Workshops & Conferences
MIASA Conferences include Conferences of Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFGs) and Follow-up Events, Policy Conferences, as well as Thematic Conferences, which take place at various sites across the African continent. MIASA Conferences are organized in cooperation with one or several of the partner institutions at the University of Ghana and/or by external cooperation partners in Ghana and other African countries. They often attract attention beyond the academic community. By offering hybrid formats, MIASA aims at targetting a worldwide audience. Policy Conferences and Thematic Conferences invite papers via an open call.
MIASA Workshops include Writing and Publishing workshops as well as Female Academic Career workshops. Participation is restricted to successful applicants.
Events
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Public Roundtable: The 4Rs in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?
Virtual via Zoom, 19th October 2021 Moderators: Dr. Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo and Dr. Stefanie Michels Abstract"Scholars and a Filmmaker from Ghana will discuss the question of cultural goods from Ghana in Western museums in light of ongoing debates on issues of restitution. With the screening of the 1970 film "You Hide Me" on the ... Read more
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Public Roundtable: African-German Research Cooperation and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
19 October, 2021, via Zoom The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is organizing a virtual Round Table on „African-German Research Cooperation and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities“, together with the DAAD and the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, on Tuesday 19th October 2021, 10:00am-12:00pm (UTC), via Zoom.The event will be introduced by representatives of the main German ... Read more
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Publishing Workshop 2021
21-22 October, 2021, via Zoom The MIASA Publishing Workshop for African scholars, jointly organised by Africa Spectrum (published by the GIGA Institute for African Affairs) and the Contemporary Journal of African Studies (published by the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana), will take place virtually on 21 and 22 October 2021. The ... Read more
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2021: The Significance of Anton Wilhelm Amo in Contemporary African Philosophy; Invited Speaker: J. Obi Oguejiofor (Nnamdi Azikiwe University)
Great Hall & ISSER Conference Facilities The Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture is organized annually by MIASA at the University of Ghana. It aims at strengthening the visibility of MIASA on campus and beyond through a high-level annual lecture series, which would be a valued element in the CVs of African scholars in the social sciences ... Read more
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2021 and Symposium: Reflections on his Life and Intellectual Legacy for Contemporary Discourses
ISSER Conference HallThe Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture is organized annually by MIASA at the University of Ghana. It aims at strengthening the visibility of MIASA on campus and beyond through a high-level annual lecture series, which would be a valued element in the CVs of African scholars in the social sciences and humanities. It is named after ... Read more
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MIASA-PAPA Conference 2021: Challenging Conflict Research in Africa: Epistemological, Theoretical and Methodological Issues
J.H.K. Nketia Conference Room, Institute of African Studies In recent years, the social sciences have been crossed by a major questioning movement of scientific discourse on Africa. The inventory of the colonial library, decolonial thought, and the decoding of the contents of the “black boxes” that are the most commonly used concepts in the social ... Read more
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Conference: Restitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation (The 4Rs) in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?
at University of Ghana Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group "The 4 Rs in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?" (IFG 5) This was the closing workshop of an international Fellow Group at MIASA (University of Ghana). The aim of the group was to open up the dichotomous visions of the restitution debate by focusing on a case study: ... Read more
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Urban Research Workshop: The KNUST Campus and Its Environs
Department of Architecture, KNUST Organizer: Professor Lukasz Stanek, MIASA Senior Fellow, University of Machester
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Public Roundtable: Africanisation of Ghanaian Architecture, 1950s-2020s
via Zoom Abstract: During the late colonial period and in the wake of Ghana’s independence, architecture and the construction industry were assigned a central role in the economic, social, and cultural modernisation and emancipation of the country. The “Africanisation" of actors and institutions in charge of architecture and construction was both a tool and an ... Read more
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Writing Workshop 2022: Governance, Conflict Resolution and Climate Change
Yiri Lodge, University of Ghana The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of governance, conflict resolution and climate change on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The 5-day writing workshop ... Read more
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Symposium: Restitution and Reparation Issues in Ghana. Experiences from the Past – Perspectives for the Present and Future
J.H.K. Nketia Conference Hall & via Zoom Keynote: Professor Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin), author (with Felwine Sarr) of The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, known as the Sarr-Savoy Report (2018) and Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat (2022). Chair: Professor Wazi Apoh (University of Ghana) Programme Organised ... Read more
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Policy Conference 2022: Policies for a Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa
ISSER Conference facilities, University of Ghana Organized by: Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), at the University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana In collaboration with: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana; German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany Keynote speeches by: Prof. Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel, ... Read more
