PERIPHERAL ARCHIVES IN AFRICA AND EURASIA

JUNIOR CONFERENCE

With the support of the Africa Programme (Sciences Po)

Organization:

• Semiu ADEGBENLE (Northwestern University)
• Ebunoluwa IYAMU (Sciences Po, CHSP)
• Alexandra KOROLEVA (Sciences Po, CHSP)
• Isabelle LINAIS (Sciences Po, CHSP)

09:00-09:30 Welcome

09:30-10:50
Archives and margins

Chair : Florence Bernault (Sciences Po, CHSP)

• Siga Maguiraga, Power at the Margins: Encountering Peripheral Archives in the Study of Central Sahelian Students in the Muslim world
• Tushara Meleppattu, Where the Archive Burns: Ritual, Memory, and Marginal Histories
• Dickson Mangsatabam, Marginalised Space and Knowledge in India’s Northeastern Borderlands: Navigating the ‘Historicity’ of the Manipuri Archives

10:50-11:10 coffee break

11:10-12:30
Vernacular / Family Archives

Chair : Camille Lefebvre (CNRS / IMA)

• Maria Pirogovskaya, Household Knowledge in The Late and Post Soviet Home Archives: Medicine and Self-Medication on The Periphery
• Rozaliya Garipova, The Archive of a Muslim Family in the Russian Empire (online)
• Oluwafunminiyi W. Raheem, From the Peripheral to the Primal: African Holy Wells as Archive

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:20
keynote by Benoit Henriet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

14:20-14:40 break

14:40-16:00
Archives and media

Chair : Alexandra Koroleva (Sciences Po, CHSP) and Isabelle Linais (Sciences Po, CHSP)

• Lou Khalfaoui, Access to Online Archives: France and Algerian Colonial Memory “À l’Épreuve” of Digitization
• Tamara Velikodneva, Preserving in Exile: Access, Ethics, and Anti-Colonial Dilemmas in the Russian Independent Media Archive
• Vasilisa Lukiyanicheva, Atomic Chronotopes: archived global [photo]traces of nuclear age

16:00-16:10 break

16:10-16:40

Final Discussion