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.
Latest Past Events
Public Lecture: The Kingdom of Mealies – Agriculture, Rural Reform, and the «Race Question» in South Africa, c. 1900-1940s; Speaker: Julia Tischler
via Zoom Abstract: Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture underwent dramatic changes. Starting in the late nineteenth century, many settler economies were transformed by the rise of a ... Read more
Public Lecture: Ablɔɖe! The Axis of Extremist Discontent of the Western Togoland Secessionist Movement in Ghana: The Old, the New and the Grey; Speaker: Nene-Lomotey Kuditchar
via Zoom Abstract: Ghana’s post Fourth Republican encounter with extremism anchored on the secession of Western Togoland raises a pertinent question: under what conditions does extremism fester in a context ... Read more
Public Lecture: Party Primaries in Ghana: A Conjoint Survey Experiment; Speakers: Anja Osei & Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari
Abstract: Especially, in competitive systems like Ghana, the electoral success of a party is at least in part a function of appropriate candidate selection. Both NPP and NDC hold party ... Read more



