UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL CHAIRE DE RECHERCHE DU CANADA EN LITTÉRATURES AFRICAINES ET FRANCOPHONIE Titulaire : Justin Bisanswa COLLOQUE JEUNES CHERCHEURS 2013 « Roman francophone et figuration du monde » Organisé avec Olga Hél-Bongo et Kasereka Kavwahirehi La Chaire de recherche du Canada en littératures africaines et francophonie organise, les 29 et 30 avril … Continue reading
The Royal Museum for central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) is organizing, in collaboration with the Free University Brussels and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, an outstanding international conference, Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norms. The social construction of illegality (Tervuren, Brussels, Leuven, October 25-27 2012). The conference aims at fostering a cross-disciplinary debate on everyday practice seen … Continue reading
Leon Verbeek (b. 1934, Belgium), has worked in Rwanda 1957-1959 and in Congo (Lubumbashi) from 1966 to the present as independent researcher in collaboration with different institutions. He can be contacted via email on verbeek_leon@yahoo.fr Principaux ouvrages publiés : 1) Kitawala et détecteurs de sorciers dans la Botte de Sakania. In : Enquêtes et documents d’histoire africaine. Louvain-la-Neuve, … Continue reading
Michael Meeuwis (PhD 1997) is Professor of African languages and linguistics at Ghent University, where he is also the director of the Centre for Studies in African Humanities (http://www.cesah.ugent.be). His domains of interest include the grammatical description of Lingala, the sociolinguistics of Lingala, the history of colonial linguistics in the Belgian Congo, South African sociolinguistics, … Continue reading
Piet Clement obtained a PhD in Modern History at the KULeuven (1995) and currently works as historian and archivist in Basel, Switzerland. Research interest in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo focuses on landownership issues and rural development, as well as colonial history and institution building more generally. Short research visits to … Continue reading