BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//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:news5199@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260504T160716 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260610T200000 SUMMARY:Toni Haastrup: "Whose World? Whose Rules? African Agency in a World Remade" DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the 2026 ALMA Lecture Series titled “ Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics ”. The ALMA (Africa\, Latin America\, Middle East and Asia) Lecture seri es is a series organized by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the Univ ersity of Freiburg in cooperation with the Colloquium Politicum addressing theoretical\, empirical and methodological questions from a Global South perspective. This year’s lecture series is co-organized with the De/Colo niality Now Initiative of the University of Freiburg. This multidisciplina ry initiative seeks to understand the impact of coloniality on today’s w orld and the ways in which people and institutions in all regions of the w orld\, including our own\, remember\, perpetuate\, and contest the legacy of colonialism with a focus on the present day (“now”).\\r\\nDrawing o n research on Africa's international relations\, the “Women\, Peace and Security” (WPS) agenda\, and Africa-EU relations\, Toni Haastrup argues that African agency in the current moment is neither passive adaptation no r simple defiance. It is something more complex: a strategic\, contested\, and often gendered negotiation with a multipolar world that still runs on extractive logics. Overall\, Toni Haastrup wants to interrogate what it w ould mean to take African agency seriously in practice – in regional ins titutions\, policy frameworks and relationships with other actors. She con cludes by suggesting that the most transformative political imaginaries em erging on the continent are already there – in feminist movements.\\r\\n Toni Haastrup is Professor and Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburg h\, and her current research encompasses a wide range of themes\, with spe cial interests in Africa’s International Relations and critical feminist approaches to international relations.  X-ALT-DESC:

This lecture is part of the 2026 ALMA Lecture Series titled “Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Polit ics”. The ALMA (Africa\, Latin America\, Middle East and Asia) Lecture s eries is a series organized by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the U niversity of Freiburg in cooperation with the Colloquium Politicum address ing theoretical\, empirical and methodological questions from a Global Sou th perspective. This year’s lecture series is co-organized with the De/C oloniality Now Initiative of the University of Freiburg. This multidiscipl inary initiative seeks to understand the impact of coloniality on today’ s world and the ways in which people and institutions in all regions of th e world\, including our own\, remember\, perpetuate\, and contest the lega cy of colonialism with a focus on the present day (“now”).

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Dra wing on research on Africa's international relations\, the “Women\, Peac e and Security” (WPS) agenda\, and Africa-EU relations\, Toni Haastrup a rgues that African agency in the current moment is neither passive adaptat ion nor simple defiance. It is something more complex: a strategic\, conte sted\, and often gendered negotiation with a multipolar world that still r uns on extractive logics. Overall\, Toni Haastrup wants to interrogate wha t it would mean to take African agency seriously in practice – in region al institutions\, policy frameworks and relationships with other actors. S he concludes by suggesting that the most transformative political imaginar ies emerging on the continent are already there – in feminist movements.

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Toni Haastrup is Professor and Chair in Global Politics at the Un iversity of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh\, and her current research encompasses a wide range of themes\, with special interests in Africa’s International Relations and critical feminist approaches to international relations. \;

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