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18 Sep 2026 - 04 Jul 2027

Location: Bernisches Historisches Museum, Helvetiaplatz 5, 3005 Bern

Organizer: Bernisches Historisches Museum

Exhibition / Opening

Exhibition: "Destination: Usakos. Going Home to Namibia – The Future of a Colonial Heritage"

Destination: Usakos
Around 300 cultural belongings from the everyday lives of Namibian railway workers in the early twentieth century are currently stored at the Bern History Museum. The collection bears witness to the exploitation of land, resources and…
03 Nov 2026 - 04 Nov 2026

Location: Musée éthnographique de Genève

Organizer: ARCAN Laboratory, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Museum Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association, and Art-Law Centre at the University of Geneva

Public event

International conference: “Ancestors in Collections? Intersecting Perspectives on Scientific Challenges and Contemporary Responsibilities”

ARCAN Laboratory, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Museum Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association, and Art-Law Centre at the University of Geneva
03 Nov 2026
Time: 18:30

Location: Grabenhalle St.Gallen, Unterer Graben 17, 9000 St. Gallen

Organizer: Grabenhalle St.Gallen, AfriKaribik und Comedia

Public event

Toni Keppeler: "Sklaven, Vodou und ein endloser Kampf um Befreiung"

Präsentation seines Buches
04 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminarraum -201, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Janne Flora: "Taste as Infrastructure: hunting, landscape and human-animal relations in Greenland"

Anthropology Crossroads
In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
04 Nov 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Dag Henrichsen: "Sexology' s queer colonial archive for Namibia and Angola: The case of Kurt Falk"

Picture of Klosterberg 23
Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
05 Nov 2026
Time: 18:00

Location: Verso bar, Petersplatz 1, Kollegienhaus

Organizer: International Office and Language Center

Public event

Café international event: “Brazil and Basel: Connecting academic, artistic and culinary cultures”

Panel discussion, forró worskhop and apéro
06 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University): Three things to know about Africa and the Great War (since the Centenary)

Visual Africa, Method, Theory
Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
06 Nov 2026
Time: 17:30  - 18:30

Location: Hörraum 120, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

Organizer: Universität Bern

Public event

Buchvernissage: "Schweizer:in werden – Eingebürgerte erzählen"

Mit Apéro und Q&A
07 Nov 2026
Time: 10:00

Location: Basel-Münchenstein

Organizer: Madagaskarhaus

Public event

Madagaskartag

Ein Tag des Austauschs und der Gespräche, organisiert von der Organisation PRIORI in Antananarivo und dem Madagaskarhaus – Kultur, Informations- und Reisezentrum in Basel
11 Nov 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminarraum -201, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Aimee Meredith Cox: "What Anthropology Cannot Hold: Black Feminist Thought and the Writing of Black Life"

Anthropology Crossroads
In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium

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