BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4980@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260731T163414 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826 SUMMARY:Conference: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" DESCRIPTION:From 26 to 28 August 2026\, the Swiss Society for African Studi es (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VA D) will jointly hold their respective biennial conferences in Basel\, Swit zerland. The conference hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel connects scholars based in Europe\, Africa and beyond and welcomes participants from all career levels. Discussion and exchange will take place in 80+ panel\, workshop and roundtable sessions with 500+ paper presentations.\\r\\nThe conference theme “African Perspectives on Global Transformations” proposes a framework that responds to increasing ly urgent calls for decolonization\, epistemic justice\, reparations\, cli mate justice and restitution\, under the conceptual header of planetary he alth and cosmopolitan flourishing. Based on this framework\, the conferenc e brings together approaches to examine past\, present and future global t ransformations from a broad spectrum of disciplines and thematic areas.\\r \\nConference Keynote: “The Agrarian Structure and Contradictions of Soc ial Reproduction in Africa”\\r\\nLyn Ossome (Associate Professor and Dir ector of the Makerere Institute of Social Research\, Makerere University\, Uganda\\r\\nDistinguished Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2026 (title to be defi ned)\\r\\nNomusa Makhubu\, Professor of Art History at the University of C ape Town X-ALT-DESC:

From 26 to 28 August 2026\, the Swiss Society for African Stu dies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. ( VAD) will jointly hold their respective biennial conferences in Basel\, Sw itzerland. The conference hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at th e University of Basel connects scholars based in Europe\, Africa and beyon d and welcomes participants from all career levels. Discussion and exchang e will take place in 80+ panel\, workshop and roundtable sessions with 500 + paper presentations.

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The conference theme “African Perspective s on Global Transformations” proposes a framework that responds to incre asingly urgent calls for decolonization\, epistemic justice\, reparations\ , climate justice and restitution\, under the conceptual header of planeta ry health and cosmopolitan flourishing. Based on this framework\, the conf erence brings together approaches to examine past\, present and future glo bal transformations from a broad spectrum of disciplines and thematic area s.

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Conference Keynote: “The Agrarian Structure and Contra dictions of Social Reproduction in Africa”
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Lyn Ossome (A ssociate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Resear ch\, Makerere University\, Uganda

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Distinguished Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2026 (title to be defined)
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Nomusa Makhubu\, Professor of Art History at the University of Cape Town

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