Eigene News
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Basel STUDY: New CAS programs in anti-corruption and asset recovery
The Basel Institute on Governance in conjunction with the University of Basel now offers advanced postgraduate qualifications in anti-corruption and asset recovery. The programs combine advanced research, real-world insights, practical…
/ Research
New postdoctoral project at the ZASB: "Enfants de migrant-es ouest-africain-es entre deux mondes"
Nicolas Mabillard started his new SNSF-funded postdoctoral research project on 1 February 2025. His academic research focuses on the qualitative sociological study of transnational Senegalese families. He studies the ways in which the…
/ Research
Publications on Global Post-Comparative Philosophy
Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber have contributed articles to the special feature of Philosophy East and West on “The Prospects, Problems, and Urgency of Global Intercultural Philosophy Now”. Their contributions link debates in philosophy in…
/ Research
Publication: "Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania"
This article co-authored by Claudia Baez Camargo describes the results of a behaviour change intervention to address gift-giving as a form of bribery in a Tanzanian hospital. The findings suggest that practices and norms around bribery…
/ Research
Call for papers: "The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads: how to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across to the humanities and social sciences"
This conference brings together scholars across the traditional "divide" between the natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities in order to explore how issues of identity and ethnicity play out in genomics research.
/ Studies
Joint teaching project: "To you, Basel is a city. To us, Basel is a church"
The “Baselfo.ch” website documents a collaborative excursion project on the legacy of the Basel Mission in Ghana and Basel as well as southern Germany. The website features students’ blogposts on their research and travel experiences.
Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Twice per year, the Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) reports on its members' activities and publications, and announces upcoming events. The current newsletter includes reports on the 3rd European Students’…
/ Research
Publication: "The Earth That Modernism Built. Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design"
Kenny Cupers' book provides an intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and…
/ Research
Publication: “African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal”
In his essay in the edited volume " Knowing - Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads", Elísio Macamo rewrites parts of Kant’s “What is Enlightment?” as a starting point to explore African studies’ contribution to a critical reflection…