Adrien Delmas, PhD (2010) in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is currently Scientific Director of the French Institute of South Africa (UMIFRE 25 CNRS, USR 3336 ‘Afrique au Sud du Sahara’). He has published on travel writing in the early modern world including Les voyages de l’écrit. Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2013) et Written Culture in a Colonial Context (Leiden, Brill, 2012). He is associate researcher at the EHESS and at the University of Cape Town. The French Institute of South Africa’s knowledge of the research landscape and networks in Southern Africa will be of invaluable help within the extensive fieldwork that the members of the Modern Moves team aim to conduct on the dance scenes in Luanda, Kinshasa, Maputo, Johannesburg, and other African cities.
Adrien Delmas
