Around the question

Why a nomadic Euro-African campus?

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African modernities.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How to decompartmentalize knowledge and circulate ideas and the people who carry them fairly?

The prestigious École Normale Supérieure (ENS) is launching its Suds program, in partnership with several African universities.

Crossed and decentered perspectives for a new understanding of the world.

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Program recorded as part of the

African Modernities

colloquium of the

École Normale Supérieure

 which was held in early June 2022.

Why launch, as the historian Achille Mbembe had proposed, a "nomadic campus" between France, Europe and Africa?

How to decompartmentalize knowledge, decentralize attention and circulate ideas and the humans who carry them in a sustainable way?

Why start with an interdisciplinary and international, hybrid and mobile course on new understandings of the world in partnership with the CNRS and African universities throughout the continent?

What are the intellectual, scientific, pedagogical, but also political, environmental and social challenges of this Suds programme, which is ambitious and inspiring in both form and content?

With

Leïla Vignal,

professor and director of the Department of Geography at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), 

Frédéric

Worms

(philosopher and director of the ENS) and

Lionel Zinsou

(economist and president of the ENS Foundation) to announce the launch of  the ENS

Suds Program

 at the start of the 2022-2023 academic year.

This is a transversal and sustainable program of research, teaching and meetings in partnership with African universities, whose first full professor will be

Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

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