Theme: Building on 40 Years of Research and Knowledge Production for Africa

He is an active member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the author of “Non-Europhone Intellectuals» published by CODESRIA.

* Ousmane Kane, a scholar of Islamic studies and comparative and Islamic politics, joined Harvard Divinity School in July 2012 as the first Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School. Since 2002, he was an associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Saint-Louis in Senegal. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the African Studies Association of North America and the Council for the Development of Social and Economic Research in Africa. Kane studies the history of Islamic religious institutions and organizations since the eighteenth century, and he is engaged in documenting the intellectual history of Islam in Africa. He has also increasingly focused on the phenomenon of Muslim globalization and immigration. His book Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America (Oxford University Press, 2010) looks at the community of Senegalese immigrants in New York and the importance these immigrants assign to their religious communities for the organization of their lives. His other books include Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (Brill, 2003) and Timbuktu and Beyond: Rethinking African Intellectual History (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).

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8-9 octobre 2013, Dakar, Sénégal