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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
RSS
29 Jun 2021 - 01 Jul 2021

Organizer: ZASB, University of Namibia, Journal of Southern African Studies

Lecture series

Emerging Scholars & New Research in Southern Africa

Public programme of the Early Career Writing Workshop 2021
28 Jun 2021 - 30 Jun 2021

Location: Online

Organizer: Swiss TPH

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: Global Health in the 21st Century

Swiss TPH VIRTUAL Symposium 2021
25 Jun 2021
Time: 13:30  - 19:00
Events

Hike for students, PhD candidates and members of the Centre for African Studies

At the end of the semester the Centre offers a social outing to the charming Homburgertal.
22 Jun 2021
Time: 18:15

Location: Online

Organizer: BAB / ZASB

Public event

Lewis Nkosi: The Black Psychiatrist

Book presentation with musical interlude by the Keenan Ahrends Trio
02 Jun 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Zoom

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Lerato Posholi: Reversing the gaze as a response to Eurocentrism: some preliminary thoughts

Research colloquium “Reversing the Gaze”
01 Jun 2021
Time: 15:00  - 16:30

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Journal of Southern African Studies and the International Studies Group (University of the Free State)

Public event

Book discussion: Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa

Conversation with editors and book contributors
26 May 2021
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Ndapewa Nakanyete: Socio- and economic relationships between San and Ovawambo in north-central Namibia since the mid-1950s

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
26 May 2021
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropolgy

Colloquium

Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison II

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
21 May 2021
Time: 13:15  - 18:00

Location: Pratteln SBB

Organizer: ZASB

Other events

ZASB excursion for students, faculty and staff

At the end of yet another semester without direct encounters we invite students, faculty and staff for a hike to the countryside.
19 May 2021
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison I

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
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