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Researching sexual violence in the armed conflict of eastern DRC September 2012. My Congolese friend Marie-Noël, who runs a small, community-based NGO, welcomes us in Ruzizi, a border town between Rwanda and the DRC. We hop in her jeep and head for Bukavu. Five minutes later, the car is stopped. Two men have barricaded the … Continue reading
‘Change of Plans’ – Blog 3 Identities are prevalent in any society, as a political entity or a loosely grouped community of people. These identities constitute part of the fibre of the national, regional, and local identity. The Congo is imbued with multiple national, regional, and local identities, which make up the fibre of its … Continue reading
‘Change of Plans – Part 2’ Generally one of the most striking things about the Katangan secession of 1960-1963 was the imagery and iconography created to develop a personal nationalism that could resonate within the local population. A variety of things were created and constructed – an airline, the national/local military, Katangan postage stamps, the … Continue reading
‘Changes to the Plan’ I’m not entirely sure how the fieldwork for my dissertation suddenly came to life. As a historian, it isn’t something you would typically expect to happen when filling out a university form several terms in advance to apply for fieldwork. However, this is Lubumbashi and as someone once told me, in … Continue reading
We are inviting panel proposals for the ASAUK 2014 conference taking place in Sussex on September 11 2014. following the success of the Congo stream at the ASAUK conference in Leeds (Sept 2012), the CongoResearchNetwork has been requested to organize a new stream of Congo-related panels. There is a limit of 9 panels, as to … Continue reading
(see bellow for english version) “Diaspora congolaise en Belgique : Imaginaires et relations postcoloniales au regard du champ artistique” Colloque international, Bruxelles, 11 et 12 octobre 2013.Appel à contribution En 2010, la Belgique (à travers ses institutions, ses médias et la société civile) célébrait avec enthousiasme le cinquantenaire de l’indépendance du Congo. Une certaine glorification des … Continue reading
L’”Afrique des Grands Lacs” est une publication annuelle à comité de lecture. Cet Annuaire publie des articles d’”histoire immédiate” axée sur économie politique de la région qui englobe le Rwanda, le Burundi, l’est de la République Du Congo, et l’Ouganda. Les auteurs potentiels sont invités à envoyer un résumé de entre 200 et 300 mots à klara.claessens@ua.ac.be avant le 31 décembre 2012. Le comité de … Continue reading
Le CongoResearchNetwork vous invite a assister a l’atelier suivant: Johanna Jansson (Universite de Roskilde), La presence chinoise en RDC: Au-Dela du “contrat du siecle?”, le 30 octobre 2012, a ISP/Gombe, a 15h, discutant Prof. Dr. Claude Sumata (UCC), salle a confirmer entree gratuit
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
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