The latest LaCAS I-DEA talks: social hierarchies in Senegal, ethnomusicology and inscribed landscapes in medieval China

28 November 2024
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The interviews of the I-DEA program (Illustration and Documentation of Areal Studies) present themes studied by a researcher in areal studies, approached from different angles: problems, fields, methodologies, issues. Every two months, discover the latest interviews, available on HAL and the LaCAS platform.

Latest I-DEA talks

Olivier Kyburz
Olivier Kyburz © LaCAS 2024‎
A course of research in the Middle Valley of Senegal, interview with Olivier Kyburz (Université Paris Nanterre)

Olivier Kyburz, senior lecturer at the Université Paris Nanterre, describes his course of training in ethnology and then discusses his research devoted to social hierarchies among the Haalpulaar'en of the Middle Valley of Senegal and their extension into the field of kinship. View

François Picard
François Picard © LaCAS 2024‎
An interdisciplinary path for learning and studying the music of China, interview with François Picard (Sorbonne Université)

François Picard, professor emeritus of ethnomusicology at Sorbonne Université, traces his journey through the disciplines needed to study the music of China, from the moment Orientalism was decreed dead to the renaissance of areal studies in dialogue with scholars from the cultures studied. View

Lia Wei
Lia Wei © LaCAS 2024‎
Inscribed landscapes in medieval China and their modern reception, interview with Lia Wei (Inalco)

Lia Wei, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology at Inalco, traces her research path at the frontiers of the history of writing, in a period stretching from the fall of the First Empire to its reunification (3rd-7th centuries) that saw the birth of "inscribed landscapes". His approach combines a spatial, visual and historiographical analysis of epigraphic sources in situ, of these inscribed mountains. View