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30. April 2021

RecAf Spring School 2021 “in” Bayreuth

Brady Blackburn reports on the digital RecAf 2021 Spring School hosted by the University of Bayreuth (March 29 to April 2, 2021).
01. April 2021

Shakespeare's African Replacement | Afrikanists Assemble | Episode 2

This month’s question is: “Let’s pretend that Shakespeare is suddenly canceled and stricken from the literary canon and school curricula all over the world. You have the opportunity to replace him with an African playwright or author. Whom would you choose to fill the void and why?”

01. March 2021

Afrikanistik Utopias | Afrikanists Assemble | Episode 1

This month’s question is: “If you could build your own utopian future for Afrikanistik (the study of African languages and literatures), what would the field look like?”

01. January 2021

RecAf Spring School 2021 - Popular Culture and Arts in Africa

How do we discuss popular culture in Africa, and in what ways does it stand opposed to ‘high’ art and literature? While on the one hand, not tied to a canon, popular culture is, on the other hand, not unrelated to mass media and consumption: How can popular culture be subversive?
01. September 2020

Grant Proposal Write-Up Capacity Building (7.-9. January 2021)

“Recalibrating Afrikanistik” (RecAf) and the Graduate School Global and Area Studies (GSGAS), University of Leipzig, invite young researchers and lecturers working in the broader fields of African Languages and Literatures for a three-day workshop on the procedures of writing grant proposals.