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This page (established February 2002; here only 2002-2003 is given; click here for the years 2004-2005; and here for the years 2006-2007; and here for the years 2008-2009; and here for the years 2010-2011; and here for the years 2012-2013 ) is to alert the visitor of new additions and changes in the Shikanda portal, and reports on recent and forthcoming developments in Wim van Binsbergen's professional activities inthe fields of African Studies, Intercultural Philosophy, Long-Range Cultural Analysis, and Poetry. Hyperlinks give access to the texts in question, and photographs accompany the entries. The information appears in tabulated form. The closer to the top of this page, the more recent an event is. Some events have a page of their own, accessible via a hyperlink; others are merely summarised below, and may then have a simple illustration to mark them.
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current year: 2005 (begins above this line; the closer to the top of the page, the nearer to 2006) | ||||||||
2004
would have begun above this line click here for 2004-2005 topicalities |
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December 2003 |
Due to the hosting company one2host going totally incommunicado, the domain www.shikanda.net has become inaccessible in the second week of December 2003; a temporary accommodation was meanwhile established at http://ethnicity.bravepages.com ; apologies for the inconvenience
Rupture and fusion in the approach to myth (Situating myth analysis between philosophy, poetics, and long-range historical reconstruction, with an application to the ancient and world-wide mythical complex of leopard-skin symbolism) (PDF) paper to be read at the International Conference Myth: Theory and the Disciplines, 12 December 2003, University of Leiden: Research School CNWS (School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies), IIAS (The International Institute for Asian Studies); and NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) (click for abstract) (click for the full revised article as PDF)
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November 2003 | 20 November 2003: 'The leopard's unchanging spots: Long-range comparitive research as a possible clue to enduring patterns of African agency (simplified version)', PowerPoint-based lunch seminar, theme group on Agency in Africa, African Studies Centre, Leiden; postponed to 2 December 2003; click to access the full Internet version of this slide presentation | |||||||
October 2003 |
completed and submitted: 'Genadendal: poem for Vernie February one year after his death' (in Dutch), to be published in a memorial volume for Vernie February, now going to the press goes to the press: Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture, edited by Wim van Binsbergen & Rijk van Dijk, Leiden: Brill, African Studies Centre Yearbook 2003; published 15 December 2003 (click for details and orders)
9 October 2003: AFRICAN SPIRITS |
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September 2003 | Wim van
Binsbergen, 2003, 'Improvising away from fixed verbal
formulae in the four-tablet oracle of sangomas in
contemporary Botswana', paper presented at the session
'Het discours van de expert, orale traditie tussen
formule en uitvoering' ('the expert's discourse: oral
tradition between formula and performance'), Convenor:
Jan Jansen, Netherlands Association of African Studies,
2003 Conferentie 'Power, Politics and Poetry: Dutch
perspectives in Africa studies', 26 september, Faculteit
Sociale Wetenschappen, Pieter de la Courtgebouw,
Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden (click for details) as was long overdue, the site owner's web-based vitae and list of publications were fully updated, and a beginning was made to link this list systematically to all of the author's publications available on the Web Leeftocht (gedichten, 1977) nu beschikbaar gemaakt op Internet / now made available on the Web door de welwillendheid van de redactie, vertalers en uitgever kon tegelijkertijd afzonderlijk gepubliceerd worden: van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 2003, Sangoma en filosoof: Eenheid in de praktijk, dilemma in de theorie, in: Humanisme en spiritualiteit, themanummer van Antenne (orgaan van de Unive van Vrijzinnige Verenigingen) (Brussel), 21, 3: 36-43. |
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August 2003 | Intercultural encounters: African,
antropological and historical lessons towards a
philosophy of interculturality (600 pp.), presenting
conceptual and empirical research spanning three decades,
finally went to the press (appeared
on 1st December 2003; click for details and electronic
order form) in the process, one large section of this book was removed so as to form a book on its own: The leopards unchanging spots: Towards a world history of shamanism from the perspective of the Southern African sangoma cult; this unexpected by-product is now in an advanced state of preparation and is hoped to be completed shortly; for a slide presentation selectively covering this book's contents, click here assessor, on behalf of the United National Educational and Scientific Commission (UNESCO), Paris, of an African country's national proposal towards the UNESCO's Intangible Masterpieces of Mankind programme |
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July 2003 | Wim van Binsbergen, 2003, 'Challenges for the sociology of religion in the next fifty years: The case of Africa', paper prepared for the 50th Anniversary Conference, International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), section prospects for the next 50 years, Turin (Italy), 24 July 2003; paper forthcoming in Social Compass, Spring 2004. |
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June 2003 | 'The
translation of Southern African sangoma divination
towards a global format, and the validity of the
knowledge it produces', paper read at the symposium World views,
Science and Us, Brussels, Centre Leo Apostel, Free
University Brussels, Belgium, 10 June 2003 (click for details)
click here for the English version of this paper: 'Manchester as a birthplace of modern agency research: The Manchester School explained from the perspective of Evans-Pritchards book The Nuer' |
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March 2003 | Virtuality as a key concept in the study of globalisation, WOTRO Working Paper 3 (1997), now as Web-book in original pagination, with colour illustrations and index, as PDF file | |||||||
February 2003 | 'Mi-figues, Mi-raisins: L'oscillation des Africaines éduquées entre les desseins féminins traditionnels et cosmopolites', joint seminar by Julie Duran-Ndaya Tshiteku (African Studies Centre, Leiden/Erasmus University Rotterdam), Cécile Dolisane-Ebossé Nyambé (Université de Toulouse), and Wim van Binsbergen (African Studies Centre, Leiden/Erasmus University Rotterdam) | |||||||
January 2002 | publication of the English (click for PDF) and the Italian (click for PDF) versions of Wim van Binsbergen 1999 Dutch inaugural lecture in the chair of Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam: | |||||||
January 2003 | Completion for publication of the paper Islam as a constitutive factor in African traditional religion: The evidence from geomantic divination (PDF) (paper read at the conference on Transformation processes and Islam in Africa, African Studies Centre and Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands, 15 October, 1999; forthcoming in: Breedveld, A., van Santen, J., & van Binsbergen, W.M.J., eds., Islam and transformations in Africa) | |||||||
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December 2002 | 'Sangoma en filosoof: Eenheid in de praktijk, dilemma in de theorie (PDF)' (bijdrage aan de bundel Mijn plaats is geen plaats, inmiddels verschenen September 2003; klik voor details) | |||||||
October 2002 | visit to the Institute for West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, on behalf of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, in order to give guest lectures on African ethnicity and African religion, and to discuss further co-operation | |||||||
September 2002 | participation in the Colloquium La rencontre des rationalités, organised by the African Centre for Advanced Studies, the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH) and UNESCO, Porto Novo, Benin, September 18-21, 2002, where a paper was presented entitled | |||||||
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January 2002 | As a first leg in the analysis of African mythical structures as evidence of early patterns of agency, completion of the extensive analysis: 'From an African bestiary to universal science? Cluster analysis opens up a world-wide historical perspective on animal symbolism in divine attributes, divination sets, and in the naming of clans, constellations, zodiacs, and lunar mansions'; now being prepared for publication |
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proceed to the Shikanda portal in order to access all other websites by Wim van Binsbergen: general (intercultural philosophy, African Studies); ethnicity-identity-politics; Afrocentricity and the Black Athena debate; Ancient Models of Thought in Africa, the Ancient Near East, and prehistory; sangoma consultation; literary work | |
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