<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '><div><p align="center">Brown Bag Lecture and discussion</p> <h1 align="center"><strong>Marginality, mobility, communication: Case studies from the Sahel Region </strong></h1> <p align="center">By Dr Mirjam de Bruijn<br> on 1 March 2017<br> 12:00–13:00 hrs<br> at BICC, Pfarrer-Byns-Str. 1, 53121 Bonn</p> <p>Mirjam de Bruijn will talk about marginality (social and economic exclusion), mobility, and communication referring to cases from her recent fieldwork in Chad. The lecture will reflect examples from the research programme ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’, a comparative study of the interrelationship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), agency, marginality and mobility patterns in Africa and the study ‘Connecting in times of duress: Understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins’. She will particularly refer to urban youth and artists and their role in political movements.</p> <p>Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of Africa at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. She is an anthropologist whose work has a clear interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies and a focus on West- and Central Africa. She is interested in the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology. She has been and is still doing extensive (qualitative) fieldwork in Cameroon, Chad and Mali.</p> <p>The talk on 1 March 2017 is organized in BICC’s Brown Bag Lecture Series “Displacement and Development” which aims to interlink conflict and displacement studies on the one hand and development respectively humanitarian aid-oriented analyses on the other.</p> <p>Please register at <a href="mailto:pr@bicc.de">pr@bicc.de</a></p> <p>For more information, please contact</p> <p>Susanne Heinke, Head of Public Relations BICC<br> phone: +49 (0)228/911 96-44 / -0<br> e-mail: <a href="pr@bicc.de">pr@bicc.de</a></p></div><style type="text/css"> body { font-size : 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } a { font-size: 11px; color: #e64415; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } a:visited { color: #666666; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } p { font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } h1 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;} h2 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;} h3 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin:0px; padding:0px;} h4 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin:0px; padding:0px;} hr {width : 100%; height : 1px; color: #ff9900; size:1px;} .forwardform {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} .forwardinput {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} .forwardsubmit {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} div.emailfooter { font-size : 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div.emailfooter a { font-size: 11px; color: #ff6600; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } td { font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } </style></body></html>