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In den Medien: "Zurück zur Natur? Wie Naturschutz mit Vergangenheit Politik macht"

In einem Artikel auf Geschichte der Gegenwart zeigt Luregn Lenggenhager Zusammenhänge zwischen Naturschutz, Geschichte, Herrschaft und Kolonialismus auf.

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Uni Nova: "Development aid from Africa"

Western Europe was successfully reconstructed after the devastation of World War II. This wouldn’t have been possible without raw materials from Africa, says historian Danelle van Zyl-Hermann in an interview with Uni Nova, the research…

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Crowdfunding: "Research as friendship? A refuge for humanity"

The E 3600 scientific artworks collective is conducting transdisciplinary, decelerated research in betwixt and between Switzerland and Cameroon. The fruit of a friendship spanning more than twenty years, this project explores research as a…

The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. It is an acknowledged centre for interdisciplinary Africa-focused research and offers a Master's and a PhD in African Studies as well as a continuing education programme for professionals.

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28 Nov 2025 - 06 Dec 2025

Location: Küchlin Saal1, Steinenvorstadt 55, 4051 Basel

Organizer: IAMANEH Schweiz

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Filmfestival Frauenstark: "Stimmen der Veränderung"

Organisiert von IAMANEH Schweiz
07 Dec 2025
Time: 15:00

Location: Museum der Kulturen Basel, Museum der Kulturen Basel Münsterplatz 20, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Museum der Kulturen Basel

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Rundgang: "Perspektiven – neue Sichtweisen im Museum"

Museum der Kulturen Basel
08 Dec 2025
Time: 18:00  - 20:00

Location: kHaus (Saal), Kasernenhof 8, 4058 Basel

Organizer: David Bucheli (eikones), Aïcha Revellat (eikones), Ute Holl (Media Studies), Falestin Naïli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies), Lorena Rizzo (African Studies), and Peter Burleigh (English Seminar)

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Film screening with Yvann Yagchi: "Avant, il n'y avait rien / There Was Nothing Here Before"

Cinematic Counter-Archives of Palestine: Memory, Erasure, and Resistance
09 Dec 2025
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Alte Universität, Hörsaal 101, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Isabelle Chariatte and Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr

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Marwan Kilani: "Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic crossroads between Africa and the Near East"

Lecture Series "Languages and Literatures in Africa – Plural Forms of Living-Together"
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Professorship for Africa – Europe in the Long 20th Century (Open Rank)

University of Zurich

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4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (w/m/d) im Graduiertenkolleg "Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen"

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau

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Publication: "Worlding Home. An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC"

Maren Larsen's book interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Publikation: "BildWelt Mission. Ästhetische Perspektiven christlicher Transkulturationsgeschichte"

Der von Andreas Heuser mit herausgegebene Sammelband bietet innovative methodische Zugänge zur Missionsgeschichte anhand von Bildmaterial und materieller Kultur, leuchtet missionswissenschaftliche Horizonte Interkultureller Theologie aus…

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Publication: "African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present"

Ettore Morelli is the editor of a volume that questions the concept of border. Arguing that a border is a threshold made to be crossed, this book studies places of passage from all over the African continent. In a time when state borders…

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The ZASB is very easy to reach by public transport. It takes about five minutes to reach the Centre from the tram/bus stops Schifflände (trams #6/8/11/14/16, buses #34/36) and Kunstmuseum (tram #1/2).

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