Fifth International thematic conference on Africa and the Indian Ocean
“Circulations of knowledge of cultural and artistic practices in African Indian Ocean Island Societies from the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
13-14 October 2022, Nice, France.
Organizers:
- Preben Kaarsholm, Roskilde University
- Marie Pierre Ballarin, IRD – Université Côte d’Azur
- Manuel Ramos, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
- Iain Walker, Max Planck Institute, Halle
The AEGIS CRG “Africa and the Indian Ocean” is organising a thematic workshop with a special focus on Circulations of knowledge of cultural and artistic practices. The two-day conference will consider different modes of circulation of knowledge, whether scientific, political or ideological, of religious and cultural practices, and particularly musical and artistic practices, in their different dimensions and historicities within the Western Indian ocean and along the East African coast.
Contributors will be invited to consider notions or research questions that cross these different domains of and approaches to circulations.
For instance, the notion of "composition" allows us to apprehend the phenomena of combination, assemblies, adjustments that can be mobilisable not only for the analysis of these modes of circulations, but also to understand the social impacts linked to them. It also makes it possible to grasp the way in which cultural and artistic creators "compose" musically, culturally and socially, according to the local and international/global constraints linked to their movements and their own trajectories.
Other transversal notions may deal with the reformulation of "categories" (aesthetic, moral, identity or ethnic) attached to cultural and artistic circulations and the stakes of legitimacy that result from them as a factor in the construction of differentiations (national, ethnic, social and/or cultural).
This fifth Thematic Conference of the CRG-AIO will take place at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Sud-Est of the University Côte d’Azur in Nice on 13-14 October 2022. This event will be organised in interdisciplinary panels focussing on sets of African Indian Ocean island societies (Madagascar, the Mascarenes, the Querimbas, the Comoros, the Seychelles, Zanzibar, Chagos Archipelago), to strengthen the existing ties between CRG members, participants from AEGIS members, and institutions based in the Western Indian Ocean and along the East African coast. The outcome will be a publication, either an edited volume or a journal special issue. It is expected that theoretical issues will be developed by the participants and if there is sufficient interest the intention is to develop a larger grant application for a project on identities and belonging, related to cultural and artistic practices, in the African Indian Ocean.
Schedule:
Please send an abstract of not more of 300 hundred words by the 5th of September 2022 to:
alban.fournier@univ-cotedazur.fr
The selection results will be communicated by the 15th of September 2022.
Participants will be expected to send their papers to the organisers for circulation one week before the conference. Presentations may be in English or in French.
The organisers will be able to cover cost of meals and accommodation but participants will be responsible for their own travel to Nice. However we may be able to subsidize travel costs for participants coming from Western Indian ocean and the East African coast.