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Call for panels: „Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives“
VAD conference , Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 07-10 June 2022
The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organizes an international and interdisciplinary conference every two years. The next VAD conference entitled "Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives" will take place from 7 to 10 June 2022 in Freiburg im Breisgau. It will be organized by the newly founded Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.
The VAD conference 2022 in Freiburg will focus on the theme “Africa and Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives” and will address processes of co-production of knowledge as well as the mutual questioning of different ways of thinking. Political and epistemological entanglements will be explored and unusual perspectives will also be opened up. This should unlock new forms of collaboration and further develop existing ones. Experiences with collaborative research and its challenges should lead to analyses which also take into account questions of persistent exclusion and the lack of representativeness in teaching and research in both Africa-related studies and “European Studies”. The conveners are soliciting panel proposals on one of the eleven topics listed in the call document.
Deadline: 15 October 2021
