HUMA African Epistemologies Advanced Seminar Series
Introduction: The birth of scientific Egyptology (following the deciphering of hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822) was a turning point in the rediscovery of the history, culture and authentic thought of a continent. Egyptology as a discipline is devoted to the study of Ancient Egyptian history and civilization (language, writings, texts, documents, artefacts and various monuments) and appears today as a major and irreplaceable but controversial source of the New African Historiography and a determining epistemological basis for the thinking of African Renaissance, and even for the history of sciences, such as linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and medicine.
About the speaker: Prof. Dr Pierre Oum Ndigi commenced his academic training in 1975 as a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of the Université Lumière Lyon 2, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Science, a degree in Language Sciences and attended several doctoral seminars in historical linguistics and comparative linguistics. He holds a Master's degree in Sociology option Ethnology, a Diploma of Extensive Studies in Religious history in Europe and outside Europe from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, and a four-year-study Diplôme Universitaire d'Etudes Spécialisées d'Egyptologie (DUESE) – a specific University Diploma of Higher Education in Egyptology create at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in 1978. He undertook doctoral research to defend a PhD thesis ("Languages, History and Civilizations of Ancient Worlds" – Specialty Egyptology, 1997) at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.