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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.

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  • Conference: Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement

    Venue: ISSER Conference Facilities Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement (IFG 1) Programme This conference is the outcome of four intense months of research collaboration at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA). This first International Fellowship Group (IFG) has brought together 13 researchers from a wide range of disciplines ... Read more

  • École d’été La migration intra-régionale en Afrique. Logiques, pratiques et défis MIASA, Réseau Programme Point Sud et Centre for Migration Studies

    University of Ghana Accra Appel à candidatureThème et objectifs de l’école d’étéLa migration intra-régionale – volontaire ou forcée – représente la forme la plus courante des déplacements en Afrique, lorsqu’on la compare à la migration africaine vers l’Europe ou d’autres régions du monde. L’histoire de la migration en Afrique remonte à la période précoloniale. Les ... Read more

  • Workshop: The Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Global South

    Accra From 15 to 17 September 2019, fourteen scholars from eleven countries convened on the Campus of Ghana University, Legon in Accra, in order to discuss the governance of energy systems from a Global Southern perspective. The presentations covered a broad range of regional contexts with case studies mostly from West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, ... Read more

  • Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop 2019

    13-14 November, 2019, CREPOS, Dakar, Senegal Abstract What is the place of women at African universities today? What opportunities and solutions exist to imagine, plan and promote national and international women’s academic careers? How to facilitate the reconciliation of professional life with private and family life? Based on these questions, the workshop aims to discuss ... Read more

  • Conference: Sustainability and the State in Africa: How political rules shape conflicts and their resolution, Point Sud, Bamako, Mali

    Bamako, Mali The analysis of politics and the state in Africa is often marked by a strong essentialising tendency. The State appears to be a kind of maladjusted tropical “Leviathan”, as it is necessarily an imported product, a tool of government poorly controlled by indigenous people unfamiliar with modern governance rules. This perspective tends to ... Read more

  • Virtual Conference: Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa

    Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable Rural Transformation (IFG 3) Virtual Conference: Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable Rural Transformation (IFG 3) Africa’s  rural  areas  are  facing  tremendous  challenges  including  persistent  poverty,  demographic pressure, an eroding resource base, and climatic change. At the same time, the natural resources of the  continent  receive  ... Read more

  • Conference: Critical Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Africa (IFG 4 Virtual Final Conference)

    via Zoom Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on The Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Global South (IFG 4) This conference is a showcase of research work conducted by the Interdisciplinary fellow group (IFG) at the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana which has focused on the ... Read more

  • Writing Workshop 2021

    12-16 April, 2021, virtual via Zoom The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of sustainable peace, sustainable democracy and sustainable environmental transformation on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The ... Read more

  • Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop 2021

    22-25 June, 2021, via Zoom Organizing team: Dr. Susann Baller (MIASA, DHIP), Dr. Laure Carbonnel (DHIP-CREPOS), Dr. Selly Bâ (HBS), Dr. Haydée Bangerezako (UCAD), Dr. Fatoumata Keita (ULSH Bamako) 22-25 June 2021 What opportunities and solutions exist to imagine, plan and promote national and international women’s academic careers? This fourth workshop on Female Academic Careers ... Read more

  • Public Roundtable: Strategies and Funding

    25 June, 2021, via Zoom The Roundtable takes place in the context of a workshop on Female Academic Careers in Africa offered by the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Paris and the Heinrich Boell Foundation Senegal. It is mainly funded by the ... Read more

  • Thematic Conference 2021: Prospects for Regional Integration in Africa – A Comparative Perspective: International MIASA Conference and Book Project

    at STIAS, Stellenbosch Conveners and Editors: Prof. Andreas Freytag, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany Prof. Abena Oduro, University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana Conference Programme The African Union (AU) has recently taken bold steps to integrate the continent further. In 2015 members agreed on a broad integration plan, the Agenda 2063. A first success has already ... Read more