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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 conferences co-organized by the…

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In den Medien: "Zurück zur Natur? Wie Naturschutz mit Vergangenheit Politik macht"

In einem Artikel auf Geschichte der Gegenwart zeigt Luregn Lenggenhager Zusammenhänge zwischen Naturschutz, Geschichte, Herrschaft und Kolonialismus auf.

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Uni Nova: "Development aid from Africa"

Western Europe was successfully reconstructed after the devastation of World War II. This wouldn’t have been possible without raw materials from Africa, says historian Danelle van Zyl-Hermann in an interview with Uni Nova, the research…

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Publication: "Worlding Home. An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC"

Maren Larsen's book interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Crowdfunding: "Research as friendship? A refuge for humanity"

The E 3600 scientific artworks collective is conducting transdisciplinary, decelerated research in betwixt and between Switzerland and Cameroon. The fruit of a friendship spanning more than twenty years, this project explores research as a…

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Publikation: "BildWelt Mission. Ästhetische Perspektiven christlicher Transkulturationsgeschichte"

Der von Andreas Heuser mit herausgegebene Sammelband bietet innovative methodische Zugänge zur Missionsgeschichte anhand von Bildmaterial und materieller Kultur, leuchtet missionswissenschaftliche Horizonte Interkultureller Theologie aus…

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New online course: "Anthropological Imagination"

Members of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel created an online course on "Anthropological Imagination" for tales, the University's online course platform. The new course invites participants to explore how…

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Call for papers: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"

From 26 to 28 August 2026, the ZASB will host the joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD). Scholars from all career levels are invited to submit…

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Publication: "African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present"

Ettore Morelli is the editor of a volume that questions the concept of border. Arguing that a border is a threshold made to be crossed, this book studies places of passage from all over the African continent. In a time when state borders…

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Artist in Residence: Thembi Dunjana

Thembi Dunjana will spend two weeks in Basel. The South African pianist will work on her next project entitled Stories of the New, which she will record in New York later this year.

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