Events

 

16 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
08:00  - 18:00

Botanischer Garten, Spalengraben 8, 4051 Basel

Organizer:
Nora Naji & Tabea Zwimpfe

Public event, Exhibition / Opening

Exhibition: Mangrove Ecologies - Life between Ebb and Flow

A multi-sensory exhibition in the Botanical Garden Basel that combines sound, memory and ecology.
17 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
11:00  - 18:00

Ackermannshof, St. Johannsvorstadt 19/21, 4056 Basel

Organizer:
Africa Basel

Public event, Exhibition / Opening, Other events

Exhibition: Africa Basel Contemporary Art Fair

Discover the diversity of contemporary African art.
24 Jun 2025 - 28 Jun 2025

the bird’s eye jazz club, Kohlenberg 20, 4051 Basel

Organizer:
the bird’s eye jazz club Basel & ZASB

Public event

Paul Hanmer: "Our kind of jazz"

Summer week with South African jazz in cooperation with the ZASB
24 Jun 2025
11:00  - 12:00

Online

Organizer:
Basel Institute on Governance

Public event

Info session: Basel STUDY

Learn more about the CAS programs of the Basel Institute on Governance
30 Jun 2025
14:00  - 16:00

Online

Organizer:
University of Portsmouth, University of Johannesburg and University of Bayreuth

Public event

Harry Kapatika: "Why Epistemicide Matters: The Historical Problem of Knowledge in Africa for the 21st Century"

New Area Knowledges – Geographies of Power, Linguistic (In)justice and Epistemologies of the South
08 Jul 2025
20:00  - 22:00

HS 1228, KG I, Platz der Universität 3, 79098 Freiburg

Organizer:
Africa Centre for Transregional Research, Research Training Group 2571 "Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders" & Initiative "De/Coloniality Now"

Public event

Kokou Azamede: "Colonial violence and postcolonial identity: in search of self-determination in West Africa"

Africa Centre for Transregional Research
01 Sep 2025 - 03 Sep 2025

Centre for African Studies Basel

Organizer:
Centre for African Studies and Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: "The African Genome at the Disciplinary Crossroads: how to widen the scope of genomics’ methods across the humanities and social sciences"

University of Basel, 1–3 September 2025
08 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

University of Basel

Organizer:
ZASB

Workshop

Summer School: "Honouring Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through African Thought"

7th Basel Summer School in African Studies
20 Sep 2025
09:00  - 16:00

ZASB, Rheinsprung 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer:
ZASB and KEESA

Conference: Green colonialism: Lithium, the energy transition and its costs

Who bears the cost of the energy transition?
17 Oct 2025 - 18 Oct 2025

Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer:
BAB, ZASB & UNAM

Public event

11th Namibia Research Day

Basler Afrika Bibliographien