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Dear students!
For the summer semester 2026, we, the Institute for African Studies, are looking for a research assistant (BA - m/f/d/x) for 10 hours per week for 4 months (April 1, 2026 – July 31, 2026).
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.
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…
Dear students,
the deadline for the Erasmus+ applications fot the winter term 2026/27 and the summer term 2027 is 31st of January 2026!
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…
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…
