Université des Mutants

Université des Mutants (University of Mutants) is an international center of meetings and conferences on the island of Gorée, Senegal, opposite Fort d'Estrées which houses the Musée historique du Sénégal.

History

The institution was founded at the initiative of Leopold Sedar Senghor and the French writer and philosopher Roger Garaudy.
It opened January 6, 1979 with support from UNESCO and the United Nations Programme for Development (UNDP) in addition to the initial capital of the State of Senegal and the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT). Its creation was formalized by law 81-3 February 2, 1981.
It was dissolved by Act 2005-08 of 22 July 2005.[1]

Administration

This is a public administrative institution. Under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, it has a Board of Directors, a Director-General (currently Massaër Diallo) and an International Scientific Council.

Objectives and activities

Its mission is "esquisser l'évolution que devrait suivre l'humanité en mutation pour assurer à tous les hommes le bien-être et la paix."

Filmography Symposia, seminars and study days are organized, and each year, tens of makers will come from many countries to share their experiences and contribute to this mission

gollark: This is apparently doubly linked, though, not singly linked.
gollark: > NOTE: It is almost always better to use Vec or VecDeque because array-based containers are generally faster, more memory efficient, and make better use of CPU cache.
gollark: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.LinkedList.html
gollark: Rust has linked lists in `std::collections`, if you like.
gollark: ... that's a builtin.

References
  1. LOI n° 2005-08 du 22 juillet 2005, Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal

Bibliography
  • Pascal Bekolo, « L'Université des Mutants : une utopie universaliste récupérable ? », Université de Yaoundé 1, Actes du colloque sur Senghor 10 janvier 2002, 2003, pp. 75–82. ISBN 2-911541-89-8
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.