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Séminaire « Thinking Confinement in Africa: History and Social Sciences », Centre Marc Bloch 30/31 Mars (hybride, en anglais)

March 30, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Penser les enfermements en Afrique : histoire et sciences sociales XIXè-XXIè siècles

Les 30 et 31 mars 2023, les deux journées à partir de 10h
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin

  • Thursday March 30th 2023

 10h-10h30 : Welcome et introduction

 10h30-12h30 : Confinement and spiritual/therapeutic care (moderation : Nina Studer)

Cecilia Draicchio (Sapienza University of Rome) : Chains and Ties : the paradox of confinement and care in Ghanaian prayer camps and beyond

Erin Pettigrew (NYU Abu Dhabi) : Unleashing Spirits and Freeing Speech : New Techniques and Discourses of Spiritual Mediation in Mauritania

 14h30-16h30 : Penal confinement and political inmates (moderation : Florence Bernault)

Hannah Elsisi (Cambridge University) : Genres of Captivity : Gender, Punishment and Anti-Carceral Futurity in Egypt

Nadia Biskri (CHS Condorcet) : On trial in the “Bastille of Barberousse” Prison trajectory of Arezki Kehal and the Messalists of the PPA under the Popular Front

  • Friday March 31th 2023

 10h-12h30 : Non penal confinement (Moderation : Bénedicte Michalon)

Víctor Barros (EHEHI Casa de Velasquez, Madrid/IHC Nova University of Lisbon) : Deportation and Politics of Colonial Confinement in Cabo Verde During the Salazar Dictatorship Regime

Katie Kilroy-Marac (University of Toronto) : Dialectics of Confinement and Freedom : The transition from Cap Manuel to the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and independence-era Senegal

Nina Studer (independant rechearcher) : ‘Most of the Residents of our Asylums and our Prisons are Alcoholics’ : Alcoholism in Psychiatric Institutions in the Colonial Maghreb

 14h-16h : Labour and confinement (Moderation : Romain Tiquet)

Zoé Tinturier (IEP Bordeaux, LAM) : Work, emancipation or alienation ? Analysis of the trajectory of two saleswomen within a service activity carried out in the city of Antananarivo

Valentine Dewulf (Free University of Bruxelles) : Penal work in Congolese prisons during the Belgian colonization (1908-1960)

 16h30-17h30 : Conclusion

Bénédicte Michalon (CNRS Bordeaux, Passages) : Carceral geography : constrasting institutions, considering mobilities

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Start:
March 30, 2023
End:
March 31, 2023
Website:
https://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article5829&lang=fr