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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.

Volunteers at the Conference African Perspectives on Global Transformations

A big thank you to our volunteers!

From 26 to 28 August the ZASB successfully held the joint biennial conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies and the German Association for African Studies VAD (e.V.)

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Graduate Workshop: "The Freedom of Science – A Societal Challenge"

This interdisciplinary workshop invites PhD students from the University of Basel and all Swiss universities to explore the freedom of science from a scholarly perspective.

The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. It is an acknowledged centre for interdisciplinary Africa-focused research and offers a Master's and a PhD in African Studies as well as a continuing education programme for professionals.

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23 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15

Location: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, room -101

Organizer: Centre for African Studies

Stephanie Zehnle: “Strata of Dissonance: Mining, Metallurgy and Metalware in West African History”

Public lecture in the Series Africa, Method, Theory
26 Oct 2026 - 27 Oct 2026

Location: Room KOL-G-212, Universität Zürich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Organizer: Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou and Roberto Zaugg

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Interdisciplinary Meeting in African History: "Unearthing Connected Pasts"

Universität Zürich
28 Oct 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminarraum -201, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Institute of Social Anthropology

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Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium: MA thesis presentations

In the framework of the Anthropological Crossroads Colloquium
30 Oct 2026
Time: 09:00

Location: Room F021, University of Bern, UniTobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

Organizer: Swiss Society for African Studies

Research-Action Day: "Combating Racism Against Black People"

Seeking to take a stronger position in the fight against anti-black racism, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) organizes a Research-Action Day.
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Publikation: "Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie"

Andreas Heuser ist Mitherausgeber des ersten deutschsprachigen Handbuchs zur Interkulturellen Theologie. Zudem hat er Kapitel zu Migrationskirchen, zu Migration, Religion und Identität sowie zu Afrikanischen Unabhängigen Kirchen (AUK)…

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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…

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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The continuing education programme equips professionals with the knowledge, skills and resources that enable them to efficiently and sustainably work in an African context .

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