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Interdisciplinary blended-learning course at the ZASB: Examining African Contributions to Global Health
Africa has always been a site of medical innovation but for too long this has not been acknowledged and studied in the Global North. This blended-learning course is based on a five-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) which was created by…
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Publication: “‘The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own’: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910–1930”
In her article, Julia Tischler investigates agricultural education initiatives in early twentieth-century Ciskei and Transkei as vernacular expressions of transatlantic Black agrarianism. The article seeks to expand the historiography of…/ Studies
Visual History Lab 2021: Quilombo - Sharing Perspectives with Artists from DRC, Brazil and Switzerland
The focus of the Visual History Lab 2021 was on “Quilombo”, a collaboration of artists from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Switzerland. A group of four students produced a video reflecting on the artistic project and on the…
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Call for contributions: “Regional Research Day: Horn of Africa” (extended deadline)
This workshop offers scholars and graduate students who work on the region an opportunity to exchange across disciplines and research areas. It will take place on 18 March 2022. The deadline for submission is 31 January 2022./ Research, People
«Ask Our Expert» mit Claudia Daubenberger: Omikron und die globale Perspektive auf die Corona-Pandemie
Die zuerst in Südafrika entdeckte Omikron-Variante führt einmal mehr die globale Dimension der Corona-Pandemie vor Augen. In der Reihe «Ask Our Expert» der Universität Basel hat Claudia Daubenberger hat am 14. Dezember 2021 per Livestream…
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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
The latest edition of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) Newsletter demonstrates that despite the persisting pandemic, which severely impacts on on-site activities, the African Studies scene in Switzerland maintains a sound…
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Publikation: "Spanisch in Afrika/Afrika in Spanien. Sprachliche Charakteristika von Spanischsprecherinnen und Spanischsprechern aus Äquatorialguinea in Madrid"
In ihrem Beitrag wirft Sandra Schlumpf aus Sicht der äquatorialguineischen Diaspora in Spanien einen aktuellen Blick auf das Spanische Äquatorialguineas. Die Analyse gewährt auf verschiedenen Ebenen Einblicke in den Sprachgebrauch und die…
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Rita Kesselring to take up position as Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St Gallen
Rita Kesselring accepted the appointment as an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St Gallen. She has been working at the Institute of Social Anthropology of the University of Basel as a post-doc lecturer, researcher…
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Clinical trial: Promising drug combination treatment against parasitic worm infections
In a Phase III clinical trial, researchers at Swiss TPH have successfully gathered encouraging data to demonstrate higher efficacy of co-administration of ivermectin-albendazole in combating soil-transmitted helminthiasis. The findings were…