The 2013 Women’s Caucus Luncheon and Lecture, will be held at the 56th ASA Annual Meeting in Baltimore on Saturday November 23rd at 12:00PM to 1:15PM, in Harborside Ballroom C. This year’s speaker is Professor Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, and she will be talking about the ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and its … Continue reading
Jeudi le 3 octobre a Kinshasa – Prof. Dr. Patrick Devlieger (universite de Leuven, belgique), “entre identite et materialite: la decentralisation administrative en RD Congo face a la marginalite sociale et culturelle” – discutant Prof. Mbwebwa (doyen de la faculte d economie et developpement, UCC) – a 16h a UCC – salle 17 –
read here about the recent and upcoming workshops organized by the CongoResearchNetwork in Kinshasa – September-December 2013
17 sept 2013 – 16h30 Dr Thomas Hendriks (Universite de Leuven, Belgique) presente une analyse anthropologique des posters chinois dans les espaces domestiques a l’equateur et des photos par Sammy Baloji – discutant: Drs Henry Kalama (enseignant a L’Academie des Beaux Arts) – ISC Gombe – Salle Master 25 sept 2013 – 10h Drs Peter … 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
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
International workshop: Conflict, Identity and the State in colonial and post-colonial Democratic Republic of Congo Friday 29 June 2012, 9.30am – 5.15pm Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield 9.30-10.00: Registration and coffee, welcome remarks 10.00-10.45: Keynote speaker: Théodore Trefon (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren): The 2011 DR Congo election and its aftermath 10.45-11.00: Coffee … Continue reading
READ THE PROGRAM OF THE CRN WORKSHOPS IN KINSHASA Three workshops in June 2012! 5 June 2012 – Drs Leon Tsambu (UNIKIN): Sociodrame, jeu et pouvoir dans le spectacle musical congolais. (Critique sociologique du concert de Wenge Musica MM au Palais des Sports de Paris 1999.) 12 June 2012 – Prof. Dr. Tom De Herdt (University of Antwerp, Belgium): A la … Continue reading
12 June 2012 – Prof. Dr. Tom De Herdt (University of Antwerp, Belgium): A la recherche de l’Etat – enjeux et acteurs de la reconstruction post-conflit en RDC – lire le papier ici (en anglais) De Herdt CRN paper
On Tuesday 22 May at 14h (2 pm) Prof Miles Larmer (University of Sheffield, UK) will give a lecture entitled Comparing Copperbelts: The History and Politics of Resource Extraction in the Zambian Copperbelt and Haut Katanga Etude comparative des copperbelts : historicisation du “resource curse” et la contestation des modernites dans les copperbelts zambien et haut-katangais … Continue reading