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Publication: "The Earth That Modernism Built. Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design"

Kenny Cupers' book provides an intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and…

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Call for participants: "Is Religion a Colonial Construct? An Introduction to Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to the Study of Religion"

Virtual Exchange Course from February to May 2025 organized by the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (Italy), and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

ECAS 2025
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Call for papers: "African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings" - DEADLINE EXTENDED

European Conference on African Studies, 25-28 June 2025, Prague

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Job: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (50%)

Museum Fünf Kontinente, München

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Job: Postdoc position in sustainable agri-food system governance (100%)

University of Basel

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Job: 2 PhD positions in Sustainability Research, focus on sustainable agri-food system governance (100%)

University of Basel

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Job: Interkulturelle Dolmetschende

HEKS Linguadukt

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Publication: “African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal”

In his essay in the edited volume " Knowing - Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads", Elísio Macamo rewrites parts of Kant’s “What is Enlightment?” as a starting point to explore African studies’ contribution to a critical reflection…

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Job: 3 PhD positions for the ERC project "The generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism"

Wageningen University

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Call for Papers: "Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies"

38th biennial ISSR (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) conference, Kaunas (Lithuania), 30 June-4 July 2025

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