On September 16, I presented my digital humanities project Islam Burkina Faso Collection at the ZMO Open Day.
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On 15 September, together with Perry Collins, we presented a paper entitled “Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship” for the panel on “Digital Humanities” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Abstract Despite the growing popularity of digital humanities, a limited number of initiatives related
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In August 2022, I attended the 12th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”, hosted by the University of Leipzig and organised by Elisabeth Burr in collaboration with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL). The two-week intensive programme consisted of 36 hours of workshops, four teaser sessions, six lectures, four project presentations and
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The double special issue I co-edited with Dorothea E. Schulz on “Muslim Minorities in Africa”, in the making since 2019, is finally out in Islamic Africa! I feel privileged to have worked with these amazing scholars from various disciplines: Laura Collins, Dr. Gino Vlavonou, Katrin Langewiesche, Hassan Ndzovu, Kristina Mashimi, Nelly Mwale, Nadeem Mahomed and
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On June 15, 2022, I participated in the Workshop “Researching Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa” at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Workshop organized at LASDEL (Niamey) on June 3, 2022.
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Paper presented at the Islamist Protest, Terrorism and (In)Security in Africa Conference at the Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun (Yaoundé) on June 2nd, 2022.
Workshop Femmes africaines dans une société d’hommes: espaces contraints, habilité sociale et formes d’émancipation, Université de Kabala (Mali), March 22, 2022. Abstract Encore aujourd’hui, nombre de féministes, d’organisations de défense des droits de l’homme et de médias occidentaux tendent à présenter les femmes musulmanes comme étant passives, opprimées et « ayant besoin d’être sauvées »
Conference given to the Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Recherche, Religions, Espaces et Développement (LARRED), Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Benin), March 8, 2022.
On 22 February 2022, I gave a talk for the Chaire de recherche sur l’islam contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest (ICAO) at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Abstract Si l’Université de Lomé, auparavant sous l’emprise du parti unique du Rassemblement du peuple togolais, est souvent perçue comme un haut lieu de la contestation parfois