The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5031@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T120620 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T161500 SUMMARY:Ettore Morelli: "The woman with copper earrings: fragments of a his tory of power in southern Africa\, c. 1200–c. 1800" DESCRIPTION:Public lecture within the framework of the Research Seminar “ African History”\, in cooperation with the the Research Seminar “Vormo derne”\, followed by refreshments. The lecture will be given by Ettore M orelli (University of Pavia). X-ALT-DESC:Public lecture within the framework of the Research Seminar “African History”\, in cooperation with the the Research Seminar “Vo rmoderne”\, followed by refreshments. The lecture will be given by Ettor e Morelli (University of Pavia).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5023@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114754 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260429T181500 SUMMARY:Hildegard Titus & Dag Henrichsen: "Decolonising Namibia’s Queer H istory" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followe d by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260429T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5030@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T120138 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260427T121500 SUMMARY:Anna-Katharina Osterlow: "Training the African Vanguard of the Comp uter Age: Early Computing in Nigeria and Senegal\, 1963-1985" DESCRIPTION:The lecture given by Anna-Katharina Osterlow (Sciences Po) as p art of the Research Seminar "African History". X-ALT-DESC:The lecture given by Anna-Katharina Osterlow (Sciences Po) as part of the Research Seminar "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260427T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5022@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114748 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260422T181500 SUMMARY:Film Screening & Discussion: "Kapana: A Namibian Gay Love Story" DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Philippe Talavera (director).\\r\\nThe Res earch Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests are welco me.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the University o f Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nContact for registratio n and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/eve nts/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-conte mporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:In conversation with Philippe Talavera (director).
\nTh e Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholar s to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern Af rican Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the Univ ersity of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nCont act for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas. ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian ti me. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20: 15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260422T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5021@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114742 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260415T181500 SUMMARY:Rufino Sitoe: "Spiteful Emancipation: Youth Engagement in Violent E xtremism in Northern Mozambique" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followe d by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260415T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5029@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T120014 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260414T121500 SUMMARY:Sophie Schasiepen: "Confronting Museum and Academic Collections’ Role in Capitalism" DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be given by Sophie Schasiepen (University of W estern Cape). The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). X-ALT-DESC:The lecture will be given by Sophie Schasiepen (University of Western Cape). The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basle r Afrika Bibliographien (BAB).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260414T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5020@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114737 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260408T181500 SUMMARY: Book launch: "Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland" DESCRIPTION:Book launch with the volume’s editors and contributors.\\r\\n The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international schol ars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests ar e welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the Unive rsity of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en /events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-c ontemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch /en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-i n-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an ap éro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:Book launch with the volume’s editors and contributors.
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Sout hern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Gues ts are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, t he University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Nami bian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260408T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5028@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T115817 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260326T000000 SUMMARY:Workshop: “Work in Progress” DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Thursday\, 26 March 2026 (afternoon) and Friday\, 2 7 March 2026 (morning) within the framework of the Research Seminar “Afr ican History”. Detailed program upon registration – please write to th e organizers (Julia Tischler\, Marie Muschalek\, and Kai Kersten-Kwame). X-ALT-DESC:Workshop on Thursday\, 26 March 2026 (afternoon) and Friday\, 27 March 2026 (morning) within the framework of the Research Seminar “A frican History”. Detailed program upon registration – please write to the organizers (Julia Tischler\, Marie Muschalek\, and Kai Kersten-Kwame).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260327T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5019@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114733 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260325T181500 SUMMARY:Mark Mushiva: "Decolonial Futurities and African Accelerationism" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followe d by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260325T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5027@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T115435 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260323T121500 SUMMARY:Catarina Madruga: "Collecting as Subsistence. Interspecies Relation ships in the Production of Knowledge on Angolan Fauna\, 1870s and 1910s" DESCRIPTION:Class with Catarina Madruga (Technische Universität Berlin\, M useum für Naturkunde Berlin) as part of the Research Seminar "African His tory". X-ALT-DESC:Class with Catarina Madruga (Technische Universität Berlin\, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) as part of the Research Seminar "African H istory".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260323T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5018@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114726 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260318T181500 SUMMARY:Olivier van Beemen: "Hey\, Weren't They the Good Guys?" – A Criti cal Look into Conservation in Africa DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followe d by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260318T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5073@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260304T171819 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T123000 SUMMARY:Webinar: Presentation of the Master’s program African Studies DESCRIPTION:Veit Arlt\, Executive Secretary of the ZASB\, will hold a webin ar on Friday\, 13 March\, from 12:30 to 13:30 to present the MA African St udies program. X-ALT-DESC:Veit Arlt\, Executive Secretary of the ZASB\, will hold a web inar on Friday\, 13 March\, from 12:30 to 13:30 to present the MA African Studies program. \;
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5071@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260304T171251 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:African Studies am Infoabend Master DESCRIPTION:Das Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel ist von 17:30 bis 19:45 am Infomarkt präsent. Von 19:00-19:30 präsentiert Veit Arlt\, Geschäftsf ührer des ZASB\, den Studiengang im HS 206. Zusätzlich gibt er am Freita g\, 13. März\, ein Webinar (Presentation of the Master’s program Africa n Studies) zwischen 12:30-13:30 (siehe Link unten). X-ALT-DESC:Das Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel ist von 17:30 bis 19:45 am Infomarkt präsent. Von 19:00-19:30 präsentiert Veit Arlt\, Geschäfts führer des ZASB\, den Studiengang im HS 206. Zusätzlich gibt er am Freit ag\, 13. März\, ein Webinar (Presentation of the Master’s program Afric an Studies) zwischen 12:30-13:30 (siehe Link unten).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260312T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5007@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260218T114721 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260311T181500 SUMMARY:Jeremy Tiboth: Poetic Reading and Conversation with Nashilongweship we Mushaandja & Julia Rensing DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followe d by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19 :15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\ , ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260311T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5006@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260302T113645 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260304T181500 SUMMARY:Introduction of the Research Colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome. The first session is moderated by with Antonio Uribe .\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/d etails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempora ry-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/event s/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemp orary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#]\\r\\nFull program as seen on the PDF file below. \\r\\nNote: Until the end of March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countrie s\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome. The first session is moderated by with Antonio Uri be.
\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the Universit y of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact f or registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\nFull program as seen on t he PDF file below.
\nNote: Until the end o f March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From A pril on\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, follo wed by an apéro at the BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260304T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4765@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260204T090614 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260216T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEve rybody interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\n< p>Everybody interested in African Studies is welcome! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260216T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5003@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260209T094810 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260213T201500 SUMMARY:Party & concert: Black Earth Band DESCRIPTION:With its repertoire of Highlife\, Afro\, Pop\, Smooth Jazz\, So ul\, R&B\, and Reggae\, the Black Earth Band creates an electrifying atmos phere wherever it turns up. The band led by Robert Chonia (Sir Roberto) fe atures musicians from Ghana\, Togo\, South Africa\, Jamaica and the UK.\\r \\nThe party closes off a symposium in honor of Prof Andreas Heuser – ad mission is free of charge.\\r\\nAccess: The entrance to the Verso Bar [htt ps://maps.app.goo.gl/YUudVpPiusj7CtHZ8] is located at the southern end of the Kollegienhaus. X-ALT-DESC:With its repertoire of Highlife\, Afro\, Pop\, Smooth Jazz\, Soul\, R&\;B\, and Reggae\, the Black Earth Band creates an electrifyin g atmosphere wherever it turns up. The band led by Robert Chonia (Sir Robe rto) features musicians from Ghana\, Togo\, South Africa\, Jamaica and the UK.
\nThe party closes off a symposium in honor of Prof Andreas Heu ser – admission is free of charge.
\nAccess: The entrance to the Verso Bar is located at the southern end of the Kollegienhaus.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260213T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5011@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260209T095040 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260213T090000 SUMMARY:Symposium: "Epochale Wandlungsprozesse. Südverschiebung des Christ entums und ihre Auswirkungen" DESCRIPTION:Am 20. Februar 2026 feiert Andreas Heuser\, Professor für auss ereuropäisches Christentum (mit Schwerpunkt Afrika) an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Basel\, seinen 65. Geburtstag. Dies wird zum An lass genommen\, um gemeinsam mit ihm auf sein vielseitiges wissenschaftlic hes Wirken zurückzublicken und ihn gebührend zu ehren.\\r\\nMit dem Begr iff „Epochale Wandlungsprozesse“ bezeichnet Andreas in einem seiner Ar tikel die tiefgreifenden Transformationsprozesse des Christentums\, die si ch durch Migration ergeben. Das Thema von Transformationsprozessen zieht s ich wie ein roter Faden durch sein akademisches Schaffen: von der Erforsch ung der globalen Pfingstbewegung über die Auseinandersetzung mit der geog raphischen Südverschiebung des Christentums bis hin zu Migration und Öku mene. Das Symposium nimmt einige dieser Themen auf und vertieft sie im Dia log mit den eingeladenen Referent:innen und mit Andreas selbst. Die vielf ältigen Perspektiven seines Wirkens werden beleuchtet\, diskutiert und ge feiert.\\r\\nNeben der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung sollen auch d ie persönliche Begegnung und die Freude am gemeinsamen Feiern nicht zu ku rz kommen. X-ALT-DESC:Am 20. Februar 2026 feiert Andreas Heuser\, Professor für au ssereuropäisches Christentum (mit Schwerpunkt Afrika) an der Theologische n Fakultät der Universität Basel\, seinen 65. Geburtstag. Dies wird zum Anlass genommen\, um gemeinsam mit ihm auf sein vielseitiges wissenschaftl iches Wirken zurückzublicken und ihn gebührend zu ehren.
\nMit dem Begriff „Epochale Wandlungsprozesse“ bezeichnet Andreas in einem sein er Artikel die tiefgreifenden Transformationsprozesse des Christentums\, d ie sich durch Migration ergeben. Das Thema von Transformationsprozessen zi eht sich wie ein roter Faden durch sein akademisches Schaffen: von der Erf orschung der globalen Pfingstbewegung über die Auseinandersetzung mit der geographischen Südverschiebung des Christentums bis hin zu Migration und Ökumene. Das Symposium nimmt einige dieser Themen auf und vertieft sie i m Dialog mit den eingeladenen Referent:innen und mit Andreas selbst. Die v ielfältigen Perspektiven seines Wirkens werden beleuchtet\, diskutiert un d gefeiert.
\nNeben der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung sollen auch die persönliche Begegnung und die Freude am gemeinsamen Feiern nich t zu kurz kommen.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260213T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4807@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251210T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Closing Discussion DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4707@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251209T161500 SUMMARY:Marwan Kilani: "Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic crossroads between A frica and the Near East" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251209T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4806@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T181500 SUMMARY:Helena Uambembe: "Artists and African Heritage Collections" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4706@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251202T181500 SUMMARY:Souleymane Bachir Diagne: "Translation: Hospitality or cultural app ropriation?" DESCRIPTION:Souleymane Bachir Diagne\, Professor at Columbia University in New York\, will reflect on translation as a practice that creates reciproc ity and hospitality between cultures and languages. He will also address t he objection that\, in a (post)colonial world and given the hierarchy that exists between languages\, translation is rather domination (Pascale Casa nova) and violence.\\r\\nSuch a discussion also raises the question of a literature written in the “imperial” language. He will refer to his book “De langue à langue. L’hospitalité de la traduction”\, Albin Michel\, 2022 (English: “From language to language\, the hospitality of translation”\, Other Press 2025).\\r\\nThe talk will be given in English . Questions may be asked in English or French. X-ALT-DESC:Souleymane Bachir Diagne\, Professor at Columbia University i n New York\, will reflect on translation as a practice that creates recipr ocity and hospitality between cultures and languages. He will also address the objection that\, in a (post)colonial world and given the hierarchy th at exists between languages\, translation is rather domination (Pascale Ca sanova) and violence.
\nSuch a discussion also raises the \;ques tion of a \;literature written in the “imperial” language. He will refer to his book “De langue à langue. L’hospitalité de la traducti on”\, Albin Michel\, 2022 (English: “From language to language\, the h ospitality of translation”\, Other Press 2025).
\nThe talk will be given in English. Questions may be asked in English or French.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4705@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251202T161500 SUMMARY:Monika Winet: "The spread of Arabic language and script: A kaleidos cope across the Mediterranean and beyond" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251202T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4959@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251201T181500 SUMMARY:Christian Stache: "System Update – System Change?" DESCRIPTION:Christian Stache\, Sozial- und Wirtschaftshistoriker\, stellt s ein neues Buch vor. Darin zeichnet er zentrale Positionen ökosozialistisc her Theorien nach und diskutiert\, wie ein Systemwandel jenseits von ökol ogischer Modernisierung und gegen die anti-ökologische Reaktion aussehen könnte.\\r\\nMit Diskussion und anschliessendem Apéro. X-ALT-DESC:Christian Stache\, Sozial- und Wirtschaftshistoriker\, stellt sein neues Buch vor. Darin zeichnet er zentrale Positionen ökosozialisti scher Theorien nach und diskutiert\, wie ein Systemwandel jenseits von ök ologischer Modernisierung und gegen die anti-ökologische Reaktion aussehe n könnte.
\nMit Diskussion und anschliessendem Apéro.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4664@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251128T161500 SUMMARY:Frank Matose: "Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Sout hern Africa: Politics of Chronic Liminality" DESCRIPTION:Decades after independence and the end of apartheid\, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover t he land and resource rights they lost under colonialism? This lecture\, based on Frank Matose's recent book\, examines the politics of conservatio n in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality\, a “state o f in-betweenness” or “waiting”\, to explain the status quo in local people–state forest relationships and why progress has been so slow.\\r\ \nFrank Matose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology an d a Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities South Centre at the Univer sity of Cape Town\, South Africa. His research interests are in environmen tal sociology with a particular focus on Southern Africa\, placing emphasi s on the intersection of local people\, the state\, capital\, forest and r esource conservation\, and the political economy of protected areas. He is an active team member of the "Living Landcapes" Project. X-ALT-DESC:Decades after independence and the end of apartheid\, why hav e forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism? \; This lec ture\, based on Frank Matose's recent book\, examines the politics of cons ervation in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality\, a “ state of in-betweenness” or “waiting”\, to explain the status quo in local people–state forest relationships and why progress has been so sl ow.
\nFrank Matose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities South Centre at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa. His research interests are in environmental sociology with a particular focus on Southe rn Africa\, placing emphasis on the intersection of local people\, the sta te\, capital\, forest and resource conservation\, and the political econom y of protected areas. He is an active team member of the "Living Landcapes" Project.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251128T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4805@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251126T181500 SUMMARY:Angelinah Maponya: "Towards a Dramaturgy of Evocation: Performing E mbodied Archives in Post-Apartheid South Africa" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4704@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251125T161500 SUMMARY:Anne Schröder: "Living-together in a multilingual and multicultura l community. Negotiations of politeness via English in urban Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251125T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4785@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251121T090000 SUMMARY:Die Afrikastudien am Bachelorinfotag DESCRIPTION:09:00-13:00 Infomarkt\, Kollegienhaus 1. Stock\\r\\n15:15-16.00 Vorstellung der Afrikastudien\, Kollegienhaus HS 212\\r\\n17:15-18:00 Sta dtführung zum Thema Afrikastudien (Besammlung Petersgraben 35) X-ALT-DESC:09:00-13:00 Infomarkt\, Kollegienhaus 1. Stock
\n15:15- 16.00 Vorstellung der Afrikastudien\, Kollegienhaus HS 212
\n17:15-1 8:00 Stadtführung zum Thema Afrikastudien (Besammlung Petersgraben 35)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251121T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4804@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251119T181500 SUMMARY:Markus Kooper: "Challenges of Creating a Community Library in South ern Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4703@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251118T161500 SUMMARY:Yarri Kamara: "What is happening with colonial languages in African literature?" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251118T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4803@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251112T181500 SUMMARY:M. Neelika Jayawardane: "On Ernest Cole and His Photographic Archiv e" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4702@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251111T161500 SUMMARY:Martina Drescher: "La dynamique du français en Afrique sub-saharie nne" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251111T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4802@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251105T181500 SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Ernest Cole. Lost and Found" DESCRIPTION:South African photographer Ernest Cole was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid in a single book\, published in 1967 at the age o f 27 while he was in exile in New York. Raoul Peck (director) tells the st ory of the aimlessness and torments that followed this short-lived fame\, by exploring the artist’s 60\,000 negatives\, found in a Swedish bank in 2017.\\r\\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and interna tional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia \, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: fro m October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/d etails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempora ry-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/event s/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemp orary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:South African photographer Ernest Cole was the first to expos e the horrors of apartheid in a single book\, published in 1967 at the age of 27 while he was in exile in New York. Raoul Peck (director) tells the story of the aimlessness and torments that followed this short-lived fame\ , by exploring the artist’s 60\,000 negatives\, found in a Swedish bank in 2017.
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and in ternational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological deb ates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian S tudies. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. < strong>Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4791@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251029T181500 SUMMARY:Bashir Bashir: "Rethinking the Politics of Palestine/Israel" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Note: from October 29th onwards\, NAM time is 19:15.\\r\\nContact for registration a nd zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de tails/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporar y-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events /details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contempo rary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam
ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
< strong>Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rens ing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4701@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251028T161500 SUMMARY:Romuald Fonkoua: "Les littératures francophones comme lieux de con struction des savoirs" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251028T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4801@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251022T181500 SUMMARY:Kavena Hambira: "Nuhmibeeuhn – Colonial Memory and the Politics o f Repair" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4700@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155023 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251021T161500 SUMMARY:Jakob Zinsstag: "L’importance du multilinguisme dans la recherche en santé publique internationale" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251021T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4663@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251017T161500 SUMMARY:Charles D. Piot: "Is the African Informal Economy Decolonial?" DESCRIPTION:There is a large literature on informal economies in Africa\, a continent which remains the most informalized region in the world today —with\, in many countries\, 80-90% of people working informally. Much of this literature\, especially in policy studies\, retains a strong bias against informal modes of work and remains analytically distanced from the practices it purports to study. In order to add nuance to this literature and address some of its shortcomings\, I have been engaged in an ethnogra phic study collecting in-depth data from informal entrepreneurs in two Afr ican countries\, Togo and Kenya. This study draws on key themes and debate s in the informal literature in designing a project that enables an empiri cally-based theorization of burgeoning African informality while paying sp ecial attention to vernacular economic understandings and practices. \\r\ \nWhile describing some of this study’s findings—which overturn severa l apple carts in the informal literature and gesture toward the value of a more qualitative\, anthropological approach—this presentation introduce s a decolonial reading of informality and suggests that the persistence an d ubiquity of informal work on the continent represents a critique of colo nial modernity and an alternative to capitalist labor & accumulation pract ices. The paper also asks: what is the nature of critique that is unnamed as such and originates in a site of everyday practice?\\r\\nCharles D. Pio t is professor of Cultural Anthropology & African and African American Stu dies at Duke University. His research discusses the political economy and history of rural West Africa. His first book\, Remotely Global: Village Mo dernity in West Africa (1999)\, attempted to re-theorize a classic out-of- the-way place as within the modern and global. His next book\, Nostalgia f or the Future: West Africa after the Cold War (2010)\, explored shifts in Togolese political culture during the 1990s\, a time when the NGOs and cha rismatic churches took over the biopolitical\, reorganizing social and pol itical life in the absence of the state. His most recent book\, The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (2019)\, is about Togolese who apply for and atte mpt to game the US Diversity Visa Lottery. He has begun research focusing on the return of Togolese from the diaspora to West Africa. X-ALT-DESC:There is a large literature on informal economies in Africa\, a continent which remains the most informalized region in the world today —with\, in many countries\, 80-90% of people working informally. \; Much of this literature\, especially in policy studies\, retains a strong bias against informal modes of work and remains analytically distanced fro m the practices it purports to study. In order to add nuance to this liter ature and address some of its shortcomings\, I have been engaged in an eth nographic study collecting in-depth data from informal entrepreneurs in tw o African countries\, Togo and Kenya. This study draws on key themes and d ebates in the informal literature in designing a project that enables an e mpirically-based theorization of burgeoning African informality while payi ng special attention to vernacular economic understandings and practices.& nbsp\;
\nWhile describing some of this study’s findings—which ov erturn several apple carts in the informal literature and gesture toward t he value of a more qualitative\, anthropological approach—this presentat ion introduces a decolonial reading of informality and suggests that the p ersistence and ubiquity of informal work on the continent represents a cri tique of colonial modernity and an alternative to capitalist labor &\; accumulation practices. The paper also asks: what is the nature of critiqu e that is unnamed as such and originates in a site of everyday practice?\n
Charles D. Piot is professor of Cultural Anthropol ogy &\; African and African American Studies at Duke University. His re search discusses the political economy and history of rural West Africa. H is first book\, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999)\, attempted to re-theorize a classic out-of-the-way place as withi n the modern and global. His next book\, Nostalgia for the Future: Wes t Africa after the Cold War (2010)\, explored shifts in Togolese poli tical culture during the 1990s\, a time when the NGOs and charismatic chur ches took over the biopolitical\, reorganizing social and political life i n the absence of the state. His most recent book\, The Fixer: Visa Lot tery Chronicles (2019)\, is about Togolese who apply for and attempt to game the US Diversity Visa Lottery. He has begun research focusing on t he return of Togolese from the diaspora to West Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251017T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4630@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251017T000000 SUMMARY:11th Namibia Research Day DESCRIPTION:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organized by the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the Department of Geography\, History\ , Environmental Studies and Tourism Management of the University of Namibi a.\\r\\nThis annual event brings together graduate students\, early-career researchers\, scholars as well as cultural workers from diverse disciplin es and practices to share their work\, engage in dialogue\, and connect ac ross fields and institutions. It is a unique opportunity to present ongoin g or recently completed research and projects in an open\, social and inte rdisciplinary environment.\\r\\nMore than just a series of presentations\, the Namibia Research Day is conceived as a vibrant social gathering. The BAB places strong emphasis on informal exchange\, personal encounters\, an d network building. The program includes ample time for discussion\, joint apéros\, and lively conversations around the presented projects.\\r\\nFo r the Zoom link\, contact dh@baslerafrika.ch [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organized by the ZASB\, t he Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the Department of Geography\, Histor y\, Environmental Studies and Tourism Management of the University of Nami bia.
\nThis annual event brings together graduate students\, early-c areer researchers\, scholars as well as cultural workers from diverse disc iplines and practices to share their work\, engage in dialogue\, and conne ct across fields and institutions. It is a unique opportunity to present o ngoing or recently completed research and projects in an open\, social and interdisciplinary environment.
\nMore than just a series of present ations\, the Namibia Research Day is conceived as a vibrant social gatheri ng. The BAB places strong emphasis on informal exchange\, personal encount ers\, and network building. The program includes ample time for discussion \, joint apéros\, and lively conversations around the presented projects.
\nFor the Zoom link\, contact d h@baslerafrika.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251018T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4699@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251014T161500 SUMMARY:Therese Steffen: "Major African novels in English: From Chinua Ache be to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251014T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4662@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251010T161500 SUMMARY:Patience Mususa: "Invisible Voices: Planners' Perspectives on Zambi a’s Copperbelt Mining Resurgence" DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the practices and perspectives of ur ban planners in Zambia's Copperbelt during a period of mining resurgence d riven by the demand for critical minerals. It also considers the challenge s and opportunities they face. This aligns with efforts by resource-rich A frican nations\, such as Zambia\, to develop an industrial manufacturing s ector focused on these minerals. Notably\, there is a joint understanding with the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, a major producer of copper and cobalt\, to create a regional battery minerals value chain. The presentat ion draws on semi-structured interviews with officials from municipal auth orities and regional institutions in Copperbelt towns like Chililabombwe\, Chingola\, Kalulushi\, Kitwe\, Luanshya\, Ndola\, and Mufulira\, as well as ethnographic observations and informal interviews. It explores how urba n planners manage land for mining and industrial purposes\, as well as to meet the needs of Copperbelt residents seeking land for agriculture\, hous ing\, and infrastructure\, especially as residents increasingly are expect ed to meet these needs themselves. It also examines how they address envir onmental issues and promote regional development\, not only within the Cop perbelt but also along transboundary transport links\, such as the propose d Lobito corridor\, which would connect the region to Angola’s Atlantic coast\, and the Tanzania-Zambia railway to the port of Dar es Salaam in Ta nzania. This connects planners' work to African trade integration and the geopolitical interests of the USA and China. The presentation highlights a gap in urban governance studies in Africa\, particularly regarding extens ive research on the Zambian Copperbelt. While such research has enriched o ur understanding of civic engagement\, life in mining towns\, and mining-d riven urbanisation\, it has less systematically examined the practices and viewpoints of city officials and administrators. It underscores the vital yet often overlooked role of practitioners in implementing industrial pol icies and regional development\, emphasising the importance of technical e xpertise and cross-sector collaboration\, and how these elements interact at the intersection of local and global politics.\\r\\nPatience Mususa is an environmental anthropologist with a background in architecture\, develo pment practice\, and anthropology specialising in mining and human settlem ent and working at the intersections of research\, policy and practice. In her research on the Zambian Copperbelt she discusses copper mining towns\ , planning and urbanization\, and community welfare. Mususa earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Today\, she is a senior r esearcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. X-ALT-DESC:This presentation examines the practices and perspectives of urban planners in Zambia's Copperbelt during a period of mining resurgence driven by the demand for critical minerals. It also considers the challen ges and opportunities they face. This aligns with efforts by resource-rich African nations\, such as Zambia\, to develop an industrial manufacturing sector focused on these minerals. Notably\, there is a joint understandin g with the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, a major producer of copper a nd cobalt\, to create a regional battery minerals value chain. The present ation draws on semi-structured interviews with officials from municipal au thorities and regional institutions in Copperbelt towns like Chililabombwe \, Chingola\, Kalulushi\, Kitwe\, Luanshya\, Ndola\, and Mufulira\, as wel l as ethnographic observations and informal interviews. It explores how ur ban planners manage land for mining and industrial purposes\, as well as t o meet the needs of Copperbelt residents seeking land for agriculture\, ho using\, and infrastructure\, especially as residents increasingly are expe cted to meet these needs themselves. It also examines how they address env ironmental issues and promote regional development\, not only within the C opperbelt but also along transboundary transport links\, such as the propo sed Lobito corridor\, which would connect the region to Angola’s Atlanti c coast\, and the Tanzania-Zambia railway to the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. This connects planners' work to African trade integration and th e geopolitical interests of the USA and China. The presentation highlights a gap in urban governance studies in Africa\, particularly regarding exte nsive research on the Zambian Copperbelt. While such research has enriched our understanding of civic engagement\, life in mining towns\, and mining -driven urbanisation\, it has less systematically examined the practices a nd viewpoints of city officials and administrators. It underscores the vit al yet often overlooked role of practitioners in implementing industrial p olicies and regional development\, emphasising the importance of technical expertise and cross-sector collaboration\, and how these elements interac t at the intersection of local and global politics.
\nPatien ce Mususa is an environmental anthropologist with a background in architecture\, development practice\, and anthropology specialising in mi ning and human settlement and working at the intersections of research\, p olicy and practice. In her research on the Zambian Copperbelt she discusse s copper mining towns\, planning and urbanization\, and community welfare. Mususa earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Tod ay\, she is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251010T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4794@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251009T180000 SUMMARY:Project launch: "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times o f Climate Change" DESCRIPTION:This SNSF-funded project examines the roots of Derelict Landsca pes increasingly deemed uninhabitable due to climate change. At the same t ime\, it uncovers Curated Escapes built and planned by the ultra-wealthy i n order to flee from global ecological disasters. From semi-arid farms in Southern Africa to ice caps of Antarctica\, this project explores how such landscapes are shaped by notions of (un)inhabitability and refuge.\\r\\nT his event marks the launch of the project\, which will run until 2030 in t he Centre for African Studies. Join for a nice evening\, and to learn abou t the team's brand new book which inspired this project – followed by an apéro. X-ALT-DESC:This SNSF-funded project examines the roots of Derelict Lands capes increasingly deemed uninhabitable due to climate change. At the same time\, it uncovers Curated Escapes built and planned by the ultra-wealthy in order to flee from global ecological disasters. From semi-arid farms i n Southern Africa to ice caps of Antarctica\, this project explores how su ch landscapes are shaped by notions of (un)inhabitability and refuge.
\ nThis event marks the launch of the project\, which will run until 2030 in the Centre for African Studies. Join for a nice evening\, and to learn about the team's brand new book which inspired this project – followed by an apéro.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4800@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251008T181500 SUMMARY:Israel Campos: "Beyond Toeing the Party Line: A History of Angola ’s Postcolonial State Press (1975-1991)" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4698@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251007T161500 SUMMARY:Wolfgang Trimmel: "Self-translation\, multilingualism and postcolon ial identities in Maghrebi literature" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251007T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4799@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251007T121500 SUMMARY:Libita Sibungu: "Restorying/Restoring of Memory to Place and Body" DESCRIPTION:The presentation by Libita Sibungu is part of the Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium. The Research Colloquium pro vides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisci plinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with part icular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly org anized by the University of Namibia\, the University of Basel and the Basl er Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: jul ia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tji rera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1- 2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison- tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reproduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2 -1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The presentation by Libita Sibungu \;is part of the Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium. The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern Afr ican Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests are w elcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\, the Unive rsity of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nConta ct for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.c h and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4798@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251001T181500 SUMMARY:Lahja Haufiku: "A Reading of Selected Works of Disability Arts in N amibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4697@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250930T161500 SUMMARY:Henri Michel Yéré: "Speaking from within: On writing a spoken lan guage" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250930T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4769@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250925T181500 SUMMARY:Suren Pillay: "At the Rendezvous of Anti-Colonial Freedom: Predicam ents of knowledge within apartheid’s universities\, today" DESCRIPTION:The return\, more than sixty years after the first wave of deco lonization\, to a demand to decolonize knowledge in our contemporary world demands returning also to a postcolonial debate: what are the legacies of colonialism in the present? There is an intimate and complex relationship between the past and the future\, making the anticolonial impulse at the heart of a decolonizing endeavour a fractious one. There remains\, in this view\, decolonizing work to do of an anticolonial nature to create postco lonial futures. This lecture explores these debates from a Southern Africa n vantage point after the end of apartheid. It works through a genealogy o f five predicaments that constitute the historical-conceptual grounds from which new horizons of postcolonial freedom are being enacted inside of pr actices of institution-making\, in the sense that the future is now. By wo rking our way through these predicaments\, more as political less as philo sophical\, we encounter the ways in which transgression and dissolution ar e imagined\, where race figures either as supplement or displacement of th e colonial itself\, where new ways of knowing returns to archives of ethno logy\, and where universality and particularity present themselves in both new and familiar guises.\\r\\nProf Suren Pillay holds the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies\, and is Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research focusses on political violence\ , citizenship and justice claims\; as well as the politics of knowledge pr oduction\, and intellectual history. His publications have been concerned with the political and intellectual legacies of colonialism in the present . He has also explored a number of themes through the visual medium of pho tography. Between 2018 to 2024 Pillay was the principal investigator of th e Mellon-funded project Other Universals: Thinking About Politics and Aest hetics from Postcolonial Locations\, which linked scholars in a consortium across five universities in the global South. Pillay’s most recent publ ication is Predicaments of Knowledge\, Decolonization and Deracialization in Universities\, Wits University Press (2024)\, and the edited volume On the Subject of Citizenship\, Late Colonialism in the World Today (Bloomsbu ry Press: New York 2023). X-ALT-DESC:The return\, more than sixty years after the first wave of de colonization\, to a demand to decolonize knowledge in our contemporary wor ld demands returning also to a postcolonial debate: what are the legacies of colonialism in the present? There is an intimate and complex relationsh ip between the past and the future\, making the anticolonial impulse at th e heart of a decolonizing endeavour a fractious one. There remains\, in th is view\, decolonizing work to do of an anticolonial nature to create post colonial futures. This lecture explores these debates from a Southern Afri can vantage point after the end of apartheid. It works through a genealogy of five predicaments that constitute the historical-conceptual grounds fr om which new horizons of postcolonial freedom are being enacted inside of practices of institution-making\, in the sense that the future is now. By working our way through these predicaments\, more as political less as phi losophical\, we encounter the ways in which transgression and dissolution are imagined\, where race figures either as supplement or displacement of the colonial itself\, where new ways of knowing returns to archives of eth nology\, and where universality and particularity present themselves in bo th new and familiar guises.
\nProf Suren Pillay hol ds the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies\, and is Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research focusses on political violence\, citizenship and justice claims\; as well as the po litics of knowledge production\, and intellectual history. His publication s have been concerned with the political and intellectual legacies of colo nialism in the present. He has also explored a number of themes through th e visual medium of photography. Between 2018 to 2024 Pillay was the princi pal investigator of the Mellon-funded project Other Universals: Thinking A bout Politics and Aesthetics from Postcolonial Locations\, which linked sc holars in a consortium across five universities in the global South. Pilla y’s most recent publication is Predicaments of Knowledge\, Decolonizatio n and Deracialization in Universities\, Wits University Press (2024)\, and the edited volume On the Subject of Citizenship\, Late Colonialism in the World Today (Bloomsbury Press: New York 2023).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4787@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250924T181500 SUMMARY:Joseph Gaylard: "Mapping Creative Economy Futures for South African Youth: Implications for Africa-Europe Cooperation" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organized by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [https://zasb.u nibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-reprod uction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] and makawa@unam.na [https://zas b.unibas.ch/en/events/details/ellison-tjirera-regimes-of-legal-spatial-rep roduction-in-contemporary-windhoek-1-2-1-2/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organized by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia. rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4696@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250923T161500 SUMMARY:Mohomodou Houssouba: "Littérature en langues africaines : la voie de la traduction et de l’écriture bilingue" DESCRIPTION:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afric an continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. T his Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve w hen they are rooted in colonial languages? What kinds of power struggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multilinguali sm shape everyday communication? What new language codes are currently eme rging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultura l innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives challenge and enrich our academic paradigms?\\r\\nThis Ringvorlesung provides a spac e for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging f rom Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguis tics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Middle Easter n Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studies and Swis s TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Invited write rs\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will also share their conceptual and artistic perspectives. X-ALT-DESC:The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250923T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4680@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250922T171500 SUMMARY:Book launch and discussion: "Transnational Histories of Rural Refor m\, 1900−1950" DESCRIPTION:Cultivating Race - Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South A frica\, c. 1900–1950 [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultivatin g-race-9780198917281?cc=ge&lang=3n] Julia Tischler is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Basel\, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD in History at the University of Cologne\, Germany\, in 2012. After her postdoctoral research at Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany\, sh e joined the University of Basel in 2015. Her research focuses on historie s of the environment\, development\, and racism in Southern Africa. Her re cent book\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressiv ism in segregationist South Africa as a transnational movement.\\r\\nCulti vating Fields of Progress - Agriculture and the International Labour Organ ization\, 1920s–1950s [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultivati ng-fields-of-progress-9780192849892?cc=us&lang=en] Amalia Ribi Forclaz is Full Professor in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduat e Institute. She holds a DPhil in Modern history from the University of Ox ford (Lincoln College\, 2008). Her current research interests focus on the history of agriculture\, labour\, development\, international institution s\, and the environment. Her recent book Cultivating Fields of Progress (O UP 2025) explores how the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue in the broader context of the in terwar and immediate post Second World War years.\\r\\nJuri Auderset is Le cturer for the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the In stitute of History at the University of Bern and research fellow at the Ar chives of Rural History in Bern. Among his research and teaching interests are the history of agriculture and environment\, labor history and the hi story of capitalism\, conceptual and intellectual history.\\r\\nMonday\, S eptember 22\, 2025\, 17:15 Hörsaal Orangerie\, Europainstitut\, Riehenstr asse 154\, Basel\\r\\nThe event will be followed by a reception.\\r\\nCont act: julia.tischler@unibas.ch [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/ veranstaltungen/details/transnational-histories-of-rural-reform-19001950/# ] X-ALT-DESC:Cultivating Rac
e - Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa\, c. 1900–1950
Julia Tischler is Associate Professor of Afri
can History at the University of Basel\, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD
in History at the University of Cologne\, Germany\, in 2012. After her po
stdoctoral research at Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany\, she joine
d the University of Basel in 2015. Her research focuses on histories of th
e environment\, development\, and racism in Southern Africa. Her recent bo
ok\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressivism in
segregationist South Africa as a transnational movement.
Cultivating Fields of P
rogress - Agriculture and the International Labour Organization\, 1920s–
1950s
Amalia Ribi Forclaz is Full Professo
r in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
She holds a DPhil in Modern history from the University of Oxford (Lincoln
College\, 2008). Her current research interests focus on the history of a
griculture\, labour\, development\, international institutions\, and the e
nvironment. Her recent book Cultivating Fields of Progress (OUP 2025) expl
ores how the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture b
ecame an international issue in the broader context of the interwar and im
mediate post Second World War years.
Juri Auderset is Lecturer for the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the Institute of History at the University of Bern and research fellow at the Archives of Rural History in Bern. Among his research and teaching in terests are the history of agriculture and environment\, labor history and the history of capitalism\, conceptual and intellectual history.
\n
Monday\, September 22\, 2025\, 17:15
Hörsaal Orangerie\, Europainst
itut\, Riehenstrasse 154\, Basel
The event will be followed by a reception.
\nContact: julia.tischler@unibas.ch
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4558@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250920T090000 SUMMARY:Conference: "Green colonialism: Lithium\, the energy transition and its costs" DESCRIPTION:Representatives of the Centre for Natural Resource Governance i n Zimbabwe will share their experiences. The conference will address the b roader question of the consequences of the energy transition\, which\, thr ough lithium supply chains\, stretch all the way into the daily lives of p eople in Zimbabwe. Together with speakers from Zimbabwean and European civ il society\, questions of justice\, global inequalities and enduring colon ial power structures will be explored. The event aims not only to raise aw areness of these pressing issues\, but to foster solidarity-based\, transn ational cooperation among civil society actors.\\r\\nThe conference will b e held in English.\\r\\nJointly organized by KEESA and the Centre for Afri can Studies Basel. X-ALT-DESC:Representatives of the Centre for Natural Resource Governance in Zimbabwe will share their experiences. The conference will address the broader question of the consequences of the energy transition\, which\, t hrough lithium supply chains\, stretch all the way into the daily lives of people in Zimbabwe. Together with speakers from Zimbabwean and European c ivil society\, questions of justice\, global inequalities and enduring col onial power structures will be explored. The event aims not only to raise awareness of these pressing issues\, but to foster solidarity-based\, tran snational cooperation among civil society actors.
\nThe conference w ill be held in English.
\nJointly organized by KEES A and the Centre for African Studies Basel.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250920T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4788@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250917T181500 SUMMARY:Guided Tour of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university. Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.c h and makawa@unam.na X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an i
ntellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institution
al and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global
South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquiu
m is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond th
e university.
Contact for registration and zoom lin
k: julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
The intersection of diverse languages and cultures on the Afr ican continent is both a source of conflict and a catalyst for innovation. This Ringvorlesung asks key questions: How do national literatures evolve when they are rooted in colonial \; languages? What kinds of power st ruggles emerge through language and art? How do complex dynamics of multil ingualism shape everyday communication? What new language codes are curren tly emerging\, especially in urban areas? Which linguistic\, literary and cultural innovations are unfolding? And how might African perspectives cha llenge and enrich our academic paradigms?
\nThis Ringvorlesung provi des a space for transdisciplinary exploration of the creative innovations emerging from Africa’s rich linguistic and literary landscapes. Experts in linguistics and literary studies from English\, French\, Hispanic\, Mid dle Eastern Studies\, Department of Ancient Civilizations\, African Studie s and Swiss TPH will offer insights and impulses for further thoughts. Inv ited writers\, philosophers and scholars from the African continent will a lso share their conceptual and artistic perspectives.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250916T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4621@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250908 SUMMARY:Summer School: "Honouring Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through Afri can Thought" DESCRIPTION:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulating and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on Afr ican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, co nceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on t he intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one h and and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.\\r\\nThe pas sing of Valentin-Yves Mudimbe marks the end of an extraordinary intellectu al journey\, but also presents a powerful invitation to think anew. As one of Africa’s most incisive thinkers\, Mudimbe left us not only a formida ble critique of colonial knowledge systems but also a challenge: to imagin e a different future for research on and from Africa\, one in which Africa n conceptual creativity plays a central role. This Summer School seizes t he moment of his passing not to commemorate\, but to respond. It invites a new generation of researchers to grapple with the foundational question M udimbe raised: How can African Studies contribute not only to better know ledge about Africa\, but also to the renewal of the very tools through whi ch we produce knowledge\, namely concepts\, theories\, and methods?\\r\\nT his year's Advanced Study Skills workshop introduces participants to the basics of writing and submitting a book review to a scholarly journal.\\r\ \nThe Summer School takes place on-site in Basel\, Switzerland\, and is op en for PhD students enrolled at universities in Switzerland and abroad. For PhD candidates enrolled at a university in Switzerland or in Africa\, the Summer School is free of charge. The participation fee for all other P hD candidates is CHF 150.\\r\\nDeadline for applications: 6 July 2025 X-ALT-DESC:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulatin g and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on A frican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one hand and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.
\nTh e passing of Valentin-Yves Mudimbe marks the end of an extraordinary intel lectual journey\, but also presents a powerful invitation to think anew. A s one of Africa’s most incisive thinkers\, Mudimbe left us not only a fo rmidable critique of colonial knowledge systems but also a challenge: to i magine a different future for research on and from Africa\, one in which A frican conceptual creativity plays a central role. \;This Summer Schoo l seizes the moment of his passing not to commemorate\, but to respond. It invites a new generation of researchers to grapple with the foundational question Mudimbe raised: \;How can African Studies contribute not only to better knowledge about Africa\, but also to the renewal of the ver y tools through which we produce knowledge\, namely concepts\, theories\, and methods?
\nThis year's Advanced Study Skills workshop intro duces participants \;to the basics of writing and submitting a book re view to a scholarly journal.
\nThe Summer School takes place on-site in Basel\, Switzerland\, and is open \;for PhD students enrolled at u niversities in Switzerland and abroad. \;For PhD candidates enrolled a t a university in Switzerland or in Africa\, the Summer School is free of charge. The participation fee for all other PhD candidates is CHF 150.
\nDeadline for applications: 6 July 2025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250912 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4370@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250901T000000 SUMMARY:Conference: "The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads: how to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across the humanities and socia l sciences" DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel on behalf of the Swiss Society for African Studies with financial support from the Swiss Ac ademy of Social Sciences and Humanities. and the Freiwillige Akademische G esellschaft Basel.\\r\\nConvenor: Henri Michel Yéré\, Centre for African Studies and Department of Social Sciences\, University of Basel\\r\\nWhen \, where: 1−3 September 2025\, University of Basel\, Switzerland\\r\\nIn this conference\, we would like to begin to understand how issues of iden tity and ethnicity play out in genomics research at an interdisciplinary l evel. Together with this objective we want to consider the ways in which c olonial history has had an impact on how the ‘African genome’ is defin ed and used. We are particularly interested in the mutual influence of lay and scientific epistemologies on the ways in which we think about ethnici ty within Africa and in genomics.\\r\\nWe contend that genomics can no lon ger afford to ignore the reality that it needs to regard itself not just a s a natural science\, but as a practice whose reach goes beyond the strict space of scientific practice. We are interested to explore the possibilit y of bringing genomics as a scientific practice towards asking its own que stions differently: at a practical and material level (e.g. concerning sam pling strategies)\, at a political level (e.g. with regard to health equit ies and questions of scientific sovereignty)\, but also at an epistemologi cal level (concerning the very classificatory practices and genealogies of knowledge on which contemporary genomics rest). Whereas divergences may a t first glance appear insurmountable at an epistemological level\, by virt ue of the larger\, traditional “divide” between natural and social sci ence and humanities scholarship\, points of convergence may come forward d uring exchanges between natural scientists and social scientists/humanitie s scholars when it comes to the practical and ethical dimensions of engagi ng with patients over sample donation. In recent years\, there has been a move towards projects that seek to overcome this divide\, including the co llaborative platform The Asthma Files (https://theasthmafiles.org [https: //theasthmafiles.org].) What is striking in these initiatives is that they do not follow an additive or perspectivist approach but seek to be transd isciplinary and thus transformative on a more fundamental level. Fourteen scholars from Universities in Europe\, Africa\, North America\, and Asia will present their insights from several disciplines and reflect at the in tersection of the natural sciences\, the social sciences\, and the humanit ies. Registration: Auditors are invited to register by 28 August 2025 by email to sekretariat@sgas-ssea.ch [mailto:sekretariat@sgas-ssea.ch?subject =The%20African%20Genome%20-%20auditor].\\r\\nVenue: Kollegienhaus der Univ ersität Basel\, Petersplatz 1\, Room 119\, 1st floor X-ALT-DESC:Conference organized by the Centre for African Studies an d the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel on behalf o f the Swiss Society for African Studies with financial support from the Sw iss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities. and the Freiwillige Akademi sche Gesellschaft Basel.
\nConvenor: Henri Mic hel Yéré\, Centre for African Studies and Department of Social Sciences\ , University of Basel
\nWhen\, where: 1−3 Septemb er 2025\, University of Basel\, Switzerland
\nIn this conference\, w e would like to begin to understand how issues of identity and ethnicity p lay out in genomics research at an interdisciplinary level. Together with this objective we want to consider the ways in which colonial history has had an impact on how the ‘African genome’ is defined and used. We are particularly interested in the mutual influence of lay and scientific epis temologies on the ways in which we think about ethnicity within Africa and in genomics.
\nWe contend that genomics can no longer afford to ign
ore the reality that it needs to regard itself not just as a natural scien
ce\, but as a practice whose reach goes beyond the strict space of scienti
fic practice. We are interested to explore the possibility of bringing gen
omics as a scientific practice towards asking its own questions differentl
y: at a practical and material level (e.g. concerning sampling strategies)
\, at a political level (e.g. with regard to health equities and questions
of scientific sovereignty)\, but also at an epistemological level (concer
ning the very classificatory practices and genealogies of knowledge on whi
ch contemporary genomics rest). Whereas divergences may at first glance ap
pear insurmountable at an epistemological level\, by virtue of the larger\
, traditional “divide” between natural and social science and humaniti
es scholarship\, points of convergence may come forward during exchanges b
etween natural scientists and social scientists/humanities scholars when i
t comes to the practical and ethical dimensions of engaging with patients
over sample donation. In recent years\, there has been a move towards proj
ects that seek to overcome this divide\, including the collaborative platf
orm The Asthma Files \;(https://theasthmafiles.org.) What is striking in these
initiatives is that they do not follow an additive or perspectivist appro
ach but seek to be transdisciplinary and thus transformative on a
more fundamental level.
Fourteen scholars from Universities
in Europe\, Africa\, North America\, and Asia will present their insights
from several disciplines and reflect at the intersection of the natural sc
iences\, the social sciences\, and the humanities.
Re
gistration: Auditors are invited to register by 28 August
2025 by email to sekretariat@sgas-ssea.ch.
Venue: Kollegienhaus der Universität Basel\, Petersp
latz 1\, Room 119\, 1st floor
\;
Join two film students from the College of the Arts (Windhoek ) and Film Academy Baden-Württemberg presenting current projects:
\nJunias N. Nangolo – "Bridge of Hope" is a documentary exploring a young female activist from Syria who resides in Stuttgart and fights for equality in Germany.
\nCasper Bowora – "The Unseen Architect" tells the story of a determined Zimbabwean refugee with a civil engineering degree who is forced to sell produce in a Namibi an market due to her precarious legal status. She meets a disillusioned la wyer whose meticulously planned life lacks purpose.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250711T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4559@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250613T093000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Decolonial Research Approaches DESCRIPTION:All interested scholars and reflective practitioners are invite d to explore the above question in light of a potential upcoming book proj ect that has an initial research focus on the African continent and an out look of the pre-conference of the 2026 World Ethic Forum in Nairobi\, Keny a.\\r\\nOrganizers and faciliators:\\r\\nDr. Mohamed El-Mongy (Egypt) has ample experience in research in the Nile Basin and beyond\, mediation and reconciliation practices.\\r\\nPhD cand. Luea Ritter\, brings experience i n resilience and coherence building in cross-sector collaboration and mult ilateral processes\, & research on the Nile basin.\\r\\nDr. Anaïs Sägess er\, is a master's student at the ZASB and teaches on knowledge integratio n at the University of St.Gallen\,\\r\\nAll co-facilitators are reflective practitioners co-leading and part of the World Ethic Forum.\\r\\nRational e\\r\\nAt the World Ethic Forum\, we feel called to explore decolonial res earch practices grounded in an ontology of radically shared aliveness\, ca re\, and kinship. Embracing diverse cosmologies\, we seek to create a dial ogical platform where different knowledge systems and practices can intera ct\, co-evolve\, and enrich both academic and lived practices\, building\, e.g on Denscombe\, 2024.\\r\\nHistorically\, knowledge was rooted in an i ntimate relationship with the Earth understood as living and intraconnecte d\, inherently local and ecological. However\, the rise of Western colonia l science and perpetuating patterns reframed this situated knowledge as "I ndigenous"—a term often used to contrast with so-called universal\, scie ntific standards (Ringera\, 2024\; Somet\, 2019\; Sarr\, 2019\; Eisenstein \, 2013). Colonial systems enforced the dominance of Western epistemology\ , discrediting others as "primitive" or "obsolete" and embedding this hier archy in contemporary academic institutions (Jain\, 2002\; Akomolafe\, 202 2).\\r\\nYet\, Indigenous knowledge is neither static nor simplistic. As D avis and Coopes (2022) highlight in their Indigenous Knowledge Lab (IKL)\, such knowledge is deeply ecological\, intergenerational\, and encoded in both stories and biology. It respects the kinship between humans and more- than-human life\, and is rooted in a living memory that includes trauma pa ssed through generations—within human bodies and e.g. water (Davis et al .\, 2022\; Marrie\, 2020).\\r\\nReframing scientific understanding thus in volves unlearning colonial frameworks and healing from epistemic trauma (R ingera\, 2024). True integration requires integrating native tools\, embod ied practices\, wider ways of knowing\, lived experience and external vali dation (Mugyabuso\, 2024\; Walter\, 2024). This shift opens possibilities for new ways of knowing and being—ones potentially more capable of addre ssing today’s global challenges than the current dominant paradigms.\\r\ \nWorkshop Flow:\\r\\n9:30 Opening Circle – Welcome\, intentions\, groun ding.\\r\\n9:45 Check-in and get to know each other\\r\\n10:15 World Café \\r\\n12:30 Lunch Break\\r\\n14:00 Synthesis\\r\\n16:00 Next steps - Refle ction\, next steps\, and co-visioning.\\r\\n16:30 End X-ALT-DESC:All interested scholars and reflective practitioners are invited to explore the above question in light of a potential upcoming boo k project that has an initial research focus on the African continent and an outlook of the pre-conference of the 2026 World Ethic Forum in Nairobi\ , Kenya.
\nDr. Mohamed El-Mongy (Egypt) has ample experience in research in the Nile Basin and beyond\, mediation and reconciliation pr actices.
\nPhD cand. Luea Ritter\, brings experienc e in resilience and coherence building in cross-sector collaboration and m ultilateral processes\, &\; research on the Nile basin.
\nDr. Anaïs Sägesser\, is a master's student at the ZASB and tea ches on knowledge integration at the University of St.Gallen\,
\nAll co-facilitators are reflective practitioners co-leading and part of the W orld Ethic Forum.
\nRationale
\nAt the World Ethic Forum\, we feel called to explore decolonial research practices grou nded in an ontology of radically shared aliveness\, care\, and kinship. Em bracing diverse cosmologies\, we seek to create a dialogical platform wher e different knowledge systems and practices can interact\, co-evolve\, and enrich both academic and lived practices\, building\, e.g on Denscombe\, 2024.
\nHistorically\, knowledge was rooted in an intimate relations hip with the Earth understood as living and intraconnected\, inherently lo cal and ecological. However\, the rise of Western colonial science and per petuating patterns reframed this situated knowledge as "Indigenous"—a te rm often used to contrast with so-called universal\, scientific standards (Ringera\, 2024\; Somet\, 2019\; Sarr\, 2019\; Eisenstein\, 2013). Colonia l systems enforced the dominance of Western epistemology\, discrediting ot hers as "primitive" or "obsolete" and embedding this hierarchy in contempo rary academic institutions (Jain\, 2002\; Akomolafe\, 2022).
\nYet\, Indigenous knowledge is neither static nor simplistic. As Davis and Coope s (2022) highlight in their Indigenous Knowledge Lab (IKL)\, such knowledg e is deeply ecological\, intergenerational\, and encoded in both stories a nd biology. It respects the kinship between humans and more-than-human lif e\, and is rooted in a living memory that includes trauma passed through g enerations—within human bodies and e.g. water (Davis et al.\, 2022\; Mar rie\, 2020).
\nReframing scientific understanding thus involves unle arning colonial frameworks and healing from epistemic trauma (Ringera\, 20 24). True integration requires integrating native tools\, embodied practic es\, wider ways of knowing\, lived experience and external validation (Mug yabuso\, 2024\; Walter\, 2024). This shift opens possibilities for new way s of knowing and being—ones potentially more capable of addressing today ’s global challenges than the current dominant paradigms.
\n9:30 Opening Circle – Welcome\, intentions\, grounding.
\n9:4 5 Check-in and get to know each other
\n10:15 World Café
\n12 :30 Lunch Break
\n14:00 Synthesis
\n16:00 Next steps - Reflect ion\, next steps\, and co-visioning.
\n16:30 End
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250613T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4371@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250612T000000 SUMMARY:International Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Clima te Adaptation with and through Water" DESCRIPTION:Faced with rising sea levels\, cities across the globe are bein g remade to confront the threat of water. The climate crisis meets water a nd urban life head on\, manifesting in an array of contact zones that both threaten and give hope to the people who live with them.\\r\\nUsing water as a way of seeing through\, with and about climate-related urban issues\ , this workshop invites a critical examination of the urban/water interfac e in African coastal cities\, particularly in the context of climate chang e. African coastal cities are at the cutting edge of water-borne climate c hange\, as they are forecast to attract the highest urban growth and comme rcial investment\, but also persistently scripted as the least well equipp ed to deal with climate-related disasters\, making manifest the tension be tween the imperatives of economic growth and sustainable urban development .\\r\\nThe workshop\, co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society for African St udies\, aims to bring together urban planning and critical social theory b y exploring the diverse ways African urban communities are adapting their lives and environments to these challenges. Through a focus on various rea l-world examples based on in-depth qualitative empirical research\, includ ing but not limited to the practices of street-level bureaucrats\, fishing communities\, home-builders\, residents’ associations and city planners \, the workshop seeks to uncover new modes for living in and with the “u rban sea”.\\r\\nThese insights are crucial for reimagining urban futures in times of environmental change\, especially for African contexts\, wher e pessimistic or development-centric narratives of crisis dominate\, to de velop a perspective of critical hope on sustainable urban development in t he face of global climate challenges.\\r\\nRegistration Fees:\\r\\n Free for student members of SGAS/SSAS 30 CHF for employed SGAS/SSAS members and non-member students 60 CHF for employed non-members \\r\\n(Fees c over coffee breaks and lunches.)\\r\\nOrganised with support of the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities SAGW/ASSH [https://www.sagw.ch/s agw/] X-ALT-DESC:Faced with rising sea levels\, cities across the globe are be ing remade to confront the threat of water. The climate crisis meets water and urban life head on\, manifesting in an array of contact zones that bo th threaten and give hope to the people who live with them.
\nUsing water as a way of seeing through\, with and about climate-related urban is sues\, this workshop invites a critical examination of the urban/water int erface in African coastal cities\, particularly in the context of climate change. African coastal cities are at the cutting edge of water-borne clim ate change\, as they are forecast to attract the highest urban growth and commercial investment\, but also persistently scripted as the least well e quipped to deal with climate-related disasters\, making manifest the tensi on between the imperatives of economic growth and sustainable urban develo pment.
\nThe workshop\, \;co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society f or African Studies\, aims to bring together urban planning and critical so cial theory by exploring the diverse ways African urban communities are ad apting their lives and environments to these challenges. Through a focus o n various real-world examples based on in-depth qualitative empirical rese arch\, including but not limited to the practices of street-level bureaucr ats\, fishing communities\, home-builders\, residents’ associations and city planners\, the workshop seeks to uncover new modes for living in and with the “urban sea”.
\nThese insights are crucial for reimagini ng urban futures in times of environmental change\, especially for African contexts\, where pessimistic or development-centric narratives of crisis dominate\, to develop a perspective of critical hope on sustainable urban development in the face of global climate challenges.
\nRegi stration Fees:
\n(Fees cov er coffee breaks and lunches.)
\nOrganised with support of the Swiss Academy of Socia l Sciences and Humanities SAGW/ASSH
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250613T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4417@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250521T181500 SUMMARY:Ndeshi Namupala: "Navigating Social Protection Challenges for Namib ia’s Informal Workforce" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250521T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4392@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250519T121500 SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Walima Kalusa – Vernacularing Missionary Medicine in C olonial Mwinilunga\, Zambia\, 1905−1935 DESCRIPTION:The class with Walima Kalusa (University of Eswatini) as part o f the Research Seminar "African History" will be held at a later date. X-ALT-DESC:The class with Walima Kalusa (University of Eswatini) as part of the Research Seminar "African History" will be held at a later date. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250519T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4416@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250514T181500 SUMMARY:Kylie Thomas: "Photography & Impunity" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:
The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250514T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4415@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250507T181500 SUMMARY:Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti: "Chronicles of the Road: Five Nations\, Fiv e Artists" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250507T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4414@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250430T181500 SUMMARY:ODEE: "Sorry\, But Not Sorry" DESCRIPTION:ODEE (Odee Friðriksson) is an Icelandic artist renowned for pu shing the boundaries of contemporary art through his innovative and provoc ative conceptual and performative pieces.\\r\\nThe colloquium addresses cu rrent debates in Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a foru m for conversations between students and local and international scholars\ , artists and activists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in b roader discourses. We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practic e that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the u niversity and society\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fie lds\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels an d guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, t he event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it w ill be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@ unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:maka wa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:ODEE (Odee Friðriksson) is an Icelandic artist renowned for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art through his innovative and prov ocative conceptual and performative pieces.
\nThe colloquium address
es current debates in Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a
forum for conversations between students and local and international scho
lars\, artists and activists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we
offer multiple opportunities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them
in broader discourses.
We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowle
dge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries be
tween the university and society\, the Global South and North\, and discip
lines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from al
l levels and guests from within and beyond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 N amibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa @unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250430T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4391@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250428T121500 SUMMARY:Diana Jeater: "Taking Spirits Seriously: The Challenge for the Acad emy" DESCRIPTION:Class with Diana Jeater (University of Liverpool) as part of th e Research Seminar "African History". X-ALT-DESC:Class with Diana Jeater (University of Liverpool) as part of the Research Seminar "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250428T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4376@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250825T155149 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250425T093000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Still ‘Vexing’ for Care in Neoliberal Universities" DESCRIPTION:“We care deeply about the well-being of researchers who ‘et hico-politically’ (Puig de la Bellacassa 2011) engage with sensitive top ics because we know how it feels. The experience of qualitative research o ften involves significant ‘emotional labour’ (Hochschild 1983\, Rogers -Shaw et al. 2021)\, from engaging with research participants and processi ng their stories to analysing the data we collect in a way that respects a nd carefully reflects participants' experiences (as well as our own). This prolonged involvement can be emotionally draining\, especially when compo unded by the often solitary and isolating experience of fieldwork and acad emic writing under increasingly precarious working conditions (Nicholls et al. 2021\, Schulz et al. 2023\, Signoret et al. 2019). It leaves us wonde ring: Does anyone (really) care about us and our work?\\r\\nAligning with the work of researchers such as Emily Jay Nicholls\, Jade Vu Henry & Fay D ennis\, who ask: “How can we make universities more hospitable and in do ing so\, how might we do them otherwise”\, early-career researchers are invited to join the workshop in exploring the following topics:\\r\\n ris ks in research and accountability of universities\; vulnerability in rese arch and disrupting epistemological inequalities\; resistance and relatio nal/collaborative practices of care. \\r\\nOrganised by Anna Kerstin Kraft (Assistant\, PhD Student in Gender Studies\, University of Basel) and Yam ila Sofia Pita (PhD Student in Gender Studies\, University of Bern).\\r\\n To register\, please send an informal E-mail to: ggsb-genderstudies@unibas .ch until the end of February 2025. Confirmation upon capacity by mid-Marc h. Content-related questions can be sent to: yamila.pita@unibe.ch X-ALT-DESC:“We care deeply about the well-being of researchers who ‘ ethico-politically’ (Puig de la Bellacassa 2011) engage with sensitive t opics because we know how it feels. The experience of qualitative research often involves significant ‘emotional labour’ (Hochschild 1983\, Roge rs-Shaw et al. 2021)\, from engaging with research participants and proces sing their stories to analysing the data we collect in a way that respects and carefully reflects participants' experiences (as well as our own). Th is prolonged involvement can be emotionally draining\, especially when com pounded by the often solitary and isolating experience of fieldwork and ac ademic writing under increasingly precarious working conditions (Nicholls et al. 2021\, Schulz et al. 2023\, Signoret et al. 2019). It leaves us won dering: Does anyone (really) care about us and our work?
\nAligning with the work of researchers such as Emily Jay Nicholls\, Jade Vu Henry &a mp\; Fay Dennis\, who ask: “How can we make universities more hospitable and in doing so\, how might we do them otherwise”\, early-career resear chers are invited to join the workshop in exploring the following topics:< /p>\n
Organised by Anna Kerstin Kraft (Assistant\, PhD Student in Gender Studies\, University of Basel) and Yamila Sofia Pita (PhD Student in Gender Studies\, Universi ty of Bern).
\nTo register\, please send an informal E-mail to: ggsb
-genderstudies@unibas.ch until the end of February 2025. Confirmation upon
capacity by mid-March.
Content-related questions can be sent to: ya
mila.pita@unibe.ch
In the framework of the workshop for Early-Career Researchers "Still ‘Vexing’ for Care in Neoliberal Universities"\, Prof. Dr. Luis a Schneider (VU Amsterdam) will be holding a public talk titled "Bridging the Divide: Reimagining Researchers and Research Practices through Feminis t Ethics of Care and Institutional Responsibility".
\nThis public ta lk is cooperatively hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology\, the Center for Africa Studies\, and the Center for Gender Studies\, all from t he University of Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4413@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T122231 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250416T181500 SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Anatomy of a Bribe" DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: "Anatomy of a Bribe" (2019) by Al Jazeera Inves tigative Unit.\\r\\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian a nd Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. Th e regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurtu re an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid inst itutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The co lloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and be yond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both co untries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.ren sing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:Film Screening: "Anatomy of a Bribe" (2019) by Al Jazeera Inv estigative Unit.
\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in Namib
ian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations be
tween students and local and international scholars\, artists and activist
s. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunitie
s to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend
rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and so
ciety\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practi
ces. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from wi
thin and beyond the university.
Note: Until March \, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250416T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4390@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155313 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250414T120000 SUMMARY:Abigail Moffett: "Glass\, Gold and Traders: Interdisciplinary Appro aches to Studying Southern Africa's Global Links (600-1600 CE)" DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Talk with Abigail Moffett (Cambridge) in the framewor k of the Research Seminars "Aktuelle Forschungen zur Geschichte der Vormod erne" and "African History". X-ALT-DESC:Lunchtime Talk with Abigail Moffett (Cambridge) in the framew ork of the Research Seminars "Aktuelle Forschungen zur Geschichte der Vorm oderne" and "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250414T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4412@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250407T113144 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250409T181500 SUMMARY:Mario Schulze\, MJ Chuhila\, and Alma Simba : "Research Film Proven ance: Annotating the Film Connection of the Former Swiss Tropical Institut e" DESCRIPTION:Mario Schulze\, PhD is a historian of science and media\, speci alizing in the history and theory of scientific films and exhibitions from the 1920s to the present and leads a provenance research project on the 1 6mm film collection of the former Swiss Tropical Institute. His project pa rtners at the Department of History of the University of Dar es Salaam are Maximilian Julius Chuhila\, PhD (senior lecturer) and Alma Simba\, PhD (a ssistant lecturer).\\r\\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in Namib ian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations be tween students and local and international scholars\, artists and activist s. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunitie s to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\ , the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. T he colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within a nd beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 B asel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for bo th countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:juli a.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:Mario Schulze\, PhD is a historian of science and media\, spe cializing in the history and theory of scientific films and exhibitions fr om the 1920s to the present and leads a provenance research project on the 16mm film collection of the former Swiss Tropical Institute. His project partners at the Department of History of the University of Dar es Salaam a re Maximilian Julius Chuhila\, PhD (senior lecturer) and Alma Simba\, PhD (assistant lecturer).
\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in
Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversatio
ns between students and local and international scholars\, artists and act
ivists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportu
nities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses
.
We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that tran
scend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university a
nd society\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and p
ractices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests fr
om within and beyond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed b y an apéro at the BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unib as.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250409T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4411@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T122001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250402T181500 SUMMARY:Ellison Tjirera: "Regimes of Legal & Spatial Reproduction in Contem porary Windhoek" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250402T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4389@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155250 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250402T121500 SUMMARY:William Lyon: "The Human Infrastructure of the Namibian War: Origin s of the 'Namibian Labor Corridors' in War and Genocide\, 1904–1908" DESCRIPTION:Class with William Lyon (Universität Zürich) and BAB (Basler Afrika Bibliographien) as part of the Research Seminar "African History". X-ALT-DESC:Class with William Lyon (Universität Zürich) and BAB (Basle r Afrika Bibliographien) as part of the Research Seminar "African History" .
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250402T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4484@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155347 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250324T190000 SUMMARY:Book Club: Alles zerfällt/ Things Fall Apart (1958) DESCRIPTION:To kick off the series on March 24\, we will read Things Fall A part by Chinua Achebe. The novel tells the story of the conflicts faced by a traditional village when confronted with colonial rulers. "With his nov el\, Chinua Achebe created the literary voice of Africa." (S. Fischer Verl age)\\r\\nHost: Henri-Michel Yéré\, President of the Culturescapes Board \, author\, historian\, and lecturer at the Centre for African Studies in Basel.\\r\\nThe reading group is free and takes place in German/English. D uration 90 minutes.Any level of knowledge is welcome\, once or every time. The hosts contextualise the work\, after which we discuss questions\, irr itations and what we find particularly successful together. X-ALT-DESC:To kick off the series on March 24\, we will read Things F all Apart by Chinua Achebe. The novel tells the story of the conflicts faced by a traditional village when confronted with colonial rulers. "Wit h his novel\, Chinua Achebe created the literary voice of Africa." (S. Fis cher Verlage)
\nHost: Henri-Michel Yéré\, Preside nt of the Culturescapes Board\, author\, historian\, and lecturer at the C entre for African Studies in Basel.
\nThe reading group is free and
takes place in German/English. Duration 90 minutes.
Any level of know
ledge is welcome\, once or every time. The hosts contextualise the work\,
after which we discuss questions\, irritations and what we find particular
ly successful together.
Class with Benoît Henriet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) as pa rt of the Research Seminar "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250324T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4410@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T120235 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250322T180000 SUMMARY:(In)Audible Past Workshop: Film screening with Rosalind Morris DESCRIPTION:Film Screening "We Are Zama Zama" (2021) by Rosalind Morris\, a t Neues Kino Basel.\\r\\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in Namib ian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations be tween students and local and international scholars\, artists and activist s. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunitie s to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\ , the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. T he colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within a nd beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 B asel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for bo th countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:juli a.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:Film Screening "We Are Zama Zama" (2021) by Rosalind Morris\, at Neues Kino Basel.
\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in
Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversatio
ns between students and local and international scholars\, artists and act
ivists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportu
nities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses
.
We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that tran
scend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university a
nd society\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and p
ractices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests fr
om within and beyond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From Apr il\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed b y an apéro at the BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unib as.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4409@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T120302 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250319T181500 SUMMARY:Ran Greenstein: "Colonialism & Apartheid in South Africa and Israel /Palestine: Between Social Theory & Political Practice" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250319T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4387@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251203T155416 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250317T121500 SUMMARY:Melissa Graboyes: "Setting the Global Malaria Agenda: The Rockefell er Foundation in 1945\, the Who in 1969\, and the Oversight of Africa" DESCRIPTION:Class with Melissa Graboyes (University of Oregon) as part of t he Research Seminar "African History". X-ALT-DESC:Class with Melissa Graboyes (University of Oregon) as part of the Research Seminar "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250317T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4408@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T120250 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250305T181500 SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Village under the Forest" DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: "Village under the Forest" (2013) by Heidi Grun ebaum and Mark J. Kaplan.\\r\\nThe colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conversati ons between students and local and international scholars\, artists and ac tivists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opport unities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourse s. We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and so ciety\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practi ces. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from wi thin and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 1 8:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\ r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:Film Screening: "Village under the Forest" (2013) by Heidi Gr unebaum and Mark J. Kaplan.
\nThe colloquium addresses current debat
es in Namibian and Southern African Studies and provides a forum for conve
rsations between students and local and international scholars\, artists a
nd activists. The regional focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple o
pportunities to reflect on the sessions\, and situate them in broader disc
ourses.
We nurture an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice tha
t transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the univer
sity and society\, the Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\,
and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and gue
sts from within and beyond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. Fr om April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, foll owed by an apéro at the BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensin g@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250305T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4406@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T120323 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250226T181500 SUMMARY:Ndamian Hangula: "The Historical Valueness of Omwele Gwoshipika amo ngst the Aawambo Community" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB.\\r\\nContact for regi stration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unib as.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
\nContact for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250226T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4405@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T120335 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250219T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Introduc tion DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be at 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: Until March\, the event is at 18:15 Basel time and 19:15 Namibian time. From April\, it will be a t 18:15 for both countries\, ending at 20:15\, followed by an apéro at th e BAB.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250219T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4378@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250205T081327 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250217T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEve rybody interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\n< p>Everybody interested in African Studies is welcome! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250217T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4377@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250203T152400 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250213T121500 SUMMARY:Mondli Hlatshwayo: The so-called Government of National Unity of So uth Africa and the implications for the working-class and its organization s DESCRIPTION:While the Black majority fought for and won political freedom\, along with the right to vote\, the social and economic rights of the work ing class have yet to be realized. Thirty years after the end of formal Ap artheid\, South Africa remains the most unequal society in the world. Unem ployment\, poverty\, and inequality are chronic and structural issues and that is why the working-class rejected the African National Congress last year. South Africa's general elections held in May 2024 resulted in a sign ificant defeat for the African National Congress (ANC)\, the political par ty of the late Nelson Mandela\, who was a symbol of resistance in South Af rica and other parts of the world.\\r\\nThe recent establishment of a so-c alled Government of National Unity (GNU)\, which is essentially a grand co alition between the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance (DA)—both of which are firmly committed to neoliberalism—marks a new p hase in which the parties of the ruling class co-govern to aggressively pr omote a neoliberal agenda.\\r\\nThe ongoing Stilfontein massacre highlight s the ANC's anti-working-class stance. The massacre in Stilfontein is remi niscent of the Marikana massacre in 2012\, during which 34 miners were kil led by the ANC government.\\r\\nThose fighting for social and economic jus tice must address the following questions: What is the current state of th e working class under these new conditions\, and how should its organizati ons respond to the latest phase of the neoliberal onslaught? Additionally\ , what role should international solidarity play in strengthening existing working-class struggles in South Africa?\\r\\nMondli Hlatshwayo is associ ate professor at the University of Johannesburg in the field of Worker Edu cation and Labour Studies. His research concentrates on the trade union re sponses to technological innovations and the so-called Fourth Industrial R evolution\, platform work\, immigrant and migrant workers\, public transpo rt\, higher education\, worker education\, precarious forms of work\, soci al movements\, and non-governmental organizations. Hlatshwayo authored mor e than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is co-edito r (with Aziz Choudry) of the Pluto Press book\, Just Work? Migrant Workers \, Globalization\, and Resistance (2016). X-ALT-DESC:While the Black majority fought for and won political freedom \, along with the right to vote\, the social and economic rights of the wo rking class have yet to be realized. Thirty years after the end of formal Apartheid\, South Africa remains the most unequal society in the world. Un employment\, poverty\, and inequality are chronic and structural issues an d that is why the working-class rejected the African National Congress las t year. South Africa's general elections held in May 2024 resulted in a si gnificant defeat for the African National Congress (ANC)\, the political p arty of the late Nelson Mandela\, who was a symbol of resistance in South Africa and other parts of the world.
\nThe recent establishment of a so-called Government of National Unity (GNU)\, which is essentially a gra nd coalition between the African National Congress and the Democratic Alli ance (DA)—both of which are firmly committed to neoliberalism—marks a new phase in which the parties of the ruling class co-govern to aggressive ly promote a neoliberal agenda.
\nThe ongoing Stilfontein massacre h ighlights the ANC's anti-working-class stance. The massacre in Stilfontein is reminiscent of the Marikana massacre in 2012\, during which 34 miners were killed by the ANC government.
\nThose fighting for social and e conomic justice must address the following questions: What is the current state of the working class under these new conditions\, and how should its organizations respond to the latest phase of the neoliberal onslaught? Ad ditionally\, what role should international solidarity play in strengtheni ng existing working-class struggles in South Africa?
\nMondl i Hlatshwayo is associate professor at the University of Johannes burg in the field of Worker Education and Labour Studies. His research con centrates on the trade union responses to technological innovations and th e so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution\, platform work\, immigrant and m igrant workers\, public transport\, higher education\, worker education\, precarious forms of work\, social movements\, and non-governmental organiz ations. Hlatshwayo authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles an d book chapters. He is co-editor (with Aziz Choudry) of the Pluto Press bo ok\, Just Work? Migrant Workers\, Globalization\, and Resistance (2016). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4183@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240916T103452 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241211T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Closing Discussion DESCRIPTION:The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Southe rn African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between students and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regiona l focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect o n the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses. We nurture an int ellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid institutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the Global S outh and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The colloquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and beyond the university.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time) \, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\r\\nContact for registration and zoom link: julia.re nsing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailt o:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:
The colloquium addresses current debates in Namibian and Sout
hern African Studies and provides a forum for conversations between studen
ts and local and international scholars\, artists and activists. The regio
nal focus is programmatic\, but we offer multiple opportunities to reflect
on the sessions\, and situate them in broader discourses.
We nurtur
e an intellectual milieu and knowledge practice that transcend rigid insti
tutional and symbolic boundaries between the university and society\, the
Global South and North\, and disciplines\, fields\, and practices. The col
loquium is open to students from all levels and guests from within and bey
ond the university.
Note: The events are from 18. 15h to 20.15 (CH &\; NAM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nCont act for registration and zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4229@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241204T165641 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241206T161500 SUMMARY:Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University): "The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid" DESCRIPTION:It has been 26 years since South Africa’s Truth and Reconcili ation Commission (TRC) delivered its final report to then-President Nelson Mandela\, and 21 years since the TRC’s Amnesty Committee presented its findings to Mandela’s successor Thabo Mbeki. During that time\, a range of views about the commission has developed\, most of them critical. In th is lecture\, Jacob Dlamini aims to present the TRC as an archive machine\, a device that sought (and succeeded more than its critics are prepared to acknowledge) to make new lines of historical inquiry possible\, to set th e conditions for the posing of new questions about the past\, and to help many gain a better understanding of apartheid while imagining new futures. Building on Adam Sitze’s notion of the TRC as an impossible machine\, D lamini draws attention to the thinginess of the commission\, to its status as a machine\, a contrivance designed to produce certain effects. These e ffects include the tracks\, the leads\, the traces and the suspects whose actions\, names and whereabouts the TRC flagged but about which it did or could little. The lecture\, then\, is a guarded defense of the TRC and its legacy.\\r\\nJacob Dlamini is Associate Professor of History at Princteto n University. He is a historian of Africa\, with an interest in precolonia l\, colonial and postcolonial African History. Dlamini obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. He held a postdoctoral fell owship at the University of Barcelona\, Spain\, from November 2011 to Apri l 2015\, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015. As a qualified field guide\, he is also interested in compar ative and global histories of conservation and national parks. X-ALT-DESC:It has been 26 years since South Africa’s Truth and Reconci liation Commission (TRC) delivered its final report to then-President Nels on Mandela\, and 21 years since the TRC’s Amnesty Committee presented it s findings to Mandela’s successor Thabo Mbeki. During that time\, a rang e of views about the commission has developed\, most of them critical. In this lecture\, Jacob Dlamini aims to present the TRC as an archive machine \, a device that sought (and succeeded more than its critics are prepared to acknowledge) to make new lines of historical inquiry possible\, to set the conditions for the posing of new questions about the past\, and to hel p many gain a better understanding of apartheid while imagining new future s. Building on Adam Sitze’s notion of the TRC as an impossible machine\, Dlamini draws attention to the thinginess of the commission\, to its stat us as a machine\, a contrivance designed to produce certain effects. These effects include the tracks\, the leads\, the traces and the suspects whos e actions\, names and whereabouts the TRC flagged but about which it did o r could little. The lecture\, then\, is a guarded defense of the TRC and i ts legacy.
\nJacob Dlamini is Associate Professor o f History at Princteton University. He is a historian of Africa\, with an interest in precolonial\, colonial and postcolonial African History. Dlami ni obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. He he ld a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona\, Spain\, from November 2011 to April 2015\, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Unive rsity from August 2014 to May 2015. As a qualified field guide\, he is als o interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and natio nal parks.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4182@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165452 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241204T181500 SUMMARY:Rui Tyitende: "A reflection on the 2024 National Election Results" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4181@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240923T122527 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241203T180000 SUMMARY:Ariella Azoulay: "'Make the truth shine' - How European Colonialism s Emptied Africa of its Jews and the Destruction of Palestine" DESCRIPTION:Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Azoulay is a theorist of photography and visual culture\, a curator and filmmaker. \\r\\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Sou thern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Gue sts are welcome.\\r\\nRegistration deadline: 1 October 2024 by j.buechele@ unibas.ch [mailto:j.buechele@unibas.ch]\\r\\nPreliminary meeting: 8. Novem ber 2024\, at 10:00\, venue tbc\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 2 0.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h. X-ALT-DESC:Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Med ia in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Azoula y is a theorist of photography and visual culture\, a curator and filmmake r.
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.
\nRegistration deadline: 1 October 202 4 by j.buec hele@unibas.ch
\nPreliminary meeting: 8. November 2024\, at 10:0 0\, venue tbc
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; NAM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From Octob er 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4228@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241113T112930 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241122T161500 SUMMARY:Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University): "Lagos Life: Streets\, Maps\, History" (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2024) DESCRIPTION:Urban questions have taken on a new urgency in Africa\, as citi es like Lagos continue to grow faster and more intensely\, seemingly every day. Most often\, engagement with these cities is framed in terms of thei r problems: too crowded\, too disorganized\, too frenetic. But how should we understand the ways the past shaped and produced this present? “Lagos Life” explores the histories of Lagos’s streets as markers of the mom ents of placemaking\, identity\, freedom\, and displacement in the ninetee nth century. It begins with the premise that Lagos’s streets offer impor tant clues and cues to the ways to ask\, analyze and frame the historical and contemporary narratives of the city.\\r\\nMuch like the ways that cour t transcripts and letters can be read and analyzed to yield insights about the past\, street names in Lagos bear witness to the ways that the city ’s pasts intertwine. In 1868\, an English-speaking Yorùbá court clerk named all the newly paved streets in Lagos\, in the wake of new colonial i nfrastructure that was quickly taking root. Rather than superimposing Brit ish names or even a stripped-down numbering scheme\, the mostly indigenous Yorùbá names he chose reflect a remarkable archive of local priorities\ , symbols\, events\, places\, and people.\\r\\nBy mapping the history of t hese streets\, and the encounters that Lagosians had in them\, this presen tation demonstrates how digital tools can be deployed in reading the urban fabric of Lagos Island as an archive of its own history. Old Lagos — th e city\, waterways and island — is never more visible in the archival re cord than when it is marked for destruction\, division\, or “civilizatio n\,” thus\, I use these maps\, documents and indigenous sources to recon struct the past\, in place.\\r\\nTrained as both historian and computer en gineer\, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi’s research into the history of Lagos\ , Nigeria combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in urban studies\, mapmaking and technology. Her forthcoming book\, Imagine Lagos\, explores Lagos’s mid-19th-century history\, rebuilding its past as a series of e ncounters: between men and women\, between the past and present\, enslaved and free\, Eko (the old town) and Lagos\, and between the land and lagoon s. She is an Associate Professor of History at Howard University\, and she received her PhD in History from NYU in 2016. X-ALT-DESC:Urban questions have taken on a new urgency in Africa\, as ci ties like Lagos continue to grow faster and more intensely\, seemingly eve ry day. Most often\, engagement with these cities is framed in terms of th eir problems: too crowded\, too disorganized\, too frenetic. But how shoul d we understand the ways the past shaped and produced this present? “Lag os Life” explores the histories of Lagos’s streets as markers of the m oments of placemaking\, identity\, freedom\, and displacement in the ninet eenth century. It begins with the premise that Lagos’s streets offer imp ortant clues and cues to the ways to ask\, analyze and frame the historical and contemporary narratives of the city.
\nMuch like the ways that court transcripts and letters can be read and analyzed to yield insights about the past\, street names in Lagos bear witness to the ways t hat the city’s pasts intertwine. In 1868\, an English-speaking Yorùbá court clerk named all the newly paved streets in Lagos\, in the wake of ne w colonial infrastructure that was quickly taking root. Rather than superi mposing British names or even a stripped-down numbering scheme\, the mostl y indigenous Yorùbá names he chose reflect a remarkable archive of local priorities\, symbols\, events\, places\, and people.
\nBy mapping t he history of these streets\, and the encounters that Lagosians had in the m\, this presentation demonstrates how digital tools can be deployed in re ading the urban fabric of Lagos Island as an archive of its own history. O ld Lagos — the city\, waterways and island — is never more visible in the archival record than when it is marked for destruction\, division\, or “civilization\,” thus\, I use these maps\, documents and indigenous s ources to reconstruct the past\, in place.
\nTrained as both histori an and computer engineer\, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi’s&nb sp\; research into the history of Lagos\, Nigeria combines a set of interd isciplinary interests in urban studies\, mapmaking and technology. Her for thcoming book\, Imagine Lagos\, explores Lagos’s mid-19th-centu ry history\, rebuilding its past as a series of encounters: between men an d women\, between the past and present\, enslaved and free\, Eko (the old town) and Lagos\, and between the land and lagoons. She is an Associate Pr ofessor of History at Howard University\, and she received her PhD in Hist ory from NYU in 2016.
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4315@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241118T120201 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241121T180000 SUMMARY:Farewell: Afrika-Bulletin DESCRIPTION:Im September 1976 entstand die erste Nummer des Afrika-Bulletin s - nach 49 Jahren ehrenamtlicher Arbeit beendet das Afrika-Komittee die H erausgabe des Hefts. Seit 2010 erschien das Bulletin in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien - 49 Hefte haben wir in dieser Partnerscha ft mitgestaltet. Nach der Auslieferung der letzten Nummer stossen das Reda tions- und Produktionsteam auf die langjährige Zusammenarbeit an.\\r\\n Im Foyer des Rheinsprungs 21 werden aus diesem Anlass Titelblätter der in Partnerschaft entstandenen Hefte ausgestellt. X-ALT-DESC:Im September 1976 entstand die erste Nummer des Afrika-Bullet ins - nach 49 Jahren ehrenamtlicher Arbeit beendet das Afrika-Komittee die Herausgabe des Hefts. Seit 2010 erschien das Bulletin in Zusammenarbeit m it dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien - 49 Hefte haben wir in dieser Partnersc haft mitgestaltet. Nach der Auslieferung der letzten Nummer stossen das Re dations- und Produktionsteam auf die \; langjährige Zusammenarbeit an .
\nIm Foyer des Rheinsprungs 21 werden aus diesem Anlass Titelblät ter der in Partnerschaft entstandenen Hefte ausgestellt.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241118T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4301@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241111T132414 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241121T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Trajectories of Gender in Global Health: Where are we go ing?" DESCRIPTION:Gender medicine\, women's health\, sexual and reproductive heal th and rights\, the gender health gap: buzzwords are manifold in the vario us discourses relating to 'gender'\, 'women'\, 'health' and 'rights' on th e global public health arena. How can community-based or action research c ontribute to our understanding of gendered aspects of health\, and what ca n we learn from research with international stakeholders? What are the gap s identified? What the priorities?\\r\\nThis workshop shall provide an opp ortunity to engage critically with the various concepts and discourses aro und 'women'\, 'gender'\, 'health' and rights in the past\, the present and the future. Themes may cover a wide range\, such as the critical reflecti on of the on-stage global health discourse on the gender health gap and it s importance for the global economy\; revisiting the medicalization of wom en's bodies in view of the claims to more research in the field of gender medicine\; or examining the gendered notions of feminist health research f ocusing on more-than-human care as in the context of microbiome research. Ongoing approaches in gender medicine with a focus on women's life stages such as menopause further challenge researchers to critically reflect thei r aims and practices\, even more\, if research is conducted in different a reas of the world. Are we on the right track? Are our approaches enhancing gender equality? Above all\, what do we mean when we talk about gender? O r health? And what may we be missing?\\r\\nPlease register here [https://o dk-central.swisstph.ch/-/single/b1ae63a61e1622755e1cf41b6598879998681301f8 4ad6917264f156cc99d076?st=qtENg5WM81NwuvZkKfmM8!6hcUDxhmUtajKRAmpDTjp6xadk Q35A0scVQNYetiLk] by 18 November 2024 here\\r\\nThis workshop is linked the symposium "Women and Gender in Global Health" [https://www.swisstph.c h/en/about/events/women-and-gender-in-global-health-symposium-2024] at the Swiss TPH on 20 November 2024. X-ALT-DESC:Gender medicine\, women's health\, sexual and reproductive he alth and rights\, the gender health gap: buzzwords are manifold in the var ious discourses relating to 'gender'\, 'women'\, 'health' and 'rights' on the global public health arena. How can community-based or action research contribute to our understanding of gendered aspects of health\, and what can we learn from research with international stakeholders? What are the g aps identified? What the priorities?
\nThis workshop shall provide a n opportunity to engage critically with the various concepts and discourse s around 'women'\, 'gender'\, 'health' and rights in the past\, the presen t and the future. Themes may cover a wide range\, such as the critical ref lection of the on-stage global health discourse on the gender health gap a nd its importance for the global economy\; revisiting the medicalization o f women's bodies in view of the claims to more research in the field of ge nder medicine\; or examining the gendered notions of feminist health resea rch focusing on more-than-human care as in the context of microbiome resea rch. Ongoing approaches in gender medicine with a focus on women's life st ages such as menopause further challenge researchers to critically reflect their aims and practices\, even more\, if research is conducted in differ ent areas of the world. Are we on the right track? Are our approaches enha ncing gender equality? Above all\, what do we mean when we talk about gend er? Or health? And what may we be missing?
\nPlease register here by 18 November 2024 \;here
\ nThis workshop is linked the symposium \;" Women and Gender in Global Health" at the \;Swiss TPH on 20 Novemb er 2024.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241121T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4180@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165702 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241120T181500 SUMMARY:Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka: "Exploring Resilience of AmaBomvana Indig enous Healers" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4317@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241120T122846 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241120T170000 SUMMARY:Henri-Michel Yéré: "Science and African History: Towards an Ethic s of Practice" DESCRIPTION:This lecture series attempts to bring together disciplines from the social sciences\, humanities\, and natural sciences. The speakers wil l critically analyze the strong separation between these disciplines and h ow technology organizes political and power relations. The speakers will a lso consider why certain technologies have stood the test of time while ot hers have not. \\r\\nOrganizers: Mohammad Khair Nahhas (BIROMED-Lab\, De partment of Biomedical Engineering\, University of Basel)\, Fares Damien ( Near and Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Basel)\\r\\nFunding: This seminar series is financed by the Graduate School Social Sciences (G3S [h ttps://dgw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/doktorat/g3s/]) and the PhD Program Healt h Sciences (PPHS [https://pphs.unibas.ch/]) of the University Basel X-ALT-DESC:This lecture series attempts to bring together disciplines fr om the social sciences\, humanities\, and natural sciences. The speakers w ill critically analyze the strong separation between these disciplines and how technology organizes political and power relations. The speakers will also consider why certain technologies have stood the test of time while others have not. \;
\nOrganizers: \;Mohamma d Khair Nahhas (BIROMED-Lab\, Department of Biomedical Engineering\, Unive rsity of Basel)\, Fares Damien (Near and Middle Eastern Studies\, Universi ty of Basel)
\nFunding: \;This seminar series i s financed by the Graduate School Social Sciences (G3S) and the PhD Pr ogram Health Sciences (P PHS) of the University Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241120T181500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4179@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165709 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241113T181500 SUMMARY:Reinhart Kössler: "The Mindset of Genocide. Lothar von Trotha's Na mibia Diaries" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\ n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4280@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241104T113248 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241108T180000 SUMMARY:Book Launch "African History between Ghana and Switzerland. Essays Honouring Paul Jenkins" DESCRIPTION:The collection edited by Ernest Sewordor and Anne Beutter retra ces the academic path of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins. The essays celebrate\, engage\, interrogate\, and push beyond Jenkins' nu merous publications and ongoing academic work.\\r\\nThe book launch will b e followed by a reception.\\r\\nOnline participation is possible via Zoom [https://unilu.zoom.us/j/62186643629?pwd=OCu33c4mKx8brMU03iuXc0oC01KejC.1] : Meeting ID: 621 8664 3629\, Passcode 602012 X-ALT-DESC:The collection edited by Ernest Sewordor and Anne Beutter retraces the academic path of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Je nkins. The essays celebrate\, engage\, interrogate\, and push beyond Jenki ns' numerous publications and ongoing academic work.
\nThe book launch will be followed by a reception.
\nOnline participation is p
ossible via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 621 8664 3629\, Passcode
602012
The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4227@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241101T161500 SUMMARY:Nancy Rose Hunt: "Traces or Cases?" DESCRIPTION:What is the difference between traces or cases in historical wr iting? What is the value of each or of working with other such heuristic t erms (strands\, slices\, episodes\, the sutured)? How may each be used\, d eveloped\, or combined when writing about Africa? With a touch of a retros pective into my earlier work -- the reproductive\, the sadistic\, and the acoustic -- I will share parts of a current attempt to investigate the psy chiatric and the turbulent in relation to Congolese colonial spaces and ab errant figures.\\r\\nNancy Rose Hunt is author of two prize-winning monogr aphs\, A Colonial Lexicon (Duke 1999\; Herskovits) and A Nervous State (Du ke 2016: Klein Prize)\, numerous essays and articles\, and the co-edited P sychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness (Duke 2024). Suturin g New Medical Histories of Africa (Lit Vertag 2013) began as her Carl Schl ettwein Lecture in Basel. A co-edited volume (with Pedro Monaville) devote d to the Kinshasa-based comic artist\, Papa Mfumu’eto 1er\, will appear (Leuven) in 2025. After 19 years at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) \, she moved to a professorship at the University of Florida. About the sa me time\, with Achille Mbembe\, she began Duke’s ongoing Theory in Forms book series. X-ALT-DESC:What is the difference between traces or cases in historical writing? What is the value of each or of working with other such heuristic terms (strands\, slices\, episodes\, the sutured)? How may each be used\, developed\, or combined when writing about Africa? With a touch of a retr ospective into my earlier work -- the reproductive\, the sadistic\, and th e acoustic -- I will share parts of a current attempt to investigate the p sychiatric and the turbulent in relation to Congolese colonial spaces and aberrant figures.
\nNancy Rose Hunt is author of tw o prize-winning monographs\, A Colonial Lexicon (Duke 1999\; Herskovits) a nd A Nervous State (Duke 2016: Klein Prize)\, numerous essays and articles \, and the co-edited Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madnes s (Duke 2024). Suturing New Medical Histories of Africa (Lit Vertag 2013) began as her Carl Schlettwein Lecture in Basel. A co-edited volume (with P edro Monaville) devoted to the Kinshasa-based comic artist\, Papa Mfumu’ eto 1er\, will appear (Leuven) in 2025. After 19 years at the University o f Michigan (Ann Arbor)\, she moved to a professorship at the University of Florida. About the same time\, with Achille Mbembe\, she began Duke’s o ngoing Theory in Forms book series.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4273@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T123103 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241101T121500 SUMMARY:Lunch Talk: "Boeremusiek’s Heart-Speech: Postdisciplinary Reflect ions on Race Formation" DESCRIPTION:Boeremusiek\, the concertina-based genre often regarded as the sound of rural Afrikaner life\, evokes a complex mix of emotions—ranging from nostalgia to embarrassment\, guilt\, and\, often\, disavowal. In Wil lemien Froneman’s recent book "The Groovology of White Affect"\, this mu sic becomes a powerful earpiece through which to explore how white identit y becomes racially embodied and (re)performed through ambivalent aesthetic responses. The lunch talk introduces boeremusiek’s “heart-speech” a cross two centuries of reception\, with South Africa’s race ideologies a lways simmering in the background.\\r\\nWillemien Froneman is an interdisc iplinary music scholar affiliated with the Centre for the Study of the Aft erlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch Univer sity. X-ALT-DESC:Boeremusiek\, the concertina-based genre often regarded as th e sound of rural Afrikaner life\, evokes a complex mix of emotions—rangi ng from nostalgia to embarrassment\, guilt\, and\, often\, disavowal. In W illemien Froneman’s recent book "The Groovology of White Affect"\, this music becomes a powerful earpiece through which to explore how white ident ity becomes racially embodied and (re)performed through ambivalent aesthet ic responses. The lunch talk introduces boeremusiek’s “heart-speech” across two centuries of reception\, with South Africa’s race ideologies always simmering in the background.
\nWillemien Froneman is an inte rdisciplinary music scholar affiliated with the Centre for the Study of th e Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch U niversity.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241101T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4177@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165718 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241030T181500 SUMMARY:Patrick Sam: "Coming Home Dead: Performance and Memory Work" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4176@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165721 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241023T181500 SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi: "The Photo Albums of Generalmajor Georg Maercker: Doc umenting the Genocidal Processes of Imperial Fascism" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4256@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241016T161154 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241018T200000 SUMMARY:Happy Hour: "Vinyl Listening—Namibian tracks" DESCRIPTION:After the Book Launch and Conversation on "Building Trust\, Sit uating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South African Nature Reserve"\, t he Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite you to a Happy Hour (with food and drinks) of "Vinyl Listening—Namibian tracks" presented by Raffaele Perni ola Roulet (MA\, University of Basel). X-ALT-DESC:After the Book Launch and Conversation on "Building Trust\, S ituating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South African Nature Reserve"\, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite you to a Happy Hour (with food an d drinks) of "Vinyl Listening—Namibian tracks" presented by Raffaele Per niola Roulet (MA\, University of Basel).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4247@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241016T164659 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241018T170000 SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Building Trust\, Situating Repair: An Ecology of Acti on in a South-African Nature Reserve" DESCRIPTION:The Basler Afrika Bibliographien and James Merron invite you to a Book Launch and Conversation with Prof. Elísio Macamo on "Building Tru st\, Situating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South-African Nature Rese rve."\\r\\nThe hybrid event opens up a conversation about the role of conc epts\, theories\, and methods in building research objects.\\r\\nTo get th e Zoom link registration for the discussion\, kindly write to Dag Henrichs en: dh@baslerafrika.ch [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch]\\r\\nFollowed by a Happ y Hour of “Vinyl Listening—Namibian tracks” presented by Raffaele Pe rniola Roulet (MA\, University of Basel). X-ALT-DESC:The Basler Afrika Bibliographien and James Merron invite you to a Book Launch and Conversation with Prof. Elísio Macamo on "Bu ilding Trust\, Situating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South-African N ature Reserve."
\nThe hybrid event opens up a conversation about the role of concepts\, theories\, and methods in building research o bjects.
\nTo get the Zoom link registration for the discussion\, kin dly write to Dag Henrichsen: dh@basler afrika.ch
\nFollowed by a Happy Hour of “Vinyl Listening—Nam ibian tracks” presented by Raffaele Perniola Roulet (MA\, University of Basel).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241018T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4175@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165724 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241016T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Reflecti ve Session DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4226@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241011T161500 SUMMARY:Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin: "Future Matters: Youth and (In)Concrete T ime in Lagos" DESCRIPTION:We live in a time when concrete dominates the urban landscape i n many major African cities (Choplin\, 2023) and the city is constantly un der construction and destruction. We live in a time when we cannot deny th at precarity is ever pervasive. Uncertainties\, ever certain. In the so-ca lled concrete jungle\, not everything is concrete. Yet\, desires and dream s for more concrete opportunities\, possibilities and futures persist. Thi s presentation examines how (in)concrete time is perceived\, negotiated an d resisted in Lagos\, a "city of the future"\, by real estate developers a nd youth. In doing so\, I argue that the real estate developers (in concer t with some politicians) have embarked on an Afropolitan Imagineering proj ect of owambe urbanism. Afropolitan Imagineering refers to the production of new images/narratives of Africa and Africans as world-class and cosmopo litan. Owambe urbanism is a spatio-temporal neoliberal project concerning destination\, arrival and place-making\, which promises a shared and happy future for all urban dwellers. I also assert that owambe urbanism present s new opportunities and challenges for youth in terms of the aesthetics an d practices of daily life\, particularly the pursuit of enjoyment and luxu ry consumption.\\r\\nGrace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is the Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures and an Associate Professor at Queen’ s University\, Kingston\, Canada. Her current research examines contempora ry urban transformations on youth identity\, labour practices\, psychosoci al well-being\, and future orientation in Lagos and Ibadan\, Nigeria. X-ALT-DESC:We live in a time when concrete dominates the urban landscape in many major African cities (Choplin\, 2023) and the city is constantly under construction and destruction. We live in a time when we cannot deny that precarity is ever pervasive. Uncertainties\, ever certain. In the so- called concrete jungle\, not everything is concrete. Yet\, desires and dre ams for more concrete opportunities\, possibilities and futures persist. T his presentation examines how (in)concrete time is perceived\, negotiated and resisted in Lagos\, a "city of the future"\, by real estate developers and youth. In doing so\, I argue that the real estate developers (in conc ert with some politicians) have embarked on an Afropolitan Imagineering pr oject of owambe urbanism. Afropolitan Imagineering refers to the productio n of new images/narratives of Africa and Africans as world-class and cosmo politan. Owambe urbanism is a spatio-temporal neoliberal project concernin g destination\, arrival and place-making\, which promises a shared and hap py future for all urban dwellers. I also assert that owambe urbanism prese nts new opportunities and challenges for youth in terms of the aesthetics and practices of daily life\, particularly the pursuit of enjoyment and lu xury consumption.
\nGrace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is the Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures and an Associate Professor at Queen’s University\, Kingston\, Canada. Her current resear ch examines contemporary urban transformations on youth identity\, labour practices\, psychosocial well-being\, and future orientation in Lagos and Ibadan\, Nigeria.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4174@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241003T104329 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241009T181500 SUMMARY:Pasts and Presents of Student Protests: Comparing Southern Africa a nd Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Since October 2023\, students around the world have occupied un iversity campuses in protest against the war in Gaza\, military escalation \, and gross human rights violations in Gaza\, the West Bank and Israel. I n our colloquium we place these protests and the responses to them within the university\, in the media and across various public spheres (politics\ , international courts\, international organisations) in critical comparis on with Southern African histories of student protests throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. We will discuss examples that include anti-apartheid struggles\, the significance of Palestine for Africa focused solidarity gr oups\, the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall student movements\, and stu dent protests at the University of Basel and other Swiss universities.\\r\ \nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international sch olars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Souther n African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\, the Uni versity of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The even ts are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\r\\nConta ct for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.r ensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:Since October 2023\, students around the world have occupied university campuses in protest against the war in Gaza\, military escalati on\, and gross human rights violations in Gaza\, the West Bank and Israel. In our colloquium we place these protests and the responses to them withi n the university\, in the media and across various public spheres (politic s\, international courts\, international organisations) in critical compar ison with Southern African histories of student protests throughout the 20 th and 21st centuries. We will discuss examples that include anti-apartheid struggles\, the significance of Palestine for Afri ca focused solidarity groups\, the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall stu dent movements\, and student protests at the University of Basel and other Swiss universities.
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and method ological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference t o Namibian Studies. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the U niversity of Namibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20 .15 (CH &\; NAM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for r egistration and Zoom link:julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@ unam.na
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4173@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165730 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241002T181500 SUMMARY:Nelago Shilongoh: "ǂAoni //Aes: Theatre Making and Oceanic Culture s" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4196@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240927T150416 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240929T150000 SUMMARY:Concert: This is for Makaya (1939-2024) DESCRIPTION:On 27 August the legendary drummer Makaya Ntshoko passed away i n Basel - the city where he had made his home for half a century. Makaya b elonged to the first generation of jazz musicians who left South Africa wi th the tightening of the apartheid regime in the ealry 1960s and who had a great influence on the European jazz scene. Ntshoko first came to Switzer land in 1962 together with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim as part of the Dollar Brand Trio.\\r\\nBorn in Cape Town in 1939\, the musician (and\, in his yo unger years\, boxer!) was a member of the legendary Jazz Epistles at the e nd of the 1950s\, who recorded ‘Verve’\, the first modern jazz LP by b lack musicians in South Africa. He also formed a trio with pianist Dollar Brand and Johnny Gertze (bass) and founded the Jazz Giants with Kippie Moe ketsi\, Dudu Pukwana\, Gideon Nxumalo and Martin Mgijima. After the Sharpe ville massacre in 1960 and a year in England with the musical ‘King Kong ’\, Makaya Ntshoko and Johnny Gertze followed their pianist to Zurich in 1962 and played at the Cafe Africana. Duke Ellington heard the trio there after his concert at the Zurich Congress Centre\, was delighted and recor ded the famous LP ‘Duke Ellington presents the Dollar Brand Trio’ in P aris just four days later. It was not until the 1990s that ‘A Morning in Paris’ from the same recording session with singer Sathima Bea Benjmin and the pianists Duke Ellington\, Billy Strayhorn\, Dollar Brand - and Mak aya Ntshoko on drums - was released. The Paris session marked the beginnin g of Dollar Brand's international career\, and Makaya Ntshoko went on to p lay with greats such as Dexter Gordon\, Ben Webster\, Roland Kirk\, George Gruntz\, Irène Schweizer\, Don Cherry\, Pierre Favre\, Andy Scherrer and the Stephan Kurmann Strings.\\r\\nHis polyrhythmic playing was admired wo rldwide\, from the public to luminaries such as Elvin Jones\, the drummer of John Coltrane. Ntshoko was also successful with his own band ‘Makaya and the Tsotsis’ with Heinz Sauer (saxophone)\, Bob Degen (piano) and Is la Eckinger (bass). Makaya Ntshoko was a mainstay of the Frankfurt project ‘Jazz against Apartheid’\, which was co-founded by South African bass ist Johnny Dyani\, for many years and until almost the end - together with saxophonist John Tchicai\, among others. Together with pianist Irene Schw eizer\, who died this year\, and saxophonist Omri Ziegele\, for a decade he formed the trio ‘Where is Africa’.\\r\\nSince its beginnings in 199 4 he was also associated with the jazz club the bird's eye. As part of a r esidency project organised by the Centre for African Studies at the Univer sity of Basel\, Ntshoko toured Switzerland in 2006 with the Swiss-South Af rican Jazz Quintet (Feya Faku\, tr\, Andy Scherrer\, ts\, Colin Valon\, p\ , Stephan Kurmann\, b) and celebrated a much-noticed homecoming in South A frica in 2007 with the same band (this time with Domenic Landolf on tenor saxophone). During this time he recorded his last CD ‘Happy House’ wit h his New Tsotsis (Andy Scherrer\, ts\, Vera Kappeler\, p\, Stephan Kurman n\, b)\, which was released by Steeple Chase in 2008.\\r\\nMakaya Ntshoko died on 27 August 2024 in Basel\, the city where he had lived modestly and almost unnoticed by the public since the 1960s. News that made national h eadlines in South Africa!\\r\\nThe bird's eye jazz club invites friends an d admirers of Makaya Ntshoko for a jam session and concert with some of hi s companions. Details will be published shortly on the website of the club www.birdseye.ch [http://www.birdseye.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:On 27 August the legendary drummer Makaya Ntshoko passed away in Basel - the city where he had made his home for half a century. Makaya belonged to the first generation of jazz musicians who left South Africa with the tightening of the apartheid regime in the ealry 1960s and who had a great influence on the European jazz scene. Ntshoko first came to Switz erland in 1962 together with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim as part of the Dolla r Brand Trio.
\nBorn in Cape Town in 1939\, the musician (and\, in h is younger years\, boxer!) was a member of the legendary Jazz Epistles at the end of the 1950s\, who recorded ‘Verve’\, the first modern jazz LP by black musicians in South Africa. He also formed a trio with pianist Do llar Brand and Johnny Gertze (bass) and founded the Jazz Giants with Kippi e Moeketsi\, Dudu Pukwana\, Gideon Nxumalo and Martin Mgijima. After the S harpeville massacre in 1960 and a year in England with the musical ‘King Kong’\, Makaya Ntshoko and Johnny Gertze followed their pianist to Zuri ch in 1962 and played at the Cafe Africana. Duke Ellington heard the trio there after his concert at the Zurich Congress Centre\, was delighted and recorded the famous LP ‘Duke Ellington presents the Dollar Brand Trio’ in Paris just four days later. It was not until the 1990s that ‘A Morni ng in Paris’ from the same recording session with singer Sathima Bea Ben jmin and the pianists Duke Ellington\, Billy Strayhorn\, Dollar Brand - an d Makaya Ntshoko on drums - was released. The Paris session marked the beg inning of Dollar Brand's international career\, and Makaya Ntshoko went on to play with greats such as Dexter Gordon\, Ben Webster\, Roland Kirk\, G eorge Gruntz\, Irène Schweizer\, Don Cherry\, Pierre Favre\, Andy Scherre r and the Stephan Kurmann Strings.
\nHis polyrhythmic playing was ad mired worldwide\, from the public to luminaries such as Elvin Jones\, the drummer of John Coltrane. Ntshoko was also successful with his own band ‘Makaya and the Tsotsis’ with Heinz Sauer (saxophone)\, Bob Degen (pia no) and Isla Eckinger (bass). Makaya Ntshoko was a mainstay of the Frankfu rt project ‘Jazz against Apartheid’\, which was co-founded by South Af rican bassist Johnny Dyani\, for many years and until almost the end - tog ether with saxophonist John Tchicai\, among others. Together with pianist Irene Schweizer\, who died this year\, and saxophonist Omri Ziegele\, \;for a decade he formed the trio ‘Where is Africa’.
\nSince its beginnings in 1994 he was also associated with the jazz club the bird's e ye. As part of a residency project organised by the Centre for African Stu dies at the University of Basel\, Ntshoko toured Switzerland in 2006 with the Swiss-South African Jazz Quintet (Feya Faku\, tr\, Andy Scherrer\, ts\ , Colin Valon\, p\, Stephan Kurmann\, b) and celebrated a much-noticed hom ecoming in South Africa in 2007 with the same band (this time with Domenic Landolf on tenor saxophone). During this time he recorded his last CD ‘ Happy House’ with his New Tsotsis (Andy Scherrer\, ts\, Vera Kappeler\, p\, Stephan Kurmann\, b)\, which was released by Steeple Chase in 2008.
\nMakaya Ntshoko died on 27 August 2024 in Basel\, the city where he h ad lived modestly and almost unnoticed by the public since the 1960s. News that made national headlines in South Africa!
\nThe bird's eye jazz club invites friends and admirers of Makaya Ntshoko for a jam session and concert with some of his companions. Details will be published shortly on the website of the club www.birdseye.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4172@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165733 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240925T181500 SUMMARY:Nancy Odendaal: "Networking Towards Shifting Academic Geographies" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
\ n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4171@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T165736 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240918T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Introduc tion DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nJointly organised by the University of Namibia\ , the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH & NAM time)\, followed by an apé ro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, NAM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.\\ r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailt o:julia.rensing@unibas.ch] and makawa@unam.na [mailto:makawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. Guests are welcome.
\nJointly organised by the University of Nam ibia\, the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
\nNote: The events are from 18.15h to 20.15 (CH &\; N AM time)\, followed by an apéro at the BAB. From October 27th onwards\, N AM time is 19.15h to 21.15h.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link:julia.rensing @unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4170@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240909T174950 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240916T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEve rybody interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\n< p>Everybody interested in African Studies is welcome! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240916T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4147@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240826T143627 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240912T154500 SUMMARY:Shalini Randeria: “Postcolonial perspectives: quo vadis” DESCRIPTION:Keynote speaker\\r\\nShalini Randeria\, Central European Univer sity\\r\\nDiscussants\\r\\n Deval Desai\, University of Edinburgh Benedi kt Korf\, University of Zurich Elísio Macamo\, University of Basel Ralp h Weber\, University of Basel \\r\\nThe keynote will be followed by a rece ption.\\r\\nPlease register by 31 August 2024. X-ALT-DESC:Shalini Randeria\, Central European University
\nThe keynote will be followed by a reception.
\nPle ase register by 31 August 2024.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240912T172700 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4072@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240826T160611 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240912 SUMMARY:Conference: “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders” DESCRIPTION:The two-day conference in the framework of the SNSF Singergia p roject "Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies" brings together reflections on the use of concepts across borders in social scien ces. In six panel sessions\, Swiss and international scholars including “Reversing the Gaze” project members explore the epistemological and m ethodological implications of applying socio-scientific concepts across re gional or historical contexts. The first conference day will conclude with a keynote by Shalini Randeria on “Postcolonial perspectives: quo vadis ”\; the second conference day with a roundtable discussion.\\r\\nThe con ference will take place on 12 and 13 September 2024 at the University of B asel. Registration is free of charge and open until 31 August 2024. X-ALT-DESC:The two-day conference in the framework of the SNSF Singergia project "Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies" bring s together reflections on the use of concepts across borders in social sci ences. In six panel sessions\, Swiss and international scholars including “Reversing the Gaze” project members explore the epistemological and m ethodological implications of applying socio-scientific concepts across re gional or historical contexts. The first conference day will conclude with a keynote by Shalini Randeria on “Postcolonial perspectives: quo vadis ”\; the second conference day with a roundtable discussion.
\nThe conference will take place on 12 and 13 September 2024 at the University o f Basel. Registration is free of charge and open until 31 August 2024.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240913 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4116@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240814T140643 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240905T170000 SUMMARY:Turmhaus-Talks: "Elephant conservation in Tanzania. And what bees h ave to do with it" DESCRIPTION:Lameck Mkuburo is one of Tanzania‘s most prominent wildlife b iologists. In 2019\, he founded the Tanzanian Elephant Foundation (TEF). I ts aim is to record the traditional routes of migratory elephants\, raise public and political awareness of these migratory movements and reduce con flicts with the local population. In his presentation\, Lameck Mkuburo des cribes the challenges of protecting endangered elephants. And the role bee s play in this. X-ALT-DESC:Lameck Mkuburo is one of Tanzania‘s most prominent wildlife biologists. In 2019\, he founded the Tanzanian Elephant Foundation (TEF). Its aim is to record the traditional routes of migratory elephants\, rais e public and political awareness of these migratory movements and reduce c onflicts with the local population. In his presentation\, Lameck Mkuburo d escribes the challenges of protecting endangered elephants. And the role b ees play in this.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4088@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240705T093135 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240829 SUMMARY:Third European Students' Conference on African Studies DESCRIPTION:The goal of the 3rd European Students’ Conference on African Studies is to bring together Masters’ students studying and researching Africa at European universities\, fostering a network and exchange among t he student bodies at these institutions. It aims to encourage interdiscipl inary collaboration and innovation\, offering a platform for emerging scho lars to share insights\, challenge conventional boundaries\, and delve int o Africa's significance on the global stage. X-ALT-DESC:The goal of the 3rd European Students’ Conference on Africa n Studies is to bring together Masters’ students studying and researchin g Africa at European universities\, fostering a network and exchange among the student bodies at these institutions. It aims to encourage interdisci plinary collaboration and innovation\, offering a platform for emerging sc holars to share insights\, challenge conventional boundaries\, and delve i nto Africa's significance on the global stage.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240830 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4029@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240515T133911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240826 SUMMARY:6th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa DESCRIPTION:The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in A frica (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies in Basel (ZASB) call f or applications for their 6th Summer School in African Studies and Area St udies in Africa.\\r\\nDate & venue: 26-30 August 2024 in Dakar\, Senegal.\ \r\\nApplication deadline: 31 May 2024 X-ALT-DESC:The Council for the Development of Social Science Res earch in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies in Basel (ZA SB) call for applications for their 6th Summer School in African Studies a nd Area Studies in Africa.
\nDate &\; venue: 26-30 Augus t 2024 in Dakar\, Senegal.
\nApplication deadline: 31 May 20 24
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240830 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4086@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240619T142038 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240706T170000 SUMMARY:Buchvernissage und Workshop: The Reports of Theophilus Opoku (Paul Jenkins und Michelle Gilbert\, Hg) DESCRIPTION:Über 50 Jahre hinweg haben sich die Ethnologin Michelle Gilber t und der Historiker Paul Jenkins\, langjähriger Archivar der Basler Miss ion\, mit den schriftlichen Zeugnissen von Theophilus Opoku beschäftigt. Opoku war als Pfarrer der Basler Mission ein äusserst produktiver Bericht erstatter und aufmerksamen Beobachter des Königreichs Akuapem. Der vorl iegende Band\, der in der prominenten Reihe Fontes Historiae Africanae der British Library erschienen ist\, bringt das immense Wissen der beiden Aut oren zur Geltung und lädt alle an der Geschichte Afrikas und insbesondere der Begegnung zwischen Mission und Kutlur Interessierten ein\, sich mit d em reichhaltigen Material zu beschäftigen.\\r\\nWorkshop: A Conversation with Theophilus Opoku\\r\\nVorgängig zur Buchvernissage führen wir einen Worskhop mit den Teilnehmenden der Studienreise "The Mission at Home [htt ps://www.unibas.ch/de/Studium/Campus-Stories/Auf-den-Spuren-der-Basler-Mis sion-in-Ghana.html]" durch In gemischten Kleingruppen bestehend aus jungen und etablierten Forschenden aus den Bereichen Geschichte und Theologie au s der Schweiz und aus Ghana\, beschäftigen wir uns je mit einem Bericht v on Pfarrer Opoku und diskutieren unsere Resultate in der Gruppe.\\r\\nProg ramm:\\r\\n9:00-10:00 Welcome and Introduction by Paul Jenkins\, David Maxwell\, and Veit Arlt\\r\\n10:00-10:15 Co ffee break\\r\\n10:15- 12:30 Group work\\r\\n12:30-13:30 Lunch\\r\\n13:30-16:30 Presentation of group work a nd final discussion\\r\\n16:30-17:00 Break\\r\\n17:00-18:00 Book Launch\\r\\n18:00-19:00 Reception\\r\\n\ \r\\nAnmeldung:\\r\\nBitte melden Sie sich für den Workshop und oder die Buchvernissage bis zum 30.6.2024 über unser Online-Formula [https://forms .gle/Fkdi6oHnEHxaNxBu9]r an. X-ALT-DESC:Über 50 Jahre hinweg haben sich die Ethnologin Michelle Gilb ert und der Historiker Paul Jenkins\, langjähriger Archivar der Basler Mi ssion\, mit den schriftlichen Zeugnissen von Theophilus Opoku beschäftigt . Opoku war als Pfarrer der Basler Mission ein äusserst produktiver Beric hterstatter und \; aufmerksamen Beobachter des Königreichs Akuapem. D er vorliegende Band\, der in der prominenten Reihe Fontes Historiae Af ricanae der British Library erschienen ist\, bringt das immense Wisse n der beiden Autoren zur Geltung und lädt alle an der Geschichte Afrikas und insbesondere der Begegnung zwischen Mission und Kutlur Interessierten ein\, sich mit dem reichhaltigen Material zu beschäftigen.
\nVorgäng ig zur Buchvernissage führen wir einen Worskhop mit den Teilnehmenden der Studienreise "The Mission at Home" du rch In gemischten Kleingruppen bestehend aus jungen und etablierten Forsch enden aus den Bereichen Geschichte und Theologie aus der Schweiz und aus G hana\, beschäftigen wir uns je mit einem Bericht von Pfarrer Opoku und di skutieren unsere Resultate in der Gruppe.
\nProgramm:
\n9:00-10:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nbs p\; \; \; Welcome and Introduction by Paul Jenkins\, David Maxwell \, and Veit Arlt
\n10:00-10:15 \; \; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; Coffee break
\n10:15- 12:30 \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; Group work
\n12:30-13:30 \; \; \; \;&n bsp\; \; \; Lunch
\n13:30-16:30 \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \; Presentation of group work and final discussion
\n16:30-17:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Break
\ n17:00-18:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Book Laun ch
\n18:00-19:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Re ception
\n\nAnmeldung:
\nBitte melden Sie sic h für den Workshop und oder die Buchvernissage bis zum 30.6.2024 über un ser Online-Formular an.< /p>\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240706T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4046@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240529T140454 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240628T090000 SUMMARY:Conference: "Spanish in Africa\, past\, present and future" DESCRIPTION:The conference "El español en África en pasado\, presente y f uturo" ("Spanish in Africa\, past\, present and future") will be held as p art of the research project "Improving the visibility of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanish-speaking country"\, funded by the Swiss National Science Fou ndation (SNSF)\, and is co-organized by Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr and Sara Carreira.\\r\\nThe aim of this conference is to examine the challenges an d opportunities of the Spanish language in Africa in the past\, present an d future. Individual contributions will examine these various regions of A frica with a clear connection to the Spanish language from a current persp ective. The focus will be on sociolinguistic and language policy aspects\, but dialectological and linguistic contact phenomena will also be address ed. X-ALT-DESC:
The conference "El español en África en pasado\, presente y futuro" ("Spanish in Africa\, past\, present and future") will be held as part of the research project "Improving the visibility of Equatorial Guin ea as a Spanish-speaking country"\, funded by the Swiss National Science F oundation (SNSF)\, and is co-organized by Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr and Sa ra Carreira.
\nThe aim of this conference is to examine the challeng es and opportunities of the Spanish language in Africa in the past\, prese nt and future. Individual contributions will examine these various regions of Africa with a clear connection to the Spanish language from a current perspective. The focus will be on sociolinguistic and language policy aspe cts\, but dialectological and linguistic contact phenomena will also be ad dressed.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240629T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4082@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240619T152100 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240620T180000 SUMMARY:Athambile Masola: "Invisibility\, Hyper-visibility\, Erasure\, and Elsewhereness: Working with Black Women’s Life-Stories" DESCRIPTION:Using Noni Jabavu (1919–2008) as a starting point for the lec ture\, Athambile Masola will consider the ways in which biographical writi ng is central to responding to the complex ways in which black women’s h istories in particular are rendered. Despite her hypervisible writing care er\, a transnational experience\, her story is about invisibility\, hyperv isibility\, erasure and elsewhereness. The lecture will explore the archiv al and methodological challenges of writing histories in this context.\\r\ \nAthambile Masola is a writer\, researcher and an award-winning poet base d at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry\, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press\, 2021)\, is written in isiXhosa. She is the co-author of the children’s history book series \, Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us (Jacana Media\, 2022)\, with Dr Xolisa Guz ula. Her latest book is a collaboration with Makhosazana Xaba\; a collecti on of Noni Jabavu’s columns from 1977\, A Stranger at Home (Tafelberg\, 2023).\\r\\nThis event is part of the 6th Biennial AEGIS CRG African Histo ry Conference [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/crg-african-histor y-conference/]\, hosted in collaboration with the Department of History at the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. X-ALT-DESC:Using Noni Jabavu (1919–2008) as a starting point for the l
ecture\, Athambile Masola will consider the ways in which biographical wri
ting is central to responding to the complex ways in which black women’s
histories in particular are rendered. Despite her hypervisible writing ca
reer\, a transnational experience\, her story is about invisibility\, hype
rvisibility\, erasure and elsewhereness. The lecture will explore the arch
ival and
methodological challenges of writing histories in this cont
ext.
Athambile Masola is a writer\, researcher and an award-winnin g poet based at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry\, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press\, 2021)\, is written in isiXhosa. She is the co-author of the children’s history book series\, Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us (Jacana Media\, 2022)\, with Dr Xolisa Guzula. Her latest book is a collaboration with Makhosazana Xaba\; a collection of Noni Jabavu’s columns from 1977\, A Stranger at Home (T afelberg\, 2023).
\nThis event is part of the 6th Bienn ial AEGIS CRG African History Conference\, hosted in collaboration wit h the Department of History at the University of Basel and the Basler Afri ka Bibliographien.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3978@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240606T170451 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240620T141500 SUMMARY:6th Biennial AEGIS CRG African History Conference DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to the 6th Biennial AEGIS CRG Afri can History Conference hosted in collaboration with the Department of Hist ory at the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien with s upport from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel.\\r\\nThe confe rence is free of charge. The conference hosts will offer refreshments duri ng the breaks and a dinner on 20 June. Participants are required to arrang e and pay for their own travels and accommodation. We have made a prelimin ary reservation for a number of rooms at Hotel IBIS Budget\, close to the train station Basel SBB. Rooms can be booked at a preferential rate via ou r registration form until 30 April 2024.\\r\\nThose wishing to take part m ust register before 30 April 2024 via our online-form https://forms.gle/dC rZESTPjXBAboEP7 [https://forms.gle/dCrZESTPjXBAboEP7]. Please note that al l confirmed participants (including roundtable conveners and organizers) a re requested to register! Late registration is possible but we then cannot guarantee the availability of a hotel room.\\r\\n\\r\\nProgramme\\r\\n(de tailed roundtable descriptions see download)\\r\\nThursday 20 June\\r\\n14 :15 Welcome \\r\\n14:30 Roundtable I: Betwixt and Between: On Being Classified as “Mulatto” / “Mixed Race” / Mé tis in West Africa\, 16th–20th C.\\r\\n16:00 Coffee/tea br eak\\r\\n16:15 Roundtable II: Tools of power – teaching ab out the past in Ethiopia\, Egypt and Sudan\\r\\n17:45 Break\ \r\\n18:00 Exciting Lecture in African History: Invisibility \, hyper-visibility\, erasure\, and elsewhereness: working with black wome n’s life-stories (Athambile Masola\, Cape Town)\\r\\n19:00 Drinks and dinner\\r\\nFriday 21 June\\r\\n09:00 Roundtable III: Archives\, Languages and Pasts: foregrounding African knowledge prod uctions and history practices\\r\\n10:30 Coffee/tea break\\r \\n11:00 CRG business meeting \\r\\n12:00 Lunc h\\r\\n13:00 Roundtable IV: Agency as a problem in African h istory\\r\\n14:30 Farewell coffee\\r\\n\\r\\n16:00 Optional tour: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) – Namibia Resourc e Centre & Southern Africa Library\\r\\n17:30 Reception (Ap éro) at BAB\\r\\n\\r\\nOrganizers: Julia Tischler\, Department of Hist ory\, University of Basel\\r\\n Dag Henrichsen\, Basler Afrika Bibliographien\\r\\n Veit Arlt\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel \\r\\nSupport: Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel X-ALT-DESC:We are pleased to invite you to the 6th Biennial A EGIS CRG African History Conference hosted in collaboration with the Depar tment of History at the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliogr aphien with support from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel.\n
The conference is free of charge. The conference hosts will offer r efreshments during the breaks and a dinner on 20 June. Participants are re quired to arrange and pay for their own travels and accommodation. We have made a preliminary reservation for a number of rooms at Hotel IBIS Budget \, close to the train station Basel SBB. Rooms can be booked at a preferen tial rate via our registration form until 30 April 2024.< /p>\n
Those wishing to take part must register before 30 April 2 024 via our online-form https://forms.gle/dCrZESTPjXBAboEP7. Please note that all confirm ed participants (including roundtable conveners and organizers) are reques ted to register! Late registration is possible but we then cannot guarante e the availability of a hotel room.
\n\n(detailed roundtable descri ptions see download)
\n14:15 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Welcome
\n14:30&nbs p\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Roundtable I: Betwixt and Be tween: On Being Classified as “Mulatto” / “Mixed Race” / Métis in West Africa\, 16th–20th C.\n
16:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Coffee/tea b reak
\n16:15 \; \; \; \; \; \; \ ; Roundtable II:Tools of power – teaching about the pa st in Ethiopia\, Egypt and Sudan
\n17:45 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Break
\n18:00 \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; \; \; Exciting Lecture in African History: Inv isibility\, hyper-visibility\, erasure\, and elsewhereness: working with b lack women’s life-stories (Athambile Masola\, Cape Town)
\n< p>19:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Drinks and dinner\n09:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Roundtable III: Archives\, Languages and Pasts: foregrounding African know ledge productions and history practices
\n10:30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Coffee/tea break
\n11:00
12:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Lunch
\n13:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Roundtable IV: Agency as a problem in African history
\n14:30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Fare well coffee
\n\n16:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Optional tour: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) – Namibia R esource Centre &\; Southern Africa Library
\n17:30 \ ; \; \; \; \; \; \; Reception (Apéro) at BAB
\ n\nOrganizers: \; Julia Tischler\, Department of History\, University of Basel
\n\; \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Dag Henrichsen\, Basler Afrika Bibliographien
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \ ; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Veit Arl t\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel
\nSuppo rt: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240621T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4044@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240523T094056 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240607T141500 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Knowledge Production in Sexual and Reproductive Health" DESCRIPTION:Organized by the ZASB Key Area of Activity “Health” in coll aboration with the Medical Anthropology Research Group (MARG)\, University of Basel and the Society\, Gender and Health Unit at the Swiss Tropical a nd Public Health Institute.\\r\\nVarious actors are involved in the (co-)p roduction of sexual and reproductive health knowledge(s)\, through researc h and policymaking\, but also through lived experiences. This workshop see ks to facilitate a critical engagement with the processes and dynamics inh erent to knowledge production in health research\, with a particular focus on the field of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This hybrid event b rings together experts at different stages of their academic careers and f rom a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who study themes related to SRH. We open with a keynote by Dr Richard Sambaiga\, who has dedicated much of his academic career to researching SRH\, specifically in the Tanzanian co ntext\, followed by an interactive roundtable discussion. Insights and con clusions from the workshop will be incorporated as part of a critical enga gement with the Swiss TPH’s planned winter symposium on gender and healt h in November 2024.\\r\\nRegistration: Please register your participation no later than Friday 31 May 2024 via andrea.kaisergrolimund@unibas.ch [ma ilto:andrea.kaisergrolimund@unibas.ch]\\r\\nProgramme\\r\\n14:15-14:30 Wel come (Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Sonja Merten)\\r\\n14:30-15-15 Keynote a nd discussion: ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health as a Contested Terrain: R eflections from Tanzania’ (Richard Sambaiga\, University of Dar es Salaa m). Moderation:Brigit Obrist\\r\\n15:15-15:45 Coffee break\\r\\n15:45-17:1 5 Round table: Knowledge production in Sexual and Reproductive Health in i nterdisciplinary perspective – ongoing research at the University of Bas el (Swiss TPH\, Department of History\, Medical Anthropology Research Grou p). Discussant: Richard Sambaiga. Moderation: Danelle van Zyl-Hermann\\r\\ n17:15-17:45 Concluding remarks and outlook to future events (Sonja Merten )\\r\\n17:45: Apéro X-ALT-DESC:Organized by the ZASB Key Area of Activity “Health” i n collaboration with the Medical Anthropology Research Group (MARG)\, Univ ersity of Basel and the Society\, Gender and Health Unit at the Swiss Trop ical and Public Health Institute.
\nVarious actors are involved in the (co-)production of sexual and reproductive health knowledge(s)\, t hrough research and policymaking\, but also through lived experiences. Thi s workshop seeks to facilitate a critical engagement with the processes an d dynamics inherent to knowledge production in health research\, with a pa rticular focus on the field of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This hybrid event brings together experts at different stages of their academic careers and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who study themes r elated to SRH. We open with a keynote by Dr Richard Sambaiga\, who has ded icated much of his academic career to researching SRH\, specifically in th e Tanzanian context\, followed by an interactive roundtable discussion. In sights and conclusions from the workshop will be incorporated as part of a critical engagement with the Swiss TPH’s planned winter symposium on ge nder and health in November 2024.
\nRegistration: P lease register your participation no later than Friday 31 May 2024 via&nbs p\;andrea.kaisergrolimun d@unibas.ch
\n14:15-14:30 Welcome (Andrea Kaiser-G rolimund and Sonja Merten)
\n14:30-15-15 Keynote and di scussion: ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health as a Contested Terrai n: Reflections from Tanzania’ (Richard Sambaiga\, University of Dar es Salaam). Moderation:Brigit Obrist
\n15:15-15:45 Coffee break
\n15:45-17:15 Round tabl e: Knowledge production in Sexual and Reproductive Health in inte rdisciplinary perspective – ongoing research at the University of Basel (Swiss TPH\, Department of History\, Medical Anthropology Research Group). Discussant: Richard Sambaiga. Moderation: Danelle van Zyl-He rmann
\n17:15-17:45 Concluding remarks and out look to future events (Sonja Merten)
\n17:45: Apéro
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240607T174500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3867@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T180000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240529T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Closing Discussion DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3964@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T154323 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240529T161500 SUMMARY:Patricia Noormahomed: "Whose ‘shared’ heritage? Counter-narrati ves through the modern housing of Mozambique" DESCRIPTION:In her presentation\, Patricia Noormahomed will explore how in current heritage practices and policies\, there is a prevailing hegemonic discourse that privileges Western standards by focusing on the artistic an d the historical\, the monumental and the tangible – what Laurajane Smit h (2006) calls an “Authorized Heritage Discourse.” Against this backgr ound\, she will discuss counter-narratives through the example of modern h ousing in Mozambique\; a legacy that is often described as “shared herit age” because of its colonial genealogy. Through this legacy\, the presen tation will interrogate the limits of the heritage values that underpin th e AHD and will foreground new values as well as accounts based on the soci o-cultural background of Mozambique and the everyday experiences of its in habitants. X-ALT-DESC:In her presentation\, Patricia Noormahomed will explore how i n current heritage practices and policies\, there is a prevailing hegemoni c discourse that privileges Western standards by focusing on the artistic and the historical\, the monumental and the tangible – what Laurajane Sm ith (2006) calls an “Authorized Heritage Discourse.” Against this back ground\, she will discuss counter-narratives through the example of modern housing in Mozambique\; a legacy that is often described as “shared her itage” because of its colonial genealogy. Through this legacy\, the pres entation will interrogate the limits of the heritage values that underpin the AHD and will foreground new values as well as accounts based on the so cio-cultural background of Mozambique and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240529T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3901@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153555 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240527T121500 SUMMARY:Cécile Fromont: "The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies. Kongo\, Bra zil\, and Colonies at the Villa Medici in Rome" DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Cécile Fromont (Yale University) as part of the Res earch Seminar "African History" in cooperation with the Forschungskolloqui um "Geschichte der Vormoderne". X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Cécile Fromont (Yale University) as part of the R esearch Seminar "African History" in cooperation with the Forschungskolloq uium "Geschichte der Vormoderne".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240527T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3866@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240522T181500 SUMMARY:Lee Watkins: "The Politics of Analysing South African Rap Music sty le: Methods\, Methodologies\, and Doing the Right Thing" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nLee Watkins is the Director of the Internationa l Library of African Music (ILAM)\, an organization dedicated to the prese rvation and study of African music. Seated in Grahamstown\, South Africa\, ILAM is attached to the Music Department at Rhodes University. Lee Watkin s's interests include applied studies in music\, hip hop studies\, and cri tical music theory. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nLee Watkins is the Director of the Interna tional Library of African Music (ILAM)\, an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of African music. Seated in Grahamstown\, South Afr ica\, ILAM is attached to the Music Department at Rhodes University. Lee W atkins's interests include applied studies in music\, hip hop studies\, an d critical music theory.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3893@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T154236 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240522T161500 SUMMARY:Fieldwork course presentations: "Living Together\, Apart. Transnati onal Attachments\, Intimacies\, and Kinship" DESCRIPTION:Students will present the results of the fieldwork "Living Toge ther\, Apart. Transnational Attachments\, Intimacies\, and Kinship"\, foll owed by the end-of-term apéro. X-ALT-DESC:Students will present the results of the fieldwork "Living To gether\, Apart. Transnational Attachments\, Intimacies\, and Kinship"\, fo llowed by the end-of-term apéro.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240522T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3936@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153617 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T121500 SUMMARY:Noon-Talks 6/6: "The Political Economies of Cruising: intimacy and queer mobility" DESCRIPTION:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Post- docs of the Department of Social Sciences to get to know each other\, pres ent their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with s cholars of the various disciplines of the department. The goal is to foste r exchange between scholars and to get to know each other's work. Presente rs are encouraged to address methodological challenges\, theoretical issue s and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentatio n will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q&A session. All members\, faculty and students of the department are cordiall y invited to join.\\r\\nProgram: 20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes com ments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&A/discussion\\r\\nPresenter: Kaue Crima Bellini (Anthropology) Discussant: tba\\r\\nNo registration needed\, please follow the link below for participation. X-ALT-DESC:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Pos t-docs of the Department of Social Sciences to get to know each other\, pr esent their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with scholars of the various disciplines of the department. The goal is to fos ter exchange between scholars and to get to know each other's work. Presen ters are encouraged to address methodological challenges\, theoretical iss ues and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentat ion will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q& amp\;A session. All members\, faculty and students of the department are c ordially invited to join.
\nProgram: \;20 minut es presentation\, 10 minutes comments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&\;A/discussion
\nPresenter: \;Kaue Crima
Bellini (Anthropology)
Discussant: \;tba
Dr. \;Anima Adjepong is a writer\, found er and inaugural executive director of Silent Majority\, Ghana\, and assoc iate professor of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the Universi ty of Cincinnati (U.S.A.). Their work explores themes of embodiment\, belo nging\, freedom\, and what we owe to one another.
\nThe one-day hybr id workshop\, facilitated by the scholar and writer Anima Adjepong\, invit es us into a practice of queer*ing and strategically interrupting our meth odological approaches and perspectives. Inspired by their work on erotic e thnography as “a more ethical\, mind-full and human-centered approach” \, the co-created space uses the erotic as a necessary tool to decenter no rmative ways of producing knowledge and develop collective practices for c ritical self-reflexivity in our research and activist engagements.
\nConvenors: Dr. Serena Owusua Dankwa (Institute of Social Anthropol ogy\, University of Basel) and Dr. Dag Henrichsen (BAB &\; Centre for A frican Studies\, University of Basel).
\nIn order to facilitate your expectations and our preparations\, we kindly ask for registration by mea ns of a brief response to the following two questions: What questions or a spects mentioned in the workshop outline would I like to be addressed in p articular? What further topic/project/reflection would I like to introduce into the conversation? Kindly provide up to three sentences and include i n your registration your name\, field(s) of activity\, professional or loc al affiliation(s) until Thursday 18th April 2024 to workshop-zasb@unibas.com
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240516T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3864@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T164216 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240515T161500 SUMMARY:Anima Adjepong: "Promiscuous Methods. Eros\, Ethics\, and the Ethno graphic Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nDr. Anima Adjepong is a writer\, founder and i naugural executive director of Silent Majority\, Ghana\, and associate pro fessor of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Ci ncinnati. Their work explores themes of embodiment\, belonging\, freedom\, and what we owe to one another. Anima received their PhD in Sociology fro m the University of Texas at Austin and an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nDr. \;Anima Adjepong is a writer\, founder and inaugural executive director of Silent Majority\ , Ghana\, and associate professor of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Stud ies at the University of Cincinnati. Their work explores themes of embodim ent\, belonging\, freedom\, and what we owe to one another. Anima received their PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240515T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3862@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T163516 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240508T181500 SUMMARY:Luregn Lenggenhager & Giorgio Miescher: Book Launch "The Lower !Gar ib – Orange River. Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Regio n" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nGiorgio Miescher and Luregn Lenggenhager are co -editors of a volume that examines the social history\, geography\, and ec onomy of a hardly researched border region between Namibia and South Afric a: the Lower !Garib\, or Orange River. The publication results from the Sw iss-South African Joint Research Project "Space in Time"\, jointly finance d by the South African Research Fund and the Swiss National Research Found ation\, and brings together scholars from Namibia\, South Africa\, and ove rseas. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nGiorgio Miescher and Luregn Lenggenhager a re co-editors of a volume that examines the social history\, geography\, a nd economy of a hardly researched border region between Namibia and South Africa: the Lower !Garib\, or Orange River. The publication results from t he Swiss-South African Joint Research Project "Space in Time"\, jointly fi nanced by the South African Research Fund and the Swiss National Research Foundation\, and brings together scholars from Namibia\, South Africa\, an d overseas.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4022@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153641 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240508T101500 SUMMARY:Lucile Richard: "The Freedom of Passing By (Care Work). Resistance\ , Liberation\, and Care in Mbembe's 'Ethics of the Passerby'" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lucile Richard\, currently a fellow at the Forum Basiliense \, will give her talk "The Freedom of Passing By (Care Work). Resistance\ , Liberation\, and Care in Mbembe's 'Ethics of the Passerby'"\, as part of the Colloquium of the Forum Basiliense. X-ALT-DESC:Dr. Lucile Richard\, currently a fellow at the Forum Basilien se\, will give her talk \;"The Freedom of Passing By (Care Work). Resi stance\, Liberation\, and Care in Mbembe's 'Ethics of the Passerby'"\, as part of the Colloquium of the Forum Basiliense.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240508T114500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3935@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153651 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T121500 SUMMARY:Noon-Talks 5/6: "Reverberations of Reform: How constitutional chang e impacts local peace architecture in Kenya" DESCRIPTION:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Post- docs of the Department of Social Sciences to get to know each other\, pres ent their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with s cholars of the various disciplines of the department. The goal is to foste r exchange between scholars and to get to know each other's work. Presente rs are encouraged to address methodological challenges\, theoretical issue s and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentatio n will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q&A session. All members\, faculty and students of the department are cordiall y invited to join.\\r\\nProgram: 20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes com ments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&A/discussion\\r\\nPresenter: Samantha Gamez (SwissPeace) Discussant: tba\\r\\nNo registration needed \, please follow the link below for participation. X-ALT-DESC:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Pos t-docs of the Department of Social Sciences to get to know each other\, pr esent their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with scholars of the various disciplines of the department. The goal is to fos ter exchange between scholars and to get to know each other's work. Presen ters are encouraged to address methodological challenges\, theoretical iss ues and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentat ion will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q& amp\;A session. All members\, faculty and students of the department are c ordially invited to join.
\nProgram: \;20 minut es presentation\, 10 minutes comments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&\;A/discussion
\nPresenter: \;Samantha Ga
mez (SwissPeace)
Discussant: \;tba
No r egistration needed\, please follow the link below for participation.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T131500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3890@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153707 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T120000 SUMMARY:Georg Dobler: "Who counts as a ‹local intellectual› in 20th cen tury Northern Namibian history? Conceptual considerations\, some biographi es – and the question of sources" DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Georg Dobler (Freiburg) as part of the Research Semi nar "African History". The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of th e Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Georg Dobler (Freiburg) as part of the Research Se minar "African History". The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4002@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240415T101533 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Le système de migration et d’asile suisse" DESCRIPTION:Un atelier sur le système de migration et d’asile suisse ser a animé par Pr. Dr Luzia Jurt (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz) qui agira en tant que conférencière. Le co-conférencier Mamadou Oury Baldé\, M.A . (Centre d’études africaines\, Bâle)\, quant à lui\, présentera son mémoire "L’intégration des demandeurs d’asile et des réfugiés à l’Université de Bâle".\\r\\nDate et lieu : le 7 mai 2024 de 09h00 à 1 3h00\, à la Bibliothèque Américaine de l’Université Général Lansan a Conté de Sonfonia (UGLC)\, Sonfonia\, Ratoma\, Conakry.\\r\\nInscriptio n gratuite via le QR code du poster ci-dessous ou par e-mail à mamadou.o. balde@gmx.ch [mailto:mamadou.o.balde@gmx.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Un atelier sur le système de migration et d’asile suisse s era animé par Pr. Dr Luzia Jurt (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz) qui agir a en tant que conférencière. Le co-conférencier Mamadou Oury Baldé\, M .A. (Centre d’études africaines\, Bâle)\, quant à lui\, présentera s on mémoire "L’intégration des demandeurs d’asile et des réfugiés à l’Université de Bâle".
\nDate et lieu : le 7 mai 2024 de 09h00 à 13h00\, à la Bibliothèque Américaine de l’Unive rsité Général Lansana Conté de Sonfonia (UGLC)\, Sonfonia\, Ratoma\, C onakry.
\nInscription gratuite via le QR code du po ster ci-dessous ou par e-mail à m amadou.o.balde@gmx.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240507T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3996@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240408T153720 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240506T180000 SUMMARY:Postkoloniale Theorien: Forschung\, Debatten\, Herausforderungen DESCRIPTION:In letzter Zeit werden Postkoloniale Theorien verschiedentlich und zuweilen mit grosser Vehemenz kritisiert. Hierbei erweist sich die geg enwärtige Debatte um Postkoloniale Theorien oftmals als polemisch und ebe nso geprägt von Ressentiments wie von Missverständnissen. Die Podiumsdis kussion versteht sich als Intervention gegen Vereinfachungen und sucht das differenzierte Gespräch darüber\, was Postkoloniale Theorien sind\, was sie zu leisten vermögen und wo ihre Schwächen liegen.\\r\\nAuf dem Podi um diskutieren vier Wissenschaftler:innen\, die sich alle aus unterschiedl ichen Perspektiven mit postkolonialen Theorien beschäftigen: Prof. Dr. Fa lestin Naïli (Nahoststudien\, Universität Basel)\; Prof. Dr. Erik Petry (Zentrum für Jüdische Studien\, Universität Basel)\, Dr. Henri-Michel Y éré (Soziologie/African Studies\, Universität Basel)\, PD Dr. Kijan Esp ahangizi (Historisches Seminar\, Universität Zürich). Das Podium wird vo n Christoph Keller moderiert.\\r\\nDiese Veranstaltung wird von der Fachgr uppe Geschichte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Departement Geschichte der Unive rsität Basel durchgeführt. Im Anschluss Apéro im Foyer vor der Aula. Di e Veranstaltung wird mehrheitlich auf Deutsch durchgeführt\, Teile davon auf Englisch. Für die deutschen Abschnitte wird eine englische Übersetzu ng angeboten. X-ALT-DESC:In letzter Zeit werden Postkoloniale Theorien verschiedentlic h und zuweilen mit grosser Vehemenz kritisiert. Hierbei erweist sich die g egenwärtige Debatte um Postkoloniale Theorien oftmals als polemisch und e benso geprägt von Ressentiments wie von Missverständnissen. Die Podiumsd iskussion versteht sich als Intervention gegen Vereinfachungen und sucht d as differenzierte Gespräch darüber\, was Postkoloniale Theorien sind\, w as sie zu leisten vermögen und wo ihre Schwächen liegen.
\nAuf dem Podium diskutieren vier Wissenschaftler:innen\, die sich alle aus untersc hiedlichen Perspektiven mit postkolonialen Theorien beschäftigen: Prof. D r. Falestin Naïli (Nahoststudien\, Universität Basel)\; Prof. Dr. Erik P etry (Zentrum für Jüdische Studien\, Universität Basel)\, Dr. Henri-Mic hel Yéré (Soziologie/African Studies\, Universität Basel)\, PD Dr. Kija n Espahangizi (Historisches Seminar\, Universität Zürich). Das Podium wi rd von Christoph Keller moderiert.
\nDiese Veranstaltung wird von de
r Fachgruppe Geschichte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Departement Geschichte d
er Universität Basel durchgeführt. Im Anschluss Apéro im Foyer vor der
Aula.
Die Veranstaltung wird mehrheitlich auf Deutsch durchgeführt\
, Teile davon auf Englisch. Für die deutschen Abschnitte wird eine englis
che Übersetzung angeboten.
Hein Willemse is Professor Emeritus\, Department of Afrikaans \, University of Pretoria (South Africa). He has published widely on South African literature\, particularly Black Afrikaans writing and Afrikaans o ral traditions in southern Africa.
\nDiscussant: Jasper Walgrave (Ho chschule der Künste\, Bern). He recently completed his PhD dissertation " A Culture of Discreet Complicity. Swiss men mediating culture to and from South Africa 1948-1994" (University of Fribourg\, 2024)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240502T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3973@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240422T110127 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240429T140000 SUMMARY:EUCOR cross-border workshop: "Citizenship in times of change. East- African perspectives" DESCRIPTION:The Africa Centre for Transregional Research\, the Arnold Bergs traesser Institute (University Freiburg)\, the Basel Institute on Governan ce and the Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to d eepen the exchange on issues of citizenship with a focus on East Africa.\\ r\\nCitizenship is not a stable condition\, but subject to change. It is n ot a given\, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in phases of public disengagement\, motivated by disenchantment with a government or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the temporal d imensions of fluctuating citizenship\, affected by crisis\, violent confli ct and re-foundations of polities\, which offer opportunities for mobiliza tion (or resistance)\, but also potentially new constraints on civil right s.\\r\\nRegistration [https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/worksh op-citizenship-east-african-perspectives] is open until 12 April 2024.\\r\ \nPart I (Basel\, Monday\, 22 April 2024)\\r\\nChair: Saba Kassa\, Basel I nstitute on Governance\\r\\n 09:30-10:30 Citizenshi p beyond the nation-state? Exploring the prospects of the envisioned East African Political Federation (keynote lecture) Alexander Makul ilo (University of Dar es Salaam) 10:30-11.00 Kenyan Citizenship Regime in the Light of Public Participation Gloria Kenyatta (Freiburg University) 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:00 The African Union Border Program and Citizenship/Belonging Politics on the Ma lawi-Mozambique Borderland Anusa Daimon (University of Malawi) 12:00-12.30 Rethinking Citizenship and Belongi ng in Switzerland Presentation Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (Universi ty of Basel) 12:30-12:40 Discussant Michael Aeby (University of Basel) 12:40-13:00 Group discussion \\r\\n\\r\\nPart II (Freiburg\, Monday\, 29 April 2024)\\r\\nChair: Franzisca Zanker\, Arnold Bergstraesse r Institute\\r\\n 14.00-14:30 Competing Ideologies in the Construction of Post-Conflict Ethiopia. A Focus on Contested Citize nship Catherine N’gang’a (University of Freiburg) 14:30-15:00 Awkward citizenship in Central Switzerland Matthias Claudio Maurer Rueda (University of Basel) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 15:30-16:00 Citizenship Rights in the Context of Violent Extrem ism in Northern Mozambique Rufino Sitoe (University of Basel) 16:00 - 16.40 Discussant Andreas Me hler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute) 16:40-17:15 Group discussion 17:15-17:30 Reflective conclusion Elisio Macamo (University of Basel) \\r\\n\\r\\n19.00: Evening lecture by Dr. Serawit B. Debele Univers ity of Bayreuth): “Genealogies of African Studies in Germany: An interse ctional critique” [https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/alma-le cture-genealogies-african-studies-germany] University of Freiburg\, Room: KG I\, Hörsaal 1098 X-ALT-DESC:The Africa Centre for Transregional Research\, the Arnold Ber gstraesser Institute (University Freiburg)\, the Basel Institute on Govern ance and the Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to deepen the exchange on issues of citizenship with a focus on East Africa.
\nCitizenship is not a stable condition\, but subject to change. It is not a given\, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in ph ases of public disengagement\, motivated by disenchantment with a governme nt or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the tempo ral dimensions of fluctuating citizenship\, affected by crisis\, violent c onflict and re-foundations of polities\, which offer opportunities for mob ilization (or resistance)\, but also potentially new constraints on civil rights.
\nRegistration is open until 12 April 2024.
\nChair: Saba Kassa\, Basel I nstitute on Governance
\n09:30-10:30 | Citizenship beyond the nation-state? Explor ing the prospects of the envisioned East African Political Federation (key note lecture) |
|
10 :30-11.00 |
| Gloria Kenyatta (Freiburg University) |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | \; |
11:30-12:00 | The African Union Border Program and Citizenship/Belonging Politics on the Malawi-Mozambique Borderland | A nusa Daimon (University of Malawi) |
12:00-12.30 | Rethinking Citizensh ip and Belonging in Switzerland Presentation | Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (Univ ersity of Basel) |
12:30-12:40 | <
td>Michael Aeby (University of Basel) | |
1 2:40-13:00 | \ ; |
Chair: Franzisca Zanker\, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
\nCompeting Ideologies in the Constru ction of Post-Conflict Ethiopia. A Focus on Contested Citizenship < /span> | Cather ine N’gang’a (University of Freiburg) | |
14:30-15:00 | Awkward citiz enship in Central Switzerland | Matthias Claudio Maurer Rueda (University o f Basel) |
| < p>Coffee Break | \; |
15:30-16:00 | Citizenship Rights in the Context of Violent Extremism in Nor thern Mozambique | Rufino Sitoe (University of Basel)< /p> |
16:00 - 16.40< /span> | Discussa nt | Andr eas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute) |
16:40-17:15 | Group discussion | \; |
17:15-17:30 | Reflective conclusion | \;Elisio Ma camo (University of Basel) |
19.00: Evening lecture by Dr. Serawit B. Debele University of Bayreuth): “Genealogies o f African Studies in Germany: An intersectional critique” University of Freiburg\, Room: KG I\, Hörsaal 1098
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240429T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3863@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240208T151109 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240424T181500 SUMMARY:Randy Mwatondange: "Unsettling Scene: An Analysis of Photographs Ta ken in a German Prisoner Camp in Grootfontein (Namibia)" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nRandy Mwatondange has recently successfully com pleted her Master's degree in African Studies at the University of Basel a nd will be presenting her thesis. She has worked as a documentalist at the Museums Association of Namibia and done archival work as well as researc h at the Museum der Kulturen Basel. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nRandy Mwatondange has recently successfull y completed her Master's degree in African Studies at the University of Ba sel and will be presenting her thesis. She has worked as a documentalist a t the \;Museums Association of Namibia and done archival work as well as research at the Museum der Kulturen Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3899@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T154134 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240424T161500 SUMMARY:Book Roundtable: "Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizen ship in Kenya" DESCRIPTION:Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countri es of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the “homosexua l threat” they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible\, leaders\, media\, and civil society groups hav e deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya\, for exam ple\, bead necklaces\, plastics\, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially “virile” con struction of national masculinity. This roundtable will discuss George Pau l Meiu's new book Queer Objects to the Rescue\, a book which explores obje cts that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led an d popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate li fe. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target o f outrage\, violence\, and exclusion\, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand a nd critique homophobia\, Meiu suggests\, we must take these objects seriou sly and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship\, intimacy\, resistance\, and belonging.\\r\\nGeorge Paul Meiu (University of Basel) in conversation with Anne Lavanchy (Haute École de Travail Soci al Genève) and Serena Dankwa (University of Basel). X-ALT-DESC:Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their count ries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the “homosex ual threat” they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible\, leaders\, media\, and civil society groups h ave deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya\, for ex ample\, bead necklaces\, plastics\, and even diapers have come to represen t the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially “virile” c onstruction of national masculinity. This roundtable will discuss George P aul Meiu's new book Queer Objects to the Rescue\, a book which ex plores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both s tate-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate life. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has be en crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of outrage\, violence\, and exclusion\, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively u nderstand and critique homophobia\, Meiu suggests\, we must take these obj ects seriously and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of ci tizenship\, intimacy\, resistance\, and belonging.
\nGeorge Paul Mei u (University of Basel) in conversation with Anne Lavanchy (Haute École d e Travail Social Genève) and Serena Dankwa (University of Basel).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240424T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3972@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240422T110150 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240422T093000 SUMMARY:EUCOR cross-border workshop: "Citizenship in times of change. East- African perspectives" DESCRIPTION:The Africa Centre for Transregional Research\, the Arnold Bergs traesser Institute (University Freiburg)\, the Basel Institute on Governan ce and the Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to d eepen the exchange on issues of citizenship with a focus on East Africa.\\ r\\nCitizenship is not a stable condition\, but subject to change. It is n ot a given\, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in phases of public disengagement\, motivated by disenchantment with a government or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the temporal d imensions of fluctuating citizenship\, affected by crisis\, violent confli ct and re-foundations of polities\, which offer opportunities for mobiliza tion (or resistance)\, but also potentially new constraints on civil right s.\\r\\nRegistration [https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/worksh op-citizenship-east-african-perspectives] is open until 12 April 2024.\\r\ \nPart I (Basel\, Monday\, 22 April 2024)\\r\\nChair: Saba Kassa\, Basel I nstitute on Governance\\r\\n 09:30-10:30 Citizenshi p beyond the nation-state? Exploring the prospects of the envisioned East African Political Federation (keynote lecture) Alexander Makul ilo (University of Dar es Salaam) 10:30-11.00 Kenyan Citizenship Regime in the Light of Public Participation Gloria Kenyatta (Freiburg University) 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:00 The African Union Border Program and Citizenship/Belonging Politics on the Ma lawi-Mozambique Borderland Anusa Daimon (University of Malawi) 12:00-12.30 Rethinking Citizenship and Belongi ng in Switzerland Presentation Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (Universi ty of Basel) 12:30-12:40 Discussant Michael Aeby (University of Basel) 12:40-13:00 Group discussion \\r\\n\\r\\nPart II (Freiburg\, Monday\, 29 April 2024)\\r\\nChair: Franzisca Zanker\, Arnold Bergstraesse r Institute\\r\\n 14.00-14:30 Competing Ideologies in the Construction of Post-Conflict Ethiopia. A Focus on Contested Citize nship Catherine N’gang’a (University of Freiburg) 14:30-15:00 Awkward citizenship in Central Switzerland Matthias Claudio Maurer Rueda (University of Basel) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 15:30-16:00 Citizenship Rights in the Context of Violent Extrem ism in Northern Mozambique Rufino Sitoe (University of Basel) 16:00 - 16.40 Discussant Andreas Me hler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute) 16:40-17:15 Group discussion 17:15-17:30 Reflective conclusion Elisio Macamo (University of Basel) \\r\\n\\r\\n19.00: Evening lecture by Dr. Serawit B. Debele Univers ity of Bayreuth): “Genealogies of African Studies in Germany: An interse ctional critique” [https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/alma-le cture-genealogies-african-studies-germany] University of Freiburg\, Room: KG I\, Hörsaal 1098 X-ALT-DESC:The Africa Centre for Transregional Research\, the Arnold Ber gstraesser Institute (University Freiburg)\, the Basel Institute on Govern ance and the Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to deepen the exchange on issues of citizenship with a focus on East Africa.
\nCitizenship is not a stable condition\, but subject to change. It is not a given\, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in ph ases of public disengagement\, motivated by disenchantment with a governme nt or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the tempo ral dimensions of fluctuating citizenship\, affected by crisis\, violent c onflict and re-foundations of polities\, which offer opportunities for mob ilization (or resistance)\, but also potentially new constraints on civil rights.
\nRegistration is open until 12 April 2024.
\nChair: Saba Kassa\, Basel I nstitute on Governance
\n09:30-10:30 | Citizenship beyond the nation-state? Explor ing the prospects of the envisioned East African Political Federation (key note lecture) |
|
10 :30-11.00 |
| Gloria Kenyatta (Freiburg University) |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | \; |
11:30-12:00 | The African Union Border Program and Citizenship/Belonging Politics on the Malawi-Mozambique Borderland | A nusa Daimon (University of Malawi) |
12:00-12.30 | Rethinking Citizensh ip and Belonging in Switzerland Presentation | Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (Univ ersity of Basel) |
12:30-12:40 | <
td>Michael Aeby (University of Basel) | |
1 2:40-13:00 | \ ; |
Chair: Franzisca Zanker\, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
\nCompeting Ideologies in the Constru ction of Post-Conflict Ethiopia. A Focus on Contested Citizenship < /span> | Cather ine N’gang’a (University of Freiburg) | |
14:30-15:00 | Awkward citiz enship in Central Switzerland | Matthias Claudio Maurer Rueda (University o f Basel) |
| < p>Coffee Break | \; |
15:30-16:00 | Citizenship Rights in the Context of Violent Extremism in Nor thern Mozambique | Rufino Sitoe (University of Basel)< /p> |
16:00 - 16.40< /span> | Discussa nt | Andr eas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute) |
16:40-17:15 | Group discussion | \; |
17:15-17:30 | Reflective conclusion | \;Elisio Ma camo (University of Basel) |
19.00: Evening lecture by Dr. Serawit B. Debele University of Bayreuth): “Genealogies o f African Studies in Germany: An intersectional critique” University of Freiburg\, Room: KG I\, Hörsaal 1098
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240422T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3861@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240208T142949 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240417T181500 SUMMARY:Erik Petry: "Genocide\, Trauma and Memory. Discussions in Israeli S ociety and Jewish communities" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nProf. Dr. phil. Erik Petry acts as Research Ass ociate and Deputy Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Univers ity of Basel. He is a lecturer for "Geschichte und Kultur der Juden im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert". His main research interests include the history of Jews in Germany and Switzerland in modern times\, Zionism\, the history of anti-Semitism\, the history of West Asia as well as oral history. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nProf. Dr. phil. Erik Petry acts as Researc h Associate and Deputy Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Un iversity of Basel. He is a lecturer for "Geschichte und Kultur der Juden i m 19. und 20. Jahrhundert". His main research interests include the histor y of Jews in Germany and Switzerland in modern times\, Zionism\, the histo ry of anti-Semitism\, the history of West Asia as well as oral history.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3898@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153739 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240417T161500 SUMMARY:Alec Bǎlǎşescu: "Data\, Facts\, Materiality" (Royal Roads Univer sity) DESCRIPTION:Data is the oil of Artificial Intelligence\, and the unquestion ed belief that data perfectly reflects reality is the basis of the mostly indiscriminate adoption of AI. But when exactly in history numbers came to mean “truth”? How data\, facts and reality have been brought together under the roof of natural laws\, with the simple assertion “this is how nature works”? And what are the effects of this belief? Up to now\, the history and the core of this belief have rarely been questioned\, despite numerous calls to both address bias in algorithm design.\\r\\nThe ethical dilemmas surrounding AI have seldom been connected with this unshakeable belief that numbers are perfect mirrors of reality\, and\, by implication\ , of natural phenomena. This same belief is also at the core of Silicon Va lley culture and lifestyle\, making it desirable for the rest of the world . It perpetuates itself inside AI labs\, and outside in the gyms\, coffee shops\, health stores\, and hang-outs that reflects to the letter the conc ept of manageable bodies performing in a managed “natural” environment . \\r\\nThis presentation aims to re-assess the relationship between numb ers\, materiality\, data and facts from an anthropological perspective\, b y looking at both the history of the relationship between numbers and the reality they depict\, and by relating to the methods of “making sense” of data as cultural processes. X-ALT-DESC:Data is the oil of Artificial Intelligence\, and the unquesti oned belief that data perfectly reflects reality is the basis of the mostl y indiscriminate adoption of AI. But when exactly in history numbers came to mean “truth”? How data\, facts and reality have been brought togeth er under the roof of natural laws\, with the simple assertion “this is h ow nature works”? And what are the effects of this belief? Up to now\, t he history and the core of this belief have rarely been questioned\, despi te numerous calls to both address bias in algorithm design.
\nThe et hical dilemmas surrounding AI have seldom been connected with this unshake able belief that numbers are perfect mirrors of reality\, and\, by implica tion\, of natural phenomena. This same belief is also at the core of Silic on Valley culture and lifestyle\, making it desirable for the rest of the world. It perpetuates itself inside AI labs\, and outside in the gyms\, co ffee shops\, health stores\, and hang-outs that reflects to the letter the concept of manageable bodies performing in a managed “natural” enviro nment. \;
\nThis presentation aims to re-assess the relationship between numbers\, materiality\, data and facts from an anthropological pe rspective\, by looking at both the history of the relationship between num bers and the reality they depict\, and by relating to the methods of “ma king sense” of data as cultural processes. \;
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240417T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3889@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153749 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240411T181500 SUMMARY:Thanusyiah Korn: "30 Jahre nach dem Völkermord an Tutsi - Die Roll e der Schweiz in Ruanda" DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Thanusyiah Korn (Basel) as part of the Research Semi nar "African History". X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Thanusyiah Korn (Basel) as part of the Research Se minar "African History".
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240411T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3963@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240320T113615 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240411T180000 SUMMARY:Launch: Povanhu History and Heritage Tours DESCRIPTION:Das Povanhu-Team lädt ein\, die Gründung von „Povanhu - His tory & Heritage Tours“ zu feiern und stellt die nächste Reise entlang d er ehemaligen Routen der Wanderarbeiter vor.\\r\\n„Povanhu - History & H eritage Tours“ ist ein junges Unternehmen\, das sich aus dem Zentrum fü r Afrikastudien der Universität Basel entwickelt hat. Die Gründungsmitgl ieder aus Namibia und der Schweiz haben in vielen universitären Projekten zusammengearbeitet und wollen dem Tourismus in Namibia neue Impulse geben . X-ALT-DESC:Das Povanhu-Team lädt ein\, die Gründung von „Povanhu - H istory &\; Heritage Tours“ zu feiern und stellt die nächste Reise en tlang der ehemaligen Routen der Wanderarbeiter vor.
\n„Povanhu - H istory &\; Heritage Tours“ ist ein junges Unternehmen\, das sich aus dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien der Universität Basel entwickelt hat. Die Gründungsmitglieder aus Namibia und der Schweiz haben in vielen universit ären Projekten zusammengearbeitet und wollen dem Tourismus in Namibia neu e Impulse geben.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3860@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T154918 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240410T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Reflecti ve Session DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3897@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250327T090339 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240402T161500 SUMMARY:FG Ethnologie: "Behind the Scenes: Work in Progress: Overcoming Cha llenges with Writing" DESCRIPTION:Further information will follow soon. X-ALT-DESC:Further information will follow soon.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240402T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3956@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240318T104620 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240328T180000 SUMMARY:Student network: "Health in Africa" DESCRIPTION:The goal is to establish a student network to exchange experien ces (e.g. in terms of fieldwork\, publications\, methodology\, etc.)\, cre ate a system of mutual support as well as to promote interdisciplinary col laboration (projects\, workshops\, conferences\, etc.) to learn from one a nother and work together on issues of health in Africa.\\r\\nThe second me eting will take place on Thursday 28 March at 6pm in the Markthalle (meeti ng point at the tables near the main entrance).\\r\\nFor further questions and information\, please contact Regina (regina.molomo@swisstph.ch [mailt o:regina.molomo@swisstph.ch]) or Andrea (andrea.graf@unibas.ch [mailto:and rea.graf@unibas.ch]). X-ALT-DESC:The goal is to establish a student network to exchange experi ences (e.g. in terms of fieldwork\, publications\, methodology\, etc.)\, c reate a system of mutual support as well as to promote interdisciplinary c ollaboration (projects\, workshops\, conferences\, etc.) to learn from one another and work together on issues of health in Africa.
\nThe seco nd meeting will take place on Thursday 28 March at 6pm in the Markthalle ( meeting point at the tables near the main entrance).
\nFor further q uestions and information\, please contact Regina (regina.molomo@swisstph.ch) or Andrea (andrea.graf@unibas.ch).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3859@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T154126 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240327T181500 SUMMARY:Naomi Beukes-Meyer: "Scarlet Ribbon" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nFilmscreening and Q&A of the movie "Scarlet Rib bon" by the Namibian author\, actress and filmmaker Naomi Beukes-Meyer. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nFilmscreening and Q&\;A of the movie "S carlet Ribbon" by the Namibian author\, actress and filmmaker Naomi Beukes -Meyer.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3896@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T154108 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240327T161500 SUMMARY:Michaela Schäuble: "Are Spiders Good to Think With?" (University o f Bern) DESCRIPTION:In media anthropology as well as in artistic research\, tentacu larity is often conceptualised in terms of entanglements and layerings\, a nd the tentacular is imagined as spreading through nets and networks.\\r\\ nIn this presentation\, Michaela Schäuble is taking Haraway’s propositi on of “tentacular thinking” (Haraway 2016) quite literal\, by drawing on long-term multimodal ethnographic research on Apulian tarantism\, a spi der possession cult that is endemic to Southern Italy and intrinsically li nked to Saint Paul\, the patron saint of those bitten by venomous animals. Schäuble argues that several more-than-human agents – venomous critter s\, Catholic saints and eventually landscape itself – continue to shape social relations that are grounded in a principle of shared corporeality o pen to suffering.\\r\\nThe presenter will screen passages from her ethnogr aphic documentary film “Tarantism Revisited” (together with Anja Dresc hke) to discuss principles of essayistic montage\, layering and leveraging the (multimodal) archive in relation to “tentacular thinking.” X-ALT-DESC:In media anthropology as well as in artistic research\, tenta cularity is often conceptualised in terms of entanglements and layerings\, and the tentacular is imagined as spreading through nets and networks.
\nIn this presentation\, Michaela Schäuble is taking Haraway’s prop osition of “tentacular thinking” (Haraway 2016) quite literal\, by dra wing on long-term multimodal ethnographic research on Apulian tarantism\, a spider possession cult that is endemic to Southern Italy and intrinsical ly linked to Saint Paul\, the patron saint of those bitten by venomous ani mals. Schäuble argues that several more-than-human agents – venomous cr itters\, Catholic saints and eventually landscape itself – continue to s hape social relations that are grounded in a principle of shared corporeal ity open to suffering.
\nThe presenter will screen passages from her ethnographic documentary film “Tarantism Revisited” (together with An ja Dreschke) to discuss principles of essayistic montage\, layering and le veraging the (multimodal) archive in relation to “tentacular thinking. ”
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240327T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3858@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T155143 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240320T181500 SUMMARY:Liam Kingsley: "Aid and Externality: Medical Governance in SWAPO Ex ile Camps\, 1974–1989" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nLiam James Kingsley is a Ph.D. student in Afric an History and a Ph.D. minor in African Studies at Indiana University Bloo mington. His research interests include postcolonialism\, state formation\ , queerness\, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa.\\r\\nTime: NAM : 19:15\, CH: 18:15. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nLiam James Kingsley is a Ph.D. student in African History and a Ph.D. minor in African Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include postcolonialism\, state forma tion\, queerness\, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa.
\n< strong>Time: NAM: 19:15\, CH: 18:15.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3894@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240320T161500 SUMMARY:Book Roundtable: "Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice" DESCRIPTION:The roundtable engages in a lively discussion about a diverse c ompilation of essays that address the various ways in which mobility trans forms the characteristics of artefacts\, particularly in relation to issue s of representation and colonial responsibilities. The volume Material Cul ture in Transit Theory and Practice (2023)\, edited by Zainabu Jallo\, hig hlights the significance of material culture in comprehending the far-reac hing impacts of troublesome histories and presents innovative approaches t o tackle them.\\r\\nZainabu Jallo (University of Basel) in conversation wi th Paul Basu (Oxford University) and George Paul Meiu (University of Basel ). X-ALT-DESC:The roundtable engages in a lively discussion about a diverse compilation of essays that address the various ways in which mobility tra nsforms the characteristics of artefacts\, particularly in relation to iss ues of representation and colonial responsibilities. The volume Materi al Culture in Transit Theory and Practice (2023)\, edited by Zainabu Jallo\, highlights the significance of material culture in comprehending t he far-reaching impacts of troublesome histories and presents innovative a pproaches to tackle them.
\nZainabu Jallo (University of Basel) in c onversation with Paul Basu (Oxford University) and George Paul Meiu (Unive rsity of Basel).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240320T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3857@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T155123 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240313T181500 SUMMARY:Patricia Noormahomed: "(Re)defining the Modern Built Heritage of Mo zambique" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nTime: NAM: 19:15\, CH: 18:15. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nTime: NAM: 19:15\, CH: 18 :15.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3895@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240521T153842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240313T161500 SUMMARY:Sandra Calkins: "On Parts and Wholes: Plant Agency in Ugandan Genom ic Research" (University of Twente) DESCRIPTION:Uganda is likely the country with the highest per capita consum ption of bananas in the world. It has also become a global center of incre asingly high-tech banana research. Many Ugandans take pride in their relat ionship to bananas\, plants that there are the epitome of fertility and gr owth. There is a rich tradition of thinking and living in relation to bana na plants in Uganda. Many iconic accounts and representations however focu s on whole plants and their fruit. Building on recent fieldwork in Uganda and Australia with a project developing genetically modified bananas\, thi s lecture discusses how plant agency becomes visible during lab work\, whe n Ugandan biologists are dealing with partitioned plants\, that is\, molec ular plant extracts. I draw attention to mundane lab routines and how biol ogists make sense of the vegetal at the molecular level. Biologists think of reproductive and other largely inscrutable vegetal capacities in genomi c research as being collective and distributed across a variety. Thinking alongside the propositions of these biologists\, the lecture explores if a nd how conceiving ofvegetal agency in such non-individuated ways allows en visioning forms of participation in collective life that decenter North At lantic emphases on heterosexual reproduction\, autonomy/individuality and all too rigid distinctions between life and death. X-ALT-DESC:Uganda is likely the country with the highest per capita cons umption of bananas in the world. It has also become a global center of inc reasingly high-tech banana research. Many Ugandans take pride in their rel ationship to bananas\, plants that there are the epitome of fertility and growth. There is a rich tradition of thinking and living in relation to ba nana plants in Uganda. Many iconic accounts and representations however fo cus on whole plants and their fruit. Building on recent fieldwork in Ugand a and Australia with a project developing genetically modified bananas\, t his lecture discusses how plant agency becomes visible during lab work\, w hen Ugandan biologists are dealing with partitioned plants\, that is\, mol ecular plant extracts. I draw attention to mundane lab routines and how bi ologists make sense of the vegetal at the molecular level. Biologists thin k of reproductive and other largely inscrutable vegetal capacities in geno mic research as being collective and distributed across a variety. Thinkin g alongside the propositions of these biologists\, the lecture explores if and how conceiving ofvegetal agency in such non-individuated ways allows envisioning forms of participation in collective life that decenter North Atlantic emphases on heterosexual reproduction\, autonomy/individuality an d all too rigid distinctions between life and death.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240313T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3856@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T155108 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240306T181500 SUMMARY:Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Introduc tion DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome.\\r\\nTime: NAM: 19:15\, CH: 18:15. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
\nTime: NAM: 19:15\, CH: 18 :15.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3827@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240212T114218 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240226T121500 SUMMARY:Semester Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEve rybody interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\n< p>Everybody interested in African Studies is welcome! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240226T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3814@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231206T152357 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231214T170000 SUMMARY:Vernissage: "Barbed(wire): tool of oppression tool of protection" DESCRIPTION:The photo and poster exhibition "Barbed(wire): tool of oppressi on tool of protection" is the result of the seminar "Desire Lines - Lines of Control" offered in the autumn semester 2023. Students produced visual summaries of their semester-long engagement with the political and cultura l history of fencing and its particular manifestations in the former settl er colonies in South Africa and Namibia. The posters on display are conden sed visual reflections on an ongoing painful history of preventing and con trolling the movement of people and animals that began with the invention of barbed wire in the late 19th century and its rapid spread across the su bcontinent soon after.\\r\\nPart of the seminar "Desire Lines - Lines of C ontrol: A political and cultural history of fencing" (69460-01). X-ALT-DESC:The photo and poster exhibition "Barbed(wire): tool of oppres sion tool of protection" is the result of the seminar "Desire Lines - Line s of Control" offered in the autumn semester 2023. Students produced visua l summaries of their semester-long engagement with the political and cultu ral history of fencing and its particular manifestations in the former set tler colonies in South Africa and Namibia. The posters on display are cond ensed visual reflections on an ongoing painful history of preventing and c ontrolling the movement of people and animals that began with the inventio n of barbed wire in the late 19th century and its rapid spread across the subcontinent soon after.
\nPart of the seminar "Desire Lines - Lines of Control: A political and cultural history of fencing" (69460-01).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3654@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T165320 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231213T161500 SUMMARY:"Living Together\, Apart: Transnational Attachments\, Intimacies\, and Kinship" (field course) DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231213T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3824@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231211T122925 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231212T160000 SUMMARY:Public Talk: "Outward Ethnographies" DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lara Krause and Irene Brunotti\, University of Leipzi g\\r\\nConvenor: Elísio Macamo\, Sociology and African Studies X-ALT-DESC:Speakers: Lara Krause and Irene Brunotti\, U niversity of Leipzig
\nConvenor: Elísio Macamo\, S ociology and African Studies
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231212T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3810@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231211T161500 SUMMARY:Till Förster: "Nafoun – there is no fire" DESCRIPTION:Till Förster\, Professor Emeritus\, former Chair of Anthropolo gy at the University of Basel\, will present a book project on politics in the West African savannah. The online presentation is followed by a discu ssion with the audience.\\r\\nBook abstract \\r\\nWhat can social theory l earn from politics in a small town in the West African savannah? Many beli eve there is not much of interest in such remote places – except that Western interventions and development aid may terribly fail\, and that it would be better to leave such backward places to their own resources. This book argues otherwise. It is about learning from a remote place\, a small town and a coalition of villages that are scattered over the grasslands o f the West African savannah. Western understandings of politics do not wor k in this area where the state is but a shallow shadow of what it claims t o be. Nevertheless\, since the wars of Samory Touré at the end of the 19t h century\, the town and its environment has been a non-violent social spa ce where conflicts of interest and disputes were settled by other means – as Nafoun\, the name of the town already showed: “There is no fire ”. How that was done is the subject of the book. It first asks general q uestions about politics and how Western definitions of politics can give w ay to other understandings and concepts that can\, on the one side\, impro ve the analysis of other forms of political practice\, and on the other si de\, serve as a conceptual basis for general comparisons. X-ALT-DESC:Till Förster\, Professor Emeritus\, former Chair of Anthropo logy at the University of Basel\, will present a book project on politics in the West African savannah. The online presentation is followed by a dis cussion with the audience.
\nWhat can social the ory learn from politics in a small town in the West African savannah? Many believe there is not much of interest in such remote places \;– exc ept that Western interventions and development aid may terribly fail\, and that it would be better to leave such backward places to their own resour ces. This book argues otherwise. It is about learning from a remote place\ , a small town and a coalition of villages that are scattered over the gra sslands of the West African savannah. Western understandings of politics d o not work in this area where the state is but a shallow shadow of what it claims to be. Nevertheless\, since the wars of Samory Touré at the end o f the 19th century\, the town and its environment has been a no n-violent social space where conflicts of interest and disputes were settl ed by other means – as Nafoun\, the name of the town already showed: “ There is no fire”. How that was done is the subject of the book. It firs t asks general questions about politics and how Western definitions of pol itics can give way to other understandings and concepts that can\, on the one side\, improve the analysis of other forms of political practice\, and on the other side\, serve as a conceptual basis for general comparisons.< /em>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231211T174500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3594@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231206T171500 SUMMARY:Julia Rensing (University of Basel): “Troubling Archives” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/ veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] and martha.akawa@unam.na [https ://zasb.unibas.ch/de/veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: e llen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3653@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T164851 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231206T161500 SUMMARY:Alexander Brust: "Ambivalent Perceptions: Human Relations\, Cultura l Subjects and the Interpretation of Colonial Legacies between Colombia\, Brazil and Switzerland" DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231206T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3645@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T155340 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231204T121500 SUMMARY:Andrina Sommer: "Frauenbilder in der kolonial-französischen Alkoho lwerbung aus dem Maghreb (circa 1920–1950)" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231204T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3805@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T181030 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201 SUMMARY:The (In)Audible Past DESCRIPTION:The research group will discuss the results of two worskhops he ld in Namibia and South Africa. A "Listening Session" provides a platform to jointly listen to and discuss various research materials. For further d etail and a zoom link please see the program in the download section.\\r\\ nGuests are welcome - please register by email to emanuel.welinder@unibas. ch. [mailto:emanuel.welinder@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The research group will discuss the results of two worskhops held in Namibia and South Africa. A "Listening Session" provides a platfor m to jointly listen to and discuss various research materials. For further detail and a zoom link please see the program in the download section.
\nGuests are welcome - please register by email to emanuel.welinder@unibas.ch.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3695@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T132936 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231130T140000 SUMMARY:Nathan Andrews: "Decolonising African Studies Pedagogies" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231130T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3593@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231129T171500 SUMMARY:Susanne Kuss (University of Freiburg i. B.) Martha Akawa (UNAM) Mem ory Biwa (historian and artist Berlin) & colleagues: “German and Namibi an sources on colonialism and genocide” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/ veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] and martha.akawa@unam.na [https ://zasb.unibas.ch/de/veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: e llen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3652@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T164617 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231129T161500 SUMMARY:Apostolos Andrikopoulos: "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Mi gration\, Identity Documents and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231129T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3658@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230919T104703 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231128T161500 SUMMARY:South Designs for Planetary Futures: "Rural Futurisms x Gemane Barn es" DESCRIPTION:What is the future of the rural when sustainability agendas in the Global South are predominantly focused on cities and urbanization? The “Rural Futurisms” project team will showcase their work with a villag e community on the rural border of South Africa and Botswana. Working with clay and mycelium\, their project fosters the intergenerational transmiss ion of crafts and community design. In conversation with award-winning des igner Germane Barnes\, whose practice examines architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation\, the y will articulate an approach to ecological design and planetary futures r ooted in rural materiality.\\r\\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture se ries "South Designs: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discuss ions reflecting on how design\, thought and practiced from the South\, for ges planetary futures. X-ALT-DESC:What is the future of the rural when sustainability agendas i n the Global South are predominantly focused on cities and urbanization? T he “Rural Futurisms” project team will showcase their work with a vill age community on the rural border of South Africa and Botswana. Working wi th clay and mycelium\, their project fosters the intergenerational transmi ssion of crafts and community design. In conversation with award-winning d esigner Germane Barnes\, whose practice examines architecture’s social a nd political agency through historical research and design speculation\, t hey will articulate an approach to ecological design and planetary futures rooted in rural materiality.
\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lectu re series "South Designs: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of di scussions reflecting on how design\, thought and practiced from the South\ , forges planetary futures.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3772@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231110T143626 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231124T180000 SUMMARY:Kelly Chibale: "Fostering Drug Discovery in Africa" DESCRIPTION:The longstanding gaps in drug discovery infrastructure\, enabli ng technology platforms and a critical mass of talent in Africa have not o nly hampered African-led health innovation but also have inadvertently fac ilitated the brain-drain out of Africa. The need to address the gaps prese nts an opportunity to create sustainable capacity strengthening and skills development models that result in the creation of an absorptive capacity to attract\, develop\, and retain skills on the African continent while al so contributing to a global pipeline of drug candidates. This lecture will describe the University of Cape Town Holistic Drug Discovery and Developm ent (H3D) Centre\, as well as its pioneering initiatives to expand the dru g discovery ecosystem and community in Africa.\\r\\nSpeaker: Professor Kel ly Chibale\, Department of Chemistry\, Faculty of Science\, University of Cape Town Co-host: Professor Jürg Utzinger\, Director\, Swiss Tropical a nd Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) X-ALT-DESC:The longstanding gaps in drug discovery infrastructure\, enab ling technology platforms and a critical mass of talent in Africa have not only hampered African-led health innovation but also have inadvertently f acilitated the brain-drain out of Africa. The need to address the gaps pre sents an opportunity to create sustainable capacity strengthening and skil ls development models that result in the creation of an absorptive capacit y to attract\, develop\, and retain skills on the African continent while also contributing to a global pipeline of drug candidates. This lecture wi ll describe the University of Cape Town Holistic Drug Discovery and Develo pment (H3D) Centre\, as well as its pioneering initiatives to expand the d rug discovery ecosystem and community in Africa.
\nSpeaker: Professo
r Kelly Chibale\, Department of Chemistry\, Faculty of Science\, Universit
y of Cape Town
Co-host: Professor Jürg Utzinger\, Director\,
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)
The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231123T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3644@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231120T142623 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T181500 SUMMARY:Gérard Chouin: "Medieval Ife and the World it made: An Archaeology of the Source in South-Western Nigeria\, 1000-1400 CE" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3674@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230926T144828 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T181500 SUMMARY:Webinar: "Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung\, Kolonialstaat und christliche M ission" DESCRIPTION:Während die Leitung der Basler Mission Sklaverei strikt ablehn te\, forderten einige ihrer Missionare\, die Sklaverei in afrikanischen L ändern anders zu bewerten als den transatlantischen Sklavenhandel. Welche Rolle spielten christliche Missionsgesellschaften in der internationalen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung? Kam es dabei zu Konflikten mit den Kolonialbehör den? Und wie positionierten sich einheimische Sklavereigegner in Ghana zur Abschaffung der Sklaverei durch die britische Kolonialverwaltung?\\r\\nMi t Dr. Michael Odijie\, University College London\\r\\nIn Englisch und Deut sch mit Übersetzung X-ALT-DESC:Während die Leitung der Basler Mission Sklaverei strikt able hnte\, forderten einige ihrer Missionare\, die Sklaverei in afrikanischen Ländern anders zu bewerten als den transatlantischen Sklavenhandel. Welch e Rolle spielten christliche Missionsgesellschaften in der internationalen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung? Kam es dabei zu Konflikten mit den Kolonialbehö rden? Und wie positionierten sich einheimische Sklavereigegner in Ghana zu r Abschaffung der Sklaverei durch die britische Kolonialverwaltung?
\n< p>Mit Dr. Michael Odijie\, University College London\nIn Englisch u nd Deutsch mit Übersetzung
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3592@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T171500 SUMMARY:Larissa Fleischmann (University of Halle-Wittenberg): “The Postc olonial Dimensions of Health: The Case of Veterinary Fencing in Namibia” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/ veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] and martha.akawa@unam.na [https ://zasb.unibas.ch/de/veranstaltungen/details/hildegard-titus/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: e llen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3651@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T163937 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T161500 SUMMARY:Moises Lino e Silva: "Minoritarian Liberalism" DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231122T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3779@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231114T114324 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231120T101500 SUMMARY:Webinar: "Writing for African Studies Journals" DESCRIPTION:The webinar serves to provide guidance to early career research ers who are interested in publishing their work in African Studies journal s. It is jointly organized by the Universities of Basel\, the University o f Edinburgh\, and the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS).\\r\\nThe presenters and discussions will focus on the following topics:\\r\\n Wri ting for Area Studies versus disciplinary journals Turning PhD chapters i nto articles Demystifying the review and publishing process \\r\\nSpeaker s: \\r\\nDr Sara Rich-Dorman Co-chair of the Journal of Southern African S tudies Senior Lecturer in African Politics\, University of Edinburgh\\r\\n Sindi-Leigh McBride PhD Candidate\, Centre for African Studies\, Univers ity of Basel\\r\\n\\r\\nMonday\, 20 November at 09:15 GMT / 10:15 CET / 1 0:15 WAT / 11:15 CAT / 12:15 EAT\\r\\nJoin Zoom Meeting https://unibas.zoo m.us/j/69909283447 [https://unibas.zoom.us/j/69909283447] Meeting ID: 699 0928 3447 X-ALT-DESC:The webinar serves to provide guidance to early career resear chers who are interested in publishing their work in African Studies journ als. It is jointly organized by the Universities of Basel\, the University of Edinburgh\, and the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS).
\n< p>The presenters and discussions will focus on the following topics:\nSpeakers:
\nDr Sara Rich-Dorman
Co-chair of the Journal of S
outhern African Studies
Senior Lecturer in African Politics\, Univer
sity of Edinburgh
Sindi-Leigh McBride \;
PhD Candidate\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel
Monday\, 20 November at 09:15 GMT / 10:15 CET \;/ 10:15 WAT / 11:15 CAT / 12:15 EAT
Join Zo
om Meetinghttps:/
/unibas.zoom.us/j/69909283447
Meeting ID: 699 0928 3447
What surfaces when a library is burnt\, an archive lost? What
emerges from the ashes and ruins? The recently published creative book
The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231116T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3591@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231115T171500 SUMMARY:Stephané Conradie (Michaelis School of Fine Arts\, UCT) “Towards a Creole Aesthetic: understanding articulage as an artistic practice in a Southern African context” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch ] and martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3657@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230919T104729 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231114T161500 SUMMARY:South Designs for Planetary Futures: "Re-Imagi(nations) x François e Vergès" DESCRIPTION:Forced displacement due to climate change and environmental dis aster is expected to affect over one billion people by 2050. What does pla netary ecology mean from the perspective and lifeworld of those displaced? This question frames the work of the “Re-imagi(nations)” project team \, who will discuss their ongoing work with diverse migrant communities in Morocco. Foregrounding Black and Indigenous ecologies in practices of ada ptation to often-hostile environments\, the project team will be engaged b y scholar\, activist\, and cultural producer Françoise Vergès. Together\ , they sketch the outlines of an ecological imaginary rooted in decolonial struggle.\\r\\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Desig ns: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflecting o n how design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary fut ures. X-ALT-DESC:Forced displacement due to climate change and environmental d isaster is expected to affect over one billion people by 2050. What does p lanetary ecology mean from the perspective and lifeworld of those displace d? This question frames the work of the “Re-imagi(nations)” project te am\, who will discuss their ongoing work with diverse migrant communities in Morocco. Foregrounding Black and Indigenous ecologies in practices of a daptation to often-hostile environments\, the project team will be engaged by scholar\, activist\, and cultural producer Françoise Vergès. Togethe r\, they sketch the outlines of an ecological imaginary rooted in decoloni al struggle.
\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Designs: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflect ing on how design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetar y futures.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3643@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T161146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231114T121500 SUMMARY:Arianna Pasqualini: "Mapping Socialist Solidarities: Southern Afric an Liberation Struggles\, Italy and the Cold War" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231114T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3755@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231101T160400 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231110T160000 SUMMARY:Führung: "Protest\, Wahlen\, Bier\, Verhütung\, Konzerte und Kino – die Plakatsammlung" DESCRIPTION:Eine Führung (auf Deutsch) durch die Plakatsammlung der Basler Afrika Bibliographien.\\r\\nDas im Anschluss stattfindende BAB-Café biet et Gelegenheit zum weiteren informellen Austausch bei Getränken und Musik . X-ALT-DESC:Eine Führung (auf Deutsch) durch die Plakatsammlung der Basl er Afrika Bibliographien.
\nDas im Anschluss stattfindende BAB-Café bietet Gelegenheit zum weiteren informellen Austausch bei Getränken und Musik.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3754@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231101T155737 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231109T180000 SUMMARY:Vortrag: "Wildtierhaltung und Wissensproduktion: Blick ins Zoo-Arch iv" DESCRIPTION:Die Tierbeschaffung des Basler Zoos setzte bis in die 1970er-Ja hre eine gute Vernetzung mit afrikanischen Akteur*innen und den europäisc hen Kolonialregierungen voraus. Im Zoo galt es für die importierten Tiere \, über die man in Europa noch wenig wusste\, die bestmöglichen Haltungs bedingungen zu schaffen. Neben dieser praxisorientierten Wissensproduktion prägte der Zoo auch das zoologische Afrikabild einer breiten Öffentlich keit.\\r\\nIm Vortrag werden mittels Reiseberichten\, Fotografien und Film ausschnitten aus dem Zoo-Archiv verschiedene Aspekte der Haltungsgeschicht e afrikanischer Zootiere und der Beziehung des Zoos mit Afrika und den Kol onialmächten beleuchtet.\\r\\nMit Louanne Burkhardt (Archiv und Bibliothe k Zoo Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Die Tierbeschaffung des Basler Zoos setzte bis in die 1970er- Jahre eine gute Vernetzung mit afrikanischen Akteur*innen und den europäi schen Kolonialregierungen voraus. Im Zoo galt es für die importierten Tie re\, über die man in Europa noch wenig wusste\, die bestmöglichen Haltun gsbedingungen zu schaffen. Neben dieser praxisorientierten Wissensprodukti on prägte der Zoo auch das zoologische Afrikabild einer breiten Öffentli chkeit.
\nIm Vortrag werden mittels Reiseberichten\, Fotografien und Filmausschnitten aus dem Zoo-Archiv verschiedene Aspekte der Haltungsgesc hichte afrikanischer Zootiere und der Beziehung des Zoos mit Afrika und de n Kolonialmächten beleuchtet.
\nMit Louanne Burkhardt (Archiv und B ibliothek Zoo Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231109T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3692@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T132322 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231109T140000 SUMMARY:Zoe Groves: "Histories of dance in Southern Africa" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231109T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3590@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231108T171500 SUMMARY:Hildegard Titus (Namibian activist\, artist\, journalist): “Decol onising and Demystifying Namibia’s Queer History” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch ] and martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3650@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T163603 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231108T161500 SUMMARY:Zainabu Jallo and Therese Inauen: "Behind the Scenes: A Discussion about Challenges\, Decision Making and Ethics in Anthropological Fieldwork " DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231108T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3638@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T150416 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231106T121500 SUMMARY:Carine Zaayman: "Seeing what is not there: Forms of tending anarchi val pasts" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231106T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3659@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230919T160146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231103T173000 SUMMARY:Stadtführung: "Afrikastudien – eine Entdeckungsreise durch Basel " DESCRIPTION:Während des 90-minütigen Spaziergangs beleuchten wir die mann igfachen Verbindungen zwischen Basel und Afrika. Wir begegnen Unternehmern \, die Exotik vermarkteten\, spüren Rassismus in Kinderbüchern nach\, be leuchten die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Südafrika während der Apartheid\, beleuchten die Völkerschauen im Basler Zoo und begegnen einer jungen Frau aus Ghana im Basel des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zum Schluss setzen w ir uns mit Basel als Hinterland des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels ausei nander\, was uns über Warenflüsse\, Textilproduktion\, Versicherungen un d Bankenwesen einen neuen Blick auf den Wirtschaftsstandort öffnet.\\r\\n Freier Eintritt - keine Reservation nötig\\r\\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen de r Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellu ng ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu s ehen. X-ALT-DESC:Während des 90-minütigen Spaziergangs beleuchten wir die ma nnigfachen Verbindungen zwischen Basel und Afrika. Wir begegnen Unternehme rn\, die Exotik vermarkteten\, spüren Rassismus in Kinderbüchern nach\, beleuchten die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Südafrika während de r Apartheid\, beleuchten die Völkerschauen im Basler Zoo und begegnen ein er jungen Frau aus Ghana im Basel des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zum Schluss setzen wir uns mit Basel als Hinterland des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels aus einander\, was uns über Warenflüsse\, Textilproduktion\, Versicherungen und Bankenwesen einen neuen Blick auf den Wirtschaftsstandort öffnet.
\nFreier Eintritt - keine Reservation nötig
\nVeranstaltung im R ahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". \; Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbi bliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3691@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T131213 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231102T140000 SUMMARY:Yotam Gidron: "When mobility supports the livelihoods of refugees a nd when it does not: lessons from three East African case studies" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231102T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3589@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231025T174157 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231101T171500 SUMMARY:Raffaele Perniola (University of Basel): “Many Tracks to Follow – Attempts at a Social History of Music Records in Namibia” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch ] and martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3649@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T162416 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231101T161500 SUMMARY:Katherine Verdery: "Surveillance Societies in a Once-Bipolar World" DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231101T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3690@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T130851 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231026T140000 SUMMARY:Ushehwedu Kufakurinani: "Productive waiting? Queuing as everyday ex perience during hyper-scarcity in urban Harare" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231026T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3588@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231025T170017 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231025T181500 SUMMARY:Steeve Buckridge (University of Namibia and Grand Valley State Univ ersity): "Decolonizing the Herero women’s ‘Victorian Dress’ and the Construction of the Feminine in 19th and 20th century Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch ] and martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3648@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T162120 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231025T161500 SUMMARY:Tyler Zoanni: "Human Conditions: On Disability and Christianity in Uganda" DESCRIPTION:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of u sing the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary wo rld order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. Rec ent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contestati on\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borr ows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtu al possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnograp hic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Franc ophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect\ , the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dia logue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly a nd public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins. X-ALT-DESC:The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231025T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3656@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230919T104819 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231024T161500 SUMMARY:South Designs for Planetary Futures: "Planetary Occupations x Nana Yaa Biamah Ofosu" DESCRIPTION:This conversation focuses on occupations as forms of design in response to systemic injustice. Framing occupation as the adaptive reuse o f underused spaces unsettles dominant approaches to environmental sustaina bility and so-called green transitions. The “Planetary Occupations” pr oject team will discuss their work with occupants of Cissie Gool House\, a social justice housing occupation in Cape Town\, including their design v ision from below and counter-plan for the site’s future. In dialogue wit h architect and educator Nana Yaa Biamah Ofosu\, they will outline an appr oach to ecological design unchained from the logics of property and accumu lation.\\r\\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Designs: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflecting on h ow design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary future s. X-ALT-DESC:This conversation focuses on occupations as forms of design i n response to systemic injustice. Framing occupation as the adaptive reuse of underused spaces unsettles dominant approaches to environmental sustai nability and so-called green transitions. The “Planetary Occupations” project team will discuss their work with occupants of Cissie Gool House\, a social justice housing occupation in Cape Town\, including their design vision from below and counter-plan for the site’s future. In dialogue w ith architect and educator Nana Yaa Biamah Ofosu\, they will outline an ap proach to ecological design unchained from the logics of property and accu mulation.
\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Des igns: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflecting on how design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary f utures.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3637@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231011T183109 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231023T121500 SUMMARY:Annette Hoffmann: "Word lists and Human Remains from the Border of the Cape Colony: Hinrich Lichtenstein's Articulations of Language and Anat omy in the Early 19th Century" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231023T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3545@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231009T092906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231021 SUMMARY:Namibia Research Day 2023 DESCRIPTION:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organised by the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the School of Humanities\, Society and Development of the University of Namibia. Participation is free of charg e.\\r\\nContact for registration and Zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch X-ALT-DESC:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organised by the ZASB\, t he Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the School of Humanities\, Society a nd Development of theUniversity of Namibia. \;Participation is free of charge.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: \;ellen.sow@unibas.ch
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3701@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231004T142911 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231020T193000 SUMMARY:Film screening: "Under the Hanging Tree" DESCRIPTION:Perivi Katjavivi’s new film “Under the Hanging Tree” tell s the story of how the colonial genocide in Namibia continues to profoundl y shape people’s lives. The impetuous city officer Christina Mureti is a ssigned to a morbid case in a small desert town. Her discipline and by-the -book investigative methodology prove ineffective in solving the mystery o f a series of livestock carcasses scattered across a German farmer’s pro perty. The intrigue intensifies when the farmer Gustav Fischer is found ha nged in an ancient Omumborombonga tree\, and his wife Eva remains impassiv e\, smiling menacingly at the sacrificial offerings riddling her home.\\r\ \nFree entry. X-ALT-DESC:Perivi Katjavivi’s new film “Under the Hanging Tree” te lls the story of how the colonial genocide in Namibia continues to profoun dly shape people’s lives. The impetuous city officer Christina Mureti is assigned to a morbid case in a small desert town. Her discipline and by-t he-book investigative methodology prove ineffective in solving the mystery of a series of livestock carcasses scattered across a German farmer’s p roperty. The intrigue intensifies when the farmer Gustav Fischer is found hanged in an ancient Omumborombonga tree\, and his wife Eva remains impass ive\, smiling menacingly at the sacrificial offerings riddling her home.\n
Free entry.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3709@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231016T101344 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231019T170000 SUMMARY:Book launch: "Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa' s Long Transition to Majority Rule" DESCRIPTION:The University of KwaZulu-Natal Press\, in collaboration with t he Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU)\, the University of the Free St ate and the University of Basel\, will celebrate the publication of the So uthern African edition of Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South A frica’s Long Transition to Majority Rule by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann\, o n 19 October 2023. \\r\\n\\r\\nIn discussion:\\r\\nDanelle van Zyl-Herma nn (author) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Histor y at the University of Basel\, Switzerland\, and a Research Associate with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State\, Sou th Africa.\\r\\nLucien van der Walt is director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University\, and a labour educator. His bo oks include Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial Wor ld\, 1880-1940 (w. Steven Hirsch)\, Politics at a Distance from the State (w. Kirk Helliker) and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa\, 1919-1939: Ne w Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) (w. David Johnson and Noor Nieftagodien).\\r\\nJantjie Xaba is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch Unive rsity. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University. He has a Masters’ degree in Comparative Labour Studies from the University of Joh annesburg.\\r\\nLindie Koorts (facilitator) is a historian\, author and m edia commentator\, University of the Free State. She is also the author of DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism (Tafelberg: 2014). X-ALT-DESC:The University of KwaZulu-Natal Press\, in collaboration with the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU)\, the University of the Free State and the University of Basel\, will celebrate the publication of the Southern African edition of \;Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule \;by Danell e van Zyl-Hermann\, on \;19 October 2023. \;
\ n\nIn discussion:
\nDanelle van Zyl-Hermann (aut hor) \;is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Basel\, Switzerland\, and a Research Associate with t he International Studies Group at the University of the Free State\, South Africa.
\nLucien van der Walt \;is director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University\, and a labour educator. His books include Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Co lonial and Postcolonial World\, 1880-1940 (w. Steven Hirsch)\, Po litics at a Distance from the State (w. Kirk Helliker) and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa\, 1919-1939: New Perspectives on the Industr ial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) (w. David Johnson and Noor Nieftagodien).
\nJantjie Xaba \;is a lecturer i n the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch Univ ersity. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University. He has a Masters’ degree in Comparative Labour Studies from the University of Jo hannesburg.
\nLindie Koorts (facilitator) \;is a historian\, author and media commentator\, University of the Free State. She is also the author of DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner National ism (Tafelberg: 2014).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3689@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T130648 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231019T140000 SUMMARY:Austin S. Matthews and Ana Lúcia Sá: "The evolution of elite rete ntion strategies in Obiang's Equatorial Guinea\, 1979–2023" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231019T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3602@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231013T150043 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231019T090000 SUMMARY:Conference: Conjunctions of Archives and Public Spheres DESCRIPTION:Conference organised by the Centre for African Studies Basel (Z ASB) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in cooperation with the Sw iss Society for African Studies and with support from the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellscha ft Basel\\r\\nEmbodied histories have found their way into western (coloni al) archives as fragments\, usually by means of audio-visual media of all sorts (acoustic\, image\, and film documents). This conference organised b y the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien on behalf of the Swiss Society for African Studies focuses on Africa-related multi-media archives (and not only audio-visual collections) to explore two main trajectories:\\r\\n the con- and disjunc tions within multi-media archives and collections\, with reference to ‘d ocumenting’ (performative) histories and memory\, in particular\; and t he con- and disjunctions of such archives and collections in relation to h istorical as well as current public spheres\, and not only in their countr ies of origin. \\r\\nBoth trajectories raise principal questions with rega rd to\, on the one hand\, epistemologies of multi-media archives and curat orial interventions\, and\, one the other hand\, with reference to audienc es\, visibility\, and dissemination.\\r\\nMulti-media archives have of lat e generated innovative curatorial and scholarly work. Principally transdis ciplinary in outlook\, such work commonly reflects collective initiatives by curators/archivists\, scholars\, and artists. These initiatives (re-) s ituate and (re-)create (new) approaches\, aesthetics\, and understanding. They generate interventions of all sorts and not only in their countries o f origin and emphasise\, implicitly or explicitly\, relational knowledge p roductions. Importantly\, they raise questions relating to audiences (broa der or specific) as engaged in\, affected by\, or (dis-)connected from arc hives and collections\, histories and narratives\, with questions pertaini ng to restitution and repatriation tied in.\\r\\nGeneral Assembly of the S SAS and Namibia Research Day The conference to be held in Basel as a hybri d event\, aims at bringing archivists\, curators\, scholars\, artists\, an d a broader academic audience into conversation. It will be concluded on 2 0 October 2023 by the annual General Assembly of the Swiss Society for Afr ican Studies and\, on 21 October 2023\, the 10th Namibia Research Day.\\r\ \nRegistration Please register for the conference and/or General Assembly latest by 15 October 2023 via our online form [https://forms.gle/dgnTfSgjt kNzbaLm7].\\r\\nContact Dag Henrichsen (BAB)\, dh@baslerafrika.ch [mailto: dh@baslerafrika.ch] Lorena Rizzo (ZASB)\, lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch [mailto:l orena.rizzo@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Conference organised by the Centre for African Studies Ba sel (ZASB) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in cooperation with the Swiss Society for African Studies and with support from the Swiss Acad emy of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Freiwillige Akademische Gese llschaft Basel
\nEmbodied histories have found their way into w estern (colonial) archives as fragments\, usually by means of audio-visual media of all sorts (acoustic\, image\, and film documents). This conferen ce organised by the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien on behalf of the Swiss Society for Af rican Studies focuses on Africa-related multi-media archives (and not only audio-visual collections) to explore two main trajectories:
\nBoth trajecto ries raise principal questions with regard to\, on the one hand\, epistemo logies of multi-media archives and curatorial interventions\, and\, one th e other hand\, with reference to audiences\, visibility\, and disseminatio n.
\nMulti-media archives have of late generated innovative curatori al and scholarly work. Principally transdisciplinary in outlook\, such wor k commonly reflects collective initiatives by curators/archivists\, schola rs\, and artists. These initiatives (re-) situate and (re-)create (new) ap proaches\, aesthetics\, and understanding. They generate interventions of all sorts and not only in their countries of origin and emphasise\, implic itly or explicitly\, relational knowledge productions. Importantly\, they raise questions relating to audiences (broader or specific) as engaged in\ , affected by\, or (dis-)connected from archives and collections\, histori es and narratives\, with questions pertaining to restitution and repatriat ion tied in.
\nGeneral Assembly of the SSAS and Namibia Rese
arch Day
The conference to be held in Basel as a hybrid eve
nt\, aims at bringing archivists\, curators\, scholars\, artists\, and a b
roader academic audience into conversation. It will be concluded on 20 Oct
ober 2023 by the annual General Assembly of the Swiss Society for African
Studies and\, on 21 October 2023\, the 10th Namibia Research Day.
Registration
Please register for the conference and
/or General Assembly latest by 15 October 2023 via our online form.
Contact
Dag Henrichsen (BAB)\, dh@bas
lerafrika.ch
Lorena Rizzo (ZASB)\, lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch
The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231018T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3672@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230926T144136 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231018T121500 SUMMARY:Webinar: "Voices from the Archives: Indian Bible Women in Colonial Times" DESCRIPTION:Ein neuer Blick auf die Zeugnisse einheimischer «Bibelfrauen» (Katechetinnen) in Indien als massgebliche Akteurinnen der Basler Mission Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Wie gelang ihnen die Gratwanderung zwischen ei nheimischen und europäischen Weiblichkeitsidealen? Wie bewegten sie sich zwischen hierarchischem Kastensystem und christlichen Lebensentwürfen? We lche Art von Emanzipation war in Indien zur Zeit des British Empire mögli ch?\\r\\nSandra Langhop gibt einen Einblick in ihre Forschung zu den indis chen (und europäischen) Missionarinnen in Südindien im 19. und 20. Jahrh undert\, welche Grenzgängerinnen zwischen den Kulturen\, den Geschlechter n und sozialen Hierarchien waren.\\r\\nReferat und Gespräch auf Deutsch\, Übersetzung auf Englisch X-ALT-DESC:Ein neuer Blick auf die Zeugnisse einheimischer «Bibelfrauen » (Katechetinnen) in Indien als massgebliche Akteurinnen der Basler Missi on Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Wie gelang ihnen die Gratwanderung zwischen einheimischen und europäischen Weiblichkeitsidealen? Wie bewegten sie sic h zwischen hierarchischem Kastensystem und christlichen Lebensentwürfen? Welche Art von Emanzipation war in Indien zur Zeit des British Empire mög lich?
\nSandra Langhop gibt einen Einblick in ihre Forschung zu den indischen (und europäischen) Missionarinnen in Südindien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert\, welche Grenzgängerinnen zwischen den Kulturen\, den Geschle chtern und sozialen Hierarchien waren.
\nReferat und Gespräch auf D eutsch\, Übersetzung auf Englisch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231018T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3688@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T130434 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231012T140000 SUMMARY:Hang Zhou: "Becoming a pocket of effectiveness? Insights from the d isbandment and staff recruitment in the restructuring of Uganda National R oads Authority" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231012T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3587@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231011T181500 SUMMARY:Henriette Gunkel (Ruhr University Bochum): “Sand\, Atmosphere\, M emorialisation: Some Reflections on the Remains of German Colonial Extract ion in Namibia’s Desert” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome!\\r\\nCourse Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-site)\\r\\nContact for r egistration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch ] and martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome!
\nCourse Number: 69213-01 ( 3 ECTS) - students at the University of Basel are required to attend on-si te)
\nContact for registration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3687@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T130124 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231005T140000 SUMMARY:Nick Rahier: "City-Heat: Life under hotter conditions in Nakuru\, K enya" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Gl obal North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals a nd recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backgro unds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group a s an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empiric al\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our researc h with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The collo quium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leuve n. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.\\r\\nCo ntact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:micha el.aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the Global North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casual setting. We discuss working papers\, elaborate grant proposals and recent publications by colleagues who have various disciplinary backg rounds and work on African politics in a broader sense. We value the Group as an open forum to exchange experiences regarding methodological\, empir ical\, theoretical and practical challenges that we encounter in our resea rch with knowledgeable colleagues and to receive helpful feedback. The col loquium is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh\, Basel and Leu ven. Since its launch in 2020\, the Group has held over 80 meetings.
\nContact for registration and Zoom link: michael.aeby@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231005T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3586@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231004T181500 SUMMARY:Ulrike Kiessling (University of Basel): “Epistemologies of Noise ” DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome! Course Number: 69213-01 (3 ECTS) - students at th e University of Basel are required to attend on-site) Contact for regis tration and zoom link: ellen.sow@unibas.ch [mailto:ellen.sow@unibas.ch] an d martha.akawa@unam.na [mailto:martha.akawa@unam.na] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium pr ovides a forum for local and international scholars to engage in crossdisc iplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with par ticular reference to Namibian Studies. It is jointly offered with the Scho ol of Humanities\, Society and Development\, University of Namibia in onli ne sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome! Contact for registration and zoom l ink: ellen.sow@unibas.ch and martha.akawa@unam.na |
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The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural\, political\, and economic trends. R ecent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main roa d arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination\, contesta tion\, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium bo rrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and vir tual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnogr aphic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder\, where Anglophone\, Fra ncophone\, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersec t\, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in d ialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South\, scholarly and public settings\, the discipline’s core and its margins.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231004T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3595@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230927T143310 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230929T173000 SUMMARY:fepa Jubiläumsfest: 60 Jahre fepa DESCRIPTION:Der Abend beginnt um 17:30 Uhr mit einer kurzen Mitgliederversa mmlung [https://fepafrika.ch/veranstaltung/mitgliederversammlung-3]. Ab 18 :00 Uhr gibt es zwei Kurzfilme und eine Diskussion über die Themen Entwic klung\, Partnerschaft und Wirkung. Danach können sich die Gäste am Buffe t vergnügen. Der Abend endet um 19:45 Uhr mit einem Workshop von Ndomzy v on Afrovibes und einer Diskussion sowie einer anschliessenden Party. X-ALT-DESC:Der Abend beginnt um 17:30 Uhr mit einer kurzen Mitgliederversamml ung. Ab 18:00 Uhr gibt es zwei Kurzfilme und eine Diskussion über die Themen Entwicklung\, Partnerschaft und Wirkung. Danach können sich die G äste am Buffet vergnügen. Der Abend endet um 19:45 Uhr mit einem Worksho p von Ndomzy von Afrovibes und einer Diskussion sowie einer anschliessende n Party.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3585@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230927T180000 SUMMARY:Themenabend: "What is PARC?" DESCRIPTION:PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) is the new meta catalogue for all Africana collections in Basel. For the first time\, the collections of the five Basel institutions Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, Mission 21\, Museum der Kulturen Basel\, Swiss TPH and University of Basel will be searchable in a single discovery system. We present insights into an eventful course of the project and introduce the new tool for all thos e interested in Africa. The event will be held in English.\\r\\nVeranstalt ung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel" . Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Haup tbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) is the new met a catalogue for all Africana collections in Basel. For the first time\, th e collections of the five Basel institutions Basler Afrika Bibliographien\ , Mission 21\, Museum der Kulturen Basel\, Swiss TPH and University of Bas el will be searchable in a single discovery system. We present insights in to an eventful course of the project and introduce the new tool for all th ose interested in Africa. The event will be held in English.
\nVeran staltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in B asel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in d er UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3655@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230919T104800 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230926T161500 SUMMARY:Opening Roundtable: South Designs for Planetary Futures DESCRIPTION:This opening roundtable conversation brings together prominent speakers to reflect on how design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary futures. Paolo Tavares will speak about new ways of conc eiving design in the context of his work on indigenous land restoration in Brazil. Michael Uwemedimo discusses what design can do for communities su bjected to the violence of fossil extractivism in urban Nigeria. And Jenni fer Gabrys draws from her groundbreaking research on air pollution monitor ing to outline planetary practices of citizenship. Together\, they address the question of what design responses to ecological crises look like when they are grounded in the aspirations and struggles of those most affected .\\r\\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Designs: Plane tary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflecting on how des ign\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary futures. X-ALT-DESC:This opening roundtable conversation brings together prominen t speakers to reflect on how design\, thought and practiced from the South \, forges planetary futures. Paolo Tavares will speak about new ways of co nceiving design in the context of his work on indigenous land restoration in Brazil. Michael Uwemedimo discusses what design can do for communities subjected to the violence of fossil extractivism in urban Nigeria. And Jen nifer Gabrys draws from her groundbreaking research on air pollution monit oring to outline planetary practices of citizenship. Together\, they addre ss the question of what design responses to ecological crises look like wh en they are grounded in the aspirations and struggles of those most affect ed.
\nPart of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series "South Designs: Planetary Futures"\, an eight-month series of discussions reflecting on ho w design\, thought and practiced from the South\, forges planetary futures .
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230926T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3584@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230922T190000 SUMMARY:Vernissage: "Schwarze Locken und ihre Geschichten dahinter" DESCRIPTION:Ausstellung: "Schwarze Locken und ihre Geschichten dahinter"\, repräsentiert Schwarze Menschen als selbstwirksame Personen ihrer Schwarz en Identität und ihrer Haare. Das Fotoprojekt hat das Ziel\, Vorurteile a ufzuräumen\, Schwarze Menschen in ihrer Individualität zu zeigen und Sic htbarkeit für Schwarze Lebensrealitäten zu fördern. Außerdem soll sie zu Fragen anregen wie zum Beispiel: Woher kommen wir? Wo gehen wir hin un d wo befinden wir uns aktuell mit Biografien von Schwarzen Menschen in Deu tschland? Es geht auch um den engeren Zusammenhang zwischen Community Care \, Verletzlichkeit und Schwarz – sein in der weißen Dominanzgesellsch aft.\\r\\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikani sches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Ausstellung: "Schwarze Locken und ihre Geschichten dahinter"\ , repräsentiert Schwarze Menschen als selbstwirksame Personen ihrer Schwa rzen Identität und ihrer Haare. Das Fotoprojekt hat das Ziel\, Vorurteile aufzuräumen\, Schwarze Menschen in ihrer Individualität zu zeigen und S ichtbarkeit für Schwarze Lebensrealitäten zu fördern. Außerdem soll s ie zu Fragen anregen wie zum Beispiel: Woher kommen wir? Wo gehen wir hin und wo befinden wir uns aktuell mit Biografien von Schwarzen Menschen in D eutschland? Es geht auch um den engeren Zusammenhang zwischen Community Ca re\, Verletzlichkeit und Schwarz – sein in der \;weißen&nb sp\;Dominanzgesellschaft.
\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vo m 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3582@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230921T180035 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230922T170000 SUMMARY:BAB Cafe DESCRIPTION:Die Basler Afrika Bibliographien laden alle Interessierten zum Umtrunk\, Gespräch und Verweilen ein. Gönnen Sie sich ein Glas Wein wäh rend Sie in einer namibischen Zeitung schmökern und angolanische Musik h ören.\\r\\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrika nisches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. Novemb er 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Die Basler Afrika Bibliographien laden alle Interessierten zu m Umtrunk\, Gespräch und Verweilen ein. Gönnen Sie sich ein Glas Wein w ährend Sie in einer namibischen Zeitung schmökern und angolanische Musik hören.
\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - A frikanisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3568@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230912T000122 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230922 SUMMARY:Graduate Workshop: Interdisciplinary approaches to ethnographic re search (15th EthnoDoks 2023) DESCRIPTION:Since 2008\, the EthnoDoks meetings facilitate encounters\, exc hange and networking between PhD students involved in ethnographic researc h projects in anthropology and related disciplines (such as sociology\, re ligious studies\, cultural and literature studies\, education\, etc). In l ine with the tradition of the EthnoDoks meetings\, our main goal of the 20 23 workshop will be connecting PhD students and other early stage research ers across institutions in a space designed to be free of hierarchies. Apa rt from PhD students\, we also welcome undergraduate students in their fin al years and postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their academic c areers. In focus groups\, different aspects and challenges of ethnographic work and academic careers will be discussed and experiences from individu al research projects can be shared with peers. Therefore\, we particularly value an open and spontaneous structuring of the focus groups to give all participants the opportunity to advance on what they currently are most i n need concerning their research process. To include more students and res earchers from abroad the main language during the meeting will be English. \\r\\nThe past decades saw ethnographic research undergo an astonishing tr ansformation. Caught up in its colonial past and absorbed with its own idi osyncrasies\, the ethnographic conception of ‘doing research’ looked d usty\, old\, and on its way out. Recent years\, however\, have seen a rene wed interest in the methodology. The methodological revival can\, in no sm all part\, be attributed to scholars from outside disciplines’ nascent i nterest in the method. Unburdened by intra-disciplinary inhibitions\, an e clectic mixture of research\, making creative use of ethnographic methods\ , has emerged. The 15th Ethnodoks workshops are an opportunity to reflect on what constitutes ethnography\, how interdisciplinarity has changed our understanding of the methods we deploy\, and what opportunities and challe nges emerge. It offers a series of practical workshops\, which relate to m ethods of ethnography and the process of writing a dissertation\, regardle ss of its disciplinary affiliation\, by researchers from different Europea n universities. Workshops will address commonly encountered issues such as research access\, practice of ethnography\, data analysis and writing. Th e 15th EthnoDoks meeting will take place at the University of Basel (Switz erland) on September 22nd and September 23rd\, and welcomes all doctoral a nd post-doctoral students interested in ethnography in order to establish a constructive exchange beyond the compartmentalization of the academic fi eld. \\r\\nIf you wish to participate please write to us by August 22nd t o ethnodoks@gmail.com [mailto:ethnodoks@gmail.com] indicating your name and affiliation\, your dissertation’s broad topic\, your current stage i n your project\, your experiences (theoretical and/or practical) with ethn ographic research\, as well as any challenges you are currently facing tha t you wish to discuss at the workshop (max. 1 page). \\r\\nWhen confirm ing your registration\, we will ask for an attendance fee of 30 francs/eur os to be paid by September\, 1st. This fee facilitates planning and covers the costs of lunch\, snacks and a welcome dinner on Friday evening. The w orkshops shall be held in presence at the University of Basel. X-ALT-DESC:Since 2008\, the EthnoDoks meetings facilitate encounters\, e xchange and networking between PhD students involved in ethnographic resea rch projects in anthropology and related disciplines (such as sociology\, religious studies\, cultural and literature studies\, education\, etc). In line with the tradition of the EthnoDoks meetings\, our main goal of the 2023 workshop will be connecting PhD students and other early stage resear chers across institutions in a space designed to be free of hierarchies. A part from PhD students\, we also welcome undergraduate students in their f inal years and postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their academic careers. In focus groups\, different aspects and challenges of ethnograph ic work and academic careers will be discussed and experiences from indivi dual research projects can be shared with peers. Therefore\, we particular ly value an open and spontaneous structuring of the focus groups to give a ll participants the opportunity to advance on what they currently are most in need concerning their research process. To include more students and r esearchers from abroad the main language during the meeting will be Englis h.
\nThe past decades saw ethnographic research undergo an astonishi ng transformation. Caught up in its colonial past and absorbed with its ow n idiosyncrasies\, the ethnographic conception of ‘doing research’ loo ked dusty\, old\, and on its way out. Recent years\, however\, have seen a renewed interest in the methodology. The methodological revival can\, in no small part\, be attributed to scholars from outside disciplines’ nasc ent interest in the method. Unburdened by intra-disciplinary inhibitions\, an eclectic mixture of research\, making creative use of ethnographic met hods\, has emerged. The 15th Ethnodoks workshops are an opportunity to ref lect on what constitutes ethnography\, how interdisciplinarity has changed our understanding of the methods we deploy\, and what opportunities and c hallenges emerge. It offers a series of practical workshops\, which relate to methods of ethnography and the process of writing a dissertation\, reg ardless of its disciplinary affiliation\, by researchers from different Eu ropean universities. Workshops will address commonly encountered issues su ch as research access\, practice of ethnography\, data analysis and writin g. The 15th EthnoDoks meeting will take place at the Un iversity of Basel (Switzerland) on September 22nd and September 23rd\, and welcomes all doctoral and post-doctoral students interested in et hnography in order to establish a constructive exchange beyond the compart mentalization of the academic field. \;
\nIf yo
u wish to participate please write to us by August 22
When confirming your registr ation\, we will ask for an attendance fee of 30 francs/euros to be paid by September\, 1st. This fee facilitates planning and covers the costs of lunch\, snacks and a welcome dinner on Friday evening. The worksh ops shall be held in presence at the University of Basel.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230923 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3610@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T141816 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230921T170000 SUMMARY:Networking meeting for Master's students and PhD candidates working on health-related topics in Africa across all disciplines DESCRIPTION:The aim of this meeting is to build a student network to share experiences (e.g. regarding fieldwork\, publications\, methodology\, etc.) \, learn from each other and create a system of mutual support. If you are interested\, feel free to contact Regina at regina.molomo@swisstph.ch [ma ilto:regina.molomo@swisstph.ch] or Andrea at andrea.graf@unibas.ch [mailto :andrea.graf@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The aim of this meeting is to build a student network to shar
e experiences (e.g. regarding fieldwork\, publications\, methodology\, etc
.)\, learn from each other and create a system of mutual support. If you a
re interested\, feel free to contact Regina at regina.molomo@swisstph.ch or Andrea at andrea.graf@unibas.ch.
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Während des 90-minütigen Spaziergangs beleuchten wir die ma nnigfachen Verbindungen zwischen Basel und Afrika. Wir begegnen Unternehme rn\, die Exotik vermarkteten\, spüren Rassismus in Kinderbüchern nach\, beleuchten die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Südafrika während de r Apartheid\, beleuchten die Völkerschauen im Basler Zoo und begegnen ein er jungen Frau aus Ghana im Basel des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zum Schluss setzen wir uns mit Basel als Hinterland des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels aus einander\, was uns über Warenflüsse\, Textilproduktion\, Versicherungen und Bankenwesen einen neuen Blick auf den Wirtschaftsstandort öffnet.
\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3605@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T133000 SUMMARY:Information session: "Southern Urbanism & Urbanism across Geographi es Study Tracks" DESCRIPTION:In this information session (from 1.30pm-3pm)\, the Critical Ur banisms program will introduce the ‘Southern Urbanism’ and ‘Urbanism Across Geographies’ tracks for Spring 2024. These tracks combine course work and varied forms of research practice. They are a chance to experimen t with ways of knowing cities and places through fieldwork and community e ngagement. Both tracks interweave scholarly literature and collaborative f orms of engagement in the city\, offering a mode of learning built through various forms of methodological experimentation. In doing so\, students w ill engage rigorously with the ethics and politics of research practice\, and learn of the ways in which we build theory from practice in urban stud ies.\\r\\nURBANISM ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES: A semester-long research studio wit h six weeks in Lamu\, Kenya. This track examines the urban present from a local context\, while seeking to make broader connections across borders. In examining the tensions that link local practices and realities with glo bal forces\, we pay particular attention to the historical colonial and im perial legacies\, and trans-local processes that cross imagined global div ides such as North/South\, East/West.\\r\\nSOUTHERN URBANISM: A tailed sem ester abroad program in Cape Town. This track responds to the need for rig orous\, creative work to reimagine and understand cities in the global sou th. In this\, we address problematic ways these cities have been understoo d in the urban canon - through universalizing northern theorizing - as wel l as in practice and policy - where southern cities are still too often se en as dysfunctional\, as a problem of modernization and modernity. X-ALT-DESC:In this information session (from 1.30pm-3pm)\, the Critical Urbanisms program will introduce the ‘Southern Urbanism’ and ‘Urbani sm Across Geographies’ tracks for Spring 2024. These tracks combine cour sework and varied forms of research practice. They are a chance to experim ent with ways of knowing cities and places through fieldwork and community engagement. Both tracks interweave scholarly literature and collaborative forms of engagement in the city\, offering a mode of learning built throu gh various forms of methodological experimentation. In doing so\, students will engage rigorously with the ethics and politics of research practice\ , and learn of the ways in which we build theory from practice in urban st udies.
\nURBANISM ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES: A semester-long research studi o with six weeks in Lamu\, Kenya. This track examines the urban present fr om a local context\, while seeking to make broader connections across bord ers. In examining the tensions that link local practices and realities wit h global forces\, we pay particular attention to the historical colonial a nd imperial legacies\, and trans-local processes that cross imagined globa l divides such as North/South\, East/West.
\nSOUTHERN URBANISM: A ta iled semester abroad program in Cape Town. This track responds to the need for rigorous\, creative work to reimagine and understand cities in the gl obal south. In this\, we address problematic ways these cities have been u nderstood in the urban canon - through universalizing northern theorizing - as well as in practice and policy - where southern cities are still too often seen as dysfunctional\, as a problem of modernization and modernity.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3635@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T111136 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T121500 SUMMARY:Frankziska Rüedi & Claire Nicolas DESCRIPTION:Double session:\\r\\n Frankziska Rüedi: "Historicising the Hu manitarian-Development Nexus: Spaces\, Connections\, and Actors 1950 to th e Present" Claire Nicolas: "African Women\, Sexual Purity Activism\, and Social Welfare: An Intersectional History of the Young Women Christian Ass ociation\, 1878–1971" \\r\\nThe research seminar African History is a fo rum for MA and doctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing projects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research se minar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interes t in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:Double session:
\nThe research sem inar African History is a forum for MA and doctoral students as well as po stdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing projects. In addition\, interna tional scholars are invited to present their research in the field of Afri can History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\ , and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3561@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEve rybody interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master's programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\n< p>Everybody interested in African Studies is welcome! DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230918T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3581@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230915T160000 SUMMARY:Führung: "Eine namibische Nationalbibliothek in Basel?" DESCRIPTION:Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikan isches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. Novembe r 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrik anisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3559@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230915T141500 SUMMARY:Tag der offenen Tür und Präsentation des Masterstudiengangs Afrik astudien DESCRIPTION:Das Zentrum für Afrikastudien vernetzt Lehre und Forschung mit Afrikabezug an der Universität Basel. Seit 2002/3 bietet es einen interd isziplinären Masterstudiengang Afrikastudien an\, der bis heute über 140 Absolvent:innen hervorgebracht hat. Studierende und Dozierende stellen da s Programm vor und laden zu einer Besichtigung des historischen Gebäudes «Kleine Augustinerschütte» ein. X-ALT-DESC:Das Zentrum für Afrikastudien vernetzt Lehre und Forschung m it Afrikabezug an der Universität Basel. Seit 2002/3 bietet es einen inte rdisziplinären Masterstudiengang Afrikastudien an\, der bis heute über 1 40 Absolvent:innen hervorgebracht hat. Studierende und Dozierende stellen das Programm vor und laden zu einer Besichtigung des historischen Gebäude s «Kleine Augustinerschütte» ein.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230915T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3542@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102944 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230914T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop: New knowledge in the making. Transdisciplinary Research P ractices DESCRIPTION:The discussion about the relationship between science and socie ty has intensified\, and their relationship has come under increasing scru tiny. Different forms of knowledge - emerging\, not detached from everyday life - are needed\, that much is clear. This asks two particular things f rom us as researchers.First\, we need to re-evaluate the relationships inv olved in our research. Second\, we need to find ways to open up our resear ch and make it useful to the wider public.These are not easy tasks. They r equire us to reflect and revise our roles as researchers in our daily work . How can our research designs translate our commitment to new knowledge(s ) into practice? How\, if at all\, can we render knowledge co-production t ruly collaborative? Together with Prof. Dr. Johanna Jacobi (ETH Zürich) a nd Dr. Sybille Studer (tdnet) we will apply transdisciplinary methods to y our research. They should enable you to reflect on how to build research p artnerships\, when to involve whom and how to think about outcome and impa ct of your research.\\r\\nSibylle Studer\, PhD is Project Leader „Method s“ at the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net) of the Swiss A cademies of Arts and Sciences. As part of the SHAPE-ID project team she co ntributed to the development of shapeidtoolkit.eu. She is also the co-init iator of the ITD Alliance Working Group on Toolkits and Methods.\\r\\nJoha nna Jacobi is Assistant Professor for Agroecological Transitions at ETH Z ürich. Experienced in applied transdisciplinary research\, she focuses on agroecology as a transformative science\, a practice\, and a social movem ent\, as well as on power relations in food systems with approaches and me thods from political ecology.\\r\\nOrganizing team: Matthias Maurer Rueda [mailto:m.maurerrueda@unibas.ch]\, Melanie Sampayo Vidal [mailto:melanie.s ampayovidal@unibas.ch]\, Nadine Brühwiler [mailto:nadine.bruehwiler@uniba s.ch]\\r\\nRegistration: Please register latest by 21 August 2023 by sendi ng a short statement about your interest in the workshop and the project y ou are working on to nadine.bruehwiler@unibas.ch [mailto:nadine.bruehwiler @unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The discussion about the relationship between science and soc iety has intensified\, and their relationship has come under increasing sc rutiny. Different forms of knowledge - emerging\, not detached from everyd ay life - are needed\, that much is clear. This asks two particular things from us as researchers.First\, we need to re-evaluate the relationships i nvolved in our research. Second\, we need to find ways to open up our rese arch and make it useful to the wider public.These are not easy tasks. They require us to reflect and revise our roles as researchers in our daily wo rk. How can our research designs translate our commitment to new knowledge (s) into practice? How\, if at all\, can we render knowledge co-production truly collaborative? Together with Prof. Dr. Johanna Jacobi (ETH Zürich) and Dr. Sybille Studer (tdnet) we will apply transdisciplinary methods to your research. They should enable you to reflect on how to build research partnerships\, when to involve whom and how to think about outcome and im pact of your research.
\nSibylle Studer\, PhD is Pr oject Leader „Methods“ at the Network for Transdisciplinary Research ( td-net) of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. As part of the SHAPE- ID project team she contributed to the development of shapeidtoolkit.eu. S he is also the co-initiator of the ITD Alliance Working Group on Toolkits and Methods.
\nJohanna Jacobi is Assistant Professo r for Agroecological Transitions at ETH Zürich. Experienced in applied tr ansdisciplinary research\, she focuses on agroecology as a transformative science\, a practice\, and a social movement\, as well as on power relatio ns in food systems with approaches and methods from political ecology.
\nOrganizing team:Matthias Maurer Rueda\, Melanie Sampayo Vidal\, Nadine Brühwiler
\nRegistration: Please register latest by 21 August 2023 by sending a short statement about your interest in the workshop and the project you are working on to nadine.bruehwiler@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230914T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3606@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230909T110000 SUMMARY:Öffentliche Führung durch die Ausstellung "Deal with it!" DESCRIPTION:Treffpunkt: 11:00 Uhr\, UB Hauptbibliothek\, Eingang Ausstellu ngsraum (1.Stock) Keine Anmeldung erforderlich\\r\\nVeranstaltung im Rahme n der Ausstellung «Deal with it – Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel. [https:/ /ub.unibas.ch/de/ausstellungen/deal-with-it/]» Die Ausstellung ist vom 25 . August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. Gesamte s Begleitprogramm [https://ub.unibas.ch/de/ausstellungen/deal-with-it/#c2 9023] X-ALT-DESC:Treffpunkt: 11:00 Uhr\, \;UB Hauptbiblio
thek\, Eingang Ausstellungsraum (1.Stock)
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Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Deal with it – Afrikanische s Erbe in Basel.» Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. Gesamtes Begleitprogramm
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230909T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3580@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230902T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Allyship DESCRIPTION:Der Satz ‘Silence is Violence’ ist spätestens seit der zwe iten ‘Black Lives Matter’ – Bewegung im Jahre 2020 weitläufig bekan nt. Denn beim Angesicht von Unrecht untätig zu bleiben und zu schweigen\, kann ebenso schlimme Auswirkungen haben\, wie wenn effektiv Unrecht ausge übt wird. Nicht umsonst zählt das schweizerische Strafrecht mehrere Unte rlassungsdelikte. Wenn Menschen\, die sich als Weiss identifizieren\, bei Rassismus untätig bleiben\, kommt es allerdings vielfach daher\, dass sie nicht wissen\, wie sie genau reagieren sollen. In diesem Workshop wird di skutiert\, analysiert\, reflektiert und herausgearbeitet\, wie/wo/wann Men schen\, die sich als Weiss identifizieren\, sich für BIPoC einsetzen kön n(t)en und/oder soll(t)en. \\r\\nVeranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Der Satz ‘Silence is Violence’ ist spätestens seit der z
weiten ‘Black Lives Matter’ – Bewegung im Jahre 2020 weitläufig bek
annt. Denn beim Angesicht von Unrecht untätig zu bleiben und zu schweigen
\, kann ebenso schlimme Auswirkungen haben\, wie wenn effektiv Unrecht aus
geübt wird. Nicht umsonst zählt das schweizerische Strafrecht mehrere Un
terlassungsdelikte. Wenn Menschen\, die sich als Weiss identifizieren\, be
i Rassismus untätig bleiben\, kommt es allerdings vielfach daher\, dass s
ie nicht wissen\, wie sie genau reagieren sollen.
In diesem Workshop
wird diskutiert\, analysiert\, reflektiert und herausgearbeitet\, wie/wo/
wann Menschen\, die sich als Weiss identifizieren\, sich für BIPoC einset
zen könn(t)en und/oder soll(t)en. \;
Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Au sstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbiblioth ek zu sehen.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230902T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3578@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230908T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230901T133000 SUMMARY:Öffentliche Führung durch die Ausstellung "Deal with it" DESCRIPTION:Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrikan isches Erbe in Basel". Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. Novembe r 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Deal with it - Afrik anisches Erbe in Basel". \;Die Ausstellung ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3566@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230822T171315 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230831T181500 SUMMARY:Fredrick Ogenga: "Maskani Pan-African Digital Peacebuilding" (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2023) DESCRIPTION:Moving Beyond the 2022 Controversial Presidential Elections in Kenya\\r\\nAs we continue to witness the trends in social media today char acterised by the advancement of modern technology\, there is a growing con cern regarding the contribution of social media in society well captured i n the growing scientific inquiry that seeks to explore relations between t echnology and society. One emerging area of concern in this context is cen tred on the ambigous nature of social media in peace and security – They have been considered to escalate conflict but at the same time viewed as useful tools for mobilising collective action towards peacebuilding. The l atter has informed an area of study called “AI for Peace” which is pri marily concerned with how Artificial Intelligence is being harnessed for p eacebuilding within the “Tech for Good Mantra”. Maskani is a digital p eacebuilding innovation inspired by tech for good that uses WhatsApp and F acebook powering over 70 youthful micro-influencers in six public universi ties in Western Kenya. Maskani was invented out of fears of social media i nstigated violence in the highly charged 2022 elections\, which were chara cterised by ethnic polarisation disguised as class struggle. Maskani ventu res into positive interventions online and offline around electoral polari sation and other conflict pressure points using digital tools\, and arts a nd cultural strategies respectively. Maskani is grounded in Pan-African ph ilosophies of Utu (humanity)\, Umoja (unity) and Harambee (collective resp onsibility/pulling together) in the context of critical theories of techno logy and media in everyday life evidenced in its “#NguvuPamoja” or “ unity is strength” digital campaign slogan. This lecture reflects critic ally of the role Maskani continues to play beyond the 2022 controversial e lections and on lessons for the future.\\r\\nFredrick Ogenga is associate professor of Media and Security Studies at Rongo University. He also serve s as director of the Center for Media\, Democracy Peace and Security\, and CEO of The Peacemakers Corps Foundation of Kenya.\\r\\nThe lecture is hel d in the framework of the Conference: "Science\, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends\, Patterns\, and Prospects" (2023 conference of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science\, Technology & Society) X-ALT-DESC:As we continue to witness t he trends in social media today characterised by the advancement of modern technology\, there is a growing concern regarding the contribution of soc ial media in society well captured in the growing scientific inquiry that seeks to explore relations between technology and society. One emerging ar ea of concern in this context is centred on the ambigous nature of social media in peace and security – They have been considered to escalate conf lict but at the same time viewed as useful tools for mobilising collective action towards peacebuilding. The latter has informed an area of study ca lled “AI for Peace” which is primarily concerned with how Artificial I ntelligence is being harnessed for peacebuilding within the “Tech for Go od Mantra”. Maskani is a digital peacebuilding innovation inspi red by tech for good that uses WhatsApp and Facebook powering over 70 yout hful micro-influencers in six public universities in Western Kenya. Ma skani was invented out of fears of social media instigated violence i n the highly charged 2022 elections\, which were characterised by ethnic p olarisation disguised as class struggle. Maskani ventures into po sitive interventions online and offline around electoral polarisation and other conflict pressure points using digital tools\, and arts and cultural strategies respectively. Maskani is grounded in Pan-African phil osophies of Utu (humanity)\, Umoja (unity) and Harambee (coll ective responsibility/pulling together) in the context of critical th eories of technology and media in everyday life evidenced in its “#Nguvu Pamoja” or “unity is strength” digital campaign slogan. This lecture reflects critically of the role Maskani continues to play beyond the 2022 controversial elections and on lessons for the future.
\n< strong>Fredrick Ogenga is associate professor of Media and Securi ty Studies at Rongo University. He also serves as director of the Center f or Media\, Democracy Peace and Security\, and CEO of The Peacemakers Corps Foundation of Kenya.
\nThe lecture is held in the framework of the Conference: "Science\, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends\, Pa tterns\, and Prospects" (2023 conference of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science\, Technology &\; Society)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3532@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230629T160653 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230831 SUMMARY:Conference: "Science\, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Tren ds\, Patterns\, and Prospects" DESCRIPTION:The 2023 conference of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science\, Technology & Society (STS-CH) connects Swiss and international researchers and welcomes participants from all career levels. The event ai ms to promote the community of STS scholars by fostering exchange between various disciplines and fields of research as well as communities of pract ice. Contributions address empirical\, methodological and theoretical issu es relating to science\, technology\, policy\, and society.\\r\\nKeynote s peakers:\\r\\n Prof. Bruce Lewenstein\, Cornell University Prof. Fredric k Ogenga\, Rongo University (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2023) Prof. Sally W yatt\, Maastricht University \\r\\nRegistration is open (supplementary cha rge for late registration after 1 August 2023). X-ALT-DESC:The 2023 conference of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science\, Technology &\; Society (STS-CH) connects Swiss and interna tional researchers and welcomes participants from all career levels. The e vent aims to promote the community of STS scholars by fostering exchange b etween various disciplines and fields of research as well as communities o f practice. Contributions address empirical\, methodological and theoretic al issues relating to science\, technology\, policy\, and society.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nRegistration is open (supplementary charge for late registration after 1 August 2023).
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230901 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3570@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230822T192828 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230827T121500 SUMMARY:Guided tour: Basel and Africa DESCRIPTION:During this free 90-minute walk\, we will explore the diverse c onnections between Basel and Africa. We encounter entrepreneurs who market ed exotic goods\, investigate racism in children's books\, shed light on S witzerland's relations with South Africa during the Apartheid era\, meet a young woman from Ghana living in Basel in the 19th century\, and examine Basel's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade\, offering us a new p erspective on its economic significance in terms of trade\, textile produc tion\, insurance\, and banking. The tour concludes with a discussion on th e "Völkerschauen" (ethnographic displays) at Basel Zoo.\\r\\nThe guided t our takes approximately 1.5 hours on foot. Participation is free\, and reg istration is mandatory.\\r\\nThe tour starts in front of Atlantis\, Kloste rberg 13\, Basel and ends at Meetingpoint kHaus\, Unterer Rheinweg.\\r\\nR egistration for Sunday [https://forms.gle/YAP9UfPqDMEaUHVf6] X-ALT-DESC:During this free 90-minute walk\, we will explore the diverse connections between Basel and Africa. We encounter entrepreneurs who mark eted exotic goods\, investigate racism in children's books\, shed light on Switzerland's relations with South Africa during the Apartheid era\, meet a young woman from Ghana living in Basel in the 19th century\, and examin e Basel's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade\, offering us a new perspective on its economic significance in terms of trade\, textile prod uction\, insurance\, and banking. The tour concludes with a discussion on the "Völkerschauen" (ethnographic displays) at Basel Zoo.
\nThe guided tour takes approximately 1.5 hours on foot. Participation is free\, and registration is mandatory.
\nThe tour starts i n front of Atlantis\, Klosterberg 13\, Basel and ends at Meetingpoint kHau s\, Unterer Rheinweg.
\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3569@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230822T194000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230825T121500 SUMMARY:Stadtführung: Basel und Afrika DESCRIPTION:Während des 90minütigen Spaziergangs beleuchten wir die manni gfachen Verbindungen zwischen Basel und Afrika. Wir begegnen Unternehmern\ , die Exotik vermarkteten\, spüren Rassismus in Kinderbüchern nach\, bel euchten die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Südafrika während der A partheid\, begegnen einer jungen Frau aus Ghana im Basel des 19. Jahrhunde rts und betrachten Basel als Hinterland des transatlantischen Sklavenhande ls\, was uns über Warenflüsse\, Textilproduktion\, Versicherungen und Ba nkenwesen einen neuen Blick auf den Wirtschaftsstandort öffnet. Den Absch luss bilden die Völkerschauen im Basler Zoo.\\r\\nDer Rundgang dauert zu Fuss ca. 2 Stunden. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und die Anmeldung verbindl ich. Der Rundgang beginnt vor dem Atlantis\, Klosterberg 13\, Basel und endet beim Meetinpoint kHaus am Unteren Rheinweg Anmeldung Freitag [https ://forms.gle/t4UJX8QtCXvBs3V98] // Anmeldung Samstag [https://forms.gle/qB 6EXaBbkQQd5mn79]\\r\\nEine Führung in englischer Sprache wird am Sonntag 27.08.2023 um 12:15 angeboten. X-ALT-DESC:Während des 90minütigen Spaziergangs beleuchten wir die man nigfachen Verbindungen zwischen Basel und Afrika. Wir begegnen Unternehmer n\, die Exotik vermarkteten\, spüren Rassismus in Kinderbüchern nach\, b eleuchten die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Südafrika während der Apartheid\, begegnen einer jungen Frau aus Ghana im Basel des 19. Jahrhun derts und betrachten Basel als Hinterland des transatlantischen Sklavenhan dels\, was uns über Warenflüsse\, Textilproduktion\, Versicherungen und Bankenwesen einen neuen Blick auf den Wirtschaftsstandort öffnet. Den Abs chluss bilden die Völkerschauen im Basler Zoo.
\nDer Rundgang dauer
t zu Fuss ca. 2 Stunden. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und die Anmeldung ver
bindlich.
Der Rundgang beginnt vor dem \;Atlantis\, Klost
erberg 13\, Basel und endet beim Meetinpoint kHaus am Unteren Rheinweg
Anmeldung Freitag<
/a> // Anmeldung Samstag
Eine Führung in englischer Sprache wird am Sonntag 27.08.2023 um 12:15 angeboten.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230826T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3555@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230815T164152 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230824T180000 SUMMARY:Vernissage: "Deal with it – Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel" DESCRIPTION:Die Kurator*innen und Entwickler*innen geben Einblicke in den E ntstehungsprozess dieses vielschichtigen Projekts.\\r\\nErkunden Sie die A usstellungsräume\, stöbern Sie im Suchportal und stellen Sie den Student *innen\, welche die Geschichte der Institutionen aufgearbeitet haben\, ihr e kritischen Fragen. Zum Abschluss lädt ein Apéro zum weiteren Austausch ein.\\r\\nTreffpunkt: 18.00 Uhr\, UB Hauptbibliothek\, Vortragssaal (1. S tock)\\r\\nEintritt frei\, keine Anmeldung erforderlich\\r\\nDie Ausstellu ng «Deal with it – Afrikanisches Erbe in Basel [https://ub.unibas.ch/de /ausstellungen/deal-with-it/]» ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 i n der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen. X-ALT-DESC:Die Kurator*innen und Entwickler*innen geben Einblicke in den Entstehungsprozess dieses vielschichtigen Projekts.
\nErkunden Sie die Ausstellungsräume\, stöbern Sie im Suchportal und stellen Sie den St udent*innen\, welche die Geschichte der Institutionen aufgearbeitet haben\ , ihre kritischen Fragen. Zum Abschluss lädt ein Apéro zum weiteren Aust ausch ein.
\nTreffpunkt: 18.00 Uhr\, UB Hauptbiblio thek\, Vortragssaal (1. Stock)
\nEintritt frei\, keine A nmeldung erforderlich
\nDie Ausstellung «Deal with it – Afrikan isches Erbe in Basel» ist vom 25. August bis 16. November 2023 in der UB Hauptbibliothek zu sehen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3502@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230606T094804 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230823 SUMMARY:Summer School: "Making knowledge policy-relevant: The SSH’s role in global sustainable development" DESCRIPTION:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulating and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on Afr ican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, co nceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on t he intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one h and and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.\\r\\nThe Bas el Summer School 2023 addresses the challenge of policy relevance in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in general and area studies in parti cular by mapping out the differences between basic and applied research. T he crucial distinction is between knowledge production geared towards unde rstanding problems and knowledge production aiming at identifying solution s. The Summer School aims to harness the strengths of basic research in fi elds bearing directly on development in Africa to emphasize the need for a n actual understanding of the problems to be addressed. Policy relevance s hould bear on working out the terms under which good problem definitions c an yield policy options. The ultimate goal of the Summer School is to help participants develop critical skills enabling them to become researchers who live up to the highest scientific standards and are equipped with the transformative skills to make an impact. X-ALT-DESC:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulatin g and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on A frican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one hand and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.
\nTh e Basel Summer School 2023 addresses the challenge of \;policy relevance in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) \;in g eneral and area studies in particular by mapping out the differences betwe en basic and applied research. The crucial distinction is between knowledg e production geared towards understanding problems and knowledge productio n aiming at identifying solutions. The Summer School aims to harness the s trengths of basic research in fields bearing directly on development in Af rica to emphasize the need for an actual understanding of the problems to be addressed. Policy relevance should bear on working out the terms under which good problem definitions can yield policy options. The ultimate goal of the Summer School is to help participants develop critical skills enab ling them to become researchers who live up to the highest scientific stan dards and are equipped with the transformative skills to make an impact.&n bsp\;
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230901 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3477@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230515T095434 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230613T190000 SUMMARY:Lesung mit Henri-Michel Yéré: "Polo kouman / Polo parle" DESCRIPTION:Der neue Gedichtband von Henri-Michel Yéré\, auf Nouchi und F ranzösisch geschrieben\, lässt Vergangenheit\, Gegenwart und Zukunft ine inanderfliessen und zeigt\, dass die Poesie die Linearität der Zeit über winden und unsere Visionen vervielfachen kann. Die Gedichte\, die aus beid en Sprachen schöpfen\, antworten einander\, aber ähneln sich nicht. Der Trostlosigkeit des Daseins stellt die Sammlung eine Gewissheit entgegen: W enn es einen Dialog gibt\, verschwindet schliesslich jede Einsamkeit.\\r\\ nDie Veranstaltung findet auf Nouchi\, Französisch und Deutsch statt. – This event will be in Nouchi\, French and German. X-ALT-DESC:Der neue Gedichtband von Henri-Michel Yéré\, auf Nouchi und Französisch geschrieben\, lässt Vergangenheit\, Gegenwart und Zukunft i neinanderfliessen und zeigt\, dass die Poesie die Linearität der Zeit üb erwinden und unsere Visionen vervielfachen kann. Die Gedichte\, die aus be iden Sprachen schöpfen\, antworten einander\, aber ähneln sich nicht. De r Trostlosigkeit des Daseins stellt die Sammlung eine Gewissheit entgegen: Wenn es einen Dialog gibt\, verschwindet schliesslich jede Einsamkeit.
\nDie Veranstaltung findet auf Nouchi\, Französisch und Deutsch statt . – \;This event will be in Nouchi\, French and German.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3495@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230530T094556 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230609T083000 SUMMARY:Conference: "Revisiting Histories and Cultures of African Diasporas \, Religion and Belief" DESCRIPTION:The Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and t he Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite to a symposium on the occasion of t he 100th birthday of the Swiss historian and theologian Hans Werner Debrun ner (1923-1998).\\r\\nHans W. Debrunner published initially on spiritualit y and belief systems in Ghana as well as on Christian mission histories fo r both Ghana and Togo. Apart from numerous essays\, his monographs Witchcr aft in Ghana: as study on the belief in destructive witches and its effect on the Akan tribes (1959) and A history of Christianity in Ghana (1967) l aid foundations for later scholarship. \\r\\nDebrunner’s voluminous boo k Presence and Prestige: Africans in Europe. A history of Africans in Euro pe before 1918 (1979) remains a classic in African Diaspora history studie s. He also contributed to the history of Swiss colonial entanglements in A frica.\\r\\nAt the sympoisum scholars from North and South revisit themes and topics in Debrunner’s writings and assess some of the influences whi ch his scholarship and also his research archives and library\, housed at the BAB\, generate(d).\\r\\nRegistration:\\r\\nAttendance is free of charg e\, please confirm your attendance via our online form [https://forms.gle/ 7kpnZYhFjKfTZvR9A]. Deadline: 6 June 2023\\r\\nConvenors:\\r\\nDag Henri chsen (BAB): dh@baslerafrika.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/newsdetails/cal l-call-for-papers-revisiting-histories-and-cultures-of-african-diasporas-r eligion-and-belief-basel-9-10-june-2023/#]\\r\\nErnest Sewordor (CASB): er nest.sewordor@unibas.ch [mailto:ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch]\\r\\nVeit Arlt (CASB): veit.arlt@unibas.ch [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/newsdetails/call-ca ll-for-papers-revisiting-histories-and-cultures-of-african-diasporas-relig ion-and-belief-basel-9-10-june-2023/#] X-ALT-DESC:The Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite to a symposium on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Swiss historian and theologian Hans Werner Debr unner (1923-1998).
\nHans W. Debrunner published initially on spirit
uality and belief systems in Ghana as well as on Christian mission histori
es for both Ghana and Togo. Apart from numerous essays\, his monographs
Debrunner’s voluminous book Presence and Prestige: Africans in Eu rope. A history of Africans in Europe before 1918 (1979) remains a cl assic in African Diaspora history studies. He also contributed to the hist ory of Swiss colonial entanglements in Africa.
\nAt the sympoisum sc holars from North and South revisit themes and topics in Debrunner’s wri tings and assess some of the influences which his scholarship and also his research archives and library\, housed at the BAB\, generate(d).
\nRegistration:
\nAttendance is free of charge\, plea se confirm your attendance v ia our online form. Deadline: \; 6 June 2023
\nConve nors:
\nDag Henrichsen (BAB): dh@baslera frika.ch
\nErnest Sewordor (CASB): ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch
\nVeit Arlt (CASB): veit.arlt@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230610T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3508@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230608T114707 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230608T143000 SUMMARY:Salon-Discussion with Mary Boatemaa Setrana (University of Ghana) DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor and the Dir ector of the Centre for Migration Studies\, University of Ghana\, Accra\, and a Research Associate\, Faculty of Humanities\, University of Johannesb urg\, South Africa. Mary is a member of a number of migration governance advisory groups and networks. For instance\, she served as a technical ad visor to the African Union Commission on migration governance. She is also an Advisory Board member of the African Research Universities Alliance (A RUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration & Mobility. She serves as the mig ration advisor for the Ghana Journalist Association. Her research interest s focus on migration and gender\, migration governance and policy developm ent\, migration conflict and peacebuilding\, and return migration and rein tegration. She is an African-based researcher on the following on-going re search projects: Migration Decisions and the COVID-19 Pandemic project\; G CRF South-South Migration\, Inequality and Development Hub\; Migration and Social Transformation project\; Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Pea ce Project\; and Crises as Opportunities project. X-ALT-DESC:Dr. Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor and the D irector of the Centre for Migration Studies\, University of Ghana\, Accra\ , and a Research Associate\, Faculty of Humanities\, University of Johanne sburg\, South Africa. \;Mary is a member of a number of migration gov ernance advisory groups and networks. For instance\, she served as a techn ical advisor to the African Union Commission on migration governance. She is also an Advisory Board member of the African Research Universities Alli ance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration &\; Mobility. \;She serves as the migration advisor for the Ghana Journalist Association. Her research interests focus on migration and gender\, migration governance an d policy development\, migration conflict and peacebuilding\, and return m igration and reintegration. She is an African-based researcher on the foll owing on-going research projects: Migration Decisions and the COVID-19 Pan demic project\; GCRF South-South Migration\, Inequality and Development Hu b\; Migration and Social Transformation project\; Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace Project\; and Crises as Opportunities project.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230608T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3345@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T173716 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230531T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation by the students of the fieldcourse "Exploring Urban En vironmental Futures in Colombia" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by the students of the fieldcourse X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by the students of the fieldcourse
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230531T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3494@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230525T120906 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230529T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Rethinking Decolonisation: African Knowledge\, Religion and Global Health" DESCRIPTION:Decolonization discourses on African medicine lend credence to development in the West and largely dismiss the relevance of local knowled ge systems and practices to global health. These misconceptions about Afri ca changed after WW2 to contemporary times as Africa became the hub for ex perimenting with innovations that have accelerated global sustainable deve lopment in the healthcare sectors. Challenging imperial domination in Afri can medical history\, this workshop looks beyond the delegitimisation of h ealing institutions to reflect on African contributions in the field of gl obal African medicine. In particular\, it focuses on methods\, approaches\ , knowledge\, and practices initiated by Africans which have been and are still relevant in global spheres. At a time\, where reframing traditional health through heritage discourses and practices may present a route to th e institutionalisation of these practices\, this workshop brings into dial ogue\, through the lens of decolonisation\, how local knowledge fosters gl obal policies to address the escalating menace of mortality in contemporar y time.\\r\\nThrough an interdisciplinary approach from history\, anthropo logy\, religion\, and public and global health\, this workshop examines th e role of Africa in the development of knowledge\, innovations\, and polic y related to health - with a focus on themes with international reach (suc h as healthcare systems\, environmental health\, maternal health\, African traditional medicine\, religious belief systems\, and healing\, etc.). Re search questions could include but are not limited to: What sources and me thodologies are used in the reconstruction of the history of global health in Africa? How is decolonialisation/ty impacting African contributions to global health? How have the foundational roles of culture and religion in fluenced African contributions? What medical innovations can be credited t o the African continent? What are the potentials and constraints of decolo nising the history of global health? How have Africans shaped developments in medical practices and global health sectors? What is the significance of African indigenous knowledge in the history of global health? Is it rig ht to suggest that Africans have been represented in international health organisations? X-ALT-DESC:Decolonization discourses on African medicine lend credence t o development in the West and largely dismiss the relevance of local knowl edge systems and practices to global health. These misconceptions about Af rica changed after WW2 to contemporary times as Africa became the hub for experimenting with innovations that have accelerated global sustainable de velopment in the healthcare sectors. Challenging imperial domination in Af rican medical history\, this workshop looks beyond the delegitimisation of healing institutions to reflect on African contributions in the field of global African medicine. In particular\, it focuses on methods\, approache s\, knowledge\, and practices initiated by Africans which have been and ar e still relevant in global spheres. At a time\, where reframing traditiona l health through heritage discourses and practices may present a route to the institutionalisation of these practices\, this workshop brings into di alogue\, through the lens of decolonisation\, how local knowledge fosters global policies to address the escalating menace of mortality in contempor ary time.
\nThrough an interdisciplinary approach from history\, ant hropology\, religion\, and public and global health\, this workshop examin es the role of Africa in the development of knowledge\, innovations\, and policy related to health - with a focus on themes with international reach (such as healthcare systems\, environmental health\, maternal health\, Af rican traditional medicine\, religious belief systems\, and healing\, etc. ). Research questions could include but are not limited to: What sources a nd methodologies are used in the reconstruction of the history of global h ealth in Africa? How is decolonialisation/ty impacting African contributio ns to global health? How have the foundational roles of culture and religi on influenced African contributions? What medical innovations can be credi ted to the African continent? What are the potentials and constraints of d ecolonising the history of global health? How have Africans shaped develop ments in medical practices and global health sectors? What is the signific ance of African indigenous knowledge in the history of global health? Is i t right to suggest that Africans have been represented in international he alth organisations?
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3351@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T182310 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230524T171500 SUMMARY:Tichaona Mazarire: "The Politics Of Ex-Combatant Reintegration in P ost-Colonial Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3344@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T173418 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230524T161500 SUMMARY:Claudine Rakotomanana and Kaue Felipe Nogarotto Crima Bellini: "Int imacy\, Race\, and Mobility: Doctoral Research Proposal Workshop" DESCRIPTION:Claudine Rakotomanana and Kaue Felipe Nogarotto Crima Bellini ( University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Claudine Rakotomanana and Kaue Felipe Nogarotto Crima Bellini (University of Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230524T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3411@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T115713 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230522T123000 SUMMARY:Review session: "Beyond Area Studies" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in an d critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and m ethodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regio nal or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, in particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of i nquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of the region or area of study.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registrat ion form: https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/ [https://r eversingthegaze.net/2023/02/17/research-colloquium-spring-semester-2023-be yond-area-studies/] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g . new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across reg ional or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, i n particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of inquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of th e region or area of study.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Z oom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the regi stration form: https://reversingtheg aze.net/colloquium/registration/
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3350@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T182103 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230517T181500 SUMMARY:Nicola Brandt: "The Day Curt Fell: Embodied Memory Work\, Performan ce Art and Intersectional Activism in Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3343@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T173221 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230517T161500 SUMMARY:Anna Schmid: "Koloniale Belastung: Probleme und Perspektiven des et hnologischen Museums" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Anna Schmid (Museum der Kulturen Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Anna Schmid (Museum der Kulturen Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230517T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3394@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230504T102658 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230515T183000 SUMMARY:Lesung mit Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: "Die geheimste Erinnerung der Mens chen" DESCRIPTION:Mitreissend und voller Ironie erzählt Sarr von einer Reise\, d ie drei Kontinente umspannt. Als dem jungen Senegalesen Diégane ein verlo ren geglaubtes Kultbuch in die Hände fällt\, stürzt er sich auf die Spu r des rätselhaften Verfassers T.C. Elimane. Dieser wurde in den dreissige r Jahren als «schwarzer Rimbaud» gefeiert\, nach rassistischen Anfeindun gen und einem Skandal tauchte er jedoch unter. Wer war er? Eine meisterhaf te Spurensuche\, eine radikal aktuelle Auseinandersetzung mit dem komplexe n Erbe des Kolonialismus\, raffiniert\, spannend und «einfach nur brillan t» (3sat Buchzeit).\\r\\nDie Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch und Franzö sisch statt – La soirée se déroulera en français et en allemand. X-ALT-DESC:Mitreissend und voller Ironie erzählt Sarr von einer Reise\, die drei Kontinente umspannt. Als dem jungen Senegalesen Diégane ein ver loren geglaubtes Kultbuch in die Hände fällt\, stürzt er sich auf die S pur des rätselhaften Verfassers T.C. Elimane. Dieser wurde in den dreissi ger Jahren als «schwarzer Rimbaud» gefeiert\, nach rassistischen Anfeind ungen und einem Skandal tauchte er jedoch unter. Wer war er? Eine meisterh afte Spurensuche\, eine radikal aktuelle Auseinandersetzung mit dem komple xen Erbe des Kolonialismus\, raffiniert\, spannend und «einfach nur brill ant» (3sat Buchzeit).
\nDie Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch und Fr anzösisch statt – La soirée se déroulera en français et en allem and.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3342@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230508T113902 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230510T161500 SUMMARY:Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni: "The Challenges of Decolonising African Stu dies" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Bayreuth) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Bayreut h)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230510T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3293@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230123T112001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230504T181500 SUMMARY:Panel discussion: "Decolonizing the Museum? A Conversation on Colon ial Heritage in European Collections" DESCRIPTION:Details to follow soon. X-ALT-DESC:Details to follow soon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3341@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T172643 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230503T161500 SUMMARY:Anna-Riikka Kauppinen: "Counter Capital: Vernaculars of ‘Home-Gro wn’ Finance in Ghana’s New Private Sector" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Anna-Riikka Kauppinen (Geneva Graduate Institut e) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Anna-Riikka Kauppinen (Geneva Graduate Instit ute)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230503T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3442@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230426T235028 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503 SUMMARY:Conference: "Cultural relations between Switzerland and South Afric a\, 1948–1994" DESCRIPTION:The relationship between Switzerland and South Africa has been the object of extensive research over the past two decades. However\, the focus has until now been on the role that Swiss business and politics play ed as enablers for the apartheid state. A research project [https://www.hk b-interpretation.ch/projekte/cultural-relations-between-switzerland-and-so uth-africa-1948-1994] running from 2019 to 2023 at the Hochschule der Kün ste Bern HKB\, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)\, ha s aimed instead to shed light on cultural relations between the two countr ies from the beginnings of apartheid in 1948 through to the first democrat ic elections in South Africa in 1994. To conclude this project\, the Hochs chule der Künste Bern [https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/] will be holding a confere nce from Wednesday 3 May to Friday 5 May 2023 in Basel in Switzerland\, ho sted by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien [https://www.baslerafrika.ch/] in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies Basel [https://zasb.uni bas.ch/en/] and Africa Open Institute [https://aoinstitute.ac.za/] of the University of Stellenbosch\, and funded by the SNSF.\\r\\nAttendance is fr ee\; please register here [https://campaign.bfh.ch/HKBAnmeldungS%C3%BCdafr ika/]. Coffee/tea and a light lunch on Wed/Thu are free of charge. On Frid ay 5 May\, attendees may join the speakers for the closing lunch at the Re staurant Anatolia [http://www.restaurant-anatolia.ch/] (cost to non-speake rs ca. CHF 55.– per person).\\r\\nLink: Conference website [https://www. hkb-interpretation.ch/south-africa]\\r\\nDownload: Conference program [htt ps://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Veranstaltu ngen/2305_ZA.pdf] X-ALT-DESC:The relationship between Switzerland and South Africa has bee n the object of extensive research over the past two decades. However\, th e focus has until now been on the role that Swiss business and politics pl ayed as enablers for the apartheid state. A research project running from 2019 to 2023 at the Hochs chule der Künste Bern HKB\, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundati on (SNSF)\, has aimed instead to shed light on cultural relations between the two countries from the beginnings of apartheid in 1948 through to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. To conclude this proje ct\, the Hochschule der Künste Bern will be holding a conference from Wednesday 3 May to Friday 5 May 2023 in Basel in Switzerland\, hosted by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies Basel and Africa Open Institute of the University o f Stellenbosch\, and funded by the SNSF.
\nAttendance is free\; please register
here.
Coffee/tea and a light lunch on Wed/Thu are free of charge
.
On Friday 5 May\, attendees may join the speakers for the closing
lunch at the Restaurant Anato
lia (cost to non-speakers ca. CHF 55.– per person).
Link:Co nference website
\nDownload:Conference program
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230505 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3340@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T172508 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230426T161500 SUMMARY:Rosalind Morris and Yvette Christiansë: "Works of Passage: Archive \, Image and Rendered Lives Ex Africa" DESCRIPTION:Rosalind Morris (Columbia University) and Yvette Christiansë ( Barnard College) X-ALT-DESC:Rosalind Morris (Columbia University) and Yvette Christiansë (Barnard College)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230426T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3410@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T115549 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230424T123000 SUMMARY:Aline Schläpfer: "Area studies\, geography and critical Muslim stu dies" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in an d critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and m ethodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regio nal or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, in particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of i nquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of the region or area of study.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registrat ion form: https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/ [https://r eversingthegaze.net/2023/02/17/research-colloquium-spring-semester-2023-be yond-area-studies/] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g . new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across reg ional or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, i n particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of inquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of th e region or area of study.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Z oom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the regi stration form: https://reversingtheg aze.net/colloquium/registration/
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3412@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230406T103702 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230421T160000 SUMMARY:Live Performance: "Ousie Martha" by Tuli Mekondjo DESCRIPTION:In this performative reflection on images found in the Basler A frika Bibliographien\, artist Tuli Mekondjo honours and channels the spi rits of Namibian women who laboured as domestic workers during the colonia l & apartheid eras.\\r\\nThe artist and BAB invite to an Apéro afterwards . X-ALT-DESC:In this performative reflection on images found in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, artist \;Tuli Mekondjo \;honours and chan nels the spirits of Namibian women who laboured as domestic workers during the colonial &\; apartheid eras.
\nThe artist and BAB invite to an Apéro afterwards.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3457@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230417T150704 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230421T123000 SUMMARY:Open Doors: Master's program African Studies DESCRIPTION:The afternoon schedule includes attening the artistic performan ce of @tuliphoenix\, an apéro at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and a c oncert with guitarist Keenan Ahrends (Johannesburg) at the bird's eye jazz club (reservation required directly at the jazz club [http://www.birdseye .ch]).\\r\\nPlease make sure you register for the open doors event [https: //docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFpiodXHwUcSY9SmuMy66J1UjADG0F5LS4DESU QXrbBZLFDw/viewform]! X-ALT-DESC:The afternoon schedule includes attening the artistic perform ance of @tuliphoenix\, an apéro at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and a concert with guitarist Keenan Ahrends (Johannesburg) at the bird's eye ja zz club (reservation required directly at the jazz club).
\nPlease make sure you register for the open doors event!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3349@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240207T144827 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230419T181500 SUMMARY:Henriette Gunkel: "Spectral Infrastructures in the Namib Desert: Sa nd\, Atmosphere\, Memorialisation" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3339@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T172012 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230419T161500 SUMMARY:Thomas Kirsch: "Securosociality: Notes from South Africa" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Thomas Kirsch (University of Konstanz) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Thomas Kirsch (University of Konstanz)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230419T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3413@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230406T153857 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230417T161500 SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Econ omy" DESCRIPTION:About the book: Trade Makes States highlights how trade and t he circulation of goods are central to Somali societies\, economies and po litics. Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa’s Somali- inhabited economic space–which includes areas of Kenya\, Djibouti\, Ugan da and Ethiopia–this volume highlights the interconnection between trade and state-building after state collapse. It scrutinises the "politics of circulation" between competing public administrations\, which seek to gene rate revenue and to control infrastructures along major trade corridors. Connecting classic debates on state formation with recent scholarship on l ogistics and cross-border trading\, Trade Makes States argues that the f acilitation and capture of commodity flows have been instrumental in makin g and unmaking states across the Somali territories. Aspiring state-builde rs are thus confronted with the challenge of governing the flow of goods i n order to rule over lands and peoples. The contributors to this volume d raw attention to the ingenuities of transnational Somali markets\, which o ften appear to be self-governed. Their dynamism and everyday administratio n by a host of actors provide important insights into contemporary state f ormation on the margins of global supply-chain capitalism.\\r\\nSpeaker: Tobias Hagmann\, swisspeace Discussant: Faduma Abukar\, University of Luc erne X-ALT-DESC:About the book: \;Trade Makes States \;highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies\, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site resear ch from across East Africa’s Somali-inhabited economic space–which inc ludes areas of Kenya\, Djibouti\, Uganda and Ethiopia–this volume highli ghts the interconnection between trade and state-building after state coll apse. It scrutinises the "politics of circulation" between competing publi c administrations\, which seek to generate revenue and to control infrastr uctures along major trade corridors. \;Connecting classic debates on s tate formation with recent scholarship on logistics and cross-border tradi ng\, \;Trade Makes States \;argues that the facilitation and capture of commodity flows have been instrumental in making and unmaki ng states across the Somali territories. Aspiring state-builders are thus confronted with the challenge of governing the flow of goods in order to r ule over lands and peoples. \;The contributors to this volume draw att ention to the ingenuities of transnational Somali markets\, which often ap pear to be self-governed. Their dynamism and everyday administration by a host of actors provide important insights into contemporary state formatio n on the margins of global supply-chain capitalism.
\nSpeake
r: \;Tobias Hagmann\, swisspeace
Discussant: \;Faduma Abukar\, University of Lucerne
The purpose of this half-day workshop is to explore the merit s of focusing the discussion of theoretical and conceptual issues in the s ocial sciences and humanities on the kinds of methodological challenges it implies. The discomfort felt by scholars from the Rest of the World – o r those who engage in non-European regions from critical perspectives – towards the pursuit of knowledge in academia has led to the emergence and consolidation of perspectives questioning the ideological nature of scienc e. Often\, it is not clear whether such critical perspectives imply a reje ction of science\, or simply a plea for the consideration of other ways of grounding it.
\nWhile these perspectives have represented refreshin g new ways of approaching knowledge\, much of their persuasive power has r ested on their appeal to ideology. Ambiguous notions such as “racism” or “colonial” both bring structural issues to light while at the same time\, they invite us to relate in a normative way with whatever might be at stake. The challenge here is to ascertain the extent to which it would be reasonable to argue that there are criteria lying beyond values and nor ms which would enable researchers to claim validity to their statements. P ut simply\, is “racism” what makes a particular claim invalid\, or the quality of the reasoning behind the statements?
\nThe workshop will provide a platform for discussing the potential for shifting the debate a way from epistemological issues – the nature of knowledge – to methodo logical issues\, i.e. the validation of claims.
\nKeynote: < /strong>Prof. Rose Marie Beck – The language of methodology
\nDi scussion with inputs from doctoral and postdoctoral researchers\n
Online participation via Zoom \;is possible.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230417T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3360@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230220T102633 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230417T121500 SUMMARY:Ingrid Anna Greenfield: "Cultural Contact And Crocodiles On the Mus eum der Kulturen’s Serra Leonan saltcellar\, 16th century" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230417T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3359@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T091752 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230414T121500 SUMMARY:Shepherd Mutswiri: "Competing Political Imaginaries of Decolonisati on: Liberal Multi-Racialism Expressed Through a Negotiated Settlement Rhod esia 1965-1980" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, international scholars are invited to present their research in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230414T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3338@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T171839 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230412T161500 SUMMARY:Olena Sobolieva: "Collective Memory and Moral Economy in the Land D isputes in Crimea" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Olena Sobolieva (University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Olena Sobolieva (University of Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230412T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3336@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T171656 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230405T161500 SUMMARY:Junnan Mu: "'This is the Only Way to Go': The Online and Offline Li fe of Fake Certificates in Kenya" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Junnan Mu (Harvard University) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Junnan Mu (Harvard University)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230405T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3401@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230330T092804 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230404T181500 SUMMARY:George Paul Meiu: "Queer Objects: Intimacy\, Citizenship\, and Resc ue in the Postcolony" DESCRIPTION:Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. George Paul Meiu\, Professor of Anthropology (Institute of Social Anthropology\, University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. George Paul Meiu\, Professor of A nthropology (Institute of Social Anthropology\, University of Basel) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3408@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T114744 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T123000 SUMMARY:Patrício Langa: "The Globality of Higher Education Research as an Area Study" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in an d critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and m ethodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regio nal or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, in particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of i nquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of the region or area of study.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registrat ion form: https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/ [https://r eversingthegaze.net/2023/02/17/research-colloquium-spring-semester-2023-be yond-area-studies/] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g . new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across reg ional or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, i n particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of inquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of th e region or area of study.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Z oom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the regi stration form: https://reversingtheg aze.net/colloquium/registration/
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3335@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T171447 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230329T161500 SUMMARY:Mwenda Ntarangwi: "Ethnography\, Conviviality and Listening in a Wo rld Characterized by Disruptions" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Mwenda Ntarangwi (Commission of University Educ ation\, Kenya) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Mwenda Ntarangwi (Commission of University Ed ucation\, Kenya)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230329T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3392@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230327T105515 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230327T190000 SUMMARY:Lesung: Prix Ahmadou Kourouma-Preisträgerin Beata Umubyeyi Mairess e DESCRIPTION:Mit dem Ahmadou-Kourouma-Preis\, benannt nach dem bedeutenden S chriftsteller aus der Côte d’Ivoire\, wird ein fiktionales Werk ausgeze ichnet\, dessen Geist der Unabhängigkeit\, der Klarheit und der Weitsicht mit dem literarischen und humanistischen Erbe Kouroumas in Einklang steht . Er wird im Rahmen des Genfer Salon du Livre verliehen. Die frischgekürt e Preisträgerin Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse wird in Basel vorgestellt und erm öglicht uns einen Einblick in die aktuelle Literatur aus Subsahara-Afrika .\\r\\nAusserdem waren nominiert: Diaty Diallo Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry N adia Yala Kisukidi Annie Lulu\\r\\nInfo: Literaturhaus Basel [https://www. literaturhaus-basel.ch/de/veranstaltung/2023_prix-ahmadou-kourouma/] X-ALT-DESC:Mit dem Ahmadou-Kourouma-Preis\, benannt nach dem bedeutenden Schriftsteller aus der Côte d’Ivoire\, wird ein fiktionales Werk ausge zeichnet\, dessen Geist der Unabhängigkeit\, der Klarheit und der Weitsic ht mit dem literarischen und humanistischen Erbe Kouroumas in Einklang ste ht. Er wird im Rahmen des Genfer Salon du Livre verliehen. Die frischgekü rte Preisträgerin Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse wird in Basel vorgestellt und e rmöglicht uns einen Einblick in die aktuelle Literatur aus Subsahara-Afri ka.
\nAusserdem waren nominiert:
Diaty Diallo
Nétonon N
oël Ndjékéry
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Annie Lulu
Info:Literaturhaus Basel
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3348@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T180131 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230322T181500 SUMMARY:Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja: "Oudano as Praxis: Archives\, Audioto pias and Movement" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3334@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T171300 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230322T161500 SUMMARY:Serena Dankwa: "'Freeing Our Imaginations': Knowing Women and Trans ferring Knowledge" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Serena Dankwa (University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Serena Dankwa (University of Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230322T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3409@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230403T115453 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230320T123000 SUMMARY:James Derrick Sidaway: "Area studies\, geography and critical Musli m studies" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in an d critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and m ethodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regio nal or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, in particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of i nquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of the region or area of study.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registrat ion form: https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/ [https://r eversingthegaze.net/2023/02/17/research-colloquium-spring-semester-2023-be yond-area-studies/] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g . new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across reg ional or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, i n particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of inquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of th e region or area of study.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Z oom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the regi stration form: https://reversingtheg aze.net/colloquium/registration/
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3324@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T160731 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230316T173000 SUMMARY:Informationsanlass Masterstudiengang African Studies DESCRIPTION:Interessieren Sie sich für den interdisziplinären Masterstudi engang African Studies an der Universität Basel? Besuchen Sie unsere Info rmationsanlass [https://unibas.zoom.us/j/63300879503?pwd=ZG9nc2xsZVJ3bVFRb kpRVm1sUlEyQT09] (Zoom)\, bei dem wir den Studiengang ausführlich vorstel len und Ihre Fragen beantworten.\\r\\nFür ein individuelles Beratungsgesp räch vereinbaren Sie bitte einen Termin mit dem Koordinator des Studienga ngs Veit Arlt [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/personen/veit-arlt/]\, (Tel. +41 61 207 34 86)\, veit.arlt@unibas.ch [mailto:veit.arlt@unibas.ch]\\r\\nDown loads:\\r\\n Flyer MSG African Studies (pdf) [t3://file?uid=2254] Weglei tung MSG African Studies (pdf) [t3://file?uid=2255] X-ALT-DESC:Interessieren Sie sich für den interdisziplinären Masterstu diengang African Studies an der Universität Basel? Besuchen Sie unsere Informationsanlass (Zoom)\, bei dem wir den Studiengang ausfü hrlich vorstellen und Ihre Fragen beantworten.
\nFür ein individuel les Beratungsgespräch vereinbaren Sie bitte einen Termin mit dem Koordina tor des Studiengangs Veit Arlt\, (Tel. +41 61 207 34 86)\, veit.arlt@unibas.ch
\nDownloads:
\n< ul>The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3333@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T171052 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230315T161500 SUMMARY:Book Roundtable: "Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" DESCRIPTION:Lesley Braun (University of Basel) in conversation with Jennife r Cole (University of Chicago) and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University College London). X-ALT-DESC:Lesley Braun (University of Basel) in conversation with Jenni fer Cole (University of Chicago) and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach \;(Uni versity College London).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230315T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3346@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230302T142343 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230308T181500 SUMMARY:Bayron van Wyk: "Decolonizing African Spiritualties: Calls for the Recognition of the Prisoner-of-War Graves at Swakopmund’s Kramerdorf Cem etery" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3332@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230216T170708 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230308T161500 SUMMARY:Larisa Jasarevic: "If You Saw the World Ending: An Eco-eschatology in Five Steps" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Larisa Jasarevic\, Independent Scholar X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Larisa Jasarevic\, Independent Scholar
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230308T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3366@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230227T092327 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230306T123000 SUMMARY:Benedikt Korf: "Introduction: Beyond Area Studies" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in an d critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g. new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and m ethodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across regio nal or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, in particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of i nquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of the region or area of study.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registrat ion form: https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/ [https://r eversingthegaze.net/2023/02/17/research-colloquium-spring-semester-2023-be yond-area-studies/] X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. In this semester\, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of the Area Studies and the various attempts to save them (e.g . new area studies\, global area studies). We will discuss theoretical and methodological implications of using socio-scientific concepts across reg ional or historical contexts for our understanding of Area Studies and\, i n particular\, the role of relationality with regards to both the scope of inquiry (as opposed to the object of inquiry) and the configuration of th e region or area of study.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Z oom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the regi stration form: https://reversingtheg aze.net/colloquium/registration/
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230306T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3302@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230209T144133 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230306T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.\\r\\nEvery body interested in African Studies is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend.
\nEverybody interested in African Studies is welcome!
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230306T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3321@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230228T090127 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230228T160000 SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lost Libraries - Burnt Archives (Sindi-Leigh McBride & Julia Rensing eds) DESCRIPTION:The book is the outcome of a two years' engagement witht the de struction of the Jagger Library by bushfire in April 2021. PhD-candidates Sindi-Leigh McBride and Julia Rensing\, at the time\, were teaching a clas s for the Graduate School of Social Sciences focussing on ways of reading contemporary African art to engage with relevant discourses in African Stu dies. Subsequently\, a partnership grew with Jethro and Nair who curated Of Smoke and Ash: Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition commemorating the tr agic loss of the African Studies Special Collections at the UCT. On 25 Apr il 2022 they held an exhibition response workshop in Cape Town\, inviting a group of artists and academics to visit the burnt library and the exhibi tion at Michaelis Galleries Fine Art Gallery at the University of Cape Tow n and to participate in a workshop on the topic of commemorative practices \, collective loss\, the archive\, decolonization\, and curatorship as a c reative site of knowledge. The publication co-edited by McBride and Rensin g features artworks\, poems\, reflective essays and short stories by parti cipants from the workshop in Cape Town as well as external writers\, acade mics and poets from South Africa\, Namibia and Switzerland.\\r\\nContribut ors\\r\\n Danielle Bowler Nicola Brandt Sophie Cope Dag Henrichsen Du ane Jethro Atiyyah Khan Bongani Kona Lerato Maduna Portia Malatjie Si ndi-Leigh McBride Nisha Merit Santu Mofokeng Nashilongweshipwe Mushaand ja Jade Nair Masande Ntshanga Koleka Putuma Julia Rensing Lorena Rizz o Ruth Sacks Niren Tolsi Eugene van der Merwe Lady Skollie Carine Zaa yman \\r\\nThe event starts 4pm CET (or 5pm CAT)\\r\\nLink: Please registe r here [https://unibas.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UvcOuoqz8pG9CwXp6ZRz4Izw CL45YwIMwh] to join on Zoom X-ALT-DESC:The book is the outcome of a two years' engagement witht the destruction of the Jagger Library by bushfire in April 2021. PhD-candidate s Sindi-Leigh McBride and Julia Rensing\, at the time\, were teaching a cl ass for the Graduate School of Social Sciences focussing on ways of readin g contemporary African art to engage with relevant discourses in African S tudies. Subsequently\, a partnership grew with Jethro and Nair who curated \; Of Smoke and Ash: Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition comm emorating the tragic loss of the African Studies Special Collections at th e UCT. On 25 April 2022 they held an exhibition response workshop in Cape Town\, inviting a group of artists and academics to visit the burnt librar y and the exhibition at Michaelis Galleries Fine Art Gallery at the Univer sity of Cape Town and to participate in a workshop on the topic of commemo rative practices\, collective loss\, the archive\, decolonization\, and cu ratorship as a creative site of knowledge. The publication co-edited by Mc Bride and Rensing features artworks\, poems\, reflective essays and short stories by participants from the workshop in Cape Town as well as external writers\, academics and poets from South Africa\, Namibia and Switzerland .
\nContributors
\nThe event starts 4pm CET (or 5pm C AT)
\nLink: Please register here t o join on Zoom
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3144@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T152606 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221221T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation by the students of the field course "Exploring Urban E nvironmental Futures in Colombia" DESCRIPTION:The students of the field course "Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Colombia" present their preparations for their ethnographic re search in January/February 2023. X-ALT-DESC:The students of the field course "Exploring Urban Environment al Futures in Colombia" present their preparations for their ethnographic research in January/February 2023.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221221T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3173@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221208T103931 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221216T151500 SUMMARY:Gugu Nonjinge: "Climate-Focused Transitional Justice: Exploring Pea cebuilding and Transitional Justice Approaches to Climate-related Conflict " DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221216T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3143@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T152227 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221214T161500 SUMMARY:Vaibhav Saria: "Global Health in the Clinic: Missed\, Late\, and Wr ong Diagnosis" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Vaibhav Saria\, University of British Colombia X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Vaibhav Saria\, University of British Colombi a
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221214T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3132@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T145911 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221212T121500 SUMMARY:Fabian Krautwald: "Prophetic Times: Memory and Augury in Twentieth- Century Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221212T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3166@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T123436 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221209T151500 SUMMARY:Marie Deridder: "Transforming Activism in Time of Crises and Deport ation: The Malian case" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221209T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3142@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T152100 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221207T161500 SUMMARY:Anand Pandian: "Hardened: The Everyday Walls of American Life\, and How to Take Them Down" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Anand Pandian\, Johns Hopkins University\\r\\nP lease contact s.burri@unibas.ch to get access to the virtual talk. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Anand Pandian\, Johns Hopkins University
\ nPlease contact s.burri@unibas.ch to get access to the virtual talk.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221207T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3154@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220927T151444 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221205T123000 SUMMARY:Ralph Weber: Review Session DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio -scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena int elligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to whic h concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come unde r massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial and dec olonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with analy tical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we make co ncepts crossing borders at all?\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the re gistration form [https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomen a intelligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial an d decolonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly ti ed to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional conte xt to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we ma ke concepts crossing borders at all?
\nThe colloquium takes place on line via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register vi a the regi stration form.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221205T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3165@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T123342 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221202T151500 SUMMARY:Anna Mwaba: "Incomplete Roadmaps: The Ambiguities of International Election Observation in Southern Africa" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221202T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3111@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T173146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221130T171500 SUMMARY:Sindi-Leigh McBride: "Climate Fiction and Climate Knowledge(s)" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3141@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T151845 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221130T161500 SUMMARY:Michael Stasik: "Terms of Detachment: Aloneness in West African Mig ration" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Michael Stasik\, University of Basel X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Michael Stasik\, University of Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221130T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3273@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221128T101524 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221129T160000 SUMMARY:Makau Kitata and Kenny Cupers: "Theatre as Decolonisation. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 'I will marry when I want' and Kamiriithu" DESCRIPTION:Told through the voices of some of its original actors and comm unity members\, Kamiriithu is a documentary film project about the Kamirii thu decolonial theater and its legacy today. Soon after its establishment in 1976\, the theater was demolished by the Kenyan government because of i ts revolutionary content. It is best known for the involvement of Kenyan w riter Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, who was imprisoned and later exiled. This pr oject looks beyond the world-famous writer and government repression to fo reground enduring struggles for social and environmental justice. Theater became a means by which ordinary people confronted land dispossession\, in dustrial pollution\, and neocolonial injustice. Based on their life storie s\, the project aims to produce a portrait of striving\, remembering\, and living amongst the lasting infrastructures of colonialism in a rapidly ch anging Kenya. X-ALT-DESC:Told through the voices of some of its original actors and co mmunity members\, Kamiriithu is a documentary film project about the Kamir iithu decolonial theater and its legacy today. Soon after its establishmen t in 1976\, the theater was demolished by the Kenyan government because of its revolutionary content. It is best known for the involvement of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, who was imprisoned and later exiled. This project looks beyond the world-famous writer and government repression to foreground enduring struggles for social and environmental justice. Theate r became a means by which ordinary people confronted land dispossession\, industrial pollution\, and neocolonial injustice. Based on their life stor ies\, the project aims to produce a portrait of striving\, remembering\, a nd living amongst the lasting infrastructures of colonialism in a rapidly changing Kenya.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221129T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3196@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221128T094533 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221128T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Beyond the Text: Film as Research" DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, Solveig Suess\, Kenny Cupers and Shourideh Molavi will present various interventions that employ film as a medium thr ough which academic research is activated. Showing short screenings of the ir works\, the session examines filmmaking as a form of practice research that can take very different forms and directions and which mobilizes vari ous community-based\, artistic\, and legal fora to enhance critical knowle dge production. X-ALT-DESC:In this workshop\, \;Solveig Suess\, Kenny Cupers and Sho urideh Molavi will present various interventions that employ film as a med ium through which academic research is activated. Showing short screenings of their works\, the session examines filmmaking as a form of practice re search that can take very different forms and directions and which mobiliz es various community-based\, artistic\, and legal fora to enhance critical knowledge production.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3131@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T145725 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221128T121500 SUMMARY:Ben Erpelding and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann: Thesis Presentation Day DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica.\\r\\nThesis Presentation by Ben Erpelding (Universität Basel) and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (Universität Basel) as part of the Research Semin ar "African History" Ben Erpelding (Universität Basel) Sklaverei und Skl avenhandel in westafrikanischen Missionsgebieten Danelle van Zyl-Hermann ( Universität Basel) Images that Move: From 1930s White Indigence to Twent y-First Century Poverty Porn in South Africa X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
\nThesis Presentation by Ben Erpelding (Universität Basel)
and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (Universität Basel) as part of the Research
Seminar "African History"
Ben Erpelding (Universität Basel) \;S
klaverei und Sklavenhandel in westafrikanischen Missionsgebieten
Dan
elle van Zyl-Hermann (Universität Basel) \;Images that Move: From 193
0s White Indigence to Twenty-First Century Poverty Porn in South Africa
The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221125T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3130@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T145317 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221123T180000 SUMMARY:Fabian Fechner: "Hidden Origins\, Sudden Changes: The Concept of “Discovery” in Cartography (16th–19th c.)" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221123T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3110@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T173106 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221123T171500 SUMMARY:Hannah Le Roux: "Maintaining Asbestos: the Township Roof and its Af terlife in Southern Africa\, 1942 onwards" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3140@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T151705 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221123T161500 SUMMARY:Jon Schubert: "Magical Math Hand Waving: Making Evidence for the Fu ture in Commercial Risk Forecasting" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Jon Schubert\, University of Basel X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Jon Schubert\, University of Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221123T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3153@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221107T102331 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221121T123000 SUMMARY:Rose Marie Beck: "Towards non-representational concept-making" DESCRIPTION:In her contribution Rose Marie Beck experiments with a non-repr esentational stance towards concept-making. Following Gandorfer & Ayub (20 21) she asks “Who or what has ever encountered—that is\, sensed and ma de sense of—a concept\, or even a word\, that was not an entanglement of matter\, history\, forces\, political and legal structures\, chemical rea ctions\, and physical intra-actions?” Most likely the short answer would be “nobody”\, since in our everyday academic practice we do indeed ta ke into account such entanglements. However\, they are not well conceptual ized as a mode of concept-making that – we think – necessarily compris es of acts of onto-epistemological exclusions. Does a non-representational mode help us in grappling with this gap between representational concepti ng and our academic practice? \\r\\nThe colloquium “Reversing the Gaze ” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptua l and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies a nd comparative social sciences. In this semester\, the colloquium will dis cuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able t o render phenomena intelligible in different settings. The standard assump tion according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within the context o f postcolonial and decolonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? W hat happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And ( why) should we make concepts crossing borders at all?\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, plea se register via the registration form [https://reversingthegaze.net/colloq uium/registration/]. X-ALT-DESC:In her contribution Rose Marie Beck experiments with a non-re presentational stance towards concept-making. Following Gandorfer &\; A yub (2021) she asks “Who or what has ever encountered—that is\, sensed and made sense of—a concept\, or even a word\, that was not an entangle ment of matter\, history\, forces\, political and legal structures\, chemi cal reactions\, and physical intra-actions?” Most likely the short answe r would be “nobody”\, since in our everyday academic practice we do in deed take into account such entanglements. However\, they are not well con ceptualized as a mode of concept-making that – we think – necessarily comprises of acts of onto-epistemological exclusions. Does a non-represent ational mode help us in grappling with this gap between representational c oncepting and our academic practice?
\nThe colloquium “Revers ing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological \, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Ar ea Studies and comparative social sciences. In this semester\, the colloqu ium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena intelligible in different settings. The sta ndard assumption according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are in dependent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within t he context of postcolonial and decolonial critiques. But does this mean th at concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative as sumptions? What happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we make concepts crossing borders at all?
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the registration form.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221121T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3231@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221114T125859 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221118T180000 SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Tuli Mekondjo DESCRIPTION:Tuli Mekondjo (born 1982 in Angola) is a Namibian artist who wo rks with diverse materials. These include textile fabrics\, photos\, paint \, resin\, and mahangu (millet) seeds - a Namibian basic food. Mekondjo us es materials from colonial photo archives to both delve into Namibian hist ory and illuminate aspects of Namibian identity politics. Increasingly imp ortant in her work is the element of spirituality. And more and more often she uses her artistic mediality in performance. Mekondjo's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and fairs in Namibia\, South Africa\, Ivory Coast\, France\, Germany and Great Britain. Tuli Mekondjo has been accepte d into the prestigious DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 2022.\\r\\nThose who cannot join on-site have the option to join online: https://unibas.zoom.u s/j/64770005326 [https://unibas.zoom.us/j/64770005326] X-ALT-DESC:Tuli Mekondjo (born 1982 in Angola) is a Namibian artist who
works with diverse materials. These include textile fabrics\, photos\, pai
nt\, resin\, and mahangu (millet) seeds - a Namibian basic food. Mekondjo
uses materials from colonial photo archives to both delve into Namibian hi
story and illuminate aspects of Namibian identity politics. Increasingly i
mportant in her work is the element of spirituality. And more and more oft
en she uses her artistic mediality in performance.
Mekondjo's work h
as been shown in numerous exhibitions and fairs in Namibia\, South Africa\
, Ivory Coast\, France\, Germany and Great Britain. Tuli Mekondjo has been
accepted into the prestigious DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 2022.
The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221118T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3139@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T151430 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221116T161500 SUMMARY:Jennifer Cole: "Migration in a Soap Operatic Key: Malagasy Migratio n through Marriage" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Jennifer Cole\, University of Chicago X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Jennifer Cole\, University of Chicago
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221116T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3129@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T145121 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221114T121500 SUMMARY:Linda Ratschiller: "Entanglements of Hygiene: Mission\, Tropical Me dicine and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe\, 1885–1914" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221114T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3162@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T122937 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221111T151500 SUMMARY:Vayda Megannon: "Accessing the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress G rant in South Africa: Unemployed\, Working-class South Africans' Entry Int o The Politics of Social Welfare" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221111T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3109@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T173034 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221109T171500 SUMMARY:Kim Sebastian Todzi: "Enablers of Genocide: The Woermann-Line and t he Colonial War against the Herero and Nama in Namibia\, 1904-1908" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3195@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221006T095010 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221107T180000 SUMMARY:Rosa Ficeck: "Post-Colonial Cities: Extractive Urbanisms and Climat e Justice" DESCRIPTION:This public seminar aims to facilitate a multi-disciplinary dis cussion on how (urban) spaces that have been built on extractivist process es\, and/or as spaces of (social) exclusion shape the experiences of urban dwellers today\, and what the implications of this are in the context of ongoing climate crises. X-ALT-DESC:This public seminar aims to facilitate a multi-disciplinary d iscussion on how (urban) spaces that have been built on extractivist proce sses\, and/or as spaces of (social) exclusion shape the experiences of urb an dwellers today\, and what the implications of this are in the context o f ongoing climate crises.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221107T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3161@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T122758 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221104T151500 SUMMARY:Portia Roelofs: "Be Accessible! Rethinking Accountability and Good Governance in Nigeria" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221104T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3128@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T144944 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221031T121500 SUMMARY:Wayne Dooling: "Poverty\, Property and Accumulation in Post-Emancip ation Cape Town" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221031T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3051@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220929T092659 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221028 SUMMARY:7th Swiss Researching Africa Days DESCRIPTION:The Researching Africa Days are held biennially alternating wit h the international thematic conferences of the Swiss Society for African Studies and are open to all disciplines representing African Studies. The objective of this biennial convention is to promote the exchange among the community of researchers working on Africa in Switzerland. Panels typical ly integrate young and established scholars (Master\, PhDs\, postdocs\, pr ofessors). A poster exhibition gives insight into ongoing and recently com pleted PhD projects.\\r\\nThe following panels and round tables were selec ted:\\r\\n African Transitions to Peace and Democracy? Modifications and critiques of a persistent model African Food Systems under Change: Instit utional Transformations and its Impact on Food Resilience and Nutrition ‘Expertise’ in and on African cities Multilingualism and Health Commu nication in sub-Saharan Africa: Transdisciplinary approaches in research a nd development practice Decolonizing Swiss-Africa research collaborations La transcription : enjeux de la mise à l’écrit de textes oraux afric ains Transdisciplinary research in Africa focusing on One Health Decolon ization of museum collections Another way of seeing: fiction and faction from and on Africa Nouvelles recherches sur l’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique : coopérations et circulations transimpériales (round table ) \\r\\nIn the panels researchers table their work for discussion. In post er sessions ongoing and recently completed doctoral dissertations will be introduced and the Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique (Geneva) w ill be the object of a roundtable discussion.\\r\\nRegistration Deadline: 16 October 2022 X-ALT-DESC:The Researching Africa Days are held biennially alternating w ith the international thematic conferences of the Swiss Society for Africa n Studies and are open to all disciplines representing African Studies. Th e objective of this biennial convention is to promote the exchange among t he community of researchers working on Africa in Switzerland. Panels typic ally integrate young and established scholars (Master\, PhDs\, postdocs\, professors). A poster exhibition gives insight into ongoing and recently c ompleted PhD projects.
\nThe following panels and round tables were selected:
\nIn the panels researchers table their work for discussion. In poster sessions ongoing and recently completed doc toral dissertations will be introduced and the Revue d'Histoire Contempora ine de l'Afrique (Geneva) \;will be the object of a roundtable discuss ion.
\nRegistration Deadline: 16 October 2022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221029 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3108@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221024T104832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221026T181500 SUMMARY:Dag Henrichsen: "'Sacred Objects'\, The Manipulation of Western Kno wledge and Collection Production and Ancestral Reverberations from (early) Colonial Namibia" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3138@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T151243 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221026T161500 SUMMARY:Stephen Okumu Ombere: "Anthropology at Home: Writing an Ethnography of Maternal Health among the Indigenous Populations in Kenya" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Stephen Okumu Ombere\, Maseno University X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Stephen Okumu Ombere\, Maseno University
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221026T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3194@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221010T172119 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221024T180000 SUMMARY:Book Launch: "What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy " DESCRIPTION:This book offers an innovative toolkit for engaging present urb an realities across disciplinary specializations and geographic purviews. Central to the book is the research and pedagogy of the Critical Urbanisms program at the University of Basel\, established in collaboration with th e African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of speci alized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time\, city planners\, architects\, researchers\, policymakers\, and activists are deeply immers ed in the chaotic and often contradictory urban realities that they are as ked to address. What is Critical Urbanism? offers an innovative toolkit for engaging these present realities across disciplinary specializations a nd geographic purviews. Central to the book is the research and pedagogy of the Critical Urbanisms program at the University of Basel\, established in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. The program’s renowned and emerging urbanists demonstrate the power of working with care and reciprocity across different contexts and institutions\, driven by engagement with varied communities of practice. T hey show how alternative urban futures can be imagined by addressing the h istorical injustices and global entanglements that shape the urban present . The book is tailored to students\, graduates\, and teachers of urban stu dies and related disciplines including architecture\, urban design\, human geography\, architectural history\, and urban anthropology. X-ALT-DESC:This book offers an innovative toolkit for engaging present u
rban realities across disciplinary specializations and geographic purviews
. Central to the book is the research and pedagogy of the Critical Urbanis
ms program at the University of Basel\, established in collaboration with
the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Unders
tanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree
of specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time\, city pl
anners\, architects\, researchers\, policymakers\, and activists are deepl
y immersed in the chaotic and often contradictory urban realities that the
y are asked to address. \;What is Critical Urbanism? \;of
fers an innovative toolkit for engaging these present realities across dis
ciplinary specializations and geographic purviews. \;Central to the bo
ok is the research and pedagogy of the Critical Urbanisms program at the U
niversity of Basel\, established in collaboration with the African Centre
for Cities at the University of Cape Town. The program’s renowned and em
erging urbanists demonstrate the power of working with care and reciprocit
y across different contexts and institutions\, driven by engagement with v
aried communities of practice. They show how alternative urban futures can
be imagined by addressing the historical injustices and global entangleme
nts that shape the urban present. The book is tailored to students\, gradu
ates\, and teachers of urban studies and related disciplines including arc
hitecture\, urban design\, human geography\, architectural history\, and u
rban anthropology.
The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221021T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3107@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T172833 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221019T181500 SUMMARY:Basilius Kasera: "Post-Colonial / Apartheid Justice Dialogues in a Socio-historical Context" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3137@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T151041 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221019T161500 SUMMARY:Peter Geschiere: "Freemasonry\, Homosexuality and Illicit Enrichmen t: Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Peter Geschiere\, University of Amsterdam X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Peter Geschiere\, University of Amsterdam
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221019T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3127@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221009T190732 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221018T121500 SUMMARY:Iracema Dulley: "'Chronicles of Bailundo': What is so Appealing abo ut a Source in an African Language" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221018T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3149@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221005T095417 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221017T101500 SUMMARY:Workshop: “Researching the (un)familiar” DESCRIPTION:This research workshop examines experiences of doing research i n familiar and unfamiliar contexts. The familiar/unfamiliar are understood as fluid and mutually non-exclusive\, and may refer to different aspects of the researcher’s biographical\, social or intellectual relation to th e specific regional and historical context she/he works on. The workshop f ocuses on methodological challenges and conceptual issues with a focus on doing research in Europe and in Africa. The workshop draws on research in the framework of the study “When there are Strangers in Our Midst. Citiz enship\, Migration and Re-tribalisation in Switzerland [https://reversingt hegaze.net/when-there-are-strangers-in-our-midst-citizenship-migration-and -retribalisation-in-switzerland/]” (a case study of the research project Reversing the Gaze [https://reversingthegaze.net/about-the-project/]).\\ r\\nSpeakers\\r\\n Peter Geschiere [https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/ASC- community/members/peter-geschiere] (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropol ogy\, Amsterdam) Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba [https://soziologie.philhist.unib as.ch/de/personen/tebuho-winnie-kanyimba/] (Centre for African Studies Bas el/Department of Social Sciences\, University of Basel) Matthias Maurer R ueda [https://dgw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/doktorat/g3s/doktorierende/maurer- rueda-matthias/] (Centre for African Studies Basel/Department of Social Sc iences\, University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:This research workshop examines experiences of doing research in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. The familiar/unfamiliar are understo od as fluid and mutually non-exclusive\, and may refer to different aspect s of the researcher’s biographical\, social or intellectual relation to the specific regional and historical context she/he works on. The workshop focuses on methodological challenges and conceptual issues with a focus o n doing research in Europe and in Africa. The workshop draws on research i n the framework of the study “When there are Strangers in Our Midst. Citizenship\, Mi gration and Re-tribalisation in Switzerland” (a case study of the re search project \;Reversing the Gaze).
\nThe online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221014T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3106@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220915T163908 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221012T181500 SUMMARY:Jens Wiedow: "Post WW II Housing in Namibia: Planning Practice and Social Control" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3136@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T162512 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221012T161500 SUMMARY:Kerry Chance: "Governing through Eco-Anxiety" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Kerry Chance\, Bergen University\\r\\nPlease co ntact s.burri@unibas.ch to get access to the virtual talk. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Kerry Chance\, Bergen University
\nPlea se contact s.burri@unibas.ch to get access to the virtual talk.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221012T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3152@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221010T123000 SUMMARY:Harshana Rambukwella: "Traveling Theory: The Potentials And Limitat ions Of Ideas As They 'Travel'" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio -scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena int elligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to whic h concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come unde r massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial and dec olonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly tied to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with analy tical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we make co ncepts crossing borders at all?\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via the re gistration form [https://reversingthegaze.net/colloquium/registration/]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomen a intelligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to which concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come under massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial an d decolonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly ti ed to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional conte xt to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we ma ke concepts crossing borders at all?
\nThe colloquium takes place on line via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register vi a the regi stration form.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221010T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3158@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T122448 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221007T151500 SUMMARY:Tycho van der Hoog: "African Elites in Pyongyang: Exploring North K orean Diplomacy and Afro-Asian Solidarity during the Cold War" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221007T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3135@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T150714 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221005T161500 SUMMARY:Zainabu Jallo: "Criminal Anthropology in Afro-Brazilian Material Re ligion" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Zainabu Jallo\, University of Basel X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Zainabu Jallo\, University of Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221005T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3126@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T144222 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221003T121500 SUMMARY:Sindi-Leigh McBride: "African Cli-fi: It Doesn’t Have to be This Way" DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of A frica. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History. The research seminar is open to al l students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221003T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3050@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220926T114038 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221001 SUMMARY:9th Namibia Research Day DESCRIPTION:The Namibia Research Day brings together graduate students and scholars of all levels and from all disciplines to share their research\, experiences and expectations. It offers the possibility to discuss ongoing or recently completed research on Namibia in an interdisciplinary context . The Day also offers the possibility for common reflections on a variety of (practical) issues with which researchers in Namibia are faced with\, s uch as archival and institutional possibilities and challenges or question s regarding academic cooperation. The Day takes place in a hybrid format\; nevertheless\, the organisers strongly encourage physical presence in Bas el for participants based in Europe.\\r\\nThe Namibia Research Day is join tly organised by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Namibia Research Centre & Southern Africa Library)\, the Centre for African Studies at the Univer sity of Basel\, Switzerland\, and the School of Humanities\, Society and D evelopment of the University of Namibia. Participation is free of charge. X-ALT-DESC:The Namibia Research Day brings together graduate students an d scholars of all levels and from all disciplines to share their research\ , experiences and expectations. It offers the possibility to discuss ongoi ng or recently completed research on Namibia in an interdisciplinary conte xt. The Day also offers the possibility for common reflections on a variet y of (practical) issues with which researchers in Namibia are faced with\, such as archival and institutional possibilities and challenges or questi ons regarding academic cooperation. The Day takes place in a hybrid format \; nevertheless\, the organisers strongly encourage physical presence in B asel for participants based in Europe.
\nThe Namibia Research Day is jointly organised by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Namibia Research C entre &\; Southern Africa Library)\, the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel\, Switzerland\, and the School of Humanities\, Soc iety and Development of the University of Namibia. Participation is free o f charge.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3157@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T122315 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220930T151500 SUMMARY:Joe Gazeley: "Françafrique and other myths: demystifying the Franc e-Africa relationship 1960-1969" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220930T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3133@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T150523 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220928T161500 SUMMARY:George Paul Meiu: "On Crossroads: Bodies\, Objects\, and Queer Futu res in Kenya" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by George Paul Meiu\, University of Basel X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by George Paul Meiu\, University of Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220928T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3151@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T112914 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220926T123000 SUMMARY:Elísio Macamo: "Knowledge: Values and Validity" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes soci o-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena in telligible in different settings. The standard assumption according to whi ch concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has come und er massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial and de colonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly tied t o context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with anal ytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional context t o another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we make c oncepts crossing borders at all?\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online vi a Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenome na intelligible in different settings. The standard assumption according t o which concepts\, when properly used\, are independent of context has com e under massive critique\, especially within the context of postcolonial a nd decolonial critiques. But does this mean that concepts are hopelessly t ied to context and are bearers of normative assumptions? What happens with analytical concepts when they travel from one historical or regional cont ext to another? What is gained – and what is lost? And (why) should we m ake concepts crossing borders at all?
\nThe colloquium takes place o nline via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register v ia email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220926T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3156@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220922T122156 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220923T151500 SUMMARY:Samwel Ntapanta: "Haunted Landscapes: Ghosts of the Colonial Rail i n Tanzania" DESCRIPTION:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates\, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the No rth and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a casu al setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pape rs\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colleag ues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to African politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Afri can Politics is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and practica l challenges that is encountered in research.\\r\\nPhD students and resear chers from all career levels and universities are welcome to join the onli ne colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the African Politics Research Gro up (APRG) mailing list\, write to michael.aeby@unibas.ch [mailto:michael .aeby@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The online colloquium serves as a platform for PhD candidates \, postdocs and established scholars who are based at universities in the North and South to discuss ongoing and recently completed research in a ca sual setting. Since 2020\, the Group has held over 50 meetings. Working pa pers\, elaborate research grant proposals and recent publications by colle agues with various disciplinary backgrounds\, whose work relates to Africa n politics in a broader sense are discussed. The research colloquium on Af rican Politics \;is a collaborative space to exchange experiences and receive helpful feedback on methodological\, empirical\, theoretical and p ractical challenges that is encountered in research.
\nPhD students and researchers from all career levels and universities are welcome to joi n the online colloquium that is jointly hosted by the Universities of Edin burgh and Basel. If you would like to be added to the \;African Politi cs Research Group \;(APRG) mailing list\, write to \;michael.aeby@unibas.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220923T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3105@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220915T163936 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220921T181500 SUMMARY:Atiyyah Khan: "Sonic Lecture: Digging Up Lost Histories" DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates i n Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies . It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Develo pment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels . Guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in crossdisciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studi es. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Deve lopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all leve ls. Guests are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2832@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220915T165824 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Apéro of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty from the Master programme African Studie s and other disciplines. The gathering provides an excellent platform to m ingle and network. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current co urses and researchers their projects. New students in the master programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend. However\, please abstain i n case of symptoms. New MA African Studies students are also invited to co ntact the program coordinator [javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto(%27nbjmup%2 Bwfju%5C%2FbsmuAvojcbt%5C%2Fdi%27)\;] for an individual counseling session .\\r\\nDrinks and snacks provided!\\r\\nPlease abstain in case of Covid-re lated symptoms. X-ALT-DESC:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty from the Master programme African Stud ies and other disciplines. The gathering provides an excellent platform to mingle and network. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master program me African Studies are firmly expected to attend. However\, please abstain in case of symptoms. New MA African Studies students are also invited to contact the program coordinator for an individual coun seling session.
\nDrinks and snacks provided!
\nPlease abstain in case of Covid-related symptoms.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220919T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3104@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220914T172851 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220916T170000 SUMMARY:Visual History Lab: "Worlds Apart. Film and Migrant Labour in South Africa and Switzerland 1950s/1960s" DESCRIPTION:During the Visual History Lab 2022 at the University of Basel\, students have have critically and creatively reworked two iconic films: "Come Back\, Africa" by Lionel Rogosin (1959) and "Siamo Italiani" by Alex ander Seiler (1964). At the Werkschau (Work in Progress) the interested pu blic is invited to view and discuss their work.\\r\\nDrinks and snacks wil l be offered. X-ALT-DESC:During the Visual History Lab 2022 at the University of Basel \, students have have \;critically and creatively reworked two iconic films: "Come Back\, Africa" by Lionel Rogosin (1959) and "Siamo Italiani" by Alexander Seiler (1964). At the Werkschau (Work in Progress) t he interested public is invited to view and discuss their work.
\nDr inks and snacks will be offered.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3052@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220822T121401 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220831 SUMMARY:Second European Students' Conference on African Studies DESCRIPTION:The Second European Conference on African Studies (SESCAS) is a project developed through joint efforts by students from the African Stud ies Master Programs at the University of Basel and at the University of Ge neva. It builds upon the initial 2007 experience\, which attracted almost 100 participants coming from diverse European universities. SESCAS22 aims to encourage connection and development of students within various Masters programs throughout Europe which work directly or theoretically with deve lopments\, trends\, and understandings of Africa. As a student-led project \, it aims at encouraging critical discussions and create networks for stu dent academics interested in Africa throughout Switzerland and Europe. \\ r\\nSupport SESCAS\\r\\nPlease assist as as social media conference ambass ador advertising the event\, assist on-site during the conference or\, if you are residing in Basel\, by hosting participants and volunteers from ou tside Basel. You may indicate what you can offer via the website. [https:/ /sescas22.unibas.ch/en/help-us-out/]\\r\\nRegistration\\r\\nThe cost of pa rticipation is CHF 30.- for students and CHF 50.- for graduates. Register for the conference via the conference website. [https://sescas22.unibas.ch /en/get-your-ticket/]\\r\\nFunders\\r\\nSESCAS22 is made possible thanks t o the financial support received from the Swiss Academy of the Social Scie nces and Humanities\, Swiss Society for African Studies\, Freiwillige Akad emische Gesellschaft Basel\, Carl Schlettwein Foundation\, Max Geldner Fou ndation\, Centre for African Studies Basel\, and the Fachgruppe African St udies.\\r\\nProgram\\r\\nThe program is available on the conference websit e. [https://sescas22.unibas.ch/en/programm-2022/] X-ALT-DESC:The Second European Conference on African Studies (SESCAS) is a project developed through joint efforts by students from the African St udies Master Programs at the University of Basel and at the University of Geneva. It builds upon the initial 2007 experience\, which attracted almos t 100 participants coming from diverse European universities. SESCAS22 aim s to encourage connection and development of students within various Maste rs programs throughout Europe which work directly or theoretically with de velopments\, trends\, and understandings of Africa. As a student-led proje ct\, it aims at encouraging critical discussions and create networks for s tudent academics interested in Africa throughout Switzerland and Europe.&n bsp\;
\nPlease assist as as social media co nference ambassador advertising the event\, assist on-site during the conf erence or\, if you are residing in Basel\, by hosting participants and vol unteers from outside Basel. You may indicate what you can offer via the website.
\nThe cost of participation is CHF 30. - for students and CHF 50.- for graduates. Register for the conference via the conference w ebsite.
\nSESCAS22 is made po ssible thanks to the financial support received from the Swiss Academy of the Social Sciences and Humanities\, Swiss Society for African Studies\, F reiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel\, Carl Schlettwein Foundation\, Max Geldner Foundation\, Centre for African Studies Basel\, and the Fachgr uppe African Studies.
\nThe program is available on the conference website.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220902 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news3011@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220609T101931 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220617T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop: "The Philosophy and Global Politics of Concept Travel" DESCRIPTION:Questions surrounding the nature of concepts and concept travel have received a lot of scholarly attention in the humanities and social s ciences. Concepts – their nature\, how they work and how they can be eng ineered – are important objects of study in philosophy. At the same time \, the notion of concept travel between and across different geographical and disciplinary domains has growing popularity in discussions about foste ring interdisciplinarity and broader debates about addressing inequality i n global knowledge production. For example: the integration and adoption o f concepts from marginalized epistemic communities is touted by some as a crucial part of decolonizing global knowledge production and challenging E urocentrism in global knowledge production.\\r\\nThis workshop aims to ref lect on two broad questions. The first question investigates the link betw een concept travel and concept engineering. Do concepts change in travelin g to different domains? What is the nature of this change\, and can it be understood as a form of conceptual engineering? The second question explor es the ways in which concepts and conceptual travel are understood in rece nt scholarship theorizing and challenging inequality in global knowledge p roduction.\\r\\nThe workshop primarily addresses doctoral students and pos tdoctoral researchers. Those interested in participating are kindly asked to register via email to europa@unibas.ch [javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailt o(%27nbjmup%2BfvspqbAvojcbt%5C%2Fdi%27)\;].\\r\\nThe event is organized in the context of the SNSF-project “Reversing the Gaze” [https://europa .unibas.ch/en/research/european-global-knowledge-production/reversing-the- gaze/] and in collaboration with the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg [https://www.uj.a c.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/philosophy/philosophy-centres/afri can-centre-for-epistemology-and-philosophy-of-science/]. "Reversing the G aze" [https://europa.unibas.ch/en/research/european-global-knowledge-produ ction/reversing-the-gaze/] uses a "conceptual laboratory" to take a criti cal theoretical approach by deploying concepts developed in the Global Sou th to the North. It tests the analytic purchase of three mid-level concept s – "re-tribalisation"\, "political society" and "the cunning state" – on political crisis phenomena in Europe against the background of a caref ul inquiry into the methodological scope of comparison. X-ALT-DESC:Questions surrounding the nature of concepts and concept trav el have received a lot of scholarly attention in the humanities and social sciences. Concepts – their nature\, how they work and how they can be e ngineered – are important objects of study in philosophy. At the same ti me\, the notion of concept travel between and across different geographica l and disciplinary domains has growing popularity in discussions about fos tering interdisciplinarity and broader debates about addressing inequality in global knowledge production. For example: the integration and adoption of concepts from marginalized epistemic communities is touted by some as a crucial part of decolonizing global knowledge production and challenging Eurocentrism in global knowledge production.
\nThis workshop aims t o reflect on two broad questions. The first question investigates the link between concept travel and concept engineering. Do concepts change in tra veling to different domains? What is the nature of this change\, and can i t be understood as a form of conceptual engineering? The second question e xplores the ways in which concepts and conceptual travel are understood in recent scholarship theorizing and challenging inequality in global knowle dge production.
\nThe workshop primarily addresses doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Those interested in participati ng are kindly asked to register via email to \;europa@unibas.c h.
\nThe event is organized in the context of the SNSF-project \;“Reversing the Gaze”< /a> \;and in collaboration with the \;African Centre for Ep istemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg . \;"Reversing the Gaze" \;uses a "conceptual laboratory" to take a critical theoretical approach by deplo ying concepts developed in the Global South to the North. It tests the ana lytic purchase of three mid-level concepts – "re-tribalisation"\, "polit ical society" and "the cunning state" – on political crisis phenomena in Europe against the background of a careful inquiry into the methodologica l scope of comparison.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220617T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2952@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220530T133718 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220603T181500 SUMMARY:Toyin Falola: Decolonizing African History (Carl Schlettwein Lectur e 2022) DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending Eur opean intellectual hegemony over Africa's political\, economic\, historica l\, and cultural ways\, the reverse of its effects\, and the pursuit of ab solute liberation and self-determination for Africa. As an intellectual un dertaking\, decolonizing African history emphasizes the study of African h istory from an African perspective\, as well as the transmission of that k nowledge through Africanized curricula\, instructional frameworks\, and ep istemologies. It is also the acknowledgment of marginalized peoples or gro ups as agents of their own histories and experiences and a critical compon ent in decolonizing African history.\\r\\nDecolonizing African history is based on the premise that Africa must look inside and apply an alternative multidisciplinary approach to developing ideas for solutions to Africa's developmental problems\, drawing inspiration from its own culture\, histor y\, and creative imaginations. Essentially\, African intellectuals must ap ply local theories and approaches to understand African problems\, solve t hem\, and challenge the status quo's beliefs and practices of a distorted African image.\\r\\nThe overall goal of this lecture is to liberate Africa n knowledge\, as well as the adoption and adaptation of traditional Africa n modes of knowing and knowledge creation. Hence\, the lecture shall attem pt to awaken Africans to set the records right in terms of African history and unlock Africa's hitherto suppressed immense potentials. It will conve y the essence of decolonization in African history: its origins and nature \, reasons\, methods\, goals\, and expected outcomes. It will also argue f or the development of an indigenous knowledge-based system in sync with Af rican realities and capable of carving out autonomous models to alleviate Africa's political\, economic\, sociocultural\, and innovative leadership overdependence on the "developed world."\\r\\nFinally\, it will submit tha t if African societies can be shown to be on par with other major societie s throughout the world\, there is no reason they should not be able to con trol their own destiny. It will rekindle the belief that Africans will be proud of their identities one day\, having freed themselves and their past from crippling colonial notions.\\r\\nToyin Falola is professor of Africa n Studies at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. Falola is one of the most eminent and widely published historians of Africa. His academic caree r started at the University of Ife\, Ile Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo Universi ty) where he earned his PhD in 1981. He then joined the University of Texa s\, which has been his academic home for more than thirty years with short er teaching appointments at other universities in Canada\, England\, USA\, Australia and Nigeria. His important contribution and service to the fiel d of African Studies and History earned him many distinctions\, awards and honorary doctorates. Falola edited numerous influential volumes and monog raphies. His most recent and very timely monographs are Decolonizing Afric an Studies. Knowledge Production\, Agency\, and Voice (Rochester Universit y Press 2022) and Decolonizing African Knowledge. Autoethnography and Afri can Epistemologies (Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming 2022). X-ALT-DESC:Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending E uropean intellectual hegemony over Africa's political\, economic\, histori cal\, and cultural ways\, the reverse of its effects\, and the pursuit of absolute liberation and self-determination for Africa. As an intellectual undertaking\, decolonizing African history emphasizes the study of African history from an African perspective\, as well as the transmission of that knowledge through Africanized curricula\, instructional frameworks\, and epistemologies. It is also the acknowledgment of marginalized peoples or g roups as agents of their own histories and experiences and a critical comp onent in decolonizing African history.
\nDecolonizing African histor y is based on the premise that Africa must look inside and apply an altern ative multidisciplinary approach to developing ideas for solutions to Afri ca's developmental problems\, drawing inspiration from its own culture\, h istory\, and creative imaginations. Essentially\, African intellectuals mu st apply local theories and approaches to understand African problems\, so lve them\, and challenge the status quo's beliefs and practices of a disto rted African image.
\nThe overall goal of this lecture is to liberat e African knowledge\, as well as the adoption and adaptation of traditiona l African modes of knowing and knowledge creation. Hence\, the lecture sha ll attempt to awaken Africans to set the records right in terms of African history and unlock Africa's hitherto suppressed immense potentials. It wi ll convey the essence of decolonization in African history: its origins an d nature\, reasons\, methods\, goals\, and expected outcomes. It will also argue for the development of an indigenous knowledge-based system in sync with African realities and capable of carving out autonomous models to al leviate Africa's political\, economic\, sociocultural\, and innovative lea dership overdependence on the "developed world."
\nFinally\, it will submit that if African societies can be shown to be on par with other maj or societies throughout the world\, there is no reason they should not be able to control their own destiny. It will rekindle the belief that Africa ns will be proud of their identities one day\, having freed themselves and their past from crippling colonial notions.
\nToyin Falola< /strong> is professor of African Studies at the University of Texas at Aus tin\, where he holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Hu manities. Falola is one of the most eminent and widely published historian s of Africa. His academic career started at the University of Ife\, Ile If e (now Obafemi Awolowo University) where he earned his PhD in 1981. He the n joined the University of Texas\, which has been his academic home for mo re than thirty years with shorter teaching appointments at other universit ies in Canada\, England\, USA\, Australia and Nigeria. His important contr ibution and service to the field of African Studies and History earned him many distinctions\, awards and honorary doctorates. Falola edited numerou s influential volumes and monographies. His most recent and very timely mo nographs are Decolonizing African Studies. Knowledge Production\, Agen cy\, and Voice (Rochester University Press 2022) and Decolonizing African Knowledge. Autoethnography and African Epistemologies (Cambr idge University Press\, forthcoming 2022).
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220603T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2995@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220602T114630 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220603T130000 SUMMARY:Duane Jethro & Jade Nair: "Of Smoke and Ash: The Jagger Library Mem orial Exhibition" DESCRIPTION:On 18 April 2021\, a devastating fire destroyed large parts of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town and with it\, the Africa n Studies Special Collection. Thousands of precious books\, personal archi ves\, manuscripts\, and one of the most extensive African film collections in the world were lost. Curators Jade Nair and Duane Jethro discuss how "Of Smoke and Ash: Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition" commemorates this l oss\, celebrates the efforts of volunteers who joined the salvage project and invites new questions for creative practices and African Studies.\\r\\ nThis event will take place in-person\, at the Forum eikones\, Rheinsprung 11\, Basel on 3 June 2022 between 13 – 14h30. Drinks and snacks will b e provided.\\r\\nFor zoom participation\, please use the following link [h ttps://unibas.zoom.us/j/69463619625]. X-ALT-DESC:On 18 April 2021\, a devastating fire destroyed large parts o f the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town and with it\, the Afri can Studies Special Collection. Thousands of precious books\, personal arc hives\, manuscripts\, and one of the most extensive African film collectio ns in the world were lost. \;Curators Jade Nair and Duane Jethro discu ss how "Of Smoke and Ash: Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition" com memorates this loss\, celebrates the efforts of volunteers who joined the salvage project and invites new questions for creative practices and Afric an Studies.
\nThis event will take place in-person\, at the Forum ei kones\, Rheinsprung 11\, Basel on 3 June 2022 between 13 – 14h30. \; Drinks and snacks will be provided.
\nFor zoom participation\, pleas e use the following link.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2885@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220322T154957 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220601T161500 SUMMARY:Farewell Party Till Förster DESCRIPTION:Updates will follow soon. X-ALT-DESC:Updates will follow soon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2954@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220502T112255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220527T130000 SUMMARY:Symposium: Anthropolgy as Intersubjective Practice DESCRIPTION:The institute will host a symposium to honor Till Förster's re search and teaching contributions. The symposium will be followed by drink s in the courtyard.\\r\\nDeadline for registration: 8 May 2022 at ethnolog ie@unibas.ch [mailto:ethnologie@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The institute will host a symposium to honor Till Förster's research and teaching contributions. The symposium will be followed by dri nks in the courtyard.
\nDeadline for registration: 8 May 2022 at ethnologie@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220527T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2989@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220523T100243 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220525T181500 SUMMARY:Tarde guineana: Impresiones de una estancia de investigación en Gu inea Ecuatorial DESCRIPTION:Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr and Sara Carreira present the SNSF r esearch project "Improving the visibility of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanis h-speaking country" and report on their research trip to Equatorial Guine a in February/March 2022 (in Spanish).\\r\\nPrograma\\r\\n Introducción a Guinea Ecuatorial Presentación del proyecto de investigación "Hacia u na mejor visibilidad de Guinea Ecuatorial como país hispanohablante" Im presiones del trabajo de campo X-ALT-DESC:Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr and \;Sara Carreira present the SNSF research project "Improving the visibility of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanish-speaking country" and report on their research trip \;to Equa torial Guinea in February/March 2022 (in Spanish).
\nProgram a
\nStudents who participated in the ethnographic research 21/22 present their research findings.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2880@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220523T123000 SUMMARY:Stephan Hochleithner: Review Session DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220523T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2982@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220518T092112 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220519T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Photographs as sources for writing histories of medicine\ , health and healing in colonial and postcolonial Africa DESCRIPTION:Over the last thirty years\, photographs have become important sources of information for scholars seeking to reconstruct and examine the African past – whether related to material objects\, social processes a nd practices\, or attitudes and sensibilities. In employing visual evidenc e\, historians and anthropologists recognise and reflect critically on pho tography as a complex and historically contingent practice\, and images as polyvalent and often ambiguous artefacts.\\r\\nThis workshop seeks to app ly theoretical and methodological insights produced by visual historians t o the writing of histories of medicine\, health and healing in colonial an d postcolonial Africa. Over the course of the ca. 150 years since the intr oduction of photographic technology in Africa\, it has been employed in a myriad of manners and settings related to health. Historians are confronte d with depictions of everything from clinical work\, public health educati on campaigns and pharmaceutical interventions\, to buildings\, equipment\, specimens and anatomy. During this two-day workshop\, hosted by the Depar tment of History at the University of Basel\, scholars working at the inte rsection of visual\, medical and African history explore the opportunities and challenges of using photographs to write histories of health and heal ing in colonial and postcolonial Africa.\\r\\nProgram:\\r\\nThursday 19 Ma y 2022\\r\\n9h00 Welcome and introduction\\r\\n9h30 Sloan Mahone (Universi ty of Oxford)\\r\\n10h15 Catherine Burns (University of the Witwatersrand/ Adler Museum of Medicine)\\r\\n11h00 Break\\r\\n11h30 Discussion\\r\\n12h3 0 Lunch\\r\\n13h30 Catherine Burns input\\r\\n13h50 Michaela Clark (Univer sity of Manchester): Surface Tensions: Photographic Uncertainties at Cape Town’s Medical School\\r\\n14h40 Rosa Williams (St Lawrence University): Being seen to care: Photographs\, audiences and the medical mission in co lonial Mozambique\\r\\n15h30 Break\\r\\n16h00 Oluwafunminiyi Raheem (Unive rsity of Ilorin): ‘He took me by the hand and led me into the spirit wor ld’: What photographs can tell us about Susanne Wenger’s traditional h ealing in Nigeria\\r\\n16h50 Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of Basel) : Visualising tuberculosis control: Medical imagery in late-colonial Kenya \\r\\n17h40 Wrap up\\r\\n18h00 End\, proceed to dinner\\r\\nFriday 20 May 2022\\r\\n8h30 Catherine Burns input\\r\\n8h50 Victor Olaoye (Graduate Ins titute Geneva): A photographic history of philanthropic interventions in N igeria’s public health: The case of the Rockefeller Foundation\\r\\n9h40 Sarah Ehlers (Rachel Carson Centre\, LMU/Deutsches Museum): Picturing the effects of pesticide use: Practices of photographic evidence in postcolon ial Africa\, 1970-1980s\\r\\n10h30 Break\\r\\n11h00 Chimwemwe Phiri (Durha m University): Visual representations of tropical diseases in colonial Mal awi and Sudan: A comparative understanding of the epistemology and politic s of medical imagery\\r\\n11h50 Rory du Plessis (University of Pretoria): Making visible the humanness of children with intellectual disabilities in South Africa\, circa 1895 to 1916\\r\\n12h40 Wrap up\\r\\n13h00 Lunch\, t ravel to Novartis\\r\\n15h00 Novartis archival visit\\r\\n17h30 End\\r\\n\ \r\\nAdmission\\r\\nThis workshop is for registered participants only. Con tact sophie.irion@unibas.ch [mailto:sophie.irion@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Over the last thirty years\, photographs have become importan t sources of information for scholars seeking to reconstruct and examine t he African past – whether related to material objects\, social processes and practices\, or attitudes and sensibilities. In employing visual evide nce\, historians and anthropologists recognise and reflect critically on p hotography as a complex and historically contingent practice\, and images as polyvalent and often ambiguous artefacts.
\nThis workshop seeks t o apply theoretical and methodological insights produced by visual histori ans to the writing of histories of medicine\, health and healing in coloni al and postcolonial Africa. Over the course of the ca. 150 years since the introduction of photographic technology in Africa\, it has been employed in a myriad of manners and settings related to health. Historians are conf ronted with depictions of everything from clinical work\, public health ed ucation campaigns and pharmaceutical interventions\, to buildings\, equipm ent\, specimens and anatomy. During this two-day workshop\, hosted by the Department of History at the University of Basel\, scholars working at the intersection of visual\, medical and African history explore the opportun ities and challenges of using photographs to write histories of health and healing in colonial and postcolonial Africa.
\n< strong>Thursday 19 May 2022
\n9h00 Welcome and introduction
\n9h30 Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)
\n10h15 Catherine Burns (University of the Witwatersrand/Adler Museum of Medicine)
\n1 1h00 Break
\n11h30 Discussion
\n12h30 Lunch< /p>\n
13h30 Catherine Burns input
\n13h50 Michaela Clark (Universi ty of Manchester): Surface Tensions: Photographic Uncertainties at Cap e Town’s Medical School
\n14h40 Rosa Williams (St Lawrence Un iversity): Being seen to care: Photographs\, audiences and the medical mission in colonial Mozambique
\n15h30 Break
\n16h00 Oluwafunminiyi Raheem (University of Ilorin): ‘He took me by t he hand and led me into the spirit world’: What photographs can tell us about Susanne Wenger’s traditional healing in Nigeria
\n16h50 Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of Basel): Visualising tuberculos is control: Medical imagery in late-colonial Kenya
\n17h40 Wrap up
\n18h00 End\, proceed to dinner
\nFriday 20 May 2022
\n8h30 Catherine Burns input
\n8h50 Victo r Olaoye (Graduate Institute Geneva): A photographic history of philan thropic interventions in Nigeria’s public health: The case of the Rockef eller Foundation
\n9h40 Sarah Ehlers (Rachel Carson Centre\, LM U/Deutsches Museum): Picturing the effects of pesticide use: Practices of photographic evidence in postcolonial Africa\, 1970-1980s
\n10h30 Break
\n11h00 Chimwemwe Phiri (Durham University): < em>Visual representations of tropical diseases in colonial Malawi and Suda n: A comparative understanding of the epistemology and politics of medical imagery
\n11h50 Rory du Plessis (University of Pretoria): Making visible the humanness of children with intellectual disabilities in South Africa\, circa 1895 to 1916
\n12h40 Wrap up
\n13h0 0 Lunch\, travel to Novartis
\n15h00 Novartis archival visi t
\n17h30 End
\n\nThis workshop is for registered participants only. Cont act sophie.irion@unibas.c h \;
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220520T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2826@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220512T160548 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220518T181500 SUMMARY:Kiluanje Liberdade: Almost Superman. The representation of the MPLA in Angolan Propaganda Iconography DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2883@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220322T153953 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220518T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation by the students of the field course "We'll meet again" DESCRIPTION:Students who participated in the ethnographic research 21/22 pr esent their research findings. X-ALT-DESC:Students who participated in the ethnographic research 21/22 present their research findings.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2951@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220426T163611 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220511T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Namibian Genocide Survivor Narratives DESCRIPTION:This full day in-person workshop is open for students from all levels and other interested persons. Participants engage with Namibian and other scholars and artists. Sarala Krishnamurthy (Post-colonial Literatur e\, Genocide and Gender Studies\, Namibia University of Science and Techno logy\, NUST) will introduce a project on Genocide Survivor Narratives in N amibia\, supported by the Carl Schlettwein Foundation (Basel). More intima te discussion groups focus on broader issues such as colonial violence and the archives\, narratives\, trauma and memorialisations. \\r\\nThe works hop takes place in the context of the ZASB Research Colloquium “Namibian and Southern African Studies” [t3://file?uid=2101]. Lunch and refreshme nts are provided. Kindly register with Dag Henrichsen at dh@baslerafrika. ch [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:This full day in-person workshop is open for students from al l levels and other interested persons. Participants engage with Namibian a nd other scholars and artists. Sarala Krishnamurthy (Post-colonial Literat ure\, Genocide and Gender Studies\, Namibia University of Science and Tech nology\, NUST) will introduce a project on Genocide Survivor Narratives in Namibia\, supported by the Carl Schlettwein Foundation (Basel). More inti mate discussion groups focus on broader issues such as colonial violence a nd the archives\, narratives\, trauma and memorialisations. \;
\nThe workshop takes place in the context of the ZASB Research Colloquium “Namibian and Southern African Studies”. Lunch and refreshments are provided. Kindly register with Dag Henrichse n at \;dh@baslerafrika.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220511T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2850@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220509T123000 SUMMARY:Stephan Hochleithner: The State\, Infrastructure\, and Populism DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220509T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2825@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T164642 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220504T181500 SUMMARY:Marie Meyerding: Missing Images. Women and Photography in apartheid South Africa DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2884@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220502T111632 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220504T161500 SUMMARY:Film screening: The Children of Sanchez DESCRIPTION:Updates will follow soon. X-ALT-DESC:Updates will follow soon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2824@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220425T122229 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220427T181500 SUMMARY:Christian Williams: Dissident Solidarity. SWAPO’s Crisis in Zambi a and the Ailongas’ Letters in Finland\, 1976-78 DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto. [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2853@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220425T105501 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220427T160000 SUMMARY:Lina Noll: Men's meeting places in Volkspark Hasenheide\, Berlin. A n anthropological study DESCRIPTION:Abstracts will follow soon. X-ALT-DESC:Abstracts will follow soon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2902@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220414T104423 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220426T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Ways of Writing: Creative Knowledge Production in African Studies DESCRIPTION:In this writing workshop\, students from Basel and Cape Town\, together with invited guests (academic scholars\, arts writers and indepen dent curators) will explore how curatorial and creative fields open up new avenues for engaging with central discourses in African Studies. We will discuss how ‘reading’ and writing about contemporary African art allow s accessing broader issues in African Studies (i.e. environmentalism\, gen der\, race\, colonial history). To participate\, interested students are a sked to submit a brief paragraph in response to an exhibition of their cho ice. The workshop will focus on contemporary art by African artists / arti sts from the diaspora but reflections on other exhibitions are welcome too i.e. exhibition of ethnographic collections. \\r\\nThe workshop will ado pt a hybrid format (zoom) and will take place on two days:\\r\\n On Tuesd ay 26 April 2022\, invited guest speakers Danielle Bowler (editor and writ er)\, Bongani Kona (PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape\, editor and writer) and Nisha Merit (independent curator)will offer insight s into their practices. They offer advice for publication and respond to s tudent questions in relation to their reflection pieces. Following this\, support will be offered to students who intend to publish their piece. Tim e: 11-13:00 Venue: ATL Workshop\, Michaelis (CT) and zoom. On Friday 3 Ju ne 2022\, students will be offered an opportunity to discuss their work a in a public format at an event in Basel with lecturers and curators from t he Centre for Curating the Archive (CT). Time: 1.00- 2.30 pm at eikones Fo rum\, Basel and zoom (for UCT students). \\r\\nThe workshop is part of a c ollaborative project between colleagues at the University of Basel and the University of Cape Town (UCT) in response to a forthcoming exhibition com memorating the fire at the Jagger Library at UCT.\\r\\nStudents in the Mas ters’ program African Studies at the University of Basel have the option to earn one ECTS credit point via Learning contract.\\r\\nPlease email yo ur reflection paragraph to Julia Rensing (julia.rensing@unibas.ch [mailto: julia.rensing@unibas.ch]) and Sindi-Leigh McBride (s.mcbride@unibas.ch [ma ilto:s.mcbride@unibas.ch]) by Friday 22nd of April. X-ALT-DESC:In this writing workshop\, students from Basel and Cape Town\ , together with invited guests (academic scholars\, arts writers and indep endent curators) will explore how curatorial and creative fields open up n ew avenues for engaging with central discourses in African Studies. We wil l discuss how ‘reading’ and writing about contemporary African art all ows accessing broader issues in African Studies (i.e. environmentalism\, g ender\, race\, colonial history). To participate\, interested students are asked to submit a brief paragraph in response to an exhibition of their c hoice. The workshop will focus on contemporary art by African artists / ar tists from the diaspora but reflections on other exhibitions are welcome t oo i.e. exhibition of ethnographic collections. \;
\nThe worksho p will adopt a hybrid format (zoom) and will take place on two days:
\nThe workshop is part of a collaborative proje ct between colleagues at the University of Basel and the University of Cap e Town (UCT) in response to a forthcoming exhibition commemorating the fir e at the Jagger Library at UCT.
\nStudents in the Masters’ program African Studies at the University of Basel have the option to earn one EC TS credit point via Learning contract.
\nPlease email your reflectio n paragraph to Julia Rensing (jul ia.rensing@unibas.ch) and Sindi-Leigh McBride (s.mcbride@unibas.ch) by Friday 22nd of April.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220426T131200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2879@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220425T111320 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220425T123000 SUMMARY:Geeta Patel: "A Colonial History of Pensions: The East India Compan y and One Genesis for the Welfare State" DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2933@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220419T105348 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220421T121500 SUMMARY:Kolosa Ntombini: Spatial Justice in rural Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion of Kolosa Ntombini’s PhD proposal . \\r\\nOrganzised by Dag Henrichsen (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)\, Lur egn Lenggenhager and Giorgio Miescher (ZASB)\\r\\nThere will be drinks\, c offee\, and sandwiches. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation and discussion of Kolosa Ntombini’s PhD propos al.
\nOrganzised by \;Dag Henrichsen (Basler Afrika Bibliograph ien)\, Luregn Lenggenhager and Giorgio Miescher (ZASB)
\nThere will be drinks\, coffee\, and sandwiches.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2823@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T164730 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220420T181500 SUMMARY:John Heydinger: CBNRM and the Desert-Adapted Lions: Human-Centred M ethods towards Conservation Interventions in Kunene\, Namibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2822@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T164755 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220413T181500 SUMMARY:Ronald Kanguti: Developing a framework for research data management capabilities at the University of Namibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2878@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220411T123000 SUMMARY:Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba & Matthias Maurer Rueda: Retribalization and the State in Switzerland DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220411T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2844@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220406T160000 SUMMARY:Julia Hohn: Water and dignity? Impacts of Social Change on the Wate r Situation in Solwezi\, Northwestern Zambia DESCRIPTION:Abstract will follow soon... X-ALT-DESC:Abstract will follow soon...
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2901@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220330T110639 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220402 SUMMARY:Video screening: "Quilombo – Sharing Perspectives with Artists fr om DRC\, Brazil and Switzerland" DESCRIPTION:The Visual History Lab 2021 took place in September 2021 at Ci ty SALTS in Birsfelden/Basel in the context of the tricontinental research and exhibition project «Quilombo». Students produced a video based on interviews with participating Brazilian\, Congolese and Swiss artists a nd curators – reflecting on the artistic project and on the role of Q uilombos\, Brazilian settlements of African descent\, as places of resist ance.\\r\\nThe video is presented to the public at the Basel Art Weekend a t City SALTS:\\r\\n Saturday\, 2 April 2022\, 5–7pm: Video screening wi th drinks at Kunstverein City SALTS in Birsfelden – in collaboration w ith the Center for African Studies\, University of Basel The screening ta kes place within the program of the Art Weekend Basel\, 2 & 3 April 2022\ , 11–6pm. These are also the last days of the exhibition "Quilombo - Tri continental research and exhibition project" before it moves on to Lugano\ , where it opens on April 13 at the Lago Mio artist residency. X-ALT-DESC:The Visual History Lab 2021 took place in September 2021 at&n bsp\;City SALTS in Birsfelden/Basel in the context of the tricontinental r esearch and exhibition project «Quilombo». Students \;produced a vid eo \;based on \;interviews with participating \;Brazilian\, Co ngolese and Swiss artists and \;curators – reflecting on the artisti c project and on \;the role of \;Quilombos\, Brazilian settlements of \;African descent\, as places of resistance.
\nThe video is presented to the public at the Basel Art Weekend at City SALTS:
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2886@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220323T155332 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220330T180000 SUMMARY:Jürg Schneider: Francis W. Joaque – Auf den Fersen eines frühen afrikanischen Fotografen DESCRIPTION:Vergleicht man Westafrika mit anderen Regionen des subsaharisch en Afrika\, dann haben dort lokale\, afrikanische Fotografen schon viel fr üher – nämlich ab den 1860er Jahren – ihr Metier ausgeübt. Einer di eser frühen Fotografen war Francis W. Joaque. Er steht in vielem beispiel haft für die Berufsgenossen seiner Zeit\, aber in einer Hinsicht war er\, wie die Forschung gezeigt hat\, beispiellos: Es haben nicht nur viele sei ner eindeutig identifizierbaren Fotografien in Archiven und Privatsammlung en die Zeit überdauert\, sondern er taucht auch in einer Reihe von histor ischen Reiseberichten und Lebenserinnerungen auf. Wer war dieser Mann? Wir heften uns an seine Fersen. X-ALT-DESC:Vergleicht man Westafrika mit anderen Regionen des subsaharis chen Afrika\, dann haben dort lokale\, afrikanische Fotografen schon viel früher – nämlich ab den 1860er Jahren – ihr Metier ausgeübt. Einer dieser frühen Fotografen war Francis W. Joaque. Er steht in vielem beispi elhaft für die Berufsgenossen seiner Zeit\, aber in einer Hinsicht war er \, wie die Forschung gezeigt hat\, beispiellos: Es haben nicht nur viele s einer eindeutig identifizierbaren Fotografien in Archiven und Privatsammlu ngen die Zeit überdauert\, sondern er taucht auch in einer Reihe von hist orischen Reiseberichten und Lebenserinnerungen auf. Wer war dieser Mann? W ir heften uns an seine Fersen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2843@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220330T161500 SUMMARY:Michelle Engeler: Youth and migration in Guinea. Some reflections o n a research project DESCRIPTION:Abstract will follow soon... X-ALT-DESC:Abstract will follow soon...
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2894@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220328T123000 SUMMARY:Lerato Posholi: The Postcolonial African State in Transition DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2881@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220321T113222 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220323T161500 SUMMARY:Dennis Hatushikano Albuquerque: A sensory anthropology of sushi: pr eparing\, cooking\, and consuming at Japanese restaurants in Brazil (MA pr oject) DESCRIPTION:Please register via email to s.burri@unibas.ch. X-ALT-DESC:Please register via email to s.burri@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2837@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220318T090000 SUMMARY:Regional Research Day: Horn of Africa DESCRIPTION:The “Regional Research Day: Horn of Africa” offers scholars at the University of Basel and associated institutions an opportunity to exchange across disciplines and research areas. Researchers and graduate s tudents from all disciplines and at all stages in their academic career wh o work on the region (including Eritrea\, Ethiopia\, Djibouti and Somalia) are invited to present current research and academic activities. The aims of the regional day are:\\r\\n to exchange on current research activitie s to reflect research practices and modes of collaboration\, and to crea te new opportunities for collaboration. \\r\\nPlease register by 15 March 2022. X-ALT-DESC:The “Regional Research Day: Horn of Africa” offers schola rs at the University of Basel and associated institutions an opportunity t o exchange across disciplines and research areas. Researchers and graduate students from all disciplines and at all stages in their academic career who work on the region (including Eritrea\, Ethiopia\, Djibouti and Somali a) are invited to present current research and academic activities. The ai ms of the regional day are:
\nPlease register by 15 March 2022.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220318T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2755@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T170000 SUMMARY:Präsentation des Masterstudiengangs African Studies DESCRIPTION:Setze Dich im Studium mit Afrika auseinander um so die Welt als Ganzes besser zu verstehen! Der interdisziplinäre Masterstudiengang Afri kastudien [t3://page?uid=147] an der Universität Basel wird Deine Perspek tive dezentrieren. Das Studienprogramm führt Lehrangebote aus den Sozial- \, Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften zusammen und erlaubt Dir über die Wah l von zwei thematischen Modulen ein spezifisches Profil aufzubauen und all gemeine akademische Kompetenzen zu erwerben.\\r\\nDer MA African Studies a m Masterinfoabend:\\r\\n 17.30 Uhr: Präsentation Studiengang 18.30 Uhr: Präsentation Studiengang \\r\\nDas Zoom-Meeting [https://unibas.zoom.us/ j/69521212496?pwd=TW1EanoyZytnaUZuUjVrU0RYcldGUT09] ist durchgehend bis 2 0 Uhr geöffnet\, sodass auch nach den Präsentationen noch Fragen gestell t werden können. X-ALT-DESC:Setze Dich im Studium mit Afrika auseinander um so die Welt a ls Ganzes besser zu verstehen! Der interdisziplinäre Masterstudiengang Afrika studien an der Universität Basel wird Deine Perspektive dezentrieren. Das Studienprogramm führt Lehrangebote aus den Sozial-\, Geistes- und Na turwissenschaften zusammen und erlaubt Dir über die Wahl von zwei themati schen Modulen ein spezifisches Profil aufzubauen und allgemeine akademisch e Kompetenzen zu erwerben.
\nDer MA African Studies am Maste rinfoabend:
\nDas Zoom-Meeting \;ist durc hgehend bis 20 Uhr geöffnet\, sodass auch nach den Präsentationen noch F ragen gestellt werden können.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2820@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T164923 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220316T181500 SUMMARY:Serena Dankwa: Friendship as a way of life: Female Same-Sex Intimac y in Postcolonial Ghana DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2849@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220314T123000 SUMMARY:Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba & Matthias Maurer Rueda: Is the State an Ide ological Power? DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces.\\r\\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in whic h academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state ’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the research project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the sessions wil l shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translation of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\\r\\nT he colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in partic ipating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas. ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences.
\nIn this semester\, the colloquium will focus on the ways in which academic and non-academic interpretations of the concept of ‘the state’ vary in different contexts. Drawing from case studies of the rese arch project “Reversing the Gaze” as well as guest talks\, the session s will shed light on research endeavors involving the travel and translati on of concepts across different regions\, disciplines and research foci.\n
The colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested i n participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220314T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2786@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220304T180000 SUMMARY:Arts & Global Health: Learning from Malawi DESCRIPTION:How can artists contribute to global health? ArtMalawi’s Clea nUp River Mudi Project and Art & Global Health Center Africa are prime exa mples for fruitful interventions by artists into public health concerns. \\r\\nSpeakers:\\r\\nManota Mphande is an engineer and the founder of ArtM alawi. ArtMalawi is an organisation that raises awareness through art\, an d provides livelihood opportunities for youth and women in Malawi. Their c urrent Clean Up MudiRiver Project [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCate8 bavo] will be the focus of our discussion.\\r\\nChimwemwe Phiri is a socia l anthropologist\, PhD Candidate at the University of Durham with an MSc i n Visual\, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Previsouly\, she was based at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme [https://www.mlw.mw/](MLW) working on a Theatre for Developmen t (TfD) intervention. She was collaborating with the Drama Department at t he University of Malawi to implement community drama in eight communities in Blantyre.\\r\\nBosco Chinkonda is a social scientist working with the A rt & Global Health Center Africa [https://www.artgloafrica.org/] (ArtGlo). He is a part time lecturer in sociology at the Chancellor College. He has found himself in research and interventions that value the power of the a rts in bringing sustainable social change. Bosco holds a great passion for applied research in HIV and AIDS\, sexual reproductive health and rights\ , gender and empowerment.\\r\\nThe discussion will be moderated by Tanja H ammel\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Department of History\, University of Ba sel.\\r\\nTo register for the event\, please contact: kai.herzog@unibas.ch [https://www.globalhealthafrica.ch/third-event-arts-and-global-health-le arning-from-malawi/kai.herzog@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:How can artists contribute to global health? ArtMalawi’s Cl eanUp River Mudi Project and Art &\; Global Health Center Africa are pr ime examples for fruitful interventions by artists into public health conc erns. \;
\nSpeakers:
\nManota Mph ande is an engineer and the founder of ArtMalawi. ArtMalawi is an organisation that raises awareness through art\, and provides livelihood opportunities for youth and women in Malawi. Their current Clean Up MudiRiver Project will be the focus of our discussion.
\nChimwemwe Phiri is a social anthropologist\, PhD Candidate at the University of Durham wit h an MSc in Visual\, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Previsouly\, she was based at Mal awi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme (MLW) working on a Theatre for Development (TfD) intervention. She was collaborating with the Drama Department at the University of Malawi to implement community drama in eight communities in Blantyre.
\nBosco Chinkonda is a social scientist working with the Art &\; Global Health Center Africa (ArtGlo). He is a part t ime lecturer in sociology at the Chancellor College. He has found himself in research and interventions that value the power of the arts in bringing sustainable social change. Bosco holds a great passion for applied resear ch in HIV and AIDS\, sexual reproductive health and rights\, gender and em powerment.
\nThe discussion will be moderated by Tanja Hamme l\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Department of History\, University of Basel.
\nTo register for the event\, please contact: kai.herzog@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220304T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2819@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220317T165006 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220302T181500 SUMMARY:Arthur Kambambi: A sociological analysis of the politics of seed sy stems and local praxis in Namibia: a case study of Oshikoto region DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien an d is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via ema il to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, the University of Namibia and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&nbs p\;via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2841@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220302T161500 SUMMARY:Till Förster: Remembering visually. How pictures instigate process es of remembering DESCRIPTION:Pictures do not ‘bring back’ memories – they rather insti gate processes of remembering.\\r\\nPhotos taken years\, sometimes decades ago are not mere mirrors of the past. They may depict people\, events or landscapes of the past\, but they are also part of the present when people look at them\, take them in their hands\, turn them\, show them to others . ‘Watching’ pictures is\, as Arielle Azoulay has claimed\, a multilay ered practice\, which is deeply entangled with the present and the past. It testifies to sedimented experience and to what the people who watch t he pictures make of it when they are watching them.\\r\\nIt is not a new i nsight that pictures have a life on their own\, that they seem to want som ething from us\, the spectators. And it is neither new that spectators can and do engage in many ways with pictures. Exploring this tension is a cha llenge for everybody who does ethnographic research in cultural settings w here other forms of mediality prevail. How do people remember when they wa tch pictures of people\, events\, and things past? This question is the th read that ran through my fieldwork conducted in January and February 2022 in northern Côte d’Ivoire. After an interruption of two years\, it ren ewed empirical research conducted of the SNSF project “Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s”\, which had begun shortly before the o utbreak of the Corona pandemic. X-ALT-DESC:Pictures do not ‘bring back’ memories – they rather ins tigate processes of remembering.
\nPhotos taken years\, sometimes de cades ago are not mere mirrors of the past. They may depict people\, event s or landscapes of the past\, but they are also part of the present when p eople look at them\, take them in their hands\, turn them\, show them to o thers. ‘Watching’ pictures is\, as Arielle Azoulay has claimed\, a mul tilayered practice\, which is deeply entangled with the present \; and \;the past. It testifies to sedimented experience and to wha t the people who watch the pictures make of it when they are watching them .
\nIt is not a new insight that pictures have a life on their own\, that they seem to want something from us\, the spectators. And it is neit her new that spectators can and do engage in many ways with pictures. Expl oring this tension is a challenge for everybody who does ethnographic rese arch in cultural settings where other forms of mediality prevail. How do p eople remember when they watch pictures of people\, events\, and things pa st? This question is the thread that ran through my fieldwork conducted i n January and February 2022 in northern Côte d’Ivoire. After an interru ption of two years\, it renewed empirical research conducted of the SNSF p roject “Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s”\, which had begun shortly before the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220302T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2776@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220113T190000 SUMMARY:Concert: Khaya Mahlangu feat. Sanele Phakathi and Benjamin Jephta DESCRIPTION:Bra Khaya is an absolute legend of South African jazz\, and his contribution to this music and the global growth thereof is invaluable. T his killing new band lifts Mahlangu's beautiful compositions into a new sp ace\, and the playing throughout is masterful. Truly a performance for the ages. save the date good peeps\, kick back and let the music transport yo u. X-ALT-DESC:Bra Khaya is an absolute legend of South African jazz\, and h is contribution to this music and the global growth thereof is invaluable. This killing new band lifts Mahlangu's beautiful compositions into a new space\, and the playing throughout is masterful. Truly a performance for t he ages. save the date good peeps\, kick back and let the music transport you.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2718@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211215T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation by the students of the field course "We'll meet again" DESCRIPTION:The students of the guided field course "We'll meet again!" pr esent their preparations for their ethnographic research in January/Februa ry 2021.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The students of the guided \;field course "We'll meet aga in!" present their preparations for their ethnographic research in January /February 2021.
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, pleas e contact s.burri@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2686@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211215T120000 SUMMARY:Thanushiyah Korn: A Global History of the 1994 Genocide against Tut si in Rwanda DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History.
\nThe research seminar is op en to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the hi story of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to \;Max Hufsch midt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2724@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211213T133000 SUMMARY:International Dialogues and Travelling Concepts: Relations among Re search Centers and their contributions to the production of knowledge DESCRIPTION:The workshop aims at discussing how institutional relations amo ng research centers located in different countries have contributed to the development of African Studies and the impact of these relations on the k nowledge produced in these contexts. The questions asked by the Workshop a re: How have dialogues between Research Centers promoted conceptual discus sions that improve the understanding of given concepts in each context? Wh at impact does this have on the way we conceive African Studies and social science research itself? What challenges and potentials have these dialog ues brought to African Studies in different research contexts?\\r\\nProgra m Overview\\r\\nInstitutional relations and their contributions to African Studies Prof. Dr. Gustavo Gomes (UFPE-Brazil) and Prof. Dr. Livio Sansone (UFBA-Brazil)\\r\\nTraveling concepts: sharing research experiences in th e dialogue between UFPE and Unibas Prof. Dr. Francisco Jatobá (UFPE-Brazi l)\, Ana Gabriella Andrade (UFPE-Brazil) and Sophia Branco (UFPE- Brazil / UB-Spain)\\r\\nChallenges on the use of concepts: sharing PhD research ex periences Moment for the exchange of ideas between students Moderator: Pro f. Dr. Elisio Macamo\\r\\nContact: afrika-tagung@unibas.ch [mailto:afrika- tagung@unibas.ch]\\r\\nRegistration: https://url.gratis/SeZkSk X-ALT-DESC:The workshop aims at discussing how institutional relations a mong research centers located in different countries have contributed to t he development of African Studies and the impact of these relations on the knowledge produced in these contexts. The questions asked by the Workshop are: How have dialogues between Research Centers promoted conceptual disc ussions that improve the understanding of given concepts in each context? What impact does this have on the way we conceive African Studies and soci al science research itself? What challenges and potentials have these dial ogues brought to African Studies in different research contexts?
\nInstitutional relations and their contributi
ons to African Studies
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Gomes (UFPE-Brazil) an
d Prof. Dr. Livio Sansone (UFBA-Brazil)
Traveling concepts: sh
aring research experiences in the dialogue between UFPE and Unibas
Prof. Dr. Francisco Jatobá (UFPE-Brazil)\, Ana Gabriella Andrade (UFP
E-Brazil) and Sophia Branco (UFPE- Brazil / UB-Spain)
Challeng
es on the use of concepts: sharing PhD research experiences Moment for the
exchange of ideas between students
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Elisio
Macamo
Contact: afrika-tagung@unibas.ch
\nRegistration: https://url.gratis/SeZkSk
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211213T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2717@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211208T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation by the students of the field course "We'll meet again" DESCRIPTION:The students of the guided field course "We'll meet again!" pr esent their preparations for their ethnographic research in January/Februa ry 2021.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The students of the guided \;field course "We'll meet aga in!" present their preparations for their ethnographic research in January /February 2021.
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, pleas e contact s.burri@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2613@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211208T121500 SUMMARY:Ralph Weber: Review Session DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operation alization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts an d socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodologi cal and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across r egions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic context s.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zur ich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “ Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe col loquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participatin g\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2685@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T155255 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211208T120000 SUMMARY:Jonas Anderson: Imperiale Partner. Die USA und die europäische Kol onisierung Afrikas\, 1865-1936 DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History.
\nThe research seminar is op en to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the hi story of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to \;Max Hufsch midt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2710@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211206T171500 SUMMARY:Perivi Katjavivi: Cinematic Work and Colonial History DESCRIPTION:Film making as knowledge creation is targeting the colonial arc hive in multiple ways. Colonial history in its broad and specific\, princi pally violent and manifold long-term consequences is scrutinized vigorousl y. The Namibian filmmaker Perivi Katjavivi provides insights into and film snippets from his cinematic work on topical Namibian narratives and talks with the historian Dag Henrichsen about his motivations and visions.\\r\\ nPerivi Katjavivi is a filmmaker and also PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape\, South Africa. His films include Emoyeni (Netflix 202 0)\, Film Festival Film (Berlinale 2019)\, The Unseen (Busan 2016).\\r\\nM oderation: Dag Henrichsen\, Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and Maria Rand y Mwatondange\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel\, Switzer land.\\r\\nDecolonising knowledge? Africa collections in focus\\r\\nThe se ries "Decolonising knowledge? Africa collections in focus" is organised by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)\, the Swiss Society for African St udies (SSAS) and the Centre for African Studies (CAS) of the University of Basel as part of the series “Wissensorte – Lieux de Savoir” of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS). It consists of thr ee conversations:\\r\\n22.11.2021 Vitjitua Ndjiharine and Fiona Siegenthal er: Unsettling (Y)our Gaze and Decolonizing the Archive\\r\\n02.12.2021 De colonising Africa Collections? Library Legacies and African Studies Future s. A round table with Jakobina Mwiiyale (Windhoek) and Nora Schmidt (Vienn a)\\r\\n06.12.2021 Cinematic work and colonial history. Film talk with Per ivi Katjavivi (Windhoek) X-ALT-DESC:Film making as knowledge creation is targeting the colonial a rchive in multiple ways. Colonial history in its broad and specific\, prin cipally violent and manifold long-term consequences is scrutinized vigorou sly. The Namibian filmmaker Perivi Katjavivi provides insights into and fi lm snippets from his cinematic work on topical Namibian narratives and tal ks with the historian Dag Henrichsen about his motivations and visions.
\nPerivi Katjavivi is a filmmaker and also PhD candid ate at the University of the Western Cape\, South Africa. His films includ e Emoyeni (Netflix 2020)\, Film Festival Film (Berlinale 2019)\, The Unsee n (Busan 2016).
\nModeration: \;Dag Henrichsen\ , Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and Maria Randy Mwatondange\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel\, Switzerland.
\nThe series "Decolonising knowledge? Africa collections in focus" is organised by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)\, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) and th e Centre for African Studies (CAS) of the University of Basel as part of t he series “Wissensorte – Lieux de Savoir” of the Swiss Academy of Hu manities and Social Sciences (SAHS). It consists of three conversations:\n
22.11.2021 Vitjitua Ndjiharine and Fiona Siegentha ler: Unsettling (Y)our Gaze and Decolonizing the Archive
\n0 2.12.2021 Decolonising Africa Collections? Library Legacies and A frican Studies Futures. A round table with Jakobina Mwiiyale (Windhoek) an d Nora Schmidt (Vienna)
\n06.12.2021 Cinematic work and colonial history. Film talk with Perivi Katjavivi (Windhoek)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2716@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211206T100000 SUMMARY:Felwine Sarr: Political Imagination and African Tomorrows DESCRIPTION:How have visions of the future in Africa and its diaspora been expressed politically and artistically? How have these forms of express ion influenced one another? What has art shown in terms of possible fut ures that politics has not? \\r\\nFelwine Sarr is Anne-Marie Bryan Disting uished Professor of Romance Studies\, Duke University\, USA\, and Visitin g Professor\, Chaire de Littérature et de français\, ETH Zürich.\\r\\nP lease register no later than Friday 3 December\, 12:00 pm (noon): h.yere@ unibas.ch [mailto:h.yere@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Felwine Sarr is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies\, Duke University\, USA\, and \;Visiting Professor\, Chaire de Littérature et de français\, ETH Zürich.
\n
Please register no later than Friday 3 December\, 12:00 pm (noon): \;<
a href="mailto:h.yere@unibas.ch">h.yere@unibas.ch
\;
African Studies libraries have become sites of critical inter rogations into knowledge production practices. Digital technological possi bilities\, on the one hand\, and colonial legacies in acquisition\, catalo guing and knowledge validation\, on the other hand\, provide challenges to academic library practices. Student demands\, in turn\, envisage wide-ran ging and simple access possibilities. In this Round Table\, Jakobina Mwiiy ale\, Head of the University of Namibia Library User Services\, Nora Schmi dt from the network for decolonising academic libraries in German-speaking countries reflect on the - often - hidden skills of librarian’s knowled ge curation\, decolonial policy and student demands.
\nJakob ina Mwiiyale is Head of the University of Namibia (UNAM) Library User Services\, Windhoek.
\nNora Schmidt is a libra ry and information studies researcher\, decolonisation activist and open a ccess advocate\, currently working for the University Press at the Univers ity of Music and Performing Arts (UDW)\, Vienna.
\nModeratio n: Dag Henrichsen\, Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and Maria Rand y Mwatondange\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel\, Switzer land.
\n22.11.2021 Vitjitua Ndj iharine and Fiona Siegenthaler: Unsettling (Y)our Gaze and Decolonizing th e Archive
\n02.12.2021 Decolonising Africa Collecti ons? Library Legacies and African Studies Futures. A round table with Jako bina Mwiiyale (Windhoek) and Nora Schmidt (Vienna)
\n06.12.2 021 Cinematic work and colonial history. Film talk with Perivi Ka tjavivi (Windhoek)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2644@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211201T161500 SUMMARY:Till Förster: Regimes and Repertoires. Politics and the rhythms of everyday life DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch">s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2714@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211201T121500 SUMMARY:Maria Paula Meneses: Translating Forms of Knowledge DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operation alization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts an d socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodologi cal and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across r egions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic context s.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zur ich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “ Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe col loquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participatin g\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2684@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211201T120000 SUMMARY:Christine Winter: After the End of Empire: «Mixedness» and German Colonial «Mixed-Race» Families in the C-Mandates DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt [mailto:max. hufschmidt@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History.
\nThe research seminar is op en to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the hi story of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2680@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T170000 SUMMARY:Sabine Mohamed & Njoki Ngumi: Black x Urbanism DESCRIPTION:The Critical Urbanisms Lecture Series is an online public collo quium that will be held via Zoom during this Fall semester. The series fea tures the important contributions from scholars and practitioners whose wo rks in design and intersectional feminism\, activism\, climate change and Black urbanism are influencing and reframing understandings of the urban i n the twenty-first century. The series will explore and debate the differe nt dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Most importantly\, this year the se ries will offer a new pedagogical format in which CU students will be the moderators of the panel discussions and will serve as the first interlocut ors with our guests. X-ALT-DESC:The Critical Urbanisms Lecture Series is an online public col loquium that will be held via Zoom during this Fall semester. The series f eatures the important contributions from scholars and practitioners whose works in design and intersectional feminism\, activism\, climate change an d Black urbanism are influencing and reframing understandings of the urban in the twenty-first century. The series will explore and debate the diffe rent dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course o f locally situated and global phenomena. Most importantly\, this year the series will offer a new pedagogical format in which CU students will be th e moderators of the panel discussions and will serve as the first interloc utors with our guests. \;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2568@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211124T171500 SUMMARY:Presentation of a research proposal on Histories of Knowledge Forma tion in Finish-Namibian relations\, 1870-1990: Transcultural Production\, Mobilisation and Transformation DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch].\\r\\nATTENTION: The colloquium starts 1 hour earlier. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
\nATTE NTION: The colloquium starts 1 hour earlier.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2643@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211124T161500 SUMMARY:Silke Oldenburg: Exploring urban environmental futures DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch">s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2611@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211124T121500 SUMMARY:*POSTPONED* Maria Paula Meneses: Translating Forms of Knowledge DESCRIPTION:New date: 1 December 2021\, 12:15 CET\\r\\nThe colloquium “Re versing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodolog ical\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production i n Area Studies and comparative social sciences. \\r\\nThe focus of this s emester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodological and theoretical issues bear ing on the translation of concepts across regions\, across disciplines\, a nd across academic and non-academic contexts.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-o rganized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) i n the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Pos t-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:New date: 1 December 2021\, 12:15 CET
\nThe colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and o perationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical con texts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with met hodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of In ternational and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the resea rch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2682@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211124T120000 SUMMARY:Bolaji Owoseni: The History and Archaeology of Ilorin\, Kwara\, Sta te\, Northern Yorubaland\, Nigeria\, West Africa: An Ongoing Assessment DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History.
\nThe research seminar is op en to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the hi story of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to \;Max Hufsch midt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2707@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211122T181500 SUMMARY:Vitjitua Ndjiharine and Fiona Siegenthaler: Unsettling (Y)our Gaze and Decolonizing the Archive DESCRIPTION:The archive\, never neutral and the product of power relations\ , is an important resource for remembering the past. In more recent times colonial archives have become sites of critical reflection and vigorous ar tistic interventions.\\r\\nIn this artist talk\, Namibian visual artist V itjitua Ndjiharine provides insights into her artistic practices and expe riences working with colonial photographic archives. Through her art she w orks to dissect the visual legacy of colonialism by physically cutting up photographic subjects and pasting them in different contexts. This process aims to question the formal and conceptual limits of colonial photography while allowing space for new narratives to emerge. With new and re-imagin ed contexts\, the archive becomes a site of transformation\, resistance\, and disruption.\\r\\nIn conversation with the art historian\, social anthr opologist and curator Fiona Siegenthaler\, Vitjitua Ndjiharine discusses new possibilities of knowledge creation.\\r\\nModeration: Dag Henrichsen\ , Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and Maria Randy Mwatondange\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel\, Switzerland.\\r\\nRegistration for in-person attendance in Basel with Dag Henrichsen [mailto:dh@baslerafrika .ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The archive\, never neutral and the product of power relation s\, is an important resource for remembering the past. In more recent time s colonial archives have become sites of critical reflection and vigorous artistic interventions.
\nIn this artist talk\, Namibian visual arti st \;Vitjitua Ndjiharine \;provides insights into her artistic pra ctices and experiences working with colonial photographic archives. Throug h her art she works to dissect the visual legacy of colonialism by physica lly cutting up photographic subjects and pasting them in different context s. This process aims to question the formal and conceptual limits of colon ial photography while allowing space for new narratives to emerge. With ne w and re-imagined contexts\, the archive becomes a site of transformation\ , resistance\, and disruption.
\nIn conversation with the art histor ian\, social anthropologist and curator \;Fiona Siegenthaler\, Vitjitu a Ndjiharine \;discusses new possibilities of knowledge creation.
\ nModeration: Dag Henrichsen\, Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and Maria Randy Mwatondange\, Centre for African Studies\, University of Basel\, Swi tzerland.
\nRegistration for in-person attendance in Basel with Dag Henrichsen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2696@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211118T123000 SUMMARY:Legacies\, Agency\, Transformation. The Covid crisis and political imagination in Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:Register via Zoom [https://unibas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ nxVL8dOMQ4CUZ1XgWqPzlg]\\r\\n How do different actors cope with the crisi s? What is the impact of the pandemic on domestic and international polit ics? Do current developments give impetus to larger social transformation ? \\r\\nThe Covid-19 pandemic places a huge burden on societies around th e world\, not least on low and middle income countries. Southern Africa is no exception. The crisis has unforeseeable impact not only on public heal th but also on socio-economic development as well as other domains of peop le’s life. This forum brings together academic and policy perspectives t o discuss the impact of the pandemic\, ways to cope with the crisis\, the role of the pandemic for shaping current and future politics\, and the eme rgence of transformative endeavors to foster resilience\, sustainability a nd inclusiveness.\\r\\nPannelists:\\r\\n Ericino de Salema\, Mozambique c ountry director\, Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Divine Fuh\, Director\, Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) \, University of Cape Town Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele\, Ambassador of Sout h Africa to Switzerland \\r\\nModerator:\\r\\n Henri-Michel Yéré\, Lect urer and Researcher\, Centre for African Studies Basel X-ALT-DESC:\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic places a huge burden on societies around the world\, not least on low and middle income countries . Southern Africa is no exception. The crisis has unforeseeable impact not only on public health but also on socio-economic development as well as o ther domains of people’s life. This forum brings together academic and p olicy perspectives to discuss the impact of the pandemic\, ways to cope wi th the crisis\, the role of the pandemic for shaping current and future po litics\, and the emergence of transformative endeavors to foster resilienc e\, sustainability and inclusiveness.
\nPannelists:
\nModerator:
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
\nATTE NTION: The colloquium starts 1 hour earlier.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2681@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211117T120000 SUMMARY:Vimbai Kwashirai: Drought Coping Measures in Southern Africa / Soph ie Irion: Maternal Health in Postcolonial Africa DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their rese arch in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research seminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nImportant: Depending on the Covid-19 hygiene and safety p recautions valid at the time\, place and format of the lectures can change at short notice. Please consult our website or contact max.hufschmidt@un ibas.ch X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, we invite international scholars to present their re search in the field of African History.
\nThe research seminar is op en to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the hi story of Africa.
\nImportant: Depending on the Covid-19 hygiene and safety precautions valid at the time\, place and format of the lectures ca n change at short notice. Please consult our website or contact \;m ax.hufschmidt@unibas.ch
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2642@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211116 SUMMARY:Sylvester Ogbechie: Decolonial Perspectives on African Art. Conundr ums and Antinomies DESCRIPTION:What does decolonization mean in the field of aesthetics and vi sual arts? How can we envision it\, and how can scholarship in African art s contribute to such project?\\r\\nSylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has tackled these questions for many years\, arguing that decolonizing knowledge must begin by understanding the very real historical and ongoing expropriation of African natural\, cultural and material resources and how it has been converted into wealth in Western collections. He will discuss his argument at the zoom-Seminar facilitated by the Institute for Social Anthropology \, University of Basel.\\r\\nParticipants are invited to read in advance h is essay “Mathias Komor and the Market for African Art in New York”\, in Acquiring Cultures. Histories of World Art on Western Markets\, ed. B énédicte Savoy\, Charlotte Guichard and Christine Howald (de Gruyter\, 2 018).\\r\\nPlease contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch] to receive the pdf file. It will be the starting point for the panel discussi on. Please note that the session will be recorded. X-ALT-DESC:What does decolonization mean in the field of aesthetics and visual arts? How can we envision it\, and how can scholarship in African a rts contribute to such project?
\nSylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has ta ckled these questions for many years\, arguing that decolonizing knowledge must begin by understanding the very real historical and ongoing expropri ation of African natural\, cultural and material resources and how it has been converted into wealth in Western collections. He will discuss his arg ument \;at the zoom-Seminar facilitated by the Institute for Social An thropology\, University of Basel.
\nParticipants are invited to read in advance his essay “Mathias Komor and the Market for African Art in N ew York”\, in \;Acquiring Cultures. Histories of World Art on We stern Markets\, ed. Bénédicte Savoy\, Charlotte Guichard and Christ ine Howald (de Gruyter\, 2018).
\nPlease contact s.burri@unibas.ch to receive the pdf file. It will be the starting point for the panel discussion. Please note that the session will be recorded.
\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2564@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211110T171500 SUMMARY:Ndeshi Namupala: Collaboration in Times of a Pandemic. Reflections on a Student Exchange between the University of Namibia and the University of Bayreuth DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2641@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211129T121001 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211110T161500 SUMMARY:Michelle Engeler: Migration and Youth in Guinea DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s. burri@unibas.ch [https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/verans taltungen/details/]. Abstract will follow soon... X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact&n
bsp\;s.burri@unibas.ch.
Abstract will follow
soon...
The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@un ibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2656@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211109T091500 SUMMARY:The trouble with the nation-state. Knowledge production and policy implications in a transnational world DESCRIPTION:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, dominat ion\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefulnes s is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Eurocent ric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political realiti es on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through what concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international conn ections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?\\r \\nTo address these timely questions among young researchers working on Af rica\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freib urg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half-day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The worksh ops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, as wel l as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically focused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, history\, A frican studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace and co nflict studies.\\r\\nKeynote: Vincent Foucher (Sciences Po Bordeaux)\\r\\ nResearch presentations:\\r\\n Toon Dirkx: The Remnants of Rebellion: Th e Legacy of the EPLF’s Wartime Governance in Post-Independent Eritrea S aïkou Sagnane: L’état transnational dans la lutte contre Ebola & Cov id-19 en Guinée Emmaculate Asige Liaga: Post-conflict [intervention] Statehood of South Sudan to Basel day Franziska Ehlert: Exploring Contes tation of Security Sector Reform Processes: The Case of Côte d'Ivoire X-ALT-DESC:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, domin ation\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefuln ess is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Euroce ntric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political reali ties on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through wha t concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international co nnections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?< /p>\n
To address these timely questions among young researchers working on Africa\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freiburg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half -day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The w orkshops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, a s well as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically fo cused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, histor y\, African studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace a nd conflict studies.
\nKeynote: \;Vincent Fouch er (Sciences Po Bordeaux)
\nResearch presentations:
\nStarting in November\, \;each ACE research team will shar e how \;their research projects have \;aligned with the founding p rinciples of the GI-ACE programme: developing anti-corruption intervention s that are problem-focused\, politically viable\, have engaged practitione rs throughout the research process\, and provided avenues through which to measure the effects of the reforms. \;
\nOn November\, 4\, Clau dia Baez Camargo will present on her project: How can you harness informal ity to design anti-corruption interventions? This project has worked to te st realistic anti-corruption interventions - not just admire the problem.< /p> END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2565@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210923T133427 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211103T171500 SUMMARY:Johannes Dittmann: Wildlife Corridors\, Resettlement and the Territ orialisation of Transfrontier Conservation in northeastern Namibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch].\\r\\nATTENTION: The colloquium starts 1 hour earlier! X-ALT-DESC:
The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
\nATTE NTION: The colloquium starts 1 hour earlier!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2657@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211021T131809 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211102T160000 SUMMARY:Postcolonialism in the Portuguese‐speaking world and the place of African literature in world literature DESCRIPTION:Discussants:\\r\\nFrancisco Jatobá de Andrade: Social Strati fication\, Affirmative Action and Identity Economy: Anti‐Racism Dilemmas in Contemporary Brazil\\r\\nSophia Branco: Dealing with Inequalities and Differences in Feminist Praxis: Reflections on Brazilian Experiences\\r\\ nAna Gabriella de Souza Andrade: Subaltern Memories and Precarious Democr atic Dynamics: A Look at Women's Narratives About the Dictatorial Regime and the Contemporary Rightwing Movement in Brazil\\r\\nModerator: Elísi o Macamo\\r\\n\\r\\nThis event will be offered on-site and online. Please see the Zoom logins via the poster below. X-ALT-DESC:Francisco Jatobá de Andrade: \;< em>Social Stratification\, Affirmative Action and Identity Economy: Anti ‐Racism Dilemmas in Contemporary Brazil
\nSophia Branco: \;Dealing with Inequalities and Differences in Feminist Praxis: Reflec tions on Brazilian Experiences
\nAna Gabriella de Souza Andrade : \;Subaltern Memories and Precarious Democratic Dynamics: A \ ;Look at Women's Narratives About the Dictatorial Regime and the Contempor ary Rightwing Movement in Brazil
\nModerator: \;El ísio Macamo
\n\nThis event will be offered on-site and online. Ple ase see the Zoom logins via the poster below.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211102T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2655@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211021T123110 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211102T091500 SUMMARY:Contested migration governance and borders DESCRIPTION:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, dominat ion\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefulnes s is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Eurocent ric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political realiti es on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through what concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international conn ections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?\\r \\nTo address these timely questions among young researchers working on Af rica\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freib urg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half-day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The worksh ops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, as wel l as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically focused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, history\, A frican studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace and co nflict studies.\\r\\nKeynote: Thomas Faist (Universität Bielefeld)\\r\\n Research presentations:\\r\\n Leonie Jegen: Sovereignty and External Act ors in Migration Policies in Niger and Senegal Patrick Dieudonné Belinga Ondoua : Flux migratoires internes au Cameroun et subjectivation politi que par la suspicion dans la ville de Yaoundé Grace Atuhaire: State Sec uritization of Border Communities in Africa X-ALT-DESC:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, domin ation\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefuln ess is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Euroce ntric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political reali ties on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through wha t concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international co nnections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?< /p>\n
To address these timely questions among young researchers working on Africa\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freiburg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half -day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The w orkshops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, a s well as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically fo cused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, histor y\, African studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace a nd conflict studies.
\nKeynote: \;Thomas Faist (Universität Bielefeld)
\nResearch presentations:< /p>\n
In this presentation\, Dorothea Schulz \;takes \;rece nt political developments in Mali as an entry point for an empirical\, his torical investigation of political legitimacy in Mali. To do so\, she \;traces the changing ways in which political legitimacy has been construc ted by Mali’s successive regimes and governments\, and debated and conte sted by different segments of the population. The paper pays particular at tention to the key role of the national army in official invocations of na tional unity and in their contested reception\, arguing that the military\ , as an institution and as an actual source of political legitimacy\, comp etes with “intellectual power” as the default mode of political legiti macy. In a second step\, the paper reconstructs how over the past decades\ , an idiom of Islamic moral renewal has become an alternative source of po litical legitimacy. The paper concludes with a discussion of the “fault lines of the nation” revealed in the regionally diverse engagements with the three competing sources of legitimacy. \;
\nIf you would li ke to join the Zoom session\, contact S andra Burri.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2610@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211027T121500 SUMMARY:Sruthi Herbert & Christine Lutringer: Unspent Funds - Mobilisation and Accountability Post-COVID DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operation alization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts an d socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodologi cal and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across r egions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic context s.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zur ich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “ Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe col loquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participatin g\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: \;rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2617@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211025T120450 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211027T121500 SUMMARY:CANCELLED Mary Ononokpono: Presentation TBA DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, the organizers invite international scholars to presen t their research in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research semina r is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, the organizers invite international scholars to pres ent their research in the field of African History.
\nThe research s eminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an intere st in the history of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2628@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211018T163651 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211025T091500 SUMMARY:Consolidated or undermined statehood? The transnationalisation of s tate legitimacy DESCRIPTION:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, dominat ion\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefulnes s is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Eurocent ric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political realiti es on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through what concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international conn ections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?\\r \\nTo address these timely questions among young researchers working on Af rica\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freib urg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half-day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The worksh ops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, as wel l as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically focused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, history\, A frican studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace and co nflict studies.\\r\\nKeynote: Amber Murrey (University of Oxford)\\r\\nRe search presentations:\\r\\n John Githigaro: An Assessment of Claim making on Kenya-Somalia Maritime Dispute Barbara Müller: NGOs\, political pa rties and the student movement in Zimbabwe Federico Carducci: Religious n etworks and political legitimation in post-war Angola Paula Sophia Branco de Lima: What is national in transnational feminist activism? Perceptions on the World March of Women’s action in Brazil and Mozambique X-ALT-DESC:The state is a central concept for the study of power\, domin ation\, and socio-political change across the social sciences. Its usefuln ess is however contested\, especially in African contexts where the Euroce ntric ideal-type of the state stands in marked contrast to political reali ties on the ground. This raises a number of crucial questions: Through wha t concepts can one grasp the prominent role of trans- and international co nnections\, networks\, and NGOs that influence what statehood stands for?< /p>\n
To address these timely questions among young researchers working on Africa\, an international consortium of research institutes in Basel\, Freiburg im Breisgau\, and Strasbourg is organising three consecutive half -day online workshops dealing with particular topics in this debate. The w orkshops will provide doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers\, a s well as advanced MA students\, with an opportunity for a thematically fo cused exchange across the fields of political science\, sociology\, histor y\, African studies\, anthropology\, international relations\, and peace a nd conflict studies.
\nKeynote: \;Amber Murrey (University of Oxford)
\nResearch presentations:
\nLand plays a key role in the cycle of life. All over the worl
d\, its function as a natural resources provider goes hand in hand with it
s social and cultural function\, like in burial ceremonies for instance. T
he transversal nature of land in human life\, be it at the individual or c
ollective level\, has turned it into a thoroughly researched topic in soci
al sciences in general and in anthropology in particular. The subject of l
and tenure in African cities relates to the history of colonialism. The co
nsecutive multiple and sometimes diverging land tenures that emerged from
then onwards\, translated into a diversity of land tenure processes.
This presentation compares the similarities and differences surrou
nding land tenure in former English and former French West African cities\
, with a focus on Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Drawing on (gray) literature
\, archives and ethnographic fieldwork\, the ongoing research project aims
at understanding and assessing the roles and agencies of (urban) dwellers
in the constant shaping of land tenures in the 19th\, 20t
h \;and 21st \;centuries in Kumasi and Bouaké.\n
If you would like to join the session\, please contact Sandra Burri.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2606@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210930T101532 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211020T121500 SUMMARY:Aiden Russell: Trust\, Witnessing and Displacement in the 1960s Gre at Lakes DESCRIPTION:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and doct oral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing proj ects. In addition\, the organizers invite international scholars to presen t their research in the field of African History.\\r\\nThe research semina r is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an interest in the history of Africa.\\r\\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The research seminar African History is a forum for MA and do ctoral students as well as postdocs from Basel to discuss their ongoing pr ojects. In addition\, the organizers invite international scholars to pres ent their research in the field of African History.
\nThe research s eminar is open to all students\, staff members\, and guests with an intere st in the history of Africa.
\nPlease register in advance to Max Hufschmidt.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2650@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211018T130718 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211018T170000 SUMMARY:Yvonne Riaño & Maya Ober: Design x Intersectional feminism DESCRIPTION:The Critical Urbanisms Lecture Series is an online public collo quium that will be held via Zoom during this Fall semester. The series fea tures the important contributions from scholars and practitioners whose wo rks in design and intersectional feminism\, activism\, climate change and Black urbanism are influencing and reframing understandings of the urban i n the twenty-first century. The series will explore and debate the differe nt dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Most importantly\, this year the se ries will offer a new pedagogical format in which Critical Urbanisms stude nts will be the moderators of the panel discussions and will serve as the first interlocutors with the guests. X-ALT-DESC:The Critical Urbanisms Lecture Series is an online public col loquium that will be held via Zoom during this Fall semester. The series f eatures the important contributions from scholars and practitioners whose works in design and intersectional feminism\, activism\, climate change an d Black urbanism are influencing and reframing understandings of the urban in the twenty-first century. The series will explore and debate the diffe rent dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course o f locally situated and global phenomena. Most importantly\, this year the series will offer a new pedagogical format in which Critical Urbanisms stu dents will be the moderators of the panel discussions and will serve as th e first interlocutors with the guests.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2563@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210923T133528 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211013T181500 SUMMARY:Anette Hoffmann: Who’s afraid of Rudolf Pöch? The Long Echo of C olonial Violence in the Kalahari Recordings (1908) DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2615@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211004T113447 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211013T161500 SUMMARY:Olayemi Omodunbi: Beyond Binaries. Reconceptualizing Hegemonic Noti ons of Race and Racism in an African-Chinese Context DESCRIPTION:A plethora of research deals with race and racism – but mostl y from a Western perspective\, which is heavily influenced by its imperial ist past\, slavery and a binary Black/White ideology. Often\, these unders tandings are imposed on other geographical and cultural contexts. However\ , transferring such narratives not only neglects the socio-historical back ground of a particular context\, it is also liable to trivialize experienc es of Black\, Indigenous and People of Color in the US and Europe. On the basis of the conflation of existing literature with fieldwork conducted in Guangzhou (China) in January 2020\, this master thesis assesses concepts and frameworks needed for the analysis of race and racism in an African-Ch inese context and stresses the need for conceptualizing racism as a proces s. Besides being broad enough to function as an analytical framework in di fferent contexts\, concepts should allow for the inclusion of history\, di fferent societal levels and spheres. The thesis reveals the importance of Chinese scholarship regarding anti-Black racism and pays tribute to the va lue of everyday and personal experiences. The thesis is itself an examinat ion of the utility or potential problematic nature of researching race and racism in Africa-China relations from a Western perspective\, and demonst rates the challenge of overcoming hegemonic notions and binaries.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:A plethora of research deals with race and racism – but mos tly from a Western perspective\, which is heavily influenced by its imperi alist past\, slavery and a binary Black/White ideology. Often\, these unde rstandings are imposed on other geographical and cultural contexts. Howeve r\, transferring such narratives not only neglects the socio-historical ba ckground of a particular context\, it is also liable to trivialize experie nces of Black\, Indigenous and People of Color in the US and Europe. On th e basis of the conflation of existing literature with fieldwork conducted in Guangzhou (China) in January 2020\, this master thesis assesses concept s and frameworks needed for the analysis of race and racism in an African- Chinese context and stresses the need for conceptualizing racism as a proc ess. Besides being broad enough to function as an analytical framework in different contexts\, concepts should allow for the inclusion of history\, different societal levels and spheres. The thesis reveals the importance o f Chinese scholarship regarding anti-Black racism and pays tribute to the value of everyday and personal experiences. The thesis is itself an examin ation of the utility or potential problematic nature of researching race a nd racism in Africa-China relations from a Western perspective\, and demon strates the challenge of overcoming hegemonic notions and binaries.
\n< p>If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2578@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211013T121500 SUMMARY:Elísio Macamo: Translating Black-Boxes DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operation alization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts an d socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodologi cal and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across r egions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic context s.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zur ich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “ Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe col loquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participatin g\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2562@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210923T115447 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211006T181500 SUMMARY:Jack Boulten: Makalani\, Tomorrow\, and Sci-Fi-Future in Swakopmund DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogarotto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2581@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211004T113801 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211006T161500 SUMMARY:Guillaume Lévy: Entangled Lives. The Everyday Experience of Africa n Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto(%27nbjmup%2Bt%5C%2FcvssjAv ojcbt%5C%2Fdi%27)\;]. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto(%27nbjmup%2Bt%5C%2FcvssjAvojcbt%5C %2Fdi%27)\;">s.burri@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2457@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210927T112230 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211002 SUMMARY:Namibia Research Day 2021 DESCRIPTION:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organised by the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the School of Humanities\, Society and Development of the University of Namibia and is open to all levels.\\r\\n Due to the Covid-19 regulations at Unibas all guests who want to attend ph ysically need to register with dh@baslerafrika.ch\, those who attend onlin e with k.crimabellini@unibas.ch [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Namibia Research Day is jointly organised by the ZASB\, t he Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the School of Humanities\, Society a nd Development of theUniversity of Namibia and is open to all le vels.
\nDue to the Covid-19 regulations at Unibas all guests who want to attend physically need to register with dh@baslerafrika.ch \, those who attend online with k.crimabellini@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2580@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210930T092155 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211001T181500 SUMMARY:Danelle van Zyl-Hermann and Andreas Eckert: Privileged Precariat. W hite Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule DESCRIPTION:In order to comply with COVID regulations\, attendance is limit ed and a valid COVID certificate is required. To register\, please contact Sophie Irion [mailto:sophie.irion@unibas.ch] by 30 September 2021.\\r\\nT he event is followed by an outdoor reception. X-ALT-DESC:In order to comply with COVID regulations\, attendance is lim ited and a valid COVID certificate is required. To register\, please conta ct Sophie Irion by 30 Septembe r 2021.
\nThe event is followed by an outdoor reception.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2603@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210929T121500 SUMMARY:Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba & Matthias Maurer Rueda: Retribalization acr oss Time and Space DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. \\r\\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operation alization of social scientific concepts in specific historical contexts an d socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with methodologi cal and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concepts across r egions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academic context s.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zur ich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “ Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.\\r\\nThe col loquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participatin g\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. \;
\nThe focus of this semester is on the translation and operationalization of social scientific concepts in specific historical c ontexts and socio-cultural environments. The colloquium will engage with m ethodological and theoretical issues bearing on the translation of concept s across regions\, across disciplines\, and across academic and non-academ ic contexts.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universiti es of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the res earch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies ”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are i nterested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2561@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210913T135018 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210922T180000 SUMMARY:Dominique Niemand: ’Die swakheid van sommige’. Navigating race through foodways of the women of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Devel opment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all level s. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto(%27nbjmup%2Bl%5C%2FdsjnbcfmmjojAvojcbt%5C %2Fdi%27)\;]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies. It is jointly offered with the School of Humanities\, Society and Dev elopment\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all lev els. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via email to \; Kaue Nogaro tto.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2537@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210920T114722 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210922T161500 SUMMARY:Priska Handayani Rüegg: “If I would not have gone to war\, I wou ld have been illegal.” On a former child soldier’s seeking for freedom and belonging DESCRIPTION:Ali\, a young Afghan\, arrived in Switzerland as an unaccompani ed minor refugee. He escaped from Afghanistan where the Hazara people cann ot feel safe. Ali grew up as an orphan in his uncle’s family. Ever since \, he has been looking for freedom\, safety\, and a sense of belonging. So \, he took off\, when he was fifteen years old. The reality across the Ira nian border appeared brusquely serious. Either he had to return to Afghani stan or he had to serve in Syria’s war against terrorism. How did Ali pe rceive the options he could consider\, and how much of a choice did he hav e? Among the key factors known to put children at risk participating in wa r\, are war itself\, poverty\, education or employment\, and a disrupted o r non-existent family. Apart from those factors the role of adolescence ca n be considered. Does adolescence contain specific aspects that may contri bute to the decision to go to war? Examining aspects of adolescence offer an interesting and more nuanced view both on the agency and on the motivat ion of youth to join the army. In the presented chapter of the master thes is\, Ali’s motives to join the war are discussed and\, linked to his see king of belonging.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, pleas e contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Ali\, a young Afghan\, arrived in Switzerland as an unaccompa nied minor refugee. He escaped from Afghanistan where the Hazara people ca nnot feel safe. Ali grew up as an orphan in his uncle’s family. Ever sin ce\, he has been looking for freedom\, safety\, and a sense of belonging. So\, he took off\, when he was fifteen years old. The reality across the I ranian border appeared brusquely serious. Either he had to return to Afgha nistan or he had to serve in Syria’s war against terrorism. How did Ali perceive the options he could consider\, and how much of a choice did he h ave? Among the key factors known to put children at risk participating in war\, are war itself\, poverty\, education or employment\, and a disrupted or non-existent family. Apart from those factors the role of adolescence can be considered. Does adolescence contain specific aspects that may cont ribute to the decision to go to war? Examining aspects of adolescence offe r an interesting and more nuanced view both on the agency and on the motiv ation of youth to join the army. In the presented chapter of the master th esis\, Ali’s motives to join the war are discussed and\, linked to his s eeking of belonging.
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210922T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news409@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210916T181124 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210920T121500 SUMMARY:Semester Welcome of the Centre for African Studies Basel DESCRIPTION:The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current s tudents\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduce their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in the master programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend. However\, please abstain in case of symptoms.\\r\\nWe meet open air under the trees on Münsterplatz [https://goo.gl/maps/KJRmqvLyjcjG8Hkw8]. In case of rain\ , directions to a sheltered location in the neighbourhood will be publishe d on the door of Rheinsprung 21.\\r\\nDue to the resticitions we will not serve drinks and food but you will receive a take-away lunch bag. The gene ral protective plan of the University of Basel applies.\\r\\nNew MA Africa n Studies students are also invited to contact the program coordinator [ma ilto:veit.arlt@unibas.ch] for an individual counseling session. X-ALT-DESC:
The Centre invites you to a reception for newcomers\, current students\, researchers and faculty. Faculty members will briefly introduc e their current courses and researchers their projects. New students in th e master programme African Studies are firmly expected to attend. However\ , please abstain in case of symptoms.
\nWe meet open air under the trees on Münsterplatz. In case of rain\, directions to a sheltered location in the neighbourhood will be published on the door of Rheinsprung 21.
\nDue to the resti citions we will not serve drinks and food but you will receive a take-away lunch bag. The general protective plan of the University of Basel applies .
\nNew MA African Studies students are also invited to contact the program coordinator for an indivi dual counseling session.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2472@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210913 SUMMARY:Summer School: How Political is Knowledge? DESCRIPTION:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulating and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on Afr ican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes that are theoretic ally\, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflec tion on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one hand and its contribution to general scholarship\, on the other. \\r\\nHow Political is Knowledge?\\r\\nNo serious scholar of African affai rs can afford to ignore the role politics has played in shaping the langua ge of science addressing Africa and the goals of the knowledge produced. I t has been a staple of African critiques of knowledge production on the co ntinent to suspect that such knowledge is consistent with discourses speak ing to regimes of power and truth likely to represent Africa problematical ly. The question arising from this concerns the methodological implication s for research in Africa. \\r\\nThere is a political economy of knowledge production in Africa requiring critical reflection. It raises general que stions about the relationship between knowledge and politics. To address t hese questions\, however\, we have to reflect even more intensely on what it means to claim that knowledge is political. Does it mean that knowledge is a function of the exercise of power? What are the standards based on w hich we can validate knowledge? More broadly speaking\, what is the basis of intelligibility in scholarly conversations?\\r\\nThe Basel Summer Schoo l in African Studies 2021 invites applications from doctoral students inte rested in exploring these issues as part of a larger framework of engaging with methodological challenges in African Studies. Applicants should chal lenge themselves to look critically into their work and ask themselves wha t role any of the issues listed below play in it:\\r\\n1. What norma tive assumptions underlie your research? 2. What regimes of power an d truth\, but also resistance and contention\, speak through your research ? 3. What does the idea that “knowledge is political” mean in yo ur research\, and how do you go about it? 4. How “objective” are the standards for the validation of your research findings?\\r\\nAdvanced Study Skills workshop: How to write a book review\\r\\nThrough writing an d submitting a book review to a scholarly journal\, this Advanced Study Sk ills workshop focuses on participants’ writing habits\, their competence s\, and output. It inculcates the write – review – revise cycle and co mbines this with the writing and talking about writing cycle (the latter d ivided into talk about the writing process and talk about the written text ). Prior to the workshop\, participants should submit a proposal for a boo k review they plan to submit to a journal. During the workshop\, they will analyse the features of book reviews\, paying attention to the overall st ructure of the genre as well as its most prominent linguistic features\, s uch as condensation and evaluation that balances criticism and praise. Dur ing and after the workshop\, participants will give and receive peer feedb ack as well as receive feedback from the lecturer\, thereby supporting the m to submit their review to a suitable journal\, should they so wish. \\r \\nFaculty\\r\\nConveners:\\r\\n Elísio Macamo\, Professor of African St udies at the University of Basel Ralph Weber\, Professor of European Glob al Studies at the University of Basel \\r\\nThere will be further resource persons to facilitate specific sessions.\\r\\nAdvanced Study Skills:\\r\\ n Stephan Meyer\, Deputy of the Director and Coordinator English\, Langua ge Center of the University of Basel \\r\\nPractical information\\r\\nThe summer school is open for PhD students enrolled in Switzerland and abroad. \\r\\nThe summer school takes place online via Zoom.\\r\\nFor PhD candid ates enrolled at a university in Switzerland or in Africa\, the Summer Sch ool is free of charge. The participation fee for all other PhD candidates is CHF 100.\\r\\nApplication \\r\\nDownload call document [t3://file?uid= 1996]\\r\\nDeadline for application (extended): 9 August 2021 X-ALT-DESC:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulatin g and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on A frican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes that are theoret ically\, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of refl ection on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge o n the one hand and its contribution to general scholarship\, on the other. \;
\nNo serious scholar o f African affairs can afford to ignore the role politics has played in sha ping the language of science addressing Africa and the goals of the knowle dge produced. It has been a staple of African critiques of knowledge produ ction on the continent to suspect that such knowledge is consistent with d iscourses speaking to regimes of power and truth likely to represent Afric a problematically. The question arising from this concerns the methodologi cal implications for research in Africa. \;
\nThere is a politic al economy of knowledge production in Africa requiring critical reflection . It raises general questions about the relationship between knowledge and politics. To address these questions\, however\, we have to reflect even more intensely on what it means to claim that knowledge is political. Does it mean that knowledge is a function of the exercise of power? What are t he standards based on which we can validate knowledge? More broadly speaki ng\, what is the basis of intelligibility in scholarly conversations?
\ nThe Basel Summer School in African Studies 2021 invites applications f rom doctoral students interested in exploring these issues as part of a la rger framework of engaging with methodological challenges in African Studi es. Applicants should challenge themselves to look critically into their w ork and ask themselves what role any of the issues listed below play in it :
\n1. \; \; \;What normative assumptions underlie your
research?
2. \; \; \;What regimes of power and truth\,
but also resistance and contention\, speak through your research?
3
. \; \; \;What does the idea that “knowledge is political
” mean in your research\, and how do you go about it?
4. \;&nb
sp\; \;How “objective” are the standards for the validation of yo
ur research findings?
Through writing and submitting a book review to a scholarly journal\, this Advanced Study Skills workshop focuses on partic ipants’ writing habits\, their competences\, and output. It inculcates t he write – review – revise cycle and combines this with the writing an d talking about writing cycle (the latter divided into talk about the writ ing process and talk about the written text). Prior to the workshop\, part icipants should submit a proposal for a book review they plan to submit to a journal. During the workshop\, they will analyse the features of book r eviews\, paying attention to the overall structure of the genre as well as its most prominent linguistic features\, such as condensation and evaluat ion that balances criticism and praise. During and after the workshop\, pa rticipants will give and receive peer feedback as well as receive feedback from the lecturer\, thereby supporting them to submit their review to a s uitable journal\, should they so wish. \;
\nCo nveners:
\nThere will be furt her resource persons to facilitate specific sessions.
\nAdvance d Study Skills:
\nThe summer school is open for PhD st udents enrolled in Switzerland and abroad. \;
\nThe summer schoo l takes place online via Zoom.
\nFor PhD candidates enrolled at a un iversity in Switzerland or in Africa\, the Summer School is free of charge . The participation fee for all other PhD candidates is CHF 100.
\nDeadline for application (extended): 9 August 2021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210917 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2450@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T184855 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210701T123000 SUMMARY:Ethiopia at the crossroads: Tigray war\, ethnic conflicts and the p olitical transition DESCRIPTION:Ethiopia held its general elections on 21 June in a context of contestation and political uncertainty. The civil war in Tigray\, which st arted in November 2020\, is ongoing and risks evolving into a protracted i nsurgency involving Ethiopian\, Eritrean\, Amhara and Tigrayan armed force s. Mass displacement and warfare have led to a major humanitarian crisis\, putting Tigray at the risk of famine. In various regions ethnic tensions have spiraled out of control as violent attacks against ethnic minorities have become recurrent. Nationally\, the ‘political transition’ initiat ed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed – which essentially aimed to liberalize Ethiopia both politically and economically – has stalled as the governme nt returned to some of the authoritarian practices of its predecessors. Th is roundtable brings together leading experts to discuss current political developments in Ethiopia\, Africa’s second most populous country. We wi ll discuss the drivers of the Tigray war\, its relation to broader nationa l politics in the aftermath of the elections as well as likely scenarios f or Ethiopia’s political future.\\r\\nModerator:\\r\\n Tobias Hagmann\, Director\, Public Culture Lab Ltd\, Switzerland \\r\\nSpeakers: \\r\\n Jo n Abbink\, Professor emeritus in Governance and politics in Africa\, Leide n University Juweria B. Ali\, researcher\, University of Westminster Tsedale Lemma\, Interim CEO\, Publisher of Addis Standard \\r\\nAfriqu' à midi is a joint discussion platform of Afrika-Komitee and the Centre fo r African Studies Basel. X-ALT-DESC:Ethiopia held its general elections on 21 June in a context o f contestation and political uncertainty. The civil war in Tigray\, which started in November 2020\, is ongoing and risks evolving into a protracted insurgency involving Ethiopian\, Eritrean\, Amhara and Tigrayan armed for ces. Mass displacement and warfare have led to a major humanitarian crisis \, putting Tigray at the risk of famine. In various regions ethnic tension s have spiraled out of control as violent attacks against ethnic minoritie s have become recurrent. Nationally\, the ‘political transition’ initi ated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed – which essentially aimed to liberaliz e Ethiopia both politically and economically – has stalled as the govern ment returned to some of the authoritarian practices of its predecessors. This roundtable brings together leading experts to discuss current politic al developments in Ethiopia\, Africa’s second most populous country. We will discuss the drivers of the Tigray war\, its relation to broader natio nal politics in the aftermath of the elections as well as likely scenarios for Ethiopia’s political future.
\nModerator:
\nSpeakers :
\nAfriqu'à midi is a joint discussion platform of Afrika-Kom itee and the Centre for African Studies Basel.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210701T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2462@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210630T180000 SUMMARY:William Beinart: Approaching Land Reform in South Africa DESCRIPTION:How should land reform be handled in the post-apartheid era? Pr ofessor Beinart will discuss what is happening on the ground in South Afri ca\, and suggest how this research should inform policy. He will also refe rence the history of land reform in Zimbabwe. Phanuel Kapaama will draw ou t comparisons with the Namibian situation.\\r\\nThis public lecture is par t of the Early Career Writing Workshop [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/event/de tails/ecww/%20]\, a partnership of the University of Namibia\, the Journal of Southern African Studiesand the Centre of African Studies\, University of Basel. X-ALT-DESC:How should land reform be handled in the post-apartheid era? Professor Beinart will discuss what is happening on the ground in South Af rica\, and suggest how this research should inform policy. He will also re ference the history of land reform in Zimbabwe. Phanuel Kapaama will draw out comparisons with the Namibian situation.
\nThis public lecture i s part of the Ear ly Career Writing Workshop\, a partnership of the University of Namibi a\, the Journal of Southern African Studiesand the Centre of African Studi es\, University of Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2451@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210629 SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars & New Research in Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Early Career Writing Workshop is a partnership of the Centre for African Studies Basel\, the University of Namibia and the Jour nal of Southern African Studies.\\r\\nThe Workshop presents a wide range o f public lectures for early career scholars wanting to publish in internat ional journals\, with a particular focus on the Journal of Southern Africa n Studies. In particular\, we warmly invite interested early career schola rs at the Universities of Namibia and Basel\, and/or based in southern Afr ica.\\r\\n\\r\\nProgramme Summary\\r\\n*Please note that all times are Sou thern African Time*\\r\\n \\r\\nPublic Lectures: Session 1 \\r\\nTuesday 29 June\, 10:00–12.35\\r\\nAdvice and guidance from Taylor & Francis\, t he publisher of JSAS\, and the University of Namibia Press\, as well as pr esentations of papers developed in the workshop.\\r\\nRegistration\\r\\n \\r\\nPublic Lectures: Session 2 \\r\\nWednesday 30 June\, 14:00–16:45\\ r\\nInsights from a JSAS editor and a first-time JSAS author\, as well as expert discussion of how to source and handle information.\\r\\nRegistrati on\\r\\n \\r\\nKeynote Lecture: Approaching Land Reform in South Africa\\ r\\nWednesday 30 June\, 18:00–19:30\\r\\nGiven by Professor William Bein art (Oxford). Discussant Phanuel Kaapama (UNAM) will draw out comparisons for Namibia.\\r\\nRegistration [https://unibas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN _d_OOZSPCS2GS24dW44dvTg] | Flyer [t3://file?uid=1983]\\r\\n \\r\\nPublic Lectures: Session 3\\r\\nThursday 1 July\, 10:00–12:45\\r\\nTalks on ha ndling your literature review\, by the JSAS Senior Editor\, and on writing grant proposals\, as well as presentations of papers developed in the wor kshop.\\r\\nRegistration\\r\\n \\r\\nAdditional funding for the workshop is provided by the British Academy’s Writing Workshops Programme\, supp orted under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund\, and the Mopane Trust. X-ALT-DESC:The 2021 Early Career Writing Workshop is a partnership of th e Centre for African Studies \;Basel\, the University of Namibia and t he Journal of Southern African Studies.
\nThe Workshop pres ents a wide range of public lectures for early career scholars wanting to publish in international journals\, with a particular focus on the Jou rnal of Southern African Studies. In particular\, we warmly invite in terested early career scholars at the Universities of Namibia and Basel\, and/or based in southern Africa.
\n\n*Please note that all times are Southern African Time*
\nTuesday 29 Ju ne\, 10:00–12.35
\nAdvice and guidance from Taylor &\; Francis\, the publisher of JSAS\, and the University of Namibia Press\, as well as presentations of papers developed in the workshop.
\ n\nWednesday 30 June\, 14:00– 16:45
\nInsights from a JSAS editor and a first-time JS AS author\, as well as expert discussion of how to source and handle information.
\n\nWednesday 30 June\, 18:00–19:30
\nGiven by Profe ssor William Beinart (Oxford). Discussant Phanuel Kaapama (UNAM) will draw out comparisons for Namibia.
\nRegistration \;| < a href="t3://file?uid=1983">Flyer
\nThursday 1 July\, 10:0 0–12:45
\nTalks on handling your literature review\, by the JS AS Senior Editor\, and on writing grant proposals\, as well as presen tations of papers developed in the workshop.
\n\nAdditional funding for the workshop is provided by the Briti sh Academy’s \;Writing Workshops Programme\, supported under the UK Government's Global \;Challenges Research Fund\, and the Mopane Trust.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2433@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T135937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210628 SUMMARY:Conference: Global Health in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Though much progress has been made in improving global health\, many new obstacles have emerged. Join the discussion on the challenges an d opportunities ahead\, what cutting-edge research has to offer\, and case studies from around the world.\\r\\n The enigma of achieving quality car e for all and the Sustainable Development Goals New disease-related chall enges and trends in health The role of the private sector in improving he alth COVID-19 impact\, vaccine roll-out and hesitancy Future national an d global health priorities X-ALT-DESC:Though much progress has been made in improving global health \, many new obstacles have emerged. Join the discussion on the challenges and opportunities ahead\, what cutting-edge research has to offer\, and ca se studies from around the world.
\nAt the end of the semester we offer our students and PhD cand idates an outing to the countryside – a social event for all who would l ike to take in some fresh air\, enjoy the scenery and\, most importantly\, exchange with peers and faculty in safe conditions.
\nWe will visit the Homburgertal. The end point is Läufelfingen\, from where we return b y train to Basel (or Olten …). We will climb some 500m altitude and cove r some 11km. Solid shoes are recommended but not a must. Please take suffi cient water and some snacks along. If the weather is fine we can do a bonf ire and grill something. If some of you want to bring along their kids we can adapt the route accordingly.
\nDate and time: F
riday 24 June\, 1:30pm
Meeting point: Basel SBB rai
lway station\, track 8 (please check for the IR train in direction Zürich
leaving at 1:43pm)
Train ticket: The area is withi
n the U-Abo territory. Upon request we can cover the cost of the transport
of participating students and PhD candidates.
Please register via this form – for the c ase some contact tracing or short notice cancellation should become necess ary. In case of any queries\, please contact veit.arlt@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210625T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2417@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210622T181500 SUMMARY:Lewis Nkosi: The Black Psychiatrist DESCRIPTION:Join the editors\, authors and publishers for the virtual launc h of this rich volume celebrating the late Lewis Nkosi. Guest speakers inc lude Zukiswa Wanner\, Sandile Ngidi\, Véronique Tadjo\, Lucy Graham and B en Williams. Musical interlude by the Keenan Ahrends Trio courtesy of the bird’s eye jazz club Basel.\\r\\nFor further enquiries\, please contact Dag Henrichsen [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Join the editors\, authors and publishers for the virtual lau nch of this rich volume celebrating the late Lewis Nkosi. Guest speakers i nclude Zukiswa Wanner\, Sandile Ngidi\, Véronique Tadjo\, Lucy Graham and Ben Williams. Musical interlude by the Keenan Ahrends Trio courtesy of th e bird’s eye jazz club Basel.
\nFor further enquiries\, please con tact Dag Henrichsen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2183@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210602T121500 SUMMARY:Lerato Posholi: Reversing the gaze as a response to Eurocentrism: s ome preliminary thoughts DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2404@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210601T150000 SUMMARY:Book discussion: Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:Henning Melber (Nordic Africa Institute\, Sweden) and Lucien v an der Walt (Rhodes University) in conversation with the editors Duncan Money (Leiden University) and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of Basel ) and book contributors Cláudia Castelo (University of Lisbon) and Georg e Bishi (Rhodes University) X-ALT-DESC:Henning Melber (Nordic Africa Institute\, Sweden) and \;L ucien van der Walt (Rhodes University) \;in conversation with \;th e editors Duncan Money (Leiden University) and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (Un iversity of Basel) \;and book contributors Cláudia Castelo (Universit y of Lisbon) and George Bishi (Rhodes University)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210601T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2157@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210526T181500 SUMMARY:Ndapewa Nakanyete: Socio- and economic relationships between San an d Ovawambo in north-central Namibia since the mid-1950s DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [m ailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210526T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2232@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210526T161500 SUMMARY:Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison II DESCRIPTION:Students who participated in the ethnographic research this win ter present their research findings.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zo om session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Students who participated in the ethnographic research this w inter present their research findings.
\nIf you would like to join t he Zoom session\, please contact s.burr i@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210526T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2378@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210521T131500 SUMMARY:ZASB excursion for students\, faculty and staff DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, we had to cope with yet another semester withou t direct encounters. On 21 May we therefore offer a hike to the countrysid e for all who would like to take in some fresh air\, enjoy the scenery and \, most importantly\, the exchange with peers and faculty.\\r\\nDate and t ime: Friday 21 May\, 1:15pm Meeting point: Pratteln (railway station)\\r\\ nThe end point is Dornach (railway station) approximately at 5pm. Solid sh oes are recommended but not a must. We will climb some 500m altitude and c over some 10-15km. Please take sufficient water and some snacks along.\\r\ \nPlease register via this form [https://forms.gle/7onR5ry3xwvcBJuR7] – for the case some contact tracing or short notice cancellation should beco me necessary. In the case of any queries please contact me directly via th e office or mobile number. X-ALT-DESC:Unfortunately\, we had to cope with yet another semester with out direct encounters. On 21 May we therefore offer a hike to the countrys ide for all who would like to take in some fresh air\, enjoy the scenery a nd\, most importantly\, the exchange with peers and faculty.
\n
Meeting po
int: Pratteln (railway station)
The end point is Dornach (railway station) approximately at 5pm. Solid shoes are recommended but no t a must. We will climb some 500m altitude and cover some 10-15km. Please take sufficient water and some snacks along.
\nPlease register via this form – for the cas e some contact tracing or short notice cancellation should become necessar y. In the case of any queries please contact me directly via the office or mobile number.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210521T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2231@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210519T161500 SUMMARY:Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison I DESCRIPTION:Students who participated in the ethnographic research this win ter present their research findings.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zo om session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Students who participated in the ethnographic research this w inter present their research findings.
\nIf you would like to join t he Zoom session\, please contact s.burr i@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210519T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2182@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210519T121500 SUMMARY:Jennifer Robinson: Generating concepts for global urban studies. Re formatting comparative urbanism DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2156@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220315T154334 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210518T093000 SUMMARY:Workshop “Making Museums Matter: Collecting Voices\, Images and O bjects for Usakos Museum” DESCRIPTION:On International Museum Day the Museums Association of Namibia and the Usakos Museum Advisory Committee have organised a consultative wor kshop\, which is also integral part of the Namibian and Southern African S tudies Research Colloquium.\\r\\nThe workshop revolves around the idea of `museum as process’. It will review the way in which the idea of a commu nity museum for the town has evolved and the role that collaboration with academic institutions has played in this process. In the light of argumen ts that museums are irrelevant in Africa\, the presentations will provoke discussion about the displays and activities that should feature in the mu seum in order to ensure that the Usakos Museum `matters’ to the local co mmunity.\\r\\nThe Centre of African Studies Basel has been involved in the Usakos museum's project since many years. The Namibian & Southern African Studies Research Colloquium (organised by the Centre for African Studies \,the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the University of Namibia) is joi ning the workshop online. Guests are welcome! For the registration process please see the programme.\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogaro tto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:On International Museum Day the Museums Association of Namibi a and the Usakos Museum Advisory Committee have organised a consultative w orkshop\, which is also integral part of the Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium.
\nThe workshop revolves around the ide a of `museum as process’. It will review the way in which the idea of a community museum for the town has evolved and the role that collaboration with academic institutions has played in this process. \;In the light of arguments that museums are irrelevant in Africa\, the presentations wil l provoke discussion about the displays and activities that should feature in the museum in order to ensure that the Usakos Museum `matters’ to th e local community.
\nThe Centre of African Studies Basel has been in volved in the Usakos museum's project since many years. The Namibian & amp\; Southern African Studies Research Colloquium (organised by the Centre for African Studies \,the Basler Afrika Bibliographien\, and the Un iversity of Namibia) is joining the workshop online. Guests are welcome! F or the registration process please see the programme.
\nPlease regis ter \;via email to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210518T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2230@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210512T161500 SUMMARY:Prisca Mori: Une cartographie des propriétaires et gestionnaires d e bétail dans les familles d’agropasteurs peuls de Ouangolodougou DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [http://%20s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow so on... X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210512T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2130@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210512T121500 SUMMARY: Chris Holdridge: Foreign POWs and the South African War DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Chris Holdridge (North West University) as part of t he Research Seminar "African History".\\r\\nThe Research Seminar takes pla ce online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch. [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Chris Holdridge (North West University) as part of the Research Seminar "African History".
\nThe Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210512T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2337@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210510T143000 SUMMARY:Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg): How to Structure an A rticle: The “Golden Thread” DESCRIPTION:This is the second online lecture in a series of talks for earl y career researchers who are aiming to publish in international journals. In her lecture\, Dr Gastrow will explain how to structure articles for pub lication (with a focus on the Journal of Southern African Studies). She wi ll discuss how to build your hypothesis and organise your arguments\, and why you should tie everything together with a ‘golden thread’. This ta lk will hone in on some aspects of article-writing covered in the workshop ’s introductory lecture on 19 March by Professor Wapulumuka Mulwafu. In particular\, it will discuss in more detail the questions of writing analy tically\, with a clear focus.\\r\\nAll are welcome to the lecture\, whethe r or not you attended the previous talk (you do not need to have attended this in order to benefit from Dr Gastrow’s lecture).\\r\\nDr Claudia Gas trow is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Developmen t at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests lie in urbanis m\, the state\, urban financialisation\, enclaving and authoritarianism\, with a geographic focus on southern and Central Africa\, especially Angola . She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled The Aesthetics of Belonging: Building Politics in Luanda\, Angola\, which explores how t he built environment mediated understandings of political belonging in Lua nda during the period of post-conflict national reconstruction. She is a g raduate of the Master's program African Studies at the University of Basel .\\r\\nRegistration: To register for the lecture and receive your Zoom lin k\, please contact:Saara Kamati | skamati@unam.na and Dr Marion Wallace | marion.wallace@wallpear.plus.com. X-ALT-DESC:This is the second online lecture in a series of talks for ea rly career researchers who are aiming to publish in international journals . In her lecture\, Dr Gastrow will explain how to structure articles for p ublication (with a focus on the Journal of Southern African Studies). She will discuss how to build your hypothesis and organise your arguments\, an d why you should tie everything together with a ‘golden thread’. This talk will hone in on some aspects of article-writing covered in the worksh op’s introductory lecture on 19 March by Professor Wapulumuka Mulwafu. I n particular\, it will discuss in more detail the questions of writing ana lytically\, with a clear focus.
\nAll are welcome to the lecture\, w hether or not you attended the previous talk (you do not need to have atte nded this in order to benefit from Dr Gastrow’s lecture).
\nRegistration: To regis ter for the lecture and receive your Zoom link\, please contact:Saara Kamati | skamati@unam.na and Dr Marion Wallace | marion.wallace@wallpear.plus.com.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210510T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2305@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220404T173206 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210507T100000 SUMMARY:Keywords for India\, and beyond? Enriching the Global Social Scienc e Vocabulary DESCRIPTION:The workshop will be facilitated by Rukmini Bhaya Nair [https:/ /hss.iitd.ac.in/faculty/rukmini-bhaya-nair] (Indian Institute of Technolog y Delhi) and Peter deSouza (Goa University). Participants are asked to pre pare by reading selected chapters from the two scholars' publication Keywo rds for India [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/keywords-for-india-9781350039 247/]. The event is organized by Lerato Posholi [https://europa.unibas.ch/ de/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende/lerato-posholi/] and Ralph Weber [https://europa.unibas.ch/de/ueber-uns/personen/professuren/r alph-weber/] in context of the SNFS-Sinergia project Reversing the Gaze [h ttps://europa.unibas.ch/de/forschung/european-global-knowledge-production/ reversing-the-gaze/].\\r\\nThe question at the core of this workshop is wh ether and how these keywords can be used for the study of research context s beyond India\, including European research contexts. This includes sever al theoretical issues about the nature of concepts and the politics of kno wledge.\\r\\nPlease note: Participation is only possible upon registratio n. Register with Lerato Posholi (lerato.posholi@unibas.ch [mailto:lerato. posholi@unibas.ch]) until 4 May 2021 in order to receive the readings and Zoom link for the workshop. X-ALT-DESC:The workshop will be facilitated by Rukmini Bhay a Nair (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) and Peter deSouza (Goa U niversity). Participants are asked to prepare by reading selected chapters from the two scholars' publication Keyword s for India. The event is organized by Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber in context of the SNFS-Sinergia project Reversing the Gaze.
\nThe question at the core of this workshop is whether and how these keyw ords can be used for the study of research contexts beyond India\, includi ng European research contexts. This includes several theoretical issues ab out the nature of concepts and the politics of knowledge.
\nPlease note: Participation is only possible \;upon registrati on. Register \;with Lerato Posholi (lerato.posholi@unibas.ch) until 4 \;May 2021 in order to receive the readings and Zoom link for the workshop.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210507T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2155@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T181500 SUMMARY:Goodman Gwasira: Re-presenting Ethnicity in the Owela Museum\, Wind hoek\, Namibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [m ailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2229@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210628T134142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T161500 SUMMARY:Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Piet van Eeuwijk: Covid-19 - Some Refle ctions from a Medical Anthropology Perspective DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch">s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2129@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210320T090548 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T121500 SUMMARY:Francis Daudi Mlacha: Nationalisation and Localisation of East Afri can Insurance Industry / Brian Ngwenya: Becoming Clan: Recruitment and Tra ining of African Servicemen of the British South Africa Police DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Francis Daudi Mlacha (University of Basel) and Bria n Ngwenya (University of Basel).\\r\\nThe Research Seminar takes place onl ine via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on req uest: max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch. [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Lectures by Francis Daudi Mlacha (University of Basel) and Br ian Ngwenya (University of Basel).
\nThe Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch. \;
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2181@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210316T105243 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210505T121500 SUMMARY:Elísio Macamo: What do (research) objects stand in for? Sociologic al implications of comparison DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2154@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210420T080546 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T181500 SUMMARY:Jona Heita: Human-wildlife conflict in communal conservancies in Na mibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [m ailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2228@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210426T093542 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T161500 SUMMARY:Miriam Badoux: Land is Gold - Property Disputes\, Claim-Making\, an d Urbanity in Eldoret\, Kenya DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Miriam Badoux looks back at her PhD rese arch about the politics of urban land in the city of Eldoret\, Kenya. Land in Kenya is commonly described as an “emotive issue”. It is associate d with politics and corruption\, and is often blamed as the root cause of recurring political and ethnic violence in the country. Issues of land acc ess and ownership drove the struggle for independence and have been at the heart of public debate in postcolonial Kenya. While most of the existing research on land in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted in rural areas\, my research focuses on Eldoret\, a fast-growing secondary city located in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Looking at a wide range of land disputes and the w ays in which actors articulate ownership claims\, Badoux argues that land materializes urban dwellers’ individual and collective aspirations.\\r\\ nBadoux also reflect on the practicalities and possibilities of conducting ethnographic research on land: how can we best approach land in its every day dimension? What can land tell us about the city at large\, urban dwell ers’ hopes and fears\, as well as belonging in the urban context?\\r\\nI f you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas. ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon... X-ALT-DESC:In this presentation\, Miriam Badoux looks back at her PhD re search about the politics of urban land in the city of Eldoret\, Kenya. La nd in Kenya is commonly described as an “emotive issue”. It is associa ted with politics and corruption\, and is often blamed as the root cause o f recurring political and ethnic violence in the country. Issues of land a ccess and ownership drove the struggle for independence and have been at t he heart of public debate in postcolonial Kenya. While most of the existin g research on land in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted in rural areas \, my research focuses on Eldoret\, a fast-growing secondary city located in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Looking at a wide range of land disputes and the ways in which actors articulate ownership claims\, Badoux argues that lan d materializes urban dwellers’ individual and collective aspirations.
\nBadoux also reflect on the practicalities and possibilities of condu cting ethnographic research on land: how can we best approach land in its everyday dimension? What can land tell us about the city at large\, urban dwellers’ hopes and fears\, as well as belonging in the urban context?\n
If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will f ollow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2128@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210415T140536 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T121500 SUMMARY:Tolulope Esther Fadeyi: Yoruba Traditional Medicine / Basil Bucher: The Making of the 1957 Exhibition in the Museum für Völkerkunde Basel DESCRIPTION:The Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and pas scodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: max.hufschmidt@uniba s.ch. [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links a nd passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210428T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2153@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210301T120615 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T181500 SUMMARY:Yannick van den Berg: Religiosity in Everyday Life and the Experien ce of Church Services in north-central Namibia: Methodologies and Sound DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, University of Namibia in online sessions and is o pen to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the Department of Geography\, Hist ory &\; Environmental Studies\, University of Namibia in online session s and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register&n bsp\;via email to \;Kaue No garotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2227@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210316T163328 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T161500 SUMMARY:Elisio Macamo: The Object DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch">s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2180@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210315T092016 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T121500 SUMMARY:Till Förster: Anthropology and the positivist legacy of comparativ e agendas. Theoretical concepts and their epistemological power DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2127@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210322T095304 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T120000 SUMMARY:Jules Skotnes Brown Shan Hoosain: Historical Trauma «The elephant in the room» DESCRIPTION:The Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and pas scodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: max.hufschmidt@uniba s.ch. [mailto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:The Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links a nd passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210421T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2152@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210420T080612 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210414T181500 SUMMARY:Ellison Tjirera: Reading Windhoek through cultural economies DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [m ailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210414T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2225@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210408T100627 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210414T160000 SUMMARY:Franziska Jenni: PhD Project Presentation DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch">s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210414T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2179@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T171103 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210407T121500 SUMMARY:Peter Geschiere: Reversing the Gaze. Anthropological Experiments – Steps towards Decolonization? DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email t o: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2126@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210322T090111 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210407T120000 SUMMARY:Bethany Rebisz: Women's Memories of Community-Building\, Resilience \, and Conflict in Kenya\, 1954-1960 DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Bethany Rebisz (University of Reading): »You’d s ee that people loved each other»: Women's Memories of Community-Building\ , Resilience\, and Conflict in Kenya\, 1954—1960.\\r\\nThe Research Semi nar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made availabl e on ADAM or on request: max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch. [mailto:max.hufschmidt @unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Bethany Rebisz (University of Reading): \;»Yo u’d see that people loved each other»: Women's Memories of Community-Bu ilding\, Resilience\, and Conflict in Kenya\, 1954—1960.
\nThe Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;max.hufsch midt@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210407T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2250@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210325T144212 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210327T100000 SUMMARY:Graduation Ceremony DESCRIPTION:On Saturday will celebrate the graduation of a few Masters and PhDs in African Studies: Anthony Stewart\, Nemanja Calasan\, Robin Hill\, Haddy Sarr and Natalie Tarr. And of course there will be numerous graduati ons in associated disciplines\, such as Balz Andrea Alter\, Jacob Geuder\, Anna Christen and Frederik Unseld.\\r\\nRegistrations should be directed to studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch. [http://studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch.% C2%A0] X-ALT-DESC:On Saturday will celebrate the graduation of a few Masters an d PhDs in African Studies: Anthony Stewart\, Nemanja Calasan\, Robin Hill\ , Haddy Sarr and Natalie Tarr. And of course there will be numerous gradua tions in associated disciplines\, such as Balz Andrea Alter\, Jacob Geuder \, Anna Christen and Frederik Unseld.
\nRegistrations should be dire cted to \;studadmin-p hilhist@unibas.ch. \;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2205@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220325T172639 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210325T130000 SUMMARY:Claudia Baez Camargo: Harnessing the intangible – enhancing integ rity during crises DESCRIPTION:The panellists will focus on a long-standing problem that the c ovid-19 pandemic has thrown into the spotlight:\\r\\nHealth workers and ad ministrators are often subject to intense social pressures to ignore offic ial rules and procedure\, even more so during times of crisis. These press ures are likely to be systematic because they are rooted in social norms: shared understandings about actions that are appropriate in society.\\r\\n Such norms provide the unwritten rules of behaviour and in times of crisis the pressure to follow them can sharpen – overriding not just formal ru les but even personal attitudes and beliefs. A similar argument applies to informal practices that are rooted in everyday routines and that become e ntrenched because they are functional.\\r\\nThe presenters in this panel w ill discuss how practitioners may tailor approaches to strengthen integrit y during an emergency response to counter recurrent social norms and infor mal practices.\\r\\nSome of the insights shared will highlight the approac hes to working with social norms and social networks that are being tested in the scope of a current research project under the UK-funded Global Int egrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Research Programme (GI-ACE)\, titled Addr essing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural approach [htt ps://ace.globalintegrity.org/projects/tanzhealth/].\\r\\nThe panel\\r\\nCl audia Baez Camargo [https://baselgovernance.org/about-us/people/claudia-ba ez-camargo]\, Head of Public Governance at the Basel Institute on Governan ce\, will moderate a panel of renowned speakers bringing different perspec tives to the topic:\\r\\n Dina Balabanova [https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutu s/people/balabanova.dina]\, Professor of Health Systems and Policy\, Londo n School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine David Jackson [https://www.u4.n o/the-team/jackson]\, Senior Adviser\, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre Ruth Persian [https://www.bi.team/people/ruth-persian/]\, Senior Research Advisor\, The Behavioural Insights Team X-ALT-DESC:The panellists will focus on a long-standing problem that the covid-19 pandemic has thrown into the spotlight:
\nHealth workers a nd administrators are often subject to intense social pressures to ignore official rules and procedure\, even more so during times of crisis. These pressures are likely to be systematic because they are rooted in social no rms: shared understandings about actions that are appropriate in society.< /p>\n
Such norms provide the unwritten rules of behaviour and in times o f crisis the pressure to follow them can sharpen – overriding not just f ormal rules but even personal attitudes and beliefs. A similar argument ap plies to informal practices that are rooted in everyday routines and that become entrenched because they are functional.
\nThe presenters in t his panel will discuss how practitioners may tailor approaches to strength en integrity during an emergency response to counter recurrent social norm s and informal practices.
\nSome of the insights shared will highlig ht the approaches to working with social norms and social networks that ar e being tested in the scope of a current research project under the UK-fun ded Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Research Programme (GI-ACE)\ , titled \;Addressing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural appro ach.
\nClaudia Baez Camargo\, Head of P ublic Governance at the Basel Institute on Governance\, will moderate a pa nel of renowned speakers bringing different perspectives to the topic:
\nThe Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2221@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210414T112035 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T160000 SUMMARY:Marta Rudnicka: „It’s not our food”. Food\, ethnicity and con temporary othering practices in Northern Ghana DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [http://%20s.burri@unibas.ch].\\r\\nAbstract will follow so on... X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2174@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210315T092016 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T121500 SUMMARY:Ralph Weber: Post-Comparison and Mid-Level Concepts DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”. \\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are inter ested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mail to:rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Ins titute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Ar ea Studies”. \;
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zo om. If you are interested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2125@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210322T095620 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T120000 SUMMARY:Jakob Zollmann: South Africa's ‹Total Strategy› – or How to T hink About the Future of Apartheid in Times of Crisis? DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center) \\r\\ nThe Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes wil l be made available on ADAM or on request: max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch. [mai lto:max.hufschmidt@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center) \;
\nThe Research Seminar takes place online via Zoom. Links and passcodes will be made available on ADAM or on request: \;m ax.hufschmidt@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210324T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2096@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210315T103101 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210318T170000 SUMMARY:Präsentation des Masterstudiengangs African Studies DESCRIPTION:Setze Dich im Studium mit Afrika auseinander um so die Welt als Ganzes besser zu verstehen! Der interdisziplinäre Masterstudiengang Afri kastudien [t3://page?uid=147] an der Universität Basel wird Deine Perspek tive dezentrieren. Das Studienprogramm führt Lehrangebote aus den Sozial- \, Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften zusammen und erlaubt Dir über die Wah l von zwei thematischen Modulen ein spezifisches Profil aufzubauen und all gemeine akademische Kompetenzen zu erwerben.\\r\\nStudieninteressierte kö nnen sich zu jeder vollen Stunde zu unserer Zoom-Präsentation [https://un ibas.zoom.us/j/96930268140?pwd=WXE1aXFJRkNOdjNJTWZEbHppS3dVZz09] zuschalte n. X-ALT-DESC:Setze Dich im Studium mit Afrika auseinander um so die Welt a ls Ganzes besser zu verstehen! Der interdisziplinäre Masterstudiengang Afrika studien an der Universität Basel wird Deine Perspektive dezentrieren. Das Studienprogramm führt Lehrangebote aus den Sozial-\, Geistes- und Na turwissenschaften zusammen und erlaubt Dir über die Wahl von zwei themati schen Modulen ein spezifisches Profil aufzubauen und allgemeine akademisch e Kompetenzen zu erwerben.
\nStudieninteressierte können sich zu je der vollen Stunde zu unserer Zoom-Präsentation zuschalten.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210318T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2150@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210420T082017 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210317T181500 SUMMARY:Heidi Brunner: Taking Pictures for Apartheid - Ilse Steinhoff and h er Photographic Collection at the BAB Archive DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [m ailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210317T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2164@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210301T153433 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210316T190000 SUMMARY:COVID-19: Learning from Africa - or not? DESCRIPTION:Many countries in Africa have managed the pandemic well\, but h as the global community acknowledged and been willing to take possible les sons from this?\\r\\nThe discussion series is organised by the interdiscip linary research project 'Global Health Africa'.\\r\\nTo register for the e vent\, please contact Danelle van Zyl-Hermann [mailto:danelle.vanzyl-herma nn@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Many countries in Africa have managed the pandemic well\, but has the global community acknowledged and been willing to take possible l essons from this?
\nThe discussion series is organised by the interd isciplinary research project 'Global Health Africa'.
\nTo register f or the event\, please contact Danelle van Zyl-Hermann.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2207@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220325T172639 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210316 SUMMARY:Claudia Baez Camargo: East Africa Research Fund end-of-programme ev ent DESCRIPTION:Claudia Baez Camargo\, the Basel Institute's Head of Public Gov ernance\, will showcase the results of her and her team's research under t he UK's East Africa Research Fund [https://eastafricaresearchfund.org/] (EARF) at an end-of-programme event of the East Arica Research Fund EARF ("Celebrating Research and Innovation: An End-of-Programme Event [https:// baselgovernance.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/EARF%20agenda.pdf]"\, 16 and 17 March 2021).\\r\\nThe research project\, entitled “Corruption at titudes\, social norms and behaviours in East Africa”\, looked at how be havioural factors influence attitudes towards petty corruption in Rwanda\, Tanzania and Uganda.\\r\\nResearch highlights\\r\\nIn brief\, the researc h illuminates:\\r\\n How social networks function as problem-solving reso urces for citizens. The importance of understanding how solidarity\, reci procity and a sense of moral obligation towards the group can impact a per son's propensity to engage in petty corruption. The effect of common ment al models\, such as "everybody is doing it". \\r\\nInterestingly for anti- corruption policymakers\, donors and programme managers\, the research als o revealed evidence of how incorporating behavioural insights into anti-co rruption interventions can promote positive outcomes.\\r\\nThe event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams. To access the event\, please consult the pr ogramme. X-ALT-DESC:Claudia Baez Camargo\, the Basel Institute's Head of Public G overnance\, will showcase the results of her and her team's research under the UK's \;East Africa Research Fund \;(EARF) at an end-of-programme event of the East Ar ica Research Fund EARF \;("Celebrating Research and Innovati on: An End-of-Programme Event"\, 16 \;and 17 \;March 2021).
\nThe research project\, entitled “Corruption attitudes\, social nor ms and behaviours in East Africa”\, looked at how behavioural factors in fluence attitudes towards petty corruption in Rwanda\, Tanzania and Uganda .
\nIn brief\, the research illuminate s:
\nInterestingly for anti-corruption policymakers\, donors and programme mana gers\, the research also revealed evidence of how incorporating behavioura l insights into anti-corruption interventions can promote positive outcome s.
\nThe event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams. To access the eve nt\, please consult the programme.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210316 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2149@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210420T081950 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210310T181500 SUMMARY:Nahas Angula & Nguza Siyambango: The role of local communities in r esource management: A case of Okongo Community Forest and Conservancy\, Na mibia DESCRIPTION:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and internat ional scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s.\\r\\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien\, the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies\, and the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [ma ilto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The Research Colloquium provides a forum for local and intern ational scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary and methodological debate s in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Stud ies.
\nIt is jointly offered with the ZASB\, the Basler Afrika Bibli ographien\, the Department of Geography\, History &\; Environmental Stu dies\, and the \; University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Guests are welcome!
\nPlease register \;via emai l to Kaue Nogarotto.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210310T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2170@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210310T161500 SUMMARY:Till Förster: Urbanity again - from experience to practice in urba n theory DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch. [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]\\r\\nAbstract will follow soon. .. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact < a href="mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch" title="Opens window for sending email">s .burri@unibas.ch.
\nAbstract will follow soon...
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210310T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2166@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210315T092016 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210310T121500 SUMMARY:Ralph Weber: Introduction to Comparison DESCRIPTION:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues re lated to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social scien ces. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issues concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss recent critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social s cientific comparison.\\r\\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universi ties of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate Institute o f International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the r esearch project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studi es”.\\r\\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. If you are interes ted in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch [mailto :rtg@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium “Reversing the Gaze” is an interdisciplina ry forum to reflect on methodological\, conceptual and theoretical issues related to knowledge production in Area Studies and comparative social sci ences. The focus of this semester is on methodological and conceptual issu es concerning comparison. In particular\, the colloquium will discuss rece nt critical reflections on\, and engage with new perspectives for\, social scientific comparison.
\nThis colloquium is co-organized by the Universities of Basel\, Zurich\, and Edinburgh as well as the Graduate In stitute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative A rea Studies”.
\nThe colloquium takes place online via Zoom. I f you are interested in participating\, please register via email to: rtg@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2158@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210301T121210 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210301T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Welcome of the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:We invite new and current students - from the Master program A frican Studies and other disciplines - to join us for an informal virtual get-together on the first day of the semester. The Zoom meeting\, despite its limitations\, provides a platform to introduce yourself and get to kno w fellow students and members of the Centre. Members of faculty will intro duce the courses they teach and point out highlights of the semester. New students in the Master program African Studies are firmly expected to att end.\\r\\nTraditionally\, this gathering would take place at our premises - we hope that conditions will allow for a gathering on-site at the end of the semester. X-ALT-DESC:We invite new and current students - from the Master program African Studies and other disciplines - to join us for an informal virtua l get-together on the first day of the semester. The Zoom meeting\, despit e its limitations\, provides a platform to introduce yourself and get to k now fellow students and members of the Centre. Members of faculty will int roduce the courses they teach and point out highlights of the semester. N ew students in the Master program African Studies are firmly expected to a ttend.
\nTraditionally\, this gathering would take place at our prem ises - we hope that conditions will allow for a gathering on-site at the e nd of the semester.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210301T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2057@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210111T120313 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210115T184500 SUMMARY:Achille Mbembe: Keynote Lecture DESCRIPTION:The keynote lecture will be introduced by Kenny Kupers (Urban S tudies\, University of Basel). Interested participants will have the oppor tunity to ask questions following the lecture.\\r\\nFor more information a nd the registration process\, please consult the organizer's website. X-ALT-DESC:The keynote lecture will be introduced by Kenny Kupers (Urban Studies\, University of Basel). Interested participants will have the opp ortunity to ask questions following the lecture.
\nFor more informat ion and the registration process\, please consult the organizer's website.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210115T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2056@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210111T120409 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210113T185500 SUMMARY:Sarah Nuttall: The Infrastructural Turn–Some Conceptual Considera tions from Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:The keynote lecture will be introduced by Kenny Kupers (Urban S tudies\, University of Basel). Interested participants will have the oppor tunity to ask questions following the lecture.\\r\\nFor more information a nd the registration process\, please consult the organizer's website. X-ALT-DESC:The keynote lecture will be introduced by Kenny Kupers (Urban Studies\, University of Basel). Interested participants will have the opp ortunity to ask questions following the lecture.
\nFor more informat ion and the registration process\, please consult the organizer's website.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210113T194000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1894@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210112 SUMMARY:Conference: The Coloniality of Infrastructure - Eurafrican Legacies DESCRIPTION:What are the infrastructural histories that bind the unequal de stinies of people together across continents\, and how do these legacies s hape contemporary lifeworlds and international relations? How does infrast ructural violence shape international relations between Africa and Europe\ , and how is the legacy of Eurafrica manifested in the spaces of everyday life? To answer these questions\, the conference invites scholars from ur ban studies\, history\, political science\, postcolonial theory\, architec ture\, border and migration studies\, and allied fields. We invite contrib utions that develop new perspectives of our geopolitical and interconnecte d urban present through its infrastructural pasts. Such studies of materia l and aesthetics relationships between Africa and Europe can focus on ques tions of lifeworlds\, urban transformation\, migration\, territory\, citiz enship\, development\, or related themes. We are particularly interested i n studies that can reveal the differential entanglements between people an d places\, and locate alternative forms of infrastructure\, imaginaries of belonging\, ongoing struggles for decolonization\, and practices of world -making that decenter colonial ways of seeing\, feeling\, and knowing.\\r\ \n\\r\\nRegistration open via conference website. X-ALT-DESC:What are the infrastructural histories that bind the unequal destinies of people together across continents\, and how do these legacies shape contemporary lifeworlds and international relations? How does infra structural violence shape international relations between Africa and Europ e\, and how is the legacy of Eurafrica \;manifested in the spaces of e veryday life? To answer these questions\, the conference invites scholars from urban studies\, history\, political science\, postcolonial theory\, a rchitecture\, border and migration studies\, and allied fields. We invite contributions that develop new perspectives of our geopolitical and interc onnected urban present through its infrastructural pasts. Such studies of material and aesthetics relationships between Africa and Europe can focus on questions of lifeworlds\, urban transformation\, migration\, territory\ , citizenship\, development\, or related themes. We are particularly inter ested in studies that can reveal the differential entanglements between pe ople and places\, and locate alternative forms of infrastructure\, imagina ries of belonging\, ongoing struggles for decolonization\, and practices o f world-making that decenter colonial ways of seeing\, feeling\, and knowi ng.
\n\nRegistration open via conference website. DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210115 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1932@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T152127 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201216T161500 SUMMARY:Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison (field cours e\, part two) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by the students of the field course\\r\\nIf you wo uld like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [htt ps://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/]. The students of the field course "Borders and Frontiers" present their pre parations for their ethnographic research in January/February 2021. X-ALT-DESC:
Presentation by the students of the field course
\nIf y
ou would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact \;
s.burri@unibas.ch.
The students of the field course "\;
Borders and Frontiers"\; present their preparations for their ethnogra
phic research in January/February 2021.
The first discussion of the series aims to situate urban plan ning in the global health agenda\, by addressing public health challenges originating from an increasingly urban\, human habitat. Starting from the axiom that urbanisation processes are ubiquitous\, and that disparate spat ial development leads to disparate health outcomes\, urban planning plays an important role in global health. In this regard\, recent experiences in different parts of the African continent suggest innovative ways to addre ss urban and public health challenges from both curative and preventive pe rspectives. To present and discuss these challenges and potential solution s\, Global Health Africa invites \;Dr. Djesika Amendah and Dr. Thiago Hérick de Sá. Dr. Amendah will present her research on accessibil ity to modern health care in sub-Saharan cities\, while Dr. Hérick de Sá will present a decision-making framework aimed at local governments that combine public health with urban design\, based on the example of Accra (G hana).
\nConvenors: \;Akuto Akpedze Konou \;EPEL\, \;Vit or Pessoa Colombo\, EPFL.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201210T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1931@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T152234 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201209T161500 SUMMARY:Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison (field cours e\, part one) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by the students of the field course\\r\\nIf you wo uld like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [htt ps://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/]. The students of the field course "Borders and Frontiers" present their pre parations for their ethnographic research in January/February 2021. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by the students of the field course
\nIf y
ou would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact \;
s.burri@unibas.ch.
The students of the field course "\;
Borders and Frontiers"\; present their preparations for their ethnogra
phic research in January/February 2021.
The series launch on International Anti-Corruption Day will o pen \;with brief remarks from the organisers' leadership. The followin g debate will explore how financial crime and illicit trade \;fuel&nbs p\;environmental degradation\, and what business\, conservation and intern ational organisations are doing about it.
\nThe "\;Corrupting th e Environment"\; series will follow a monthly schedule. These events w ill trake place in the first half of 2021 touching upon the following them es and topics:
\nThe organizeres welcome the active participation of a wide range of stakeholders in the upcoming series. For \;comments\, \;suggestion s or requests to participate in the panel discussions\, please contact&nbs p\;juhani.grossmann@ baselgovernance.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1825@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201105T141337 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201209T121500 SUMMARY:Jules Skotnes Brown: Rats\, Race and Rubbish – Bubonic Plague in Port Elizabeth\, 1938 DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Jules Skotnes Brown (University of St Andrews) X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Jules Skotnes Brown (University of St Andrews) DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201209T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1828@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201207T180000 SUMMARY:Giulia Torino: "Engaging pluriversal futures: The politics of empla cement and relationality at Bogotá’s borderlands" DESCRIPTION:Giulia Torino (University of Cambridge)\\r\\nWhile in Latin Am erica the borders that mark the urban space have long been racial apparat uses of control\, inequality\, and necropower\, they have also been devic es of tactical operability that recall decolonial politics of making plac e\, such as that of the Maroons’ palenques. In locating these considera tions within the “urban”\, the lecture explores the politics of empla cement operated by Afro-Colombian dwellers in contemporary Bogotá. Drawi ng on two years of longitudinal fieldwork across the city’s border geog raphies (Mignolo 2000)\, I examine complex entanglements of collective li fe at the conjuncture of racial-colonial and spatial formations\, interna l displacement\, neoliberal governance\, and the urbanization of ethnicit y. Inspired by Katherine McKittrick’s (2011) proposal to re-imagine “ how we are intimately tied to broader conceptions of human and planetary life [that] demonstrate our common and difficult histories of encounter ”\, I resort to a storytelling format fuelled by short- and long-term e thnographic encounters with Afro-Colombian youth groups\, activists\, inf ormal street vendors\, graffiti artists\, social organisations\, barbers\ , cooks\, housemaids\, and other dwellers who inhabit\, for the greatest majority\, Bogotá’s epistemic\, spatial\, and socio-economic borders. In doing so\, I would like to show how the operationalisation of Afro-Col ombian spatial praxis from the interstices of the white-mestizo city sugg ests the emergence of new forms of relational urbanism that foreshadow pl uriversal (Escobar 2008\, 2018) futures for the Latin American city\, ove rcoming its mestizo normativity.\\r\\nPlease note that this will be a vi rtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event/Zoom link by sendin g an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register)\\r\\nThe series Curr ent Debates exposes students to schools of thought and concrete intervent ions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global p henomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, p olitical theory\, art and activism\, and architectural research. X-ALT-DESC:
Giulia Torino (University of Cambridge)
\nWhile in Lat in America the borders that mark the urban space have long been racial ap paratuses of control\, inequality\, and necropower\, they have also been devices of tactical operability that recall decolonial politics of making place\, such as that of the Maroons’ palenques. In locating these cons iderations within the “urban”\, the lecture explores the politics of emplacement operated by Afro-Colombian dwellers in contemporary Bogotá. Drawing on two years of longitudinal fieldwork across the city’s border geographies (Mignolo 2000)\, I examine complex entanglements of collecti ve life at the conjuncture of racial-colonial and spatial formations\, in ternal displacement\, neoliberal governance\, and the urbanization of eth nicity. Inspired by Katherine McKittrick’s (2011) proposal to re-imagin e “how we are intimately tied to broader conceptions of human and plane tary life [that] demonstrate our common and difficult histories of encoun ter”\, I resort to a storytelling format fuelled by short- and long-ter m ethnographic encounters with Afro-Colombian youth groups\, activists\, informal street vendors\, graffiti artists\, social organisations\, barbe rs\, cooks\, housemaids\, and other dwellers who inhabit\, for the greate st majority\, Bogotá’s epistemic\, spatial\, and socio-economic border s. In doing so\, I would like to show how the operationalisation of Afro- Colombian spatial praxis from the interstices of the white-mestizo city s uggests the emergence of new forms of relational urbanism that foreshadow pluriversal (Escobar 2008\, 2018) futures for the Latin American city\, overcoming its mestizo normativity.
\nPlease note that this will b e a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Cri tical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register)
\nThe se ries Current Debates exposes students to schools of thought and con crete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in t he twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics tha t shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situa ted and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of discipline s and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning \, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural re search.
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1807@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201202T181500 SUMMARY:Lisa Roulet: Khuan//a travels around the world without knowing it DESCRIPTION:Lisa Roulet (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Lisa Roulet (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)
\nPlease reg ister via email to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201202T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1995@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201126T121715 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201201T090000 SUMMARY:From Manufacturer to Patient: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains (w ith Reflections on COVID-19) DESCRIPTION:Strong and resilient supply chains ensure the provision of qual ity health products to patients\, making them a central component of healt h systems. The availability of health commodities is vital for the achieve ment of Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. T he Winter Symposium 2020 will:\\r\\nShare experiences of supply chain mana gement issues in challenging environmentsShowcase innovations for expandin g the availability of health productsFoster exchange on agile approaches f or sustainable improvement of supply chains according to patient need. X-ALT-DESC:Strong and resilient supply chains ensure the provision of qu ality health products to patients\, making them a central component of hea lth systems. The availability of health commodities is vital for the achie vement of Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Winter Symposium 2020 will:
\nPrésidente de séance : Marilyne Brun (Université de Lorraine)
\n17h30-18h00 Lorena Rizzo – ‘Women\, photogra phy and orature in 20th-century Namibia’
\n18h15-18h45 Cédric Courtois – ‘“Remember that others have walked this pa th before you”: Writing (about) Trauma in Yejide Kilanko’s \;Daugh ters Who Walk This Path \;(2012)\, Mohale Mashigo’s \;The Yearni ng \;(2016) and Una’s \;Becoming Unbecoming \;(2015)’
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1806@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T181500 SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Women and Photography in Africa" with Darren Newbury\ , Lorena Rizzo & Kylie Thomas DESCRIPTION:Book Launch with Darren Newbury\, Lorena Rizzo\, Kylie Thomas\, editors of Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Femini st Challenges\, London: Routledge\, 2021\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Book Launch with Darren Newbury\, Lorena Rizzo\, Kylie Thomas \, editors of Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Femi nist Challenges\, London: Routledge\, 2021
\nPlease register via ema il to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1824@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T170237 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T121500 SUMMARY:Thesis Presentations Day (African History) DESCRIPTION:Presentations by David Rentsch and Kevin Ischi of ongoing maste r theses.\\r\\nDavid Rentsch (University of Basel)Self-Testimonies by Swis s Administrators in the Congo Free State (1885–1908)Kevin Ischi (Univers ity of Basel)Die Schweiz und Ujamaa. Das Verhältnis der Schweiz zum sozia listischen Tansania\, 1964–ca.1975 X-ALT-DESC:Presentations by David Rentsch and Kevin Ischi of ongoing mas ter theses.
\nDavid Rentsch (University of Basel)
Self-Testi
monies by Swiss Administrators in the Congo Free State (1885–1908)
Kevin Ischi (University of Basel)
Die Schweiz und Ujamaa
. Das Verhältnis der Schweiz zum sozialistischen Tansania\, 1964–ca.197
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Das dritte \;KIN-SHIP-ING \;widmet sich dem wohl grun dlegendsten aller Prozesse des (nicht nur menschlichen) Lebens: dem Atmen. Pulmonographies ist ein kollaboratives und performatives Forschungsprojek t\, in Basel vertreten durch die südafrikanische Schriftstellerin\, Stacy Hardy und den Schweizer Stand-Up Comedian Edwin Ramirez. In einer mehrsti mmigen performance lecture werden Biografien\, Geografien und geteilten Hi storien von Atem/losigkeit durchleuchtet. Ausgangspunkt: Kolonialgeschicht e und postkoloniale Politik rundum Tuberkulose in Südafrika.
\nDie Veranstaltungsreihe KIN-SHIP-ING \;ist eine Kooperation zwischen der K aserne Basel und dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1829@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201123T180000 SUMMARY:Madlen Kobi: Thinking through Buildings – Urban Energy Infrastruc ture and Biopolitics in Postsocialist China DESCRIPTION:Madlen Kobi (Università della Svizzera Italiana\, Lugano)\\r\\ nThe fifth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture S eries will be given by Madlen Kobi\, entitled "Thinking through Buildings : Urban Energy Infrastructure and Biopolitics in Postsocialist China".\\r \\nBiopolitics in contemporary Chinese cities are often discussed with re gards to either the increasing surveillance of residents or the state’s control of healthy bodies during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking biopolitics from another angle\, this lecture addresses the ways in whic h buildings and urban energy infrastructure intervene in citizen-state r elationships. In particular\, I will focus on the thermal implications of the Huai River Heating Policy from the 1950s which divided China into a heated north\, where district or central heating infrastructure is instal led in urban buildings\; and a non-heated south where the thermal control of indoor spaces in winter is left to residents’ own responsibility. B ased on ethnographic fieldwork\, semi-structured interviews and building analysis\, this lecture explores architecture and biopolitics in two citi es: Ürümqi\, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northw est China and Chongqing in the southwest of the country. The provision of warm bodies through power stations\, subsidized heating funds\, and dist rict heating as part of urban housing infrastructures contributes to the territorial connection of northern borderlands to the state. In the south \, the lack of such infrastructure leads to more neoliberal solutions and residents’ active use of objects and practices for staying warm depend ing on their economic means\, age\, native place\, and cultural expectati ons of comfort. Relying on Dominic Boyer\, I will outline how “biopower ”\, the management of life and population through direct impact on the body\, and “energopower”\, the provision of electricity or other form s of energy infrastructure creates differing socio-technical responses in this vast country. Heating infrastructure beyond being a material instal lation for the provision of thermal comfort molds encounters between citi zens and the state.\\r\\nThis course exposes students to schools of though t and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifewo rlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dyn amics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of local ly situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of d isciplines and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and archite ctural research.\\r\\nPlease register for the event/Zoom link by sending a n email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch [mailto:maren.larsen@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Madlen Kobi (Università della Svizzera Italiana\, Lugano)
\nThe fifth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lectu re Series will be given by Madlen Kobi\, entitled "\;Thinking through Buildings: Urban Energy Infrastructure and Biopolitics in Postsocialist China"\;.
\nBiopolitics in contemporary Chinese cities are oft en discussed with regards to either the increasing surveillance of reside nts or the state’s control of healthy bodies during the current COVID-1 9 pandemic. Thinking biopolitics from another angle\, this lecture addres ses the ways in which buildings and urban energy infrastructure intervene in citizen-state relationships. In particular\, I will focus on the ther mal implications of the Huai River Heating Policy from the 1950s which di vided China into a heated north\, where district or central heating infra structure is installed in urban buildings\; and a non-heated south where the thermal control of indoor spaces in winter is left to residents’ ow n responsibility. Based on ethnographic fieldwork\, semi-structured inte rviews and building analysis\, this lecture explores architecture and bio politics in two cities: Ürümqi\, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonom ous Region in northwest China and Chongqing in the southwest of the count ry. The provision of warm bodies through power stations\, subsidized heat ing funds\, and district heating as part of urban housing infrastructures contributes to the territorial connection of northern borderlands to the state. In the south\, the lack of such infrastructure leads to more neol iberal solutions and residents’ active use of objects and practices for staying warm depending on their economic means\, age\, native place\, an d cultural expectations of comfort. Relying on Dominic Boyer\, I will out line how “biopower”\, the management of life and population through d irect impact on the body\, and “energopower”\, the provision of elect ricity or other forms of energy infrastructure creates differing socio-te chnical responses in this vast country. Heating infrastructure beyond bei ng a material installation for the provision of thermal comfort molds enc ounters between citizens and the state.
\nThis course exposes studen ts to schools of thought and concrete interventions that redefine underst andings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture seri es will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn imp act the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines and fields in the social sciences includ ing urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural research.
\nPlease register for the ev ent/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1908@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201117T130936 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201119T123000 SUMMARY:Uyi Benjamin Edegbe in discussion with Julia Tischler: Transnationa l Migrants Remittances and Social Development in Benin City\, Nigeria DESCRIPTION:What are the effects of money transfers from transnational migr ants to their countries of origin? Uyi Benjamin Edegbe (Sociology\, Univer sity of Freiburg) uses his empirical research to show that remittances hav e positive effects on the general well-being of the migrants' household me mbers in Benin City\, Southern Nigeria. In his lecture he will present his study and its results.\\r\\nIn 2016\, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) has launched the ALMA research series in cooperation with Freiburg University. The research series aims at interconnecting research interest s from different parts of the university and affiliated institutes. ALMA places particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity: a feature that is also evident in the discussion format\, which includes presenters and discuss ants from different disciplinary backgrounds. The overall focus lies on empirical-comparative analyses of socio-political phenomena in extra-Euro pean areas and societies. The main target group of the ALMA series includ es social sciences and humanities scholars that are currently pursuing a PhD and/or pursuing advanced/postdoctoral research projects. The ALMA Res earch Series thus benefits from exchange and discussion among many. \\r\\ nPlease register through the registration form on the organizers website [ https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/alma-research-series-in-winter-term -202021] provided below. You will receive a zoom link for participation. X-ALT-DESC:What are the effects of money transfers from transnational mi grants to their countries of origin? Uyi Benjamin Edegbe (Sociology\, Univ ersity of Freiburg) uses his empirical research to show that remittances h ave positive effects on the general well-being of the migrants' household members in Benin City\, Southern Nigeria. In his lecture he will present h is study and its results.
\nIn 2016\, the Arnold Bergstraesser Insti tute (ABI) has launched the ALMA research series in cooperation with Frei burg University. The research series aims at interconnecting research int erests from different parts of the university and affiliated institutes. ALMA places particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity: a feature that is also evident in the discussion format\, which includes presenters and di scussants from different disciplinary backgrounds. The overall focus lies on empirical-comparative analyses of socio-political phenomena in extra -European areas and societies. The main target group of the ALMA series i ncludes social sciences and humanities scholars that are currently pursui ng a PhD and/or pursuing advanced/postdoctoral research projects. The ALM A Research Series thus benefits from exchange and discussion among many.
\nPlease register through the registration form on the organizers website pro vided below. You will receive a zoom link for participation.
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201119T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1805@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201118T181500 SUMMARY:Sergio Chichava: The war in Cabo Delgado: The external dimension of Al-Shabaab DESCRIPTION:Sergio Chichava (Institute of Social and Economic Studies\, IES E\, Maputo)\\r\\nPlease register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.cr imabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Sergio Chichava (Institute of Social and Economic Studies\, I ESE\, Maputo)
\nPlease register via email to \;Kaue Nogar otto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201118T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1823@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T170453 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201118T121500 SUMMARY:Lisa Roulet: Historical photography and so-called ethnographic obje cts in the archives – A case study from southern Africa DESCRIPTION:The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basler Afr ika Bibliographien (BAB). Lecture by Lisa Roulet (Basler Afrika Bibliograp hien) X-ALT-DESC:The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). Lecture by Lisa Roulet (Basler Afrika Bibliog raphien)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201118T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1804@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T181500 SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Carlos Fernandes: Emerging trends in social science rese arch in Mozambique DESCRIPTION:Carlos Fernandes (Eduardo Mondlane University\, Maputo)\\r\\n** *Cancelled*** X-ALT-DESC:Carlos Fernandes (Eduardo Mondlane University\, Maputo)
\n***Cancelled***
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1822@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201109T121002 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T121500 SUMMARY:Sebastian de Pretto: Glances into the Archives of the United Tradin g Company (Basel Missionary Society) DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Sebastian de Pretto (Mission 21\, Basel)\\r\\nFor mo re information\, please contact the coordinator of the seminar Cassandra T hiesen-Mark. [https://zasb.unibas.ch/typo3/cassandra.mark@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Sebastian de Pretto (Mission 21\, Basel)
\nFor more information\, please contact the coordinator of the seminar Cassandra Thie sen-Mark.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1921@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201103T161458 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201110T121500 SUMMARY:Pius Vögele: The hauntological Sonic Fictions of Hip Hop from the Black Atlantic DESCRIPTION:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Post- docs of the Department of Social Sciences (G3S) to get to know each other\ , present their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with scholars of the various disciplines of our department. Our goal is to foster exchange between scholars and get to know each other’s work. We wish to encourage presenters to address methodological challenges\, theore tical issues and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentation will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and a n open Q&A session. We cordially invite all members\, faculty and students of the department to join us.\\r\\nProgram20 minutes presentation\, 10 mi nutes comments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&A/discussion\\r\\nPr esenter: Pius Vögele (African Studies)Discussant: James Merron (African Studies)\\r\\nFurther dates: 10.11./ 24.11./ 08.12. X-ALT-DESC:“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Pos t-docs of the Department of Social Sciences (G3S) to get to know each othe r\, present their ongoing work\, receive feedback and engage in discussion s with scholars of the various disciplines of our department. Our goal is to foster exchange between scholars and get to know each other’s work. W e wish to encourage presenters to address methodological challenges\, theo retical issues and conceptual questions they are currently working on. Eac h presentation will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q&\;A session. We cordially invite all members\, faculty and s tudents of the department to join us.
\nProgram
20 minut
es presentation\, 10 minutes comments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open
Q&\;A/discussion
Presenter: Pius Vögele \;(African Studie
s)
Discussant: \;James Merron (African Studi
es)
Further dates: 10.11./ 24.11./ 08.12.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201110T131500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1830@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201103T121729 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201109T180000 SUMMARY:Katyani Dalmia: Proximity and Distance – Everyday Interaction Acr oss Communities in Lucknow DESCRIPTION:The fourth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Katyayani Dalmia\, entitled "Proximity a nd Distance: Everyday Interaction Across Communities in Lucknow".\\r\\nTh is research analyzes sociality and relating across community lines in Lu cknow\, a burgeoning city in North India. I explore how differences of ca ste and religion are navigated in four kinds of urban sites: the home\, a beautician training academy\, an annual local festival\, and the old cit y. As I attempt to show\, while each of these spaces brings people across communities into proximity\, that proximity is not identical. How is aff inity and difference sensed and dealt with in collective festive eating\, in body-related work in the beauty training school\, and between neighbo urs in the close lanes of old Lucknow? What kind of intercommunity intera ction takes place within homes? Further\, what is the place of skin colou r and body in both marking\, and overcoming\, identities of caste\, relig ion and class? My analysis takes into account\, finally\, the ideas of et iquette specifically associated with being Lucknavi\, and how these shape d residents’ manner of coexisting with others.\\r\\nPlease note that t his will be a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event/Zoo m link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch [mailto:maren.larsen@ unibas.ch]. (Students enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register. X-ALT-DESC:The fourth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBAT ES Lecture Series will be given by Katyayani Dalmia\, entitled "\;Pro ximity and Distance: Everyday Interaction Across Communities in Lucknow&q uot\;.
\nThis research analyzes sociality and relating across commu nity lines in Lucknow\, a burgeoning city in North India. I explore how d ifferences of caste and religion are navigated in four kinds of urban sit es: the home\, a beautician training academy\, an annual local festival\, and the old city. As I attempt to show\, while each of these spaces brin gs people across communities into proximity\, that proximity is not ident ical. How is affinity and difference sensed and dealt with in collective festive eating\, in body-related work in the beauty training school\, and between neighbours in the close lanes of old Lucknow? What kind of inte rcommunity interaction takes place within homes? Further\, what is the pl ace of skin colour and body in both marking\, and overcoming\, identities of caste\, religion and class? My analysis takes into account\, finally\ , the ideas of etiquette specifically associated with being Lucknavi\, an d how these shaped residents’ manner of coexisting with others.
\nPlease note that this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please registe r for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Cri tical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register.
\nZusammen mit dem Klarinettisten Robert Pickup hätte Paul Han mer dieser Tage sein neues Duo-Album Morning into Evening und das Solo -Album Concordia in der Schweiz vorgestellt. Aufgrund der Reiseeinschränkungen musste die Tour abgesagt werden. Stattdessen haben wir ein Hauskonzert organisie rt und durch Marcus Wyatt und Romy Brauteseth (House on the Hill) aufzeichnen lassen.
\nSowohl als Pianist wie auch als Komponist hat Paul Hanmer die südafrikanische Musikszene zwischen Jaz z und Kammermusik seit der Übergangszeit geprägt und belebt. Sein Debuta lbum Trains to Taung (1997) ist ein Klassiker und verkörpert den krea tiven Aufbruch in ein neues Südafrika.
\nIn einem Interview mit der südafrikanischen Jour nalistin Gwen Ansell sagt Paul Hanmer zum neuen Album “I wanted to d eliver a sound that was unmistakably of this place. Not just from home\, b ut from my home.” Nun haben wir Gelegenheit\, diese Musik nicht n ur zu hören sondern auch zu sehen\, wo diese Kompositionen entstehen - an Pauls altem Piano!
\nPaul Hanmer feiert nächstes Jahr seinen 60ten Geburtstag - aus diesem Anlass legen seine Freunde hier in der Schweiz zu sammen\, um ihm zu einem neuen Piano zu verhelfen. Wenn Sie uns dabei unte rstützen wollen\, melden Sie sich bei Veit Arlt oder < a href="mailto:kleinaberfein@bluewin.ch" title="Opens window for sending e mail" class="mail">Richard Butz (kleinaberfein.sg). Selbstverständlic h werden alle UnterstützerInnen zu einem weiteren Hauskonzert zur Einweih ung des Pianos eingeladen werden!
\nLink zum Konzert: www.youtube.com/africanmusicba sel (das Video wird am Sonntag 8. November um 17h freigeschaltet)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1803@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201104T181500 SUMMARY:Martha Akawa & Romie Nghitevelekwa: “An account of women linked t o migrant workers in Oranjemund\,Namibia” DESCRIPTION:Martha Akawa & Romie Nghitevelekwa (UNAM\, Windhoek)\\r\\nPleas e register via email to Kaue Nogarotto [mailto:k.crimabellini@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Martha Akawa &\; Romie Nghitevelekwa (UNAM\, Windhoek)
\nPlease register via email to \;Kaue Nogarotto.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201104T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1897@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T174816 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201104T181500 SUMMARY:Film: Mefloquine - The anti-malarial drug investigation (2017) DESCRIPTION:Join us for a zoom-screening of the documentary “Mefloquine: The anti-malarial drug investigation” (2017).\\r\\nThe film will be foll owed by a moderated discussion among others with filmmaker Cailean Watt\, Dr Remington Nevin (Quinism Foundation)\, Swiss journalists Rolf Käppeli and Max Schmid.\\r\\nFor more information\, please contact Dr. Tanja Hamme l: tanja.hammel@unibas.ch [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/tanj a-hammel-1991/]\\r\\nLogin for Zoom: Meeting ID: 981 9544 1750 Passcode: 9 58624 X-ALT-DESC:Join us for a zoom-screening of the documentary “Mefloquine : The anti-malarial drug investigation” (2017).
\nThe film will be followed by a moderated discussion among others with filmmaker Cailean Wa tt\, Dr Remington Nevin (Quinism Foundation)\, Swiss journalists Rolf Käp peli and Max Schmid.
\nFor more information\, please contact Dr. Tan ja Hammel: \;tanja.hammel@uniba s.ch
\nLogin for Zoom: Meeting ID: 981 9544 1750 Passcode: 95862 4
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1821@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201105T141421 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201104T121500 SUMMARY:Kundai Manamere: Voices on the Ground – Local Narratives of the Roll Back Malaria Programme in Southeastern Zimbabwe DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Kundai Manamere (University of the Free State) X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Kundai Manamere (University of the Free State)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201104T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1802@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201028T181500 SUMMARY:Eric Morier-Genoud: Gungunhana´s doctor. The diary of Dr Liengme a t the court of the last emperor of South East Africa\, 1892-1895 DESCRIPTION:Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen´s University Belfast) X-ALT-DESC:Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen´s University Belfast)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201028T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1898@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201022T151007 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201028T161500 SUMMARY:Lotte Nielson: Urban 'Archi-o-logies' - ideological tensions in the making of a reputable/community arts centre in Johannesburg DESCRIPTION:The aim of 'archi-o-logies' is to produce a knowledge of and in the city through the processes of its making\, especially its social\, ae sthetic and discursive formations. To understand process\, an 'archi-o-log y' starts at a small\, somewhat bounded and fixed fieldsite\, here an arts centre/heritage house. \\r\\nWindybrow Pan-African Arts Centre was under going re-making and reopening during my fieldworks in 2017 and 2018. The h ouse is from 1896 and thus one of the oldest standing buildings in Joburg. It is a colonial-styled former family mansion\, turned officer's mess\, b oarding house\, nurses' college\, then theatre and at last Pan-African art s centre. When studying something in (re-)making\, it is clear that peopl e and organisations work in micro-political ways to actualise their ideolo gies\, dreams\, values as well as self-identities. These are represented i n discursive and aesthetic formations\, especially at an arts centre\, whe re everything constitutes a story\, a symbol\, an image or a performance. Concepts and aesthetics hold and make political tension readable/visible/s ensible. They concretise processes of (re-)making. \\r\\nIn this presenta tion\, Lotte Nielson will show some of the ways that aesthetic formations portrayed the two main ideologies for the arts centre: egalitarianism and elitism. This is also concretised in the discursive formations of 'reputab ility' and 'community'.\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch [https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/d e/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/]. X-ALT-DESC:The aim of 'archi-o-logies' is to produce a knowledge of and in the city through the processes of its making\, especially its social\, aesthetic and discursive formations. To understand process\, an 'archi-o-l ogy' starts at a small\, somewhat bounded and fixed fieldsite\, here an ar ts centre/heritage house. \;
\nWindybrow Pan-African Arts Centre
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frican arts centre. \;
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If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact \;s.b urri@unibas.ch.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201028T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1831@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201026T180000 SUMMARY:Michele Lancione: Dwelling in liminalities – The otherwise care o f Bucharest underground DESCRIPTION:Michele Lancione (University of Sheffield)\\r\\nThe series Curr ent Debates exposes students to schools of thought and concrete interve ntions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-fir st century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape citie s and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines and fields i n the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural research.\\r\\nI nfo: maren.larsen@unibas.ch [mailto:maren.larsen@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Michele Lancione (University of Sheffield)
\nThe series Current Debates \; exposes students to schools of thought and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds i n the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally si tuated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of discipl ines and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional plann ing\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural research.
\nInfo: maren.lar sen@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1801@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T181500 SUMMARY:ABGESAGT Anette Hoffmann: Who's afraid of Rudolf Pöch? The long ec ho of colonial violence in the Kalahari recordings (1908) DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, Anette Hoffmann cannot partic ipate for this week's colloquium. Instead Nahas Angula (UNAM)\, Andrea Ro sengarten (North-West University/UNAM)\, Luregn Lenggenhager (ZASB) will present new insights into the SNF project "Learning for (Ex-)change and Sp ace in Time - insights from a teaching and a research project between Nami bia\, South Africa and Switzerland" [https://zasb.unibas.ch/de/zentrum/ver anstaltungen/details/news/learning-for-ex-change-and-space-in-time/]. X-ALT-DESC:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, Anette Hoffmann cannot part icipate for this week's colloquium. Instead \;Nahas Angula (UNAM)\, An drea Rosengarten (North-West University/UNAM)\, \;Luregn Lenggenhager (ZASB) will present new insights into the SNF project "\;Learning for (Ex-)change and Space in Time - insights from a teaching and a research project between Namibia\, South Af rica and Switzerland"\;. \;
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1886@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T181500 SUMMARY:Learning for (Ex-)change and Space in Time: Insights from a teachin g and a research project between Namibia\, South Africa and Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Learning for (Ex)Change is an international exchange project\, which was created in cooperation of the University of Basel and the Unive rsity of Namibia.\\r\\nNahas Angula (UNAM)\, Andrea Rosengarten (North-Wes t University/UNAM)\, Luregn Lenggenhager (Unibas) will present ongoing p rogresses concerning the project Learning for (Ex-)change and Space in Tim e. X-ALT-DESC:Learning for (Ex)Change \;is an international exch ange project\, which was created in cooperation of the University of Basel and the University of Namibia.
\nNahas Angula (UNAM)\, Andrea Rosen garten (North-West University/UNAM)\, \; Luregn Lenggenhager (Unibas) will present ongoing progresses concerning the project Learning for (Ex-)c hange and Space in Time. \;
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1893@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201022T150848 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T161500 SUMMARY:Making Art Work: Articulating Art and Urban mMarginality in Kisumu\ , Kenya DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch.\\r\\nFrederik Unseld is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology at University Basel. In his research\, Frederik ex plores the claim of the supposedly inherent creativity of city life in th e Global South. His research approaches individual artists with ethnograp hic research methods and describes their art as intimately connected with other livelihood strategies. Taking the situative challenges that arise in the everyday of artists as a starting point\, this talk reflects on th e efficacy of artists in Kisumu’s social space and on how we may harnes s creativity from marginal locations. X-ALT-DESC:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s .burri@unibas.ch.
\nFrederik Unseld is a PhD candidate at the Insti tute of Social Anthropology at University Basel. In his research\, Freder ik explores the claim of the supposedly inherent creativity of city life in the Global South. His research approaches individual artists with ethn ographic research methods and describes their art as intimately connected with other livelihood strategies. Taking the situative challenges that a rise in the everyday of artists as a starting point\, this talk reflects on the efficacy of artists in Kisumu’s social space and on how we may h arness creativity from marginal locations.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201021T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1763@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201022T150848 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201020T193000 SUMMARY:KIN-SHIP-ING mit Rohini Devasher & Legion Seven DESCRIPTION:Im zweiten KIN-SHIP-ING wird beobachtet und zwar die Beobachtu ng selbst und somit natürlich die Beobachter und die Beobachteten. Die Künstlerin und Amateurastronomin Rohini Devasher aus Delhi lotst in ihrer Lecture Performance\, begleitet von den multidisziplinären Perform er*innen Legion Seven\, an himmlischen Körpern vorbei durch den Weltrau m und entwirft dabei Konstellationen\, die irdische Ereignisse neu positio nieren und erkennen lassen\, was verlernt werden muss\, wenn man wirklich sehen will.\\r\\nDie Veranstaltungsreihe KIN-SHIP-ING ist eine Kooperatio n zwischen der Kaserne Basel und dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel. X-ALT-DESC:Im zweiten KIN-SHIP-ING wird beobachtet \;und zwar die Be obachtung \;selbst und somit natürlich die Beobachter \;und die Beobachteten. Die \;Künstlerin und Amateurastronomin \;Rohini De vasher aus Delhi lotst in \;ihrer Lecture Performance\, \;begleite t von den multidisziplinären Performer*innen Legion Seven\, \;an himm lischen \;Körpern vorbei durch den Weltraum und entwirft dabei Konste llationen\, die irdische Ereignisse neu positionieren und erkennen lassen\ , was verlernt werden muss\, wenn man wirklich sehen will.
\nDie Ver anstaltungsreihe KIN-SHIP-ING \;ist eine Kooperation zwischen der Kase rne Basel und dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1847@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T175316 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201020T190000 SUMMARY:Timba Bema & Henri-Michel Yéré: La nuit était notre seule arme DESCRIPTION:While they already receive much recognition for their poetry in the French-speaking world\, the poems of Timba Bema and Henri-Michel Yér é are hardly received in the German-speaking world due to a lack of trans lations. In order to change this\, the Literaturhaus Basel organizes a Fre nch-German poetry evening presenting a selection of poems by the two autho rs translated into German.\\r\\nTimba Bema (born in the Bali district of D ouala\, Cameroon) was awarded the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire i n 2018 for the poetry collection "Les seins de l'amante". He writes short stories and poems and is the initiator of the online magazine "Revue des C itoyens des Lettres". Since 2007 he has been living and working in Lausann e. \\r\\nHenri-Michel Yéré (born 1978 in Abidjan\, Côte d'Ivoire) has p ublished several collections of poetry and was awarded the Bernard Dadié National Prize for Debut Writing (Côte d'Ivoire) for "La nuit était notr e seule arme" in 2016. He works as a postdoc at the Centre for African Stu dies in Basel. \\r\\nThe evening will take place in German and French. The reading is musically framed by Sinaly Zon. X-ALT-DESC:While they already receive much recognition for their poetry in the French-speaking world\, the poems of Timba Bema and Henri-Michel Y éré are hardly received in the German-speaking world due to a lack of tr anslations. In order to change this\, the Literaturhaus Basel organizes a French-German poetry evening presenting a selection of poems by the two au thors translated into German.
\nTimba Bema (born in the Bali district of Douala\, Cameroon) was awarded the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Af rique Noire in 2018 for the poetry collection "\;Les seins de l'amante "\;. He writes short stories and poems and is the initiator of the onl ine magazine "\;Revue des Citoyens des Lettres"\;. Since 2007 he h as been living and working in Lausanne.
\nHenri-Michel Yéré (born 1978 in Abidjan\, Côte d'Ivoire) has published several collection s of poetry and was awarded the Bernard Dadié National Prize for Debut Wr iting (Côte d'Ivoire) for "\;La nuit était notre seule arme"\; i n 2016. He works as a postdoc at the Centre for African Studies in Basel.
\nThe evening will take place in German and French. The reading is musically framed by Sinaly Zon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1820@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T175258 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201015T181500 SUMMARY:Lynn Thomas: Skin Color and Race in African History – A Layered A pproach DESCRIPTION:Basel History Lecture by Lynn Thomas (University of Washington\ , Seattle) \\r\\nPlease register online (link below) X-ALT-DESC:Basel History Lecture by Lynn Thomas (University of Washingto n\, Seattle)
\nPlease register online (link below)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201015T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news975@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101146 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201015 SUMMARY:Afrika und die Welt: Internationale Beziehungen DESCRIPTION:Dieser Kurs beleuchtet Afrikas Platz in der Welt aus einer geop olitischen Perspektive. Im Zentrum stehen einerseits die vielfältigen glo balen Beziehungen des Kontinents\, andererseits die aktuellen innerafrikan ischen Fragen rund um internationale Beziehungen\, Sicherheit und Frieden. Die Teilnehmenden beschäftigen sich mit verschiedenen politischen und ak ademischen Ansätzen\, um die Rolle Afrikas in der Weltpolitik zu verstehe n. Sie setzen sich kritisch mit den aktuellen Debatten rund um Afrikas Her ausforderungen und Chancen angesichts einer sich wandelnden Weltordnung au seinander\, und lernen\, wie sich verschiedene afrikanischen Akteure auf g lobaler Ebene Gehör verschaffen und ihre Interessen verfolgen. X-ALT-DESC: Dieser Kurs beleuchtet Afrikas Platz in der Welt aus einer g
eopolitischen Perspektive. Im Zentrum stehen einerseits die vielfältigen
globalen Beziehungen des Kontinents\, andererseits die aktuellen innerafri
kanischen Fragen rund um internationale Beziehungen\, Sicherheit und Fried
en.
Die Teilnehmenden beschäftigen sich mit verschiedenen pol
itischen und akademischen Ansätzen\, um die Rolle Afrikas in der Weltpoli
tik zu verstehen. Sie setzen sich kritisch mit den aktuellen Debatten rund
um Afrikas Herausforderungen und Chancen angesichts einer sich wandelnden
Weltordnung auseinander\, und lernen\, wie sich verschiedene afrikanische
n Akteure auf globaler Ebene Gehör verschaffen und ihre Interessen verfol
gen.
Lecture by Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University of Berlin)
\nDie Teilnahme ist aufgrund der begrenzten Sitzplätze nur unter vorh eriger Anmeldung möglich \;(julia.tischler@unibas.ch).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201014T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1832@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201012T180000 SUMMARY:Wangui Kimari: Mo Faya – Socio-ecological survivals in Nairobi’ s outlaw settlement DESCRIPTION:Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch [mailto:maren.larsen@unibas.ch].\\r\\nThe series Cu rrent Debates exposes students to schools of thought and concrete inte rventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty -first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines and f ields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geo graphy\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural researc h.\\r\\nContemporary urban planning practices in Nairobi are often framed as movements towards “world-class city” status localized within a si tuated “Africa rising” moment. Wangui Kimaris current project (Afric an Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town) wants to move beyond the h egemony of these official narratives to think about Nairobi from its “o utlaw” settlements. To do this it dwells in the social experiences of u rban spatial management in Mathare\, a poor ‘slum’ in the east of Nai robi\, to draw attention to what she argues is the imperial assemblage th at produces this city\; one informed by political\, ecological\, social a nd economic ideas and practices that have their grounding in empire. In s o doing\, it connects themes often examined in silos – for example\, sl um fires\, evictions\, ‘illegal’ water tapping\, cholera\, extrajudic ial killings\, youth urban vernaculars\, subject formation and floods – and draws attention to how an increasingly militarized urban planning co ntributes to what she terms ecologies of exclusion\, allowing that the po lice become de facto urban planners and managers. Notwithstanding the his torical neglect and force of urban governance in the poor space that she highlights\, ultimately\, she would like to make evident how those framed as the city’s outlaws engage with and emerge from the many violent ar ticulations of an imperial urban planning through dynamic socio-ecologica l survivals. And from within these poor urban struggles\, they are able t o articulate more grounded narrations of the history and possible futures of Nairobi. X-ALT-DESC:Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email t o maren.larsen@unibas.ch.
\ nThe series Current Debates \; exposes students to schools o f thought and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of ur ban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will expl ore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the cou rse of locally situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism \, and architectural research.
\nContemporary urban planning pract ices in Nairobi are often framed as movements towards “world-class city ” status localized within a situated “Africa rising” moment. Wangui Kimaris current project (African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town) wants to move beyond the hegemony of these official narratives to t hink about Nairobi from its “outlaw” settlements. To do this it dwell s in the social experiences of urban spatial management in Mathare\, a po or ‘slum’ in the east of Nairobi\, to draw attention to what she argu es is the imperial assemblage that produces this city\; one informed by p olitical\, ecological\, social and economic ideas and practices that have their grounding in empire. In so doing\, it connects themes often examin ed in silos – for example\, slum fires\, evictions\, ‘illegal’ wate r tapping\, cholera\, extrajudicial killings\, youth urban vernaculars\, subject formation and floods – and draws attention to how an increasing ly militarized urban planning contributes to what she terms ecologies of exclusion\, allowing that the police become de facto urban planners and m anagers. Notwithstanding the historical neglect and force of urban govern ance in the poor space that she highlights\, ultimately\, she would like to make evident how those framed as the city’s outlaws engage with and emerge from the many violent articulations of an imperial urban planning through dynamic socio-ecological survivals. And from within these poor ur ban struggles\, they are able to articulate more grounded narrations of t he history and possible futures of Nairobi.
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1800@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201007T181500 SUMMARY:Stephanie Gall & Iwan Müller: The activities of the UNESCO Chair o n Physical Activity and Health in Educational Settings – The Kazibantu p roject DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Gall and Iwan Müller (Department of Sport\, Exercise and Health\, University of Basel) X-ALT-DESC:Stephanie Gall and Iwan Müller (Department of Sport\, Exerc ise and Health\, University of Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201007T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1848@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201007T161500 SUMMARY:Yannick van den Berg: Religiosity in Everyday Life and the Experien ce of Church Services in north-central Namibia DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Yannick van den Berg\, PhD student\, Albert-Lud wigs-University\, Freiburg\\r\\nA comparative Ethnography of Anglican and charismatic-Pentecostal Churches in Oukwanyama\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\nThe pres entation revolves around the interest for two distinct forms of religious experience: On the one hand\, the liturgically more strictly framed servic es of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (specifically the services of St. Mary in Odibo and St. Michael in Katutura)\; on the other\, the event ful services of a charismatic-Pentecostal congregation in Oshikango\, the True Gospel of Salvation whose services stress spiritual inspiration and d eliverance. Three people\, their lives and lifeworlds as well as their mo tivations of visiting these services\, stand in the center of attention: I leni\, seeking employment and a way of supporting his family\; Ndinah\, jo ining the True Gospel of Salvation in her search of healing and a more pro mising future\; and fr. Ngube\, a thriving Anglican priest\, who in his se rvices combines many of the older traits of Anglican liturgy with newer wa ys of worshiping. Thus\, the topics of healing and spiritual affliction a ppear closely intertwined with the many insecurities and existential risks – as well as the successful moments – of modern Namibian life.Familia l belonging\, personal identity\, and financial prospects may provide insi ghts into the need for and the benefits of ritual participation\, often en abling personal transformation. It is ritual and a Christian way of life t hat for these three people shapes their world and the various kinds of exi stential possibilities they\, as a person\, may come to live therein.\\r\\ nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unib as.ch [https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ details/]. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Yannick van den Berg\, PhD student\, Albert-L udwigs-University\, Freiburg
\nThe presentation revolves around the interest for two distinct form s of religious experience: On the one hand\, the liturgically more strictl y framed services of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (specifically the services of St. Mary in Odibo and St. Michael in Katutura)\; on the ot her\, the eventful services of a charismatic-Pentecostal congregation in O shikango\, the True Gospel of Salvation whose services stress spiritual in spiration and deliverance. \;Three people\, their lives and lifeworlds as well as their motivations of visiting these services\, stand in the ce nter of attention: Ileni\, seeking employment and a way of supporting his family\; Ndinah\, joining the True Gospel of Salvation in her search of he aling and a more promising future\; and fr. Ngube\, a thriving Anglican pr iest\, who in his services combines many of the older traits of Anglican l iturgy with newer ways of worshiping. \;Thus\, the topics of healing a nd spiritual affliction appear closely intertwined with the many insecurit ies and existential risks – as well as the successful moments – of mod ern Namibian life.Familial belonging\, personal identity\, and financial p rospects may provide insights into the need for and the benefits of ritual participation\, often enabling personal transformation. It is ritual and a Christian way of life that for these three people shapes their world and the various kinds of existential possibilities they\, as a person\, may c ome to live therein.
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact \;s.burri@unibas.ch.
\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201007T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1762@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200928T112337 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200929T193000 SUMMARY:KIN-SHIP-ING mit Anta Helena Recke & Mario Lopes DESCRIPTION:Das erste KIN-SHIP-ING stellt sich und der Theatermacherin An ta Helena Recke und dem Choreografen Mario Lopes die offensichtliche Frage nach einer gemeinsamen Sprache. Wenn Künstler*innen aus dem sogenannten globalen Süden und den Diasporas gemeinsam Beziehungen spinnen wollen\, w ie wird da Verständnis hergestellt\, nicht nur verbal zwischen deutsch un d portugiesisch sprechenden Menschen\, sondern auch was Begrifflichkeiten wie Afrika\, schwarz\, Solidarität und Kunst angeht? \\r\\nDie Veranstal tungsreihe KIN-SHIP-ING ist eine Kooperation zwischen der Kaserne Basel u nd dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel. X-ALT-DESC:Das erste \;KIN-SHIP-ING \;stellt sich und der Theate rmacherin Anta Helena Recke und dem Choreografen Mario Lopes die offensich tliche Frage nach einer gemeinsamen Sprache. Wenn Künstler*innen aus dem sogenannten globalen Süden und den Diasporas gemeinsam Beziehungen spinne n wollen\, wie wird da Verständnis hergestellt\, nicht nur verbal zwische n deutsch und portugiesisch sprechenden Menschen\, sondern auch was Begrif flichkeiten wie Afrika\, schwarz\, Solidarität und Kunst angeht? \;\n
Die Veranstaltungsreihe KIN-SHIP-ING \;ist eine Kooperation zwi schen der Kaserne Basel und dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1833@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200928T180000 SUMMARY:Sandi Hilal: Permanent Temporariness DESCRIPTION:Sandi Hilal (Decolonizing Architecture\, Art Residency)\\r\\nTh e series Current Debates exposes students to schools of thought and concre te interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of locally situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of disciplines a nd fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and architectural resea rch.\\r\\nInfo: maren.larsen@unibas.ch [mailto:maren.larsen@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Sandi Hilal (Decolonizing Architecture\, Art Residency)
\nThe series Current Debates exposes students to schools of though t and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifewo rlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dyn amics that shape cities and how cities in turn impact the course of local ly situated and global phenomena. Guest lecturers hail from a range of d isciplines and fields in the social sciences including urban and regional planning\, geography\, political theory\, art and activism\, and archite ctural research.
\nInfo: mar en.larsen@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1799@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200926T090000 SUMMARY:Namibia Research Day DESCRIPTION:The NRDcollaborates with the Department of Geography\, History & Environmental Studies of the University of Namibia in online sessions an d is open to all levels. Due to the Covid-19 regulations all guests who wa nt to attend physically need to register (incl. phone number) with wanda.r utishauser@unibas.ch [mailto:wanda.rutishauser@unibas.ch] or dh@baslerafri ka.ch [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch]\\r\\n \\r\\nEverybody is welcome to join online via Zoom:\\r\\nLink: https://unibas.zoom.us/j/92464605379 [https:/ /unibas.zoom.us/j/92464605379?pwd=cjg5ZFNqNzVoUHdMV09iWnRhWWYyUT09] Meetin g ID: 924 6460 5379 Passcode: 025926 X-ALT-DESC:The NRDcollaborates with the Department of Geography\, Hi story &\; Environmental Studies of the University of Namibia in online sessions and is open to all levels. Due to the Covid-19 regulat ions all guests who want to attend physically need to register (incl. phon e number) with wanda.rutishau ser@unibas.ch or dh@baslerafrika.c h
\n\nEverybody is welcome to join online via Zoom:
\ nLink:https://unibas.zoom.us/j/92464605379
Meeting ID: 924 6460 5379
Passcode: 025926
Join the book launch and symposium to present "\;Race an d Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the P resent"\;\, edited by Irene Cheng\, Mabel O. Wilson\, and Charles L. Davis II and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Kenny Cupers (University of Basel) joins as one of the presenters. \;
\n&quo t\;Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarc hies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the developm ent of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenmen t\, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. Race a nd Modern Architecture offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their imp act on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across var ious global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to writ e race back into architectural history\, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern archit ecture and culture over time\, including freedom\, revolution\, character \, national and indigenous style\, progress\, hybridity\, climate\, repre sentation\, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery\, colonialism\, and inequality—from eighteen th-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing pro jects for immigrants—Race and Modern Architecture challenges\, complica tes\, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1797@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200917T121131 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200914T121500 SUMMARY:Semester-Welcome at the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:Due to Covid-19\, our traditional meet-and-greet for newcomers and current students of the Centre takes place outdoors. We meet on Monda y\, 14 September 2020\, 12h15 on Münsterplatz (under the trees).\\r\\nTh is gathering for students and faculty from the Master programme African S tudies and other disciplines provides an excellent platform to mingle and network. Members of faculty introduce the courses they teach and point o ut highlights of the semester.\\r\\nPlease note that\, unfortunately\, we are not allowed to serve the usual drinks and snacks. Please make sure yo u arrive prepared.\\r\\nNew students are firmly expected to attend. We lo ok forward to seeing you there! X-ALT-DESC:Due to Covid-19\, our traditional meet-and-greet f or newcomers and current students of the Centre takes place outdoors. We meet on Monday\, 14 September 2020\, 12h15 on Münsterplatz (under the tr ees).
\nThis gathering for students and faculty from the Master programme African Studies and other disciplines provides an ex cellent platform to mingle and network. Members of faculty introduce the courses they teach and point out highlights of the semester.
\nPlease note that\, unfortunately\, we are not allowed to serve the u
sual drinks and snacks. Please make sure you arrive prepared.
New students are firmly expected to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200914T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1505@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200917T121131 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200914T090000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED: 4th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School in African Studies and A rea Studies (Dakar\, Senegal) DESCRIPTION:The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in A frica (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (ZASB) call for applications for the 4th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa. The Summer School is offered with the genero us support of the Oumou Dilly Foundation (Switzerland) and aims at stre ngthening the links between the CODESRIA community of scholars in Africa and the diaspora and scholars from the African Studies community in Switz erland. \\r\\nThe new date will be announced as soon as a basis for secure planning is given. X-ALT-DESC:The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (ZASB) call f or applications for the 4th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School in African Studie s and Area Studies in Africa. The Summer School is offered with the gene rous support of the Oumou Dilly Foundation (Switzerland) \; and aims at strengthening the links between the CODESRIA community of scholars in Africa and the diaspora and scholars from the African Studies community i n Switzerland.
\nThe new date will be announced as soon as a bas
is for secure planning is given.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200919T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1794@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200903T131806 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200909T200000 SUMMARY:Anti-Schwarzer Rassismus: Kontrollierte Körper\, überwachte Mobil ität und die Kunst der Intervention DESCRIPTION:Wessen Körper bewegen sich nahtlos über Grenzen hinweg und we ssen Körper werden systematisch angehalten\, kontrolliert und überwacht? Wem wird Subjektstatus gewährt\, und wer wird methodisch mit handelbaren Gütern verglichen\, die im Hinblick auf den sozialen und wirtschaftliche n Wert\, der aus ihnen gewonnen werden kann\, gedacht werden? Dieser Austa usch im Rahmen eines Roundtables zielt darauf ab\, die Körper- und Bewegu ngspolitiken in ihrem Verhältnis zur Kolonialgeschichte\, zu rassifiziert em Kapitalismus und Warenrassismus zu sezieren. Im Einklang mit dem intern ationalen Jahrzehnt für Menschen afrikanischer Abstammung werden wir uns auf Manifestationen von institutionellem Rassismus konzentrieren - von wir tschaftlicher Diskriminierung und Bildungsunterschieden bis hin zu rassist ischen (Polizei-)Kontrollen sowie auf verschiedene Formen des Othering und der S/Exotisierung\, die sich insbesondere auf das Alltagsleben Schwarzer Menschen auswirken. Wir werden die Frage stellen\, wie Erfahrungen des al ltäglichen\, gegen Schwarze gerichteten Rassismus Teil der Politiken der Körper und der Mobilität sind und auf welche Weise sie durch Geschlecht\ , Sexualität\, Klasse\, Nation und Hautfarbe sowohl historisch als auch i n der heutigen\, zunehmend visuellen Kultur beeinflusst werden. Schliessli ch werden wir uns mit den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Kunst als Interve ntion in den strukturellen Rassismus in der Schweiz und darüber hinaus be fassen.\\r\\nDiese Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen von The Art of Intervent ion statt und in Kooperation mit der Graduate School of Social Sciences\, dem Zentrum für Gender Studies der Universität Basel sowie mit der Un terstützung der Kaserne Basel. X-ALT-DESC:
Wessen Körper bewegen sich nahtlos über Grenzen hinweg und wessen Körper werden systematisch angehalten\, kontrolliert und überwach t? Wem wird Subjektstatus gewährt\, und wer wird methodisch mit handelbar en Gütern verglichen\, die im Hinblick auf den sozialen und wirtschaftlic hen Wert\, der aus ihnen gewonnen werden kann\, gedacht werden? Dieser Aus tausch im Rahmen eines Roundtables zielt darauf ab\, die Körper- und Bewe gungspolitiken in ihrem Verhältnis zur Kolonialgeschichte\, zu rassifizie rtem Kapitalismus und Warenrassismus zu sezieren. Im Einklang mit dem inte rnationalen Jahrzehnt für Menschen afrikanischer Abstammung werden wir un s auf Manifestationen von institutionellem Rassismus konzentrieren - von w irtschaftlicher Diskriminierung und Bildungsunterschieden bis hin zu rassi stischen (Polizei-)Kontrollen sowie auf verschiedene Formen des Othering u nd der S/Exotisierung\, die sich insbesondere auf das Alltagsleben Schwarz er Menschen auswirken. Wir werden die Frage stellen\, wie Erfahrungen des alltäglichen\, gegen Schwarze gerichteten Rassismus Teil der Politiken de r Körper und der Mobilität sind und auf welche Weise sie durch Geschlech t\, Sexualität\, Klasse\, Nation und Hautfarbe sowohl historisch als auch in der heutigen\, zunehmend visuellen Kultur beeinflusst werden. Schliess lich werden wir uns mit den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Kunst als Inter vention in den strukturellen Rassismus in der Schweiz und darüber hinaus befassen.
\nDiese Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen von The Art of Inte rvention statt und in Kooperation mit der Graduate School of Social Scien ces\, dem Zentrum für Gender Studies der Universität Basel sowie mit de r Unterstützung der Kaserne Basel.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200909T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1545@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200917T121131 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200618T000000 SUMMARY:!POSTPONED! 5th Biannual CRG African History Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:With great regret the organizers have to inform that the 5th Bi ennial Conference will have to be postponed due to the Corona pandemic. Th e conference will be shifted to 2022\, still to be hosted by the African Studies Centre Leiden\, thus keeping the usual rhythm of having biennial meetings in non-ECAS years. Accepted roundtables will not have to re-apply for 2022. Similarly\, the Exciting Lecture will be postponed rather than cancelled\, and this year’s speaker\, Emery Kalema\, will be re-invite d X-ALT-DESC:With great regret the organizers have to inform that the 5
Online discussion. Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquiu m takes place online. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Pl ease consult the program. If you are interested in participating\, plea se contact Giorgio Miescher.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200527T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1570@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200917T121131 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200527T161500 SUMMARY:Students presentation: African Worlds in Guangzhou (online) DESCRIPTION:Students who participated in the guided field course 2019/20 t o China for a six-weeks field research present their research findings. All welcome!\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please cont act s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Students who participated in the guided field course 2019/20 to China for a six-weeks field research present their research findings . All welcome!
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200527T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1646@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200525T181500 SUMMARY:Rizvana Bradley: Aesthetics\, Raciality\, and Dispossession (onlin e) DESCRIPTION:Online lecture followed by live Q&A\\r\\nWith: Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies\, Yale)Moderation: Dominique Grisard (The Art of Intervention\, Gender Studies\, Basel)\\r\\nThis talk addresses racialized embodiment and embodied life in relation to the int erlocking questions of violence\, surplus\, and representation that subte nd globalized flows of capital. If\, as Paula Chakravartty and Denise Fer reira da Silva suggest\, the logic of global financial capital hinges upo n an irreducible raciality\, how might we think about the minor aesthetic practices generated by "aberrant economic subjects" who at once bear the conditions of possibility for\, intransigent threats to\, and deviant en actments of dispossessive accumulation?\\r\\nRizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and African-American Studies at Yale. He r forthcoming book project is a recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Wa rhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant\, and offers a critical examination of the black body across a range of experimental artistic practices that in tegrate film and other media. Bradley guest edited a special issue of the journal Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, and has pub lished articles in TDR: The Drama Review\, Discourse: Journal for Theoreti cal Studies in Media and Culture\, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge\, Black Camera: An International Film Journal\, and Film Quarter ly. She was a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Mus eum of American Art in New York.\\r\\nDominique Grisard a historian by tr aining\, teaches Gender Studies at the University of Basel and directs th e Swiss Center for Social Research. Currently she is finishing a monograp h on the color pink. Together with Andrea Zimmermann she created the even t-platform “The Art of Intervention”.\\r\\nEine Kooperation des Swiss Center for Social Research\, des Zentrums Gender Studies und der Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S) der Universität Basel sowie des Kunstmus eumsBasel. X-ALT-DESC:Online lecture followed by live Q&\;A
\nWith: Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies\, Yale)
Moderation: Dominique Grisard (The Art of Intervention\, Gender S
tudies\, Basel)
This talk addresses racialized embodiment and emb odied life in relation to the interlocking questions of violence\, surplu s\, and representation that subtend globalized flows of capital. If\, as Paula Chakravartty and Denise Ferreira da Silva suggest\, the logic of gl obal financial capital hinges upon an irreducible raciality\, how might w e think about the minor aesthetic practices generated by "\;aberrant economic subjects"\; who at once bear the conditions of possibility f or\, intransigent threats to\, and deviant enactments of dispossessive ac cumulation?
\nRizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and African-American Studies at Yale. Her forthcoming book project is a recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Ar ts Writers Grant\, and offers a critical examination of the black body ac ross a range of experimental artistic practices that integrate film and o ther media. Bradley guest edited a special issue of the journal Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, and has published articles in TDR: The Drama Review\, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture\, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge\, Bla ck Camera: An International Film Journal\, and Film Quarterly. She was a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum of Amer ican Art in New York.
\nDominique Grisard a historian by tra ining\, teaches Gender Studies at the University of Basel and directs the Swiss Center for Social Research. Currently she is finishing a monograph on the color pink. Together with Andrea Zimmermann she created the event -platform “The Art of Intervention”.
\nEine Kooperation des Swi
ss Center for Social Research\, des Zentrums Gender Studies und der Gradua
te School of Social Sciences (G3S) der Universität Basel sowie des Kunstm
useums
Basel.
PhD-project presentation by Dominik Eaton\, Anthropology\, Un iversity of Basel
\n"\;Our aim is to unite the nation!“ This claim is an ambitious one\, particularly when made in South Africa\, a co untry riddled with problems of social segregation. Besides being an ambit ious claim it can be regarded as strikingly peculiar in the context it wa s uttered\, which in this case was the description of what a professional dance company is about. To Dominik Eaton\, dance isn´t among the activit ies that are commonly associated with the solution of serious social issu es. Nonetheless\, when Lwazi told him that the Kangaroo Zulu Dancers aim was to unite the nation\, he didn´t have to ask what was meant. Eaton we lcomed this statement when he heard it. But not only did Lwazis statement made him happy and proud to participate in their noble purpose to unite the nation. He also had no doubt in his mind that they could actually and significantly participate in this colossal venture.
\nFinding and naming the actual mechanisms and forms that their dances contain\, which can be described and experienced as „uniting people“\, turned out to be the research question Dominik Eaton took upon him to answer.
\nI f you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200520T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1446@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201105T141155 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200520T123000 SUMMARY:Thesis Presentation Day: Mariama Seck & Andrea Graf (via Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Mariama Seck (University of Basel) Négritude beyond Senghor\, Césaire and Damas: Women in the Early Négritude Movement\\r\\nAndrea Gra f (University of Basel) Out of Sight? Bilharzia\, Sleeping Sickness and a Global History of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ in Africa\, 1945 to th e present\\r\\nThe meeting will take place via Zoom. If you are intereste d in participating\, please contact Cassandra Thiesen-Mark [mailto:cassand ra.mark@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Mariama Seck (University of Basel) Négritude beyond Senghor\ , Césaire and Damas: Women in the Early Négritude Movement
\nAndre a Graf (University of Basel) Out of Sight? Bilharzia\, Sleeping Sickness a nd a Global History of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ in Africa\, 1945 to the present
\nThe meeting will take place via Zoom. \;If you are interested in participating\, please contact Cassandra Thiesen-Mark.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1504@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200519T121500 SUMMARY:Sindi-Leigh McBride: Comparative Climate Politics - mechanisms for exploring climate discourse in South Africa and Nigeria (online) DESCRIPTION:Sindi-Leigh McBride is a PhD candidate in African Studies.\\r\\ nDiscussant: Metka Hercog (Cultural Anthropology)\\r\\n“Noon-Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Post-docs of the Department of Soc ial Sciences to get to know each other\, present their ongoing work\, rec eive feedback and engage in discussions with scholars of the various disc iplines of our department. Our goal is to foster exchange between scholar s and get to know each other’s work. We wish to encourage presenters to address methodological challenges\, theoretical issues and conceptual qu estions they are currently working on. Each presentation will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q&A session.\\r\\nWe cordially invite all members\, faculty and students of the department to j oin us.\\r\\nProgram: 20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes comments by a d iscussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&A/discussion\\r\\nContact: Julia Büchele - j.buechele@unibas.ch [mailto:j.buechele@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Sindi-Leigh McBride is a PhD candidate in African Studies.\n
Discussant: Metka Hercog (Cultural Anthropology)
\n“Noon -Talks” is an opportunity for PhD candidates and Post-docs of the D epartment of Social Sciences to get to know each other\, present their on going work\, receive feedback and engage in discussions with scholars of the various disciplines of our department. Our goal is to foster exchange between scholars and get to know each other’s work. We wish to encoura ge presenters to address methodological challenges\, theoretical issues a nd conceptual questions they are currently working on. Each presentation will be followed by prepared comments from a discussant and an open Q& \;A session.
\nWe cordially invite all members\, faculty and student s of the department to join us.
\nProgram: 20 minutes present ation\, 10 minutes comments by a discussant\, 20-30 minutes open Q&\;A/ discussion
\nContact: Julia Büchele - \; j.buechele@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200519T131500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1458@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200513T181500 SUMMARY:Scott Burnett: Winning the Future for Whiteness: environmental ethn oscaping in South Africa (online) DESCRIPTION:Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place online. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the pro gram. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Mies cher [mailto:giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place onlin e. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the p rogram. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200513T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1568@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200513T161500 SUMMARY:Miriam Badoux: A wind of change? Land and corruption as “national problems” in Kenya (online) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Miriam Badoux\, PhD candidate in Anthropology\, University of Basel\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, ple ase contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch]\\r\\nIn this pres entation\, I explore the rhythms of change and continuity in Kenya by loo king at official and popular discourses around land and corruption\, conc eived here as two interrelated “national problems”. In doing so\, I o ffer a broader reflection about the (trans)formation of social problems: When do people talk about or want change? When is continuity a problem? W hat makes a situation feel like stasis?\\r\\nWhen I started my fieldwork in 2014\, a wind of change seemed to blow through Kenya. The 2010 constit ution had brought devolution reforms\, a new National Land Policy had bee n drafted\, and the National Land Commission had just been set up. Some o f the people I talked to were enthusiastic\, believing that many persiste nt problems would eventually be addressed. In contrast\, other interlocut ors warned me that “in Kenya it cannot change” because of the country ’s “national amnesia”.\\r\\nI argue in this presentation that this dichotomy between Kenya as a politically dynamic nation on the one hand\, and Kenya as a forgetting nation caught in stasis on the other\, is mirr ored in discourses about land. While land has historically been portrayed as a symbol of heritage\, freedom\, and production\, it has been increas ingly associated to a stolen asset\, revealing the greed and rot of Kenya n elites. In other words\, land has become a metaphor for postcolonial di sillusion through which Kenyan citizens articulate a popular critique of politics. X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Miriam Badoux\, PhD candidate in Anthropology \, University of Basel
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\ , please contact s.burri@unibas.ch< /p>\n
In this presentation\, I explore the rhythms of change and continu ity in Kenya by looking at official and popular discourses around land an d corruption\, conceived here as two interrelated “national problems” . In doing so\, I offer a broader reflection about the (trans)formation o f social problems: When do people talk about or want change? When is con tinuity a problem? What makes a situation feel like stasis?
\nWhen I started my fieldwork in 2014\, a wind of change seemed to blow through Kenya. The 2010 constitution had brought devolution reforms\, a new Natio nal Land Policy had been drafted\, and the National Land Commission had j ust been set up. Some of the people I talked to were enthusiastic\, belie ving that many persistent problems would eventually be addressed. In cont rast\, other interlocutors warned me that “in Kenya it cannot change” because of the country’s “national amnesia”.
\nI argue in th is presentation that this dichotomy between Kenya as a politically dynami c nation on the one hand\, and Kenya as a forgetting nation caught in sta sis on the other\, is mirrored in discourses about land. While land has h istorically been portrayed as a symbol of heritage\, freedom\, and produc tion\, it has been increasingly associated to a stolen asset\, revealing the greed and rot of Kenyan elites. In other words\, land has become a me taphor for postcolonial disillusion through which Kenyan citizens articul ate a popular critique of politics.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200513T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1567@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T091756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200506T161500 SUMMARY:Toby Joseph David Frost: The Islamic State and Migration – Reasse ssing the ‘Civilian Population’ within Insurgency Theory (MA project) (online) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Toby Joseph David Frost\, Changing Societies\, University of Basel\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, plea se contact s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Toby Joseph David Frost\, Changing Societies\ , University of Basel
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch< /p> DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200506T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1457@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200429T181500 SUMMARY:Asaf Augusto: ’Skilled white bodies’: Portuguese workers in Ang ola as a case of North-South Migration (online) DESCRIPTION:Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place online. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the pro gram. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Mies cher [mailto:giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:
Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place onlin e. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the p rogram. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200429T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1566@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200429T161500 SUMMARY:Anna Christen: Perils of Participation – Epistemological Problems with Fieldwork Practice (online) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Anna Christen\, Anthropology\, University of Ba sel\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.bur ri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Anna Christen\, Anthropology\, University of Basel
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200429T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1456@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200422T181500 SUMMARY:Katarina Rybarikova: Decision-making in Human-Wildlife Conflicts: I nsides from Namibia (online) DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Katarina Rybarikova\, University of Fribourg. Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place online. Registered part icipants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the program. If you are in terested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher [mailto:giorgi o.miescher@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Lecture by Katarina Rybarikova\, University of Fribourg. Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place online. Registered pa rticipants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the program. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200422T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1564@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101146 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200422T161500 SUMMARY:Silvia Balzan: TBA/PhD Project (online) DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Silvia Balzan\, Kulturanthropologie\, Universit y of Basel\\r\\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contac t s.burri@unibas.ch [mailto:s.burri@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Presentation by Silvia Balzan\, Kulturanthropologie\, Univers ity of Basel
\nIf you would like to join the Zoom session\, please c ontact s.burri@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200422T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1546@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200415T181500 SUMMARY:“Asking for a continent” – Researching Covid-19 and previous epidemics in (southern) Africa in the age of digital/social media (online) DESCRIPTION:Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place online. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the program . If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher [mailto:giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch]. X-ALT-DESC:Due to the Corona pandemic\, the colloquium takes place onlin e. Registered participants meet in Zoom sessions. Please consult the progr am. If you are interested in participating\, please contact Giorgio Miescher.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200415T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1533@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200324T000000 SUMMARY:Film stream: Baxu and the Giants by Andrew Botelle and Florian Scho tt DESCRIPTION:Saturday 21 March 1990\, Namibia gained its Independence. It wa s a day of celebration for many people\, a moment an entire nation had be en longing for. The day consequently was meant to be the day of celebrati ng the memory of this special birthday\, but the global spread of Covid-1 9 unravelled most respective plans! The Basler Afrika Bibliographien ther efore wants to mark this special day by sharing online contents.\\r\\n Bax u and the Giants \\r\\nA Film by Andrew Botelle and Florian Schott 29 min utes\, 2019 (English\, Khoekhoegowab\, Afrikaans/Engl. subtitles) \\r\\nWh en the BAB shows films from Southern Africa or portray film makers from Na mibia\, they embed these events in the film cycle project "in motion". Un fortunately a physical event is not an option at the moment. However\, th ey decided to put on a virtual "namibia in motion" film event and invite anyone interested to watch the movie privately\, to think of this special day\, the effort that has been dedicated to make this film\, and the ins titutions who try to continue their work. X-ALT-DESC:Saturday 21 March 1990\, Namibia gained its Independence. It was a day of celebration for many people\, a moment an entire nation had been longing for. The day consequently was meant to be the day of celebra ting the memory of this special birthday\, but the global spread of Covid -19 unravelled most respective plans! The Basler Afrika Bibliographien th erefore wants to mark this special day by sharing online contents.
\nA Film by Andrew Botelle&nb
sp\;and Florian Schott
29 minutes\, 2019 (English\, Khoekhoegowab\,
Afrikaans/Engl. subtitles)
When the BAB shows films from Southern Africa or portray film makers from Namibia\, they embed these events in t he film cycle project "\;in motion"\;. Unfortunately a physical e vent is not an option at the moment. However\, they decided to put on a v irtual "\;namibia in motion"\; film event and invite anyone inter ested to watch the movie privately\, to think of this special day\, the e ffort that has been dedicated to make this film\, and the institutions wh o try to continue their work.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1471@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200319T163000 SUMMARY:!POSTPONED! Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela: Keynote Lecture DESCRIPTION:Dr Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela will present the keynote address at the public launch of the SNF-funded Sinergia project [https://zasb.uniba s.ch/en/centre/events/details/news/conference-global-health-africa-circula ting-knowledge-and-innovations/]\, 'African Contributions to Global Healt h' [https://www.globalhealthafrica.ch/]. Dr Malecela is the Director of th e Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Healt h Organisation (WHO).\\r\\nKeynote lecture postponed to an as yet unspecif ied date! X-ALT-DESC:Dr Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela w ill present the keynote address at the pu blic launch of the SNF-funded Sinergia project\, 'Afr ican Contributions to Global Health'. Dr Malecela is the Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Hea lth Organisation (WHO).
\nKeynote lecture postponed to an as yet unspecified date!
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200319T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1470@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200319T133000 SUMMARY:!POSTPONED! Conference: African Contributions to Global Health DESCRIPTION:On 19 March 2020\, researchers and public health experts meet for the public launch of the SNF-funded Sinergia project 'African Contribu tions to Global Health' [https://www.globalhealthafrica.ch/]. African Co ntributions to Global Health is an interdisciplinary research project whi ch investigates knowledge\, practices and applications related to the impr ovement of health and healthcare which have been developed or designed in Africa\, and have become - or have the potential to become - relevant to questions of health globally. This collaborative project between the Uni versity of Basel\, Swiss Institute for Tropical and Public Health\, and th e École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) brings together expe rts in African history\, public health and urban planning working with Af rican partners in Kenya\, Tanzania\, Zambia and Côte d'Ivoire. The confe rence introduces the various research foci of the project\, and features a round table discussion on the theme by project partners based in Afric a. \\r\\nThe keynote address will be delivered by Dr Mwelecele Malecela\, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at t he WHO. There will also be a screening of the documentary 'Mefloquine' an d discussion with the film maker. \\r\\nConference postponed to an as yet unspecified date! X-ALT-DESC:On 19 March 2020\, researche rs \;and public health experts meet for the public launch of the SNF-f unded Sinergia project 'African Contributions to Global H ealth'. \;African Contributions to Global Health is an int erdisciplinary research project which investigates knowledge\, practices and applications related to the improvement of health and healthcare which have been developed or designed in Africa\, and have become - or have th e potential to become - relevant to questions of health globally. This co llaborative project between the University of Basel\, Swiss Institute for Tropical and Public Health\, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) brings together experts in African history\, public healt h and urban planning working with African partners in Kenya\, Tanzania\, Zambia and Côte d'Ivoire. The conference introduces the various research foci of the project\, and \;features a round table discussion on the theme by project partners based in Africa.
\nThe keynote address w ill be delivered by Dr Mwelecele Malecela\, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the WHO. There will also be a screening of the documentary 'Mefloquine' and discussion with the film ma ker.
\nConference postponed to an as yet unspecified date! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1506@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200316T183000 SUMMARY:Opening of exhibition: What is Critical Urbanisms DESCRIPTION:"Our work starts from the premise that the world’s urban and environmental challenges call for new ways of doing as well as new ways of thinking. Imagining alternative urban futures means rethinking the pre sent—its historical making\, its political unfolding\, and the ways in which it is made sensible. Our work expands the study of the urban by exa mining urban struggles and futures in relation to the legacies of empire and to alternative practices of world-making and knowledge production."\\ r\\nThe program Critical Urbanisms is pleased to present its first exhibi tion of ongoing work by Master's as well as more advanced researchers. \\ r\\nThe Master in Critical Urbanisms is an English-taught\, four-semester program that qualifies students in interdisciplinary urban research comb ining methods from the humanities and social sciences with creative pract ice and visual representation. Drawing from the disciplines of architectu re\, geography\, history\, sociology\, political science\, and anthropolo gy\, the curriculum provides students with practical and theoretical comp etencies to address the complex challenges of urbanization in the twenty- first century.\\r\\nThe exhibition will be on display from 16 March to 3 A pril 2020\, Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm \\r\\nUpdate: In light of the recent events related to the corona virus\, the opening reception will b e held as planned on Monday 16 Mar 2020 at 18.30\, but without the apéro . Moreover\, we kindly ask everyone who is external to the university but nonetheless interested to attend to register by leaving their names\, em ail addresses and phone numbers. A registration sheet will be available f or the duration of the event and its related activities. For more informa tion\, kindly message michelle.killenberger@unibas.ch. [mailto:michelle.ki llenberger@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:
"\;Our work starts from the premise that the world’s u rban and environmental challenges call for new ways of doing as well as n ew ways of thinking. Imagining alternative urban futures means rethinking the present—its historical making\, its political unfolding\, and the ways in which it is made sensible. Our work expands the study of the urba n by examining urban struggles and futures in relation to the legacies of empire and to alternative practices of world-making and knowledge produc tion."\;
\nThe program Critical Urbanisms is pleased to present its first exhibition of ongoing work by Master's as well as more advanced researchers.
\nThe Master in Critical Urbanisms is an English-tau ght\, four-semester program that qualifies students in interdisciplinary urban research combining methods from the humanities and social sciences with creative practice and visual representation. Drawing from the discip lines of architecture\, geography\, history\, sociology\, political scien ce\, and anthropology\, the curriculum provides students with practical a nd theoretical competencies to address the complex challenges of urbaniz ation in the twenty-first century.
\nThe exhibition will be on displ ay from 16 March to 3 April 2020\, Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm
\nUpdate: In light of the recent events related to the corona viru s\, the opening reception will be held as planned on Monday 16 Mar 2020 a t 18.30\, but without the apéro. Moreover\, we kindly ask everyone who i s external to the university but nonetheless interested to attend to regi ster by leaving their names\, email addresses and phone numbers. A regist ration sheet will be available for the duration of the event and its rela ted activities. For more information\, kindly message michelle.killenberger@unibas.ch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1490@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200311T161500 SUMMARY:Rebekah Hoeks: “I’ll See You at the Salon”: The Social Spaces of Women in Urban Burkina Faso DESCRIPTION:MA project presentation by Rebekah Hoeks\, Anthropology\, Unive rsity of Basel\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\nIn the city of Bobo-Dioulasso in Western Burkina Faso\, the so-called tontine has become a popular phenomenon whi ch takes many different forms. In recent years in particular\, one form o f the tontine has been dominated by women. These groups come together eac h week and participate in a money merry-go-round\, where each meeting a d ifferent member takes home the pot to which everyone has contributed unti l the exact amount invested has been reimbursed to each woman. Two such w omen’s groups have been formed since the beginning of 2018 in the old n eighbourhood Kôkô. They take place on the same street just off one of t he main roads of the city\, one in a private courtyard and the other in a hair salon. Since the beginning of 2019\, the tontines have faced many c hallenges including mobilising enough women for a substantial sum to be h anded out each week\, the active participation of members\, as well as ou tside prejudice. The groups have seen a few format changes over the past year\, but continue inspite of this. During the meetings\, men rarely set foot in both places\, which creates an exclusive space for women to exch ange ideas and money. In addition\, the salon is an everday public space for the women of the neighbourhood\, where they often pass by during the day for a few minutes or even hours to discuss recent events\, work\, fam ily and other gossip. But it is through the tontine that the women get t ogether in larger groups and are able to participate in a form of financi al saving and insurance not offered to them otherwise. Based on ethnograp hic fieldwork conducted in intervals between January 2019 and February 20 20\, this MA thesis highlights the tontine and salon as a social space fo r women\, its role in the construction of identity\, changing self-percep tions\, and creating possibilities for informal financial and social secu rity in an urban setting of Burkina Faso. X-ALT-DESC:MA project presentation by Rebekah Hoeks\, Anthropology\, Un iversity of Basel
\nIn the city of Bobo-Dioulasso in Western Burkina Faso\, the so-called tontine has become a popu lar phenomenon which takes many different forms. In recent years in parti cular\, one form of the tontine has been dominated by women. These groups come together each week and participate in a money merry-go-round\, wher e each meeting a different member takes home the pot to which everyone ha s contributed until the exact amount invested has been reimbursed to each woman. Two such women’s groups have been formed since the beginning of 2018 in the old neighbourhood Kôkô. They take place on the same street just off one of the main roads of the city\, one in a private courtyard and the other in a hair salon. Since the beginning of 2019\, the tontines have faced many challenges including mobilising enough women for a subst antial sum to be handed out each week\, the active participation of membe rs\, as well as outside prejudice. The groups have seen a few format chan ges over the past year\, but continue inspite of this. During the meeting s\, men rarely set foot in both places\, which creates an exclusive space for women to exchange ideas and money. In addition\, the salon is an eve rday public space for the women of the neighbourhood\, where they often p ass by during the day for a few minutes or even hours to discuss recent e vents\, work\, family and other gossip. But it is through the tontine tha t the women get together in larger groups and are able to participate in a form of financial saving and insurance not offered to them otherwise. B ased on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in intervals between January 201 9 and February 2020\, this MA thesis highlights the tontine and salon as a social space for women\, its role in the construction of identity\, ch anging self-perceptions\, and creating possibilities for informal financi al and social security in an urban setting of Burkina Faso.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200311T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1442@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201105T141155 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200311T123000 SUMMARY:Andrea Kifyasi: China’s Role in Global Health Challenges – The Case of HIV/AIDS TCM Research and Treatment in Tanzania\, 1987 – 2010 DESCRIPTION:Andrea Kifyasi (University of Basel)\\r\\nA light lunch will be provided starting at 12pm X-ALT-DESC:Andrea Kifyasi (University of Basel)
\nA light lunch wi ll be provided starting at 12pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1501@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200309T160000 SUMMARY:Diskussion: Afrikanischer Feminismus und Aktivismus für Frauenrech te DESCRIPTION:Frauen aus dem Südlichen Afrika und Ostafrika sprechen über s tarke Frauen und über den Kampf für Gleichberechtigung zwischen den Ge schlechtern.\\r\\nDie beiden Frauenrechts-Aktivistinnen Rosewita Katsande [https://fepafrika.ch/wp-content/uploads/Rosewita-Katsande-Portr%C3%A4t-in kl.pdf] und Cynthia Gwenzi [https://fepafrika.ch/wp-content/uploads/Cynthi a-Gwenzi-Portr%C3%A4t-inkl.pdf] berichten dabei direkt von ihrer Arbeit in Simbabwe.\\r\\nWas bedeutet Feminismus in einem afrikanischen Kontext? We lche praktischen Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Frauenrechte gibt es? Ist dafür eine Abgrenzung von westlich geprägtem Feminismus notwendig?\ \r\\nDie moderierte Diskussion ermöglicht einen Austausch über die Bedi ngungen und Möglichkeiten der Frauenförderung im Kontext patriarchaler Vorstellungen von Nation und Kultur.\\r\\nDie interaktive Veranstaltung bi etet allen Teilnehmenden die Möglichkeit\, über Gleichberechtigungsfrag en in Afrika und der Schweiz ins Gespräch zu kommen\\r\\nDie Veranstaltu ng findet in Englischer Sprache statt. Die Diskussion wird geleitet von Ri ta Kesselring\, Ethnologisches Institut. Sie ist Teil des Austauschbesuchs 2020 [https://fepafrika.ch/veranstaltung/austauschbesuch-2020-simbabwe-fr auen-rechte] mit zwei Frauen aus Simbabwe. Mehr zum Thema finden Sie hier [http://fepafrika.ch/frauen2020]. X-ALT-DESC:Frauen aus dem Südlichen Afrika und Ostafrika sprechen über starke Frauen und über den Kampf für Gleichberechtigung zwischen den Geschlechtern.
\nDie beiden Frauenrechts-Aktivistinnen Rosewita Katsande und Cynthia Gwenzi ber ichten dabei direkt von ihrer Arbeit in Simbabwe.
\nWas bedeutet Fem inismus in einem afrikanischen Kontext? Welche praktischen Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Frauenrechte gibt es? Ist dafür eine Abgrenzung von westlich geprägtem Feminismus notwendig?
\nDie moderierte Diskussio n ermöglicht einen Austausch über die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten de r Frauenförderung im Kontext patriarchaler Vorstellungen von Nation und Kultur.
\nDie interaktive Veranstaltung bietet allen Teilnehmenden d ie Möglichkeit\, über Gleichberechtigungsfragen in Afrika und der Schwe iz ins Gespräch zu kommen
\nDie Veranstaltung findet in Englischer
Sprache statt.
Die Diskussion wird geleitet von Rita Kesselring<
/b>\, Ethnologisches Institut. Sie ist Teil des Austauschbe
suchs 2020 mit zwei Frauen aus Simbabwe. Mehr zum Thema finden Sie hier.
Moderation: Julia Rensing\, Lesung: Claudia Jahn
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200223T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1411@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200222T173000 SUMMARY:Loyiso Mkize\, Lisa Roulet und Raffaele Perniola: Kaboom! African S uperhero DESCRIPTION:Loyiso Mkize spricht über seine Graphic Novel «Kwezi»\, Lisa Roulet und Raffaele Perniola erzählen von der Tradition des afrikanisch en Superhelden-Comic. \\r\\nModeration: Antonio Uribe (Mitherausgeber von «Kaboom!»). \\r\\nIn den letzten Jahren haben sich Graphic Novels als s pannende und eigenständige literarische Form etabliert. Wie steht es um die afrikanischen Comic-Kulturen? Dieser Frage widmet sich der facettenr eiche Band «Kaboom! Von Stereotypen und Superhelden – afrikanische Com ics und Comics zu Afrika» [https://baslerafrika.ch/product/kaboom-of-ster eotypes-and-superheroes-african-comics-and-comics-on-africa-von-stereotype n-und-superhelden-afrikanische-comics-und-comics-zu-afrika/] der Basler Af rika Bibliographien. In einem der Kapitel erörtern Lisa Roulet und Raffa ele Perniola das Genre des afrikanischen Superheldencomis und das Boomen von Afrofuturismus\, wie es zum Beispiel anhand des international erfolg reichen Marvel-Kassenschlagers «Black Panther» sichtbar wurde. Ein solc her Superhelden-Comic stammt aus der Feder des südafrikanischen Designer s und Künstlers Loyiso Mkize. Mkize arbeitete als Illustrator für den C omic «Supa Strikas»\, bevor er 2015 mit Loyiso Mkize Art sein eigenes U nternehmen für visuelle Kunst und Kommunikation begründete. Zugleich be gann er mit der Produktion von «Kwezi»: Die Geschichten um den jugend lichen Superhelden «Kwezi» spielen in der fiktiven Gold City (die stark Johannesburg nachempfunden ist) und haben in den letzten Jahren Furore g emacht. Mkize geht darin stark auf die Lebensrealität und Sprache der ju ngen Südafrikaner*innen ein.\\r\\nEine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit d em Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel und den Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Das Gespräch findet auf Englisch statt.\\r\\nPreis normal CHF 20.00Preis ermässigt CHF 14.00Preis Mitglieder CHF 12.00 X-ALT-DESC:In den letzten Jahren haben sich Graphic Novels als spannende und eigenständige literarische Form etabliert. Wie steht es um die afrikanischen Comic-Kulturen? Dieser Frage widmet sich de r facettenreiche Band «Ka boom! Von Stereotypen und Superhelden – afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika» der Basler Afrika Bibliographien. In einem der Kapitel er örtern Lisa Roulet und Raffaele Perniola das Genre des afrikanischen Sup erheldencomis und das Boomen von Afrofuturismus\, wie es zum Beispiel anh and des international erfolgreichen Marvel-Kassenschlagers «Black Panthe r» sichtbar wurde. Ein solcher Superhelden-Comic stammt aus der Feder de s südafrikanischen Designers und Künstlers Loyiso Mkize. Mkize arbeitet e als Illustrator für den Comic «Supa Strikas»\, bevor er 2015 mit Loy iso Mkize Art sein eigenes Unternehmen für visuelle Kunst und Kommunikat ion begründete. Zugleich begann er mit der Produktion von «Kwezi»:&nbs p\; Die Geschichten um den jugendlichen Superhelden «Kwezi» spielen in der fiktiven Gold City (die stark Johannesburg nachempfunden ist) und hab en in den letzten Jahren Furore gemacht. Mkize geht darin stark auf die L ebensrealität und Sprache der jungen Südafrikaner*innen ein.
\nEi ne Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel und den Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Das Gespräch findet auf Englisch st att.
\nPreis normal CHF 20.00
Preis ermässigt CHF 14.00
P
reis Mitglieder CHF 12.00
Tolulope Fadeyi (University of Basel)
\nA light lunch w ill be provided starting at 12pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1462@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200217T121500 SUMMARY:Semesterapéro at the Centre for African Studies DESCRIPTION:Staff\, students and associates of the Centre are cordially inv ited to our traditional meet'n'greet (Semester-Apéro). This reception for newcomers and current students of the Centre - from the Master programme African Studies and other disciplines - provides an excellent platform to mingle and network. Members of faculty introduce the courses they teach an d point out highlights of the semester.\\r\\nDrinks and snacks provided! X-ALT-DESC:Staff\, students and associates of the Centre are cordially invited to our traditional meet'n'greet (Semester-Apéro). This reception for newcomers and current students of the Centre - from the Master program me African Studies and other disciplines - provides an excellent platform to mingle and network. Members of faculty introduce the courses they teach and point out highlights of the semester.
\nDrinks and snacks provi ded!
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200217T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1447@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200216T110000 SUMMARY:Vorpremiere: Camille DESCRIPTION:Der Film erzählt die wahre Geschichte der jungen Fotojournali stin Camille Lepage\, die voller Idealismus nach Zentralafrika reiste\, u m dort über den Bürgerkrieg zu berichten. Ihre Bilder wurden u.a. von der BBC\, dem Guardian und der New York Times veröffentlicht. Im Mai 201 4 geriet die 26-jährige Französin bei ihrer Arbeit in einen Hinterhalt und kam ums Leben. Der Film von Boris Lojkine mit der sensationellen Nina Meurisse als Camille hat dieses Jahr den Prix du Public in Locarno gewon nen. Weitere Infos zum Film finden Sie hier.\\r\\nIn Anwesenheit von Foto journalist und Kriegsfotograf Dominic Nahr\, moderiert von Bernhard Giger . \\r\\nWeitere Vorpremiere in Zürich am Sonntag\, 23. Februar\, 12:15 Uh r\, im Kino Arthouse Le Paris - moderiert von Marcy Goldberg.\\r\\nOffizie ller Kinostart 27. Februar 2020. X-ALT-DESC:Der Film erzählt die wahre Geschichte der jungen Fotojourna listin Camille Lepage\, die voller Idealismus nach Zentralafrika reiste\, um dort über den Bürgerkrieg zu berichten. Ihre Bilder wurden u.a. vo n der BBC\, dem Guardian und der New York Times veröffentlicht. Im Mai 2 014 geriet die 26-jährige Französin bei ihrer Arbeit in einen Hinterhal t und kam ums Leben. Der Film von Boris Lojkine mit der sensationellen Ni na Meurisse als Camille hat dieses Jahr den Prix du Public in Locarno gew onnen. \;Weitere Infos zum Film finden Sie hier.
\nIn Anwesenhei t von Fotojournalist und Kriegsfotograf Dominic Nahr\, moderiert von Bern hard Giger.
\nWeitere Vorpremiere in Zürich am Sonntag\, 23. Februar\, 12:15 Uhr\, im Kino Arthouse Le Paris - moderiert von M arcy Goldberg.
\nOffizieller Kinostart 27. Februar 2020.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2146@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T174707 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200214 SUMMARY:11th GloPent Conference: Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagemen t DESCRIPTION:The growing evidence of Pentecostal public engagement has attra cted academic attention\, especially\, but not exclusively in arenas of th e Global South. Recent explorations of the global “Charismatic city”\, the notion of an African “Pentecostal republic”\, or assertions about “property Christianity” in China point to peculiar Pentecostal taxono mies in the public realm. Pentecostal politics of public prayer\, ‘spiri tual warfare` or ‘crusades’ seek to transform religious landscapes\, w hile ‘Dominionist` theologies claim to transcend narrow Pentecostal inte rests in order to advocate the common good. Megachurches establish network s to access political\, economic and cultural elites. Prosperity theologie s also target social transformations and partly enable structural innovati ons in economic life. The Pentecostal media revolution with its constituti ve elements of religious broadcasting and publishing interferes in local p ublic discourses\; professionalized e-church performances disseminate tran scultural strategies to impact a given political culture. Whether Pentecos tal migrant communities in the Global North are pursuing a strategic ‘re verse mission’ to ‘conquer secular nations for Christ` remains open to debate.\\r\\nThus\, Pentecostalism entails a variety of modes\, forms and patterns of public mobilization or a religious mobilisation of public rea lms\, which are the theme of this conference. The keynote speakers will ad dress a diversity of public strategies in the Global South: Heinrich Sch äfer (University of Bielefeld) will discuss Pentecostal political agenda s in Latin America (respondent: Claudia Jahnel\, Ruhr-Univerity Bochum)\; Ilana van Wyk (University of Stellenbosch) focuses on Pentecostal publi c strategies in Southern Africa (respondent: Sibusiso Masondo\, University of KwaZulu-Natal)\; and Nanlai Cao (Renmin University\, Beijing) (respo ndent: Mika Vähäkangas\, Lund University) will address Pentecostal patte rns of public engagement in China and within the Chinese diaspora.\\r\\nDo wnload programme [http://www.glopent.net/Members/webmaster/basel-2020/2020 -program-glopent.pdf] X-ALT-DESC:The growing evidence of Pentecostal public engagement has att racted academic attention\, especially\, but not exclusively in arenas of the Global South. Recent explorations of the global “Charismatic city” \, the notion of an African “Pentecostal republic”\, or assertions abo ut “property Christianity” in China point to peculiar Pentecostal taxo nomies in the public realm. Pentecostal politics of public prayer\, ‘spi ritual warfare` or ‘crusades’ seek to transform religious landscapes\, while ‘Dominionist` theologies claim to transcend narrow Pentecostal in terests in order to advocate the common good. Megachurches establish netwo rks to access political\, economic and cultural elites. Prosperity theolog ies also target social transformations and partly enable structural innova tions in economic life. The Pentecostal media revolution with its constitu tive elements of religious broadcasting and publishing interferes in local public discourses\; professionalized e-church performances disseminate tr anscultural strategies to impact a given political culture. Whether Pentec ostal migrant communities in the Global North are pursuing a strategic ‘ reverse mission’ to ‘conquer secular nations for Christ` remains open to debate.
\nThus\, Pentecostalism entails a variety of modes\, form s and patterns of public mobilization or a religious mobilisation of publi c realms\, which are the theme of this conference. The keynote speakers wi ll address a diversity of public strategies in the Global South: \; Heinrich Schäfer \;(University of Bielefeld) will discuss Penteco stal political agendas in Latin America (respondent: Claudia Jahnel\, Ruhr -Univerity Bochum)\; \;Ilana van Wyk \;(University of Stell enbosch) focuses on Pentecostal public strategies in Southern Africa (resp ondent: Sibusiso Masondo\, University of KwaZulu-Natal)\; and \;Nan lai Cao \;(Renmin University\, Beijing) (respondent: Mika Vähäka ngas\, Lund University) will address Pentecostal patterns of public engage ment in China and within the Chinese diaspora.
\n DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200215 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news973@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101534 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200206 SUMMARY:Korruption und Integrität in Unternehmen und NGOs DESCRIPTION:Wie gehen Gesellschaften mit Korruption um? Mit welchen Problem en sind Organisationen konfrontiert\, wenn sie in korruptionsanfälliger U mgebung tätig sind? Mit welchen Massnahmen können sie ihre Integrität s tärken? Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein fundiertes und reflektiertes Verständ nis von Korruption und Integrität. Die Teilnehmenden beschäftigen sich k ritisch mit Antikorruptions-Massnahmen\, Strategien und Trends. Sie diskut ieren Erfahrungen mit Korrutpion und Integrität aus Sicht von Schweizer K MUs und multinationalen Konzernen sowie aus der Perspektive von Entwicklun gsorganisationen. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien reflektieren sie ihre eigene Wahrnehmung von Korruption und diskutieren Strategien und Lösungen \, um Praktiken zu vermeiden\, die nicht dem Gesetz und/oder dem Verhalten skodex der eigenen Organisation entsprechen. X-ALT-DESC: Wie gehen Gesellschaften mit Korruption um? Mit welchen Prob
lemen sind Organisationen konfrontiert\, wenn sie in korruptionsanfällige
r Umgebung tätig sind? Mit welchen Massnahmen können sie ihre Integritä
t stärken? Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein fundiertes und reflektiertes Verst
ändnis von Korruption und Integrität.
Die Teilnehmenden besc
häftigen sich kritisch mit Antikorruptions-Massnahmen\, Strategien und Tr
ends. Sie diskutieren Erfahrungen mit Korrutpion und Integrität aus Sicht
von Schweizer KMUs und multinationalen Konzernen sowie aus der Perspektiv
e von Entwicklungsorganisationen. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien reflek
tieren sie ihre eigene Wahrnehmung von Korruption und diskutieren Strategi
en und Lösungen\, um Praktiken zu vermeiden\, die nicht dem Gesetz und/od
er dem Verhaltenskodex der eigenen Organisation entsprechen.
Colonial collections in various Swiss museums have recently received renewed scholarly and public interest. Has the status of colonial collections\, whether legally\, in terms of conservation\, research and e xhibition policies or with regard to accessibility and restitution initiat ives\, changed? We invite curators and scholars to join the workshop and d iscussion. The workshop is a follow-up of the "\;Stolen from Africa?&q uot\; workshop on 8 May 2019\, supported by the Schweizerische Akademie f ür Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.
\n09:3 0 Coffee/Tea
\n10:00 Welcome &\; Introduction
(Da
g Henrichsen &\; Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba\, BAB &\; ZASB)
10:15 Colonial collections in Basel\, Berne\, Geneva\, Zurich and Freiburg
i.B.
Brief “status reports” from participants
11
:15 Case study I: Objects\, images &\; documentations - Namibian collec
tions in the Museum der Kulturen\, Basel
(Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba\
, Basel)
12:00 Case study II: Scattered – the Solioz
collections in various Swiss museums
(Samuel Bachmann\, Berne)
12:45 Lunch Break
\n14:00 Forming a Sw
iss colonial collections researchworking group
(Fl
oriane Morin &\; Claire Brizon\, Geneva)
14:45 The Koloniale Provenienzen working group of the Arbeitskreis Provenien
zforschung
(Esther Tisa Francini\, Zurich)
15:00 R
ecent exhibitions - decolonising knowledge or curating institutional innoc
ence?
(Moderated discussion\, with reference to recent exhibition
s in Basel\, Lausanne\, Freiburg i.B.\, Frankfurt etc.)
Kindl y register with Dag Henrichsen dh@ baslerafrika.ch
\n\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200117T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1388@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200116T193000 SUMMARY:Sammeln\, erforschen\, zurückgeben? DESCRIPTION:Kulturgüter aus aussereuropäischen Regionen füllen unzählig e europäische Museen. Die Sammlungen sind häufig in kolonialen Kontexte n akquiriert und durch eurozentrische Forschungsfragen legitimiert worden . Warum wurden sie nicht längst zurückgegeben? Der Vortrag führt in di e Debatte zur Restitution von afrikanischen Kulturgütern ein und diskuti ert Beispiele von Rückführungen und ihre kulturpolitische Dynamik in de n Herkunftsregionen. X-ALT-DESC:Kulturgüter aus aussereuropäischen Regionen füllen unzäh lige europäische Museen. Die Sammlungen sind häufig in kolonialen Konte xten akquiriert und durch eurozentrische Forschungsfragen legitimiert wor den. Warum wurden sie nicht längst zurückgegeben? Der Vortrag führt in die Debatte zur Restitution von afrikanischen Kulturgütern ein und disk utiert Beispiele von Rückführungen und ihre kulturpolitische Dynamik in den Herkunftsregionen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1389@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200109T193000 SUMMARY:Von der Kunst zur visuellen Kultur Afrikas DESCRIPTION:Seit rund hundert Jahren beschäftigen sich Ethnologie und Kun stwissenschaft mit den künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen Afrikas. Schnell w urde klar\, dass man sie anders untersuchen muss als die abendländischen : Die afrikanischen Künste sind weder zueinander noch gegenüber dem soz ialen Leben autonom. Sie sind fast immer Teil einer kulturellen Praxis. J e mehr man über die Künste wusste\, desto mehr musste man vertraute Sic htweisen aufgeben und neue Ansätze entwickeln. Damit wandelte sich auch das Forschungsfeld «afrikanische Kunst». X-ALT-DESC:Seit rund hundert Jahren beschäftigen sich Ethnologie und K unstwissenschaft mit den künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen Afrikas. Schnell wurde klar\, dass man sie anders untersuchen muss als die abendländisch en: Die afrikanischen Künste sind weder zueinander noch gegenüber dem s ozialen Leben autonom. Sie sind fast immer Teil einer kulturellen Praxis. Je mehr man über die Künste wusste\, desto mehr musste man vertraute S ichtweisen aufgeben und neue Ansätze entwickeln. Damit wandelte sich auc h das Forschungsfeld «afrikanische Kunst».
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1204@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191220T123000 SUMMARY:Lisa Roulet\, Raffaele Perniola\, David Rentsch and Max Hufschmidt: Masters' Presentations Day DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lisa Roulet\, Raffaele Perniola\, David Rentsch and M ax Hufschmidt (University of Basel)\\r\\nOrganizers: Julia Tischler\, Cas sandra Mark-Thiesen\\r\\nFurther information: Full program of the research seminar [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/forschung/169/research-seminar- african-history/] X-ALT-DESC:Speakers: Lisa Roulet\, Raffaele Perniola\, David Rent sch and Max Hufschmidt (University of Basel)
\nOrganizers:&nb sp\;Julia Tischler\, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
\nFurther information : Full program of the research seminar
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191220T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1203@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191217T123000 SUMMARY:Chet Fransch: Law and Society: Rape and the Passing of the Death Se ntence in the Western Cape\, c.1920-c.1970 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chet Fransch (Stellenbosch University)\\r\\nOrganizers : Julia Tischler\, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen\\r\\nFurther information: Full program of the research seminar [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/forschun g/169/research-seminar-african-history/] X-ALT-DESC:Speaker: Chet Fransch (Stellenbosch University)
\n< p>Organizers: \;Julia Tischler\, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen\nFurther information: Full program of the research seminar
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191217T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1239@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191211T181500 SUMMARY:Eduard Gargallo: Community Conservation and land use in Namibia: co mbinations\, confusions or contradictions? DESCRIPTION:Eduard Gargallo (University of Lisbon) \\r\\nThe Research Collo quium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars t o engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Souther n African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. Th e Colloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to curre nt research and seeks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is o pen to all levels and guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:Eduard Gargallo (University of Lisbon)
\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international schol ars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in So uthern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studie s. The Colloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191211T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1173@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191205 SUMMARY:Symposium: Climate Change and Health - Risks\, Adaptations\, Resili ence and Co-Benefits DESCRIPTION:Climate change will affect global health in many different ways . Adaptation strategies will be sorely needed to prevent major negative he alth consequences in countries in most need and mitigation measures will r esult in substantial health co-benefits.\\r\\nJoin the symposium for a ric h and intellectually stimulating programme of talks\, discussions and deba tes on cutting-edge research and case studies from various world regions. \\r\\nClimate-related health risks Vulnerabilities and impacts in diffe rent contextsHealth and non-health adaptation measuresFrameworks for healt h system resilience strengtheningMitigation and health co-benefits\\r\\nCh airs: Guéladio Cissé & Martin Röösli\\r\\nFurther information: X-ALT-DESC:Climate change will affect global health in many different ways. Adaptation strategies will be sorely needed to prevent major negative hea lth consequences in countries in most need and mitigation measures will re sult in substantial health co-benefits.\nJoin the symposium for a rich and intellectually stimulating programme of talks\, discussions and debates o n cutting-edge research and case studies from various world regions. \ ;\nEmily Mutota (Justus-Liebig Giessen University)
\nThe R esearch Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and internationa l scholars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian S tudies. The Colloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191204T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1334@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191129T181500 SUMMARY:Busisiwe Diko & Mondli Hlatshwayo: Extreme inequality\, xenophobia and struggles for housing DESCRIPTION:Apartheid ended 25 years ago with the first free elections in S outh Africa. The new democratic South Africa was associated with the hope of overcoming the discriminatory and racist structures of apartheid. Contr ary to these hopes\, social inequalities in South Africa are still enormou s. There have been repeated attacks on migrants from African and Asian cou ntries – the most recent ones in summer 2019. Particularly in the cities \, the land question is highly explosive. The economic model based on expl oiting raw materials is no longer working. Furthermore\, corrupt networks inherited from the apartheid regime are still functioning\, thus increasin g social tensions and inequalities. Together with other related organisati ons the Swiss ADR campaign presents a number of public debates with Mondli Hlatshwayo und Busisiwe Diko in order to discuss currently burning issues around social inequality\, xenophobia and displacement. \\r\\nMondli Hlat shwayo\, a scholar and former anti-apartheid and labour activist\, has for a long time investigated issues of migration\, labour rights and equal ed ucation opportunities. Busisiwe Diko is an activist and youth leader with Abahlali baseMjondolo. This movement originating from Durban fights agains t the displacement of shack dwellers and for the right to housing and cons equently for new land laws.\\r\\nOur two guests will provide first-hand in formation on the causes and background of the current misery in South Afri ca and at the same time on brave forms of resistance. How are social movem ents fighting against inequality\, xenophobia and displacements? How can t hey shape South Africa’s future and contribute to a real democratisation ? And how can Swiss activists and organisations support these struggles an d learn from them?\\r\\nCentre for African Studies (CASB) & Basel Afrika B ibliographies\\r\\n____________________________________________________\\r \\nFurther Opportunities to attend - with translation into German:\\r\\nZu rich: Monday\, 2nd December 19.30 Café Boy\, Rosa Luxemburg Saal\, Kochs trasse 2 with: Sankofa - Platform for People of African Descent\, bla*sh – Network of Black Women\\r\\nSt. Gallen: Tuesday\, 3rd December 20.15 «Erfreuliche Universität» im Palace\, Zwinglistr. 3 with: AFRI KA RIBIK \, Bildungsgemeinschaft St. Gallen\\r\\nZug: Wednesday\, 4th December 20. 00 Siehbachsaal\, Chamerstrasse 33\, 6300 Zug with: Alternative - die Grü nen Zug X-ALT-DESC:Apartheid ended 25 years ago with the first free elections i n South Africa. The new democratic South Africa was associated with the ho pe of overcoming the discriminatory and racist structures of apartheid. Co ntrary to these hopes\, social inequalities in South Africa are still enor mous. There have been repeated attacks on migrants from African and Asian countries – the most recent ones in summer 2019. Particularly in the cit ies\, the land question is highly explosive. The economic model based on e xploiting raw materials is no longer working. Furthermore\, corrupt networ ks inherited from the apartheid regime are still functioning\, thus increa sing social tensions and inequalities. Together with other related organis ations the Swiss ADR campaign presents a number of public debates with Mon dli Hlatshwayo und Busisiwe Diko in order to discuss currently burning iss ues around social inequality\, xenophobia and displacement.
\nMo
ndli Hlatshwayo\, a scholar and former anti-apartheid and labour activ
ist\, has for a long time investigated issues of migration\, labour rights
and equal education opportunities.
Busisiwe Diko is an activ
ist and youth leader with Abahlali baseMjondolo. This movement originating
from Durban fights against the displacement of shack dwellers and for the
right to housing and consequently for new land laws.
Our two gues ts will provide first-hand information on the causes and background of the current misery in South Africa and at the same time on brave forms of res istance. How are social movements fighting against inequality\, xenophobia and displacements? How can they shape South Africa’s future and contrib ute to a real democratisation? And how can Swiss activists and organisatio ns support these struggles and learn from them?
\nCentre for African Studies (CASB) &\; Basel Afrika Bibliographies
\n_______________ _____________________________________
\nFurther Opportunities to attend - with translation into German:
\nZurich: Monday\, 2nd D
ecember 19.30
Café Boy\, Rosa Luxemburg Saal\, Kochstrasse 2
with: Sankofa - Platform for People of African Descent\, bla*sh – Netwo
rk of Black Women
St. Gallen: Tuesday\, 3rd December 20.15
«Erfreuliche Universität» im Palace\, Zwinglistr. 3
with: AFRI KA
RIBIK\, Bildungsgemeinschaft St. Gallen
Zug: Wednesday\, 4th Dec
ember 20.00
Siehbachsaal\, Chamerstrasse 33\, 6300 Zug
with: A
lternative - die Grünen Zug
Samantha Sithole: (University of Lausanne)
\nThe Resea rch Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international schol ars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southe rn African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The C olloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current rese arch and seeks to engage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all l evels and guests are welcome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191127T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1319@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191122T090000 SUMMARY:Rencontre avec l’écrivain togolais Sami Tchak DESCRIPTION:Philosophe et sociologue de formation\, Sami Tchak\, ouvrira la rencontre par une conférence intitulée «L’odeur du Père. Filiation et circulation des connaissances»\, faisant allusion au texte du philoso phe Valentin Mudimbé (L’odeur du Père. Essai sur les limites de la sci ence et de la vie en Afrique noire). Nous enchaînerons ensuite avec un a telier de réflexions avec la participation des historiens Ousmane Seydi e t Henri-Michel Yéré ainsi que celles des étudiants qui suivent le cour s de littérature africaine consacré ce semestre au livre de Sami Tchak Ainsi parlait mon père (Lattès\, 2018). Il n’est pas nécessaire de suivre le cours pour assister ou participer à la rencontre. Cette rencon tre discutera entre autres des questions liées aux rapports entre oralit é africaine et réflexion philosophique occidentale\, entre construction des connaissances dans une société traditionnelle africaine et mise en dialogue avec la pensée d’écrivains et de philosophes du monde entie r.\\r\\nLes axes de réflexions s’articuleront autour des lignes suivant es: Quel dialogue entre pensée orale africaine et réflexion philosophiqu e occidentale ?Comment repenser la condition humaine à partir de la renco ntre d’une pluralité de voix ? Pourquoi interroger ses habitudes et ré férences intellectuelles ?\\r\\n9:00-10:00 Conférence de Sami Tchak10:30 -12:00 Atelier de réflexion avec la participation de Sami Tchak\, Ousmane Seydi\, Henri-Michel Yéré et Isabelle Chariatte\\r\\nToute personne int éressée est bienvenue.Infos: Isabelle.chariatte@unibas.ch [mailto:Isabel le.chariatte@unibas.ch]\\r\\nCette manifestation est une collaboration ent re le Séminaire d’Études françaises et le Centre d’African Studies X-ALT-DESC:Philosophe et sociologue de formation\, Sami Tchak\, ouvrira la rencont
re par une \;conférence intitulée «L’odeur du Père. Filiation
et circulation des connaissances»\, faisant allusion au texte du phi
losophe Valentin Mudimbé (L’odeur du Père. Essai sur les limites de
la science et de la vie en Afrique noire).
Nous enchaînerons e
nsuite avec \;un atelier de réflexions avec la participation des h
istoriens Ousmane Seydi et Henri-Michel Yéré \;ainsi que celles
des étudiants qui suivent le cours de littérature africaine consacré ce
semestre au livre de Sami Tchak \;Ainsi parlait mon père \;(Lattès\, 2018).
Il n’est pas nécessaire de suiv
re le cours pour assister ou participer à la rencontre.
Cett
e rencontre discutera entre autres des questions liées aux rapports entre
oralité africaine et réflexion philosophique occidentale\, entre const
ruction des connaissances dans une société traditionnelle africaine et
mise en dialogue avec la pensée d’écrivains et de philosophes du mond
e entier.
Les axes de réflexions s’articuleront a
utour des lignes suivantes: Quel dialogue entre pensée orale africaine et
réflexion philosophique occidentale ?
Comment repenser la condition
humaine à partir de la rencontre d’une pluralité de voix ? Pourquoi i
nterroger ses habitudes et références intellectuelles ?
9:00-
10:00 Conférence de Sami Tchak
10:30-12:00 Atelier de ré
flexion avec la participation de Sami Tchak\, Ousmane Seydi\, Henri-Michel
Yéré et Isabelle Chariatte
Toute personne intéressée est bien
venue.
Infos: Isabelle.
chariatte@unibas.ch
Cette manifestation est une collaboration entre le Séminaire d’Études françaises et le Centre d’African Studi es
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191122T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1202@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191119T123000 SUMMARY:Marcel Brengard: Forming «Company Men». Nigerianisation\, Swiss T rading Companies and the creation of an African capitalist elite\, 1970-19 97 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marcel Brengard (University of Zurich)\\r\\nOrganizers : Julia Tischler\, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen\\r\\nFurther information: Full program of the research seminar [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/forschun g/169/research-seminar-african-history/] X-ALT-DESC:Speaker: Marcel Brengard (University of Zurich)
\n< p>Organizers: \;Julia Tischler\, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen\nFurther information: Full program of the research seminar
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191119T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1339@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191115T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Urban Comparison DESCRIPTION:Inspired by increased scholarly attention to the notion of “ making” (Ingold 2013) and “becoming\,” (cf. Biehl and Locke\, Dele uze)\, this workshop seeks to theorize the formation of urbanity and r ole of urbanization in the consolidation of an understanding of what makes a city. It simultaneously marks the end of the inter-disciplinary research project of the same title (SNSF grant NGK2161) and launches a longer discussion about how urban life unfolds and change occurs\, and wh at generalizable notions we can draw from deep investigations of everyday life and specific changes to generate or revise theories of “the urban .”\\r\\nBuilding on three years of project work\, presentations from Gom a (DRC)\, Johannesburg (RSA)\, and Cartagena (Columbia) will describe va rious processual characteristics of urbanity and urbanization through th e analytical angles of: i) cultural and linguistic articulations\, ii) con ventions of social inclusion and exclusion\, and iii) architectural\, structural\, and institutional correspondences. These analytical views pr ovide the framework through which to investigate sameness and difference in interactional ways of life (urbanity) and urban growth dynamics (urban ization) within each field site itself and across all field sites. \\r\\ nIn comparing different everyday practices in these seemingly disparate cities\, we wish to overcome an impasse in current urban scholarship tha t fails to discuss the dialectical relationship between structure and age ncy beyond a single field or case. Through such a comparison of the ways in which urbanity is continuously “in the making\,” we seek to connec t the formation of urban social spaces (in their material\, social\, and cultural dimensions) to the imagination/conceptualisation of cities as wh oles and multiples\, constituted beyond any single field or city. \\r\\n The workshop will start with a presentation of five urban ethnographies o f ‘making’ (Ingold 2013) - a concept we utilise to understand the way s the city comes into conceptual and material being. Closely linked to ou r mobilization of the concept of making is a focus on the agency of diff erent actors in the urban arena the everyday practices of encounter and d istanciation in the production of urbanity. Each ethnography presents dif ferent practices of encounter and distanciation that transform the imagin ed and actual city as both a social and material place. Social fields of leisure and security as they occur in urban settings as varied as an arts center (Nielsen) and a former refugee camp (Herz) provide some of the co ntexts in which these practices are discussed. The ethnographic accounts will be followed by a group discussion on models or theories of compariso n by which each case can enter in a theoretically generative dialogue wit h the others. \\r\\nPresentations from:Making Cartagena (Silke Oldenburg)\ \r\\nMaking Mugunga (Manuel Herz)\\r\\nMaking Johannesburg (Lotte Nielsen) \\r\\nMaking Goma (Maren Larsen)\\r\\n\\r\\nAttendance is open to the publ ic X-ALT-DESC:Inspired by increased scholarly attention to the notion of&nb sp\;“making” (Ingold 2013) and \;“becoming\,” (cf. Biehl and Locke\, Deleuze)\, this \;workshop \;seeks to theorize the format ion of urbanity and \;role \;of urbanization in the \;consoli dation of an \;understanding \;of \;what makes a \;city. It simultaneously marks the end of the inter-disciplinary research projec t of the same title (SNSF grant NGK2161) and launches a longer discussion about how urban life unfolds and change occurs\, and what generalizable notions we can draw from deep investigations of everyday life and specifi c changes to generate or revise theories of “the urban.”
\nBuil ding on three years of project work\, presentations from Goma (DRC)\, Joha nnesburg (RSA)\, and Cartagena (Columbia) will \;describe \;variou s \;processual characteristics of urbanity and urbanization \;thro ugh the analytical angles of: i) cultural and linguistic articulations\, i i) conventions of social inclusion and exclusion\, \; \;and iii)&n bsp\;architectural\, structural\, and institutional correspondences. Thes e analytical views provide the framework through which to investigate sam eness and difference in interactional ways of life (urbanity) and urban g rowth dynamics (urbanization) within each field site itself and across al l field sites. \;
\nIn \;comparing \;different everyday practices in these seemingly disparate cities\, we wish to \;overcome an impasse in current urban scholarship that fails to discuss the dialec tical relationship between structure and agency beyond a single field or case. Through such a comparison of the ways in which urbanity is continuo usly “in the making\,” we seek to connect the formation of urban soci al spaces (in their material\, social\, and cultural dimensions) to the i magination/conceptualisation of cities as wholes and multiples\, constitu ted beyond any single field or city. \;
\n< /span>The workshop will start with a presentation of five urba n ethnographies of ‘making’ (Ingold 2013) - a concept we utilise to u nderstand the ways the city comes into conceptual and material being. Clo sely linked to our mobilization of the concept of making is a focus on th e agency of different actors in the urban arena the everyday practices of encounter and distanciation in the production of urbanity. Each ethnogra phy presents different practices of encounter and distanciation that tra nsform the imagined and actual city as both a social and material place. Social fields of leisure and security as they occur in urban settings as varied as an arts center (Nielsen) and a former refugee camp (Herz) provi de some of the contexts in which these practices are discussed. The ethno graphic accounts will be followed by a group discussion on models or theo ries of comparison by which each case can enter in a theoretically genera tive dialogue with the others.
\nPresentations from:
Making Ca
rtagena (Silke Oldenburg)
Making Mugunga (Manuel Herz)
\nMak ing Johannesburg (Lotte Nielsen)
\nMaking Goma (Maren Larsen)
\n\ nAttendance is open to the public
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191115T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1237@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210205T110842 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191113T171500 SUMMARY:Job Amupanda\, Lesley Blaauw & André du Pisani: „No issues\, no spark? The Namibian Elections November 2019 and beyond“ DESCRIPTION:Round Table / Workshop on current Namibian and Southern African politics\, with Job Amupanda\, Lesley Blaauw & André du Pisani (Universi ty of Namibia)\\r\\nThe Namibian presidential and parliamentarian election s on 27 November 2019 seem to generate little interest amongst the elector ate. Are there no issues at stake\, has the social justice and social welf are landscape improved to the benefit of many? In this seminar we join lan d activist and political scientist Job Amupanda\, political studies profes sor Lesley Blaauw and veteran political analyst Andre du Pisani\, all from the University of Namibia\, in an open discussion on the forthcoming elec tions. Their presence in Basel is a timely opportunity to enhance our unde rstanding and discuss developments beyond the elections and of more paradi gmatic relevance for the whole of southern Africa. This seminar of the Nam ibian & Southern African Research Colloquium is organized by the Centre fo r African Studies (University of Basel) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographi en\, in collaboration with the Merian Institute for Advanced Stu-dies (MIA SA\, Accra) and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg i.B. \\r\\nContact: Dag Henrichsen (dh@baslerafrik a.ch [mailto:dh@baslerafrika.ch] / www.baslerafrika.ch [http://www.baslera frika.ch] )Giorgio Miescher (giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch [mailto:giorgio.mi escher@unibas.ch] / www.zasb.unibas.ch) \\r\\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Stud ies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium wel comes presentations and discussions relating to current research and se eks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels an d guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:Round Table / Workshop on current Namibian and Southern Afric an politics\, with Job Amupanda\, Lesley Blaauw &\; André du Pisani (U niversity of Namibia)
\nThe Namibian presidential and parliamentaria n elections on 27 November 2019 seem to generate little interest amongst t he electorate. Are there no issues at stake\, has the social justice and s ocial welfare landscape improved to the benefit of many? In this seminar w e join land activist and political scientist Job Amupanda\, political stud ies professor Lesley Blaauw and veteran political analyst Andre du Pisani\ , all from the University of Namibia\, in an open discussion on the forthc oming elections. Their presence in Basel is a timely opportunity to enhanc e our understanding and discuss developments beyond the elections and of m ore paradigmatic relevance for the whole of southern Africa. This seminar of the Namibian &\; Southern African Research Colloquium is organized b y the Centre for African Studies (University of Basel) and the Basler Afri ka Bibliographien\, in collaboration with the Merian Institute for Advance d Stu-dies (MIASA\, Accra) and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg i.B.
\nContact: Dag Henrichs en (dh@baslerafrika.ch / www.baslerafrika.ch )Giorgio Miescher (giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch / www.zasb.unibas.ch)
\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a fo rum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplina ry and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with partic ular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcomes presentatio ns and discussions relating to current research and seeks to en-gage yo ung and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welc ome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191113T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1254@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191108T180000 SUMMARY:‘Manhattans & Martinis’ with Kingdom Karuwo DESCRIPTION:‘Manhattans & Martinis’ is a meeting for discussion and exc hange. A member of the African Studies community will provide an impulse for discussion of selected theoretical\, methodological or technical conc erns encountered in their current research. We will jointly illuminate th e problems raised in a relaxed atmosphere.\\r\\nPlease register by email: james.merron@unibas.ch [mailto:james.merron@unibas.ch] / lorena.rizzo@uni bas.ch [mailto:lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch].\\r\\nFurther information: X-ALT-DESC: ‘Manhattans &\; Martinis’ is a meeting for discussion an d exchange. A member of the African Studies community will provide an imp ulse for discussion of selected theoretical\, methodological or technical concerns encountered in their current research. We will jointly illumina te the problems raised in a relaxed atmosphere.\nPlease register by email : james.merron@unibas.ch / lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch.\nFurth er information: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1216@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191108T173000 SUMMARY:Amanda Hammar: Speaking Through Houses - Interweaving Biography\, P roperty and Personhood in Urban Zimbabwe DESCRIPTION:Neither property nor personhood are uncontested concepts or sta tic empirical realities. Each term has its own contextual meanings shape d by specific yet changing historical\, spatial\, social\, cultural\, po litical and economic conditions. The Comaroffs have argued that African notions of personhood are ‘infinitely more complicated’ than the si ngular\, universalising and teleological Euro-American version of ’the autonomous individual’. Similarly\, property in many African and oth er global South settings is viewed as diverse\, dynamic and relational i n multiple senses. This lecture aims to reflect on the dynamic\, co-c onstitutive relationship between property and personhood through applyin g a relational (ethno)biographical approach to a particular building – in this case a specific house in the urban margins of Bulawayo\, Zimbab we – and the interconnected figures associated with it over four decad es\, including the researcher herself. It combines reflexive\, interwe aving ethnobiographies of the infrastructural and the socially intimate over time\, locating these within Zimbabwe’s shifting political\, econ omic and social landscapes since the late 1970 to the present. In doing so\, it offers insights into the (sometimes unexpected) ways in which pr operty and personhood in post-colonial settings are influenced by the co mplex intersections of race\, class and gender\, and displacement. \\r\ \nFlyer [https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/ethno logie/JJ_B_2019_Amanda_Hammar_MB_final.pdf]\\r\\nAmanda Hammar is Associat e Professor and Director of the Centre of African Studies\, University o f Copenhagen\, and current President of the European African Studies Ass ociation (AEGIS). Her book publications include Displacement Economies i n Africa (2014) and Zimbabwe’s Unfinished Business (2003). Her current research focus includes urban displacement and resettlement\, juxtaciti es\, and certifications of citizenship in Africa\\r\\nThe lecture will be followed by a reception (apéro). Everybody is welcome! X-ALT-DESC:Neither property nor personhood are uncontested concepts or s tatic empirical realities. Each term has its own contextual meanings sha ped by specific yet changing historical\, spatial\, social\, cultural\, political and economic conditions. The Comaroffs have argued that Africa n notions of personhood are ‘infinitely more complicated’ than the singular\, universalising and teleological Euro-American version of ’th e autonomous individual’. \; Similarly\, property in many African and other global South settings is viewed as diverse\, dynamic and relat ional in multiple senses. \;This lecture aims to reflect on the dyn amic\, co-constitutive relationship between property and personhood thro ugh applying a relational (ethno)biographical approach to a part icular building – in this case a specific house in the urban margins o f Bulawayo\, Zimbabwe – and the interconnected figures associated with it over four decades\, including the researcher herself. \; It comb ines reflexive\, interweaving ethnobiographies of the infrastructural an d the socially intimate over time\, locating these within Zimbabwe’s s hifting political\, economic and social landscapes since the late 1970 t o the present. In doing so\, it offers insights into the (sometimes unex pected) ways in which property and personhood in post-colonial settings are influenced by the complex intersections of race\, class and gender\, and displacement.
\n\nAmanda H ammar is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre of African S tudies\, University of Copenhagen\, and current President of the Europea n African Studies Association (AEGIS). Her book publications include Dis placement Economies in Africa (2014) and Zimbabwe’s Unfinished Business (2003). Her current research focus includes urban displacement and res ettlement\, juxtacities\, and certifications of citizenship in Africa
\nThe lecture will be followed by a reception (apéro). Everybody is we lcome!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1420@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191106T111500 SUMMARY:Genetics at the service of healthcare: what has race got to do with it? DESCRIPTION:Lecturer: Dr Henri Michel Yéré\, Centre for African Studies/S ociology/Universität Basel X-ALT-DESC:Lecturer: Dr Henri Michel Yéré\, Centre for African Studie s/Sociology/Universität Basel
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191106T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1280@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191102T200000 SUMMARY:Konzert: The Mill (ZA\, CH) DESCRIPTION:2018\, kurz nach einer berauschenden Ausgabe des Makanda Jazz F estivals\, trafen sich ehemalige und designierte Träger*innen des Young A rtist Awards mit ein paar verwegenen Bernern in der Roving Bantu Kitchen i n Brixton\, Johannesburg. Eine Woche wurde gejammt statt geschlafen\; als einziges Ruhekissen die leere Basshülle. Die facettenreiche Zusammenarbei t zwischen den schweizerischen und südafrikanischen Musikern soll in der Paarung zweier unterschiedlicher und doch scheinbar unähnlicher Welten ne ue Wege gehen: Ein Mischmasch aus üppigen Horn-Arrangements\, gefühlvoll en\, auf dem Klavier klirrenden Grooves\, und rasiermesserscharfen Gitarre numwandlungen. Diese Klänge verschmelzen zu einem Mbaqangaesque-Berne-Thi rd Stream-Gospel-Stil\, der die Momente des Jetzt ausdrückt. Das Kollekti v um den Trompeter und Komponisten Mandla Mlangeni spielt Musik aus der Fe der aller Mitglieder. \\r\\nLine-up:\\r\\nMandla Mlangeni (SA) - Trompete Yonela Mnana (SA) - Piano\, Rhodes\, GesangBenedikt Reising (CH) - Saxoph on\, BassklarinetteMatthias Wenger (CH) - Saxophon\, FlöteMarco Müller (CH) - BassChristoph Steiner (CH) - Schlagzeug\\r\\nInfo:\\r\\nFreies Thea ter Tempus fugit [https://www.fugit.de/#spielplan/6447]\\r\\nWeitere Konze rte:\\r\\n 8.11.2019 Bern BeJazz 12.1 1.2019 Zürich Kasheme 14.11.2019 Bie l La Voirie 15.11.2019 Burgdorf Fuchs & Specht X-ALT-DESC:2018\, kurz nach einer berauschenden Ausgabe des Makanda Jazz Festivals\, trafen sich ehemalige und designierte Träger*innen des Young Artist Awards mit ein paar verwegenen Bernern in der Roving Bantu Kitchen in Brixton\, Johannesburg. Eine Woche wurde gejammt statt geschlafen\; al s einziges Ruhekissen die leere Basshülle. Die facettenreiche Zusammenarb eit zwischen den schweizerischen und südafrikanischen Musikern soll in de r Paarung zweier unterschiedlicher und doch scheinbar unähnlicher Welten neue Wege gehen: Ein Mischmasch aus üppigen Horn-Arrangements\, gefühlvo llen\, auf dem Klavier klirrenden Grooves\, und rasiermesserscharfen Gitar renumwandlungen. Diese Klänge verschmelzen zu einem Mbaqangaesque-Berne-T hird Stream-Gospel-Stil\, der die Momente des Jetzt ausdrückt. Das Kollek tiv um den Trompeter und Komponisten Mandla Mlangeni spielt Musik aus der Feder aller Mitglieder. \;
\nMandla Mlangeni
(SA) - Trompete
Yonela Mnana (SA) - Piano\, Rhodes\, Gesang
Ben
edikt Reising (CH) - Saxophon\, Bassklarinette
Matthias Wenger (CH)
- Saxophon\, Flöte
Marco Müller (CH) - Bass
Christoph Steiner
(CH) - Schlagzeug
8.11.2019 | Bern | BeJazz |
12.11.2019 | Zürich | K asheme |
14.11.2019 | Biel | La Voirie |
15.11.2019 | Burgdorf | Fuchs &\; Specht |
Everything moves – people\, things and ideas – in predict able and unpredictable ways. The circulation of things\, ideas and people is not the monopoly of any particular group\, community or society. Mobili ty and circulation lead to encounters of various forms\, encounters that a re (re)defining in myriad ways. If people\, their things and their ideas c irculate\, it follows that their identities\, personal or collective\, mov e as well. And through encounters with others\, mobile people are constant ly having to navigate\, negotiate\, accommodate or reject difference (in t hings\, ideas\, practices and relations) in an open-ended manner that make s of them a permanent work in progress. No mobility or interaction with ot hers leaves anyone\, anything or any idea indifferent\, even if such inter actions are not always equal and do not always result in immediate\, palpa ble or tangible change. No encounter in mobility results in uncontested do mination or total passivity. Even as some may wilt completely in the face of domination\, some resist it fervently\, and others are able to navigate and negotiate the tensions and contradictions brought about by the realit y of domination in complex\, creative and innovative ways. Sometimes this holds potential for new and more convivial forms of identity\, practice an d relating.
\nTo revisit a debate such as that on ‘Africa and the Disciplines’\, is to afford ourselves the opportunity to use old questio ns as a springboard for exploring new ones. If Africa and the Disciplines was about interrogating the social production of knowledge\, the productio n process and those involved\, as well as the resources that make knowledg e production possible\, how does one draw on such dynamics to inform curre nt and persistent clamours for decolonisation of knowledge production and consumption globally\, and on and about Africa and Africans in particular\ , and especially in their complexities and mobilities? And how does one pr oceed with the understanding that increasingly\, African knowledge produce rs\, aware that the predicaments of those they research\, teach and publis h on are not discipline-bound or confined to a particular geographical spa ce\, and that doing justice to them requires working in teams\, within ins titutions and in local and global networks of cooperation\, as well as wit h stakeholders beyond the ivory tower?
\nIn view of the nimblefooted ness of being African and related considerations above\, and providing for the unboundedness of being\, becoming and belonging as Africans or otherw ise\, this address invites us to build on the debate on Africa and the Dis ciplines of the early 1990s\, by recognising and providing for a dispositi on of incompleteness that lends itself to convivial scholarship. Recurrent clamours for universities in Africa (and indeed\, elsewhere) to provide f or greater inclusivity\, are a continued reminder that\, although intended as convivial spaces par excellence\, universities are not as convivial in practice as one would expect. Equally unconvivial are processes of knowle dge production that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games o f absolute winners and losers. Disciplines tend to encourage introversion and emphasise the exclusionary fundamentalism of the heartland rather than the inclusionary overtures of the borderland. Frequenting the crossroads and frontier conversations are frowned upon\, if not prohibited. If and wh en allowed in principle\, inter-\, multi-and trans-disciplinary dispositio ns are more claimed than practised\, as scholars stick to their spots like leopards and quills like porcupines.
\nDespite our quest for disti nction through science and reason\, we scholars are equally as much creatu res of habit as those beyond the walls of the academy. Scarcity of convivi ality in universities\, among and within the disciplines\, and scholars su ggests that the production\, position in and consumption of knowledge are far from a neutral\, objective and disinterested process. It is socially a nd politically mediated by hierarchies of humanity (informed by with not c onfined to factors such as race\, geography\, ethnicity\, class\, gender\, sexuality and age) and human agency imposed by particular relations of po wer. Given the resilience of colonial education in Africa and among Africa ns\, endogenous traditions of knowledge popular across the continent\, do not receive the recognition and representation they deserve. Conviviality in knowledge production would entail not just seeking conversations and co llaboration with and across disciplines in the conventional sense but also \, and even more importantly\, the integration of sidestepped popular epis temologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Such schola rship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness as a necessary attribute of being\, from persons to disciplines and traditions of knowing and knowledge making.
\nFrancis B. Nyamnjoh is Pr ofessor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He earned h is BA and MA at the University of Yaounde\, Cameroon\, and his PhD (1990) at the University of Leicester\, UK. Before he joined the University of Ca pe Town in 2009 he served as Head of Publications at CODESRIA. Nyamnjoh ha s taught sociology\, anthropology and communication studies at universitie s in Cameroon and Botswana\, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana\, where he was awarded the “Senior Arts Researche r of the Year” prize for 2003. In October 2012 he received a University of Cape Town Excellence Award for “Exceptional Contribution as a Profess or in the Faculty of Humanities”. He is recipient of the “ASU African Hero 2013” annual award by the African Students Union\, Ohio University\ , USA\; of the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature\; and of the ASAUK 20 18 Fage &\; Oliver Prize for the best monograph for his book #Rhodes MustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa. His schol arly books include: Africa’s Media\, Democracy and the Politics of Be longing (2005)\; Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (2006)\; “C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme”: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire (2015)\; #Rhod esMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016)\; Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds< /i> (2017)\; Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought (2018)\; and The Rational Consumer: Bad for Business and Politics: De mocracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture (2018).
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1037@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191101T093000 SUMMARY:Conference: Africa and the Academy in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:The conference invites the speakers and audience to reflect on a classical work in the field of African Studies\, Africa and the Discipli nes [https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3684072.htm l] (V. Mudimbe\, R. Bates and J. O‘Barr 1993)\, but also consider the present and future of African Studies\, in particular in Switzerland.\\r\ \n25 years ago\, the conference “Africa and the Disciplines” and the l andmark publication that resulted from it\, asked for Africa‘s contribut ion to the disciplines. It showed the extent to which Africa as an apparen tly marginal field of study had already contributed to the emergence of ne w topics and ideas in the respective disciplines.The momentum created by t hese insights within broader academia was\, unjustifiably\, short lived. E specially so given that the study of Africa has not only contributed to th e development of the disciplines\; as an interdisciplinary field\, but has also changed the character of what once were separate disciplines and bro ught them closer together.Scholars became increasingly interested in the s paces between the disciplines. This interest\, which is usually cast in te rms of interdisciplinarity or transdisiciplinarity\, has bred a wide range of new and interesting studies with stimulating findings. Africa has crea ted new research fields that no longer fit into the existing disciplinary framework. This increasingly affects our view of what the social sciences and the humanities are about\, the topics that they will need to address i n the future and how these new fields shape our understanding of the acade mic landscape as a whole.\\r\\nStructure\\r\\nOver two days the conference will hold four interactive\, interdisciplinary plenary sessions. Each ses sion will begin with a 30-minute moderated “paired conversation” betwe en two scholars of a particular discipline. The choice of two “classic ” disciplines – Anthropology and History –\, and two “modern” in herently interdisciplinary disciplines\, Public Health and Urban Studies\, – reflects change in the field of African Studies.Each of the eight con versation partners was invited to reflect on a relevant chapter of the boo k Africa and the Disciplines\, as well as their own experience in academia as an Africanist: How has the field developed since they started. What ex periences have they had with non-Africanist colleague’s in academia who question the value of the study of Africa? What types of armour (intellect ual or otherwise) have they developed\, as a result?Immediately following the “paired conversation\,” to enhance the dynamic interactive and int erdisciplinary purpose of the conference\, the audience will be randomly d ivided into three to four breakout sessions where participants and panel s peakers will consolidate the introduced topics in a concentrated group dis cussion. At the end of each session the audience will reunite for a modera ted discussion in the plenary.\\r\\nPaired Conversation 1: Anthropology\\r \\nRita Kesselring (University of Basel) and Mwenda Ntarangwi (Calvin Coll ege) \\r\\nThe first plenary session\, which opens the conference\, will introduce two anthropologists who strongly explore political themes in and who apply transnational approaches to their research and writing. Bo th remain acutely aware of the controversial history of the field of ant hropology in doing so. However\, Kesselring and Mwenda Ntarangwi are of two separate generations of scholars\, exploring Africa from very differ ent positions in the world. \\r\\nPaired Conversation 2: Public Health\\r\ \nJakob Zinsstag (Swiss Tropic and Public Health Institute) and Mandisa Mb ali (University of Cape Town) \\r\\nThe plenary session beginning with a c onversation on public health brings two scholars with a strong track in transdisciplinary research in conversation with one another. Mandisa Mb ali’s work has a strong historical focus tying her work to activism\, wheras Jakob Zinsstag’s emphasis has been specifically in collaborating with health practitioners on the continent. \\r\\nPaired Conversation 3 : History\\r\\nJulia Tischler (University of Basel) and Ruramisai Charumbi ra (University of Bern) \\r\\nThe plenary session starting with a discussi on on history brings together two scholars of southern Africa who have c entred the category of “race” in their work in different ways. Both have also started to contribute to the globalisation of African history. However\, whereas Julia Tischler’s work has been shaped by comparativ e global history\, Ruramisai Charumbira has looked to indigenous knowled ges for their potential to inspire inclusive historical writing that fee ls true to a growing number of scholars in the field. \\r\\nPaired Conve rsation 4: Urban Studies\\r\\nDalila Ghodbane (Università della Svizzera Italiana) and Berend van der Lans (African Architecture Matters)\\r\\nThis plenary session shall start bridging the complex perspectives of Urban planning on the African continent\, regarded as the world’s fastest ur banizing region. Architect Berend van der Lans\, has already a solid exp erience through the numerous associations and educational projects that have pioneered in documenting the recent positionality of African archit ecture and political relevance in academia. Dalila’s field work in the Middle East and now in Northern Africa has a poignant focus on how micr oclimates and anthropological behaviours have crucial impacts on the qua lity of a healthy and sustainable city\, fit for future generations. Thi s joint panel discussion will be a keystone platform to explore how all the pending factors of urban planning can and should positively activate the new directions of safer\, smarter and efficient urban environments. \\r\\nKeynote address: Decolonising the Academy - a Case for Convivial Sc holarship\\r\\nOn the evening of the first day of the conference\, Franci s Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town)\, who has engaged extensively with the development of Social Science research in Africa\, will present the Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2019.\\r\\n\\r\\nRecurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa\, and elsewhere\, to imbibe and e xude a spirit of inclusivity are a continual reminder that universities ca n and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge production th at champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games of absolute winner s and losers are elitist and un-convivial. Academic disciplines tend to en courage introversion and emphasise the exclusionary fundamentalism of the heartland rather than highlight the inclusionary overtures of the borderla nd. Frequenting crossroads and engaging in frontier conversations are frow ned upon\, if not prohibited. The scarcity of conviviality in universities \, within and between disciplines\, and among scholars suggests that the p osition in and production and consumption of knowledge are far from neutra l\, objective\, and disinterested processes. They are socially and politic ally mediated by webs of humanity\, hierarchies of power\, and instances o f human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education in Africa and a mong Africans\, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely recogined an d grossly underrepresented. Conviviality in knowledge production would ent ail not just seeking conversations and collaboration with and across disci plines in the conventional sense but also the integration of sidestepped p opular epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Such scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incomple teness as a necessary attribute of being\, from persons to disciplines and traditions of knowing and knowledge making.\\r\\nFinal Plenary Session\\r \\n\\r\\nA final wrap-up session moderated by Didier Péclard (Universit é de Genève) will bring together all four external guests to look back on the two days of conversation. \\r\\nOrganising Committee:\\r\\nCassand ra Mark-Thiesen (University of Basel)Carole Ammann (SNSF-Postdoc / Univers ity of Bern)Fiona Siegenthaler (University of Basel)Christelle Favre (Univ ersity of Basel)Solange Mbanefo (University of Basel)Alice Aterianus (Univ ersité de Lausanne)Matthieu Bolay (Graduate Institute Geneva)Wilfred Eleg ba (Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute\, Accra)\\r\\ nRegistration\\r\\nPlease register online [https://forms.gle/vtLBqmyunxPSn 5nY8] before 19 October 2019. X-ALT-DESC:The conference invites the speakers and audience to reflect o n a classical work in the field of African Studies\, Africa and the Disciplines (V. Mudimbe\, R. Bates and J. O‘Barr 1993)\, but also consider the present and future of African Studies\, in particular in Sw itzerland.
\n25 years ago\, the conference “Africa and the Discipl
ines” and the landmark publication that resulted from it\, asked for Afr
ica‘s contribution to the disciplines. It showed the extent to which Afr
ica as an apparently marginal field of study had already contributed to th
e emergence of new topics and ideas in the respective disciplines.
The momentum created by these insights within broader academia was\, u
njustifiably\, short lived. Especially so given that the study of Africa h
as not only contributed to the development of the disciplines\; as an inte
rdisciplinary field\, but has also changed the character of what once were
separate disciplines and brought them closer together.
Scholar
s became increasingly interested in the spaces between the disciplines. Th
is interest\, which is usually cast in terms of interdisciplinarity or tra
nsdisiciplinarity\, has bred a wide range of new and interesting studies w
ith stimulating findings. Africa has created new research fields that no l
onger fit into the existing disciplinary framework. This increasingly affe
cts our view of what the social sciences and the humanities are about\, th
e topics that they will need to address in the future and how these new fi
elds shape our understanding of the academic landscape as a whole.
Over two days the conference will hold four interacti
ve\, interdisciplinary plenary sessions. Each session will begin with a 30
-minute moderated “paired conversation” between two scholars of a part
icular discipline. The choice of two “classic” disciplines – Anthrop
ology and History –\, and two “modern” inherently interdisciplinary
disciplines\, Public Health and Urban Studies\, – reflects change in the
field of African Studies.
Each of the eight conversation partn
ers was invited to reflect on a relevant chapter of the book Africa and th
e Disciplines\, as well as their own experience in academia as an Africani
st: How has the field developed since they started. What experiences have
they had with non-Africanist colleague’s in academia who question the va
lue of the study of Africa? What types of armour (intellectual or otherwis
e) have they developed\, as a result?
Immediately following the
“paired conversation\,” to enhance the dynamic interactive and interd
isciplinary purpose of the conference\, the audience will be randomly divi
ded into three to four breakout sessions where participants and panel spea
kers will consolidate the introduced topics in a concentrated group discus
sion. At the end of each session the audience will reunite for a moderated
discussion in the plenary.
Rita Kesselring (University of Basel) and Mwenda Ntarangwi (Cal vin College)
\nThe first plenary session\, which opens the conf erence\, will introduce two anthropologists who strongly explore politic al themes in and who apply transnational approaches to their research an d writing. Both remain acutely aware of the controversial history of the field of anthropology in doing so. However\, Kesselring and Mwenda Nta rangwi are of two separate generations of scholars\, exploring Africa fr om very different positions in the world.
\nJakob Zinsstag (Swiss Tropic and Public Health Institute) and Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town)
\nThe p lenary session beginning with a conversation on public health brings two scholars with a strong track in transdisciplinary research in conversat ion with one another. Mandisa Mbali’s work has a strong historical foc us tying her work to activism\, wheras Jakob Zinsstag’s emphasis has b een specifically in collaborating with health practitioners on the conti nent.
\nJulia Tischler (University of Basel) and Ruramisai Charumbira (University of Bern) \n
The plenary session starting with a discussion on history brings together two scholars of southern Africa who have centred the category o f “race” in their work in different ways. Both have also started to contribute to the globalisation of African history. However\, whereas Ju lia Tischler’s work has been shaped by comparative global history\, Ru ramisai Charumbira has looked to indigenous knowledges for their potenti al to inspire inclusive historical writing that feels true to a growing number of scholars in the field.
\nDalila Ghodbane (Università della Svizzera Italiana) an d Berend van der Lans (African Architecture Matters)
\nThis plen ary session shall start bridging the complex perspectives of Urban plann ing on the African continent\, regarded as the world’s fastest urbaniz ing region. Architect Berend van der Lans\, has already a solid experien ce through the numerous associations and educational projects that have pioneered in documenting the recent positionality of African architectur e and political relevance in academia. Dalila’s field work in the Midd le East and now in Northern Africa has a poignant focus on how microclim ates and anthropological behaviours have crucial impacts on the quality of a healthy and sustainable city\, fit for future generations. This joi nt panel discussion will be a keystone platform to explore how all the pending factors of urban planning can and should positively activate the new directions of safer\, smarter and efficient urban environments.
\nOn the evening of the first day of the conference\, Francis Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town)\, who has engaged extensively with the development of Social Science research in Africa\, will presen t the Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2019.
\n\nRecurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa\, and elsewhere\, to imb ibe and exude a spirit of inclusivity are a continual reminder that univer sities can and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge prod uction that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games of absolu te winners and losers are elitist and un-convivial. Academic disciplines t end to encourage introversion and emphasise the exclusionary fundamentalis m of the heartland rather than highlight the inclusionary overtures of the borderland. Frequenting crossroads and engaging in frontier conversations are frowned upon\, if not prohibited. The scarcity of conviviality in uni versities\, within and between disciplines\, and among scholars suggests t hat the position in and production and consumption of knowledge are far fr om neutral\, objective\, and disinterested processes. They are socially an d politically mediated by webs of humanity\, hierarchies of power\, and in stances of human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education in Afr ica and among Africans\, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely rec ogined and grossly underrepresented. Conviviality in knowledge production would entail not just seeking conversations and collaboration with and acr oss disciplines in the conventional sense but also the integration of side stepped popular epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Such scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness as a necessary attribute of being\, from persons to discip lines and traditions of knowing and knowledge making.
\nA final wrap-up session moderated by Didier Péclard (Université de Genève) will bring together all four external guests to look back on the two days of conversation.
\nPlease register online before 19 October 2019.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191102T171500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1299@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101712 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191030T181500 SUMMARY:Justo Bolekia: La lengua Bubi: resistencia\, rehabilitación y empo deramiento DESCRIPTION:Zu Gast kommt Prof. Dr. Justo Bolekia Boleká aus Äquatorialgu inea\, aktuell Professor an der Universidad de Salamanca\\r\\nTeil der Vor lesungsreihe «Visibilizar lo invisible: lenguas indígenas del mundo iber orrománico» [https://iberoromanistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/event/details /visibilizar-lo-invisible-lenguas-indigenas-del-mundo-iberorromanico/]\\r\ \nKontakt: sandra.schlumpf@unibas.ch [mailto:sandra.schlumpf@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Zu Gast kommt Prof. Dr. Justo Bolekia Boleká aus Äquatorial guinea\, aktuell Professor an der Universidad de Salamanca
\nTeil de
r Vorlesungsreihe «Visibilizar lo invisible: lenguas indígenas del mundo ibe
rorrománico»
Kontakt: sandra.schlumpf@unibas.ch
\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1243@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T174816 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191030T181500 SUMMARY:Tanja Hammel & Lindie Koorts: Recent Trends in Historical Biography Studies in/on Southern Africa DESCRIPTION:Tanja Hammel (University of Basel) and Lindie Koorts (Universit y of the Free State)\\r\\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular refe rence to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcomes presentations and discu ssions relating to current research and seeks to engage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:Tanja Hammel (University of Basel) and Lindie Koorts (Univer sity of the Free State)
\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplina ry and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particula r reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to engage young and up coming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191030T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1192@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191019T203000 SUMMARY:Concert: Nduduzo Makhathini’s New Trilogy DESCRIPTION:Ndudzo Makhathini sieht sich in der Tradition der südafrikanis chen Heiler und setzt auf die heilenden Kräfte der Musik.Auf der Suche n ach den Melodien\, die Harmonie\, Heilung und Hoffnung bringen\, nimmt er sein Publikum auf eine Reise ins Innerste der Seele mit. Sein in Basel a ufgenommenes Album «Inner Dimensions» wurde 2017 in Südafrika als best es Jazzalbum ausgezeichnet. Mit Dominic Egli und Kaspar von Gruenigen be gleiten zwei feinfühlige\, dynamische Musiker den grandiosen Pianisten.\ \r\\nÖffnungszeiten: 19.45 bis ca. 23.30 UhrLive Musik 20.30 bis ca.22.45 Uhr (Sets um 20.30 und 21.45 Uhr)Eintritt pro Set CHF 12.— / 8.—www.b irdseye.ch X-ALT-DESC: Ndudzo Makhathini sieht sich in der Tradition der südafrika nischen Heiler und setzt auf die heilenden Kräfte der Musik.The forum will critically engage with different approaches to development and discuss discourses and structural conditions that frame d evelopment cooperation. A particular focus is on the Sustainable Developme nt Goals (SDGs) of the UN’s Agenda 2030\, currently the most important i nternational development framework.
\nSpecific projects and organis ations will serve as cases to take a close look at how development coopera tion works with regards to three dimensions: gender\, religion and sustain ability. The presentations will be followed by a round table discussion wi th all speakers.
\nLucy Koechl
in\, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology\,
Unive
rsity of Basel
Hafid Derbal\, Programme coordi
nator South Africa and Zimbabwe\, terre des hommes schweiz
Geor
g Felber\, Senior Advisor Value
Chain &\; Market Development\, He
lvetas
Yakubu Joseph\, Coordinator Nigeria\, Mission 21
Elísio Macamo\, Professor of African Studies at the Institute of Soci
ology\, University of Basel
Regular fe
e: CHF 50
Reduced/students: CHF 25
FU LLY BOOKED
\nafricaforum@unibas.ch \;
+4
1 61 207 34 82
www.zasb.unibas.ch/en /forum
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191018T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1236@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191016T181500 SUMMARY:Raffaele Perniola: "Chugu chugu says the black train” – Remembe ring the railway in Namibia DESCRIPTION:Raffaele Perniola (University of Basel)\\r\\nThe Research Collo quium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to e ngage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern Afri can Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloqu ium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all leve ls and guests are welcome. X-ALT-DESC:Raffaele Perniola (University of Basel)
\nThe Research Colloquium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Co lloquium welcomes presentations and discussions relating to current rese arch and seeks to en-gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191016T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1228@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191016T161500 SUMMARY:Rita Kesselring: Bricks\, Caretakers and Reciprocity: House- and ho me-making in urbanising Northwestern Zambia DESCRIPTION:Wednesday Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology Ba sel - Current Research and Debates X-ALT-DESC:Wednesday Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology Bas el - Current Research and Debates DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191016T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1200@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191011T203000 SUMMARY:Concert: Jazzcampus Big Band feat. Adrian Mears (ld) & Carlo Mombel li DESCRIPTION:The Big Band of the Jazzcampus Basel presents the results of a week's project studying the music of Carlo Mombelli (Johannesburg).\\r\\nD oor opens at 20:00\\r\\nInfo: www.jazzcampus.com [https://www.jazzcampus.c om/de/events/club/konzert-191011.html]\\r\\nInzwischen ist Carlo Mombelli ein vertrauter Name in Basel\, war er doch mehrmals im bird's eye und im Jazzcampus Club mit eigenen Bands\, aber auch mit Studierenden zu hören. Der südafrikanische\, 1960 in Pretoria geborene Bassist arbeitete mit s o namhaften Musikerinnen und Musikern wie Barbara Dennerlein\, Mick Good rick\, Charlie Mariano\, Egberto Gismonti\, Adrian Mears\, Lee Konitz\, M arcus Wyatt\, Malcolm Braff\, Samuel Blaser oder Miriam Makeba und trat a uch auf dem renommierten Moers Festival auf. All About Jazz (NY) schrieb sinngemäss über ihn\, er sei so etwas wie eine weise Figur\, während e r sich 2020 seinem 60. Geburtstag nähere\, einem Alter\, in dem viele Mu siker ihre Komfortzone gefunden und sich darin niedergelassen hätten\, b leibe er eine der unruhigsten und kreativsten Kräfte im südafrikanische n Jazz.\\r\\nAdrian Mears\, 1969 in Australien geboren\, zählt längst w eltweit zu den festen Grössen. "Trotz beeindruckender technischen Komple ttheit ist es die musikalische Erfindungsgabe\, gepaart mit einem grossen Sound\, die Posaunistenkollegen zu supelativischen Äusserungen über ih n bewegen\," vermerkt das Rowohlt-Jazzlexikon schon Anfang der Nullerjahr e. Nebst all seinen Auftritten in Basel wirkt er hier seit 18 Jahren als Dozent und seit 2008 als Professor für Posaune und Gehörbildung an der Hochschule für Musik FHNW. Er schrieb rund 380 Kompositionen für versch iedenste (auch klassische) Besetzungen und leitet auch die Jazzcampus Big Band.\\r\\n"Angels and Demons": Reaching beyond the edge of wrong\, searc hing for the beauty between my Angels and Demons: An der engagierten und i n jeder Hinsicht einnehmenden Arbeit Carlo Mombellis mit Bands und Gruppe n Studierender durfte man sich in Basel schon oft freuen\, und es wird\, daran besteht kein Zweifel\, auch diesmal so sein: Während der Projektwo che erarbeitet Carlo Mombelli mit Studierenden ein Programm mit eigenen K ompositionen\, die er in einem sicherlich wiederum emotional bewegenden S et auf die Bühne bringen wird.\\r\\nFür die andere Hälfte des Abends ar rangiert Adrian Mears Musik Carlo Mombellis für die Jazzcampus Big Band. Wer die raffinierten Mears'schen Adaptionen verschiedenster Kompositione n für grosse und kleine Bands\, ihre Umsetzung für die Bühne kennt und im Konzert miterlebt hat\, wird auch diesmal berührt sein – zumal der Australier ebenso wie der Südafrikaner selbst Teil der Band sein werden .\\r\\n Line-up Jazzcampus Big Band: Charlotte Lang\, Niels Pasquier\, Ma x Treutner\, Raphael Skoda\, Chico Macedo (sax)\, Gergö Szax\, Noah Eier mann\, Tobias Schneider\, Lam Dan Nguyen (tp)\, Moritz Renner\, Ferdinand Silberg\, Adrian King (tb)\, Jonas Inglin (btb)\, Tian Long Li (harm)\, Samuele Sorana (g)\, Mauricio Silva (p)\, Jean-Noël Gos (b)\, Lucas John son (dr). Barbetrieb ab 20:00\\r\\nEintritt frei\\r\\nInfo: www.jazzcamp us.com [https://www.jazzcampus.com/de/events/club/konzert-191011.html] X-ALT-DESC: The Big Band of the Jazzcampus Basel presents the results of a week's project studying the music of Carlo Mombelli (Johannesburg).\nDoor opens at 20:00\nInfo:www.j azzcampus.com\nInzwischen ist Carlo Mombelli ein vertrauter Na me in Basel\, war er doch mehrmals im bird's eye und im Jazzcampus Club m it eigenen Bands\, aber auch mit Studierenden zu hören. Der südafrikani sche\, 1960 in Pretoria geborene Bassist arbeitete mit so namhaften Musik erinnen und Musikern wie Barbara Dennerlein\, Mick Goodrick\, Charlie Mar iano\, Egberto Gismonti\, Adrian Mears\, Lee Konitz\, Marcus Wyatt\, Malc olm Braff\, Samuel Blaser oder Miriam Makeba und trat auch auf dem renomm ierten Moers Festival auf. All About Jazz (NY) schrieb sinngemäss über ihn\, er sei so etwas wie eine weise Figur\, während er sich 2020 seinem 60. Geburtstag nähere\, einem Alter\, in dem viele Musiker ihre Komfort zone gefunden und sich darin niedergelassen hätten\, bleibe er eine der unruhigsten und kreativsten Kräfte im südafrikanischen Jazz.\nAdrian Mears\, 1969 in Australien geboren\, zählt längst weltweit zu den festen Grössen. "\;Trotz beeindruckender technischen Komplettheit is t es die musikalische Erfindungsgabe\, gepaart mit einem grossen Sound\, die Posaunistenkollegen zu supelativischen Äusserungen über ihn bewegen \,"\; vermerkt das Rowohlt-Jazzlexikon schon Anfang der Nullerjahre. Nebst all seinen Auftritten in Basel wirkt er hier seit 18 Jahren als Doz ent und seit 2008 als Professor für Posaune und Gehörbildung an der Hoc hschule für Musik FHNW. Er schrieb rund 380 Kompositionen für verschied enste (auch klassische) Besetzungen und leitet auch die Jazzcampus Big Ba nd.\n"\;Angels and Demons"\;: Reaching beyond the edge o f wrong\, searching for the beauty between my Angels and Demons:‘Manhattans &\; Martinis’ is a meeting for discussion and exchange. A member of the African Studies community will provide an i mpulse for discussion of selected theoretical\, methodological or technica l concerns encountered in their current research. We will jointly illumina te the problems raised in a relaxed atmosphere.
\nPlease register by email: james.merron@unibas.ch / lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch.
\nFurther information:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1242@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191009T180000 SUMMARY:Julia Rensing: Tracing Places – In Search of Frauenstein and its Reinvention in André Brink’s Fiction DESCRIPTION:Julia Rensing (University of Basel)\\r\\nThe Research Colloquiu m aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Stud ies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcom es presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to engage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests a re welcome. X-ALT-DESC:Julia Rensing (University of Basel)
\nThe Research Coll
oquium aims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to en
gage in cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African
Studies\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium w
elcomes presentations and discussions relating to current research and see
ks to engage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and gue
sts are welcome.
Acephalous societies (ἀκέφαλος\, “headless”) wer e a prominent concept of British anthropology. Evans-Pritchard’s work o n the Nuer and Fortes’ on the Tallensi introduced the concept to anthro pology. At the time\, foraging societies were known as having no central political organisation\, presumably representing the ‘oldest of human h istory’. But most colonial officers assumed that pastoralists as the N uer and agriculturalists as the Tallensi would unavoidably have headmen o r some other form of centralised social organisation. That big settlement s and large areas were “ungoverned” and acephalous challenged colonia l thinking.
\nAs a concept\, ‘acephalous’ had been a tremendo us success. From anthropology\, it moved into disciplines such as politic al science and archaeology. It seemed to provide a reliable analytical fr amework to study systems of checks and balances that kept conflicts and e ventually violence at bay. That these checks and balances were stable was taken for granted – and their stability was often projected on the pas t\, assuming that acephalous societies had existed in precolonial times a s they had been described and analysed in the 20th century: If you know what an acephalous society is\, then you also know what it is t o have an acephalous society under colonial domination.
\nHowever \, the land of the Nuer became one of the most brutal battlefields that t he continent has ever seen. One may deduce from this assessment that such systems of checks and balances owed their stability more to the overarch ing power of the colonial state than to their own capacities to settle co nflicts. And the Tallensi may still be a peaceful acephalous society beca use the Ghanaian state is comparatively strong and able to sustain their social organisation from above. So\, what is the concept of acephalous so cieties good for? And what does the fate of acephalous social orders tell us about the longue durée in Africa and elsewhere?
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191002T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1226@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101832 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190925T161500 SUMMARY:Barbara Heer: Cities of Entanglements. Johannesburg and Maputo thro ugh Ethnographic Comparison DESCRIPTION:How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? Thi s was the key question guiding Barbara Heer on the journey of her PhD pro ject (2010-2015) at the Institute of Social Anthropology. Her dissertatio n appears now in September 2019 in monograph format with Transcript. T his comparative ethnography set in Maputo and Johannesburg aims to presen t a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a towns hip and in a suburb in Johannesburg\, in a bairro and in an elite neigh borhood in Maputo\, the book includes case studies of relations between d omestic workers and their employers\, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods\, and entanglements emerging in religious s paces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-ba sed method\, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropolo gy\, comparative urbanism and urban studies. X-ALT-DESC: How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This was the key question guiding Barbara Heer on the journey of her PhD project (2010-2015) at the Institute of Social Anthropology. Her diss ertation appears now in September 2019 in monograph format with Transcrip t. The Visual History Lab at the Centre for African Studies tak
es place yearly. It is a learning format\, which allows students to spend
one week working intensively on a particular topic. The lab ends with a
public event\, which students organise themselves.
The Visual Histor
y Lab 2019 is concerned with the William Kentridge exhibition at the Muse
um of Contemporary Art (Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel\, which is
on show between June and October 2019. William Kentridge is one of the mo
st renowned and internationally recognised South African visual artists.<
br />We will explore how 20th century South African history is addressed
in Kentridge’s oeuvre\, and situate him as an artist in the politics an
d aesthetics of South African artistic production\, a critical domain in
which questions of race\, class and gender are negotiated in exciting and
often provocative ways. Likewise\, a Kentridge show in Basel will provi
de the opportunity to discuss if and how his art speaks to audiences in h
ere\, and in what ways the exhibition might invite us to think about the
arts\, race\, class and gender in a Basel context.
Hintergrund
Neue Migrationskirchen bereichern sei
t geraumer Zeit das kirchliche Spektrum sowohl der Schweiz als auch Deutsc
hlands. Sie bilden unterschiedliche Gemeinde- und Kirchenformen\, ihre Gr
ündungsgeschichten sind vielfältig und ihre ökumenischen Interessen sin
d oft schwer fassbar. Mitunter gehen sie enge Wechselbeziehungen mit lokal
etablierten Kirchen ein\, während andere sich eher abschotten oder straf
fere Beziehungsnetze mit anderen Migrationskirchen und internationalen Meg
akirchen knüpfen. Die Tagung nimmt Migrationskirchen als heterogene Akteu
rinnen wahr\, die ihre je eigenen Kirchenformate\, theologischen Linien od
er auch Themenkomplexe in hiesige Diskurse einbringen. Sie öffnen so Kont
akträume des globalen Christentums.
Die Tagung
In Hau
ptvorträgen\, Diskussionsforen\, Panelplattformen und workshopartigen Beg
egnungen werden interkulturell-theologische Fragestellungen\, kirchliche N
etzwerke und mögliche ökumenische Horizonte beleuchtet\, die sich aus bi
sherigen Erfahrungen des Einlebens von Migrationskirchen in lokale Kirchen
landschaften ergeben.
Während der Tagung werden Leitfragen zu mi
grationskirchlichen Schwerpunktverschiebungen theologischer\, kirchlicher\
, gesellschaftspolitischer Art in deutschen oder schweizerischen Kontexten
nachgegangen. Die Tagung an der Universität Basel wird angeboten vom Fac
hbereich Aussereuropäisches Christentum und dem Reformierten Pfarramt fü
r weltweite Kirche Basel-Stadt / Baselland. Insbesondere greift die Tagung
zurück auf Erfahrungen und Zukunftsperspektiven\, die sich im Rahmen des
universitären Weiterbildungsangebots eines CAS „Interkulturelle Theolo
gie und Migration“ ergeben haben\, der auf langjährigen Kooperationsbez
iehungen mit verschiedenen Schweizer Kantonalkirchen beruht.
Dadurch
sind seit einigen Jahren vielfältige vertrauensvolle Beziehungen mit Mitg
liedern unterschiedlicher Migrationskirchen in der Schweiz gewachsen. Die
Tagung wird finanziell unterstützt von der Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirch
e Basel-Stadt\, der Reformierten Kirche Baselland und der Evangelischen La
ndeskirche in Württemberg.
Anmeldung
Es besteht die M
öglichkeit\, am Sonntag 08. September die Gottesdienste einiger Migration
skirchen zu besuchen. Bitte vermerken Sie diesen Wunsch in Ihrer Anmeldung
. Die daran anschliessende zweitägige Tagung kann jedoch auch unabhängig
davon gewinnbringend besucht werden.
Anmeldung an: Fachbe
reich Aussereuropäisches Christentum\, Anna Kühleis: anna.kuehleis@unibas.ch
Tagungsteilnahme
: CHF 20\, Anmeldeschluss: 25. August 2019
Presentation by p articipants of the field course 2018/19
\nStudents who participated in the guided field course to Bu rkina Faso for a six-weeks field research present their research finding s. The presentations will be followed by an Apéro. All welcome!
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190522T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1045@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190522 SUMMARY:Workshop: Refashioning Collaboration DESCRIPTION:We are interested in thinking about collaboration as a particul ar modality of research and scholarship. A proposition formulated by David Scott serves as a framework for the conversations during the workshop. Re assessing the role of criticism\, Scott expresses a deep discomfort with t he authoritative postures of critical thinking – its will to power\, its presumption of truth telling\, its masculinist and imperial arrogance – and with a model of scholarship as solitary endeavour\, the exercise of a singular\, sovereign and penetrating mind excavating the roots of social ills. Scott proposes the idea of friendship as an alternative model of thi nking\, one that is inherently dialogical and collaborative\, and one that works less in the direction of truth than of clarification. What friends do with each other\, Scott tells us\, is to clarify matters of mutual conc ern. Friendship as a condition and context of reflective scholarly thinkin g depends on an ongoing provisional and recursive practice assembled\, not ably\, out of both speaking and listening. Friends are not only speaking b ut also listening selves. And listening is indispensable for clarification . Friends\, understood in this way\, are those who are able to cultivate a practice of listening as a dimension of thinking in each other’s milieu . X-ALT-DESC:We are interested in thinking about collaboration as a partic ular modality of research and scholarship. A proposition formulated by Dav id Scott serves as a framework for the conversations during the workshop. Reassessing the role of criticism\, Scott expresses a deep discomfort with the authoritative postures of critical thinking – its will to power\, i ts presumption of truth telling\, its masculinist and imperial arrogance – and with a model of scholarship as solitary endeavour\, the exercise o f a singular\, sovereign and penetrating mind excavating the roots of soci al ills. Scott proposes the idea of friendship as an alternative mo del of thinking\, one that is inherently dialogical and collaborative\, an d one that works less in the direction of truth than of clarification. What friends do with each other\, Scott tells us\, is to clarify matte rs of mutual concern. Friendship as a condition and context of reflective scholarly thinking depends on an ongoing provisional and recursive practic e assembled\, notably\, out of both speaking and listening. Friends are not only speaking but also listening selves. And listening is indispe nsable for clarification. Friends\, understood in this way\, are those who are able to cultivate a practice of listening as a dimension of thinking in each other’s milieu.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news900@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T101950 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190522T000000 SUMMARY:Publikumsgespräche: Ägypten / Kamerun. Öffentliche Räume als Re sonanzkörper der Politik. Eine Ton-Bild Installation DESCRIPTION:Die Veranstaltung öffnet sich der Frage\, wie der öffentliche Raum in Ägypten und Kamerun für die Verlautbarung (buchstäblich) von Politiken genutzt wird. Politik verstanden als eine Vermittlung und Verha ndlung – friedlich\, konsensuell\, gewalttätig – von Vorstellungen über die aktuelle und insbesondere zukünftige Ausgestaltung des Staats. Die Veranstaltung baut auf zwei verschiedenen Ton- und Bildquellen auf.\\ r\\nDas Format der Veranstaltung besteht aus einer Ton-Bild Installation in Quadrophonie von Stéphane Montavon und verschiedenen Tonstationen mit einer Auswahl der digitalisierten Musikstücke aus dem Archiv von Joachi m Oelsner. Dazu kommen historische Filme aus den 1960er Jahren aus Kameru n. Anschliessend\, nachdem die Besucher die Installationen gesehen und ge hört haben\, findet ein Gespräch mit Montavon und Oelsner unter Einbezu g des Publikums statt. \\r\\nDie Veranstaltung wird kuratiert und moderier t von Jürg Schneider. Jürg Schneider (juerg.schneider@unibas.ch [mailto: juerg.schneider@unibas.ch]) ist affiliated researcher am Zentrum für Af rikastudien der Universität Basel und Mitgründer von African Photograph y Initiatives (african-photography-initiatives.org [http://african-photogr aphy-initiatives.org]).\\r\\nSerie: Raum – Espace\\r\\nDatu m: 22.\, 24. und 25 Mai 2019.\\r\\n Publikumsgespräche am M ittwoch 22. und Samstag 25. Mai 2019\, 18-20 Uhr\; Veranstaltungsraum ge öffnet am Mittwoch 22. Mai\, Freitag 24. Mai sowie Samstag 25. Mai\, jew eils von 15 bis 20 Uhr. \\r\\nMehr Infos: Publikumsgespräche Ägypten / Kamerun X-ALT-DESC: Die Veranstaltung öffnet sich der Frage\, wie der öffentliche Raum in Ägypten und Kamerun für die Verlautbarung (buchstäblich) von Politiken genutzt wird. Politik verstanden als eine Vermittlung und Verha ndlung – friedlich\, konsensuell\, gewalttätig – von Vorstellungen über die aktuelle und insbesondere zukünftige Ausgestaltung des Staats. Die Veranstaltung baut auf zwei verschiedenen Ton- und Bildquellen auf.\n Das Format der Veranstaltung besteht aus einer Ton-Bild Installation in Q uadrophonie von Stéphane Montavon und verschiedenen Tonstationen mit ein er Auswahl der digitalisierten Musikstücke aus dem Archiv von Joachim Oe lsner. Dazu kommen historische Filme aus den 1960er Jahren aus Kamerun. A nschliessend\, nachdem die Besucher die Installationen gesehen und gehör t haben\, findet ein Gespräch mit Montavon und Oelsner unter Einbezug de s Publikums statt. \nDie Veranstaltung wird kuratiert und moderiert von J ürg Schneider. Jürg Schneider (juerg.schneider@unibas.ch) \;ist affiliated researcher am Zentr um für Afrikastudien der Universität Basel und Mitgründer von African Photography Initiatives (african-photography-initiatives.org).\nSerie: Raum – Espace\nDatum: 22.\, 24. und 25 Mai 2019.\nIn Zusammenarbeit mit SGAS Schweizerische Gesellschaft für A frikastudien\, Centre for African Studies der Universität Basel\, den Bas ler Afrika Bibliographien und dem Völkerkunde Museum der Universität Zü rich
\nThis workshop brings together the interested public\, student s\, Swiss and Namibian curators and heritage practitioners. It focuses in general on the lively restitution debates on (African) cultural heritage in African and northern/western (museum) collections. In Switzerland\, t hese debates continue to receive a low priority in the (art) museum secto r. The workshop takes Namibian cultural heritage as housed in Swiss inst itutions as a case study. In joint sessions with Namibian professionals f rom the Namibian Museums Association (Jeremy Silvester) and the Universit y of Namibia (Martha Akawa)\, the following themes and topics will be add ress and discussed: Where is Namibian cultural heritage to be found in Sw iss collections and how have these heritage collection been acquired and are curated? What is provenance research? What is restitution and how are museums collaboration and restitution processes\, including the repatria tion of cultural heritage\, initiated and facilitated?
\nDownloa d:Flyer (pdf)
\nVisit of Swiss Museums by the Namibian
participants\, 9th and 10th May 2019
The Namibian guests visit mu
seums in Berne and Zürich where they will meet for talks with the respon
sible curators and directors.
Further information:SAGW-Veranstaltungsreih e Raum-Espace
\nThis workshop is part of the spring semester's N amibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium. Please fi nd attached the entire semester programme and other documents.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190508T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news842@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T102144 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190504T090000 SUMMARY:Graduate Workshop: North Africa: New Forms of Social Movements\, So cial Non-Movements\, and Social Non-Actors DESCRIPTION:The Arab Spring period\, starting late 2010\, resembled the Ren aissance of street activities especially in Tunisia and Egypt. Taking Egyp t as an example\, the 25th of January 2011 was the peak of freedom of expr ession Egyptians have ever reached. Everyone was able to say what is on th eir minds\, be it face-to-face or through social media platforms. However\ , this did not last for long. Today\, Egyptians tend to express their view s through forms of media that no longer correspond to the canonical defini tion of social movements. They are now using uncanny ways of expressing th eir opinion\, i.e. graffiti and public writings on the back of cars and in side shrines. In this light\, can we consider these practices as non-socia l movements? In the absence of more direct political confrontation\, in te rms of collective action and street protest\, can we define participants o f these new practices as social actors? Can public messages in the form of graffiti be considered as a form of non-social movements? What can we say about the changing face of the political reality within the Arab Spring c ountries from a comparative perspective? \\r\\nBased on Asef Bayat’s con cept of the Social Non-movement\, the workshop discusses the everyday life practices of ordinary people in the endeavor of expressing their opinion. Moreover\, it explores the ‘politics of presence’ imposed by ordinary people and practiced within the public sphere after the Arab Spring from a North African perspective. The objective is to explore the Art of Presen ce of ordinary people\, through which power is produced and reproduced wit hin the society. \\r\\nWorkshop Themes: \\r\\nTheme I: The Arab Spring i n North Africa 2010-2012 - Reality and the “Past” (Tunisia and Egypt). Theme II: Liminal Spaces of Participation (Theoretical Foundations). Th eme III: Public Writings: Back to Reality – the “Present”\\r\\nReq uirements: This workshop is designed for PhD candidates and advanced MA st udents. Each participant will prepare a short presentation (max. 10 mins) linking their own research project to the general theme and/or subthemes o f the workshop. \\r\\nRegistration: For registration please provide an e xpression of interest (250-500 words) to: amal.abdrabo@unibas.ch [mailto:a mal.abdrabo@unibas.ch] explaining your motivation for joining the workshop and stating the expected benefits. The memo should include the title of y our own research project and situate it under one of the workshop themes. The deadline for submission is Monday\, 15th April 2019. \\r\\nReading s: There will be a list of light reading for the workshop that will be cir culated amongst accepted participants beforehand. The following texts prov ide an introduction to the different themes of the workshop: \\r\\nBayat\, Asef. 2000. "From ‘Dangerous Classes’ to ‘Quiet Rebels’: Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South”. In: International Sociolog y\, September 2000\, Vol. 15(3). Pp. 533–557.Bayat\, Asef. 2013. "The Ar ab Spring and its Surprises". International Institute of Social Studies. I n: Development and Change Vol. 44\, Issue: 3. Pp. 587–601.Bayat\, Asef. 2017. "Revolutions of Wrong Times". In: Revolution without Revolutionaries : Making Sense of the Arab Spring. Stanford University Press. Pp. 1-27.LeV ine\, Mark. 2015. "When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confront ing Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World". In: Religions 2015\, 6\, 1 277–1313\; doi:10.3390/rel6041277. www.mdpi.com/journal/religions [http: //www.mdpi.com/journal/religions] Schielke\, Samuli. 2012. “Surfaces of Longing: Cosmopolitan Aspiration and Frustration in Egypt”. The Am erican Anthropological Association & Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin\, Ger many). In: City & Society\, Vol. 24\, Issue 1\, pp. 29–37.Turner\, Victo r. 1969. "Liminality and Communitas". In: The Ritual Process: Structure an d Anti-Structure". Chicago: Aldine Publishing\, 1969. Pp. 359-374. X-ALT-DESC:\nThe Arab Spring period\, starting late 2010\, resembled the Re naissance of street activities especially in Tunisia and Egypt. Taking Egy pt as an example\, the 25th of January 2011 was the peak of fre edom of expression Egyptians have ever reached. Everyone was able to say w hat is on their minds\, be it face-to-face or through social media platfor ms. However\, this did not last for long. Today\, Egyptians tend to expres s their views through forms of media that no longer correspond to the cano nical definition of social movements. They are now using uncanny ways of e xpressing their opinion\, i.e. graffiti and public writings on the back of cars and inside shrines. In this light\, can we consider these practices as non-social movements? In the absence of more direct political confronta tion\, in terms of collective action and street protest\, can we define pa rticipants of these new practices as social actors? Can public messages in the form of graffiti be considered as a form of non-social movements? Wha t can we say about the changing face of the political reality within the A rab Spring countries from a comparative perspective? \nBased on Asef Bayat ’s concept of the Social Non-movement\, the workshop discusses the every day life practices of ordinary people in the endeavor of expressing their opinion. Moreover\, it explores the ‘politics of presence’ imposed by ordinary people and practiced within the public sphere after the Arab Spri ng from a North African perspective. The objective is to explore the Art o f Presence of ordinary people\, through which power is produced and reprod uced within the society. \nWorkshop Themes: \; \n09.15 – 09.20 | Welcome | \; |
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09. 30 – 10.00 | Case study: The Guate mala Project \; | Summary and report |
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11.00 – 11.30 | Commentary on kn owledge production | Perspectives from Td research / STS / Medical Anthropology |
11.3 0 – 12.15 | Discussion | < p>Unpacking the OneHealth Guatemala project |
12.15 – 13.00 | Lunch break | \; |
13.00 – 14.30 | Student reflections &\; input < /td> | Student projects / commentaries / discussions |
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Der prominente algerische Schriftsteller und Journalist Kamel Daoud liest am 20. April 2019 im Literaturhaus Basel aus seinem neuen Bu ch "\;Zabor"\;.
\nDer Veranstaltung wird organisiert durch das Seminar für Nahoststudien\, die Französische Sprach- und Literatur wissenschaft\, das Zentrum für Afrikastudien an der Universität Basel\, das Literaturhaus Basel sowie die Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news823@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T102144 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190320T181500 SUMMARY:Laura Horelli: Film\, History & Archives – The installations “N amibia Today” and “Uutisten aika (Newstime) DESCRIPTION:Laura Horelli (*1976 Helsinki\, Finland) lives and works in B erlin\, Germany. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki\, Departm ent of Time and Space\, MA 2001 and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende K ünste – Städelschule\, Frankfurt/M\, Thomas Bayrle’s class\, Meiste rschülerin 2002. In 2011 she received the Hannah Höch Prize for Young A rtists from the City of Berlin. She was awarded a 5-year working grant by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland in 2012. \\r\\nThis lecture is part of the spring semester's Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Col loquium. Please find attached the entire semester programme. X-ALT-DESC:Laura Horelli \;(*1976 Helsinki\, Finland) lives and works in Berlin\, Germany. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts Helsink i\, Department of Time and Space\, MA 2001 and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule\, Frankfurt/M\, Thomas Bayrle’s cla ss\, Meisterschülerin 2002. In 2011 she received the Hannah Höch Prize for Young Artists from the City of Berlin. She was awarded a 5-year worki ng grant by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland in 2012. \nThis lecture is part of the spring semester's Namibian and Southern African Studies Resea rch Colloquium. Please find attached the entire semester programme. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190320T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news860@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T102144 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190320T161500 SUMMARY:Paula Pryce: “Silence of Being”: Performative Knowledge and Unk nowing as Agents of Perceptual Change in Contemplative Christian Ritual DESCRIPTION:Silence\, meditation\, chant . . . traffic jams? One teacher in my ethnographic research among a global network of inter-religious Ch ristian contemplatives said\, “Commuter traffic\, like silent meditatio n\, is an invitation to the contemplative life.” Though most set asid e special periods each day for formalized ritual and silence\, these cont emplative practitioners of a meditation technique called Centering Prayer also approach ordinary activities as “prayer without ceasing.” M onastic and non-monastic\, religiously affiliated and independent\, diver se members of the Centering Prayer network understand the “inner gestur es” of meditation to be a way of cultivating a “silence of being” t hat can permeate all aspects of life\, even in the uncertain\, bustling s pheres of their pluralized worlds. Drawing from more than ten years of ethnographic research in North America and on pilgrimages to India\, Ital y\, and Israel/Palestine\, this paper describes how members of this globa l movement intentionally foster “unknowing”\, a ritualized form of am biguity\, alongside intellectual knowledge and social activism in an effo rt to work toward a phenomenological transformation of consciousness in a ny context\, whether acoustically still or not. Here\, I will introduce the terms\, apophasis (ambiguous\, contemplative “inner gestures”) an d cataphasis (observable action)\, to the anthropological study of ritual and silence to help us understand how everyday behaviours can become act s of contemplation when addressed with intentionality and discipline. \\r \\nDr. Paula Pryce is a lecturer and research associate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver\, Canada. She is the author of The Monk ’s Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity (Ox ford University Press\, 2018) and “Keeping the Lakes’ Way”: Reburi al and the Re-Creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People (Univers ity of Toronto Press\, 1999). X-ALT-DESC:Silence\, meditation\, chant . . . traffic jams? \; One teacher in my ethnographic research among a global network of inter-r eligious Christian contemplatives said\, “Commuter traffic\, like silen t meditation\, is an invitation to the contemplative life.” \; Thoug h most set aside special periods each day for formalized ritual and sile nce\, these contemplative practitioners of a meditation technique called Centering Prayer also approach ordinary activities as “prayer without c easing.” \; \; Monastic and non-monastic\, religiously affiliate d and independent\, diverse members of the Centering Prayer network unde rstand the “inner gestures” of meditation to be a way of cultivating a “silence of being” that can permeate all aspects of life\, even in t he uncertain\, bustling spheres of their pluralized worlds. \; Drawin g from more than ten years of ethnographic research in North America and on pilgrimages to India\, Italy\, and Israel/Palestine\, this paper descr ibes how members of this global movement intentionally foster “unknowin g”\, a ritualized form of ambiguity\, alongside intellectual knowledge and social activism in an effort to work toward a phenomenological trans formation of consciousness in any context\, whether acoustically still or not. \; Here\, I will introduce the terms\, apophasis ( ambiguous\, contemplative “inner gestures”) and cataphasis (observable action)\, to the anthropological study of ritual and silen ce to help us understand how everyday behaviours can become acts of cont emplation when addressed with intentionality and discipline. \nDr. Paul a Pryce is a lecturer and research associate at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver\, Canada. \; She is the author of The Mon k’s Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity (Oxford University Press\, 2018) \; and “Keeping the Lakes’ W ay”: Reburial and the Re-Creation of a Moral World among an Invisible Pe ople (University of Toronto Press\, 1999). DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190320T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news769@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200811T102144 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190320 SUMMARY:Graduate Workshop: Editing Primary Sources from Africa DESCRIPTION:Over a time-span of several decades Historian Paul Jenkins (for mer archivist of the Basel Mission and lecturer in African History at the University of Basel) and Social Anthropologist and Ghana specialist Michel le Gilbert (Trinity College Hartfort\, CT) have engaged with the reports w ritten by Revd Theophilus Opoku\, assembled the complete corpus\, transcri bed the texts and\, in an iterative process\, edited them for publication. Clarifications and contextualisation are provided by their jointly-writte n introductions and footnotes. The publication consists of an introductory part and seven chapters containing the texts written during the various p arish appointments Opoku had in the South-eastern Gold Coast. With a few m onths to go before the corpus goes to print\, the editors invite graduate students to scrutinize the texts and put them to test.\\r\\nProgramme\\r\\ n20 March (afternoon): Induction to the project and theme21- 22 March (all day): Discussion of the seven chapters and introductions23 March (morning ): Closing session\\r\\nTarget group\\r\\nThis interdisciplinary workshop is open to graduate students from a wide array of disciplines\, especially History\, Social Anthropology\, Literature\, Religious Studies and Theolo gy.\\r\\nAssignments\\r\\nEach participant will read the general introduct ion and will present one of the chapters to the workshop participants\, op ening the general discussion with graduate students\, experts and editors. In addition\, each participant will take minutes of one of the sessions f or reporting to the closing session. The texts will be distributed on 15 F ebruary 2019\\r\\nRegistration\\r\\nPlease register by email to veit.arlt@ unibas.ch by 14 February 2019. Provide information on your subject area an d the current state of studies. Participation is free of charge. \\r\\nFac ulty and experts\\r\\nMichelle Gilbert (anthropologist\, Trinity College\, Hartford CT)Andreas Heuser (theologian\, University of Basel) Paul Jenkin s (historian\, Centre for African Studies Basel)Nana Opare Kwakye (theolog ian\, University of Ghana\, Legon)David Maxwell (historian\, University of Cambridge)Adam Mohr (anthropologist\, University of Pennsylvania)Emma Wil d-Wood (theologian\, University of Edinburgh)\\r\\nCredits:\\r\\nTwo ECTS credit points by learning contract (participantsUniversity of Basel)\\r\\n Course convenor: \\r\\nVeit Arlt\, Centre for African Studies\, Rheinsprun g 21\, CH-4051 Basel\, veit.arlt@unibas.ch [mailto:veit.arlt@unibas.ch]\, T. +41 (0)61 207 34 86 \, www.zasb.unibas.ch [http://www.zasb.unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:Over a time-span of several decades Historian Paul Jenkins (form er archivist of the Basel Mission and lecturer in African History at the U niversity of Basel) and Social Anthropologist and Ghana specialist Michell e Gilbert (Trinity College Hartfort\, CT) have engaged with the reports wr itten by Revd Theophilus Opoku\, assembled the complete corpus\, transcrib ed the texts and\, in an iterative process\, edited them for publication. Clarifications and contextualisation are provided by their jointly-written introductions and footnotes. The publication consists of an introductory part and seven chapters containing the texts written during the various pa rish appointments Opoku had in the South-eastern Gold Coast. With a few mo nths to go before the corpus goes to print\, the editors invite graduate s tudents to scrutinize the texts and put them to test.\nProgramme\n< ul>Wie gehen Gesellschaften mit Korruption um? Mit welchen Probl
emen sind Organisationen konfrontiert\, wenn sie in korruptionsanfällige
r Umgebung tätig sind? Mit welchen Massnahmen können sie ihre Integrit
ät stärken? Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein fundiertes und reflektiertes Ver
ständnis von Korruption und Integrität.
Die Teilnehmenden b
eschäftigen sich kritisch mit Antikorruptions-Massnahmen\, Strategien un
d Trends. Sie diskutieren Erfahrungen mit Korrutpion und Integrität aus
Sicht von Schweizer KMUs und multinationalen Konzernen sowie aus der Pers
pektive von Entwicklungsorganisationen. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien
reflektieren sie ihre eigene Wahrnehmung von Korruption und diskutieren
Strategien und Lösungen\, um Praktiken zu vermeiden\, die nicht dem Gese
tz und/oder dem Verhaltenskodex der eigenen Organisation entsprechen.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190208
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T174816
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190201T121500
SUMMARY:Lunch Talk: Colonial Runaways and Murderers\, Microhistory and Biog
raphy\, Historians and Readers with Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town)
DESCRIPTION:Nigel Penn is Professor at the Department of Historical Studies
of theUniversity of Cape Town. His books “Rogues\, Rebels and Runaways
” and “Murderers\, Miscreants and Mutineers” on Cape Colony characte
rs of the 18th and 19th century have attrackted a wide readership and rece
ived much praise beyond the academic frame. In conversation with Tanja Ham
mel (University of Zurich) who recently completed her PhD about the scient
ist Mary Elizabeth Barber in the Cape Colony\, and Dag Henrichsen (BAB) we
reflect about topics and issues which go beyond a particular murder and m
urderer and include questions with regard to historical biographical writi
ng and a wider readership (in southern Africa).
X-ALT-DESC:Nigel Penn is Professor at the Department of Historical Studies
of theUniversity of Cape Town. His books “Rogues\, Rebels and Runaways
” and “Murderers\, Miscreants and Mutineers” on Cape Colony characte
rs of the 18th and 19th century have attrackted a wi
de readership and received much praise beyond the academic frame. In conve
rsation with Tanja Hammel (University of Zurich) who recently compl
eted her PhD about the scientist Mary Elizabeth Barber in the Cape Colony\
, and Dag Henrichsen (BAB) we reflect about topics and issues which
go beyond a particular murder and murderer and include questions with reg
ard to historical biographical writing and a wider readership (in southern
Africa).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190201T140000
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UID:news731@zasb.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20210222T174816
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190131T180000
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Science\, Africa and Europe. Processing Information an
d Creating Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:This new book about colonial and post-colonial scientific knowl
edge production with regard to Africa is the outcome of a long-term\, Base
l-based research project of the late professor of African History\, Patric
k Harries. It includes contributions by the (former) Basel-based researche
rs Sonja Abun-Nasr\, Marcel Dreier\, Patrick Grogan\, Tanja Hammel\, Heinr
ich Hartmann\, Dag Henrichsen\, Lukas Meier\, Sandra Naef\, Pascal Schmid
and Daniel Speich.\\r\\nAt the launch\, Tanja Hammel\, Martin Lengwiler an
d Nigel Penn will reflect about the project\, the book and Patrick Harries
. \\r\\nA joint event by the History Department and the Centre for Africa
n Studies of the University of Basel\, and the Basler Afrika Bibliographie
n. \\r\\nDrinks and refreshments will be served. The book will be on sale
at a special discount. \\r\\nFurther information:
X-ALT-DESC:This new book about colonial and post-colonial scientific knowle
dge production with regard to Africa is the outcome of a long-term\, Basel
-based research project of the late professor of African History\, Patrick
Harries. It includes contributions by the (former) Basel-based researcher
s Sonja Abun-Nasr\, Marcel Dreier\, Patrick Grogan\, Tanja Hammel\, Heinri
ch Hartmann\, Dag Henrichsen\, Lukas Meier\, Sandra Naef\, Pascal Schmid a
nd Daniel Speich.\nAt the launch\, Tanja Hammel\, Martin Lengwiler and Nig
el Penn will reflect about the project\, the book and Patrick Harries.&nbs
p\;\nA joint event by the History Department and the Centre for African
Studies of the University of Basel\, and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien
. \;\nDrinks and refreshments will be served. The book will be
on sale at a special discount. \;\nFurther information:
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190131T200000
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190408T111755
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20181213T180000
SUMMARY:Jane Taylor (UWC\, Cape Town): Ne‘er So Much The Ape
DESCRIPTION:The lecture series Aesthetics from the Margins is coming to a c
lose. You are cordially invited to the final event\, which comes in the fo
rm of a puppetry performance.\\r\\nThe lecture series proposed historical
and theoretical inquiries into questions of sensual perception and world-m
aking. By considering different aesthetic forms\, media and practices –
among them photography\, literature\, language\, and the performing arts
– we explored colonial and postcolonial ways of being in and making sen
se of ‘world(s)’. \\r\\n\\r\\nOur speaker\, Professor Jane Taylor\, is
the Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Perform [http:
//www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/research-platforms/andrew-w-mellon-chair-aesth
etic-theory-material-performance/]ance [http://www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/r
esearch-platforms/andrew-w-mellon-chair-aesthetic-theory-material-performa
nce/] at the Center for Humanities Research\, University of the Western Ca
pe\, South Africa. Taylor has a history of scholarly as well as creative w
ork within these domains. She was a co-editor of Refiguring the Archive (2
002)\, and curated the exhibition Holdings\, which engaged with the questi
on of value\, the archive and memory. She has written several plays for pu
ppets – among them Ubu and the Truth Commission (1997) – working with
artist William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company\, as well as a pupp
et play\, After Cardenio (2011) for Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt
. Jane Taylor is the author of The Transplant Men (2009)\, a novel about t
he first heart transplant performed in Cape Town\, and of a monograph on W
illiam Kentridge’s production of The Nose for the New York Metropolitan
Opera in 2010.\\r\\nThe performance involves two puppeteers. They are Pere
Bigas of the Companyia Marionetes Nòmades (Barcelona) [http://www.marion
etesnomades.org/es/equip/] and the actor Nina Iseli (Basel) [http://www.n
inaiseli.ch]. \\r\\n\\r\\nAll dates in this series:\\r\\n27.09.2018 Erica
Carter (King‘s College\, London): White Bodies in Motion\\r\\n11.10.201
8 Christian Crouch (Bard College\, New York): Queen Victoria‘s Captives\
\r\\n25.10.2018 Henri-Michel Yéré (University of Lausanne): If Language
Could Speak\\r\\n8.11.2018 Brian Larkin (Columbia University\, New York):
The Political Aesthetics of Generators\\r\\n22.11.2018 Darren Newbury (Uni
versity of Brighton): Visual Mobility & Cordiality in the Cold War\\r\\n13
.12.2018 Jane Taylor (UWC\, Cape Town): Ne‘er So Much The Ape\\r\\nDownl
oad:\\r\\nFlyer (pdf) [t3://file?uid=742]\\r\\nSeminar:\\r\\nThe seminar A
esthetics from the Margins [https://vorlesungsverzeichnis.unibas.ch/de/hom
e?id=233988] (course no. 52043-01\, 3 CP\, Friday 9-12h) complements the l
ecture series and allows for intensive exchange with the invited speakers.
\\r\\nContact:\\r\\nlorena.rizzo@unibas.ch [mailto:lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch
] \; james.merron@unibas.ch [mailto:james.merron@unibas.ch]
X-ALT-DESC: \nThe lecture seriesAesthetics from the Margins is coming to a close. You are cordial
ly invited to the final event\, which comes in the form of a puppetry p
erformance.\nThe lecture series proposed historical and theoretical in
quiries into questions of sensual perception and world-making. By consider
ing different aesthetic forms\, media and practices – among them photogr
aphy\, literature\, language\, and the performing arts – we \;explor
ed colonial and postcolonial ways of being in and making sense of ‘world
(s)’. \n\nOur speaker\, Professor Jane Taylor\, is
the Andrew W Mellon Chair
of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the Center for Humanities Research\, Unive
rsity of the Western Cape\, South Africa. Taylor has a history of scholarl
y as well as creative work within these domains. She was a co-editor of Refiguring the Archive (2002)\, and curated the exhibition Holding
s\, which engaged with the question of value\, the archive and memory.
She has written several plays for puppets – among them Ubu and the T
ruth Commission (1997) – working with artist William Kentridge and H
andspring Puppet Company\, as well as a puppet play\, AfterCard
enio (2011) for Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt. Jane Taylor is
the author of The Transplant Men (2009)\, a novel about the first
heart transplant performed in Cape Town\, and of a monograph on William Ke
ntridge’s production of The Nose for the New York Metropolitan Op
era in 2010.\nThe performance involves two puppeteers. They are Pere Bigas
of the Companyia Mar
ionetes Nòmades (Barcelona) and the \;actor Nina Iseli (Basel). \;\n\nAll dates in this series
:\n27.09.2018 Erica Carter (King‘s College\, London): White Bodie
s in Motion\n11.10.2018 Christian Crouch (Bard College\, New York): Queen Victoria‘s Captives\n25.10.2018 Henri-Michel Yéré (Universi
ty of Lausanne): If Language Could Speak\n8.11.2018 Brian Larkin (C
olumbia University\, New York): The Political Aesthetics of Generators<
/i>\n22.11.2018 Darren Newbury (University of Brighton): Visual Mobilit
y &\; Cordiality in the Cold War\n13.12.2018 Jane Taylor (UWC\, Cap
e Town): Ne‘er So Much The Ape\nDownload:\nFlyer (pdf)\nSeminar:<
/b>\nThe seminar Aesthetics from t
he Margins (course no. 52043-01\, 3 CP\, Friday 9-12h) complements the
lecture series and allows for intensive exchange with the invited speaker
s. \nContact:\nlorena.rizzo
@unibas.ch \; james.merron@uni
bas.ch\n\n
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190410T140324
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20181212T181500
SUMMARY:Juliane Krenz (University of Basel): Lift off - Mapping Land Degrad
ation in the Great Karoo from a Bird's-eye-view
DESCRIPTION:The Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium a
ims at creating a forum for local and international scholars to engage in
cross- disciplinary and methodological debates in Southern African Studies
\, with particular reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcomes
presentations and discussions relating to current research and seeks to en
gage young and upcoming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are
welcome.\\r\\nOverview of all events in this series:\\r\\n26.09.2018: Will
iam Blakemore Lyon (Humboldt University:"Labour in Namibia during the Firs
t World War and its aftermath\, 1914-1920\\r\\n05.10.2018: 5th Namibia R
esearch Day (full day Workshop\, see separate programme) \\r\\n10.10.2018:
Moncef Bakail (Algiers University 2): The Role of Algeria in supporting N
amibia. 1962-1978\\r\\n17.10.2018: Lalli Metsola (University of Helsinki):
Incremental Gains? Access to Land and Housing in Windhoek\, Namibia and G
aborone\, Botswana\\r\\n14.11.2018: Ariane Komeda (University of Berne):
In between: Architekturschaffen im kolonialen Namibia\\r\\n05.12.2018:
Lamont A. Slater (Augsburg University Centre\, Windhoek): The Namibian Gen
ocide: Reframing the Conflict to Explore Intercultural Connectivity\, Incl
usiveness and Accurate Memorialization\\r\\n12.12.2018: Juliane Krenz (Uni
versity of Basel): Lift off - Mapping Land Degradation in the Great Karoo
from a Bird's-eye-view \\r\\nOrganizer: Lena Bloemertz\, Dag Henrichsen\,
Giorgio Miescher\\r\\nDownload: Programme (pdf) [t3://file?uid=723]
X-ALT-DESC:\nThe Namibian a
nd Southern African Studies Research Colloquium aims at creating a
forum for local and international scholars to engage in cross- disciplinar
y and methodological debates in Southern African Studies\, with particular
reference to Namibian Studies. The Colloquium welcomes presentations and
discussions relating to current research and seeks to engage young and upc
oming scholars. It is open to all levels and guests are welcome.\nOverv
iew of all events in this series:\n26.09.2018: William Blakemore Lyon
(Humboldt University:"\;Labour in Namibia during the First World War a
nd its aftermath\, 1914-1920\n05.10.2018: \; 5th Namibia Re
search Day (full day Workshop\,see separate programme)\n10
.10.2018: Moncef Bakail(Algiers University 2): The Role of Algeria
in supporting Namibia. 1962-1978\n17.10.2018: Lalli Metsola (University o
f Helsinki): Incremental Gains? Access to Land and Housing in Windhoek\, N
amibia and Gaborone\, Botswana\n14.11.2018: \; Ariane Komeda (Universi
ty of Berne): In between: Architekturschaffen im kolonialen Namibia\n05.12
.2018: \; Lamont A. Slater (Augsburg University Centre\, Windhoek): Th
e Namibian Genocide: Reframing the Conflict to Explore Intercultural Conne
ctivity\, Inclusiveness and Accurate Memorialization\n12.12.2018: Juliane
Krenz (University of Basel): Lift off - Mapping Land Degradation in the Gr
eat Karoo from a Bird's-eye-view \nOrganizer: Lena Bloemertz\, Dag
Henrichsen\, Giorgio Miescher\nDownload: Programme (pdf)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20181211T090000
SUMMARY:Research Symposium: Valueworks - Effects of Financialization along
the Copper Value Chain
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of an international research consortium in which it i
s a partner\, UNRISD is organizing two events in Geneva: \\r\\nRound Table
Discussion: Monday\, 10 December 2018\, 18.00–20.00 at the Graduate I
nstitute of International and Development Studies Research Symposium: Tue
sday\, 11 December 2018\, 09.00–16.30 at the Palais des Nations\\r\\nBot
h events are open to the public. \\r\\nThe events present the research re
sults of the Valueworks project\, funded by SNIS. For an introduction to t
he issues\, see this blog post by project collaborator Rita Kesselring.\\r
\\nThe two-year research project Valueworks\, funded by SNIS (Swiss Networ
k for International Studies)\, investigates the economic relations between
Switzerland and Zambia in the field of copper mining and trading. The sta
rting point was the massive increase in transit trade transactions via Swi
tzerland\, which have an impact on the entire value chain. - Rita Kesselri
ng\\r\\nMore than 20 researchers and representatives of non-governmental o
rganizations (NGOs) from Switzerland\, Germany\, England\, China and Zambi
a have gathered research results at three conferences in Switzerland and Z
ambia to date and looked for ways to make the findings available to a wide
r public. \\r\\nFurther information and programme: Valueworks [http://www.
unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/(httpEvents)/A484DD97E7610D6DC125834B003743A2?
OpenDocument]
X-ALT-DESC: On behalf of an international research consortium in which
it is a partner\, UNRISD is organizing two events in Geneva:
\n
\nBoth events are open to the public. \
nThe events present the research results of the Valueworks project\, funde
d by SNIS. For an introduction to the issues\, see this blog post by proje
ct collaborator Rita Kesselring.\nThe two-year research project Valueworks
\, funded by SNIS (Swiss Network for International Studies)\, investigates
the economic relations between Switzerland and Zambia in the field of cop
per mining and trading. The starting point was the massive increase in tra
nsit trade transactions via Switzerland\, which have an impact on the enti
re value chain. - Rita Kesselring\nMore than 20 researchers and representa
tives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Switzerland\, Germany\
, England\, China and Zambia have gathered research results at three confe
rences in Switzerland and Zambia to date and looked for ways to make the f
indings available to a wider public. \nFurther information and programm
e: Valueworks\n
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20181210T181500
SUMMARY:African History Laboratory: MA student presentations
DESCRIPTION:The African History Laboratory will replace the African History
Research Seminar this semester. \\r\\nSCHEDULE:\\r\\nTuesday\, 25.09.\,
18:15\, Workshopping a chapter by Tanja Hammel. *Tuesday\, 23.10\
, 18:15\, Workshopping an article by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen. *Tuesd
ay\, 30.10\, 18:15\, Workshopping a chapter by James Lawrence Merro
n. *Tuesday\, 06.11.\, 18:15\, [Reading Group]: A chapter from Je
ffrey Herbst’s\, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in
Authority and Control (2014).Wednesday\, 14.11.\, 11:00-14:00\, [Guest
Lecture]: Marie Muschalek (University of Freiburg i. Br.) on e
veryday violence and the German colonial police in Namibia.Tuesday\, 27.1
1.\,18:15\, Workshopping a chapter by Benjamin Brühwiler. Monday\
, 10.12.\, 18:15\, [MA student Presentations]:\\r\\nAndrea Graf\,
“James Africanus Beale Horton\, medical topographies and medical re
search on West Africa before the microbiological revolution (ca. 181
5- 1885)” Max Hufschmidt\, TBDJoint session with the Basler Afrika
Bibliographien: TBD\\r\\n *Please email Cassandra Mark-Thiesen if you wi
ll be joining us to receive a copy of the relevant texts: Cassandra.mark@
unibas.ch [mailto:Cassandra.mark@unibas.ch].
X-ALT-DESC:The African History Laboratory will replace the African History
Research Seminar this semester. \;\nSCHEDULE:\n
\n
\, “James Africanus Beale Horton\, medical topogr
aphies and medical research on West Africa before the microbiologica
l revolution (ca. 1815- 1885)”
| 9.00-9.15 | Registration – Refre shments – Welcome |
| 9.15-10.15 | Keynote Martin Hipondoka (University of Namibia): "\;The Cuvelai-Et osha Basin: environmental and climatic linkages to the operations of the warring parties in the 1966-1989 war for Namibian independence"\; |
| 10.15-10.45 | Refreshments |
| 10.45-11 .45 | Session I: Water and Conservation Histories Mer edith McKittrick (Georgetown University\, US): "\;Liquid historie s: imaginaries and exploitation of water in Namibia\, 1870s-present"\ ; Oliver Graefe (University of Fribourg) &\; Antje Schlottma nn (University of Frankfurt\, Germany): "\;Contested construction of wildlife in Namibian conservation practices - a conceptual framework& quot\; |
| 11.45-12.45 | Open forum: Research in Nam ibia – sharing experiences |
| Until 14.00 | Lunc h Break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Session II: Resistance\, M
obility and Language Histories Andrea Rosengarten (Northw estern University\, Evanston\, US): “A subversive ethnogenesis: resista nce\, racial mobility and Nama intellectual history in colonial Namibia\, ca. 1820-1980s” Sylvanus Job (Humboldt University\, Berlin \, Germany): “Gender and number resolutions in Khoekhoegowab. Conjuncti ve noun phrases” Amber Gayle Thalmayer (University of Lausanne): “ǂŪsigu: the structure of character description in Khoekhoegowab”< /td> |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments |
| 16.00-1 7.30 | Session III: Post-colonialities Josué Castro Tomaselli (University of Campinas\, Brazil): “’Untying tradition ’: post-colonial politics and rhetorical strategies in Namibia” El ise Pape (University of Strasbourg\, France): “Ovaherero activists in the United States – transnational legacies of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide” Julia Rensing (University of Freiburg i.B.\, Ger many): “Namibia- Germany – a post-colonial heterotopia? Narratives an d negotiations of colonial legacies in Namibia and Germany” | 18.30-19.45 | Ethnographic Film Archives Gertru d Boden (University of Frankfurt\, Germany): “The ethnographic film s by Oswin Köhler and their collaborative editing by Khwe in Namibia – an experiment” |