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École nationale des chartes

Visit to the École nationale des chartes

22 May 2025

Visited École nationale des chartes in Paris on the invitation of Vincent Jolivet.

École nationale des chartesParisDigital HumanitiesAIComputational Methods
Promotional flyer for Frédérick Madore's May 2025 lecture series at EHESS, Paris, featuring talks on Islam in West Africa, digital humanities, religious coexistence, and student activism.

Lecture Series at EHESS, Paris

12 May 2025

A series of four public talks at EHESS, Paris, in May 2025, exploring the histories of Islam and religious pluralism in francophone West Africa using digital humanities methods.

EHESSParisFrancophone West AfricaIslamReligious PluralismDigital HumanitiesHistory
Humanistica 2025 conference in Dakar

Humanistica Conference 2025 - Dakar

21 April 2025

Attending and presenting at the Humanistica 2025 conference in Dakar, focusing on Digital Humanities and AI.

Digital humanitiesAIIWAC
Book cover of Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa, edited by Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore.

Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970-2023

21 March 2025

New book publication based on research conducted at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient since 2021.

PublicationRemobokoTogoBenin
Crêt-Bérard Monastery

Établir une faîtière islamique à l'échelle nationale: le cas de 4 pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest francophone

4 March 2025

Comparative analysis of national Islamic umbrella organizations in four West African countries.

WorkshopBeninBurkina FasoCôte d'IvoireTogo
Author Meets Critics panel at the African Studies Association annual meeting

Author Meets Critic: Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin

12 December 2024

Panel discussion at the 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA).

ConferenceASA

Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du vodun

5 December 2024

Presented a paper with Fiacre Anato at the workshop L'Afrique des religions à l'épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations at the Université Paris Cité. Examined religious categorisation dynamics in Benin, highlighting the tension between Vodun's statistical decline and its cultural vitality.

WorkshopBenin
Bar chart of 204 articles mentioning intégrisme by country and year (1979-2019), peaking in Côte d'Ivoire in the early 1990s.

Tracing Islamic Knowledge Production in Francophone West African Newspapers (1990-Present)

2 December 2024

Presented findings on Islamic knowledge production in Francophone West Africa at the ZMO workshop "Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South". Examined how Muslim intellectuals navigate multiple epistemologies using a corpus of 1,500 Islamic periodicals.

WorkshopDigital HumanitiesCôte d'Ivoire
Book cover of Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa, edited by Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore.

“Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences” now in open-access

12 November 2024

The edited volume 'Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences', co-edited with Abdoulaye Sounaye, is now available in open access.

PublicationsRemoboko
ECAS 2025 logo with the theme “African, Afropean, Afropolitan,” held in Prague, June 25-28, 2025.

Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives

14 October 2024

Announcing the acceptance of the panel proposal 'Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives' for ECAS 2025 in Prague.

ECASDigital HumanitiesAIAfrican Studies