HEUTE: Beginn des 💻 Online-Workshops "Memory in Digital Spaces" ("Islam und Digitalität", #AIWG), u.a. mit Mohammad Gharaibeh (@BIT_HumboldtUni), Christoph Günther (Universität Erfurt), Fouad Gehad Marei (#ZMO) & Armina Omerika (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
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💻 Online-Workshop "Memory in Digital Spaces" ("Islam und Digitalität", #AIWG), u.a. mit Mohammad Gharaibeh (@BIT_HumboldtUni), Christoph Günther (Universität Erfurt), Fouad Gehad Marei (#ZMO) & Armina Omerika (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
📅 5.–7.11.2025
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On 9 November 2023, the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (#ZMO) will officially launch the "Islam #WestAfrica Collection" (https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/) in Berlin. This project, which I’m directing, is a collaborative, #openaccess digital #database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, photographs, and references on #Islam and #Muslims in #BurkinaFaso, #Benin, #Niger, #Nigeria, #Togo and #Cotedivoire.
Far from being the end of a project, this is just the beginning, as the database will continue to grow and will lay the groundwork for future collaborations with other scholars and institutes as more countries may be added.
Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Issouf Binaté (Université Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire) and Kai Kresse (ZMO) will comment on the project.
https://www.zmo.de/en/events/launch-islam-west-africa-collection
Thanks to a generous funding from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, our #Remoboko research group is organising 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 next week.
This conference seeks to examine how university campuses in Africa and beyond:
1) offer training for various skills and know-how which translate into key assets for the social becoming of students beyond the #campus;
2) become a site of moral activism where competing claims of social good and citizenry lead to projects of self-transformation (individual, collective) and/or even conflicts of norms;
3) feed on various forms of engagements (intellectual, religious, political) while developing their own politics (regional, religious, ethnic, ideological, etc.).
The event will feature 22 papers across 8 panels, a book launch, a photo exhibition and the screening of an ethnographic film.
My colleague Vincent Favier at #ZMO and Koudbi Kaboré (Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, #BurkinaFaso) are convening the panel "Training for good life or a good society? Religious students’ individual and collective aspirations in public universities in sub-Saharan Africa" at the 2023 European Conference in African Studies, in Cologne.
The call for papers is open until 9 January:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/ecas2023/p/12457
This panel discusses the ways in which university students engage with academic training and religious practice. It interrogates youth's individual and collective aspirations and how religiosity affects higher education in sub-Saharan Africa.
#Introduction
I'm a #histodon from #Canada and a Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (#ZMO) in #Berlin.
My research has focused on Islamic activism among youth and women, and Muslim politics in #CotedIvoire, #BurkinaFaso, #Benin, and #Togo.
I'm currently working on a book manuscript on the history of religious activism on campuses in Togo and Benin.
I'm also interested in#DigitalHumanities and #DigitalHistory. Using #Omeka, I created an open-access digital #database now containing more than 2900 documents and 250 bibliographical references related to #Islam in Burkina Faso.
https://islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/s/bf/page/home
Berliner Islamische Theologie
Frédérick Madore