Events
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Follow up: Inaugural conference: Africa’s Institutions for Sustainable Governance
University of Ghana, Legon, Accra You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Youtube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content (Source: The Association of African Universities (AAU), interview, Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, ... Read more
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Table ronde: Développement de carrière et place des femmes dans le milieu académique africain
6 December, 2018, CREPOS, Dakar, Senegal Le Merian Institute of Advanced Studies Africa (MIASA), l’Institut historique allemand (IHA Paris) et le Centre de recherche sur les politiques sociales (CREPOS) organisent une table ronde sur le « Développement de carrière et place des femmes dans le milieu académique africain » le jeudi, 6 décembre 2019, à ... Read more
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Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop 2018
6-7 December 2018, Dakar On 6 and 7 December 2018, the first out of a series of Female Academic Career Workshops was held in Dakar (under the aegis of GHI Paris). Among 120 applications, 16 scholars from Senegal (8), Cameroon (4), Côte d’Ivoire (1), Togo (1), Algeria (1) and Morocco (1) were selected. The workshop ... Read more
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Workshop: Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums
13-14 December 2018, Institute of African Studies, Conference Room, University of Ghana Issues bordering on the demands for repatriation and restitution of looted and illegally acquired African cultural objects in European museums back to their Africa source communities are gaining currency. Though scholars have shied away from intellectually debating these issues on the African continent, ... Read more
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Public Lecture: ‘Europe’s war’: African migration and the politics of representation in European policy making; Speaker: Prof. Heaven Crawley
Accra Abstract In this lecture, Professor Heaven Crawley, Director of the new UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub draws on her research over more than 25 years to explore the politics of representation in European policy making in response to migration from Africa. She argues that it is impossible to understand the European ... Read more
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Kick-off Workshop: Parliaments and Democracy in Africa
Dakar From 18 to 20 March 2018, the workshop ‘Parliaments and Democracy’ took place in Dakar. It brought together three types of scholars: members of the “Do legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?” Project Group, future fellows of the second MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on ‘Parliaments and Democracy’, and other scholars working on legislatures, political parties, ... Read more
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Public Lecture: ‘Should I go or should I stay?’ – Exploring Return Migration and Reintegration Processes in Ghana; Speakers: Nauja Kleist & Mary Setrana
Accra Nauja Kleist, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark Mary Boatemaa Setrana, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana The question of return migration and reintegration are central in many migrants’ lives and in migration policies. Returning for shorter or longer periods of time, perhaps after years abroad, requires consideration and preparation. In some cases, ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Free Movement in ECOWAS and Beyond; Speakers: Prof. Joseph Kofi Teye & Amanda Bisong
Free Movement in ECOWAS and Beyond Prof. Joseph Kofi Teye, Director Centre for Migration StudiesMs. Amanda Bisong, European Centre for Development Policy Management, Maastricht ABSTRACT While political narratives and media images on migration tend to focus on its negative impacts, recent scholarship has shown that mobility within Africa presents both opportunities and challenges for sustainable ... Read more
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Public Lecture : Thoughts towards a Conceptual Understanding of African Migration; Speaker: Dr. Faisal Garba
Thoughts Towards a Conceptual Understanding of African Migration Dr. Faisal Garba, University of Cape Town ABSTRACT African migration is largely studied within discipline specific frameworks and models. The bulk of these models were developed from studies on migration in North America. Accordingly, there is little context-based conceptual and theoretical understanding of African migration rooted in ... Read more
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Public Lecture: International Migration from a Cross-Regional Perspective: African and Asian domestic workers in the Gulf; Speakers: Prof. Akosua Darkwah, Dr. Leander Kandilige and Dr. Stefan Rother
Venue: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, International House Prof. Akosua Darkwah Dr. Leander Kandilige Dr. Stefan Rother International Migration from a Cross-Regional Perspective: African and Asian domestic workers in the Gulf Date: Wednesday, 8th May 2019Time: 2pm-4pm AbstractThe globalization of reproductive labour, also known as “care chains”, has been one of the defining features of transnational female labour ... Read more
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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
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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
