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2nd Work Shop: (Field)Work in Congolese Media Communities: Challenges and Choices
Wednesday February 16 2011, 5PM-7PM, Danford Room, Centre of West African Studies, U. of Birmingham,http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-map.pdf, R16, Arts Building – in the red zone)
Speakers:
Dr Long, Nick (independent scholar), The media in a fragile state. Demonstrating effects, and protecting sources.
Dr Pype, Katrien (U. of Birmingham), Reciprocity and Risk in the Lives and Work of Kinshasa’s Television Journalists
Dr Udo, Jacob (U. of Leeds), Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas of ‘Participatory’ Media Impacts Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read the abstracts Abstracts media work shop
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1st Work Shop: Congolese History
Wednesday February 2 2011
Seminar at the University of Birmingham (Centre of West African Studies, Arts Building, 2nd floor, Danford Room, 4.45-6.30pm)
‘Congolese History Between the Local and the Global: Challenging National Frameworks in Colonial and Post-Colonial History.’
Convenor: Dr K. Skinner
Speakers:
– Dr Larmer, Miles, lecturer at the U. of Sheffield (UK): ‘Rethinking local agency in the Katangese secession: The Role of the Katangese gendarmes’
– Roes, Aldwin, doctoral researcher, U. of Sheffield (UK), ‘The making of the Congolese colonial economy, 1885-1914: some reflections on the power and pitfalls of state-centred narratives.’
– Loffman, Reuben, doctoral researcher at the U. of Keel (UK): ‘The politics of suicide’: political tribalism and the end of Belgian rule in Kongolo, Katanga, 1957 – 1960
Read the abstracts Abstracts Congolese history between the Local and the Global
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First Meeting of Congo Research Network
December 11, 2010
U. of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus
Arts Building, 2nd Floor, Danford Room
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-map-09.pdf — in the red zone – R16
how to get there? By train: from New Street Train Station (main train station in Birmingham), take the train to University Campus (approx. 7 a 10 min) or bus 61, 63 (via Bristol Road)
Programme
10.30- 11: introduction
Historical Challenges
11-11.30 Loffman, Reuben, Keele University, African elites and the shaping of early colonial politics on the Katangan frontier, 1906 – 1917
11.30-12 Lauro, Amandine, University of Cambridge, Maintaining law and order in the colonie-modèle. Urban (dis)order and the policing of racial boundaries in the Belgian Congo
12-13: lunch // discussion about future CRN events
Media and Contemporary Challenges
13-13.30 Long, Nic, BBC and independent researcher, The Media’s Contribution to Good Governance in a Fragile State
13.30-14 Udo, Jacob, Leeds University, Rethinking Information Intervention in Violently Divided Societies: MONUSCO’s Public Information Operations and Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
14-14.30 Pype, Katrien, University of Birmingham, Kabila and Lumumba: Heroes for the Present. Visual Media, Memory and Politics in Kinshasa (2010)
14.30-15 Perks, Rachel, University of Reading, Global Economy and Local Conflicts: Challenges and Ways Forward
15.30-16 Congolese Community + Consulate
Read abstracts Abstracts CRN meeting 1
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Will there be a meeting in the US?
Posted by B. Starnes | October 10, 2011, 4:24 pmWe are trying to arrange a meeting at the ASA conference in Washington upcoming November. This will be announced on this website. Best, Katrien
Posted by Congo Research Network | October 10, 2011, 4:26 pm