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L’Humain, la nature, les enjeux et défis écologiques
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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…

Cooperation with the MEA Institute for Strategic Studies

In the framework of the conference African Perspectives on Global Transformations, the Centre for African Studies cooperates with the Middle East and Africa Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Job: Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Humanities

Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD), University of Lausanne

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Call for Contributions: "Missing Chapters – Understanding Higher Education Institutions as Racialised Spaces"

In the framework of the swissuniversities project "Transforming Educational Spaces: Addressing Racism, Embedding Intersectionality"

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Call for Panels: "African Prisms"

11th European Conference on African Studies, 30 June‒3 July 2027, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

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Call for Presentations: "Cinematic Justice – Films Meets Histories of the Present"

12th Namibia Research Day, 16–17 October 2026, Basler Afrika Bibliographien

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Call for contributions: "Methodological innovations and alternative formats of knowledge production and circulation in Peace and Conflict Studies"

Virtual Encyclopaedia on Peace and Conflict Studies and TRAFO ‒ Blog for Transregional Research

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Call for abstracts: "Reimagining Africa: Agency, Knowledge, and Power in Transition"

Viva Africa 2026 Conference, Czech Association for African Studies, Prague, 5–6 November 2026

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Job: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa

University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education

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Call: African Studies Intellectual Apprenticeship Network (ASIAN)

A PhD is not proof that one knows something. It is evidence that one has begun to learn how to ask questions responsibly. The African Studies Intellectual Apprenticeship Network is an invitation to continue that journey: A twelve-month…