Aïssatou Mbodj-PouyeThis workshop was convened jointly as a follow-up of my Reading seminar and as part of the seminar "Atelier méthodologique: Pratiques d’écriture : corpus, analyses, enquêtes" animated by Claire Bustarret and Béatrice Fraenkel.
Enquêter sur l’écrit / Investigating Literacy and Writing Practices
Equipe Anthropologie de l’écriture (EHESS-CNRS)
Claire Bustarret, Béatrice Fraenkel & Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye
with the support of the Centre d’Etudes Africaines (EHESS-IRD)
Session 1. 9.30-12.30 Location: EHESS, 54 Bd Raspail, 75006, room 524
9h Welcome
9h30 Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye (CEAf, associée AdE ) : « Les New Literacy Studies et après : dispositifs d’enquête et expérimentations méthodologiques »
10h15 Laura M. Ahearn (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University) : « Investigating letter-writing in rural Nepal : from “literacy events” to “literate agency” ».
11h30 Jan Blommaert (Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Jyväskylä & University of Tilburg; Professor of African linguistics and sociolinguistics, University of Gent) : « Ethnographies of texts : the case of two documents from Congo ».
Session 2 was scheduled for the afternoon but was cancelled due to the University strike on this day.
Thirty people attended the workshop.