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Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel hält sich vom 1.-5. Februar in Maputo, Mozambique, auf - unter anderem um die erste Jahreskonferenz des DFG-Scherwpunktprogramms 1448 "Adpatation and Creativity in Africa: Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder" vorzubereiten. Im Anschluß an diesen Besuch reist er nach Südafrika, um einen Antrag mit der Partneruniversität Stellenbosch zur Einrichtung einer gemeinsamen Doktorandenschule voranzutreiben.

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Photocontest "China in Africa". Get more information here.

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The test results from the Kiswahili intensive course are now online - and accessible here. 

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The AfrikanistikForum invites members of the Institute to join the betting on the Africa Cup of Nations 2010. Get more information here.

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From January 2010 on, the seminar "Angeleitetes Selbsttudium" (Modul  03-AFR-0501 Afrikastudien IV, with PD Dr. Diallo) will be held in block sessions - each of them 9:00-15:00 h at the following dates: 22.1., 29.1. , 5.2.

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New student representatives in charge of issues concerning the institute itself (> AfrikanistikForum) have been elected in November. They are:  Mortimer Berger (for B.A. students), Desirée Schulz (for M.A. students), Samuel Peters (for Magister students). Besides, the following students of African Studies act as student representatives within the broader Fachschaftsrat der Afrikanistik und Orientalistik (FaRAO): Katharina Döring (B.A.), Romy Klima (B.A.), Lena Sell (Magister).

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Welcome to the website of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig!

Throughout its history of more than 100 years, the Institute of African Studies has developed a profile that is unique in Germany. African studies in Leipzig span a wide multidisciplinary range by bringing together linguistics, philology, cultural and historical studies, social and political sciences as well as economics. You are welcome to browse through the courses, research projects and other activities offered by the Institute of African Studies as well to get acquainted with our team.
 

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Recently pubished: “Respacing Africa” ed. by Ulf Engel & Paul Nugent

Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). These dialectical processes are driven by a variety of actors: political elites, multinational companies, warlords, donor governments, local traders, international NGOs, etc. As a result substantial parts of Africa witness the emergence of new regimes of territoriality: re-ordered states, transnational and sub-national entities, new localities and transborder formations.

This volume brings together contributions from anthropology, history, geography and political science. Please order here
 
Neues Forschungsprojekt
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Gemeinsam mit dem International Center for Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesien & Kamerun und dem ICRAF Beijing hat Prof. Asche aus der BMZ-Agrarforschung die Bewilligung für die erste Phase eines Forschungsprojektes „Chinese Trade & Investment in Africa: Assessing and Governing Trade-offs to National Economies, Local Livelihoods and Forest Ecosystems“ bekommen. Schwerpunkt ist das Agieren chinesischer Holzfirmen in sechs Ländern Afrikas. Die Dauer des Vorhabens ist auf drei Jahre angelegt.

 
New DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Adaptation and Creativity in Africa"

Der Senat der DFG richtete jetzt auf seiner Frühjahrssitzung in Bonn insgesamt 18 Schwerpunktprogramme (SPP) ein. Sie sollen ab Anfang 2010 ihre Arbeit aufnehmen und durch die koordinierte orts- und fächerübergreifende Bearbeitung neuer Themen spürbare Impulse zur Weiterentwicklung der Forschung geben. Als eines von nur zwei Programmen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften wurde das Vorhaben „Adaption and Creativity in Africa - Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder“ bewilligt, das von Prof. Ulf Engel, Universität Leipzig, und Prof. Richard Rottenburg, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, koordiniert wird.
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