Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB

The @ZASBasel is now on #BlueSky 👋 🔗bsky.app/profile/zasb.u…

🌍We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. ❗Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024. 🔗zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma #studyatZASB 4/4

Our *MA African Studies* program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality. 3/4

❓Why African Studies? ‼️African Studies teaches you to appreciate how the world could have been different. 💡Global success of Swiss chocolate is not only based on quality and marketing... #studying #mastersdegree #africanstudies #basel #switzerland @UniBasel #studyatZASB 1/4

Sinnstiftend fürs Leben lernen und theoretisches Wissen anwenden? DIE Chance, sich #transdisziplinär auszuprobieren oder Studierende dazu zu ermutigen! Zu den Zukunftsaussichten von U Change lest ausserdem im letzten Newsletter und gebt Rückmeldung! u-change.ch/de/newsletter/

❗ Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024. 🔗zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma #study #mastersdegree #africanstudies #Basel @UniBasel 6/6

🧑🏾‍🎓Our MA African Studies program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality. 5/6

❓ Why African Studies? ‼️ African Studies teaches you not to take ethical claims at face value. 💡We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. #studying #mastersdegree #africanstudies #Basel @UniBasel 1/6

Aufgrund der grossen Nachfrage wird die Ausstellung "Deal with it" bis am 31. Januar 2024 verlängert. So wird sie auch an der Museumsnacht am 19. Januar 2024 noch zu sehen sein! @museenbasel @SwissTPH @ZASBasel @baseltourism @Staatsarchiv_BS @BaselHistory @UniBasel

Check out the new open-access volume "Planetary Hinterlands - Extraction, Abandonment and Care" - with wonderful contributions by Pamila Gupta, @sindi_leigh, Sarah Nuttall, Esther Peeren, myself and many more...! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Morgen Abend geht's los: "Deal with it" zeigt Perspektiven auf den Umgang mit afrikanischem Kulturgut in Basler Sammlungs- und Forschungsinstitutionen: @UniBasel, @ZASBasel, Mission 21, @SwissTPH und Museum der Kulturen. Vernissage: 18 Uhr. Komm vorbei! ub.unibas.ch/de/ausstellung…

#STSCH2023 conference (Basel, 31.08.-01.09.2023): Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects 🔜Register until 31 July at the preferential price: 🔗sts2023.ch/registration/ 📑Programme: 🔗conferences.unibas.ch/frontend/index… @STSCH_ @UniBaselSocSci #sts

📢Job opportunity: Assistant Professor in African Studies as part of a collaboration between the Centre of African Studies and @privacy_ku, University of Copenhagen Application deadline 1 October 2023. jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige…

📢#Job: Am @UniBaselSocSci der @UniBasel ist im Fachbereich #Soziologie eine Assistenz (Doktorand:in) mit Schwerpunkt #Afrikastudien zu besetzen. ‼️Bewerbungsfrist: 4. Juli 2023‼️ zasb.unibas.ch/en/job-portal/…

Open call - consolidation grant: The goal of this instrument is to further develop, consolidate and expand relations and foster new collaborations between🇨🇭 researchers and partners in #Africa. swisstph.ch/en/research/le… @CDEunibe @ETH4D @SwissTPH @swisspeace @SwissAfrica @ZASBasel

6th Basel #SummerSchool in #AfricanStudies (23.08.-01.09.2023) @UniBasel_en @UniBaselSocSci @BaselHistory @BaselInstitute @SwissTPH @SwissAfrica @CODESRIA @MIASA_UG @huma_africa @KFPE_CH @RtG_project @Europainstitut 🔗zasb.unibas.ch/en/summerschoo…

❗️Grants for Africa-based participants available❗️ Up to 9 participants from institutions in Africa (African countries, except Maghreb region and Egypt) may receive a grant covering the costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence.

📢Call for applications: Basel Summer School in African Studies 2023 "Making knowledge policy-relevant: The SSH’s role in global sustainable development" 🗓️23.08.-01.09.2023 📍Basel, Switzerland ‼Deadline for applications: 2 July 2023‼️ zasb.unibas.ch/en/summerschoo…