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UM6P SCIENCE WEEK – CC∞H Sessions on Alterities & Tacit Knowledge – March 30 and 31, 2026 

The Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities of the Africa Business School (UM6P) invites you to two sessions dedicated to the following themes:
→ Alterities in/and becoming
→ Tacit knowledge
 
These meetings will bring together researchers, speakers, and students to examine current dynamics of knowledge and identity, along with their social, cultural, and intellectual implications.
 
📅 March 30–31, 2026
📍 UM6P Campus Benguerir – Asni Amphitheater
 
Free access (subject to registration)
 
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🔹 Monday, March 30 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
 
Alterities in/and becoming
Divergence | Convergence | Emergence
 
The event brings together “witnesses” of alterity and participants from Cultur.Ed UM6P’s Inspire program for a time of reflection and dialogue.
Through this meeting, we aim to explore how differences and interactions among cultures, knowledge systems, and experiences shape contemporary societies. By bringing together researchers, intellectuals, and young participants from the Inspire program, the event creates a space for dialogue that blends academic reflection, artistic expression, and intellectual engagement.
The program includes testimonies, discussions, exhibitions, and artistic performances.
Four witnesses and cultural mediators
  • Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, president of the association France terre d’asile, former French Minister of National Education, affiliated professor at Africa Business School (ABS/UM6P), will speak of “I in the eyes of others”.
  • Hassan Aslafy, Franco-Moroccan socio-anthropologist, lecturer at the University of Toulouse, will address the “Andalusias” from the perspective of “I is a host”
  • Fouad Laroui, writer, professor at UM6P and scientific director of the Science Week, will discuss the situation in which “I is another”
  • Reda Benkirane, affiliated full professor, Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities (ABS/UM6P), will address the topic “I between identity and sense of belonging.”
The session will be facilitated by members of the group Inspire (Cultur.Ed)

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🔹 Tuesday, March 31 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
 
Tacit knowledge
From scientific foundations to African challenges
 
 
“We know more than we can say”—this is how the notion of tacit knowledge was first formulated in 1966 by the Hungarian physician, chemist, philosopher, and economist Michael Polanyi. Ordinarily, knowledge—especially scientific knowledge—refers to what we master as procedures and whose results and applications in real life we can predict. But there is another form of knowledge, implicit yet equally active, which resides, among other places, in scientific tradition, our education, our beliefs, our representations, and our opinions. This knowledge unfolds in most of our meaning-producing actions, beyond any formal codification, and is grounded in what we observe, imitate, and accomplish. This is what we propose to explore within the Moroccan and broader African cultural contexts.
This session will explore the concept of tacit knowledge through an introductory lecture by Emmanuel Malolo Dissakè, followed by a roundtable and an open discussion with the audience.
Speakers
  • Emmanuel Malolo Dissakè, professor of philosophy at the University of Douala, Cameroon, author of several works, translator of Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend. He has been teaching the history and philosophy of science and technology for 30 years.
  • Housni Zbaghdi, director of the Maison de la Philosophie/Maroc, who leads philosophy workshops in various settings, including schools, prisons, orphanages, and businesses.  
  • Fadoua Mhidia, PhD in social sciences, graduate of EGE and the International University of Rabat.
  • Reda Benkirane, affiliated full professor, Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities (ABS/UM6P), will address tacit knowledge in the case of Generation Z.
Moderator: Nicolas Sperry-Guillou, director of the “Edge Dynamics” program, Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities
 

 


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Conférence – “Regards croisés sur la complexité dans les organisations”

Le 30 mai dernier, la Chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités a co-organisé une conférence à la Bibliothèque Universitaire Mohammed Sekkat, en collaboration avec l’Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) et l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca.

Intitulée “Regards croisés sur la complexité dans les organisations”, cette rencontre a réuni des intervenants de divers horizons pour explorer les multiples facettes de la complexité au sein des institutions et des dynamiques organisationnelles contemporaines.

Retrouvez l’intégralité des interventions ici.



 

Impromptu Conversations

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On the spot interviews with complexity scientists 

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The Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities (CC∞H) seeks to create stronger connections between the sciences of complexity and human/social sciences. Nested within UM6P’s Africa Business School (which aims at ‘enabling the sustainable transformation of business and society landscapes in Africa and beyond’), the Chair delivers educational programs, spearheads research initiatives, organizes scientific events, publishes academic research, facilitates workshops, and conducts field studies.

Learn more here.

La Chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités (CC∞H) a pour objectif de renforcer les liens entre les sciences de la complexité et les sciences humaines et sociales. Rattachée à l’Africa Business School de l’UM6P (dont l’objectif est de “permettre la transformation durable des paysages commerciaux/économiques et sociaux en Afrique et au-delà”), la Chaire offre des programmes enseignements programmes éducatifs, pilote des initiatives de recherche, organise des événements scientifiques, publie des recherches académiques, facilite des ateliers et réalise des études sur le terrain.

Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici.

الكرسيّ العلميّ ” تعقيدات ∞ إنسانيّات ”(CCH) يهدف إلى تعزيز الروابط بين علوم التعقيد وعلوم الإنسان والعلوم الاجتماعية، وهو مرتبط بمدرسة أفريقيا للأعمال في UM6P (التي تهدف إلى تحقيق التحول المستدام في المشهد التجاري والاقتصادي والاجتماعي في إفريقيا وما وراءها). كما يقدم الكرسي برامج تعليمية، يدير مبادرات بحثية، ينظم أحداث علمية، ينشر أبحاثًا أكاديمية، يسهل ورش عمل ويجري دراسات ميدانية.

لمعرفة المزيد، انقر هنا 



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