date limite de candidature 22/09/23

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Appel à candidatures pour des bourses de recherche en islamologie (Doctorant.es/Jeunes docteur.es)

Capture décran 2023 05 23 161207Le Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Etrangères et le réseau des UMIFRE souhaitent soutenir la jeune recherche en islamologie en proposant des bourses de terrain d’une durée de six mois à destination de doctorant/es et jeunes docteur/es poursuivant des recherches dans ce domaine. Les boursiers et boursières seront accueilli/es par les centres membres du réseau des UMIFRE et d’autres instituts de recherche partenaires du programme (voir la liste des instituts concernés*). date limite : 22/09/2023

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Workshop - Peace and Security in Nigeria (PASiN)

aDSC 0220Between the 13th and the 17th of March 2023, NigeriaWatch, IFRA-Nigeria, and the Institute of African Studies conducted a 5- days training workshop on the methodological challenges of violence studies in Nigeria. The twenty participants got a chance to develop a deeper understanding of Nigeria's security concerns as well as new methodological skills, such as how to generate statistics, interpret data, and write articles.

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IFRI & IFRA-Nigeria seminar on the Nigerian general elections

microsoftteams image 9On the 16th of March 2023, IFRA-Nigeria and the French institute of international relations (IFRI) co-organised an online seminar on the Nigerian general elections featuring Elodie Apard, Research Officer, IRD, Benjamin Augé, Research Associate, IFRI; Sa'eed Husaini, Research, Center for Democracy and Development, Abuja; Cyrielle Maingraud-Martinaud, Deputy Director, IFRA-Ibadan. The debate was moderated by Alain Antil, Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri and Barbara Morovich, Director, IFRA-Ibadan.

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Methodological seminar - Salomé Okoekpen

Salomé Okoekpen MethodsOn the 15th of March, Salomé Okoekpen, PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Geneva, presented her methods and her fieldwork to fifteen master and PhD students during a methodological seminar at the university of Ibadan.

Salomé Okoekpen explores Muslim women's engagement in rural towns of Oyo State looking at their organisational and associative practices. She is most interested in their lived experience, on how they perceive and interpret their actions and religiosity. The methodology deployed by Salomé Okoekpen blends ethnographic and artistic approaches such as drawing, sound recordings, and photography. Drawing serves as a tool for immersion and engagement, positioning and reflexivity, and personal reflection and expression. It is also a medium that allow for the engagement of a wider, non-academical, audience.

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Journée d'étude: Matrimoines et patrimonialisations expérimentales de la « nature » en ville.

arton57 resp400Le 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.

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The British colonial ‘migrated’ archives: a workshop for Nigeria-based early career researchers

Capture décran 2023 03 20 113859On the 16th of June 2023, Tim Livsey (Northumbria University) is organising a workshop for early career researchers in partnership with IFRA-Nigeria with the support of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshop will take place at the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan.

British authorities covertly removed thousands of documents from colonised territories at around the time they won their independence, from the 1940s through to the 1980s. These papers include 413 files taken from Nigeria.

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Tremplin pour l’international - Soutien à la mobilité (2023)

inshsL’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.

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Publication of the fifth issue of the journal "Sources"

sources 5 2022 varia small500 1The 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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Call for research projects 2023-2024 / Appel à projets de recherche 2023-2024

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This call is adressed to Masters Students - Doctoral Students - Post-Doctoral Students - Researchers

IFRA-Nigeria - French Institute for Research in Africa located within the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan (UMIFRE 24 /CNRS and MEAE) has a regional vocation that extends over ten West African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Chad and Togo. It promotes and supports research in the humanities and social sciences in Nigeria and in the other aforementioned countries.

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