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27 Mar 2026 - 28 Mar 2026

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Young@Mission21

Public event

Youth Summit 2026: "Preservation and promotion of Biodiversity"

Mission 21
31 Mar 2026
Time: 18:00

Location: Stadtkino Basel, Klostergasse 5, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Kunsthalle Basel

Public event

Films: "Screen Dialogs"

As part of Diambes exhibition “Bees beings beans”
08 Apr 2026
Time: 12:00  - 13:00

Location: Museum der Kulturen Basel, Münsterpl. 20, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Museum der Kulturen Basel

Public event

Mittagsführung: "Geschenkt, geraubt, gekauft?"

Tag der Provenienzforschung im Museum der Kulturen Basel
08 Apr 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Book launch: "Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
14 Apr 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Sophie Schasiepen: "Confronting Museum and Academic Collections’ Role in Capitalism"

Research Seminar "African History"
15 Apr 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Rufino Sitoe: "Spiteful Emancipation: Youth Engagement in Violent Extremism in Northern Mozambique"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
22 Apr 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Film Screening & Discussion: "Kapana: A Namibian Gay Love Story"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
27 Apr 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Seminar Room 4, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Anna-Katharina Osterlow: "Training the African Vanguard of the Computer Age: Early Computing in Nigeria and Senegal, 1963-1985"

Research Seminar "African History"
29 Apr 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Hildegard Titus & Dag Henrichsen: "Decolonising Namibia’s Queer History"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
06 May 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminar Room 1, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Ettore Morelli: "The woman with copper earrings: fragments of a history of power in southern Africa, c. 1200–c. 1800"

Research Seminar "African History"

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Exhibition: "The path to the beyond"

How do different societies imagine the transition from this life to the afterworld? What are the underlying conceptions, and what path does the deceased person or their soul travel on? The exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel shows…
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Exhibition: "A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art"

A group of twenty renowned artists explore the current state of this photographic heritage across four thematic sections in “A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art”, acting as archivists, counterpoints to the…

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