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25 Aug 2026
Time: 13:00  - 17:00

Location: Alte Universität

Organizer: ZASB

Workshop

Young Scholars’ Forum – Creative & Collaborative PhD Exchange

This pre-conference event for the SGAS-VAD 2026 conference is designed for PhD candidates and early-career researchers to connect, reflect, and engage in a collaborative and supportive environment.
26 Aug 2026 - 28 Aug 2026

Location: University of Basel, main building ("Kollegienhaus")

Organizer: ZASB

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"

Joint SGAS/SSEA & VAD Conference, Basel, 26-28 August 2026
29 Aug 2026
Time: 09:00  - 12:00

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Dag Henrichsen, Benedikt Wyss and Antonio Uribe

Workshop

Curatorial Workshop: "Carrying the Message" 

Shopping Bags, Posters and Histories of Activism
18 Sep 2026 - 19 Sep 2026

Location: TBA

Organizer: Falestin Naïli & Lorena Rizzo

Workshop

Doctoral Workshop: "A Global History of Palestine"

Swiss National Science Foundation Research Project “Futures Interrupted”
16 Oct 2026 - 17 Oct 2026

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel and online via Zoom

Organizer: BAB, ZASB & UNAM

Congress / Conference / Symposium

12th Namibia Research Day

Basler Afrika Bibliographien
08 Nov 2026 - 11 Nov 2026

Location: TBA

Organizer: Luregn Lenggenhager, Silva Lieberherr & SiLNoRF

Colloquium

Master’s block seminar: "European Land Investment in West Africa: Activist Approaches to Humanities Research"

University of Basel

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Jasmine Rose Goagoses, Maria Lugambo Hamukwaya & Thorsten Schütte: "Filmmaking in Namibia"

Lunch Talk at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien
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Authors’ workshop: "Spirit matters: Exploring histories of spirits and things"

University of Basel
/ Colloquium

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Closing Discussion

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
/ Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi: "China’s medical assistance to Tanzania: health services and medical knowledge in the context of South-South development cooperation"

Lunch talk co-organized by the ZASB, Department of History and R. Geigy Foundation
/ Public event

Book launch: "Politics of Land and Conservation in the Dongola-Mapungubwe Area"

Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
/ Public event

Tjijandjeua "Gift" Uzera & Tweyapewa Ndapandula Mbendeka: "Ancestral Archives, Resonant Bodies, Material Explorations"

Lunch Talk at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien
/ Colloquium

Dirk Moses: "Genocide or War?: Conceptual Confusion in Understanding the Destruction of Gaza"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium in collaboration with Middle Eastern Studies
/ Public event

Workshop: "Building the Record, Organizing the Response: Indexing Anti-Palestinian Repression in Europe"

With Tara Mariwany
/ Public event

Workshop: "Education after Gaza after Education after Auschwitz"

With Dirk Moses
/ Public event

Roundtable Discussion: "Scholarship in times of genocide"

Resistance – Repression – Responsibility
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27 Oct 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Sruthi Herbert & Christine Lutringer: Unspent Funds - Mobilisation and Accountability Post-COVID

Research Colloquium "Reversing the Gaze"
27 Oct 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Room 1, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

CANCELLED Mary Ononokpono: Presentation TBA

Research Seminar African History
25 Oct 2021
Time: 09:15  - 12:45

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: ZASB, ABI, Sciences Po Strasbourg

Colloquium, Workshop

Consolidated or undermined statehood? The transnationalisation of state legitimacy

1st session of the Eucor cross-border workshop series "The trouble with the state. Boundaries and Networks in Africa"
20 Oct 2021
Time: 16:15

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Aïdas Sanogo: Land tenures over centuries in English and French West Africa

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
20 Oct 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Room 1, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Aiden Russell: Trust, Witnessing and Displacement in the 1960s Great Lakes

Research Seminar African History
18 Oct 2021
Time: 17:00

Location: Online

Organizer: Urban Studies

Colloquium

Yvonne Riaño & Maya Ober: Design x Intersectional feminism

Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates
13 Oct 2021
Time: 18:15

Location: Physical Geography, Klingenbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel (online participation possible)

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Anette Hoffmann: Who’s afraid of Rudolf Pöch? The Long Echo of Colonial Violence in the Kalahari Recordings (1908)

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
13 Oct 2021
Time: 16:15

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Olayemi Omodunbi: Beyond Binaries. Reconceptualizing Hegemonic Notions of Race and Racism in an African-Chinese Context

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
13 Oct 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Online

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Elísio Macamo: Translating Black-Boxes

Research colloquium “Reversing the Gaze”
06 Oct 2021
Time: 18:15

Location: Physical Geography, Klingenbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel (online participation possible)

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Jack Boulten: Makalani, Tomorrow, and Sci-Fi-Future in Swakopmund

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
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