{"id":1516,"date":"2017-05-25T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:16:02","slug":"from-battlefields-to-burkinis-encounters-in-franco-african-history-in-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"From Battlefields to Burkinis:  Encounters in Franco-African history in Shrewsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Battlefields to Burkinis:\u00a0 Encounters in Franco-African history in Shrewsbury <\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rowleys-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1518 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rowleys-House-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rowleys-House-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rowleys-House-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rowleys-House-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Delivered at the new University Centre in Shrewsbury Wednesday 17 May last, this public lecture took as its starting point recent events, including the Burkini affair, that have put France in the global spotlight. Prof. Claire Griffiths (Francophone and Area Studies, University of Chester, <a href=\"mailto:c.griffiths@chester.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">c.griffiths@chester.ac.uk<\/a>) invited the audience to take a journey back through four centuries of French history in Africa to explore some of the roots of cultural and political debates that today help define France\u2019s role in the world. The Shrewsbury audience, ranging from sixth formers to local retired professoriate, showed a strong interest and engagement in the topics presented on the theme of Francophone African politics in historical perspective. The talk concluded with almost an hour of discussion around the outcome of the presidential election, including M. Macron\u2019s visit to Mali, as was revealed through Macron twitterfeed on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The venue: Rowley\u2019s House, Barker Street, in Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Battlefields to Burkinis:\u00a0 Encounters in Franco-African history in Shrewsbury Delivered at the new University Centre in Shrewsbury Wednesday 17 May last, this public lecture took as its starting point recent events, including the Burkini affair, that have put France &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[352,32,356,72,81],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cfps-events","category-uncategorised","tag-cultural-debate","tag-francophone-africa","tag-macron","tag-mali","tag-postcolonialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}