Erasmus+ Applications - winter term 2025/26 and summer term 2026
Dear students,
the deadline for the Erasmus+ applications fot the winter term 2025/26 and the summer term 2026 is 31st of January 2025!
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How South Africa went from a strong economic nation to a risky location
South Africa’s economic power is shrinking, companies are going bankrupt and the population is suffering. The reason for this is massive and widespread power cuts, which have been becoming more frequent for years now. In the ranking of Africa’s economically strongest countries, South Africa is only…
RELANGUAGING LANGUAGE FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL
Multilingual Matters has published a book by one of our institute members.
CITY LIFE IN AFRICA. ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS
This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers’ own notions, practices, and reflections.
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Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
“The ‘beings’ in between: Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Death"
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo (Technical University of Kenya): “The ‘beings’ in between: Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Death and their Implications for Funeral Rites among the Luo of Western Kenya”
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The Institute of African Studies and the Institute of Anthropology invite you to
Lecture Series: Matters of Life and Death
In this lecture series, we are interested in examining the making of boundaries between life and death in this wider sense, through discussions on the different aspects of bringing forth or making end. Our scope reaches from the moment of coming to life - as a being, as an idea - over maintaining…
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Jasper Finkeldey
“Resource scramble to the end? Struggles over recognition and survival in South Africa”
Jasper Finkeldey (University of Halle): “Resource scramble to the end? Struggles over recognition and survival in South Africa”
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The Institute of African Studies and the Institute of Anthropology invite you to
Lecture Series: Matters of Life and Death
In this lecture series, we are interested in examining the making of boundaries between life and death in this wider sense, through discussions on the different aspects of bringing forth or making end. Our scope reaches from the moment of coming to life - as a being, as an idea - over maintaining…
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