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04 Nov 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Dag Henrichsen: "Sexology' s queer colonial archive for Namibia and Angola: The case of Kurt Falk"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
06 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University): Three things to know about Africa and the Great War (since the Centenary)

Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
07 Nov 2026
Time: 10:00

Location: Basel-Münchenstein

Organizer: Madagaskarhaus

Public event

Madagaskartag

Ein Tag des Austauschs und der Gespräche, organisiert von der Organisation PRIORI in Antananarivo und dem Madagaskarhaus – Kultur, Informations- und Reisezentrum in Basel
08 Nov 2026 - 11 Nov 2026

Location: TBA

Organizer: Luregn Lenggenhager, Silva Lieberherr & SiLNoRF

Colloquium

Master’s block seminar: "European Land Investment in West Africa: Activist Approaches to Humanities Research"

University of Basel
11 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

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

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

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Aimee Meredith Cox: "What Anthropology Cannot Hold: Black Feminist Thought and the Writing of Black Life"

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
11 Nov 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Hugo ka Canham: "Sandy Accretions"

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

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

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Isabel Käser: "Behind the Scenes: Researching Art and (the Aftermath of) Armed Struggle: Feminist Ethnographies in and Beyond Kurdistan"

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

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Speaker from University of Mauritius (TBD): Title TBD

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
19 Nov 2026
Time: 09:15  - 11:15

Location: Online

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Graduate Workshop: The Freedom of Science - A Societal Challenge

This interdisciplinary workshop invites PhD students from the University of Basel and all Swiss universities to explore the freedom of science from a scholarly perspective.
25 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: TBA

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Book Launch & Reading: "Basel Anthropology Papers 3"

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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