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Workshop: Still "Vexing" for Care in Neoliberal Universities (24.04.2025)

Anna Kerstin Kraft (Assistentin, Doktorandin in Gender Studies, Universität Basel) und Yamila Sofia Pita (Doktorandin in Gender Studies, Universität Bern) organisieren einen Workshop für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen mit einer Keynote von…

Call for papers: "Language, People and Soŋay-Zarma-Dendi’s Culture: Integration and Consolidation of Peace in the Sahel" – DEADLINE EXTENDED

Internationales Symposium über Sprache, Kultur, Geschichte, Werte und andere Reichtümer der Soŋay-Zarma-Dendi, 25-27 April 2025, Niamey, Niger.

2nd Call for Papers 26th Afrikanist*innentag University of Vienna (18.-20.06.2025)

Der Call for Papers für den 26. Afrikanist*innentag, der vom 18.-20. Juni 2025 an der Universität Wien stattfindet, wurde bis zum 15.03.2025 verlängert.

Job: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities

PhD-position in the framework of the SNSF project "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change” led by Luregn Lenggenhager (Centre for African Studies, University of Basel)

Picture of derelict car in arid landscape of southern Namibia

Call for papers OASIS No. 43 (Jan-Jun 2026)

Das Observatorium für die Analyse internationaler Systeme (OASIS) bittet derzeit um Beiträge für die erste Ausgabe des Jahres 2026 (Nr. 43).

Call for Papers: The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads

How to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across to the humanities and social sciences?

Graph of Northeast African genomic variation (source: Wikimedia / Hollfelder N, Schlebusch CM, Günther T, Babiker H, Hassan HY, Jakobsson M (2017) Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. PLoS Genet 13(8): e1006976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006976)

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Call for Papers: European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2025

The Call for Papers for the European Conference on African Studies 2025 (ECAS 2025) is now open.

Call for Papers: Liquid Urbanisms (Basel 12-13.06.2025)

The division of Urban Studies of the University of Basel invites paper propositions for an international workshop co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society for African…

Proceedings of the conference with the same name, co-organized by our Society in Neuchâtel in 2019

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Workshop: Still "Vexing" for Care in Neoliberal Universities (24.04.2025)

Call for papers: "Language, People and Soŋay-Zarma-Dendi’s Culture: Integration and Consolidation of Peace in the Sahel" – DEADLINE EXTENDED

2nd Call for Papers 26th Afrikanist*innentag University of Vienna (18.-20.06.2025)

Job: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities

Call for papers OASIS No. 43 (Jan-Jun 2026)

Aktuell

Workshop: Still "Vexing" for Care in Neoliberal Universities (24.04.2025)

Call for papers: "Language, People and Soŋay-Zarma-Dendi’s Culture: Integration and Consolidation of Peace in the Sahel" – DEADLINE EXTENDED

2nd Call for Papers 26th Afrikanist*innentag University of Vienna (18.-20.06.2025)

Job: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities

Call for papers OASIS No. 43 (Jan-Jun 2026)

Call for Papers: The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads

Call for Papers: European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2025

Call for Papers: Liquid Urbanisms (Basel 12-13.06.2025)

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Global visual economies: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960…

Internationaler Tag der Migrant*innen (14.12.2024)

Lausanner Fortgeschrittenenseminar in politischer Ökologie (28.…

Publikationen

Afrique - 300'000 ans de diversité humaine (Ausstellungskatalog)

Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe. A New Field for Museum Studies

Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo. A history of health care delivery in rural Ghana, ca. 1925 to 1980

African-Asian Relations: Past, Present, and Future

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