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Le cycle de conférences traditionnellement organisées
avec le British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA, www.biea.ac.uk)
vient d’être relancé dans le cadre de l’université
de Nairobi (www.uonbi.ac.ke) avec de véritables cycles thématiques.
L’objectif ici est de permettre un meilleur accès des
étudiants à ces conférences et une meilleure
implication des collègues kenyans.
Liste des séminaires
qui ont déjà eu lieu
69. The East African Coast : Recent research
UUniversité de Nairobi, Seminar Room 2A, Jomo Kenyatta Library
Fridays, 3-5 pm
23 March 2007 : Politics and heritage
Modérateur : George Gona (professeur d’histoire à
l’université de Nairobi)
Justin Willis (BIEA)
Ibrahim Namunaba (Fort Jesus, NMK)
Jimbi Katana (Fort Jesus, NMK)
23 février 2007 : Coastal landscapes
Modérateur : E.W. Whaome, (université de Nairobi)
Julius Mungai (université de Nairobi)
Stéphanie Wynne-Jones (BIEA)
Anthony Githitho (CFCU)
26 janvier 2007: Identity and politics
on the coast
Modérateur : Hélène Charton-Bigot (IFRA)
Swaleh K. Harith, professeur de philosophie et d’études
religieuses à l’université de Nairobi
Marie-Pierre Ballarin (cherheur IRD et Kenyatta University)
Anne Cussac (IFRA)
68. Urban space in Kenya
1er décembre : Urban identity
and urban space
Modérateur : Juma Asiago (SaferCities)
Joyce Nyairo (professeur de littérature à Moi University)
Lydia Waithira (professeur d’histoire à l’Université
de Nairobi)
Peter Wafula, (professeur d’histoire à l’université
de Nairobi)
17 November 2006 : Nairobi and its margins
Modérateur : Mary Mwiandi (professeur d’histoire à
l’université de Nairobi)
Pamela Ngesa (professeur d’histoire à l’université
de Nairobi)
Johan de Smedt
George Gona
Kenneth Ombongi (professeur d’histoire à l’université
de Nairobi)
27 October 2006 : Urban governance: between
local and global
Modérateur : Adams Oloo (professeur de sciences politiques
à l’université de Nairobi)
Musambayi Katumanga (professeur de sciences politiques à
l’université de Nairobi)
Sam Owuor (professeur de géographie à l’université
de Nairobi)
67. The setting up of international boundaries
in the Horn of Africa, with a focus on the recent conflict between
Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Eloi Ficquet, EHESS, Paris, France.
25.09.06
66. Raiding in the North Rift : some
recent observations.
Dave Eaton, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
09.03.06
65. Symbolism in the urban landscape:
the geographer’s view of statues and monuments in Nairobi.
Laragh Larsen, Trinity College, Dublin, Irlande.
05.01.06
64. Upgrading of unplanned settlements
and its impact on rental housing in Dar es Salaam.
Rasmus Precht, IFRA, Nairobi, Kenya.
13.12.05
63. “What is magic ?” Considerations
on magic, witchcraft and sorcery in Africa and elsewhere.
Michel Adam, Université de Tours, France.
17.11.05
62. New archaeological research on the
medieval coastal landscape of Tanzania.
Ted Pollard, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Ulster,
Coleraine, Nothern Ireland.
06.09.05
61. Radio Cairo and the decolonization
of East Africa 1954–64
James Bennan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, UK.
31.08.05
60. Senghor / Soyinka and the muse of
forgiveness.
Alain Ricard, INALCO, CNRS, Bordeaux, France.
30.06.05
59. History of the hanged: Britain’s
dirty war in Kenya and the end of the empire.
David Anderson, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford,
UK.
12.04.05
58. Anthropology, archaeology and historical
denial in colonial Kenya: the early careers of G.W.B. Huntingford
and Louis Leakey
John Sutton (former director, BIEA), Pitt Rivers Museum & Wolfson
College, University of Oxford, UK.
07.04.05
57. The untold story of Britain’s
Gulag in Kenya.
Caroline Elkins, Harvard University, USA.
01.03.05
56. The Muslim community in Nairobi.
Nathalie Gomes, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya.
08.02.05
55. The underbelly of the state: Gender
and the production of ethnic identity in Kikuyu-speaking Central
Kenya.
Amrik Heyer, Centre of African Studies School of Oriental &
African Studies
18.01.05
54. Religion and politics.
John Londsale, University of Cambridge, UK.
09.12.04
53. Dead bodies in the archives:
an anthro-historical approach to a 1930s witchcraft case.
Katherine Luongo, University of Michigan, USA.
19.10.04
52. Miraa in Kenya and Beyond.
Neil Carrier, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
12.10.04
51. Protest in the cattle camps. Placing
the overstocking / destocking issue in context: Kenya 1920–1945.
Richard Waller, Bucknell University.
23.07.04
50. Tolerating people in protected areas:
changing narratives in African conservation.
Bill Adams, University of Cambridge, UK.
18.05.04
49. Recent research on the pre-history
of the arid southern lowveld of Zimbabwe.
Carolyn Thorp, BIEA
29.04.04
48. The house fly and the tsetse fly:
the motivations of loyalists during the Mau Mau insurgency.
Daniel Branch, University of Oxford, UK.
06.04.04
47. The rise and fall of a pre-colonial
African farming community at Engaruka, Tanzania.
Vesa Laulumaa, University of Helsinki, Finlande.
25.03.04
46. Forbidden Images: the rock
art of the Nyau secret society of Malawi and Zambia.
Benjamin Smith, Director, Rock Art Research Institute, School of
Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of
the Witwatersrand.
01.12.03
45. The Kenyan Big Game safari:
a case of transcultural production.
Ed Steinhart, Texas Technical University, USA.
04.09.03
44. Missionaries and plague epidemics
in late 19th century Buganda.
Henri Médard, Centre d’Etudes Africaines, Université
de Paris I, France.
18.08.03
43. Studying war during a war:
undertaking research in Eritrea.
Richard Reid, University of Durham
12.08.03
42. Archaeology and Palaeoecology in
Eastern Africa: an overview of recent work.
David Taylor, Trinity College, Dublin
11.07.03
41. Cattle before crops: the origins
of pastoralism in Eastern Africa.
Fiona Marshall, Washington University, St Louis, USA.
08.07.03
40. Changing perspectives of the East
African early stone age: insights from Koobi fora &
Kanjera South.
David Braun, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
18.03.03
39. Can Eldoret peace negotiations succeed?
Gérard Prunier, Director, CFEE, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
20.02.03
38. Violent deaths in Kenya: a
review of the press reports: 1999-2002.
Philippe Bocquier, Director, IFRA-Nairobi, Kenya
19.12.02
37. Gikuyu orthography and the politics
of writing in colonial Kenya.
Derek Peterson, College of New Jersey, USA
01.08.02
36. Net reproduction in Saharan Africa:
the possible role of HIV/AIDS.
Alex Ezeh & Pierre Ngom
13.06.02
35. The East African Legislative Assembly.
Henry Ongwenyi
23.05.02
34. Lake Victoria water hyacinth:
an ecological crisis or an economic opportunity?
Jeremiah Kitundu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
09.05.02
33. Population and environment:
the case of Kabale district, Uganda.
Grace Carswell, University of Sussex
16.04.02
32. The Kanungu fire: transformation
of the Nyabingi spirit cult in Western Uganda.
Richard Vokes, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
04.04.02
31. Pastoral conflicts in Northern Kenya.
John Galaty, Mc Gill University, Montreal
20.03.02
30. A geography of the conflict in the
North Rift Valley.
Jean Huchon, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya
22.01.02
29. Transnational network and the global
imagining of faith in the Sai Baba movement.
Smriti Srinivas, Ohio State University, USA.
13.12.01
The global information society: lessons from India’s Silicon
Valley.
James Heitzman, Georgia State University, USA
28. Oil and war in the Sudan.
Gérald Prunier, Director CFEE, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
01.11.01
27. The historical context of AIDS;
STDs and demographic crisis in Bukoba, 1900-1980.
Shane Doyle, Sydney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK.
01.10.01
26. State withdrawal, citizen alternatives
and spatial consequences: a case study of water management
in the city of Dar-es-Salaam.
Valérie Messer, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya.
19.07.01
25. Iron smelting, soil erosion and environmental
change – evidence from Kondoa District, north-central
Tanzania.
Paul Lane, Director BIEA, Nairobi, Kenya
21.06.01
24. Asian-African business – the
national perspective.
Pheroze Nowrojee, advocate, Nairobi, Kenya.
02.05.01
23. Crossing boundaries: a practice-based
exploration of art, context and cultural transformation.
Kate Parsons, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education,
UK.
17.04.01
22. Some Kikuyu origins of the wave of
Pentecostalism in Kenya.
Yvan Droz, Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Développement,
Genève.
07.03.01
21. The arrival and use of forearms in
East Africa.
John Lamphear, University of Texas, USA.
15.02.01
20. Islands of agricultural instensification
in Eastern Africa.
Mats Widgren, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Willie Ostberg, National
Museum, Stockholm.
17.01.01
19. Leaderchip and the politics of deconstructing
predatory states in Africa: a comparative examination of
Uganda and Rwanda.
Musambayi Katumanga, CREPAO, Pau, France.
14.12.00
18. The “haven of peace”
purged: tackling the undesirable and unproductive poor in Dar es
Salaam, c.1950s–1984.
Andrew Burton, BIEA, Nairobi, Kenya.
30.11.00
17. Life and death: traditional religious
conception among the Meru in Kenya.
Anne-Marie Peatrik, CNRS, Paris, France.
16.11.00
16. Moving the Maasai: a colonial misadventure.
Lotte Hughes, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
11.10.00
15. Pre-colonial cattle and agriculture
in the Great Lakes region.
Andrew Reid, University of London, UK.
07.09.00
14. The social impact of iron technology:
the case of South-Western Tanzania.
Bertram Mapunda, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
14.04.00
13. The national integration of the pastoralists:
the case of the Somali in Kenya.
Nathalie Gomes, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya.
02.03.00
12. Medical missions in Kenya.
Ondine Barrow, Oxford University, UK.
14.02.00
11. Somalia since the UN withdrawal (1995)
Gérard Prunier, Centre for Research in Africa
27.01.00
10. Facts and ethnicity in a context
of conflict prevention. Why bother about anthropologists?
Danielle de Lame, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium
09.12.99
9. Has urbanisation reached its saturation
point in Africa ? Some inferences from West Africa.
Philippe Bocquier, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya
28.10.99
8. To migrate or not to be: migration
as a pattern of Kikuyu social practices.
Yvan Droz, Institut Universitaire d’études du Développement,
Geneva, Switzerland.
09.09.99
7. The land question in the over-populated
highlands of East Africa: a historical and geographical study
of the estates of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Bernard Charlery de la Masselière, Université de Toulouse
le Mirail, France.
31.08.99
6. Prodigal’s progress: from empty
land to ruined land.
Richard Waller, Bucknell University, USA.
11.08.99
5. Commoditisation of Alcohol among the
Maasai
Justin Willis, African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge,
UK.
02.07.99
4. Selling wealth to buy poverty:
individualisation of land ownership among the Maasai pastoralists
of Kajiado District, Kenya.
Marcel Rutten, Africa Studies Centre, University of Cambridge
02.07.99
3. The revival of the East African Co-operation:
an illusion ?
François Grignon, IFRA Nairobi, Kenya.
25.05.99
2. Rehabilitation, resettlement and restocking:
ideology and practice of pastoralist develoment in Kenya, 1930s
to 1990s.
David Anderson, University of London, UK.
15.04.99
1. The Return of the Asians in Uganda.
Tom Forrest, Oxford University, UK.
30.03.99
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