Events
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Guest Lecture: Disavowed Mobilities: On Movement, Landscapes, and Afro-Amerindian encounters in Caribbean and Central American History; Speaker: Beatriz Véliz Argueta (CALAS/ University of Guadalajara/ University of Costa Rica)
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: What does it mean to follow a moving subject through space and time? How did mountains, ravines, winds and currents shape human mobility in the Caribbean and Central America in the early modern period? Building on a spatial and environmental framing, Disavowed Mobilities asks how Afro-Amerindian movement, survival, and displacement were structured not only by imperial ... Read more
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Conference: Militarization, Coups and the Crisis of Constitutionalism in Africa – Democratic Regression and Constitutional Resilience
J.H. Nketia Conference Hall, Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, LegonUntil recently not a prominent topic in comparative constitutional scholarship, the role of the military is attracting more and more attention. Melissa Crouch for example has even argued for a “military turn in comparative constitutional law”, observing however that “at present, legal scholarship on constitutionalism in Africa makes little mention of the military” (Annual Review ... Read more
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Roundtable: “Ghana’s Framework for Constitutional Resilience vis-a-vis Regional Instability”
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2026: The Genesis of Doubt: From Anton Wilhelm Amo to Ghana’s Democracy; Invited speaker: Prof. Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
Great Hall, University of Ghana, LegonAbstract This lecture will adopt the life and work of Anton Wilhelm Amo as the take-off point for reflecting on the genesis of doubt and its uses in society and politics. It will be shown through and interpretation of various sources from philosophy and literature that doubt has many modes of articulation, partly in relation ... Read more
