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Summer/Winter School: Agriculture, Food, Conservation and Tourism in Namibia and Switzerland
Call for applications for the joint Summer/Winter School with the University of Namibia in the frame of Learning for (Ex)Change/ Research
Call for panels: Swiss Researching Africa Days 2020 (Bern, October 23-24 2020)
The Swiss Society for African Studies calls for panels for the 6th Swiss Research Africa Days. The objective of the meeting is to promote the exchange among the community of researchers working on Africa in Switzerland. The submission…
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD
Call for Papers: The trouble with the state. Boundaries and Networks in Africa - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JANUARY 2020
Three consecutive one-day workshops in Freiburg i.Br., Strasbourg and Basel will deal with different aspects of the debate on statehood and the role of trans- and international networks and physical or discursive boundaries. The deadline…
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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 176: Land Grabbing – unerfüllte Versprechungen
Seit dem Jahr 2000 weltweit rund 50 Millionen Hektar an Landkonzessionen vergeben. Doch 2018 errechnete GRAIN, dass ein nicht unerheblicher Teil dieser Konzessionen – nämlich 17,5 Millionen Hektar – entweder nie «unter den Pflug» kam oder…
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD
Call: Writing Workshop 'Emerging Scholars & New Research in Southern Africa'
The four-day writing workshop at the University of Namibia (7-10 July 2020) is open to early career scholars with an affiliation to the ZASB.Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
NBN author-interview podcast with Rita Kesselring on her book Bodies of Truth – October 17, 2019/ Research, Organizational Unit, People
Rita Kesselring is the new editor-in-chief of Anthropology Southern Africa
Anthropology Southern Africa is the peer-reviewed journal of the Anthropology Southern Africa association.
New CD: Carlo Mombelli live at the bird's eye 2009-2018
South African bass wizard and composer Carlo Mombelli just released a new CD documenting a decade of performances a the bird's eye jazz club in Basel