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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…
23 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Stephanie Zehnle: “Strata of Dissonance: Mining, Metallurgy and Metalware in West African History”

Visual Africa Method Theory 2026
Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
26 Oct 2026 - 27 Oct 2026

Location: Room KOL-G-212, Universität Zürich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Organizer: Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou and Roberto Zaugg

Workshop

Interdisciplinary Meeting in African History: "Unearthing Connected Pasts"

Universität Zürich
28 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

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

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

Colloquium

Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium: MA thesis presentations

Anthropology Crossroads
In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
30 Oct 2026
Time: 09:00

Location: Room F021, University of Bern, UniTobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

Organizer: Swiss Society for African Studies

Research-Action Day: "Combating Racism Against Black People"

Seeking to take a stronger position in the fight against anti-black racism, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) organizes a Research-Action Day.
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
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
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
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"

Block Seminar
University of Basel

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