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- 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, MÄ“tisPresses, 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