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Ottawa, June 2, 2010
– Mamadou Diawara, a professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has been awarded this
year’s John G. Diefenbaker Award by the Canada Council for the
Arts. The award, worth up to $75,000, enables a scholar who is a
German citizen to spend up to 12 months in Canada to pursue
research in the social sciences and humanities.
Dr. Diawara will be affiliated with the Faculty of Arts at
Université Laval from September 2010 to August 2011, where he
will collaborate with the Canada
Research Chair in African Literature and Francophonie,
Dr. Justin Bisanswa.
Dr. Diawara will carry out a research on the notion of copyright
– a Western invention – in societies based on an oral tradition,
as is the case in Africa and in Aboriginal communities of
Canada. The time he spends at Université Laval will allow him to
analyse the contents of its vast collection of recordings made
in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and France, write scholarly
articles and work on a book on the historical background of
artistic production standards, the transfer of oral traditions
from Africa to North America through music, the registration and
negotiation of state-regulated copyright.
Read the complete news release
here or by copying and pasting the
following URL into your web browser’s address bar:
www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2010/nb129199591872975557.htm
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