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07 Oct 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Ulrike Kiessling: "Listening to the 'Buttersong': A Media History of Knowledge"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
14 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

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

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Michael Schnegg: "Atmospheres of Climate Change"

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
15 Oct 2026 - 16 Oct 2026

Location: Missionsstrasse 21, 4055 Basel

Organizer: Mission 21

Public event

Roundtable: "Remembering the Future. Rethinking Decoloniality"

Mission 21
16 Oct 2026 - 17 Oct 2026

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel and online via Zoom

Organizer: BAB, ZASB & UNAM

Congress / Conference / Symposium

12th Namibia Research Day

Basler Afrika Bibliographien
16 Oct 2026
Time: 13:00  - 16:00

Location: Tangaza University, Kenya, and online

Organizer: Tangaza University

Public event

Philomena Njeri Mwaura: "The Enduring Legacy of Prof. John S. Mbiti’s Discourse on African Spirituality and the Nexus between African Religion and Christianity"

Rev. Prof. John S. Mbiti Memorial Lecture
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
23 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Stephanie Zehnle (University of Passau): Strata of Dissonance: Mining, Metallurgy and Metalware in West African History

Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
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
04 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

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

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Janne Flora: "Taste as Infrastructure: hunting, landscape and human-animal relations in Greenland"

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium

Current exhibitions

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Exhibition: "Interwoven and Entangled – Provenance Research on the Textile Collection"

The MKB’s textile collection is as extensive as it is world-renowned. In a pop-up exhibition, the provenance research team not only shows how the collection is entangled in old colonial structures, but also what opportunities this offers…
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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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