Contact
Email: info@nairobi.net
About IFRA
IFRA is an institution of the French
Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, attached to the French
Embassy in Kenya.
IFRA-Nairobi, IFAS in Johannesburg and IFRA-Nigeria constitute the CNRS's research unit USR 3336.
Currently IFRA coordinates research programmes on the following themes:
Political Landscapes
Culture and Society
Heritage
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Recent publications
- NEW MAMBO!: "The Last Swahili State - The Foundation of the Witu Sultanate in the 19th Century" by Clélia Coret [texte]
- NEW MAMBO!: "A toute vapeur, les succès de la géothermie au Kenya" by Laure Birckel [texte FR]
- NEW Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est: "Slum Upgrading programmes in Nairobi - Challenges in the Implementation" edited by Rosa Flores Fernandez [Cahiers]
- NEW MAMBO!:"Performing and Narrating the Tanzanian Nation" by Marie-Aude Fouéré [Article]
Conferences and Seminars
Calls for Papers
- 24-26 April 2012: "Religious Mobility in East Africa and South America". Conference organized in collaboration between the Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), the Catholic University in Eastern Africa (CUEA) and IFRA. Deadline for submitting papers: January, 15 2012 [CFP].
- 27-31 June 2012: "Africa's Golden Jubilee: Assessing 50 Years of Scholarship and Development in Africa". 1st Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Deadline for papers submission: March, 30 2012 [CFP].
If you want to come to our conferences and seminars, please register by sending an email at: publications@ifra-nairobi.net
BIEA/IFRA seminars are organized once a month. You
are a PhD student or a researcher and you wish to make a presentation of your research, please contact
us. IFRA also organizes Brown Bag Seminars for visiting researchers and students doing their fieldwork.
Research programmes
Visiting
- Yonatan Kissim Gez, PhD student, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Chloé Josse-Durand, PhD student, Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux
- Jean-Baptiste Lanne, Master's student, Ecole Normale Supérieure ENS-Lyon
- Giordano Marmone, PhD student, Nanterre University
Funding
IFRA also supports
students for their research in social sciences and humanities, gives access
to documentary resources and organises
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