Victor Nakou
Research Associate

Project: Tolerance

Mr. Victor Nakou works as Research Associate in the DFG project "Tolerance".
| Year | Station |
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Since 04/2024 | Research Associate at the DFG project „For-Torelanz“ at the Chair of Environmental and Technological History, Professor Dr. Stephanie Zehnle, University of Passau |
| 05/2022 – 03/2023 | Student assistant, University of Bayreuth
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| 03/2021 – 12/2021 | Student assistant, University of Bayreuth
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| 04/2019 – 01/2024 | M.A. studies in Culture and Society of Africa |
07/2017 | University of Bayreuth |
10/2012 – 09/2015 | Bachelor's degree in History |
- Colonial und postcolonial History
- History of Migration
- History of Religion
- Image and film analysis
Colonial (in)tolerance of religious sounds: Case study on Ghana and Ivory Coast (since 04/2024)
| Year | Lecture |
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| 08/2026 | SGAS/SSEA & VAD Conference:"African perspectives on global transformations", University of Basel. Panel: Music as a site for socio-spatial dialectic in Africa. Lecture: "Governing by the Ear. Sacred Music an the Socio Spatial Dialectic in Grand Bassam" |
| 06/2026 | Open Day 2026 Kiel University. Presentation of the DFG Research Group Tolerance: "Open minds. Open doors" |
| 12/2025 | 2025 International Annual Conference of the DGfG Working Group on the Geography of Religion: "Disruptive Dimensionen - Räumlichkeit und Temporalität von Kataklysmen", FAU Erlangen. Lecture: "Migration, Identity, and Religious (In)Tolerance in Côte d'Ivoire (1892-2008): Colonial Legacies, Urban Disruptions and Crisis-Era Reconfigurations" |
| 07/2025 | Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion: "The Religion and transformation in contemporary society", University of Vienna. Panel: The difficulty and possibility of tolerance: (in)tolerance and the religious other. Lecture:" Religious tolerance in colonial times: the case of the french empire in ivory coast" |