Speakers
- Jean Paul Colleyn
- Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Professor
Jean Paul Colleyn is an Anthropologist (PhD) and filmmaker. Born in Belgium in 1949. He worked in television for several years as a journalist, director and Producer of documentary films. As an anthropologist, he made intensive fieldwork in Mali, Togo, and Ivory Coast. He was elected in 1990 as maître de conferences at Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales. He taught three years in New York University. He made around thirty documentary films, wrote fourteen books and many articles on anthropology, documentary films and art.