Institut des mondes africains - IMAF
The Institut des mondes africains -IMAF /African Worlds Institute, was created in 2014 and is the result of the fusion of three research laboratories:
- Centre d'études des mondes africains (CEMAf);
- Centre d'études africaines (CEAf);
- Centre d'histoire sociale de l'Islam méditerranéen (CHSIM).
It combines interdisciplinary research in History, Anthropology, Political Science and Archeology and covers the following research areas:
- Creation and Circulation of Knowledge;
- African Globalisation during the longue durée and Globalisation;
- Power, Space, Memory;
- Religious Dynamics, Representations, Experiences;
- Art of the Political, Politics of Art;
- Gender, Bodies, Subjectivities.
IMAF is managed by six institutions:
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS - UMR 8171);
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD - UMR 243);
- Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS);
- Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE);
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and, Université d'Aix-Marseille (AMU).