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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
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Roundtable Discussion: "Scholarship in times of genocide"

Resistance – Repression – Responsibility
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06 Oct 2021
Time: 16:15

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Guillaume Lévy: Entangled Lives. The Everyday Experience of African Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
02 Oct 2021
Time: 09:00

Location: Online: Zoom | On-site: Physical Geography, Klingelbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel

Organizer: ZASB, UNAM, BAB

Workshop

Namibia Research Day 2021

8th Namibia Research Day in Basel (Switzerland) and Windhoek (Namibia)
01 Oct 2021
Time: 18:15

Location: ZASB, Rheinsprung 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Guest lecture / Talk

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann and Andreas Eckert: Privileged Precariat. White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule

Book Launch and Discussion
29 Sep 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Online

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba & Matthias Maurer Rueda: Retribalization across Time and Space

Research colloquium "Reversing the Gaze"
22 Sep 2021
Time: 18:00

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

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Dominique Niemand: ’Die swakheid van sommige’. Navigating race through foodways of the women of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
22 Sep 2021
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Priska Handayani Rüegg: “If I would not have gone to war, I would have been illegal.” On a former child soldier’s seeking for freedom and belonging

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
20 Sep 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Münsterplatz

Organizer: ZASB

Informational event

Semester Welcome of the Centre for African Studies Basel

Traditional meet'n'greet for staff, students and associates of the ZASB
13 Sep 2021 - 17 Sep 2021
Colloquium

Summer School: How Political is Knowledge?

5th Basel Summer School in African Studies **application deadline: 9 August 2021**
01 Jul 2021
Time: 12:30  - 14:00

Location: Online

Organizer: ZASB in collaboration with Afrika-Komitee

Public event

Ethiopia at the crossroads: Tigray war, ethnic conflicts and the political transition

Afriqu’à midi
30 Jun 2021
Time: 18:00

Location: Online

Organizer: BAB | ZASB | UNAM

Guest lecture / Talk

William Beinart: Approaching Land Reform in South Africa

Keynote lecture as part of the Early Career Writing Workshop 2021
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