Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ubuntu : entretiens avec Françoise Blum, Ed. de l’EHESS, 2024.
« Le métissage n’est pas simplement un état, mais une valeur, une capacité qu’il nous faut cultiver en nous. Il est l’autre nom du décentrement, qui nous enseigne, et là réside son pouvoir, que nous sommes beaucoup de choses à la fois, et entièrement chacune de ces choses-là. Il est essentiel de s’approprier ce devoir être métis en un temps comme le nôtre ».
The Arab Democratic Center in Berlin is pleased to launch a call for papers for the International Hybrid Conference on
ANIMATION IN AFRICA AND THE ARAB WORLD
From Geneses to Present Day: Challenges and Perspectives
Date: November 2-3, 2024
Location: Zoom + In-person at the University of Kairouan-Tunisia
N.B: Participation is free of charge
Articles are accepted in English, Arabic, and French.
Abstract
Arab and African animation has come into the spotlight, gaining more visibility in international festivals by virtue of a renewal of interest and curiosity for these societies since the popular uprising of 2011. The primary aim of this conference is to bring attention to film production that is still barely explored in film discursive practices and to expand the existing knowledge base on film and animation. The second objective is to map the theoretical field of African and Arab animation by approaching it as a whole. By “a whole”, we mean not only the final artwork but the whole ecosystem involved in its production, from the training of its authors to the various circuits of its distribution. This conference will focus on its inherent hybridity (between art and technology), its multi-layered filiations with other artistic expressions, its marginal status as a practice and in film studies, and how animation can be a social witness to major transformations.
Fabou Koulibaly, doctorant au CHS, à propos des intellectuels africains qui appellent régulièrement à s’inspirer de la Charte du Mandé pour remodeler les démocraties africaines dans Appels sur l’actualité sur RFI.