06 May 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminar Room 1, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Ettore Morelli: "The woman with copper earrings: fragments of a history of power in southern Africa, c. 1200–c. 1800"

Research Seminar "African History"
06 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 19:45

Location: University of Cambridge and online

Organizer: University of Cambridge

Public event

Louis Herns Marcelin & Ola Osman: "Legacies of Enslavement & contemporary violence in Liberia & Haiti"

Round‑table conversation
06 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Bongani Kona & Catherine Boulle: "'Arrested Time' – Field Notes from the Making of 'Time, Paper, Bone'"

Picture of Klosterberg 23
Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
11 May 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Seminar Room 4, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Eric Burton: "Financing Liberation Struggles – Africa’s Hubs of Decolonization and the Creation of a Global Division of Anticolonial Labor, 1958-1966"

Research Seminar "African History"
12 May 2026
Time: 15:00  - 16:30

Location: Online per Zoom

Organizer: Mission 21

Public event

Webinar: "The dignity of water - sacred rivers and lakes"

[Translate to English:] Global voices
Webinar series "Global Voices - Acting Together for Peace"
12 May 2026
Time: 17:30  - 19:00

Location: UniDistance Suisse, Schinerstrasse 18, 3900 Brigue

Organizer: UniDistance Suisse

Public event

Bernhard Schär: "Where Were the Swiss? Switzerland and the Making of European Empire"

Inaugural Lecture
19 May 2026
Time: 18:00

Location: kHaus Saal, Kasernenstrasse 8, 4058 Basel

Organizer: Organized by students

Public event

Roundtable Discussion: "Scholarship in times of genocide"

Resistance – Repression – Responsibility
19 May 2026
Time: 20:30

Location: Kohlenberg 20, 4051 Basel

Organizer: The bird's eye jazz club

Concert: Andile Yenana - Way Out Is In

Portrait picture of pianist Andile Yenana by Bram Lammer
A powerful blend of South African music traditions with jazz that resonating emotionally and intellectually
20 May 2026
Time: 10:00  - 12:00

Location: Seminar room 00.002, Center for African Studies, Rheinsprung 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Organized by students

Public event

Workshop: "Education after Gaza after Education after Auschwitz"

With Dirk Moses
20 May 2026
Time: 14:00  - 16:00

Location: Seminar room 00.002, Center for African Studies, Rheinsprung 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Organized by students

Public event

Workshop: "Building the Record, Organizing the Response: Indexing Anti-Palestinian Repression in Europe"

With Tara Mariwany
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