@actunifreiburg.bsky.social
Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
📅 Join our director @mehler.bsky.social, Dr Tim Zajontz from
@pwunifreiburg.bsky.social & Dr Nneka Okechukwu, former fellow at @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social, this Wednesday at
@uni-freiburg.de
#Freiburg's Africa Talk: Africa’s positioning in a geopolitically fragmented world
shorturl.at/6M8Lj
📚 Recommendation: Our reading list on #Sudan – to understand the current developments in al-Fasher, we must engage critically with current and historical context. Our staff members have collected valuable literature.
Available on our website: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/read...
New (and alerting) article we wrote on the upcoming elections in the Central African Republic. Pls share and discuss - let's keep all eyes on CAR!
@democracyinafrica.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @kristoftiteca.bsky.social @enripicco.bsky.social
democracyinafrica.org/continuities...
🎤Helga Dickow im Interview über die Auswirkungen des Kriegs im #Sudan auf den #Tschad
Die Bevölkerung ist unter der auoritären Herrschaft Mahamat Débys zunehmend frustriert – Provokationen könnten auf fruchtbaren Boden fallen.
evangelische-zeitung.de/der-krieg-im...
📢 Europäischer Forscher in der Zentralafrikanischen Republik zu Zwangsarbeit verurteilt
@timglawion.bsky.social fordert in der @faznet.bsky.social die Freilassung seines Kollegen Joseph Figueira Martin, der 2023 von Söldnern der russischen Wagner-Gruppe verhaftet wurde.
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
"What is Restitution? Some Conceptual Considerations": MIASA Working Paper by Kodzo B. Gavua (Univ. of Ghana) & Hans Peter Hahn (@goetheuni.bsky.social) now available for download on UGSpace:
miasa.ug.edu.gh/publications...
#restitution, #culturalartefacts, #museum
Join online The Claude Ake Memorial Lecture with Akosua Adomako Ampofo on "Peacemaking and Healing Strategies: Chronicling Stories of Kindness and Justice Work"
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 15.15- 17.00 (CET)
@healingchronicles.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social
Register here: nai.uu.se/claudeake2025
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
30.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0In unserem Graduiertenkolleg 2571 „Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ sind 4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen-Stellen, befristet auf drei Jahre, Teilzeitstelle (65 %), Eintrittstermin: 01.05.2026, zu besetzen!
20.11.2025 11:28 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
📅Film screening & discussion: colonial legacy in land disputes in Kenya
Save the Date! 7.11.2025 in Freiburg - our staff member Edwin Mutyenyoka will discuss the implications of the dynamics highlighted in the documentary
🤝 Part of #greenmotions festival
www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...
Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum...
And we must talk about researcher safety!
@kristoftiteca.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social
#CallforApplications addressing senior researchers @uni-freiburg.de and other Freiburg based research institutions: FRIAS is funding two project groups. The aim of this funding programme is to support multidisciplinary cooperation at an early stage. Read more: uni-freiburg.de/frias/cfa-fr...
02.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1„Mit dieser Restitution verbinden wir die Hoffnung, einen Beitrag zu Heilung und Gerechtigkeit zu leisten“, betont Rektorin Krieglstein. "Heute treten wir ihr mit kritischer Aufarbeitung der eigenen universitären Geschichte, Verantwortung und Respekt gegenüber den Herkunftsgesellschaften entgegen.“
08.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Entrane to Harvard Universit as symbolic picture for the programme post docs under pressure FRIAS Uni Freiburg
Bis zu 14 hochqualifizierte Wissenschaftler:innen in frühen Karrierephasen, die aufgrund ihrer Arbeit in den USA unter politischem Druck stehen, können ihre Forschung künftig @uni-freiburg.de, Tübingen & Konstanz fortsetzen. Das FRIAS hat die Initiative mitbegründet. uni-freiburg.de/neue-fellows...
29.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Deadline approaching - #DAAD #fellowships for the interdisciplinary MSc #Environmental Governance Programme at the @uni-freiburg.de
Deadline: 15.10.2025
@abi-freiburg.bsky.social
Check out the call for Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFG) at @miasa-ug.bsky.social
Deadline: 31.10.2025
miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...
One week to go: Extension of application deadline for MIASA Individual Fellowships at the Univ. of Ghana for the Academic Year 2026/27
New deadline: 29 Sept 2025
miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...
📆 Am 5.10.25 findet in #Freiburg das 2. #Afrikaforum statt, organisiert von www.movingafrica.org
im #Jazzhaus
Mo Assumang, Ann-Kathrin Müller und @ajagbe.bsky.social von der @uni-freiburg.de diskutieren zu #Rassismus
Konzert mit der fantastischen www.luciadecarvalho.com
@abi-freiburg.bsky.social
📆Vom 26. bis 27.9.25 findet die #Africa Week Germany 2025 in #Freiburg statt unter dem Motto: „Sichtbar / Unverzichtbar“.
-> Rolle der afrikanischen #Diaspora in Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kultur
@abi-freiburg.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social
german-africainsight.de/einladung-in...
Extension of application deadline for MIASA Individual Fellowships at the Univ. of Ghana for the Academic Year 2026/27
New deadline: 29 Sept 2025
miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...
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@friasunifreiburg.bsky.social
@giga-hamburg.de
@goetheuni.bsky.social
@dhi-paris.fr
The CAT initiative offers teams of #EarlyCareerResarchers (3-5 members) short stays at FRIAS or other European Institutes for Advanced Studies. Deadline: 14 October 2025.
More information: uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
#CallforApplications #CfA for researchers from #Africa:
Apply for our fellowship programme 2026/27.
Deadline: 12 September 2025, 13:00 (CET)
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
„#Academic #Freedom and #Knowledge Production in Ghana“
An interview between MIASA Coordinator Agnes Schneider-Musah @agnesjsm.bsky.social and MIASA PI Chika C. Mba, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Univ. Of Ghana
Now available on: miasa.hypotheses.org/4681
We are thrilled to announce a Special Issue in Africa Today on „Rethinking #Women‘s #Political #Power in #West Africa“ edited by members of MIASA IFG9 Gretchen Bauer @udelaware.bsky.social, Erdmute Alber @unibayreuth.bsky.social and Akosua Darkwah, Univ. Of Ghana.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55236
Less than 2 weeks to go - check out the MIASA Individual Fellowships at the University of Ghana!
03.09.2025 06:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0👉Open call for applications for Individual Residential #Fellowships at #MIASA at the Univ. of Ghana in 2026/27.
Deadline: 15 Sept
Info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p...
Are you interested in the interdisciplinary MSc #Environmental Governance Programme at the @uni-freiburg.de ?
The German Academic Exchange Service (#DAAD) is offering six #scholarships per year for candidates from #DAC countries.
Application open now!
www.meg.uni-freiburg.de/admissions/S...
Are you a #PostDoc or #Professor seeking time to focus on your research in a vibrant, international community?
Apply now for the FRIAS Fellowship Programme 2026/27
Deadline: 12 Sept 2025, 13:00
#Fellowship #AcademicJobs #CfA
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/frias/fundin...
MIASA is inviting proposals for an Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG) on the topic of #Sustainable #Governance at the Univ. of Ghana for the period Feb-May 2027
@uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social
@actunifreiburg.bsky.social
@goetheuni.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @dhi-paris.fr
