Professeur d’histoire, chef de la section et responsable pédagogique de la filière histoire rurale de l’UFR sciences sociales, de l’université du Sine Saloum El hadji Ibrahima Niass de Kaolack (USSEIN), campus de Kaffrine, Sénégal.
Mamoudou Sy’s presentation
Mamoudou SY is a professor -researcher trained at the history department of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal and at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is professor of history, head of the section and educational manager of the rural history branch of the UFR social sciences, of the University of Sine Saloum El hadji Ibrahima Niass of Kaolack (USSEIN), campus of Kaffrine, Senegal. He holds the CAES, the certificate of aptitude for teaching in history and geography. He is a member of the Moving Matters Program of the Department of Anthropology / AISSR at the University of Amsterdam.
Mr. Sy is part of the `` Weatherhead Initiative on Global History '' an international academic network which brings together historians from Senegal (UCAD and USSEIN), Harvard University (USA), University of Delhi (India), IISH (Netherlands), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) and East China Normal University of Shanghai (China.
Mr. Sy is member of the steering committee of the Project of Writing of the General History of Senegal . Mr. Sy is the author of book: The Senegal River Valley in the game of political scales: Dimar in the 18th and 19th centuries, Harmattan Paris, 2018, 284 pages.
Mr. Sy is also a speaker, panelist and as such, he has presented numerous scientific communications around the world (Mali, Gambia, Cameroon, France, Netherlands, DRC, Brazil, Germany, USA, etc.).
On April 11, 2017, in his capacity as Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden, he organized in African Studies Center in Leiden with Biram Ould Abeid (Mauritanian anti-slavery activist) a pan el focused on the history and current affairs of slavery in Mauritania.
Mr. Sy benefited from January 2012 to December 2012 of a fellowship at the International Institute for Social History of Amsterdam (IISH). From 2005 to 2011, Mr. Sy led with colleagues from ISITA(Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa) numerous missions and conferences focusing on rural intellectual history in Senegambia. He is currently working on social history in the Senegambia.