  {"id":15549,"date":"2021-09-21T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=15549"},"modified":"2021-09-24T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:16:13","slug":"france-in-africa-under-macron","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/france-in-africa-under-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"France in Africa under Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zoom Registration:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwvdu6urj4oGNJCiz4SpYJ1i6rVE1Guv6rf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France in Africa under Macron<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/france-in-africa-under-macron\/knowing-africa-series-final-poster\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15564 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-400x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-240x311.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-360x466.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster-200x259.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knowing-Africa-Series-final-poster.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nAchille Mbembe was invited by France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron to lead preparations for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/sommetafriquefrance.org\/en\/\">29th Africa-France Summit<\/a>. For the past half year, Prof Mbembe has been organizing debates across twelve African countries, addressing what he calls the \u2018big angry questions\u2019 of French military intervention, the Francophonie, the future of the CFA franc and the governance of natural resources. Mbembe has previously accused Macron of &#8220;lacking imagination&#8221; in his political engagement with Africa. He boldly seized Macron\u2019s invitation to recraft an agenda for new relations between France and Africa. \u00a0We are delighted to host Mbembe as he presents the key ideas in his recently-completed report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Speaker Bio<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d\u2019Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New York (1988-1991), a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. (1991-1992), Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania (1992-1996), Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal (1996-2000). He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), at Yale University (2003), at the University of California at Irvine (2004-2005), at Duke University (2006-2011) and at Harvard University (2012).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paris VIII (France) and Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He has also held the Albert the Great Chair at the University of Koln (2019) and was an Honorary Professor at the Jakob Fugger-Zentrum, University of Augsburg (Germany). He has been awarded numerous awards including the 2015 Geswichter Scholl-Preis, the 2018 Gerda Henkel Award and the 2018 Ernst Bloch Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"expertise__skillsets\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A co-founder of Les Ateliers de la pensee de Dakar and a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory, he has written extensively on contemporary politics and philosophy, including <em>On the Postcolony<\/em> (University of California Press, 2001), <em>Critique of Black Reason<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2016), <em>Necropolitics<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2019) and <em>Out of the Dark Night. Essays on Decolonization<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2020). Originally written in French, his books and numerous articles are translated in thirteen languages (English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian, Danish, Swedish, Romanian, Arabic, Chinese). He has an A1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za\/nrf_ratings\/categories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rating from the South African National Research Foundation and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Zoom Registration: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwvdu6urj4oGNJCiz4SpYJ1i6rVE1Guv6rf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France in Africa under Macron<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Achille-Mbembe-Final-Poster-PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Event 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