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The ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. It is an acknowledged centre for interdisciplinary Africa-focused research and offers a Master's and a PhD in African Studies.
‪📢 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
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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/
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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DEADLINE = 15 September 2025 🔥🔥🔥
** Jihad in Africa **
3-years postdoctoral position: ‘Governing jihad in Africa: uses & regulations of jihadist and
counter-insurgency violence’ #jihad #Africa
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2025 at noon

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August 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Namibia Research Day is back! Please join!
August 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‼️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
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Great project & job opportunity in Usakos, Namibia
July 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📢 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
July 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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👉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...

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July 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
📣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

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June 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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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

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International Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water"
International Workshop in Critical Urbanism, University of Basel, 12-13 June 2025
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May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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.
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Publication: "Upending coloniality: Race and infrastructure from Ghana's urban gold-mining hinterlands"
Ernest Sewordor's article questions the linear and determinist way coloniality has been deployed in the extant literature on infrastructure, by expanding the term to reflect a spectrum of racial polit...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
"Space is the Ultimate Luxury" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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March 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📢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

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#CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM