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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel

@zasb.unibas.ch

The 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.

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel@zasb.unibas.ch · 11mo ago

Join us for this year's Carl Schlettwein Lecture, held by Suren Pillay (University of Cape Town). 📅 25 Sep 2025, 18:15 📍 Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Klosterberg 23, Basel) 🥂 Followed by a reception 🔗https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/carl-schlettwein-lecture-2025/

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel@zasb.unibas.ch · last yr.

‼️Deadline extended to 15 Aug 2025‼️ 📢 Call for Panels 🌍 "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" 🔗 Submit your proposal now: www.africanperspectives.ch/cfpanels ➡️ Joint SGAS and VAD conference 📅 26-28 August 2026 📍 Basel, Switzerland #callforpanels #africanstudies #VAD2026 #SGAS2026

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel@zasb.unibas.ch · last yr.

📢 Reminder: Call for Panels 🌍 "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" SGAS-VAD conference 📅26-28 Aug 2026 📍Basel, Switzerland ‼️Panel submission deadline: 31 July 2025 🔗 Submit your proposal now: www.africanperspectives.ch #CallForPanels #AfricanStudies #VAD2026 #SGAS2026

Africa Centre for Transregional Research@actunifreiburg.bsky.social · last yr.

👉Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27. Deadline: 15 Sept Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p... @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social @zasb.unibas.ch @africamultiple.bsky.social @colonial-memories.bsky.social

Fellowship Programme - MIASA - Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa

MIASA offers different types of fellowships. Central to the thematic identity of MIASA is that the research topics must match MIASA’s umbrella topic

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Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)@miasa-ug.bsky.social · last yr.

Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27. Deadline: 15 Sept Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p... @uni-freiburg.de @goetheuni.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @dhi-paris.fr @actunifreiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

Jon Schubert@jonschu.bsky.social · last yr.

my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch

Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa

This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel@zasb.unibas.ch · last yr.

Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water" 📅12-13 June 2025 📍Basel, Switzerland ‼️Registration is open until 15 May 2025. #AfricanStudies #UrbanStudies #SGAS #SSEA @jonschu.bsky.social @dgw.philhist.unibas.ch zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de...

International Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water"

International Workshop in Critical Urbanism, University of Basel, 12-13 June 2025

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel@zasb.unibas.ch · last yr.

Ermest Sewordor's article questions the linear & determinist way #coloniality has been deployed in literature on #infrastructure, by exploring how the intersection between infrastructure & racialization shaped the urbanization of gold-mining enclaves in colonial Ghana. zasb.unibas.ch/de/forschung...

Publication: "Upending coloniality: Race and infrastructure from Ghana's urban gold-mining hinterlands"

Ernest Sewordor's article questions the linear and determinist way coloniality has been deployed in the extant literature on infrastructure, by expanding the term to reflect a spectrum of racial polit...

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swisspeace@swisspeace.bsky.social · last yr.

We are offering a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of adult education & peacebuilding. Join our team as a Junior Course Coordinator (80%)! 📍 Location: Basel | 🕗 Duration: Fixed Term | 💼 Start: 1 August 2025 🔗 Apply now: shorturl.at/nRyPD