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Unser Institut ging aus der über hundertjährigen wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit Afrika hervor, die stets von Multidisziplinarität geprägt war und Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Sprachsoziologie und -philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Ethnologie und Entwicklungssoziologie integrierte.
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SoSe 2024
12 June 2024
- Temitope Oriola (University of Alberta) – Deadly resistance and female suicide terrorism
- Olisa Godson Muojama (University of Ibadan) – Frontier Neighbourhoods in Anglo-German Colonial Encounters in West Africa, 1884-1919
WS 2023/24
24 January 2024
- Masha Ruppaner, Samira Sawadogo und Emma Schätzlein (Leipzig University) – Zoo Leipzig: Aufarbeitung der Menschenschauen
- Oliver Nyambi (University of the Free State) – The new prison narrative in Zimbabwe: re-imagining (in)justice in the Second Republic
29 November 2023
- Mariam Goshadze (Leipzig University) – The Noise Silence Makes: Ghana’s Secularity and the Ritual Ban on Noise
- Edlyne Anugwom (University of Nigeria) – Any Justification for Terrorism? Just War Theory and Islamic Fundamentalist Insurgence in Sub-Saharan Africa
SoSe 2023
14 June 2023
- Koreen Reece (University of Bayreuth ) – Book Presentation: Pandemic Kinship. Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS
- Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan) – Neoliberal Conception of African Universities and the 'Red Evil Eyes' of Historical Scholarship
10 May 2023
- Yusuf Serunkuma (Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg) – Questioning African Studies in Germany through the lens of Critical Race Theory
- John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) – Provincializing Chinese Memory in Africa: The Case of the Belt and Road Initiative
WS 2022/2023
7 December 2022
- Julia Schweers (University of Oxford) – Citizenship Abroad, Capital at Home - the Value of Dual Citizenship in Ghana
- Stefanie Mauksch (Leipzig University) – Failing Onwards, Fastly: Entrepreneurial Futures in Sudan
26 October 2022
- Makau Kitata (University of Nairobi) – Roads of Extraction, Instruments Of Exclusion: Mobility in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s, In the House of the Interpreter
SoSe 2022
22 June 2022
- Kerem Duymus (Leipzig University) – A Decolonial Epistemology: Governmental Discourses in the Islamic History as a Preliminary Examination for the History of West Africa
- Enrico Ille (Leipzig University) – ASA Project: Social and environmental aspects of afforestation as instrument to combat desertification in Sudan
25 May 2022
- Katharina Wilkens (Leipzig University) – The Formation of African Culture and Religion in African Socialism
- Ulf Engel (Leipzig University) – African non-military conflict intervention practices
WS 2021/22
26 January 2022
- MaryAnne Iwara (Leipzig University) – Political Economy of Social Protection Programmes in Northeast Nigeria
- Houd Kanazoé (Leipzig Univeristy) – Mobilité urbaine et navigation socio-spatiale à Bobo-Dioulasso
1 December 2021
- Felipe Bastos (Leipzig University) – Labor Migration, Associativism and Anticolonialism in Tanganyika's Sisal Industry (1880 - 1960)
- Diana Ayah (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) – Book Presentation. Spaces of Responsibility: Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina Faso.
SoSe 2021
23 June 2021
- Edlyne Anugwom (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) – Beyond the Conflict: Re-interrogating the Reintegration Impact of the DDR Programme in the Oil - Rich Niger Delta of Nigeria?
- Olutayo Adesina (University of Ibadan) – Transhumance, Agricultural Production, and Intergroup Relations in Nigeria Since 1914: Transitions and Intersections ?
19 May 2021
- Cassandra Thiesen-Mark (University of Basel) – A History of African History Journals from Africa
- Marie Huber (Humboldt University) – Ethiopian Nation-Building and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960-1980
21 April 2021
- Fortune Agbele (University of Bayreuth) – To Vote or Not to Vote: Understanding the Ghanaian Voter
- William Lyon and Luisa Schneider (Humboldt University) – Southern African Perspectives: A Student Based Research Project
WS 2020/21
13 January 2021
- Lara Krause (Uni Leipzig) – Black Lives Matter and White Understands in Germany
- Enrico Ille (Uni Leipzig) – Political ecology in Sudan between wars, separation and revolution
9 December 2020
- Janneke Tiegna (Uni Leipzig) – Studying vigilantism in Western Burkina Faso: methodological considerations in dangerous fields
- Nestor Zante (Uni Leipzig) – State, security governance and local vigilantism: the participation of Koglwéogo vigilante groups in security production in rural Burkina Faso
SoSe 2020
24 June 2020
- Jeannett Martin (Uni Leipzig) – Constructing children’s belonging in Fulfulde speaking communities
- Wyatt Constantine (Uni Leipzig) – Divining an uncertain future: a political economy of ethiopia, with evidence from Dire Dawa
WS 20219/20
15 January 2020
- Ulf Engel (Uni Leipzig) – Ethiopian politics: What’s at stake right now?
- Geert Castryck (Uni Leipzig) – Kigoma-Ujiji, a Global History of a Liminal Town
11 December 2019
- Edlyne Anugwom (Uni Leipzig) – New Kids on the Block: ISWAP and Terrorism in West Africa
- Édith Nabos (Uni Leipzig) – Taking care of the night: watchmen in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
SoSe 2019
26 June 2019
- Susann Ludwig (Uni Leipzig) – Making a case for space: Seeing like Ficgayo (Abidjan, CIV)
- Ari Awagana(Uni Leipzig) – Old Kanembu, eine vergessene Sprache in Zinder (Niger)
22 May 2019
- Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Uni Leipzig) – Towards a social and cultural history of airlines in Africa
- Patrick Mlinga (Uni Leipzig) – Producing Urban Coherence: Traffic Police random inspections in Zanzibar
WS 2018/19
23 January 2019
- Lara Krause (Uni Leipzig) – Relanguaging Language: A Case Study of South African English Classrooms
- Viviane Barbosa (Uni Leipzig) – Comparison between two social movements of rural women in Maranhão (Brazil) and KZN (South Africa)
19 December 2018
- Emmanuel Mushimiyimana (Uni Leipzig) – Dealing with the Resource Curse: An Exploratory study on Tanzania
- Robin Möser (Uni Leipzig) – The end of South Africa's nuclear weapons programme and accession to the NPT, 1988-1991
SoSe 2018
25 May 2018
- African Research Day Inaugural Workshop
Dies sind die Gäste, die wir in den letzten Jahren eingeladen haben, um mit unseren Studierenden über ihren beruflichen Werdegang zu sprechen und darüber, wie dieser mit ihrem Studium zusammenhängt.
WS 2023/2024
19 January 2024
- Public speaking: Tupoka Ogette
- Political foundations: Elisabeth Bollrich
- Humanitarian work / Academia: Söhnke Stöckmann
- Journalism: Julian Hilgers
WS 2022/2023
- 11 November 2022 — Anna Sophia Rainer (Bayer, Department of Public Affairs & Sustainability)
- 25 November 2022 — Johannes Soeder (Akwaba Afrika)
- 7 December 2022 — Marie Cleo Mahouva Massela (Meyanga; PhD Career Stories; FemWise, AU)
WS 2021/2022
- 23 November 2021 — Yann Labry (5 o’clock creativity; Merseburg University of Applied Sciences)
- 7 December 2021 — Laura Koch (freelance true crime editor; PhD organised crime in Jamaica, FU Berlin)
- 11 January 2022 — Laurent Widmer (formerly World Bank; Swiss Contractors‘ Association)
- 1 February 2022 — Antje Lange (Eckert Schools Freiberg)
WS 2020/2021
- 24 November 2020 — Katharina Lang (Würzburger Partnerkaffee e.V.; Eine Welt-Regionalpromotorin Unterfranken)
- 8 December 2020 — Holger Tillmann (formerly Deputy Ambassador Khartoum; German Foreign Office, legal department)
- 19 January 2021 — Lutz Scharf (GIZ, programme ‚Development through tourism‘)
- 2 February 2021 — Lara Krause (Academic Assistant at Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University)
SoSe 2024 — Un/making Global Crisis
SoSe 2023 — Contested Ecologies
SoSe 2022 — (De)Colonial Practices in/across Academia
SoSe 2021 — Health and Wellbeing
SoSe 2019 — Infrastructure
SoSe 2018 — Bureaucratization
SoSe 2017 — Commodifications
SoSe 2016 — Wellbeing
SoSe 2015 — Dimensions of Agency
SoSe 2014 — Innovations
SoSe 2013 — City as Social Practice