Call for abstracts | 5th AEGIS Thematic Conference. Africa in the Indian Ocean, “A Passage to/from Africa: rhythmic exchanges in the Western Indian Ocean”, 4-5 April 2024, Urbino — LIMITE : 20/12/2023
5th AEGIS Thematic Conference of the CRG of Africa in the Indian Ocean, Urbino 4-6 April 2024
We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts of the 5th AEGIS Thematic Conference on the Collaborative Research Group Africa in the Indian Ocean, entitled A Passage to/from Africa: rhythmic exchanges in the Western Indian Ocean.
We invite you to download the call for abstract:
5th AEGIS Thematic Conference. Africa in the Indian Ocean
The Conference will be held at the University of Urbino in Italy on the 4 – 5 of April 2024.
Deadline for sending abstracts is the 20th of December 2023
Please send your abstract to our secretariat at: crg.wio.urbino[at]gmail.com
We invite you to visit the conference site at this LINK.
A Passage to/from Africa: rhythmic exchanges in the Western Indian Ocean
Seascapes and landscapes in the Western Indian Ocean have long been intertwined. Given its geomorphology, the sea waters were and are an asset rather than a barrier to human exchanges and to the assertion of power. Communication along its shores developed forms of contiguity that overcame its expanses. Islands became bridges between continents and regions; languages such as Kiswahili cemented contacts, spread beliefs and created common heritages, seeping from coastal areas to the hinterland.
For centuries, the rhythm of such movements and exchanges was made possible but also conditioned by the seasonality of the monsoon regime. This cadence is a major structuring feature of the fluid networks linking East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and the Western regions of the Indian subcontinent.
How did the rhythmic nature of these complex exchanges shape a plurality of practices and historical processes, and what of this shared heritage influences contemporaneity? Delving through its many variations, interactions and incidences is the challenge this interdisciplinary and interregional Conference aims to address.
This Conference calls for papers on issues concerning Africa and the Indian Ocean, bringing together researchers interested in discussing the following topics:
- Interpretations and representations of cultural encounters
- Mobility as a way of life, and its local impacts
- Diversification of religious ideas and practices
- Hegemonic powers and the dialectics of dependence and resistance
- Social asymmetries, economic exchanges, and political reconstructions
- Popular culture, oral and written literary traditions
- Colonialisms and decolonizing perspectives
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (18 décembre 2023). Call for abstracts | 5th AEGIS Thematic Conference. Africa in the Indian Ocean, “A Passage to/from Africa: rhythmic exchanges in the Western Indian Ocean”, 4-5 April 2024, Urbino — LIMITE : 20/12/2023. IISMM. Consulté le 18 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/veni