New DAAD project TONI (2023-2026) of Physical Geography, Goethe University

In April 2023, the DAAD approved the project „International SDG network promoting higher education and research in Togo and Nigeria (TONI)“ as part of the „Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Partnerships“ programme with funding from the BMZ. The project, which will run until the end of 2026, will strategically and substantively expand existing collaborations (MoUs) between […]

VAD 2020/21: Registration open. No conference fees

The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organises every two years an international and interdisciplinary conference. The conference „African Challenges“, originally planned for September 2020, will be organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies at Goethe University and will take place mainly in virtual space due to the still difficult corona cicumstances.   Decision is still pending if there […]

CAROLA LENTZ ELECTED NEW PRESIDENT OF THE GOETHE-INSTITUT

Carola Lentz will be the new president of the Goethe-Institut. She was elected unanimously by the Goethe-Institut’s Board of Trustees at its meeting on 27 September 2019. From 19 November 2020, the renowned anthropologist will take over the office of sitting president Klaus-Dieter Lehmann.  Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas confirmed the election of Carola Lentz […]

VAD 2020 – Call for Panels

VAD 2020 – Call for Panels / Round Tables Africa Challenges Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 22. – 25.9. 2020 Africa is challenging to the rest of the world: it challenges notions and concepts of development, modernization, capitalism and democracy. Africa also has historically presented and continues to present a challenge to academic practice, to […]

Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA) at Point Sud, Bamako, Mali

Gerda Henkel Foundation accords 973.000 Euro to Goethe University to build up an academy of postdocs coming from seven francophone African countries Prof. Mamadou Diawara from Goethe University and Prof. Elisio Macamo from the University of Basel jointly received funding from Gerda Henkel Foundation for the creation of a Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA) based […]

MIASA Point Sud Summer School

Please find attached our call for application for the MIASA/Network Point Sud Summer School on „Intra-Regional Migration in Africa“ which will take place from the 23rd-28th May 2019 at the University of Ghana in Accra. This summer school will be hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies and the Institute of African Studies at the […]

3nd RMU Docs and Post-Docs workshop

The 3nd RMU Docs and Post-Docs workshop will be held on 24 and 25 February 2018 at the “Tagungszentrum Erbacher Hof” in Mainz (http://www.ebh-mainz.de/). You are warmly invited to join this workshop where we will learn alternative ways of writing and presentation with Ken Yamamoto (http://www.kenyamamoto.de/). In addition Anne Schuhmann will introduce us to the […]

Care in Crisis – Ethnographic Perspectives of Humanitarianism

22. – 24.2. 2018 , Mainz This conference introduces the notion of care into studies of humanitarianism. Care is a social activity produced by combinations of intimate and institutional practices. All of us need to be cared for, but care requirements are revealed more starkly and are often amplified in moments of acute need or […]

Five new PhD positions at the Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt).

The research project „A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000“ welcomes applications from interested students with an excellent Master’s degree. Successful applicants will become part of a new team, headed by Professor Mikael Hard and financed by the European Research Council; for more information, see: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/karriere_planen/allgemeineausschreibung/stellen_details_231744.en.jsp

New EU project TU Darmstadt: A Global History of Technology, 1850 – 2000

In October, 2017, a new research project will commence: “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” (www.global-hot.eu). Project leader is Professor Mikael Hård at Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt). The five-year undertaking is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Its main task is to investigate the fate of technology in the Global South—Africa included. […]