News & Events

The ASCL’s research group 'Collaboration and Contestation in Words: Dialogues and Disputes in African Social Realities' organised a workshop late 2018 on the question: to what extent is the concept of free speech appropriate when it comes to a discourse that spreads hate, in particular homophobia?

The ASCL Library will be moving back to its own location at the Faculty of Social Sciences from Monday 4 to Friday 8 March. The library will be closed during this week. The ASCL Library has undergone major maintenance, and was temporarily relocated to the neighbouring Library of Social Sciences. As of Monday 11 March the ASCL Library will be open as usual.

We are proud that the Breaking Down Barriers project, in cooperation with the Liliane Foundation and partners in Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Zambia, has been nominated for the Impact Challenge Award 2019. Come and listen to the pitch on 29 March when the winner will be chosen at the Impact Event in Amsterdam!

Jan-Bart Gewald, Harry Wels and Frans Kamsteeg present a grim picture of South Africa as an emerging stagnant political economy that seems to conform smoothly to the conspiracy of authoritarians. ‘South Africa's BRICS partnership seems now stronger than ever, as the “Rainbow Nation” shares the “my country first” credo supported by the politics of authoritarian leadership’, they write in a contribution to Clingendael Spectator.