Veranstaltungen

Register for the workshop offered during the upcoming African Studies Conference “African Perspectives on Global Transformations”.

The workshop "Carrying the Message" is a curatorial and teaching project which links two collections of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien: shopping bags and posters, both originating primarily from southern Africa and Western Europe.

The workshop introduces the collections and engages participants in working groups to explore questions of curation, ethics and educational relevance. As such, materiality, design, conservation, accessibility, thematic contexts and much more is touched on. Examples range from posters and bags produced by Swiss-anti-apartheid, anti-colonial and anti-racism organisations to those produced by southern African environmental activism, political parties or companies.