IFRA-Nigeria and the French Gender Institute organized an Online Research Seminar on the theme: "Reflections on Gender Studies in Nigeria. Issues, perspectives and debates".
This Online Seminar took place on Zoom, on February 10th, at 3pm.
La Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) et l’Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) du Nigeria proposent à des postdoctorants résidant en France une aide à la mobilité pour réaliser un séjour de recherche de 2 ou 3 mois en Afrique de l’Ouest : Nigeria, Ghana, Bénin, Togo, Cameroun et Tchad. Seront soutenus des projets de recherche qui s’inscrivent dans la politique scientifique de l’IFRA Nigeria, en synergie avec ses chercheurs ou ses partenaires au Nigeria. Les projets interdisciplinaires sont bienvenus. Cet appel s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme Atlas de mobilité postdoctorale de courte durée lancé par la FMSH et ses partenaires.
In Collaboration with Institut Français du Nigeria, IFRA-Nigeria organised an evening that celebrated the circulation of ideas and knowledges. The theme of 2022 Night of Ideas was "(Re)building Together : Inter-religious Dialogue and Social Cohesion. Perspectives from Nigeria".
The ADEFSA Natural Language Processing (NLP) Bootcamp was run by IFRA from the 8th to the 11th of November, as part of a programme to support the development of French higher education in Africa (ADESFA) financed by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE). ADEFSA has supported the University Paris Nanterre to help the University of Ibadan to set up a Masters Degree in Natural Language Processing.
The Center for Arabic Documentation, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with IFRA-Nigeria organised a day roundtable on: "Arabic Manuscript Collections of the University of Ibadan", on Monday 29th November, 2021, in Lady Bank Anthony Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
Nigeria Watch project is launching a monthly Online Research Seminar Series: "Hard Facts and Body Counts: Understanding Violence through the Nigeria Watch Database". The series will be the opportunity to analyse data retrieved from Nigeria Watch database, with a specific focus every month.
Registration: please fill this form.
As part of the “French Connexion” programme, IFRA-Nigeria, in collaboration with Institut français du Nigeria, organised a roundtable on the theme: "Digital Humanities - For a Public History of Lagos”. The event took place on Tuesday, 23rd of November at 6pm in Alliance Française / Mike Adenuga Center in Lagos. It explored different projects publicizing the history of Lagos with digital tools.
As part of the NaijaArchives project, which aims at improving the accessibility of Nigerian archives, and thanks to the funding of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Camille Tatger, a historian and archivist currently working for the French Ministry of Ecology came to provide a digitization training to staff members of various Nigerian Archives centres (Zaria, Kaduna, Enugu, Ibadan). The training took place from October 25th to October 29th in IFRA, University of Ibadan.
Few weeks after the outbreak of Covid-19, IFRA-Nigeria launched a research project on the impacts of the pandemics in Nigeria. The project had three successive phases in the course of 18 months and was funded by IFRA and the French Embassy in Nigeria. To celebrate its closure and disseminate its findings, IFRA-Nigeria organised a conference followed by a film screening to present the research outputs on Wednesday 10th of November from 4pm to 6pm in University of Ibadan.
IFRA-Nigeria, Alliance Française Lagos and Institut Français du Nigeria organised a panel discussion on the theme: "Constructing our Collective Memories of the Pandemic".This event was part of the conferences cycle "The World Afterwards" currated by Institut Français du Nigeria. This panel discussion took place at Alliance Française de Lagos / Mike Adenuga Centre on Saturday 23rd October at 7pm.
Initiating the Natural Language Processing Programme in Nigeria : 8-11 November, 2021.
The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Ibadan, in conjunction with the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), hereby invites postgraduate students and other members of the Nigerian society to a Boot Camp where it introduces the University’s proposal of the Natural Language Processing NLP Programme.
Applications are closed.
IFRA-Nigeria, in collaboration with the Alliance Française Ibadan, organised another Café Science. Prof. Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (Senior Research Associate at IFRA-Nigeria) presented “Argungu Fishing Festival 2020: a photographic exploration” at the Alliance Française of Ibadan, on Thursday 14th October 2021 at 5:30pm.
IFRA-Nigeria organised a talk with Prof. Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Senior Research Associate at IFRA-Nigeria, on the theme: “The Business of the Oil Curse: Debunking the Niger Delta’s Struggles”. The event took place on Tuesday 12th October at 4pm, in Drapers Hall in the Institute of African Studies.
As part of the research programme Hidden Narratives on Transnational Organised Crime in West Africa a research training programme was organised on the theme: “Challenges of Fieldwork: Data Collection in Sensitive Situations”. A six days masterclass took place at the Nigerian Academy of Letters, University of Ibadan from September 13th to 19th, 2021.
In continuation of our programmes on Digital Humanities, IFRA-Nigeria organized a workshop on filming for research in social sciences and the humanities. The workshop took place at the Nigerian Academy of Letters, University of Ibadan for three days, from August 25th to 27th.
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