Event Archive

The Summer University for Oriental Languages is offering African languages this year, including isiZulu and isiXhosa.

An unforgettable week of exhibitions, talks, performances, guided tours, and special projects, featuring bold artistic voices from across the African continent and its global diaspora

Co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society for African Studies

Organised by the Afrique Students Association

In the context of the projected interfaculty centre "Focus Africa" at the University of Lausanne

Eine Performance-Lecture von Samy Manga

Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel

The Africa Diaspora Council Switzerland (ADCS) invites you to the International Migrants Day on 14.12.2024 in Ostermundigen Bern.

Entitled "Historical political ecology: constituting African resources and commodities”, the seminar will be held on 28-29 November 2024.

To officially launch its activities, the Initiative Droit et Société (IDES) is organizing an inaugural conference on 25 November 2024.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Social Sciences and Humanities & Epidemic Management”, developed as part of the Alliance SHS Africa project is now open for registration.

As part of the Benin Initiative Switzerland, the forum “Restitution and Beyond” will take place on October 26, 2024 at Museum Rietberg Zurich.

The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Society for African Studies

The University of Geneva is organizing the Master Class "Restitution des restes humains de collections universitaires: quels enjeux?" (Restitution of Human Remains from University Collections: What's at stake?) on 21. October 2024.

The conference “Spanish in Africa past, present and future” will take place from June 28 to 29, 2024 at the Seminar for Ibero-Romance Studies at the University of Basel.

The eikones/African Studies Summer School 2024 takes its cue from "When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting", an exhibition curated by Koyo Kouoh and Tandazani Dhlakama.

Das Museum der Kulturen in St. Gallen lädt am 8. März 2024 zur Vernissage der Ausstellung "Cacao! Einverleibte Exotik" ein, die sich mit der Geschichte des Kakaos befasst.

Cottoned: Roots & Expression invites all Afro-Caribbeans within Switzerland to an exclusive, high-class fashion event and party on February 24, 2024 at Club Verso, Basel.

The research team of the project "Neuchâtel face à la colonization: circulations, intrications et mémoire" invites you to the public presentation of their project on 14 February 2024 at 16:00.

The University of Bern invites to an upcoming conference on February 14 2024.

Afriboom invites entrepreneurs, project leaders, and institutions from African countries to Switzerland and Germany.

Conference organised by the Centre for African Studies Basel (ZASB) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in cooperation with the Swiss Society for African Studies and with support from the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and…

The conference of International Association for the Study of the Commons will explore historical legacies and future collective actions.

The Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien invite to a symposium (9-10 June 2023) on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Swiss historian and theologian Hans Werner Debrunner…

The Africa Day Celebration will take place in Bern and focus on the Swiss International Cooperation Strategy for Africa.

The focus of the conference lies on processes of decolonial research partnerships.

In the context of a public panel discussion, the question of which voices are heard to overcome discourses of rupture will be discussed. The focus is on the connections between Europeans, Africans and Afropean poeple.

The international conference "Reworking the Archives. Hans Himmelheber and African art/ists" is the conclusion of the research project of the same name undertaken jointly by the University of Zurich and the Rietberg Museum.

The Swiss Researching Africa Days offer a platform for the exchange between different researchers of all career levels and other actors.

At 12 market stalls, discover the fascinating research fields of social and human sciences.

International Conference co-organized by the University of Geneva and the Swiss Society for African Studies

The program of the Second European Students Conference in African Studies (SESCAS) is now online and registration is open. SESCAS aims to increase the exchange among master students from the African Studies programs at a European level.

Film talk with Perivi Katjavivi (Windhoek) within the series "Decolonising Knowledge? Africa Collections in Focus"

Conversation with Jakobina Mwiiyale (Windhoek) and Nora Schmidt (Vienna) in the series "Decolonising Knowledge? Africa Collections in Focus".

Hybrid Artist Talk Series "Decolonising Knowledge? Africa Collections in Focus"

An International Law Perspective

The platform for exchange of the African Studies community of Switzerland

Au printemps dernier, nous n’avons malheureusement pas pu vous accueillir. Nous sommes heureux aujourd’hui de vous convier au vernissage de l’exposition.

This international conference seeks to examine transnational trajectories of material culture and focuses on the various ways in which mobility reshapes immaterial characteristics of artefacts. Due to Covid-19 the conference is held as an…

En collaboration avec le Pôle pour les études africaines de la Faculté des lettres de l'UNIL, la Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire consacre une exposition aux figures féminines de la littérature africaine.

Event marking the launch of the IWE-HSG Competence Center for African Research (CCAR)

Presentation by Djouroukoro Diallo in the framework Forum Language and Society at the University of Bern

An exclusive offer for members of the Swiss Society for African Studies

Vortrag in der Ringvorlesung Senior Academics "«One Health» – Gesundheit und Krankheit aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive"

This year, the General Assembly is held in Basel in the framework of the conference Africa and the Academy in the 21st Century.

An interactive, interdisciplinary event hosted by the Swiss Society for African Studies and the Centre for African Studies Basel bringing together a selection of Swiss and international scholars studying Africa.

The Basel Summer School in African Studies 2019 addresses the issue of the normative order in African Studies.

This rich exhibition was created by researchers of the Anthropology Unit at the University of Geneva in order to better disseminate the subject of our international interdisciplinary conference Peopling history of Africa: a…

This conference aims at gathering a number of outstanding international researchers active in different fields in order to present a comprehensive view of our present knowledge about the peopling of Africa.

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien und Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Universität Genf und Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien

Universität Lausanne