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17 Oct 2026
Time: 20:00

Location: Kaserne Basel, Klybeckstrasse 1b, 4057 Basel

Organizer: Kaserne Basel

Public event

Performance: "SYNTHETIC / Artefact"

By Tiran Willemse
18 Oct 2026
Time: 19:00

Location: Kaserne Basel, Klybeckstrasse 1b, 4057 Basel

Organizer: Kaserne Basel

Public event

Performance: "SYNTHETIC / Artefact"

By Tiran Willemse
20 Oct 2026
Time: 14:30

Location: University of Dar es Salaam and online

Organizer: Alliance for African Partnership

Public event

AAP Public Dialogue Series: "Mapping the Partnership Landscape: Teaching, Research and Public Service Across AAP Member Universities"

Alliance for African Partnership
21 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminarraum -201, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Insa Lee Koch: "When liberal anti-racism is not enough: thinking from UK's slavery laws about authoritarian state making across the metropole"

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
21 Oct 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Lucy Edwards-Jauch: "Making the 'Namibian Journal of Social Justice'"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
21 Oct 2026
Time: 20:00

Location: Universität Freiburg, KGI, HS 1098, Platz d. Universität 3, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau

Organizer: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut

Public event

David Mwambari: "Traveling Memories of refugees: Stories of Memory, Silence, and Survival in Africa and beyond“

Freiburg Africa Talk
23 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Stephanie Zehnle: “Strata of Dissonance: Mining, Metallurgy and Metalware in West African History”

Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
26 Oct 2026 - 27 Oct 2026

Location: Room KOL-G-212, Universität Zürich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Organizer: Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou and Roberto Zaugg

Workshop

Interdisciplinary Meeting in African History: "Unearthing Connected Pasts"

Universität Zürich
28 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminarraum -201, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium: MA thesis presentations

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
30 Oct 2026
Time: 09:00

Location: Room F021, University of Bern, UniTobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

Organizer: Swiss Society for African Studies

Research-Action Day: "Combating Racism Against Black People"

Seeking to take a stronger position in the fight against anti-black racism, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) organizes a Research-Action Day.

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Exhibition: "Destination: Usakos. Going Home to Namibia – The Future of a Colonial Heritage"

Around 300 cultural belongings from the everyday lives of Namibian railway workers in the early twentieth century are currently stored at the Bern History Museum. The collection bears witness to the exploitation of land, resources and…

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