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The Africa Centre of Freiburg is a Competence Centre for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange.

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ACT, the Africa Centre for Transregional Research, at the University of Freiburg, is host for African researchers. ACT aims to establish a differentiated image of African reality in the public sphere.

ACT is a competence, service, and information centre for European African studies in teaching, research, and innovation.

With reciprocity of research as its guiding motive, ACT establishes a new form of cooperation between German, European and African researchers.

 

Events

Invitation to the public science communication experiment

Of Ears of the Dead and Voices of the Living

15.07. und 18.07.2024, Platz der Alten Synagoge, Freiburg

Workshop with MIASA on

 “Restitution Dynamics from Africa and the German Debate”

26.-27.09.2024

 

News

Workshop Report: East African Citizenshop in Times of Change (22./29.04.2024)

The two-day workshop, organized by the ACT, ABI and ZASB, brought together reflections on citizenship in times of change from different disciplines and with different emphases. The report is now available!

ACT Annual Report 2023 available (April 2024)

The Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of ACT's activities, is published once a year in retrospect and is available on the website!

Recording available: Germany and Africa - Quo Vadis?

On 18.04.2024, Ambassador Christoph Retzlaff and Prof. Dr. Alexander Makulilo spoke about the future of German-African relations. A recording of the Freiburg Africa Talk is now available on the University of Freiburg's video portal.

New Video: "Mortui Vivos Docent"

As part of theproject on reciprocal research into the Alexander Ecker Collection funded by Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, a new video with Prof. Dr. Albert Gouaffo has been produced and is available both in the project media library and on the University of Freiburg's video portal.

Andreas Mehler and Prof. Dr. Kriegelstein visit Ghana

A high-ranking delegation from the University of Freiburg, led by Rector Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kriegelstein, visited the University of Ghana from 27-29.2.2024.

 

Ongoing research projects of the ACT

Restitution of Dignity?
Human Remains - Kolonialismus - Humanity

The research project focuses on the problem of dealing with the dehumanizing dimensions of colonialism and their effects on scientific practice to this day.

 

Calls

Third European Students’ Conference on African Studies

Are you a Master's student or recent graduate? Have you researched or worked on academic projects relating to Africa? Join TECSAS from 29-30 August 2024!

MIASA: Call for pre-proposals for Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFGs)

The present call is for Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFGs) for the periods from August 15 to December 15, 2025, and from February 1 to May 31, 2026. MIASA hosts two IFGs per year. They are MIASA’s central instrument for fostering original research on ‘Sustainable Governance’ and its connected thematic areas as mentioned above, which necessitates the input of experts from different academic fields and backgrounds. An IFG brings together a group of four to six fellows for the duration four months.

MIASA: Call for applications for Artists in Residence at the University of Ghana

The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) invites applications for up to two artists in residence to interact with and accompany Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups and/ or individual or tandem fellows in their ongoing research at MIASA, University of Ghana, Legon campus, Accra. Artists have the capability to express and present globally challenging topics in a way which can enrich the sciences by introducing disruptive ideas.

MIASA: Call for applications for Tandem Residential Fellowships
at the University of Ghana

The present call is for up to two tandem residential fellowships of minimum 3 and maximum 6 months each for the academic year 2025/2026. A tandem is composed of a team of two researchers – one who is based in an African country and one who is based in Germany – who apply together with a joint research topic, addressing MIASA’s overarching aims.

MIASA: Call for applications for Individual Residential Fellowships at the University of Ghana

The present call is for individual residential fellowships of minimum 3 and maximum 10 months each for the academic year 2025/2026. The call is open to scholars (both on junior and senior levels) who have been awarded their doctoral degree at least three months before the start of the fellowship. Individual fellowships allow researchers to conduct a project of their own choice, connected to MIASA’s thematic research areas.