Watch the roundtable and panels convened by our project members at the conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) in Freiburg im Breisgau (7-10 June 2022).
Concepts without borders: Reversing the Gaze at the VAD Conference
Roundtable chaired by Elisio Macamo (University of Basel) and Ralph Weber (University of Basel)
Speakers: Patrício Langa (UWCUEM), Peter DeSouza (Retired Professor), Rose Marie Beck (University of Leipzig), Claudia Derichs (HU Berlin)
The politics and epistemic value of positionality
Panel convened by Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber
Translating concepts from Africa to Europe
Panel convened by Winnie Kanyimba and Matthias Maurer Rueda
Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies 