Journ\u00e9e doctorale FR\/ANGL \u2013 Appel \u00e0 propositions\u00a0<\/p>\n
[English Below]<\/p>\n
Entre Afrique, Europe et Am\u00e9riques\u00a0: circulations, histoires, m\u00e9moires et repr\u00e9sentations<\/p>\n
\u00c9changes avec Olivette Otele (SOAS, London University)<\/p>\n
15 avril 2026 – UCLouvain<\/p>\n
Louvain-la-Neuve, Salle du S\u00e9nat acad\u00e9mique, place de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 1<\/p>\n
Le 16 avril 2026, la Facult\u00e9 de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres de l\u2019UCLouvain remettra le titre de Docteure Honoris Causa \u00e0 l\u2019historienne Olivette Otele, professeure en Histoire et m\u00e9moires de l\u2019esclavage (Legacies and Memory of Slavery) \u00e0 la School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) de la London University.<\/p>\n
\u00c0 cette occasion, une journ\u00e9e de formation doctorale interdisciplinaire est organis\u00e9e le 15 avril, s\u2019adressant aux chercheur.eu.se.s en histoire, histoire de l\u2019art, litt\u00e9rature, mais aussi en sciences politiques et sciences sociales. Cette journ\u00e9e a pour objectif de r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir collectivement aux enjeux historiographiques et soci\u00e9taux qui guident le travail d\u2019Olivette Otele. Pour y parvenir, nous invitons les jeunes chercheur\u00b7euse\u00b7s (doctorant\u00b7e\u00b7s et post-doctorant.e.s) \u00e0 communiquer sur un aspect sp\u00e9cifique de leurs recherches en cours \u2013 aux niveaux de leurs questionnements, m\u00e9thodes ou r\u00e9sultats \u2013 en expliquant comment il fait \u00e9cho aux perspectives th\u00e9oriques et aux objets d\u2019enqu\u00eate d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s par Olivette Otele.<\/p>\n
Otele est l\u2019autrice d\u2019importantes publications sur la traite de captifs africains qui a fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 la vie politique, \u00e9conomique, sociale, culturelle et artistique autant en Afrique, qu\u2019aux Am\u00e9riques et en Europe. Les titres de ses derniers livres explicitent l\u2019approche de ses travaux\u00a0: Histoire des Noirs d\u2019Europe (Albin Michel, 2022) et Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing memorials, Absent Bodies (MacMillan, 2021). Le syst\u00e8me esclavagiste global des 16e-19e si\u00e8cles est trait\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on connect\u00e9e, dans un jeu d\u2019\u00e9chelles constant entre parcours individuels et histoire collective, qui se construit par des allers\/retours incessants entre le pass\u00e9 et le pr\u00e9sent\u00a0: les questions li\u00e9es aux traumas, aux r\u00e9sistances, aux m\u00e9moires et aux contre-m\u00e9moires qui passent par les corps et les r\u00e9cits, mais aussi par les objets et les espaces -des ports aux mus\u00e9es-, en sont des exemples manifestes. \u00a0Aux enjeux de m\u00e9moire, s\u2019ajoute aussi une attention substantielle aux discours et aux repr\u00e9sentations artistiques des personnes aux doubles h\u00e9ritages, et notamment des Afro-Europ\u00e9ens. \u00a0Acad\u00e9mique engag\u00e9e, Olivette Otele op\u00e8re en tant que consultante pour la mise en place d\u2019actions de r\u00e9paration de la part d\u2019institutions publiques ou priv\u00e9es, tout en interrogeant la notion m\u00eame de r\u00e9paration et ses concr\u00e9tisations.<\/p>\n
La journ\u00e9e s\u2019ouvrira avec une conf\u00e9rence assur\u00e9e par Olivette Otele: Histoires fragment\u00e9es, amn\u00e9sie m\u00e9morielle et repr\u00e9sentations controvers\u00e9es, que faire de notre pass\u00e9 colonial\u00a0?<\/p>\n
Suivront les pr\u00e9sentations des doctorant.e.s et postdoctorant.e.s, en dialogue et en interaction avec Olivette Otele.<\/p>\n
Quatre parcours th\u00e9matiques sont propos\u00e9s\u00a0:<\/p>\n
-(Re)dire et (re)\u00e9crire autrement le pass\u00e9 et le pr\u00e9sent. Comment cr\u00e9er un r\u00e9cit \u00e0 l\u2019articulation entre acteurs visibles et\/ou invisibles\u00a0? \u00a0Comment visibiliser les jeux de pouvoir intra-soci\u00e9taux et\/ou globaux\u00a0? Comment op\u00e9rer un d\u00e9centrement \u00e9pist\u00e9mologique et m\u00e9thodologique en sciences humaines – notamment en histoire, litt\u00e9rature, droit international et relations internationales\u00a0?
-Les enjeux de repr\u00e9sentations. \u00ab\u00a0Blanc\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0Noir\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0; personnes au double h\u00e9ritage. Comment questionner, utiliser et articuler regards coloniaux-postcoloniaux-d\u00e9coloniaux\u00a0?\u00a0; comment travailler sur l\u2019influence des discours et repr\u00e9sentations sur les v\u00e9cus, les imaginaires, les corps et les langages artistiques, scientifiques et litt\u00e9raires\u00a0?
-M\u00e9moires, silences et oublis face \u00e0 un pass\u00e9 honteux, difficile ou douloureux. Aux niveaux des individus, groupes, institutions\u00a0: qu\u2019est-ce qui est comm\u00e9mor\u00e9\/rem\u00e9mor\u00e9, pourquoi, par qui, pour qui et comment\u00a0? Qu\u2019est-ce qui est tu\u00a0? Pourquoi\u00a0? Quels sont les biais des contre-m\u00e9moires sur le\/les corps, les objets, la production artistique\u00a0?
-Au-del\u00e0 de la m\u00e9moire. G\u00e9opolitiques du patrimoine mat\u00e9riel et immat\u00e9riel (processus concrets dans les domaines litt\u00e9raires et artistiques, juridiques, \u00e9conomiques). Quelles politiques culturelles peuvent et doivent \u00eatre adopt\u00e9es, voire institutionnalis\u00e9es, afin de rem\u00e9dier aux spoliations culturelles effectu\u00e9es dans le pass\u00e9 (objets, archives\u2026) ou afin de normaliser des esth\u00e9tiques justes et dignes quant \u00e0 la question raciale dans les productions artistiques\u00a0?<\/p>\n
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Les doctorant\u00b7es et postdoctorant.e.s qui souhaitent pr\u00e9senter une question de recherche ou un aspect de leur travail en cours en lien avec l\u2019un des axes indiqu\u00e9s, sont invit\u00e9.es \u00e0 se manifester en envoyant leur abstract par mail, au plus tard pour le 23 f\u00e9vrier 2026\u00a0: silvia.mostaccio@uclouvain.be<\/a> et camille.dasseleer@uclouvain.beanne-sophie.gijs<\/a>@uclouvain.be. Intitul\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0Journ\u00e9e Otele 15 avril\u00a0\u00bb, le mail doit comprendre le titre de l\u2019intervention, avec 15-20 lignes de r\u00e9sum\u00e9 et une br\u00e8ve biographie acad\u00e9mique (5-10 lignes).<\/p>\n Cette journ\u00e9e sera valorisable dans le cadre des formations doctorales.<\/p>\n Organisation\u00a0: Camille Dasseleer (UCLouvain), Anne-Sophie Gijs (UCLouvain) et Silvia Mostaccio (UCLouvain).<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Doctoral workshop \u2013 Call for papers<\/p>\n Between Africa, Europe and the Americas: Circulations, History, Memory and Representations<\/p>\n In conversation with Olivette Otele (SOAS, London University)<\/p>\n April 15, 2026 \u2013 UCLouvain<\/p>\n Louvain-la-Neuve, Salle du S\u00e9nat acad\u00e9mique, place de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 1<\/p>\n On April 16, 2026, the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters will award an honorary doctorate to historian Olivette Otele, professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University.<\/p>\n On this occasion, on April 15, an interdisciplinary doctoral training day is organised for researchers in history, art history, literature, as well as political sciences and social sciences. This day aims to lead to a collective reflection on the historiographical and societal issues that guide Olivette Otele\u2019s work. We invite young researchers (PhD students and postDOC) to share a specific aspect of their ongoing investigations \u2013 their questions, methods or results \u2013 and to explain how they echo the theoretical perspectives and research topics developed by Olivette Otele.<\/p>\n Otele is the author of important publications on the African captives\u2019 trade that shaped the political, economic, social, cultural and artistic life in Africa as well as in the Americas and in Europe. The titles of her latest books explain the approach she adopts in her work: African Europeans: An Untold History (Hurst & Company, 2022) and Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing memorials, Absent Bodies (MacMillan, 2021). In Otele\u2019s work, the global system of slavery in 16th-19th centuries is treated in a connected way. She explores the constant interplay between individual journeys and collective history, which she constructs through repeated back-and-forth movements between the past and the present. Her research examines trauma, resistance, memory and counter-memories as they are conveyed through bodies and narratives, but also through objects and spaces ranging from ports to museums. Alongside questions of memory, she also gives substantial attention to the discourses and artistic representations of people with dual heritage, particularly African Europeans. As publicly engaged scholar, Olivette Otele also works as a consultant for the implementation of reparation actions by public and private institutions, while questioning the very notion of reparation and the ways it can be achieved.<\/p>\n The workshop will open with a lecture by Olivette Otele: Fragmented histories, amnesia of memory and controversial representations: What should we do with our colonial past?<\/p>\n Presentations by PhD students and postdoctoral researchers will follow, in dialogue and in interaction with OIivette Otele.<\/p>\n Four thematic focuses are proposed:<\/p>\n -(Re)telling and (re)writing the past and the present in another way. How can we create a narrative that accounts for visible and\/or invisible actors? How might we make visible the intra-societal and\/or global power games? How can an epistemological and methodological decentering in the human\/social sciences \u2014 especially in history, literature, international law and international relations \u2014 be achieved? PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who wish to present a research question or an aspect of their ongoing work linked to one of the abovementioned issues are invited to show their interest by submitting an abstract, no later than February 23, 2026, at the following addresses: silvia.mostaccio@uclouvain.be<\/a> \u00a0and camille.dasseleer@uclouvain.beanne-sophie.gijs<\/a>@uclouvain.be. The subject line of the email should read: \u201cJourn\u00e9e Otele 15 avril\u201d, and the submission must include the title of the presentation, a 15-20 line abstract, and a short academic biography (5-10 lines).<\/p>\n This workshop can be validated as part of the doctoral training.<\/p>\n Organisation: Camille Dasseleer (UCLouvain), Anne-Sophie Gijs (UCLouvain) et Silvia Mostaccio (UCLouvain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Journ\u00e9e doctorale FR\/ANGL \u2013 Appel \u00e0 propositions\u00a0 [English Below] Entre Afrique, Europe et Am\u00e9riques\u00a0: circulations, histoires, m\u00e9moires et…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-24078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afrique"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
-The challenges of representation. \u201cWhite\u201d and \u201cBlack\u201d; dual heritage people. How can we question, use, and articulate colonial-postcolonial-decolonial perspectives? How should we work on the influence of discourse and representations on lived experiences, imaginaries, bodies, and artistic, scientific, and literary languages?
-Memories, silences and forgetfulness in the face of a shameful, difficult or painful past. At the level of the individuals, groups and institutions: what is being commemorated\/recalled, why, by whom, for whom, and how? What is being silenced? Why? What are the biases of counter-memories and their effects on bodies, objects, and artistic production?
-Beyond memory. The geopolitics of tangible and intangible heritage, with a focus on literary, artistic, legal, economic processes. Which cultural policies should be adopted, or even institutionalised, in order to remedy past cultural spoliations (objects, archives\u2026) and\/or to normalise fair and dignifying aesthetic paradigms on the question of race in the arts?
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