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Call for papers: "Africa on the rise: new power dynamics in a changing world"

Observatory for the Analysis of International Systems (OASIS) No. 43 (January-June 2026)

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Job: PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions)

Leiden University

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Job: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities

PhD-position in the framework of the SNSF project "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change” led by Luregn Lenggenhager

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Publications on Global Post-Comparative Philosophy

Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber have contributed articles to the special feature of Philosophy East and West on “The Prospects, Problems, and Urgency of Global Intercultural Philosophy Now”. Their contributions link debates in philosophy in…

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Publication: "Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania"

This article co-authored by Claudia Baez Camargo describes the results of a behaviour change intervention to address gift-giving as a form of bribery in a Tanzanian hospital. The findings suggest that practices and norms around bribery…

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Call for submissions: CERTIZENS West Africa Regional Workshop

CERTIZENS West Africa Regional Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-9 April 2025

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Job: Post-Doc for the cluster "Conflict and Fragility"

Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, University of Freiburg

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Job: Postdoctoral positions in Social Anthropology

University of Copenhagen

Graph of Northeast African genomic variation (source: Wikimedia / Hollfelder N, Schlebusch CM, Günther T, Babiker H, Hassan HY, Jakobsson M (2017) Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. PLoS Genet 13(8): e1006976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006976)
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Call for papers: "The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads: how to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across the humanities and social sciences"

This conference brings together scholars across the traditional "divide" between the natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities in order to explore how issues of identity and ethnicity play out in genomics research.

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Job: Professorship in Political Science with a focus on Environment and Development

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Basel

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