Session d’information sur les bourses MIASA pour chercheurs francophones/ Information Meeting on MIASA Fellowships for Francophone Researchers
C'est une session virtuelle. Lien de zoom: https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/66812051442?pwd=ah9y58PKsvJWGxHpVh8VVzusbywPSW.1 Meeting-ID: 668 1205 1442 Code: 7092i7AFp
MIASA Thematic Conference on Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Politics and Sustainability
University Omar Bongo Libreville, GabonPanel: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Transformation through Large-Scale Land Investments and Governance in the Context of Water, Energy and Food Systems Nexus
Abstract This panel shall address how large-scale land investments affect structural and livelihood changes in rural Africa. This has become crucial as millions of hectares of land are transformed annually from smallholder production and community use into large-scale commercial farms across Africa. Since 2000, approximately 50 million hectares of new land concessions in rural Africa ... Read more
Workshop on “Restitution dynamics from Africa and the German debate”
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of FreiburgWithin the past years MIASA has contributed to ongoing research and discussions on sustainable restitution governance in West Africa by the work carried out by fellows in residence as well as during various workshops and conferences. Meanwhile, in Germany, it is still primarily the challenges faced by local museums, the prerequisites and results of provenance ... Read more
Public Lecture: Is South-South Cooperation an alternative development paradigm? The Case of India in Africa; Speaker: Meera Venkatachalam
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: A number of emerging powers, such as China, Turkey, Brazil and India have come to play a significant role in Africa’s development landscape, funding projects from infrastructure to capacity-building and agriculture. Many of these states claim their actions are informed by the notion of southern solidarity, and that their development compact with Africa is framed ... Read more
MIASA-MECAM Roundtable on “Academic Freedom and Research Ethics: Exploring Dynamics in Ghana, Tunisia & Germany”
Auditorium, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research, University of Ghana, LegonOn October 10, 2024, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), in collaboration with the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), will host a joint roundtable discussion on “Academic Freedom and Research Ethics: Exploring Dynamics in Ghana, Tunisia & Germany.” This event is part of MIASA's Public Lecture Series and ... Read more
Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2024: Ancestral Knowledge for Contemporary Transformation; Invited Speaker: Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: Great Hall, University of Ghana This lecture focuses on the important role of ancestral knowledge in transformation in contemporary Africa. Drawing on traditional ecological knowledge, cultural knowledge, and community governance structures, the lecture discusses how traditional knowledge developed over the centuries could be useful in dealing with contemporary challenges such as environmental degradation, social ... Read more
Artist Exhibition: Weaving our Past, Present and Future, by MIASA Artist in Residence Katesi Jacqueline Kalange
MIASA Courtyard & Seminar RoomKatesi Jacqueline Kalange is an artist from Uganda. Her practice lies within a tapestry of sculpture, architecture, research, performance and installation art. It is inspired by the role African indigenous wisdom played and still plays in ensuring a harmonious co-existence between humans and other beings within shared eco systems. It goes ahead to challenge capitalist narratives that ... Read more
Guest Lecture: Family history and the politics of memory in Africa; Speaker: Prof. Carola Lentz (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: What keeps a family together? Over the course of the past decades, lifestyles and ideas about family have become more and more different. In Africa, as elsewhere, urbanites and villagers, educated elites and modest folks, men and women, older and younger generations have developed diverging visions of a desirable future for themselves and their kin. ... Read more
Conference: Sustainability in West Africa’s Mining Sector(s) – Political Trends, Popular Struggles and Sustainable Futures
Auditorium, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research, University of Ghana, LegonAim The workshop aims to unite different actors from academia, business, civil society and politics to discuss the various meanings and dimensions of sustainability in/of the global mineral production system with a focus on gold mining in West Africa. It also invites a broader public to participate in discussions on the sustainable governance of large- ... Read more
Public Lecture: The working of the concept of the “engaged writer” and the search for democracy and peace in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, and Nicolás Guillén’s collection of poetry, West Indies Ltd.; Speaker: Setor Novieto
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: In this presentation, we examine the concept of the "engaged writer" as articulated in the works of Ayi Kwei Armah and Nicolás Guillén, with a particular focus on their respective texts, Fragments and West Indies Ltd. This study examines how both authors navigate themes of democracy, peace, and socio-political transformation within their literary and cultural contexts. In ... Read more
Policy Conference on “Dealing with conflict, preparing for sustainable peace: Current research and its policy implications”
ISSER Conference HallThis MIASA conference is jointly organised by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana. Program Committee: Dr Emma Birikorang, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre Dr Julia Grauvogel, German Institute ... Read more
