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29.01.2026	Invitation to the workshop: "When War Scars the Planet: Environmental Damage Caused by Nuclear and Uranium Weapons"
16.01.2026	Call for Papers: GSAS Spring 2026 Conference
15.01.2026	MIASA Call for Application - Rethinking Forced Displacement in Africa
16.12.2025	Invitation to research colloquium
10.12.2025	Lecture and discussion by Lina Benabdallah
09.12.2025	DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2026
27.11.2025	IAS Expert Search: Connecting Scholars, Creating Synergies
20.11.2025	Emerging Urban Moralities: The Ethics and Epistemics of Africa’s Urban Age
20.11.2025	African Studies @ UBT
11.11.2025	AfriKaleidoskop: Mo Asumang "Die Arier"
06.11.2025	The Intersectionality and Critical Diversity Literacy (ICDL) Events
05.11.2025	Academic Lecture Series - Ubuntu and Ethics of War
31.10.2025	BRIAS annual meeting
23.10.2025	Lecture Series WiSe 2025/26 by Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
23.10.2025	Africa-related courses in the winter semester
11.09.2025	Film Screening - The ISINGQI SIKANTU (2024)
31.08.2025	Save the Date - Afrikaforum Bayern 2026
04.08.2025	Save the Date - Conference 2025 - The Politics of Raw Materials in Africa and Beyond
23.07.2025	Exhibition Opening - Who Is Lucy
22.07.2025	Invitation to Mini-Workshop series
10.07.2025	Art Exhibition by Christine Dixie
10.07.2025	Screening of the Film
09.07.2025	Summer School 2025 - University of Erfurt
08.07.2025	Invitation to artist lecture - Christian Dixie
24.06.2025	Invitation to research colloquium
24.06.2025	Invitation to research colloquium
10.06.2025	First meeting of “Alumni Africa”
05.06.2025	Theatre performance in Bayreuth
05.06.2025	"Africa in the centre of Bayreuth"
02.06.2025	Promoting Gender-Sensitive Research
14.05.2025	Reading: Gilbert Ndi Shang - The Radio and Other Stories
13.05.2025	Opening of the new research centre Society, Technology, and Ecology in Africa (FZA)
13.05.2025	Invitation to research colloquium
12.05.2025	PROMOS Scholarship 2025
09.05.2025	Annual Cluster Conference
05.05.2025	Invitation to the 5-Year Anniversary Celebration of the Chair of African Legal Studies
26.02.2025	IAS Members Involved in the New Alliance for Peace, Conflict, and Security Research
03.02.2025	Visit us on LinkedIn!
28.11.2024	Congratulations to Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu
19.11.2024	Invitation to Research Colloquium
15.11.2024	Student Assistant Job Postings Iwalewahaus
07.11.2024	BIGSAS Journalist Award
28.10.2024	Hot of the Press - NAB 2023
23.10.2024	Register now for the “Social Entrepreneurship Cases” Seminar!
23.10.2024	Welcome to the 2nd conference of the Racism Research Knowledge Network (WinRa)
13.10.2024	Call for Workshop Scholarships
02.10.2024	Exhibition "With these hands" by Sabelo Mcinziba
01.10.2024	Africa-related courses in the winter semester
29.09.2024	VAD-Conference 2024 - "Reconfiguration in Africa - And in African Studies"
26.09.2024	Invitation to the Africa Days
26.09.2024	Upcoming Deadline Master of Arts programme in "African Studies: Critical Perspectives on Society, Politics and Culture"
15.09.2024	Call for Panels for the 10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS 2025)
19.07.2024	Reading and Thinking Group "Africa, Digitality, Data & Technology"
18.07.2024	Exhibition Iwalewahaus "Beyond the Gaze"
17.07.2024	Seminar Series "New Research in Global History"
16.07.2024	Article in ubtaktuell about African Studies at the University of Bayreuth
16.07.2024	Interview with Dr. Marcus Mühlnikel and Dr. Ibrahima Sene about the traces of African presence in Bayreuth
16.07.2024	Interview with Prof Dr Stefan Ouma in the Nordbayerischer Kurier
12.07.2024	Lecture Series "Fragments mémoriels: textes et films sur les époques coloniales"
02.07.2024	Invitation to two interesting research colloquia
27.06.2024	Workshop "Afrika im Bayreuther Alltag"
26.06.2024	Lecture "Ordinary Dangerous Living: Everyday Life in South Africa after 30 Years of Democracy"
13.06.2024	ICDL Roundtable entitled "Academic Freedom For All"
01.06.2024	New Academic Coordinator at the IAS
23.05.2024	Lecture "Femocracy and the Proverbs 31 Woman Reconsidered".
16.05.2024	Vernissage "Twins Seven Seven and his Yorùbá Universe"
11.12.2023	More Diversity in Bayreuth
15.11.2023	Workshop "Transcoloniality and Conceptions of Positive and Transformational Justice"
09.11.2023	Bayreuth professor as guest on the Federal Chancellor’s trip to Nigeria und Ghana
07.11.2023	Lecture Series "African FeminismS Past and Present"
01.11.2023	IAS gets new Directors
16.10.2023	Invitation Inaugural Lectures Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke & Prof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg
28.09.2023	International Conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
25.09.2023	DVRW Dissertation Award 2023 for Dr. Judith Bachmann
21.09.2023	XXXV. Annual Conference of the DVRW in Bayreuth
24.08.2023	Federal Minister Svenja Schulze visited the Iwalewahaus
07.08.2023	Topping-out ceremony on the campus
26.04.2023	Invitation Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Eva Spies
18.04.2023	New Website of AEGIS
24.03.2023	Press release: Foundation Stone for the Research Center Africa

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