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Call for applications: International Geneva Award 2026

Swiss Network for International Studies SNIS

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Call for Applications: Residential Fellowships “Sustainable Democracy” and Individual Residential Fellowships

Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana

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Publication: "UNITA’s Northern Front in the Angolan Civil War: A Tale of Two Captivities"

The history of the Angolan civil war, and of one of its warring parties, UNITA, is largely told through the prism of the central highlands. Based on new empirical material on UNITA’s activities on the ‘Northern Front’, Jon Schubert's…

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Job: Kurator:in Ethnografische Sammlung mit Schwerpunkt Afrika und zusätzlichem Fokus auf orientalistische Sammlungen

Bernisches Historische Museum

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Start-up Grants: History, Social Sciences and Literary Studies

University of Basel

Publication: "Embracing African Queer Life in Namibia and Angola in the Early Twentieth Century: Kurt Falk’s Colonial Archive and German Sexology"
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Publication: "Embracing African Queer Life in Namibia and Angola in the Early Twentieth Century: Kurt Falk’s Colonial Archive and German Sexology"

This essay by Dag Henrichsen discusses the queer colonial archive of the German settler Kurt Falk who lived in Namibia and Angola in the early twentieth century. It reconstructs Falk’s unknown, elusive biography and critically analyzes the…

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Publication: "Accepting Freedom: Bad Faith and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries"

While much postcolonial scholarship has emphasized the structural constraints inherited from colonialism, Elísio Macamo's essay argues that the difficulty of 'accepting freedom' after independence can also be understood as an ethical…

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SNSF Grant: Ambizione Call 2026

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Sindi-Leigh McBride
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In Focus: "Sindi-Leigh McBride speculates on work, climate change and narratives"

How does climate change affect the way we live and work? Sindi-Leigh McBride looks for answers in speculative fiction and contemporary art.

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

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