BL01
Jonathan van Eerd: The Quality of Democracy in Africa: Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages, Palgrave, London and New York 2017.
BL02
Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi and Wolfgang Hahn (eds.): Ethiopia - History, Culture and Challenges, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017.
BL03
Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (editors): Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, Peter Lang, New York 2016.
BL04
Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha: The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre. Survivors, Deniers and Injustices, Basel Namibia Studies Series Vol. 18, BAB Publishing House, Basel 2017.
BL05
Iolanda Pensa (ed.): Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala, vuesDensemble, MētisPresses, Geneva 2017.
BL06
Wim van Binsbergen: Vicarious Reflections: African explorations in empirically-grounded intercultural philosophy, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy / Transcontinental Comparative Studies (PIP-TraCS
BL07
Zed Books and the International African Institute Book Launch: Kris Berwouts: Congos Violent Peace: Conflict and Struggle Since the Great African War.; Marielle Debos: Living by the Gun in Chad
BL08
Sylvain Racaud, Bob Nakileza, François Bart, Bernard Charlery de la Masselière (eds.): Rural-Urban Dynamics in the East African Mountains, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam 2017.
BL09
La revue Afrique contemporaine présente : "Understanding Boko Haram", De Boeck, n°255, 2017.
BL10
Matteo Rizzo: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
BL11
OECD/SWAC: Cross-border Cooperation and Policy Networks in West Africa, West African Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris 2017.
BL12
Klaas van Walraven: Le désir de calme. L’histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2017.
BL13
Martin Mourre: Thiaroye 1944. Histoire et mémoire d’un massacre colonial, Presses Universitaire de Rennes, Rennes 2017.
BL14
Steven Robins: Letters of Stone. From Nazi Germany to South Africa, Penguin Random House Publishers South Africa, Cape Town 2016.
BL15
Richard Fardon and Sènga la Rouge: Learning from the Curse. Sembene’s Xala, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.
BL16
Wiebke Keim: Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local. South African Labour Studies from the Apartheid Era into the New Millennium, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris 2017.
BL17
Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olly Owen and Jonny Steinberg (eds): Police in Africa. The Street Level View, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.
BL18
Elísio Macamo: The Taming of Faith. Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective – Case Studies from Southern Mozambique, Dakar, CODESRIA 2017.
FS01
Something New in Old Town (2016)
FS02
Casa Branca The Bridge (2016)
FS03
Xilunguine The Promised Land (2013)
FS04
Caught-in-Between (2016)
FS05
Ghana's Electric Dreams (2017)
FS06
Iman - preventing violence and extremism (2017)
FS07
Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (2014)
FS08
Les Mairuuwas - Masters of Water (2015)
FS09
Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016)
FS10
O Nascer de um Ritmo (2016)
FS11
Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City (2015)
FS12
Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush (2014)
FS13
Healing of Memories in South Africa (2017)
KN00
Mirjam de Bruijn: Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies
KN01
Elísio Macamo: Urbane Scholarship: Studying Africa, Understanding the World (Lugard Lecture)
KN02
Joyce Nyairo: Urban Africa, Urban Africans - Binds, Boundaries and Belonging
KN03
Edgar Pieterse: The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces
MT01
Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African Politics and International Relations
MT02
Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African History
MT03
Collaborative Research Group (proposed new CRG) Migration and Displacement
MT04
Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Africa in the Indian Ocean
MT05
Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Coordinators' Meeting
MT06
Journal of African History Editorial Board
MT07
Journal Africa Editorial Meeting
MT08
African Books Collective (ABC) Board Meeting
MT09
Namibian and Southern African Studies
MT10
AEGIS Board Meeting
MT11
AEGIS Plenary
MT12
International Africa Institute Council
MT13
ELIAS European Librarians in African Studies 11th Annual Meeting, followed by visit to the exhibition Stolen Moments
MT14
Central African Studies Association (CASA) and CongoResearchNetwork Business Meeting
MT15
Collaborative Research Group (CFG) Drylands
P001
Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa I
P002
Rural despotism in democratic South Africa
P003
Precarious Inclusion: Inclusive Capitalism and African Informal Economies
P004
Labour (markets) in extractive industries
P005
The Rural-Urban Linkages in Africa's Quest for Industrialisation: Large Scale Land Acquisition, Capitalist Farming, and Agrarian Transformation in Comparative Historical-Sociological Context
P006
Africa and Higher Education - A Transnational Perspective
P007
Aftermaths: urban displacement and the poisoned promise of resettlement
P008
African capitalisms: Bringing the entrepreneur back in
P009
Border towns in Africa: Between division and integration (CRG ABORNE approved panel)
P010
Urban transformations in Rural Africa: The role of small towns in Sub-Saharan Africa - revisited
P011
60 shades of development assistance: remainings of projects and programs in urban and rural Africa
P012
Dynamics of growth, investment and violence in Eastern Africa's margins
P013
Rural Food Farmers in Urban Markets
P014
Smart cities as national and regional growth poles in Africa
P015
Urbanization for Africa's structural transformation
P016
Knowledge production for active urban citizenship
P017 CANCELLED
Gender transition and urban societal wellbeing in Eastern Africa
P018
Shifting Terrain: The Dynamics of National Land Policy in Africa
P019
(Street)Markets, Malls, and 'Exhibitions': Commerce and the transformation of African urban space
P020
Transformative research and economic transformation in Africa
P021
Mining and Urbanization in Rural Africa/Exploitation minière et urbanisation en Afrique rurale
P022
Metropolitan emergence: cities in the globalization, views from North and sub-Saharan Africa
P023
Villes, inégalités et conflits en Afrique contemporaine
P024
Local Government in decentralizing and urbanizing society (Le gouvernement local dans la société décentralisante et urbanisante)
P025
Changing spaces for rural and urban civil society movements in Africa
P026
Zimbabwe's politics and protests: writing the 'urban' back in
P027
Rural-urban cleavages in the Congolese conflicts
P028
Social media and the political sphere in Africa: reshaping democratic engagement?
P029
Time as politics: past present and future in African urbanism
P030
The State and the Media: surveillance and censorship in Africa's pasts and presents
P031
Managing militias: the (non)emergence of armed groups before, during, and after elections
P032
Capital politics: The political economy of African regional organisations
P033
Security in the city: Experiences of security pluralism in urban Africa
P034
The changing face of electoral manipulation in Africa
P035
The Political Economy of Land and Extraction
P036
Being a non-violent youth in conflict contexts
P037
The politics and policies of mobilization in authoritarian regimes: producing domination and consent
P038
Liberation diplomacy and the African city
P039
Still Relevant? The European Union in Africa
P040
Creating Common Understanding - EU-Africa Responses to Urban Challenges
P041 CANCELLED
La recomposition des espaces politiques en temps de guerre
P042
Elites, Networks and Bargains: Explaining African trajectories at the intersection of agency and institutions
P043
'Electric scrambles', past and present: renovating the politics of the kilowatts and the megawatts across African polities
P044
Ideology and Armed Struggle in Contemporary Africa
P045
Judicial elites in Africa: appointments and careers at superior courts
P046
The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States' Development Strategies
P047
Speaking Africa, integrating Africa? Norms and power of the African Union
P048
Conspiracies and conspiracy theory. The politics of the unknown
P049
Urban Africa, Voice, and Politics
P050
A bottom-up perspective on military intervention in fragile states
P051
Youth-led leadership and participation in Africa
P052
Demarcating political life? The rural-urban divide and its influence on political behavior
P053
Reading State through humanitarian a perspective: Boko Haram "ruralities war" and population displacement in the Lake Chad region
P054
Political Representation in Fragile and Transitional States
P055
Violent conflict and the politics of rural-urban transformation
P056
Party Politics under Authoritarian Rule
P057
Civil Wars and State Formation: Order and legitimacy during and after violent conflict
P058
Democracy, decolonisation and political contestation: the South African case
P059
The social life of identity documents in Africa
P060
The New Political Economy of Afro-Asian Ties
P061
Social Assistance Policies in Africa
P062
Violent Democracies? Understanding election-related violence in Africa
P063
Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa II
P064
Insurgent Citizenship: The politics of laying claim to urban spaces in historical perspectives
P065 CANCELLED
New forms of dependence in rural Africa?
P066
Sentiments of Justice in Africa: Contestations at the Intersection of Rural and Urban Imaginations
P067
New mobilities and translocal social practices of African (post)pastoralist societies
P068
Strangers Among Us: Negotiating/Shifting Race and Ethnic Relations in Urban and Rural African Spaces and Places
P069
Bus stations in Africa
P070
Enfants au travail dans les villes africaines: stratégies, droits et mobilités
P071
Secondary cities in Africa: Between metropolises and small towns
P072
Different Localities, Different Identities? Rural-Urban Mobilities and the (Re)Production of Class
P073
The unemployed in Africa: redistribution, time, and the meaning of productivity
P074
Making the African City: Leisure, Security and Ordinary Urbanities
P075
Transnational migration and its implications for education in contemporary Africa
P076
The Role of Networks in Rural-Urban-Transnational Encounters: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Spaces
P077
(Infra)structures of Extraction in Africa
P078
A desire for the authentic: urban and rural lives as categories of social distinction
P079
Innovations in connectivity and social change in Africa: new ways to bridge the urban and rural in historical perspective
P080
African bureaucrats and emotions at work
P081
Africa and the city. Constrained urbanisation through forced displacement
P082
Africa's Nocturnal Cities
P083
Coming of Age in a Time of Change: New Forms of Gendered Self-Accomplishment in (East) Africa and beyond
P084
Youthful agency, art practices and the right to the city
P085
Rethinking African ageing: Growing old in an urbanising Africa
P086
Villes et projets urbains en Afrique : politiques de la culture / cultures du politique
P087
Thinking through time. Large-scale technological innovations in Africa
P088
Urban governance: new arrangements in African cities of all sizes
P089
Contested waterfronts in Kenya, Cameroon and Côte d´Ivoire
P090
Who Owns the City? Political Leverage for Informal Workers in Urban Africa
P091
African Cities and Urban Theory
P092
Contemporary politics of informality: encounters between the "formal" and "informal" African city
P093
Cameroonian cities: conviviality and contradictions
P094
Unspectacular Youth - Practicing the everyday in urban/rural Africa
P095
Social science perspectives on One Health in Africa
P096
Revisiting "moral economy": perspectives from African studies.
P097
Classes urbaines et fabrique des global south consumers
P098
Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa
P099
Traditional Chiefs and Democratic Political Culture for Africa
P100
The struggle on memory. Biographies, locations/places, archives, monuments and museum in today´s Africa
P101
Conflict Over Natural Resources and Food (In)Security: How do conflicts influence urban food-provision?
P102
Urban elites and the legacies of slavery
P103
The urban images of rural life: its materials and materiality, its actors and its practices / L'imaginaire de «la brousse» en milieu urbain: matérialités, acteurs, pratiques
P104
Strangers in African Cities
P105
Rural and urban belonging from a life course perspective
P106
Respatializing informality in urban Africa
P107
After the Crisis? Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa
P108
Youth, work and making a living in sub-Saharan cities
P109
Fashioning sexuality in popular culture
P110
Food cultures in Africa: food production, consumption, and prestige ranking in the age of development
P111
Notions of gender equality in African contexts
P112
Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions, Wealth, and Aspirations of Citizenship
P113
Local Resistances to International Agendas on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa
P114
CRG Africa in the World: Global Village, African City. How to read Africa's changing global connections in the African cityscape
P115
Social Sciences Research Institutions in Post-independence Africa as subjects of research
P116
Questioning legitimating discourses and practices in the international aid context
P117
Teaching peace after conflict: the effect of teachers' agency and social identity on the effectiveness of peace education
P118
LGBTI Activism in Lusophone Africa and beyond: organization and dynamics in urban contexts
P119
The Practice and Politics of DIY Urbanism in African Cities
P120
From village schools to univer-cities: Rural-urban dynamics in education and knowledge production in Africa
P121
The ones who moved to the town: Informal DDR through urbanisation
P122
Global scientific encounters: The quest for sustainable research cooperations
P123
The urban and the rural in biographical constructions of urban African middle classes
P124
Rising African Urban Middle Classes: Narrative Mirage or Social Reality?
P125
Everyday Citizenship: entanglements of state power, space and citizenship in contemporary Africa
P126
Land commodification, Land tenure and Gender in Africa
P127
Raising revenue: everyday taxation in urban Africa
P128
The Rise of African Transnational Traders
P129
Why is research from Africa invisible?
P130
Urban technologies and technologies of urbanity in Africa
P131
Popular claim-making, public authority and governance in urban Africa
P132
Between Rural and Urban: Building the state in secondary towns
P133
Towns build around and on concentration camps: The War in German Southwest-Africa and its urban trajectories
P134
Urban scenographies of political power in Africa before 1900 (double panel)
P135
African Ivory; Connecting cosmopolitan spaces in a globalized Atlantic: trade, art and visual discourses
P136
Mémoire multiple et participation politique: L' « histoire locale » dans la voie africaine de la démocratie
P137
Port Cities and Coastal Towns along the African Indian Ocean Coast
P138
Encounters of the Urban and the Rural: Labour in Durban/KwaZulu
P139
Transregional and Transnational Histories of Commodity Cultures in Urban Africa
P140
Being and Making 'Good Citizens': Concepts and Practices of Citizenship in Africa Past and Present
P141
Lines of Control - Lines of Desire: Towards an Integrated History of Fencing in Southern Africa
P142
Migration and "in-between" Logistics: Recruiters, Agencies, Brokers and Transport Workers
P143
Urbanisation and Africa's "Agrarian Question": Rural-Agricultural Development in the Twentieth Century
P144
Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean
P145
African Women Interpreting and Redefining Public Health in late 20th and early 21st century Africa
P146
The Bureaucratic City: The Politics of Organising Urban Life in colonial and postcolonial Africa
P147
Dichotomic 'Fault Lines': Exploring the Mutual Constitution of Binary Formulations in African Histories
P148
Economic and Financial Histories of Central Africa I (double panel)
P149
The importance of biography in African historical studies
P150
The monument in the African Town: its origin, place and part
P151
Historicizing Humanitarianism, Development, and Colonial Legacies
P152
Geographies of violence and the migration of conflict
P153
Religious Minorities in Africa. Urban areas as crossroads: meeting points, safe heavens, and stages
P154
Schools and education at the core of the city (20th C.)
P155
Identity and Soldiering: Making armies in southern Africa
P156
Debts and the city
P157
Non-Penal Confinement in Africa
P158
Transforming Urban and Rural Memorialization in Southern Africa
P159
Between the Rural and the Urban: Critiquing Discourses of Development in Hunting, Conservation and Architecture in Namibia and South Africa
P160
Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt
P161
Power in travel, powering travel
P162
Photographs and Photographers in Africa Visual Entanglements of the Urban and the Rural
P163
Urban artists with rural links: Contemporary art and social practice
P164
Creative Boundaries: Traveling between Urban and Rural Identities
P165
Rethinking the dialectics of Rural and Urban in African Art Scholarship
P166
Cultivating African cities: On a decolonial potential of urban cultural elites
P167
Digital (Sound)Pictures in/on/about Urban Africa
P168
Rural-urban sexuality and power dynamics in African literature and culture
P169
Rethinking Periphery(ies) in Portuguese-speaking cinemas
P170
The visibility and violence of sexual diversity in Africa
P171
Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning research foci
P172
African indigenous languages as urban youth languages: the rural-urban exchange
P173
The Urban African Space and Its Marginal Literatures/Performances
P174
Managing linguistic diversity in the African city
P175
The Urban Space and the African Short Story in English
P176
Mobility within Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
P177
Idealizing the Rural? Emerging Consciousness to Relocate African Theoria to the Village Square
P178
The Plural and Relational in Religious Practices, Concepts, and Spaces in Africa
P179
Urbanity, Religiosity and Inter-Religiosity in Contemporary Africa
P180
Disability and Technology in Urban and Rural Settings
P181
Local Knowledge: development opportunities coming from the countryside? Methodological and political strategies and challenges in the health area
P182
Ageing in Sub-Sahara Africa: Shifting Landscapes of Moral Neoliberal Reforms
P183
Innovation and urban health in Africa
P184
Local health-care governance in troubled times
P185
In pursuit of "wellness"
P186
Interrogating Land Value Capture in the African peri-urban Interface: towards a new political Economy?
P187
Urban-rural migration, movement and livelihoods revisited in a context of crisis
P188
Mass rapid transit (MRT) in African Cities: A contribution towards inclusiveness?
P189
Impact of tourism development on urban and rural communities in Africa
P190
Futures of nature in African rural and urban spaces in the post-independence era
P191
Exploring Crime and Poverty Nexus in Urban Africa
P192
Food System Links Between the Rural and Urban Africa
P193
Boundaries, Links, and Flows: the Materiality and Political Meaning of Distinctions between Urban, Suburban, and Rural Africa
P194
Soft constraint and the reshaping of the urban political space: relocated urban dwellers in African cities' peripheries
P195
Food Markets in rural-urban Africa
P196
African migration imaginaries: rumours, cosmologies, representations
P197
How to govern the making of urban space in Africa between informality and mobility?
P198
"Creative commons destruction?" - Large-scale investments, new commons, and distributive institutions
P199
Towns, public areas and discards. Encounters of the rural and the urban
P200
Sustainable Cities in Africa: plans, dreams, and practices
P201
Contested justice: Legal and judicial pluralism in urban settings and renegotiations of the law from urban to rural domains
P202
Taking rules seriously: Between formality and informality in African bureaucracies
P203
Uncovering the merits of African approaches to foster democracy, human rights, and conflicts resolutions in Africa
P204
Urban property disputes in fragile and transitional settings in Africa
RT01
Architecture, Modernization, and the City in Africa
RT02
Scholarly Journals in African Studies: Meet the editors
RT03
Open city – a conversation on in- and exclusion in African cities (sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation)
RT04
Researching urban Africa: a roundtable discussion on methodology and epistemology
RT05
Research in Africa - on whose terms? (sponsored by the Swiss Society for African Studies and CODESRIA)
RT06
Strategic Essentialism? The Patrick Chabal Debate
RT07
Challenges in African Studies Worldwide
RT08
New paradigms for researching Africa’s past: Round table in honour of Patrick Harries (1950-2016)
RT09
Africa versus the West: The challenge of reciprocal comparisons in the study of Africa
RT10
Cosmopolitan Biographies
SE01
Working with Africa - The Swiss joint research programmes
SE02
New Urban Studies Masters Programmes at the Universities of Cape Town and Basel
SE03
Presentation of the 8th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2019
SE04
Gerti Hesseling Prize