Latest Past Events
Public Lecture: Maintaining order in everyday life: Sociology of identity control at roadblocks in Chad; Speaker: Kelma Manatouma
MIASA Conference Room, 15th November 2022 Abstract "Present your identity document !", "Wen identité hanak", "pièce identité" These expressions, in Chadian Arabic or French, are familiar to anyone who is used to taking public transport, coaches from travel companies that have been growing rapidly over the last ten years, to travel to the South or ... Read more
Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2022: Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Africa; Invited Speaker: Sylvia Tamale (Makerere University)
Great Hall, University of Ghana The world lives with the falsehood that on planet earth, there is one universal correct way of being human, i.e., the Western way of thinking, of being and of doing, which is constructed as a one-size-fits-all model, the “default drive” for the entire world. The lecture focuses on some of ... Read more
Conference: Religious Diversity in Urban Africa: Exploring Modes of Coexistence
in Kumasi/Ghana Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Religious Diversity in Urban West Africa: Exploring Modes of Coexistence for Sustainable Governance (IFG 7) Programme Abstract: African cities have been undergoing considerable transformations in recent times. The significant role and impact that religious communities are competing for and benefiting from these transformations in African cities, however, have not attracted much interest. This ... Read more
