Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB
@ZASBasel
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ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. @unibasel_en #AfricanStudies #Afrikastudien
Basel, Schweiz
Joined November 2017
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🌍We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. ❗Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024. 🔗 https://t.co/QV8wiPrJja
#studyatZASB 4/4
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Our *MA African Studies* program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality. 3/4
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Even though Switzerland never formally owned colonies, it has a long tradition of involvement in global trade. This includes, since the 19th century, the production & trade of cocoa from colonial Ghana. This has had lasting implications for economy & society, both in 🇬🇭 &🇨🇭. 2/4
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❓Why African Studies? ‼️African Studies teaches you to appreciate how the world could have been different. 💡Global success of Swiss chocolate is not only based on quality and marketing... #studying #mastersdegree #africanstudies #basel #switzerland @UniBasel #studyatZASB 1/4
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Sinnstiftend fürs Leben lernen und theoretisches Wissen anwenden? DIE Chance, sich #transdisziplinär auszuprobieren oder Studierende dazu zu ermutigen! Zu den Zukunftsaussichten von U Change lest ausserdem im letzten Newsletter und gebt Rückmeldung!
📢 Die letzte U Change #Projektsausschreibung läuft bis zum 30. April Wenn du an einer Hochschule (egal welcher Art) in der Schweiz studierst und etwas zum Thema #Nachhaltigkeit machen willst, ist das deine Chance! 👉 https://t.co/gP5QKzhIVe
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❗ Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024. 🔗 https://t.co/QV8wiPrJja
#study #mastersdegree #africanstudies #Basel @UniBasel 6/6
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🧑🏾🎓Our MA African Studies program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality. 5/6
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➡️To this day, charitable rhetoric concerning Africa conceals notions of superiority and tangible economic and geopolitical interests. 4/6
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🌍But also actors in countries that never formally owned colonies were – and still are – among the beneficiaries of the colonial project, which laid the basis for the general economic structure of our world. 3/6
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💡 Colonial conquest and suppression has caused immense hardship for some and immeasurably benefitted others. The noble intentions of the ‘civilizing mission’ the colonizers’ put forward distracted from the exploitation of human and natural resources. 2/6
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❓ Why African Studies? ‼️ African Studies teaches you not to take ethical claims at face value. 💡We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. #studying #mastersdegree #africanstudies #Basel @UniBasel 1/6
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Aufgrund der grossen Nachfrage wird die Ausstellung "Deal with it" bis am 31. Januar 2024 verlängert. So wird sie auch an der Museumsnacht am 19. Januar 2024 noch zu sehen sein! @museenbasel @SwissTPH @ZASBasel @baseltourism @Staatsarchiv_BS @BaselHistory @UniBasel
Morgen Abend geht's los: "Deal with it" zeigt Perspektiven auf den Umgang mit afrikanischem Kulturgut in Basler Sammlungs- und Forschungsinstitutionen: @UniBasel, @ZASBasel, Mission 21, @SwissTPH und Museum der Kulturen. Vernissage: 18 Uhr. Komm vorbei! https://t.co/TcZcCDtUoV
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Check out the new open-access volume "Planetary Hinterlands - Extraction, Abandonment and Care" - with wonderful contributions by Pamila Gupta, @sindi_leigh, Sarah Nuttall, Esther Peeren, myself and many more...!
link.springer.com
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Morgen Abend geht's los: "Deal with it" zeigt Perspektiven auf den Umgang mit afrikanischem Kulturgut in Basler Sammlungs- und Forschungsinstitutionen: @UniBasel, @ZASBasel, Mission 21, @SwissTPH und Museum der Kulturen. Vernissage: 18 Uhr. Komm vorbei! https://t.co/TcZcCDtUoV
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#STSCH2023 conference (Basel, 31.08.-01.09.2023): Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects 🔜Register until 31 July at the preferential price: 🔗 https://t.co/PILRHHZQHT 📑Programme: 🔗 https://t.co/Gs3j08tIbp
@STSCH_ @UniBaselSocSci #sts
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📢Job opportunity: Assistant Professor in African Studies as part of a collaboration between the Centre of African Studies and @privacy_ku, University of Copenhagen Application deadline 1 October 2023. https://t.co/wIrBYQleKN
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📢#Job: Am @UniBaselSocSci der @UniBasel ist im Fachbereich #Soziologie eine Assistenz (Doktorand:in) mit Schwerpunkt #Afrikastudien zu besetzen. ‼️Bewerbungsfrist: 4. Juli 2023‼️ https://t.co/05j1GFHH4t
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Im Fachbereich Soziologie ist eine Assistenz (Doktorand:in) mit Bezug zum Bereich Afrikastudien zu besetzen.
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Open call - consolidation grant: The goal of this instrument is to further develop, consolidate and expand relations and foster new collaborations between🇨🇭 researchers and partners in #Africa. https://t.co/aEpEfeAUXD
@CDEunibe @ETH4D @SwissTPH @swisspeace @SwissAfrica @ZASBasel
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6th Basel #SummerSchool in #AfricanStudies (23.08.-01.09.2023) @UniBasel_en @UniBaselSocSci @BaselHistory @BaselInstitute @SwissTPH @SwissAfrica @CODESRIA @MIASA_UG @huma_africa @KFPE_CH @RtG_project @Europainstitut 🔗 https://t.co/4ZKHPrS16K
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