Knowledge Unbound – New International Research Project
The new research project “Knowledge Unbound” is opening up innovative areas of research by focussing on key regions such as Africa, the Near and Middle East and the Pacific region.
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What is “Religion” in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World – Keynote by Birgit Meyer
On 30 January 2020, the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Leiden African Studies Assembly of Leiden University organised the conference ‘Africa: 60 Years of Independence‘. Professor Birgit Meyer, Professor...
Die Transnationale Forschungsgruppe „Die Bürokratisierung afrikanischer Gesellschaften“ in Dakar
Dakar (Senegal) ist seit 2017 Standort der von der Max Weber Stiftung geförderten Transnationalen Forschungsgruppe (TFG) „Die Bürokratisierung afrikanischer Gesellschaften“. In diesem Beitrag stellt Susann Baller die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Gruppe vor.
Remapping Our Mindset Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook
By Birgit Meyer This article was published open access as part of a special issue of the journal »Religion« on The Future of the Study of Religion/s. The ‘future of...
Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)
By Lesley Braun A report of the workshop, “Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)”, held in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde, on January 28–29th,...
Restitution of Art Objects: Bringing in African Perspectives
By Wazi Apoh and Andreas Mehler The debate on the restitution of colonially-‘acquired’ art objects from Africa is boiling in Paris and Berlin, but in other quarters of the world it...
African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment
By Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee African historiography has been following divisions, schemes, and sequences set by the Europeans who in the past claimed that there was no such thing as African...
Grasping the Global: Lessons from the 1970s
By Bence Kocsev A couple of years ago, during one of his eye-opener lectures, Irish-American thinker James M. Skelly coined the term “recovering sociologist”. With this term, he tried to...
Global Capitalism from the South. The Mediterranean, Africa and the Rise of the Atlantic
Mr. Taviani, your project is looking at the dynamics of capitalism from a historical perspective. You are focusing on two topics which are at the core of capitalism, the slave...
In Global Transit. Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa and Beyond
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the international conference “In Global Transit. Jewish Migrants from...
