Programme 2015

10-12 April 2015 in Dakar (Senegal)
African Mobilities and Postcolonial Border-Regimes
Conveners: Prof Heidrun Friese (TU Chemnitz) and Dr Judith Albrecht (TU Chemnitz). In collaboration with Prof Ibrahima Thioub of CARTE/University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

4-8 August 2015 in Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Place and Mobility: People and Cultural Practices in Cosmopolitan Networks in Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean
Conveners: Dr Fernando Rosa (University of Stellenbosch), Dr Patrick Desplat (University of Cologne) and Dr Shaun Viljoen (University of Stellenbosch). In collaboration with STIAS, the University of Stellenbosch and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

9-11 August 2015 in Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Crossing boundaries. An interdisciplinary conference on the challenges and chances of research on the Indian Ocean-Africa-connection
Conveners: Dr Franz Kogelmann (University of Bayreuth), Prof Louis Paul Randriamarolaza (University of Antananarivo), Prof Eva Spies (University of Bayreuth). In collaboration with STIAS, University of Stellenbosch and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

20-24 October 2015 in Dakar (Senegal)
The Great War in Africa: Economic, Cultural and Political Consequences of the First World War on African Societies
Conveners: Prof Elikia MBokolo (IMA/EHESS Paris), Prof Jean Bernard Ouédraogo (EHESS/CNRS Paris), Prof Catarina Madeira-Santos (IMA/EHESS Paris) and Dr. Michael Pesek (Humboldt University Berlin). In collaboration with CARTE, University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

3-6 December 2015 in Dakar (Senegal)
Afrika Nko: Africa in the World-Translation: Disputing the Sense of African Social Realities
Conveners: Prof Mamadou Diawara (Goethe University Goethe Frankfurt), Prof Frieda Ekoto (University of Michigan), Prof Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo (CNRS, Paris), Prof Ebrima Sall (Codesria, Dakar). In collaboration with the University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Codesria and Point Sud Bamako. PDF Report

Programme 2014

17th to 21th Mai 2014 in Dakar (Sénégal)
Imaginary of Renewal
Convenors:  Prof Ute Fendler, Dr Ulf Vierke, Dr Viviane Azarian, Nadine Siegert, Maroua El Naggare and Aminata Cécile Mbaye (all from the University of Bayreuth). In collaboration with Point Sud in Bamako and CARTE/University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar. PDF Report

6th to 10th October 2014 in Bamako (Mali)
Political Culture in Africa – the Narrative Foundations of Authority and Leadership
Convenors:  Prof Georg Klute (University of Bayreuth) and Prof Elisio Macamo (University of Basel). In cooperation with Point Sud/University of Bamako. PDF Report

14th to 15th of November 2014 in Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Peace through Institutions? Constitutional Choices for Divided Societies
Convenors:  PD Dr Andreas Mehler (GIGA Hamburg), Prof Christof Hartmann (University Duisburg-Essen), Prof Pierre du Toit and Dr Nicola de Jager (both from the University of Stellenbosch). In collaboration with STIAS/University of Stellenbosch. PDF Report

25th to 29th of November in Dakar (Senegal)
Photographs of 19th and 20th Century Africa: Changing Perspectives and Object Histories in School Textbooks and Digital Archives
Convenors:  PD Dr. Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Dr Kokou Azamede (University of Lomé). In collaboration with Point Sud in Bamako and CARTE/University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar. PDF Report

4th to 11th of December 2014 in Niamey (Niger)
African Courts: Actors, Institutional Developments and Governance
Convenors: Dr Jan Budniok (University of Mainz), Dr Alexander Stroh (GIGA Hamburg), Dr Hamani Oumarou (LASDEL, Niamey) and Dr Alhassan Anamzoya (University of Ghana). In collaboration with Point Sud in Bamako and LASDEL/University Abdou Moumouni in Niamey. PDF Report

17th to 22st of December 2014 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Culture as a Resource – Understanding the Role of Art and Cultural Performance in Envisioning the Future
Convenors: Prof Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne) and Dr Nadine Sieveking (University of Leipzig). In collaboration with Point Sud in Bamako and CDG/University of Ouagadougou. PDF Report

South-South Partnerships in Science and the Role of Europe Inaugural Conference of the new Program Point Sud
STIAS Stellenbosch 25-27 February 2014

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

Read moreSouth-South Partnerships in Science and the Role of Europe Inaugural Conference of the new Program Point Sud
STIAS Stellenbosch 25-27 February 2014

Programme 2012-2013

4th-10th January 2013 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

How does transnational mobility transform cultural production? Informality and remediation in African popular cultures. PDF Report

20th-24th January 2013 in Dakar (Senegal)

South-South-relations and Globalization: Chinese migrants in Africa, African migrants in China. PDF Report

27th – 31st January in Dakar (Senegal)

African Episteme: Africa N’ko, Speaking of Africa in the World. Debating the African Colonial Library. PDF Press Review

26th February – 3rd March 2013 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Follow-up workshop on the critical study of religious diversity in Africa – empirical and theoretical perspectives. PDF Report

Programme 2011-2012

Celebrating the Nation, Debating the Nation: Independence Jubilees, National Days and the Politics of Commemoration in Africa PDF Report

Body, Health and Modernity in the Prism of Law in Africa  PDF Report

Competition and Cooperation in African Religions: Workshops on Concepts and Methods for the Critical Study of Religious Pluralism in Africa PDF Report

New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) History in African Cities  PDF Report

Hello Hello Bamako: What is the Future of Mobile Telephones in West Africa? PDF Report
Please consult the web site for further information about the workshop: alloallobamako.wordpress.com

Programme 2010-2011

Media Appropriations and Mediascapes in Subsaharan AfricaPDF Report

Article « Les Echos – Réflexion sur le médias d’Afrique subsaharienne »

Article « Le pousse – Migration »

Spaces in Movement: New Perspectives on Migration in African Settings. PDF Report

Nomads and Migrants in the Sahara-Sahel Region: Mobility, Resources and Development. PDF Report

Staying and Leaving – Photography and the Representation of Migration. PDF Report

Article « Staying an Leaving »

www.migrationandmedia.com

Institutional Legacies, Critical Junctures and Political Regime Development in Africa. PDF Report