‪📢 Call for papers: ️SGAS-VAD 2026

🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"
➡️Submit your paper proposal to one of 77 panels within nine thematic streams.
‼️Submission deadline: 11 Jan 2026‼️

🗓️26-28 Aug 2026
📍Basel, Switzerland

🔗 www.africanperspectives.ch/cfp

Join us for this year's Carl Schlettwein Lecture, held by Suren Pillay (University of Cape Town).

📅 25 Sep 2025, 18:15
📍 Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Klosterberg 23, Basel)
🥂 Followed by a reception
🔗https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/carl-schlettwein-lecture-2025/

DEADLINE = 15 September 2025 🔥🔥🔥

Namibia Research Day is back! Please join!

‼️Deadline extended to 15 Aug 2025‼️
📢 Call for Panels
🌍 "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"
🔗 Submit your proposal now: www.africanperspectives.ch/cfpanels

➡️ Joint SGAS and VAD conference
📅 26-28 August 2026
📍 Basel, Switzerland

#callforpanels #africanstudies #VAD2026 #SGAS2026

Great project & job opportunity in Usakos, Namibia

📢 Reminder: Call for Panels
🌍 "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"

SGAS-VAD conference 📅26-28 Aug 2026 📍Basel, Switzerland

‼️Panel submission deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Submit your proposal now: www.africanperspectives.ch

#CallForPanels #AfricanStudies #VAD2026 #SGAS2026

👉Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27.
Deadline: 15 Sept
Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...

@abi-freiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social @zasb.unibas.ch @africamultiple.bsky.social @colonial-memories.bsky.social

Are you at the #ECAS2025 in Prague? ➡️Come to the exhibition booth of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and find out more about #Basel, @zasb.unibas.ch & the upcoming SGAS-VAD 2026 conference (26-28 Aug 2026).
📢 Call for panels is open until 31 July.
🔗 www.africanperspectives.ch
#VAD2026 #SGAS2026

📣Apply now: 7th Basel Summer School in #AfricanStudies:

🌟Honouring #Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through African Thought

📅 8-12 September 2025
‼️ Application deadline: 6 July 2025
📍 Basel, Switzerland

zasb.unibas.ch/en/summer-sc...

my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch

Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water"

📅12-13 June 2025
📍Basel, Switzerland
‼️Registration is open until 15 May 2025.

#AfricanStudies #UrbanStudies #SGAS #SSEA
@jonschu.bsky.social @dgw.philhist.unibas.ch

zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de...

Ermest Sewordor's article questions the linear & determinist way #coloniality has been deployed in literature on #infrastructure, by exploring how the intersection between infrastructure & racialization shaped the urbanization of gold-mining enclaves in colonial Ghana.
zasb.unibas.ch/de/forschung...

New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum

We are offering a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of adult education & peacebuilding. Join our team as a Junior Course Coordinator (80%)!

📍 Location: Basel | 🕗 Duration: Fixed Term | 💼 Start: 1 August 2025

🔗 Apply now: shorturl.at/nRyPD

📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open.

🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"
‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025
📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026
📍Location: Basel, Switzerland

zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news...

#CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA