This writing workshop, which will be held in the last trimester of 2024, will bring together a group of around fifteen carefully selected participants of artists, political decision-makers and researchers who will work together to produce artistic and/or academic works that shake up the established order in terms of knowledge production based on rigorously documented empirical data or on artistic works. The week-long writing workshop aims to bring together teachers, researchers, feminist activists and artists to produce a collective output. 

RAISONS D’ÊTRE 

By proposing to discuss the challenges of action-research and artistic creation on gender in Africa, this workshop invites researchers and artists to a mutual learning exercise where each category of actors would put themselves in their place on the other to understand the issues and representations of gender and feminism as political objects through the prism of their social reality. This laboratory of ideas, writing and creation aims, in a conducive framework, to engage in in-depth reflection on the said and unsaid of gender in Africa, which, both in scientific and artistic approaches, as well as the results empirical and creative products, raises questions. These reflections are all the more relevant as they will focus, as much on the methods adopted and the sources and materials, as on the positioning and positioning of the stakeholders in research and artistic creation in Africa in contexts of decentring and decolonization. knowledge production processes. This workshop will also be an opportunity to bring out new hybrid forms, new/or emerging heuristic ‘genres’ resulting from the encounter between the social sciences, the arts and the humanities on the African continent and in the diaspora. Finally, this workshop will be an opportunity to pool multiple and complementary expertise, aiming in particular to encourage meetings between researchers, artists and activists for possible collaborations and co-creations. 

Proposed Themes 

THEME 1: Fields and Materials: Theory and action research in Social Sciences & Humanities 
THEME 2: New Genre(s) : Feminisms and ‘artivism’ in Africa and the diaspora 
THEME 3: Race, Class and Gender at the heart of cinema and literature in Africa 
THEME 4: Prisms, Positions and Products: Changes in Social Sciences and Humanities Research

To submit your application: Send a 1000-word summary, CV with professional, academic publications and artistic creation experiences to [email protected] before September 2, 2024 at midnight GMT. All costs of selected participants will be covered, depending on available funds. Results announced: September 16, 2024: only selected participants will be contacted.