Thanks to a generous grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, our Remoboko research group organised its final conference entitled “University Campuses in Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas” at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin on 6-8 September. This conference sought to examine how university campuses in Africa and beyond: The …
On 19 July 2023, I gave an training workshop on online research to nearly fifty PhD students from the Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso).
On 5-6 June 2023, I participated in the workshop “Religion for Peace? Identifying Conditions and Mechanisms of Interfaith Peace” in Berlin, organised by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). I gave a presentation entitled “Interfaith coexistence on the campuses of the University of Lomé (Togo) and the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) since …
Abdoulaye Sounaye and I officially launched our edited volume Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Cologne on 2 June 2023. The book is the result of a series of conversations that began at the ECAS in Edinburgh in 2019, with the panel “Religiosity …
I’m very grateful to Robert Launay for writing a review of my digital database Islam Burkina Faso Collection in the latest issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities: “The collection is an invaluable research tool for scholars in or outside Burkina Faso, offering access to material that is difficult or impossible to find outside — and …
From 27 February to 1 March 2023, I participated in the “HUJI-FUB Digital Humanities Winter School” jointly organised by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the Freie Universität Berlin in Jerusalem.
In January, I attended the EnExDi Winter School “Les humanités numériques dans les projets de recherche” at the Université de Poitiers (France). Over the course of five days, we learned the basics of digital humanities, both in terms of best practice and methodological considerations. We worked with a range of approaches and techniques, including text …
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I am honored to have received one of the two “2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award” of the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and its partners for my work on the Islam Burkina Faso Collection. I would especially like to thank Perry Collins, the LibraryPress@UF, the Sahel Research Group and my current institution, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient …