Activities
Latest activities
- Colloque International: Utopies Africaines/ Afrodystopies Wednesday 28.06.2023 - Saturday 01.07.2023
- Concert „Transoceanic Encounters: Brazil-Mozambique“ with Alexandre Vieira and Luka Mukhavele
- AfriKaleidoscope meets ARTE
- The African Studies Library: enhancing discoverability of publications from African publishers through knowledge graphs
- Series: Cinema as a Transformative Tool for the Therapeutic Intellectual | Conversations and Screenings with Jean-Pierre Bekolo
- Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora: Filmaking in Africa
- Multiple Perspectives On Spatialities And Innovations In Francophone West Africa
- Cinema Africa (Afrikanisches Filmfestival / African Film Festival 2023)
- Japan The 4th Young Asia Africanist Camp 2022, 16.12.2022 - 19.12.2022, Kyoto University, Japan.
- ”Black Atlantic Revisited – African and South American UNESCO-World Heritage Sites and ‘Shadowed Spaces’ of Performative Memory”, 2022-11-25 | 4 -6 pm | 7- 8.30 pm, Room 135, NW III, Uni-Bayreuth + Zoom | Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb
- Symposium International: "Gérer sa santé | Regards Pluridisciplinaires et Methodes Therapeutiques, L'université Joseph Ki-Zerbo; University of Bayreuth, 2022-11-09 to 2022-11-11, L'université Joseph Ki-Zerbo
- Fabrica 2022, 2022-11-04 to 2022-11-12, Live streaming | Maputo
- Naviguer le tout-monde de l’Océan Indien, 2022-10-03 to 2022-10-05, Salle G1, New Academic Complex, Université de Maurice
- Book reading: Multiple perspectives from the Indian Ocean - Ananda Devi, 2022-07-14, 19:00, Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb Bayreuth
- 3rd Annual Cluster Conference: "Medialities", 2022-07-06 to 2022-07-09, Bayreuth / Makhanda / online
- Workshop: "Reimagining Concepts and Contexts of African Development", 2022-06-14 and 15, 10:00 AM, Online via Zoom
- Award ceremony BIGSAS honorary doctorate for Dr. Fatou Sow, 2022-05-18, HS 24, Campus University of Bayreuth and online
- Exhibition opening: "To Be King" by Christine Dixie, 2022-05-11 18:30, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth
- Public online panel discussion: “With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa”, 2022-01-19 16:00 to 18:00, Online
- 2022 New Year Lecture by Peter Simatei: "Ways of Knowing Africa: African Literature and Shifting Imaginaries", 2022-01-13 16:30-18:00, Online via Zoom
- Lecture Musicale by Raharimanana: "Les îles témoins et les mémoires tissées", 2021-12-08 19:00, Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb, Bayreuth and online
- AfriKaleidoskop: Afro-Diasporic Brazilian Cinema, second session: "Egum 2019", 2021-11-22 18:00 - 20:00, Online
- CrossArea Annual Conference, 2021-11-18 to 2021-11-19, Hybrid Venue: Tagungszentrum Bayreuth, Festsaal, Kolpingstr.5 and via zoom
- A journey to the Indian Ocean – Cinema Africa 2021: "'Binti', Tanzania, 2020", 2021-11-17, Cineplex, Bayreuth
- Photo Exhibition Sergio Santimano "Goa/Mozambique", 13.11.2021-31.01.2022, Cineplex, Bayreuth; Library of University Bayreuth; Iwalewahaus Bayreuth
- AfriKaleidoskop: Afro-Diasporic Brazilian Cinema, first session: "Raizes 2020", 2021-10-25 18:00 - 20:00, Online
- Artist Talk & Exhibition with Bithal Remli: "The Migration of Djinn", 2021-07-29 19:00, Online
- The Okwui Enwezor Distinguished Lecture: "The Postcolonial Museum", 2021-07-15 18:00, Online via Zoom
- Cluster Conference "Africa*n Relations: Modalities Reflected", 14.07.-17.07.2021, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
- AfriKaleidoskop - Brazilian Film Session, 2021-07-12 18:00, Online
- Workshop: “Multifaceted Relations: Africa-Asia”, 02.-03.07.2021, Venue: RW I, S58 and Online (via Zoom)
- Screening of the documentary "My Utopia" and discussion with the artist Onejoon Che, 2021-07-02 16:30-18:00, Online
- AfriKaleidoskop - "Mariannes Noires", 2021-06-21 18:00 (CES), Online
- "Pandemias and Utopias: Political agendas and emerging possibilities" - Book Launch Day, 2021-06-17 15:00, Online
- BAYMAU21 Digital Conference: "Made in Africa. Innovations, Concepts and Solutions for the Challenges of our Time", 2021-06-03 to 2021-06-06, Online
- Pandemics and Utopias - Live 8: "From skulls to viruses: racial ideas in the era of global pandemics (topic 2)" 2021-06-01 15:00, Online via Zoom
- AfriKaleidoskop - "Roots Germania" , 2021-05-26 18:00, Online via Zoom
- The Legacy of Slavery, Transgenerational Trauma, and Collective Healing, 2021-05-26, Online
- XXI Factory of Ideas - Advanced Doctoral School of Ethnic and African Studies: "PANDEMICS AND UTOPIAS: durable inequalities and authoritarianism", 04.05 to 17.06.2021, Online via Zoom
- Globalization and Nationalisms: "Introduction" by Volker Depkat and Susanne Lachenicht, 2021-04-26 18:00 to 20:00, Online via Zoom
- Afrikaleidoskop - "Afro.Deutschland", 2021-04-19 17:00, Online via Zoom
- ACC Lagos: lecture by Dr. Obadele Kambon, 2021-03-17 11:00, Online via Zoom
- Africa Knows! Panel A02: History of education in Africa [initiated by URMIS - Nice], 2021-02-24 14:00 to 15:30, Online via Zoom
- Africa Knows! Panel E32: Slums as places of innovations, ingenuity and creativity [initiated by LAM Bordeaux], 2021-02-03 13:30 to 15:00 and 15:30 to 17:00, Online via Zoom
- Africa Knows! Panel D23: The order(ing) of knowledge: epistemology of studies of health, culture and education in Africa/ (In)discipline de la connaissance: epistémologie des recherches sur l’Afrique. 2021-01-26 14:00 to 16:00, Online via Zoom
- New Year Lecture: Polyrhythmic gestures: Relational Perspectives on/from verbal, audio/visual and performative arts across the African continent, 2021-01-14 16:00, Online via Zoom
- Pandemias e Utopias: Agendas politicas e possibilidades emergentes, 2020-11-12 to 2020-12-17, Online via Zoom
- 'Opening Artist Lecture about their Modes & Modalities: “Spread out the Cloth: Exploring Yoruba Fashion and Textile Modernity”', 2020-12-05 15:00 to 18:00, Online via Zoom
- LAGOS: Ownership and Identities (Intellectual debates and one month photography exhibition), 2020-11-02 to 11-29, Online via Zoom
- Lecture by Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Africa, African Studies & Covid 19, 2020-10-28 17:00, Online via Zoom
- Lecture by Akosua Adomako Ampofo: Feminist Researchers Exploring Young African Men Living and Performing Blackness in the Diaspora, 2020-10-28 15:00, Online via Zoom
- Colloque sur la COVID 19, 2020-10-22, Online via Zoom
- Mapping Africa's Global Engagement by Reconfiguring African Studies, 2020-10-10 13:00, Online
- African Literature: Histories, Pillars and Visions: “African Diasproric Literatures” by Prof. Peter Simatei, 2020-07-30 18:00 to 20:00, Online via Zoom
- Two-day event: Digital Literature Festival, 03. & 04.07.2020 12:30 to 21:30, Online via Youtube
- Congresso da UFBA, 2020-05-27 18:30, Online
- COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Political, Economic, and Socio-cultural Implications, 2020-05-27, Online
- Bayreuth Art meets Science: „From Plastic to Microplastic” - Science Rally and Exhibition, 28.02.-03.03.2020, Iwalewahaus
- Workshop "On Worlds and Artworks", 11.02.2020 - 13.02.2020, fimt, Thurnau/Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth
- New Year Lecture: Figuring out How to Reconfigure African Studies, 16.01.2020 16-18 p.m., Campus, NW 1, H 15
- afriKaleidoskop - die lange Filmnacht: One Evening, three movies, 15.01.2020 5 p.m., Reichshof Kulturbühne, Maxstraße 28, Bayreuth
- African Studies and land questions in Africa, 27.11. - 29.11.2019, 09.00 - 17.00, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town
- What do we mean by “Reconfiguring African Studies”? - Panel Discussion with scholars of the African Cluster Centres, 28.10.2019, 16.00 - 18.00, IWALEWAHAUS - Bayreuth
- Einladung der Research Section Affiliations und des Projekts Social Responsibility zu einer Roundtable-Diskussion (in englischer Sprache), 21.10.2019, 11.00 c.t., RW I, 2.101, Campus
- Religious utopias and practices of social transformation, 10.10.2019 - 11.10.2019, tbc
- XX Factory of Ideas - Advanced Doctoral School in Ethnic and African Studies, 26.08.2019 - 06.09.2019, Centre of Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- FAVT goes Uganda, 15.08.2019 - 15.09.2019, Kampala, Uganda
- 9th BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures:“Crises and Responsibilities. kNOWledges in Academia, Arts and Activism” - “Krisen und Verantwortung in GeWissenschaft und ImaginationsAktivismus”, 05.07.2019 - 07.07.2019, 11.00, IWALEWAHAUS, Altes Schloss Bayreuth
- Model African Union Conference Bayreuth 2019, 07.06.2019 - 11.06.2019 9.00 - 22.00, Campus
- Workshop - "Future Africa - Visions in Time", 24.04.2019 - 26.04.2019, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
- XX Factory of Ideas - Advanced Doctoral School in Ethnic and African Studies - 26.08.2019 - 06.09.2019 Centre of Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- International Conference - “Africa Multiple: Conversations and Building Networks” - 30.10. - 31.10.2019, University of Bayreuth
- International Conference - "African Studies and land questions in Africa" - 27.11. - 29.11.2019, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town
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The conference at the Institute of African Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, was a follow-up of the kick-off meeting in Bayreuth in December 2017, joined by most of the partners of the international network.
Find the programme here.
The group photo was taken during the conference on HUFS Campus (Conference group photo)
In 2017 a workshop, organized at IAS in Bayreuth, brought together 21 representatives of African studies institutions on all five continents, with whom the Institute of African Studies had collaborated before. The focus was laid on bringing a global and multidisciplinary perspective to Bayreuth’s African studies. We took the opportunity to compare and discuss our objectives, as well as the political and academic histories of our various disciplines, institutions, and settings, and their influence on African studies in diverse regions.
Find the poster here.
Find the programme here.
A group picture was taken at Iwalewahaus during the conference (Conference group photo).