Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Africa Collocium in Summer Term 2025



The Afrikakolloquium is organised this semester jointly by
Dr. Lamine Doumbia (Department for African Studies, HU) and
Dr. Susann Baller (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin)

 

Venue & time: Invalidenstraße 118, r. 315; 16-18 h c.t.

The colloquium is open to the public. Students, colleagues and guests are welcome!

 

Date

Speaker

Title

14.05.2025

Dr. Patrick Hege (Ethnologisches Museum)

Book Launch: Dividing Dar: Race, Space and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850-1920

 

This session is organised in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin). The session takes place at Ihnestr. 21, lecture hall A: https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/events/20250514_1_BAS_SoSe25.html)

21.05.2025

Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah (University of Ghana)

Drivers Influencing Presidential Votes in the 2024 General Elections in Ghana

11.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) and
Dr. Daniel Tödt (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin)

Maritime Solidarity at Work: African Dockers and Black Internationalism

18.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Goutam Karmakar (Humboldt Fellow, University of Cologne/ University of Hyderabad)

Infrastructural Violence, Dissent and Extractive Practices in Africa

02.07.2025

Prof. Dr. Ebere Adimora (Humboldt Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin/ University of Nigeria, Nsukka)

Unveiling the Realities of Gender Based Violence: Research Insights from Academic Environments in Nigeria

09.07.2025

Prof. Dr. Anja Osei (Freie Universität Berlin)

Who Rules in Africa? Political Representation, Parliaments and Social Inequality

at 17 c.t.

This lecture exceptionally starts at 17 c.t.

16.07.2025

Prof. Dr. Chétima Melchisedek (Humboldt Fellow, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

A History of Violence: Boko Haram, Slavery and Kidnapping in the Lake Chad Basin