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1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
3) Politics and Governance
4) African Positions in Changing World Orders
5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
6) Technology and digitalization
7) Lifeworlds and sociality
8) Arts, language and cultural expression
9) Memories, histories, archives, museums
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Opening session & keynote
09:00 am - 10:30 am
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Special session
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Opening session
Speaker:
Prof. Lyn Ossome (Makerere University)
Chair:
Dr. Veit Arlt (University of Basel), Prof. Dr. Marie Muschalek (Univeristy of Basel), Dr. Pascal Schmid (University of Basel), Prof. Dr. Jon Schubert (University of Basel), Dr. Henri Michel Yéré (University of Basel)
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P.5.09: P.5.09) African Feminist Ethics, Care Ecologies, and the Politics of Planetary Healing
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Victoria Openifoluwa Akoleowo (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
Convenor:
Dr. Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola (University of Hildesheim)
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P.5.11: P.5.11) Reimagining the Digital and Green Transitions in Contemporary African Development
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Andrew Crawford (GIGA Hamburg), Hanna Tesfaye Tamene (Universität Erfurt), Dr. Evans Tindana Awuni (Universität Erfurt)
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P.5.12-1: P.5.12) African Development and One Health: Juxtaposing Resource Extraction and Sustainability (Session 1/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Convenor:
Dr. Oluwaṣeun Otọsedẹ Williams (University College Dublin)
Chair:
Adewale Onagbesan (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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P.5.12-2: P.5.12) African Development and One Health: Juxtaposing Resource Extraction and Sustainability (Session 2/2)
06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Convenor:
Dr. Oluwaṣeun Otọsedẹ Williams (University College Dublin)
Chair:
Adewale Onagbesan (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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P.5.01-1: P.5.01) Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes between Environmental Collapse and Elite Control (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Luregn Lenggenhager (University of Basel)
Convenor:
Kolosa Ntombini (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Romie Nghitevelekwa (University of Namibia)
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S.01: The Education Alibi: Tracing Education's Entanglements across Contemporary Africa
12:45 pm - 01:45 pm
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Book launch
Chair:
Dr. Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University), Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber (Universität Bayreuth)
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P.5.01-2: P.5.01) Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes between Environmental Collapse and Elite Control (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Luregn Lenggenhager (University of Basel)
Convenor:
Kolosa Ntombini (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Romie Nghitevelekwa (University of Namibia)
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P.5.03-1: P.5.03) Ecolinguistics in Africa: Environmental and Ecological Discourses and Practices in African Societies (Session 1/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. FEYI ADEOYE (University of Lagos)
Convenor:
Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth)
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P.5.03-2: P.5.03) Ecolinguistics in Africa: Environmental and Ecological Discourses and Practices in African Societies (Session 2/2)
06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
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5) Planetary Health, urbanization and natural resources
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. FEYI ADEOYE (University of Lagos)
Convenor:
Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth)
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P.3.01: P.3.01) Digital Faithscapes and Epistemic Sovereignty: Reimagining African Knowledge Traditions in the Age of Global Technoculture
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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3) Politics and Governance
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Abdul Gafar Olawale Fahm (University of Ilorin)
Convenor:
Aisha Umar Muhammad (Federal University Birnin Kebbi)
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S.09: Ecology and Economy in Anthropology (new book series)
12:45 pm - 01:45 pm
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Special session
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Book launch
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller (Institute of Social Anthropology)
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P.3.02-1: P.3.02) Rethinking Electoral Technologies and Political Conflict in Africa: Transformations, Resistances, and Regulations in the Age of Global Technopolitics (Session 1/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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3) Politics and Governance
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Chair:
Dr. Yves Valéry OBAME (The University of Bertoua/CERESC/GSI/GAL)
Convenor:
Dr. Salomon ESSAGA ETEME (The University of Ngaoundéré / RESSAC / CIFOR-GDA)
Discussant:
Dr. Victor Iwuoha (University of Bayreuth)
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P.3.02-2: P.3.02) Rethinking Electoral Technologies and Political Conflict in Africa: Transformations, Resistances, and Regulations in the Age of Global Technopolitics (Session 2/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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3) Politics and Governance
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Yves Valéry OBAME (The University of Bertoua/CERESC/GSI/GAL)
Convenor:
Dr. Salomon ESSAGA ETEME (The University of Ngaoundéré / RESSAC / CIFOR-GDA)
Discussant:
Dr. Victor Iwuoha (University of Bayreuth)
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P.1.01-1: P.1.01) Conflicts, Cultural Heritage and Communal Healing: Performative and Material Responses in Post-Conflict African Communities (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
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Panel
Chair:
Prof. Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta (University of Dschang)
Convenor:
Prof Nkwetisama Carlous Muluh (University of Bamenda), Prof Ate Andrew Asan (Edo State University), Prof Ushuple Lucy Mishina (University of Calabar)
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P.1.01-2: P.1.01) Conflicts, Cultural Heritage and Communal Healing: Performative and Material Responses in Post-Conflict African Communities (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Topic :
1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
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Chair:
Prof. Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta (University of Dschang)
Convenor:
Prof Nkwetisama Carlous Muluh (University of Bamenda), Prof Ate Andrew Asan (Edo State University), Prof Ushuple Lucy Mishina (University of Calabar)
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P.3.07-1: P.3.07) Reimagining the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Development in Africa (Session 1/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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3) Politics and Governance
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Hangala Siachiwena (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Convenor:
Dr. Anna Wolkenhauer (University of Bremen)
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R.01: From Gatekeepers to Bridge-Builders: Reflecting on Editorial Responsibility and Decolonizing Practice
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Special session
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Roundtable
Chair:
Dr. Maxine Rubin (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg), Prof. Martha Johnson (North Eastern)
Speaker:
Dr. Corentin Cohen (University of Oxford), Dr. Lamine Doumbia (Humboldt Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Bettina Engels (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr. Tim Glawion (University of Freiburg & Arnold Bergstraesser Institute), Dr. Peter Narh (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon), Jakub Vávrovský (University of Hradec Králové)
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P.3.06: P.3.06) Reconfiguring Wealth and Welfare: Social Protection and the Political Economies of Redistribution in Contemporary Africa
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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3) Politics and Governance
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Panel
Chair:
Ms. Ndeshi Namupala (University of Basel/ University of Namibia)
Convenor:
Dr. Ronan Jacquin (Geneva Graduate Institute)
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P.1.02: P.1.02) Outsetting: Figuring out the im/possibilities of contemporary epistemologies in Africa
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
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Panel
Chair:
Saïkou Oumar Sagnane (University of Bayreuth)
Convenor:
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann (University of Bayreuth), Prof. Alpha Amadou Bano Barry (University of Sonfonia)
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R.03: Rethinking African Studies: A Conversation at the Intersection of Intellectual Inquiry and Creative Practice
06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
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Special session
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Roundtable
Chair:
Dr. Julia Rensing (University of Basel), Dr. Sindi-Leigh McBride (University of Basel)
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P.6.01: P.6.01) Sounds of technicization. Lifeworld and musical capitalism in Africa
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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6) Technology and digitalization
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Alice Aterianus-Owanga (University of Neuchâtel)
Convenor:
Prof. Georges Macaire Eyenga (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS))
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P.6.02: P.6.02) African articulations of energy storage: Ongoing transitions, multiscalar arrangements, and infrastructural futures
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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6) Technology and digitalization
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Panel
Chair:
Amarilli Varesio (University of Milano Bicocca), Kareem Buyana (Makerere University), Moritz Kasper (tbc.)
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P.6.03-1: P.6.03) African languages in a globalized and digitalized World: challenges and perspectives (Session 1/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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6) Technology and digitalization
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Panel
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (University of Ilorin)
Convenor:
Dr. Bert van Pinxteren (Leiden University), Dr. Djouroukoro Diallo (University of Bern), Prof. Dr. Sarita Monjane-Henriksen (Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo)
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P.1.07-1: P.1.07) Afro-feminist approaches to research, policy and practice (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Topic :
1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Franzisca Zanker (Arnold Bergstraesser Institut), Prof. Mary Setrana (Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana)
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The $2.8 Trillion Question: Understanding the New Middle East-Africa Capital Map (MEA Policy Dialogue)
12:45 pm - 01:45 pm
Topic :
MEA Youth & Policy Week
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Special session
Chair(s):
MEA Institute for Strategic Studies
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P.1.07-2: P.1.07) Afro-feminist approaches to research, policy and practice (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Topic :
1) Studying Africa Understanding the World
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Franzisca Zanker (Arnold Bergstraesser Institut), Prof. Mary Setrana (Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana)
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P.4.01: P.4.01) African Women Organising Across the Globe
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Topic :
4) African Positions in Changing World Orders
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Claire Nicolas (University of Basel)
Convenor:
Dr. Sara Panata (CNRS)
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R.02: Decolonizing African Heritage? Return and Restitution of African Cultural Properties
06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Topic :
Special session
Form :
Roundtable
Chair:
Dr. Patrick Bandah (University of Bertoua), Méhèza Kalibani (Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg)
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P.2.08-1: P.2.08) Dressing the Diaspora: African Fashion, Youth, and Digital Culture in Motion (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Etuwe Epochi-Olise (Alex Ekwueme Federal University)
Convenor:
Dr. Mary Okocha (Wenzhou-Kean University, China)
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P.2.08-2: P.2.08) Dressing the Diaspora: African Fashion, Youth, and Digital Culture in Motion (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Etuwe Epochi-Olise (Alex Ekwueme Federal University)
Convenor:
Dr. Mary Okocha (Wenzhou-Kean University, China)
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P.2.09: P.2.09) Children at the center of West-African transnational families’ global (re)production of symbolic and economic capital
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Nicolas Mabillard (University of Basel)
Convenor:
Prof. ass. Amélie Grysole (Le Havre University), Dr. Chelsie Yount (Leiden University)
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P.2.01-1: P.2.01) Interpreting Global Transformations Through African Apparels (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
Convenor:
Dr. Sela Kodjo Adjei (University of Media, Arts and Communication)
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P.2.01-2: P.2.01) Interpreting Global Transformations Through African Apparels (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Topic :
2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
Convenor:
Dr. Sela Kodjo Adjei (University of Media, Arts and Communication)
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P.2.02: P.2.02) Religious Touristification in Africa
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Topic :
2) Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and African identities
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Dr. Peter Ayoola Oderinde (Lead City University)
Convenor:
Dr. Oluwaseun Olawale Afolabi (Lead City University), Prof. Francis O. Falako (University of Lagos), Andreas Heuser (University of Basel)
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P.9.01: P.9.01) Re-imagining Sacred Spaces in North Africa: An interdisciplinary Reading
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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9) Memories, histories, archives, museums
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Cyrine Kortas (MECAM, The Merian Centre for advanced studies in the Maghreb Tunis university)
Convenor:
Prof. Dr. Souad Matoussi (Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Sousse)
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P.9.02: P.9.02) Ancestral Remains in University Collections. Comparison and Connections
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
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9) Memories, histories, archives, museums
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Panel
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)
Convenor:
Dr. Tricia Close-Koenig (Université de Strasbourg)
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P.9.06: P.9.06) Entangled Histories of Slavery: Perspectives on the Demand and Supply Chain, Cultural Disruption, and the Reparation Dynamics
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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9) Memories, histories, archives, museums
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Dr. Moses Yakubu (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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P.8.01-1: P.8.01) Laughing at Power: Humour, Identity, and Socio-Political Commentary in African Digital Comedy Skits (Session 1/2)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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8) Arts, language and cultural expression
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Winnie Daniel (Federal University Lokoja)
Convenor:
Prof. Adesina Sunday (University of Ibadan)
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P.8.01-2: P.8.01) Laughing at Power: Humour, Identity, and Socio-Political Commentary in African Digital Comedy Skits (Session 2/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Topic :
8) Arts, language and cultural expression
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Winnie Daniel (Federal University Lokoja)
Convenor:
Prof. Adesina Sunday (University of Ibadan)
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P.8.02: P.8.02) Trajectories of African and Afro-descendant Literatures in Switzerland
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
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8) Arts, language and cultural expression
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Panel
Chair:
Dr. Jehanne Denogent (UNIL Université de Lausanne), Dr. Amandine Herzog-Novoa (Bern universität)
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P.8.07-1: P.8.07) Linguistic and Cultural Expression in African Arts: Language as Memory, Resistance, and Renewal (Session 1/2)
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Topic :
8) Arts, language and cultural expression
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Dr. Ruth Karachi Benson Oji (Pan-Atlantic University)
Convenor:
Dr. Ayo Osisanwo (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
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P.8.07-2: P.8.07) Linguistic and Cultural Expression in African Arts: Language as Memory, Resistance, and Renewal (Session 2/2)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Topic :
8) Arts, language and cultural expression
Form :
Panel
Chair:
Dr. Ruth Karachi Benson Oji (Pan-Atlantic University)
Convenor:
Dr. Ayo Osisanwo (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
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S.07: Following the Thread: On the Significance and Interconnectedness of Textiles in the African Sahel.
06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Topic :
Special session
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Special session
Chair:
Juerg Schneider (University of Basel)