RSS
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD

Call for Applications: "Using Empirical Data in the Social Sciences & Humanities: Ethics, Policy and the Arts"

CIFAR-SNSF Winter School (26-28 January 2027, St Gallen, Switzerland)

/ Research

Call for papers: "Relational Capital, Logics of Accumulation, and Colonial Legacies in the Atlantic World (1750–Present)"

International Conference, University of Neuchâtel and University of Fribourg, June 16–18 2027

/ Other

Open call: IN PROCESS 2027 "Swisstopia – Afrofuturism to rethink Switzerland"

DOCK

Publication: "Reinforcing colonial inequalities? New forms of state-led and market-based conservation in Botswana and Namibia"
/ Research

Publication: "Reinforcing colonial inequalities? New forms of state-led and market-based conservation in Botswana and Namibia"

Many conservation projects in Southern Africa have become sites of violence and exclusion. This chapter co-written by Luregn Lenggenhager examines historical and contemporary developments in Namibia and Botswana to explore how conservation…

Publication: "Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post-)Colonial Southern Africa"
/ Research

Publication: "Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post-)Colonial Southern Africa"

This article by Luregn Lenggenhager explores how borders in Southern Africa functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal…

Volunteers at the Conference African Perspectives on Global Transformations

A big thank you to our volunteers!

From 26 to 28 August the ZASB successfully held the joint biennial conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies and the German Association for African Studies VAD (e.V.)

/ Other

Job: Solar Energy and Production Specialist in Namibia (100%)

Comundo

Visual Freedom of Science
/ 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.

/ Research

Call for applications: FRIAS Fellowship Programmes 2027/28

University of Freiburg

L’Humain, la nature, les enjeux et défis écologiques
/ Research

Publication: "L’Humain, la nature, les enjeux et défis écologiques : Étude écocritique de la littérature jeunesse de Côte d’Ivoire"

In this monograph, Katienegnimin Seydou Konate offers a pioneering study of representations of nature, the living world, and the relationships between human beings and their environment in Ivorian children’s literature. Drawing on an…