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Bandung Conference and South-South Cooperation: Knowledge, Solidarities, and Worldmaking

Doctoral School Course
May 6-8, 2025
UFO Campus, Ghent University

Book Launches 17: Learning through Collective Memory Work- Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru by Goya Wilson Vasquez 

Dr. Eva Willems will be in conversation with Goya Wilson Vasquez  (University of Bristol)
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Keynote Lecture: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in “Hometown,” USA: From Colonial New Jersey to the Magical Coalition by Prof. dr. Carolina Alonso Bajarano

April 22, 2025 (Tue) UFO Campus, Ghent University. The lecture is part of the Spring School 2025: Re-imagining field work through creative methodologies and collaborative learning

New Publication: Mineralised Urbanisation: Rural-Urban Linkages, Migration and Mobility, and the Making and Unmaking of Cities in Africa

The chapter describes how mining towns in Southern Africa are strongly characterised by rural-urban linkages and mobilities.

CRG Book Launch: Surrounded: Democracy, Free Markets, and Other Entrapments of New Colonialism

This book touches on the informal, ignorable, subtle and seemingly benevolent ways through which new colonialism has encircled the continent...

CRG Book Launch: Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa

is grounded in an ethnography of educational decision-making in northern Senegal which shows how young people struggled to obtain an Islamic education

EVENT: Film and Contentious Politics in Senegal

Seminar and Screening of Baanum Nafi ( Nafi's Father)
by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia

New Publication:The Political Hidden Costs of Power-Sharing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Two decades after the adoption of a constitution brought about by the Global and Inclusive Agreement (AGI), a full-scale war once again threatens the stability of the regime in the DRC.

EVENT: Rights Bites with Koen Vlassenroot: How to understand the escalation of the Congo conflict?

This talk will delve into the history of conflict in eastern Congo, its complexities and its main player.