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: Making Loot, Making Restitution – A Short (Legal) History; Speaker: Jakob Zollmann
virtual via Zoom Abstract: This lecture will introduce a number of key events and key sources from different historic periods regarding questions of loot and restitution. Was looting seen as ... Read more
Public Lecture: The New “Magic” of Power? Freemasonry, Postcolonial Homophobia, and Struggles for Decolonization in Central Africa; Speaker: Rogers Orock
via Zoom Speaker: Rogers Orock, University of the Witwatersrand Abstract: We live in an age of suspicion and conspiracism. This talk links current struggles over homosexuality in Francophone Africa to popular ... Read more
Lecture Series: Critical Reflections on Afro-European Relations in Migration Governance
via Zoom Migration on the African continent is multifold, complex with varying effects. One angle in particular is the European efforts to control migration, which has reached far beyond its ... Read more



