Events
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Public Lecture: Rethinking Immigration Governance in the Contemporary Context of Collaboration and Integration in Africa; Speaker: Christal Spel
Virtual via Zoom, 18th April 2021 Abstract The presentation focuses on the mobility component of the AfCFTA and calls attention to the social and economic vulnerability of African migrants in Africa. First, I will discuss the vulnerability African migrants experience in Africa. Next, using theoretical analysis, I will link the implementation of the AfCFTA to ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Monumental Failure: Forgetting the Victims of the Life Esidimeni Tragedy; Speaker: Nontsasa Nako
Virtual via Zoom, 27th April 2021 Abstract 144 mental health patients died, and 44 went missing after the Gauteng department of health moved nearly 1500 mental health care users from the Life Esidimeni facilities into 27 private NGOs, which became known as the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The public outcry and the outrage that followed when ... Read more
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Public Lecture: New Urbanism, New “Middle Classes” – New Policies in Africa? Some Observations from Contemporary Kenya; Speaker: Florian Stoll
Virtual via Zoom, 25th May 2021 Abstract Most African countries have seen a significant growth of cities in the last decades. Political systems rely, however, frequently on the networks of societies with a rural majority. This project examines how urbanization influences existing political systems using Kenya as a case study. Kenya is particularly suitable because ... Read more
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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
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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
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Lecture Series: Critical Reflections on Afro-European Relations in Migration Governance
via Zoom Migration on the African continent is multifold, complex with varying effects. One angle in particular is the European efforts to control migration, which has reached far beyond its external borders to the African continent. For example, there has been an attempt to increase ‘cooperative agreements’ between the European Union (EU) with African states. ... Read more
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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
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Public Lecture: The New “Magic” of Power? Freemasonry, Postcolonial Homophobia, and Struggles for Decolonization in Central Africa; Speaker: Rogers Orock
via Zoom Speaker: Rogers Orock, University of the Witwatersrand Abstract: We live in an age of suspicion and conspiracism. This talk links current struggles over homosexuality in Francophone Africa to popular suspicions and conspiracy theories about Freemasonry, a global (though originally Western-based) esoteric or secret society with a significant presence across Africa. By analysing rumours and ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Making Loot, Making Restitution – A Short (Legal) History; Speaker: Jakob Zollmann
virtual via Zoom Abstract: This lecture will introduce a number of key events and key sources from different historic periods regarding questions of loot and restitution. Was looting seen as a legitimate, lawful part of waging war against other nations or opponents? Was there something problematic for contemporaries of different historic periods in the act ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Terms of detachment: Aloneness as potential in West African migration; Speaker: Michael Stasik
via Zoom Abstract: Studies of African migration, and of migration in and from West Africa, in particular, commonly place group relations and efforts front and center. Migration is presented as a collective practice oriented towards making and maintaining relatedness, both at home and abroad. In this talk, I challenge this groupist bias and the one-sided ... Read more
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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
