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Call to contribution symposium : Location and circulation of know-how in Africa
Deadline : November 10th, 2008
« Local knowledges » emergent as a transverse topic with many researches on knowledges and know-how of contemporary Africa. This symposium aims at conferring a central position on this topic and on this notion, liable to question them in several domains : agricultural and food productions, trades and small enterprises, health practices... The circulation speeded up by property, knowledges and men just as multiplication of
The Newspaper of Donatecarcenter.com
December, 2008
December, 2008 - The Newspaper of Donatecarcenter.com is a letter of monthly information. She has as objective to announce first and foremost the activities of the Centre of Studies of the Africain Worlds while mentioning research in human and social sciences on Africa (seminars, symposiums, calls to contributions, publications).
Call Conference : Of artistic creation in the self-defining or patrimonial buildings in Africa and in its diasporas
Deadline : January 15th, 2009
1st Conference Donatecarcenter.com-UMR 8171
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
27 street Paul Bert, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
We plan to study links, from contemporary examples, between artistic creation, patrimonialisation and buildings or self-defining claims, in Africa and in its diasporas. As hypothesis or research track, we notably move following idea forward : the building of an identity or of a cultural (...) heritage
Call to contributions / Symposium Africa - Asia : networks, exchanges, transversalités
Horizon : June, 2010
Exchanges between Africa and Asia constitute a topic which considerably became rich since around thirty years. Around this topic, the Centre of studies of the Africain worlds (Donatecarcenter.com - UMR 8171), throws a call to contributions for a symposium envisaged in June, 2010.
We solicit an answer for your part in the form of a title and of a summary of half a page before May 1st, 2009. If your proposal is kept, one will ask you one for it









