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Anthropology of Human Security in Africa (ANTHUSIA) Summer School

It is announced for the information of the University community and the general public that the Institute will host this year's Anthropology of Human Security in Africa  (ANTHUSIA) Summer School. The event is scheduled to take place from Sunday, 5 January to Sunday, 12 January 2020 at  the J. H. Nketia Conference Hall. 

The Summer School would combine workshops with lectures of external speakers that would focus on research analysis and writing.

Invitation: Fireside Chat: Interrogating Decolonization: Centering African Political and Social Thought For Liberatory Knowledge Production

The Institute of African Studies invites the University community and the general public to a programme dubbed “Fireside Chat”. The programme is scheduled as follows:

Title: Interrogating Decolonization: Centering African Political and Social thought for Liberatory Knowledge Production.

Date: November 21, 2019

Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Venue: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

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IAS Hosts Symposium on Infrastructural Legacies and Futures of the African City

The Institute of African Studies hosted a one-day symposium under the theme, “Infrastructural Legacies and Future of the African City” at the J. H. K Nketia Conference, Hall, Kwame Nkrumah Complex on Monday, 4th November, 2019. The symposium was a collaboration between the Institute and the University of Basel, Switzerland and it sought to bring together actors and thinkers from multiple backgrounds across the North/South divide.

IAS Faculty Members Attend ASAA Conference in Nairobi

Three faculty members of the Institute of African Studies, Drs. Deborah Atobrah, Mjiba Frehiwot and Genevieve Nrenzah would from the 23rd to 26th October 2019 attend the Biennial Conference of the Association of the African Studies of Africa (AASA) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Deborah Atobrah would continue from Nairobi to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to participate in the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting from 27th to 31st October 2019.

Call for Posters – Girls in the SDG Era: Health Equity and Education Symposium

Students, Researches and Faculty are invited to submit posters for presentation at the “Girls in the SDG Era: Health Equity and Education” Symposium to be held as follows:

Date: November 12, 2019

Venue: Institute of African Studies

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

This event is co-sponsored by the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School, Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana and the Ford Foundation.

Symposium on Girls in the SDG Era: Health, Equity, and Education

You are invited to attend a symposium on Girls in the SDG Era: Health, Equity, and Education.

This event is jointly organized by the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School and the Institute of African Studies.

Date: 12th November 2019

Venue: Kwabena Nketia Conference Hall, Institute of African Studies

Time: 8:30am

Admission is free

Artefacts donated to the Institute of African Studies Museum and Kwabena Nketia Archives

The Institute of African Studies on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 received a donation from Ms Yvonne Borloz and Ms Arlette Senn-Borloz, daughters of a Swiss Merchant and Engineer, Mr Albert Lucien Borloz (1899-1993), who lived and worked in the Gold Coast in the 20th Century. The items donated were a collection of Mr Borloz’s personal belongings that he used during his stay in the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1920.  The donation was facilitated by the Swiss Embassy in Ghana and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Ghana.