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Job: Two PhD positions in “Feeding the Earth: Synthetic Fertilizers and the Remaking of Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

University of Basel and University of Birmingham

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In den Medien: "Zurück zur Natur? Wie Naturschutz mit Vergangenheit Politik macht"

In einem Artikel auf Geschichte der Gegenwart zeigt Luregn Lenggenhager Zusammenhänge zwischen Naturschutz, Geschichte, Herrschaft und Kolonialismus auf.

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Uni Nova: "Development aid from Africa"

Western Europe was successfully reconstructed after the devastation of World War II. This wouldn’t have been possible without raw materials from Africa, says historian Danelle van Zyl-Hermann in an interview with Uni Nova, the research…

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Call for papers: "The Cartography Trouble: Counter-cartographies and paradigm shifts"

Colloquium "The Cartography Trouble: Counter-cartographies and paradigm shifts", Sorbonne University, Paris, 7–9 September 2026

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Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research of Faculty 9 (Cultural Studies), University of Bremen

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Job: Two PhD positions on SNF Project on "moral economies of racial reckoning"

University of St.Gallen

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Call for proposals: "Global Africa: Legacies, Change and Aspirations"

2026 Conference of the Canadian Association (CAAS) of African Studies, 9-12 June 2026, York University, Toronto

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Call for participation: "African Prisms"

AEGIS Summer School, Cagliari, 26-29 May 2026

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Publication: "Worlding Home. An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC"

Maren Larsen's book interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Call for abstracts: "Legends of the Past, Present and Tomorrow"

10th Anniversary Symposium on Indigenous Language Media and Communication, Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA), North-West University, South Africa, 25–26 August 2026

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