The Scientific Coordination Office Bavaria-Africa at the conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) in Bayreuth

30/09/2024
BayFOR Lunch Talk auf der VAD-Konferenz

Under the title ‘Reconfigurations in Africa - and in African Studies’ this year’s conference of the VAD will take place in Bayreuth from September 30 to October 2, 2024. The Scientific Coordination Office (WKS) Bavaria-Africa of BayFOR participates at the conference with an information stand and provides information on funding opportunities for international research and innovation projects in a lunch talk session.

This year, the Institute of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth is hosting the biennial conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany. The conference will analyse global processes, such as the climate crisis, war and pandemics, as well as challenges for democracies, with and through African perspectives. African and European researchers, activists, politicians and artists will come together at this conference to address knowledge production in a reflexive, relational and multiple way.
 
The conference offers a space for critical, multi-disciplinary discussions to stimulate cooperation and intellectual exchange. In particular, Africa-related institutions outside the continent will be brought into a dialogue with museums, universities and associations in Africa. Hereby, the role of African Studies will be reflected upon. The workshops are divided into seven sections:

  • Location-based African Studies: Discrepancies and Debates
  • Perspectives on current crises
  • Imagining ‘Africanness’
  • Political Economy of Extractivism
  • Social media, archiving and ‘the digital’
  • New forms of collaboration in African arts
  • Ecology and planetary consciousness

On the first day of the conference, Monday, September 30, 2024, the WKS Bavaria-Africa informs about research funding opportunities in the African-European context during a lunch talk session. Various services offered by WKS Bavaria-Africa will be presented, ranging from individual advice on suitable funding programmes to the proofreading of funding applications and information on current calls for proposals. A particular focus is on AU-EU funding programmes. 

Come to our Lunch Talk Session and visit our information stand!

Time & Date

Conference: Monday, 30 September - Wednesday, 02 October 2024

BayFOR Lunch Talk Session: Monday, September 30, 2024: 12:45-1:30pm

Agenda

The programme of the conference can be found here.

Format

The event takes place in a hybrid format allowing for global participation and exchange.

Contact

Bavarian Research Alliance 
Scientific Coordination Office Bavaria-Africa

Dr. Sabrina Maurus
Tel: +49 89 9901888-221
E-Mail: maurus@no-spam-pleasebayfor.org

Kerstin Pecher
Tel: +49 89 9901888-204
E-Mail: pecher@no-spam-pleasebayfor.org


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