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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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04 Nov 2020
Time: 18:15

Location: via Zoom

Organizer: Department of History

Events, Public event

Film: Mefloquine - The anti-malarial drug investigation (2017)

Public Screening and Live Discussion with filmmaker Cailean Watt
04 Nov 2020
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Kundai Manamere: Voices on the Ground – Local Narratives of the Roll Back Malaria Programme in Southeastern Zimbabwe

Research Seminar African History
28 Oct 2020
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: Physical Geography | Klingelbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel

Colloquium

Eric Morier-Genoud: Gungunhana´s doctor. The diary of Dr Liengme at the court of the last emperor of South East Africa, 1892-1895

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
28 Oct 2020
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Online

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Events, Public event, Colloquium

Lotte Nielson: Urban 'Archi-o-logies' - ideological tensions in the making of a reputable/community arts centre in Johannesburg

Mittwochskolloquium Ethnologie
26 Oct 2020
Time: 18:00

Location: Grosser Hörsaal EO.16, Vesalianum - Nebengebäude, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Fachbereich Urban Studies

Colloquium

Michele Lancione: Dwelling in liminalities – The otherwise care of Bucharest underground

Critical Urbanism: Current Debates
21 Oct 2020
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: Physical Geography | Klingelbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel

Colloquium

ABGESAGT 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
21 Oct 2020
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: Physical Geography | Klingelbergstrasse 27, Lecture Hall (5th floor), 4056 Basel

Organizer: ZASB

Events, Colloquium

Learning for (Ex-)change and Space in Time: Insights from a teaching and a research project between Namibia, South Africa and Switzerland

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
21 Oct 2020
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Zoom

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Making Art Work: Articulating Art and Urban mMarginality in Kisumu, Kenya

Frederik Unseld, PhD student, University of Basel
20 Oct 2020
Time: 19:30

Location: Rossstall II, Kaserne Basel

Organizer: Kaserne Basel/ZASB

Public event

KIN-SHIP-ING with Rohini Devasher & Legion Seven

Artistic and creative practice as KIN-SHIP-ING
20 Oct 2020
Time: 19:00

Location: Volkshaus Basel | Unionsaal, Rebgasse 12-14, 4058 Basel

Organizer: Literaturhaus Basel

Public event

Timba Bema & Henri-Michel Yéré: La nuit était notre seule arme

Poetry reading
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