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28 Jun 2017
13:00 - 17:45
Universität Basel, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1, 4051 Basel
Zentrum für Afrikastudien ZASB
Moving with Africa: Opportunities for business and development
The ECAS 2017 Business and Development Forum at the University of Basel
The Business and Development Forum offers a platform for the exchange between academics and decision makers in business, government and development cooperation. The aim is to discuss opportunities and challenges for international business arising from Swiss-African relations as well as the expectations by African societies and stake-holders towards these relations. Parallel panel sessions will pay special attention to business and society, technology and infrastructure as well as capacity and knowledge.
The Forum is organized by the Centre for African Studies Basel in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland Global Enterprise (SGE) and Swisscham Africa.
Keynotes
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Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, Vice President for Teaching and Development and Professor of Philosophy, University of Basel - Introduction: Movers and breakers
Elísio Macamo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel - Facing the challenge of development
Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Mozambique to the United Nations, Geneva - Africa: between hopes and realities
Ambassador Anne Lugon-Moulin Head Sub-Saharan Africa and Francophonie Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs - When perception meets reality
Dov Bar-Gera, Co-founder and CEO, YooMee Africa
20+ panel speakers from academia, business, government and development cooperation.
Registration
Register on the event website. Registration fee: CHF 160, early bird rate (to 30 May 2017): CHF 120. 25% discount for members of our partner organizations, ECAS participants, students and non-profit organizations.
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29 Jun 2017 - 01 Jul 2017
09:00 - 19:00
Universität Basel
Zentrum für Afrikastudien ZASB
European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017
Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the urban and the rural
European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017. (Picture: Sandra Staudacher) The biennial European Conference on African Studies of the Africa Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) is the largest and most important convention in the field of African Studies in Europe. Since its first edition held in London in 2005, it has grown steadily and its last edition in Paris in July 2015 saw 1980 participants. The 7th edition of the ECAS will take place at the University of Basel in summer 2017, organized by the Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies. The conference and the accompanying cultural program will make Africa the center of attention in the town of Basel.
The conference theme “Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban” addresses issues raised by current African urbanization trends. These range from politics, through economics, all the way to social and cultural issues. The key issue at the conference is how urbanization processes in Africa transform conventional objects of African Studies and how scholars of Africa gear up to face such changes.
Convening institutions
Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB), Swiss Society for African Studies (SSEA/SGAS/SSAS), Africa Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS)
Call for papers
18 November 2016 to 19 January 2017
Early-bird registration
2 March to 2 April 2017
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29 Jun 2017
11:15 - 12:15
Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung, kleiner Hörsaal, Hebelstrasse 20, Basel
Universitätsspital Basel: DOKO Innere Medizin