Eigene News
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Podcast: "Blackfluencers"
Elisa da Costa, student of the Masters' program African Studies, has launched a new podcast. The podcast focuses on the Black and Afro-Swiss community.
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Call for papers: "Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects"
The 2023 conference (Basel, 31 August-1 September 2023) of the Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH) is organized in collaboration with the ZASB and the Department of Social Sciences of the University…
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Podcast: "Ethnographic Imagination Basel"
The Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel launched a new podcast. It is a research, educational, and public engagement initiative exploring innovative forms of political imagination through ethnographic practice.
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD
Publication: "Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives"
In their edited volume of short stories, artworks, poems, essays by 22 contributors Sindi-Leigh McBride and Julia Rensing engage with the tragic destruction of the African Studies Library at the University of Cape Town, which occured in…
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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 189: "Die Macht der Satire"
2022 sind gleich zwei Romane bekannter Autor:innen Afrikas erschienen, die undemokratische Zustände und Machenschaften in den Fokus nehmen: Wole Soyinkas Roman Die glücklichsten Menschen der Welt und NoViolet Bulawayos Glory. Die Netzwerke…
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Call for panels: “Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects”
The 2023 conference (Basel, 31 August-1 September 2023) of the Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH) is organized in collaboration with the ZASB and the Department of Social Sciences of the University…
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD
Call for papers: "Revisiting Histories and Cultures of African Diasporas, Religion and Belief"
The Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite to a symposium (9-10 June 2023) on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Swiss historian and theologian Hans Werner Debrunner…
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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 reflects on the renewed encounters after the break due…
/ Research, People
Publication: "Marcel Tanner, Parasitologist Extraordinaire"
Articles in this special issue of the journal Diseases, edited by Lukas Meier and Robert Bergquist, honor Marcel Tanner, Director emeritus of the Swiss TPH and Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Parasitology at the University of Basel.…