Départ à la retraite de Sada Niang

Après plus de 32 ans à UVic, le professeur Sada Niang prendra sa retraite le 31 décembre prochain!

Joignez-vous à nous pour lui souhaiter de nombreuses heures de repos, d'explorations, de voyages, de lectures, de musiques et plus encore!

Merci Sada pour toutes ces belles années en ta compagnie, tu nous manqueras!

Qui est Sada Niang? Voici un texte rédigé dans le cadre de la réception de son prix Internationalization Award par la faculté des humanités en 2022.

The Internationalization Award is given to a member of the Humanities community who has most tangibly contributed to the advancement of the UVic International Plan by increasing student global mobility, enhancing international student experience, advancing international and intercultural curricula, or making a vital impact through the internationalization of their research.

Sada Niang is an internationally recognized expert in African and Caribbean francophone literatures and African francophone cinemas who also holds an appointment as Distinguished Professor and Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute of Advanced Studies in Delhi, India. His 2014 book, Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformation, is widely recognized for upending negative Western portrayals of African cinema from the 1960s and 70s by showing how newly independent African nations grappled with dominant narratives about their imagined communities in complex, original ways through internationally minded cinema. Niang has been invited to share his research across the globe in Canada, the US, Brazil, France, India and West Africa, and contributed to culturally significant events such as Fescapo, the longest-running celebration of African cinema in Burkina Faso. He has received consistent praise from colleagues for his demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching and supervision of graduate students—many of whom have come from nations like Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria and elsewhere specifically to work with him. As one of his nominators writes, “Dr. Niang has made an immense impact on students in developing their understanding of discrimination due to colonization and racism” and “their sense of social justice and intercultural comprehension.” As an exemplary scholar, teacher and graduate supervisor with international reach and impact, Dr. Niang has earned the 2022 Internationalization Award.