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  • Workshop: Tracing Foundations

    University of Ghana Makerspace

    Tracing Foundations is a participatory sculptural intervention in public space that explores how form emerges through accumulation, proximity, and shared action. Rather than presenting a fixed object, the work understands sculpture as a spatial condition shaped by use, negotiation, and presence. Drawing on additive structural principles derived from the spatial organization of Gurunsi village ground plans, ... Read more

  • MIASA Publishing Workshop 2026

    ISSER Seminar Room, University of Ghana, Legon

    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 on 9 and 10 March 2026 at the University of Ghana in Accra.  Objectives and Workshop Programme ... Read more

  • Public Roundtable: Sustainable Publication Practices: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North

    ISSER Seminar Room, University of Ghana, Legon

    Academic publishing practices play a gatekeeping role in determining what counts as “academic knowledge,” shaping both what scholars read and what they are able to publish. They operate within a global context in which epistemologies are shaped by asymmetrical power relations, material conditions, and patterns of (neo)coloniality. For example, research on citation patterns shows that ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: “Plotting Sovereignty, Staging Liberation”; Speaker: Kenny Cupers

    Abstract: What can the limits of postcolonial land restitution tell us about our planetary crisis today? Scholarship in architectural, urban, and environmental history has become increasingly planetary in scope, yet it has rarely engaged issues of land and sovereignty that postcolonial and African historians have long studied. This talk develops earthmaking as a framework — attending to ... Read more

  • MIASA Thematic Conference on “Rethinking Forced Displacement in Africa”

    LASPAD, University Gaston Berger, St. Louis, Senegal

    Programme Although Northern countries often claim to be struggling with migration crises, the majority of forced displacement occurs in the Global South. When analysed in this context, migration from the Global South is viewed as a ‘problem’ requiring an urgent and exceptional policy response (Brachet, 2009; Boyer & Mounkaila, 2020). Displaced people fleeing conflicts and ... Read more

  • MIASA Writing Workshop 2026: Peace, Democracy and Green Energy 

    ISSER Seminar Room, University of Ghana, Legon

    The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of peace, democracy and green energy on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The 5-day writing workshop is designed to provide early career ... Read more

  • Policy Dialogue: The relationship between migration research and policy practice in Africa

    Chair: Dr. Stefan Rother, Director (Germany) of MIASA Speakers: Prof. Leander Kandilige, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana Abena Owusua Amponsah-Bio, Implementation Manager (DV)/ Programme Component Manager Programme Shaping Development-oriented Migration MEG, GIZ Office Accra Prof. Jesper Bjarnesen, Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden Kachi Madubuko IOM Senior Policy Officer, Trade and Mobility ... Read more

  • “Salafi Revival, Contested Identities and Conflicts in Postcolonial Ghana (1950s – 2000s)”; Speaker: Professor Yunus Dumbe

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: This project which aims to produce a monograph analyses the dynamic growth of Salafism and its revival from the early postcolonial Ghana (1950s-2000). I seek among others to analyse the changing trajectories of Salafi revival from proselytization to intra-Salafi and Muslim conflicts and the implications of its transformation as a national movement in Ghana. ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: “Desert Scenes: Transformative Relationality in Genocidal Extractive Zones”; Speaker: Henriette Gunkel

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: During a site-specific workshop week in and around Lüderitz, Namibia in 2023, a group of artists, academics and activists from primarily Namibia and Germany followed the question of “How may something — in this case, the white settler colonial violence and the genocide, — be memorialized while its impact continues to unfold?”. Through collaborative, transdisciplinary practices, ... Read more

  • Conference: Ageing in Africa: Narratives, Human Rights, and Care

    Auditorium, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research, University of Ghana, Legon

    Africa is undergoing major demographic change, in which the population share of its older population is expected to increase rapidly, at a much faster pace than in other world regions. This demographic shift poses challenges to families and households, institutions and practices of governance, and civil society organizations. In general, these dynamics are understudied, and the existing scholarship ... Read more