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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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16 Mar 2021
Time: 11:00  - 12:30

Location: Online

Organizer: East Arica Research Fund (EARF)

Public event, Congress / Conference / Symposium

Claudia Baez Camargo: East Africa Research Fund end-of-programme event

Presentation of the final results of the project "Corruption attitudes, social norms and behaviours in East Africa"
10 Mar 2021
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Nahas Angula & Nguza Siyambango: The role of local communities in resource management: A case of Okongo Community Forest and Conservancy, Namibia

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
10 Mar 2021
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Till Förster: Urbanity again - from experience to practice in urban theory

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
10 Mar 2021
Time: 12:15

Location: Zoom

Organizer: ZASB

Colloquium

Ralph Weber: Introduction to Comparison

Research colloquium “Reversing the Gaze”
01 Mar 2021
Time: 12:15  - 13:30

Location: Online

Events, Informational event

Semester-Welcome of the Centre for African Studies

Staff, associated members and students are cordially invited to our traditional meet'n'greet on the first day of semester - which will be held online.
15 Jan 2021
Time: 18:45  - 20:00

Location: Online

Organizer: Urban Studies, University of Basel

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Achille Mbembe: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture as part of the conference "Coloniality of Infrastructure" (12-15 January 2021), University of Basel
13 Jan 2021
Time: 18:55  - 19:40

Location: Online

Organizer: Urban Studies, University of Basel

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Sarah Nuttall: The Infrastructural Turn–Some Conceptual Considerations from Southern Africa

Keynote Lecture as part of the conference "Coloniality of Infrastructure" (12-15 January 2021), University of Basel
12 Jan 2021 - 15 Jan 2021

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Urban Studies, University of Basel

Events, Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: The Coloniality of Infrastructure - Eurafrican Legacies

Conference organized by Critical Urbanism, University of Basel, with keynotes by Achille Mbembe, Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui and Sarah Nuttall.
16 Dec 2020
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Borders and Frontiers: Africa and Europe by Comparison (field course, part two)

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
10 Dec 2020
Time: 16:00  - 17:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Global Health Africa

Guest lecture / Talk, Lecture series

Inequitable urban development: a global health issue

Discussion Series 'Global Health Africa'
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