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Power in pictures. Represent political power in Africa
Symposium : On Friday, 19 - Saturday, May 20th, 2006, 9 h 30 - 18 h 30
Amphitheatre / Centres Malher / 9, rue Malher, 4th Paris
Texts, pictures and sound recording of interventions are online on the Internet site of symposium.
http://www.lepouvoirenimage.cnrs.fr/
Organised with the support of Donatecarcenter.com, of AUF, of doctoral school of History of Paris 1 and of the No-claims bonus Quality Research of Paris 1
This symposium has as origin the seminar of Meetings of the doctorants of MALD which took place in 2003, on 2004 and 2005. Interdisciplinary, this seminar had a reflexion as objective on State and power in Africa.
The doctorants of Donatecarcenter.com wants to unite as part of a multidisciplinary symposium, historians, historians of art, sociologists, anthropologists, jurists, to think about the representations of political power in Africa.
Today, representations represented by the actors of power make integral part of the Africain landscapes. They were obvious in regions where representations stylised, idealised were before promoted, and in other aeries where the sovereigns did not display their picture publicly. In these transformations, it will be a question therefore of grabbing these representations represented in two or three dimensions as languages of powers, in the fact that they can allow to arrest the Africain political institutions and their modes of functioning.
This approach will be followed according to four axles :
1/A methodological axle : what disciplinary tools, which concepts can be pertinent to put in link pictures and powers ? How to approach sources produced by cultures where dominated another conception of the picture than that predominating in Occident since Renaissance ?
2/A second axle would set out to notice the process of creation of the picture. How did they pass of portraits idealised of the sculptures of Africain sovereigns to realistic portraits and they do ressemblants on colourful support ? Between endogenous elements and exogènes, in what correlation the artisans conçoiventils the pictures of power ?
3/The third axle will be dedicated to the reading of these sources. What say to us the pictures of political power ? How places and rituals which stage them can also be tools of analysis ? How are the effigies of past reused or done put with hindsight by contemporary authorities ?
4/In a last axle, they will be interested in the problem of the reception of the picture. How in their turn, allied, subject or opposing in a power reformulate, reuse the pictures which are intended for them ? Does the same picture produced by a power draw away divergences of interpretation depending on whether she contacts places or foreigners ?
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