News

• 06 September 2019 / Research

  The roles of a Grandmother in African societies – please do not send them to old people’s homes

• 06 September 2019 / Research, People

  Ambizione Grant Awarded to Lesley Braun

• 31 July 2019 / News, Research

  "Swiss extractivism" - New publication by Rita Kesselring and Gregor Dobler

Events

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• 25 Sep 2019

  16:15 - 18:00

  Institute of Social Anthropology
  Seminar Room (second floor), Münsterplatz 19

  Public event, Colloquium

  Cities of Entanglements. Johannesburg and Maputo through Ethnographic Comparison

  Presentation by Barbara Heer, University of Basel
• 01 Nov 2019 - 02 Nov 2019

  09:30 - 17:15

  Kollegienhaus, University of Basel

  Congress / Conference / Symposium

  Conference: Africa and the Academy in the 21st Century

  An interactive, interdisciplinary event hosted by the Swiss Society for African Studies and the Centre for African Studies Basel bringing together a selection of Swiss and international scholars studying Africa.
• 08 Nov 2019

  17:30

  Alte Universität, Rheinsprung

  Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

  5th JJ Bachofen Lecture: Speaking Through Houses. Interweaving Biography, Property and Personhood in Urban Zimbabwe

  Public Lecture by Amanda Hammar