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Centre for
African Studies

Events

01 Sep 2025 - 03 Sep 2025

Centre for African Studies Basel

Organizer:
Centre for African Studies and Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: "The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads: how to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across to the humanities and social sciences"

University of Basel, 1–3 September 2025

Current exhibitions

24 Aug 2024 – 14 Sep 2025 / Exhibition / Opening

Exhibition: "Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures"

The exhibition presents the results of the Swiss Benin Initiative and has been developed with Nigerian experts from Benin City and diaspora groups in Zurich.

05 Feb 2025 – 07 May 2025 / Public event

Project series "Before Everyone’s Eyes": Benin, Nigeria

Eight Swiss museums have collaborated to investigate the provenance of their collections from the Kingdom of Benin, in dialog with Nigeria. The Museum der Kulturen Basel will be showing what has happened so far.

Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

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