🌍 Congrats to Martina Santschi for her #ECAS2025 talk on her research with Samantha Gamez! Their research shows how carbon credit projects in Africa can threaten communal land rights, comparing Kenya’s experience with early steps in South Sudan.
✨ 3 AFAS fellows took part in ECAS 2025 in Prague from June 25–28!
We’re proud of their insightful contributions, these experiences will continue to shape their important work across Africa’s savannas. 💡🌿
#ECAS2025 #AfricanResearch #EcosystemConservation #AfricanSavannas
Wrapped up a wonderful week in Prague at #ECAS2025! This is the last conference of my PhD, which made it extra special. I presented work on women’s mobilisation of local peacebuilding institutions in Kenya. A great programme made even better by the excellent company of colleagues and friends.
📰We are excited to share that our Co-Editor-in-Chief,
@maxinerubin.com represented the journal at the European Conference on African Studies #ECAS2025!
Alongside other #AfricanStudies journals, she gave tips for how to get published🌍📚
We had a great time at #ECAS2025, presenting our work, joining @clairemercer.bsky.social‘s book launch, and wrapping up the week with our #EHTZ & friends dinner. Read more at our blog: www.everydayhumanitarianismintanzania.org/activities
It was a pleasure to attend #ECAS2025 in Prague!
@janahoenke.bsky.social and I presented our research from #INFRAGLOB on #ChineseCompanies in #mining contestations as well as on #ClimateActivism in Uganda. Great feedback, many interesting discussions, very inspiring!
When we do research, whose stories are we stepping into, and from where? In a panel on the last day of #ECAS2025 about identity & belonging in African fieldwork encounters Esma Karadag, Rishuai Chen, Mayke Kaag & Chong Zhang explored with the participants the emotional & ethical layers of fieldwork
Our journal was represented at the just ended European Conference on African Studies! We joined the panel on publishing for early career researchers, sharing essential tips on getting published in academic books and journals.
#ECAS2025 #AcademicPublishing
I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to present my research and co-chair our panel on colonial counterinsurgencies at #ECAS2025.
Such an awesome experience and I can't wait for the next one! 🇨🇿
From Cape Town’s energy sovereignty, Beira’s post-disaster reconstruction, Nairobi’s institutional innovations & accelerated planning systems to start-up cultures in Kigali and violent beautification in Addis: What is it about cities that makes them sites of experimental statecraft? #ECAS2025
#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!
#ECAS2025 just came to an end but connections made will endure until #ECAS2027
we navigate the momentum to follow up after #ENV210 panel full of insights, perspectives and practices with great transformational potentials
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
brill.com/view/journal...
Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.
GRIME, GLITTER, AND GLASS examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture.
Browse our virtual #ECAS2025 exhibition: www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ecas-2025/
#AfricanStudies @dukepress.bsky.social
Last day of #ECAS2025 in #Prague. It is great seeing so many familiar faces here.
The #MIASA family keeps growing…
@miasa-ug.bsky.social
Panel organisers Ana Santos and Justin Pearce with other participants
Natsai Masango
#ecas2025 in Prague on Friday: @justinpearce.bsky.social co-organised a panel on the contested memory of liberation wars, & spoke with Daria Zelenova on Angolan & Soviet officers' narratives. MA student Natsai Masango spoke on missions & leprosy treatment in colonial #Zimbabwe.
It has been a pleasure to present my research on the Cellules Civilo-Militaires in #CotedIvoire with Jeremy Speight at the #ECAS2025 conference in Prague and to discuss democracy and security with co-panelists Samiratou Dipama and Moutari Lawali. Now enjoying a third intense conferencing day!
We're excited to be at #ECAS2025 and connecting with Africanists from across Europe and Africa, sharing our work, and sparking new collaborations. Catch a glimpse of our presence in this short video with Eric, and don’t miss his panel presentation tomorrow:
RESTLESS INFECTIONS is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa.
Browse the virtual #ECAS2025 exhibition: www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ecas-2025/
@nyupress.bsky.social #WitsUP #AfricanStudies
At #ECAS2025, Lidewyde Berckmoes @unileiden.bsky.social just presented the book 'Traces'. Her witnessing of the political crisis in Burundi April 2015 led to a special photo-ethnographic project with photographer Marieke Maagdenberg. Check afterlives.nl
#Traces #Burundi #conflict #photoethnography
#unibayreuth and #AfricaMultiple go #ECAS2025. Colleagues, fellows, alumni and researchers from Bayreuth are at the 10th ECAS conference in Prague, enjoying and presenting interesting papers and panels, and a book table in the 2nd floor at Faculty of Arts.
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? GOD'S WAITING ROOM considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them.
www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781978840607
@rutgersupress.bsky.social #ECAS2025
Great roundtable today at #ECAS2025 on Medicine, Racism, Gender, and anti-colonial Imaginaries: African Nurses’ Experiences under Portuguese colonialism. Great project by Matheus Serva Pereira at ICD universidade de Lisboa and fantastic collaborators!
A lot to discuss and to further research on!
A group of people seated at a table, engaged in discussion, with a large screen displaying information in the background.
Several individuals gathered around tables in a spacious room, participating in discussions and collaborative work.
📸 Well-attended book presentation of 'Textures of Power' at #ECAS2025 in Prague!
📖🔓Textures of Power, edited by Florence Bernault, Benoît Henriet, Emery Kalema
👉 lup.be/book/texture...
#africanstudies #CentralAfrica #ColonialStudies #PostcolonialStudies #theoriesofpower #openaccess
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
Jelena Prokic and Matthew Sung of @unileiden.bsky.social University @lucdh.bsky.social present their research using computational approaches and ethnography, looking into the relationship between connectivity, social media and violence in the Sahel region. At #ECAS2025
#violence #socialmedia #Sahel
Packed panel on digital platforms and conflict ecologies at #ECAS2025. Watch out for forthcoming work by Boubacar Haidara on Wagner group in Mali, Joschka Philipps on conspiracies, and Karen Büscher on urban digital warscapes!
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
If you're at #ecas2025 in Prague & have a Southern Africa paper you'd like to publish, senior editor @justinpearce.bsky.social & chair Rebekah Lee are here. We'll be at the Meet the Editors event Friday 17.30-19.00, at the T&F stand in the Arts Faculty 3rd floor. Or message us via the ECAS website.
