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23 Aug 2024

Third European Students' Conference on African Studies: Final program now online

22 Aug 2024 / Research

Publication: "High expectations: Civil society participation in conflict early warning and response systems of the AU, ECOWAS and IGAD"

30 Jul 2024 / Research

Publication: "Navigating the political context: Practice insights and adaptive strategies to strengthen the anti-corruption and asset recovery justice chain"

29 Jul 2024 / Research

Publication: "A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’"

05 Jul 2024 / Info

In the media: "El español en África en pasado, presente y futuro"

01 Jul 2024 / Research

Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies

19 Jun 2024 / Research

Publication: "Burden of chronic pain among adult pastoralists in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional household survey"

19 Jun 2024

Wanted: Hosts for participants of the Third European Students' Conference on African Studies

12 Jun 2024 / Info

ZASB - Research Network Africa: Annual Report 2023

07 Jun 2024 / Research, Studies

In the media: "Sierra Leone’s bushmeat markets pose serious health hazards – we studied two for six months to find solutions"

03 Jun 2024 / Research

Publication: "Building Trust, Situating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South African Nature Reserve"

31 May 2024 / Info

In the media: "In South Africa, right-wing white populists do politics but not the elections"

17 May 2024 / Info

Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 194: "Mode – Kreativität mit Zukunft"

15 May 2024

Artist in residence: Nobuhle Ashanti (Cape Town)

13 May 2024 / Info

In den Medien: "Austausch statt Polemik: Uni Basel stellt sich der Postkolonialismus-Debatte"

06 May 2024 / Info

In den Medien: "Die Pfingstbewegung erfasst weite Teile der Welt"

06 May 2024 / Research

Podcast: "On Materiality" - with Carine Ayélé Durand

08 Apr 2024 / Research

Publication: "Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface"

27 Mar 2024 / Info, Other

New Pro Helvetia project: "Life between ebb and flow"

25 Mar 2024 / Research

Publication: "Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira"

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11 Sep 2026 / Doctorate/PhD

Graduate Workshop: The Freedom of Science - A Societal Challenge

This interdisciplinary workshop invites PhD students from the University of Basel and all Swiss universities to explore the freedom of science from a scholarly perspective.

17 Aug 2026

Cooperation with the MEA Institute for Strategic Studies

In the framework of the conference African Perspectives on Global Transformations, the Centre for African Studies cooperates with the Middle East and Africa Institute for Strategic Studies.

20 Jul 2026 / Research

Call for Presentations: "Cinematic Justice – Films Meets Histories of the Present"

12th Namibia Research Day, 16–17 October 2026, Basler Afrika Bibliographien

17 Jul 2026 / Research

Call for contributions: "Methodological innovations and alternative formats of knowledge production and circulation in Peace and Conflict Studies"

Virtual Encyclopaedia on Peace and Conflict Studies and TRAFO ‒ Blog for Transregional Research

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