Histoire du Sahara de 650 à nos jours / History of the Sahara from 650 CE to the Present

This colloquium is the research seminar of the History and Archaeology of African Worlds chair at the Collège de France. It is co-organized and led by Pr François-Xavier Fauvelle (Collège de France) and Ghislaine Lydon, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). This seminar-colloquium, to be held in June 2023, follows on from the one held in May 2022 " Histoire du Sahara (jusqu'à 650 de notre ère) ", organized by François-Xavier Fauvelle and Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS.

For the general public
Admission is free, without reservation. Papers delivered at the symposium will be of an advanced scientific nature ; they will be delivered in French or English ; they will not be broadcast live, nor subsequently online.

Histoire du Sahara de 650 à nos jours / History of the Sahara from 650 CE to the Present

Program

Markets and Materials in the Saharan Middle Ages, 7th-15th c.: An Archaeological Perspective

Nubia and its peripheries in the Eastern Sahara from the 7th to the 16thcenturies

Comparative history of Saharan oases in medieval times

Saharan and Trans-Regional Commerce to the 1800s

The Tuareg Then and Now

Nomadic and semi-nomadic societies in the western Sahara, 17th-20th centuries

Manuscript Cultures and Library Collections of the Sahara,15th century to the Present

Saharan Jurists, Islamic Legal Corpus and Scholarly Debates,15th to19th century

Saharan Travels Across the Ages: Before the19th century

Saharan travel as a literary genre in the 19th and 20th centuries

Saharan Slavery and the Slave Trades to the 20th century

Colonial conquest and domination, 19th-20th centuries

Sufi networks, wars of independence and the post-colonial period

Economic Landscapes of the Sahara: Resources, Migrations, and Contraband in the Era of the Truck, 1970s-2020s

Saharan Warming: An Environmental History 1900s-2020s

See also

Nubia and its peripheries in the Eastern Sahara from the ^7th to the ^16thcenturies

Nomadic and semi-nomadic societies in the western Sahara, ^17th-20th centuries

Manuscript Cultures and Library Collections of the Sahara,^15th century to the Present

Saharan Jurists, Islamic Legal Corpus and Scholarly Debates,^15th to^19th century

Saharan Travels Across the Ages: Before the^19th century

Saharan travel as a literary genre in the ^19th and ^20thcenturies

Colonial conquest and domination, ^19th-20th centuries