Guest Lecture: Family history and the politics of memory in Africa; Speaker: Prof. Carola Lentz (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: What keeps a family together? Over the course of the past decades, lifestyles and ideas about family have become more and more different. In Africa, as elsewhere, urbanites and villagers, educated elites and modest folks, men and women, older and younger generations have developed diverging visions of a desirable future for themselves and their kin. ... Read more
Conference: Sustainability in West Africa’s Mining Sector(s) – Political Trends, Popular Struggles and Sustainable Futures
Auditorium, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research, University of Ghana, LegonAim The workshop aims to unite different actors from academia, business, civil society and politics to discuss the various meanings and dimensions of sustainability in/of the global mineral production system with a focus on gold mining in West Africa. It also invites a broader public to participate in discussions on the sustainable governance of large- ... Read more
Policy Conference on “Dealing with conflict, preparing for sustainable peace: Current research and its policy implications”
ISSER Conference HallSubmission deadline: 1 September 2024 This MIASA conference is jointly organised by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana. Program Committee: Dr Emma Birikorang, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre ... Read more
