Urban Research Workshop: The KNUST Campus and Its Environs
Department of Architecture, KNUST Organizer: Professor Lukasz Stanek, MIASA Senior Fellow, University of Machester
Public Lecture: The Kingdom of Mealies – Agriculture, rural reform, and the «race question» in South Africa, c. 1900-1940s, Speaker: Julia Tischler (University of Basel)
via Zoom Abstract: Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture underwent dramatic changes. Starting in the late nineteenth century, many settler economies were transformed by the rise of a large-scale, commercial agricultural sector, while scores of struggling rural producers were squeezed off the land. The same period saw the rise of a global “color ... Read more
Public Lecture: Negotiating Mine Closure in West Africa, Speakers: Tongnoma Zongo (Institut des Sciences des Sociétés) & Diana Ayeh (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ)
via Zoom Abstract: For several decades the mineral wealth of West Africa’s subsoil has increasingly attracted large- and small-scale investors and miners. This has not only led to a mushrooming of new mining projects (e.g. for gold or bauxite), it also involves (future) abandoned mine sites. These are (temporarily) left to themselves when resources are ... Read more
MIASA Round Table Discussion: Africanisation of Ghanaian Architecture, 1950s-2020s
via Zoom Abstract: During the late colonial period and in the wake of Ghana’s independence, architecture and the construction industry were assigned a central role in the economic, social, and cultural modernisation and emancipation of the country. The “Africanisation" of actors and institutions in charge of architecture and construction was both a tool and an ... Read more
MIASA Writing Workshop 2022: “Governance, Conflict Resolution and Climate Change”
Yiri Lodge, University of Ghana The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of governance, conflict resolution and climate change on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The 5-day writing workshop ... Read more
Public Lecture: Power Expressions in the Computer-Mediated Political Discourses of Select Ghanaian and Nigerian Female Politicians, Speaker: Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi
via Zoom Abstract: Lately, politicians from the Ghanaian and Nigerian political spaces have resorted to new media platforms for the propagation of their political messages. This is due to the ability of these channels to spread (political) messages to a wider audience within the shortest possible period, and engender wider political engagement. In spite of ... Read more
Public Lecture: Narrative, identity, and ethics: Theoretical considerations informed by decolonial feminisms, Speaker: Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
via Zoom Abstract: In this lecture I will outline the theoretical background of my MIASA project about ‘Christianity’, ‘feminism’, and associated terms, in the English-speaking YWCA movement on the continent. I aim to outline the epistemological basis for taking a narrative approach to researching ethics and identity in African contexts referring to African/a, Black, and ... Read more
Public Lecture: Processus marchands au grand marché de Bamako: Essai empirique – Market processes at the Grand Marché de Bamako: An empirical approach, Speaker: Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara
via Zoom Abstract: Le marché, l’un des concepts majeurs en économie, demeure la source originelle de discorde en sciences sociales (Zélizer, 1992 ; Bertrand et Catto, 2020). Le débat autour de ce concept est controversant et se situe à plusieurs niveaux comme le statut, le rôle de mécanisme d’allocation des ressources et le caractère autonome et ... Read more
Symposium “Restitution and Reparation Issues in Ghana. Experiences from the Past – Perspectives for the Present and Future”
J.H.K. Nketia Conference Hall & via Zoom Keynote: Professor Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin), author (with Felwine Sarr) of The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, known as the Sarr-Savoy Report (2018) and Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat (2022). Chair: Professor Wazi Apoh (University of Ghana) Programme Organised ... Read more
Presentation and Round Table Discussion: From the Maghreb to the Sahel: transnational terrorism – new trends and dynamics, Presenter: Aly Tounkara
via Zoom MIASA Public Lecture Series in collaboration with the Department of Political Science in Celebration of the Day of Scientific Renaissance of Africa Abstract: The Maghreb and Sahel regions have been plagued for more than a decade by endemic crises of a hybrid nature. The war in Libya, which began in 2011, followed by ... Read more
Policy Conference “Policies for a sustainable rural transformation in Africa”
ISSER Conference facilities, University of Ghana Organized by: Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), at the University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana In collaboration with: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana; German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany Keynote speeches by: Prof. Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel, ... Read more
Public Lecture: Land Governance in West Africa – preliminary empirical insights; Speakers: Fellows of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group 6
via Zoom Abstract: Drawing from interdisciplinary research on land governance in West Africa, with field sites in rural and urban areas of Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, and Senegal, members of the Sixth Cohort of the MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG6) of MIASA share some preliminary insights from their works in this Public Lecture. With fellowship support ... Read more
