XALIMANEWS : Le philosophe Souleymane Bachir Diagne a remporté le Frantz Fanon Lifetime achievement prize.
Dans un communiqué exploité par nos confrères de Seneweb, la Société sénégalaise de philosophie (Sosephi) note que, “ce prix est le plus prestigieux décerné par l’Association caribéenne de philosophie et a pour objectif de récompenser les chercheurs dont l’œuvre est considérée comme ayant eu une portée heuristique et émancipatrice de premier plan pour les peuples caribéens et africains”.
Congratulations to Professor Severine Autesserre for receiving the Prix Special du Jury (Special Prize of the Jury) from the Fonds Croix-Rouge Française (French Red Cross Fund). This distinction is awarded to an original trajectory and the quality of the research.
Bianca Flamengo is a first year Master of Public Administration in Development Practice student. She comes from a mixed family with roots in Guinea-Bissau, Cape-Verde and Portugal. She grew up in Guinea-Bissau and worked as a development consultant before coming to SIPA.
IAS core faculty affiliate Séverine Autesserre was interviewed this past weekend for a radio report on sex abuse by UN Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
IAS core faculty affiliate Séverine Autesserre was interviewed this past weekend for a radio report on sex abuse by UN Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
Former IAS Director Mamadou Diouf is quoted in a recent AfricaNews posting on youth efforts to address poverty and climate change during a conference in Mauritania.
Patience Olanitori's interest in doing business in Africa stems from her natural connections to Nigeria.
Conference conveners:
Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University in New York City)
Maureen Murphy (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne).
Supported by
LABEX CAP
Institute of African Studies/Columbia University, le Programme Alliance/Alliance Program,
Institut national d’histoire de l’art
DATES:
April 27th and 28th 2017
PLACE: Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris (Vasari room).
PRESENTATION:
Professor Séverine Autesserre has recently published "What the Uproar Over Congo's Elections Misses: The Local Roots of the Country's Problems" in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Paget Henry, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
The partnership project entitled “The African Humanities Project: A Collaborative Education and Research Program” between the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Columbia University and Sciences Po – Centre de recherches internationales (CERI) has been awarded a three-year Partnership University Fund (PUF) grant to launch a new Dual Degree MA program in African Studies between the two partnership universities by the Partner University Fund (PUF) administered by the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) foundation. The award will begin this fall 2016.
IAS Director Mamadou Diouf's Quel futur pour l'"exemple réussite" sénégalaise ? published in Fellows, the newsletter of RFIEA (Réseau français des instituts d'études avancées, or French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study, where Prof. Diouf serves as the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board).