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Other training

Point Sud, in cooperation with Northern universities and research centers, educates African graduate students predominantly in social anthropology, while graduate students from the Global North are provided access to a top-level international research setting. Besides the regular courses and fieldwork training for African scholarship holders, Point Sud organises a field school in Mali every two years in collaboration with the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. This fieldwork training brings together graduate students from Frankfurt with their Malian counterparts from the University of Bamako who then conduct joint field research. Furthermore, the institute hosts the Point Sud Annual Institute (PSAI), an international summer school for young researchers, that is organised collaboration with its academic and financial partner institutions.

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DFG Programme Point Sud

German scholars and research foundations have long been successfully working beyond the Anglo- and Francophone research traditions established by the former leading colonial powers in Africa. Not only have they been successful in overcoming geographic and linguistic boundaries themselves, but they have also encouraged exchange and dialogue between these different research traditions. In this capacity, German academics are in a particularly favorable position to play an important role in promoting the establishment of a truly postcolonial academic community in Africa.

In 2009, the Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main and the German Research Foundation (DFG) have established the “Programme Point Sud” in order to fund Africa-related workshops and conferences in the humanities and social sciences at Point.

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Other events

The organisation of international workshops and conferences has always been an important activity of Point Sud in order to promote the dialogue between scholars and scientists from all over the world. Accordingly, Point Sud has hosted various events of different sizes ranging from small workshops for young researchers to conferences with over 150 participants from all over the world. This tradition continues up to the present.The principal events Point Sud has organised in collaboration with its partners include:

  1. The international colloquium: Interface between local and universal know­ledge
    12th-14th of February 2000
  2. The international colloquium: Decentralisation and local knowledge in Africa
    15th-18th of February 2002
  3. An international conference held in Bamako and Timbuktu in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany and the GTZ: “Heinrich Barth (1821-1865): European Scholar and Intermediary between Worlds and Cultures”. 29th of November – 5th of December 2004 (see also under Publications).
  4. A symposium organised in collaboration with the Volkswagen Foundation  that served as the first grantees meeting within the Africa initiative of the Volkswagen Foundation at Bamako, “The Knowledge of Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects with sub-Saharan Africa”. 25th – 28th of November 2007.
    Bamako Conference 2007 Reader (PDF)
    Bamako Conference 2007 Film

Programme 2018

6th-10th May 2018 in Dakar (Senegal),
Imaginary Worlds: An Artistic and Social Scientific Exploration of Imaginaries and Digital Practices in Africa
Conveners: Prof Richard Rottenburg (University of Halle), Dr Julien McHardy (University of Halle), Dr Malik Ndiaye (IFAN/University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar), Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Kër Thiossane Dakar). In collaboration with UCAD Dakar and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report
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17th-19th June 2018 in Maputo (Mozambique),
Revisiting Dams in Africa
Conveners: Dr Valerie Haensch (University of Bayreuth), Dr Tamer Abd Elkreem (University of Khartoum), Prof Inês Macamo Raimundo (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo), Dr Eléusio Viegas Filipe (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo). In collaboration with CAS Maputo and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

5th-9th September 2018 in Niamey (Niger),
Naming Places in Africa: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges
Conveners: Prof Eeva Sippola (University of Bremen), Prof Mahaman Tidjani Alou (University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey), Prof Frédéric Giraut (University of Geneva), Dr Lawali Dambo (University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey), Prof Henri Kokou Motcho (University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey). In collaboration with LASDEL Niamey and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report
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31st October-3rd November 2018 in Stellenbosch (South Africa),
Narratives of Achievement in African and Afroeuropean Contexts
Conveners: Dr Eva Ulrike Pirker (Düsseldorf University), Dr Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town), Dr Katja Hericks (University of Potsdam). In collaboration with STIAS Stellenbosch and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report
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23rd-27th November 2018 in Libreville (Gabon),
The Long-Term: Tracing Legacies of Violence in francophone Equatorial Africa
Conveners: Prof Andreas Mehler (ABI, University of Freiburg), Dr Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University), Dr Klaas van Walraven (African Studies Centre, Leiden University), Joseph Mangarella (Free University Amsterdam, University of Paris VIII, IR). In collaboration with University Omar Bongo Libreville and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

9th–12th Dezember 2018 in Dakar (Senegal),
Knowledge Production in and about Africa: Intersections of Moralities and Higher Education
Conveners: Dr Franz Kogelmann (University of Bayreuth), Dr Abdourahmane Seck (University Gaston Berger St. Louis), Prof Ruediger Seesemann (University of Bayreuth), Prof Eva Spies (University of Bayreuth). In collaboration with Serigne Djigal (University Cheikh Amadou Bamba), UCAD Dakar and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report