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Victor Nakou

Research Associate
Victor Nakou
Victor Nakou
Room HK14c 406
Phone: +49(0)851/509-5705

Project: Tolerance

Mr. Victor Nakou works as Research Associate in the DFG project "Tolerance".

Year Station

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
Project Politics of the Unknown. Conspiracism and Conflict „Africa Multiple Cluster “.

  • Transcription of French-language interviews
  • Data analysis and data catalog processing
03/2021 – 12/2021

Student assistant, University of Bayreuth
Project Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood „ Africa Multiple Cluster “.

  • Data processing and analyiss
  • Transcription form French to English
04/2019 – 01/2024

M.A. studies in Culture and Society of Africa
Focus: African History + Études Francophones

07/2017

University of Bayreuth
Topic : „Histoire des migrations en Afrique de l’Ouest : cas des Béninois et des Togolais de la Côte d’Ivoire de 1990 à 2011“
Maîtrise degree in African History
Topic : „La réglementation du commerce européen et les rivalités sur les côtes des Dents, de l’or et des esclaves du XVIIème au XVIIIème siècle“.
Chair of History, Art and Archaeology, University of Abomey-Calavi-Benin

10/2012 – 09/2015

Bachelor's degree in History
Focus: Regional History of Benin
Chair of History, Art and Archaeology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin

  • 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
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"
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