Internationalisation
Over the last forty years, research in African studies at Bayreuth has been developed and undertaken in close cooperation with a large number of universities on the African continent. Thirty African universities have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of African Studies (IAS). Some of these collaborations have been intensified in the context of special programmes.
Activities
- 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
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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
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International Conference - "African Studies and land questions in Africa" - 27.11. - 29.11.2019, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town
African Cluster Centres
Please find further information here.
BIGSAS Partner Universities
A unique network has evolved from cooperation between Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) and the BIGSAS Partner Universities.
Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
International Partners
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar
The Point Sud Centre for Research on Local Knowledge in Bamako (Mali)
Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana, Legon
University of Bordeaux, especially its research centre Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM).
Indiana University in Bloomington (USA)
Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO) at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) (Brazil)
Institute of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica
Universidad de Oriente (UO), Santiago de Cuba, Kuba
The responsibilities of the unit Internationalisation and Public Engagement include tasks related to internationalisation, networking and communication matters. We closely cooperate with the African Cluster Centers and other partners of our international network in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The unit is in constant exchange with the University’s international office and the gateway offices.
Over the last forty years, research in African studies at Bayreuth has been developed and undertaken in close cooperation with a large number of universities on the African continent. Thirty African universities have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of African Studies (IAS). Some of these collaborations have been intensified in the context of special programmes.
The Cluster encourages publications with our international partners. Please see an open list of journals and series here.
