Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Assistant Professor,

Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Assistant Professor

Department of Communication

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

University of Ottawa

556 King Edward, Room 204

Ottawa, ON (K1N 6N5) CANADA

Phone : (613) 562-5800 #3826

Fax: (613) 562-5240

http://boulou.st.fr – b.debberi@uottawa.ca – be2beri@yahoo.fr

 

 

Degrees:

 

Employment History

 

Distinctions/Honours

§       2003 Van Horne Prize awarded by the Canadian Communication Association in collaboration with the Van Horne Institute to the best paper presented at the Association's annual conference.  Jury's Comment: Unanimous decision, Outstanding, Original, Well-written, and Provocative.

§       2002 Honor: “Who is Who Black in Canada” Personalities of the Year, National Bibliography of Africans and African Descents.

 

Graduate Supervision

 

 

Fundings

Year

Source

Type*

Total Amount

Purpose

2005-

Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

C

$72,000 CAD

Creation of a media lab.

2001-2002

Center for Black Studies University of California, Santa Barbara

U

$20,000 (US)

Dissertation Fellowship

2001

Heritage Canada

G

$6,000 CAD

Multicultural Grant for Community Action

2000

Heritage Canada

G

$8,000 CAD

Multicultural Grant for Community Research

1999-2003

FCAR

C

$50,000 CAD

Doctoral Fellowship

1999-2003

Graduate School, Concordia University

U

$3,600 CAD

Doctoral Fellowship

1999-2000

Research Ethic in Communication Studies, Concordia University

U

$750 CAD

Travel

1999

Department of Art History (Film Studies), University of Montréal.

U

$1,400 CAD

Travel

2005-

University of Ottawa

U

37,000

Matching Fund (In kind for infrastructure and space for Media Lab.)

2005-2006

University of Ottawa

U

$10, 000.00 CAD

Seed Grants

Type: C- Granting Councils, G-Government, O-Other, U-Universities

 

 

Graduate PostGraduate courses

o      directed studies

§       Releasing the Essence of Technology through Metaphoric Conceptions of Space and Time (Miss Sonia Vani, MA, Communication)

§       Cybermuseology and Intagible Heritage (Ms Dominique Langlais, MA, Communication). Research presented at the 2005 Graduate Conference in Communication Studies (York University) (Paper accepted for publication).

§       Spring-Summer 2004, Directed study on the Representation of Black Women in Rap Video, Ms. Alexandra Creamer, BS in Communication, Northeastern University.

§       Fall 2003/Winter 2004, Creative Project Supervision: Black Culture and Memory in Rochester (Massachusetts), Ms. Suzan Kelly, BS in Communication Northeastern University.

 

Scholarly and Professional Activities

 

Book authored
  1. Au-delà discours l’expérience du “Verbe” dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire (Beyond Discourses: The Experience of the “Verb” in Black African Cinemas), about 250 pages. (in Press) Qubec : Laval University Press
  2. Mapping Alternative Expressions of Blackness in Cinema (about 220 pages) (Under review)

 

Book/Journal edited

1)    Boulou E. de B’béri, Bruno Cornelier (sous la direction de) Le cinéma québécois face à ses institutions. Nouvelles Vues sur le Cinéma Québécois, Vol 1. no. 3, Montréal : www.cinema-quebecois.net/i_bc.htm, 2005 (online issue).

2)    Boulou E. de B’béri (sous la direction de), Écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire. Journal of Film studies, CiNEMAS, University of Montréal, Vol. 11, No.1. 2000.

3)    Boulou E. de B’béri, (co. ed.) « Itinérance et Marginalité». Avec la participation de Paul Chamberland, Monique Proulx, Gilles Archambault, Dany LaFerrière, Louis Hamelin, Anne-Marie Alonzo, Anne Dandurand, André Major, etc., Montréal: Open City 2002. 1996.

Contribution in Book Chapter

1)    Boulou E. de B’béri, “Intermedial Location of Meaning in Muna Moto: A Metalanguage of Cultural Discourse” in Alexie Tcheuyap (ed.) Cinema and Social Discourses in Cameroon, Bayreuth (Germany): African Studies Series, 2005 (pp. 63-82).

2)    Boulou E. de B’béri, « De Mossane au Wazzou Polygame : Fatalité d'une esthétique a-logique et condition féminine », in Marie-Ange Somdah (ed.) Cinémas des femmes d’Afrique. Paris : L’Harmattan. (forthcoming, winter 2006) (Reference upon request).

Paper in referred journal

1)    Boulou E. de B’béri, “Africanicity in Black Cinema: A Conjunctural Ground for New Expressions of Identity” in Cultural Studies in Africa / African Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies (Keyan G. Tomaseli and Hendel K. Wright, Guess Eds.) London/New York: Routledge (In press.).

2)    Boulou E. de B’béri, “The ‘Semeiotic’ of Africanicity in Gaston Kaboré’s Buud Yam” in Burkina Faso : Littérature émergente et création artistique. L’identité culturelle par la littérature et les arts (Amadou Bissiri and Sallaka Sanou, Guess Eds.). TYDSKRIF VIR LETTERKUNDE. South Africa: University of Pretoria. (Under review. Reference upon request).

3)    Boulou E. de B’béri, “Critical Review Essay,” Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France" (Paul Perron, University of Toronto Press, 338p.) in The American Journal of Semiotics (R. L. Lanigan, I. E. Klyukanov, eds.), New York: Semiotic Society of America (in press).

4)    Boulou E. de B’béri, « Une Rencontre plus que musicale : Bona, Lokua, Toto. Une méditation des rencontres des musiques et l’hybridation » in Cahiers Critiques Africultures (http://www.africultures.com/index.asp? menu=affiche _article&no=3735), mars 2005

5)    Boulou E. de B’béri, « Africanité : Au-delà du discours académique, une réalité ». in Olivier Barlet (ed.) La Revue d’Africultures, Dossier spécial no. 41. Paris : L’Harmattan. Oct. 2001 (pp.80-81.)

6)    Boulou E. de B’béri, ‘‘Volume’s Introduction" & “Tactiques scripturaires dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire" in écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire, CINEMAS, Vol.11, No.1, fall 2000, (pp.1-30).

7)    Boulou E. de B’béri, "Formal Review," Le cinéma en histoire. Institution cinématographique, réception filmique et reconstruction historique” (A. Gaudrault et al., 1999, Paris-Québec: Méridiens Klinckseck & Nota Bene, 345 p.), in: Intermédialité et cinéma, CINEMAS, Vol. 10, n. 2-3, spring 2000 (pp. 247-254).

8)    Boulou E. de B’béri, Critical Review Essay," Les cinémas d’Afrique noire: Le regard en question (O. Barlet, 1996, Paris: L’Harmattan, 352 p.), in Cinélekta, CINEMAS, Vol. 8, n.3, spring, 1998)," (pp.169-175).

 

 

Paper in refereed conferences/Proceedings

1)    Re:Activism Conference (Oct. 2005) – Budapest University of Technology. Paper: “The New Practices of Memory: The Case of Indy Media and Indigenous People Council of Biocolonialism.” http://mokk.bme.hu/centre/conferences/reactivism/submissions/ebanda

2)    Canadian Cultural Studies Association (Oct. 2005) – University of Alberta. Paper: Why ‘the’ Virtuality is not ‘the’ Intangible: Understanding the Process of Becoming A Crystal through Deleuzian Lenses or Actuality and Virtuality: An Intermedial Process of Crystallizing Everyday Life Practices of Identity www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/insides-outsides-and-elsewheres.php

3)    August 2005: International American Studies Association Congress – University of Ottawa.  “Des Invasions barbares au Neg, rencontres ou traces culturelles du noir dans le cinéma québécois”

4)    Mai 2005: ACFAS – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

. Paper: Nouvelles expressions d'identité dans le cinéma canadien

5)    June 2005: Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Western Ontario. (Canadian Film Studies Association). Paper: “‘Indie’ Cinema in Canada: Exploring New Practices of Identity in the Margins of Institutionalized Citizenship.”

6)    April 2005: Lancaster University (UK) Cinema and Technology Conference http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/events/cinematech/cinematech.php. Paper: “Looking for my Pygmalion: Exploring Black Diasporas Expressions’ of Identity through ‘Indie Video’”

7)    Mai 2004, Cultural Studies Conference (US), Northeastern University, Boston, MA

-       Chair, Introduction and Final Review: Vision(ality) from Memory to the Expression of Identity

8)    June 2004, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Winnipeg (Canadian Communication Association, CCA). Paper: From Media to Medium: Articulating the relationship between technology and education through black cinema(s)

9)    June 2003, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia (Canadian Communication Association, CCA). Paper: “Africanicity in Black Cinemas: A Conjunctural Ground for New Expressions of Identity.”

10) Nov. 2001, International Conference on Poverty, Ethnicity, Identity and Migration, Universitat Autònoma Guerrero (UAG), Acapulco (Mexico). Paper: “Africanicity and the Questions of Cultural Identities: An Epistemological Reflection.”

11) May 2001 – Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Laval University, Québec Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS). Paper: “Faire la Perruque” Détournements des codes organisationels dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire.”

12) May 2001 – Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Laval University, Québec Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Paper: “The Role of Technology in Preserving African Diaspora Memories’ in Quebec: A Case Study on “Looking for My Pygmalion, Mémoires.”

13) Sept. 2000 – Rhetoric, Constitution, Agency, Concordia University. Paper: “Auto-Rhetoric Re-territorialization of Black African Traditional Speech.

14) May 2000 – Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Alberta (Canadian Communication Association, CCA). Paper: “The Impacts of Verb Activity in the Re-territorialization Processes of African Memory.”

15) April 2000 – CRI-CRÉLIQ’s 2nd Annual Conference, University of Montréal. Le récit à l’heure  de  la culture  médiatique  :  mutation  et  ruptures. Paper: “Tactique de re-territorialisation du récit mythique en Afrique Noire.”

16) March 2000 – 8th Annual Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College (Truth, Memory, Imagination and Fiction). Paper: “Death Occultation of Anamnesia in African Oral Tradition: Conjectural Questions about Reality.

17) July 1999 – 34th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology: “Multiple Modernities in an Era of Globalization”, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Section: Media, Identities and Territories. Paper: “Death Occultation of Anamnesia in Black African Cinemas.”

18) May 1999 – ACFAS 67th Congress of l’Association  Canadienne   Français  pour  l’Avencement  des Sciences, University of Ottawa. Paper: “Scriptural Strategies and Tactics in Black African Cinemas.”

 
Major invited contributions and/or technical reports
1.     2004- Examine needs, problems, and build a long-term strategic plan on “Intercultural and International Issues” for the University of Ottawa’s International Office
2.     Co-Editor with N. Aumont, E. Douyon, S. Springer, J. Torczyner, et. al., Evolution of the Black Community in Montreal: Mutations and Challenge  (Socio-demographic report). Montréal: McGill Consortium of Ethnicity and Social Planning (MCESSP) (2001).
Abstract and/or paper read

1.     December 2004: Evaluation of and written assessment for an application requested by the SSHR for a Research Grant.

2.     Mai 2004: Van Horne Prize Jury Member for the Canadian Communication Association (Read and reviewed 27 articles, 20-25 pages each).

Others (workshop, non-referred presentations, and papers)

1. Mai 2004: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Boston, MA, “Canadianation: Negotiating New Spaces, Politics, and Identities in and through Global Cultural Flows” Special Presentation: Introducing and commenting “Looking for my Pygmalion, Mémoires” in the context of black Diaspora expressions of identity.

3. Public Lecture Series, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Oct. 2003

4. Discovery Series, University of Ottawa, Nov. 2004

 

Signature

Dr. Boulou E. de B'béri, Ph.D.

Nov, 2005