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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

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  • 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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