Suren Pillay holds the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies, and is Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

This year's Carl Schlettwein Lecture, held by Suren Pillay, will examine the complex relationship between colonial legacies and postcolonial futures from a Southern African vantage point after the end of apartheid.

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/

DEADLINE = 15 September 2025 🔥🔥🔥

Namibia Research Day is back! Please join!

‼️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

Great project & job opportunity in Usakos, Namibia

📢 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

👉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...

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Are you at the #ECAS2025 in Prague? ➡️Come to the exhibition booth of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and find out more about #Basel, @zasb.unibas.ch & the upcoming SGAS-VAD 2026 conference (26-28 Aug 2026).
📢 Call for panels is open until 31 July.
🔗 www.africanperspectives.ch
#VAD2026 #SGAS2026

This year, the @zasb.unibas.ch Summer School honours Valentin-Yves Mudimbe's work and engages with the contributions of African Studies not only to knowledge about Africa, but also to the renewal of the very tools through which we produce knowledge, namely concepts, theories, and methods.

📣Apply now: 7th Basel Summer School in #AfricanStudies:

🌟Honouring #Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through African Thought

📅 8-12 September 2025
‼️ Application deadline: 6 July 2025
📍 Basel, Switzerland

zasb.unibas.ch/en/summer-sc...

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

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

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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...

New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum

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

📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open.

🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"
‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025
📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026
📍Location: Basel, Switzerland

zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news...

#CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA