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Populations, territories and powers in Niger
Organised by Camille Lefèbvre (Doctorante Paris I) and Elodie Apard (Doctorante Paris I)
The sessions of this year will take place in December, 2008 in the centre Malher in Paris, both following January and February sessions in Niamey
Program 2008-2009
he is under way of preparation because it innovates this year with sessions in Paris and others in Niamey.
the first session in December, 2008 will take place in the centre Malher in Paris, both following January and February sessions in Niamey in Niger.
Program 2007-2008
On Monday, November 12th, 2007, 17h-19h
Philippe David : Niger in transition
In collaboration with seminar Transmission of the colonial State.
Evidence of an ancient colonial magistrate having served in Niger from 1960 till 1964.
On Thursday, November 22nd, 16h-18h
Sophie Dulucq : Write the history of Western Africa in colonial situation. Knowledges and learnt networks in France
On Wednesday, December 19th, 2007, 16h-18h
Jean Hervé Jezequel and Xavier Crombé : Development or assistance : borders of assistant and crisis of 2005 in Niger
On Friday, January 18th, 2008, 16h-18h
Vincent Bonnecase : Famines and ordinary hunger. Institutional valuation of the levels of feeding in Niger (1931-1974)
Ann Hugon : (Biological and social) Motherhood and feeding : some historical approaches in Gold Coast in colonial epoch
On Friday, February 22nd, 2008, 16h-18h
Alice Gallois : Between evidence and speech : the love-hate work of Jean Rouch
Projection.
On Friday, March 14th, 2008 16h-18h
Vanina Profizi : Corsican Niamey village, on 1958-1960. Regional criterion in the semiofficial relations of the administration French-of Niger during transition towards independence.
On Friday, April 18th, 2008 14h-19h
Round table : Rebellions in the North Niger and in the North Mali - Lecture room (RDC) - NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - 27, street Paul Bert - 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine - underground Door of Choisy or Door of Ivry
Presentation of seminar
To centre a reflexion on the single country poses the problem of interest and of pertinence of a limited field. Our choice explains by importance and diversity of problems linked to the space of Niger. In part his geographical shape and his geopolitical and strategical position, Niger gathers major stakes, representative of a broad space, exceeding the classical categorisations : Black Africa, Western Africa, French-speaking Africa, English-speaking Africa, the Maghreb, Sahara, central Africa. He does not belong willy-nilly to any entities but each determines him. The pivotal position of Niger, but also relations and the modern and ancient fluxes (economic, cultural and linguistic...) who crosses him make it a centre calling into question these plated divisions. Its opening towards the outside, the direction of its populations beyond borders, links the history of Niger to that of the whole historical region constituted by its neighbouring live broadcastings and indirect : Nigeria, Libya, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Coasts of ivory, Algeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso. These links pass by official ways : regional organisms, economic regrouping, and informal ways, economic flux, human, cultural and linguistic.
The questions which can be raised are therefore very opened. relations between sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb... Saharan and Sahelian problems, relation between nomad and stay-at-home reports between French-speaking and English-speaking countries tensions relating to treasures and to working of the soil, question of the land question of Islam and of its evolution, in a country at the same time very Muslim and nondenominational political processes (military regimes, democratisation...) relation with France
Contrary to its visibility and to its exhibition, Niger represents an essential element of understanding of problems put down to an enlarged region and to the whole continent.
Sessions 2006-2007
November 17th, 2006 16h-18h
Jérôme Bernussou : Reflexion on historiography of Niger
December 15th, 2006 16h30-18h30
In the rediscovery of a forgotten Saharan actor : Muslim brotherhood Sanûsiyya :
Dominique Casajus : Duveyrier and the senoussiya :l' history of a drama
Jean Louis Triaud : A history visited again. The role and the place of Sanûsiyya in Niger. Discourse analysis of Kawsan according to its correspondence (1916-1917).
January 26th, 2007 16h30-18h30
Serge Mboyi-bongo : The mechanisms of accommodation of umarien power in colonial situation in the curl of Niger : the case of Aguibu Tall, fama of Macina (1893-1902).
February 23rd, 2007 10h-12h
Hassan Souley : The stages of contemporary Islam in Niger Projection of the documentary :
March 30th, 2007 13h30-15h30
Daouda Gary Tounkara : Migrations of Sahel towards the Ivory Coast
27 April, 2007 16h30-18h30
Monica Chastanet : The food crisis of 2005 in Niger
May 18th, 2007 16h30-18h30
Mahamane Sidibé : Decentralisation in Niger
An additional session will share place with the seminar of transmission of the colonial State. It is about the evidence of an ancient colonial administrator having served in Niger : Michel Levallois.
on Monday, March 26th, 2007 17h-19h
Michel Levallois : On 1958 : evidence of a young administrator in internship of ENFOM (Dakar, Bamako, Niamey)
Discussion group and working party on Niger
Doctorantes persons entitled to a state benefit in the laboratory Donatecarcenter.com site Paris, we work on Niger. We want to create a space of debate and of reflexion on this country. Our purpose is to unite researchers and students any disciplines and merged horizons, which they work specifically on Niger or that they are interested in linked problems. Our step does not limit itself to the university world. We would like to make intercede actors of the history of Niger : ancient administrators ; actors of colonisation, of decolonization or of cooperation ; politicians, agents of influence ; economic operators ; actors of the society ; personalities The frame of this reflexion is at first a monthly seminar opened to all, organised according to three types of sessions : Sessions evidence, one or two dealers would come to tell their experience in Niger. Sessions of debate, gathering several dealers of various horizons on a given topic. Research sessions or a person would come to introduce her jobs on Niger. In second time a collaboration with the university of Niamey, in form of exchanges and of meeting in France and in Niger. Finally the organisation of a symposium.
Contact : seminaire_niger@yahoo.fr
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