We are happy to share with you that the University of Bayreuth is currently hosting the 14th edition of the European Summer School for the Anthropology of Development and Social Dynamics. From May 23rd to 26th, PhD students from eight European universities present their research projects focusing on topics related to development and social change…
We are excited to share with you that the edited volume ‘Africa’s Global Infrastructures South–South Transformations in Practice’ is available for pre-order! Edited by INFRAGLOB researchers Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne and Yifan Mia Yang, it is part of the African Arguments series by Hurst. Click here for an exclusive preview of the book and here if…
After months of preparation, we are happy to announce that the international workshop ‘Development Beyond Aid – Financialization and Socio-Political Change in Africa’s Global Infrastructure’ will be held at the University of Bayreuth from 7 to 9 June. The workshop is convened by Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke on behalf of the INFRAGLOB Project together with…
We are thrilled to announce that our new English-language Master of Arts programme in “African Studies: Critical Perspectives on Society, Politics and Culture” has officially launched. It will be starting in winter semester 2023/24 and is now accepting applications for admission from March 15 until July 15! Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair in Epistemologies of…
Copyright featured image: https://ecasconference.org/2023/ As time flies and the European Conference on African Studies ‘African Futures’ draws closer, we would like to share with you a preview of the participation of the INFRAGLOB in this year’s conference that takes place between the 31st of May and 3rd of June and is hosted by the University…
As you might already know, our project is working on edited volume together with our great contributors. Now that our book has a title and a contract, we are thrilled to share with you a first preview! In the post-2000s, Africa has witnessed a radical diversification away from primarily Western-centric funding and frameworks of ‘development’…
We were very happy to welcome Professor Chih-yu Shih from the Department of Political Science at the National Taiwan University at the University of Bayreuth some weeks ago where he gave a public talk titled “Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities”. In the following, we would like to…
We are very happy to announce the publication of the article “The South-South investment that never happened: Vale in Guinea” by Eric Cezne and Mathias Alencastro in The Extractive Industries and Society. In this article, the authors approach the (failed) extractive ambitions by the Brazilian mining giant Vale in Guinea. Thus, they provide clues on the…
