Building from research conducted within IFRA'-Nigerias elections observatory, the institute will host a day of roundtables and a keynote lecture by Prof. Eghosa Osaghae on June 14th in order to assess the what happened during this election cycle and what it means for the political and social dynamics of the country.
Le 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
Le 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
Between 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.
On 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.
On 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.
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.
On 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.
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.
(French version below)
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.
As part of both its programmes on Digital Humanities and on Nigerian religious dynamics, IFRA-Nigeria has launched a research project on the religious architectural heritage of Ibadan. Drawing from the fields of Digital Humanities, Architecture and the Socio-anthropology of religion, the objective is to map out, research and analyse the rich history and diverse aesthetics of all religious buildings in the capital of Oyo State. A kick-start workshop gathering academics and professionals with a specific interest in the project took place in October in order to sum-up the existing research and literature on the topic and map out key future topics of research and engagement.
IFRA-Nigeria, in the context of an FSPI (Fond de Solidarité pour les Projets Innovants) project funded by the French ministry of Foreign Affairs, collaborates with the archives and library unit of the National Museum Onikan Lagos to train the museum staff to digitisation techniques which are essential to preserve the museum’s archives and make them freely available online for everyone to consult and study.
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