New Video Podcast – Afrikanists Assemble
Take a look at episode 47 "Sensing African Languages" of Afrikanists Assemble, a Video Podcast produced by the research project Recalibrating Afrikanistik; a forum that seeks dialogue and exchange.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - Decolonial Reading Circle (Critical African Studies Forum - CAS)
Language is culture, and culture conveys—primarily through oral traditions and literature—all of our values with which we experience ourselves and the place we occupy in this world. That is what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o believed. In memory of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, we invite you to a short reading circle to get to know his work and discuss it together. We will read texts from his book “Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature” together.
When? Tuesday, October 21, at 11 a.m.
Where? Ziegenledersaal (main campus) as part of the KEW
New Emmy Noether Junior Research Group investigates technologies of environmental knowledge production in Africa
Historian Dr Ismay Milford has been admitted to the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Under her leadership, the DFG is establishing a research group at Leipzig University that will investigate practices and technologies of environmental knowledge production…
Erasmus+ Applications - winter term 2026/27 and summer term 2027
Dear students,
the deadline for the Erasmus+ applications fot the winter term 2026/27 and the summer term 2027 is 31st of January 2026!
Study: Material grievances a stronger breeding ground for extremism than political beliefs
Material grievances – especially high youth unemployment – are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or political beliefs. This is the conclusion of a major international study involving the Research Centre Global Dynamics at Leipzig University. Researchers examined local and…
Sociologus Vol. 72 (2022), Issue 1
This special issue assembles three contributions that were originally held as lectures in a series of events co-organized by the Institutes of Anthropology and African Studies at Leipzig University entitled “Beyond debates: De/colonial practices in and across academia” during the summer semester of…
Independent module de-registration
Independent deregistration from modules and thus from the examinations of the Faculty of History, Art and Regional Studies is still possible in the winter semester 2023/2024 until January 6, 2024.
