Lectures
The MIASA Public Lecture Series features MIASA fellows in residence. It is primarily directed to researchers and students but is also open to the wider public.
The Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture is organized annually by MIASA at the University of Ghana in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies and the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana. It is named after the 18th century philosopher from present-day Ghana who taught at the universities of Halle and Jena. The lecture series promotes MIASA’s overarching commitment of making African thinking increasingly relevant in global academia, and it addresses questions of how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to the decolonisation of knowledge production and epistemic justice.
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Public lecture: Community Radio, Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Sahel; Speakers: Lassané Yaméogo & Viviane Schönbächler
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: This lecture explores the roles played by community radio stations in times of security crisis, using the concepts of fragility, resilience and reciprocity. Through a qualitative approach, we examine how the crisis fragilizes community radio stations in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso and their relationships with the “communities”. As an inherently reciprocal medium, community radios and their “communities” ... Read more
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2025: Where are the therapeutic intellectuals? Popular culture and autobiographical narratives for justice and healing; Invited Speaker: Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Professor of African and Gender Studies, CEO & Director 715 House Media)
Great Hall, University of GhanaAbstract: Our era is defined by a deep sense of urgency, and a collective sense of despair, even hopelessness, among many young people. Africans and people of African descent have highly developed skills to cope with turbulence, pain and trauma—slavery, colonialism, the effects of our neo-liberal and capitalist world. Yet we have not had to ... Read more
