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  • Film Screening: “Man’s Greatest Lake” and “Who is Free?” by R. Lane Clark and Stephan F. Miescher

    MIASA Seminar Room

    “Man’s Greatest Lake,” an episode of the documentary series GHANA’S ELECTRIC DREAMS,explores unanticipated consequences from the creation of the world’s largest man-made lake behind Akosombo Dam. The film takes viewers across the water to meet people whose lives were forever altered. Volta Lake flooded forests and fertile grasslands, creating a vast aquatic environment for a bountiful fishing ... Read more

  • MIASA-PAPA Conference 2025: Sustainable Governance in Africa: The Usefulness of the Concept of Crisis

    University Houphouët Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

    The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana in Accra and the Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA) at Point Sud, are organizing, in collaboration with the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany), an international colloquium on the concept of crisis, widely used in African studies, from 12 to 14 June ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: African Studies: pos-coloniality, dictatorships and the global political stability under the Cold War; Speaker: Claudio Pinheiro

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: This presentation examines the constitution of African (and Asian) Studies in the 1950s and 1960s as part of an international attitude of political solidarity and critical awareness, within socio-political intellectual anti-colonial movements activelychallenging neocolonialism, forms of oppression and dependency, posing threats to the stability of Third World democraciesduring the Cold War. The focus is on the contributions of scholars and other social actors in Ghana – such as Norbert Elias, Raymundo de Souza Dantas, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Fernando Moraes Farias, Vivaldo Costa Lima, W.B. Du Bois, and EfuaSutherland – helps understanding the formation of a political-intellectual epistemic community, which influenced therelationship between international cooperation, knowledge production, and initiatives for autonomous, African-centered socio-economic development. The research project also delves into theoretical and methodological approaches, exploring how tointegrate research on individual paths with the broader network of related, often less visible, individuals and institutions thatwere vital in shaping collective or larger political objectives. Claudio Pinheiro is professor of Asian and African Studies at Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil, where he also serves as ... Read more

  • Atelier du MIASA sur les carrières académiques féminines en Afrique à Dakar

    Dakar, Senegal

    Date limite de candidature: 22 mai 2025 Le Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) lance cet appel à candidatures pour son 8èmeatelier sur les carrières académiques des femmes en Afrique, qui aura lieu du 15 au 17 juillet 2025 à Dakar (Sénégal). Cet atelier est organisé en coopération avec l’Institut historique allemand (IHA), ... Read more

  • Table ronde publique: L’impact des femmes académiques dans l’environnement universitaire en Afrique/ Public Roundtable: The impact of academic women in the higher education contexts in Africa

    WARC conference room, Dakar (Senegal)

    Zoom : https://maxweberstiftung.zoom-x.de/j/68524622605 Langue : français ; en ligne avec traduction en anglais Cette table ronde publique a lieu dans le cadre du huitième atelier sur les carrières universitaires féminines en Afrique, organisé par le Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) en collaboration avec l’Institut historique allemand de Paris (IHA), le Centre Marc Bloch Berlin (CMB), la ... Read more

  • Guest Lecture: Breaking Bureaucracy: Fraud and Forgery in the “postcolonial neo-colonised world”; Speaker: Yusuf Serunkuma

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: This seminar discusses forgery and fraud as a counterpublic – an alternative, almost subversive authentication of claims (identity, knowledge and ownership) towards mobility and survival. The project examines how counterfeit and forgery – often perceived negatively through the lens of law and morality – can be understood as forms of resistance and survival strategies ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: Anton Wilhelm Amo: In-between Life Worlds; Speaker: Stefanie Bognitz

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: This lecture revisits the scholarship on Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first and only philosopher in early Enlightenment Europe born on the continent of Africa. It dwells on a selection of his network of interlocutors, mentors, and history of ideas that informed Amo’s life and thought. By returning to the worlds that shaped his intellectual ... Read more

  • Symposium: Towards gender equality: transforming leadership and career development in higher education

    Virtual

    This two day symposium explores the barriers and facilitators of women’s leadership and career development in higher education across the global south and north.  It includes a special two hour training session for early career scholars run by 64MillionArtists. Participants at all career stages will also have the opportunity, if they wish,  to take part ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: “Women, slavery and social mobility in Eastern Congo since the 1870s”; Speaker: Margot Luyckfasseel

    Abstract: This lecture focuses on the experiences of women who became part of the East African trade caravan system in the late 19th century in what is today the Eastern DRCongo, whether it was through enslavement or marriage. While this history has been mostly narrated as explicitly male – not least because of colonial biases –, ... Read more

  • Public Lecture: “Urban Market Dynamics and Conflicts over Marketplaces in Bamako, Accra, and Kumasi”; Speakers: Dr. Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara & Dr. Lamine Doumbia

    MIASA Seminar Room

    Abstract: This lecture examines urban markets in Bamako, Accra, and Kumasi through an interdisciplinary analytical lens. It focuses on the tensions surrounding the governance and usage of market spaces, especially under urban development agendas that are often framed by neoliberal logics of modernization, which can marginalize local actors and practices. Through comparative case studies, this project reveals how market users negotiate ... Read more

  • Conference: Travelling Comparison Approach – launching a new framework for research, policy and practice for peace and security (IFG 13 Conference)

    ISSER Conference Centre, University of Ghana

    Abstract: Scholars from across Africa and Europe are coming together at the University of Ghana on 3 December 2025 to establish a new way of doing and thinking comparison in peace and conflict studies. We discuss two key innovations: First, valuing decolonial practices through the centering of African voices in practice, methods and theory. Second, ... Read more

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