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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
05 December 2016
The Call for Papers for the 7th European Conference on African Studies (Basel, 29 June-1 July 2017) is open! Scholars in African Studies are invited to propose papers to the panel(s) of their choice. This year's theme: 'Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban'. Deadline for submitting abstracts: 19 January 2017. We made an overview of the Leiden related panels.
29 November 2016
Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald and Leonor Faber-Jonker have contributed to the exhibition 'Le premier génocide du XXe siècle: Herero et Nama dans le Sud-Ouest africain allemand, 1904-1908' in Paris. The exhibition deals with the genocide on Herero and Nama in German South West Africa (current Namibia) at the start of the 20th century. Leonor Faber-Jonker is scientific curator of the exhibition, Prof. Gewald has made his archive available and gave a lecture at the opening of the exhibition on 24 November 2016.
Michiel van den Berg interviewed about bird conservation and sustainable development in Burkina Faso
28 November 2016
28 November 2016
The links between conservation and livelihood concerns remain much debated, and there is no agreement about the degree to which these concerns are linked, and how they should be tackled together. The main objectives of the PhD dissertation by Michiel van den Bergh are to uncover the local values of birds, the environment and conservation for rural people in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region, and to increase insights into interventions that aim to achieve integrated (migrant bird) conservation and sustainable development objectives in this area.
28 November 2016
28 November 2016
22 November 2016
ASCL director Ton Dietz gave a Cleveringa lecture in Rabat on Tuesday 29 November. Title of his lecture: 'Africa 2016-2100: Demographic Trends and Consequences for the Continent and for the World'. Professor Dietz considered the consequences of the rapid population growth, urbanization, migration, resource competition and their impact on the population. He also investigated what the current global situation, with economic growth slowing down and the start of the Brexit-Trump era, mean for Africa. Take a look at his (French) presentation.
21 November 2016
The 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 will take place 28 June - 1 July 2017 in Basel. This year's theme: Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New Encounters of the Rural and the Urban. Many ASCL researchers and other Leiden University Africanists will organize a panel or present a paper. ASCL senior researcher Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn will give the Carl Schlettwein Lecture Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies on 28 June.
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