Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

Between 1984 and 1991, Projet SIDA, the pathbreaking HIV/AIDS research project based in Kinshasa, Zaire, was an intellectual powerhouse, uncovering and documenting the clinical and epidemiological aspects of AIDS.

This presentation draws on archival collections and oral histories to show that Project SIDA was a product of Kinshasa, and from there helped define AIDS in Africa.

Both “Islamic history” and “global history” have been critiqued as categories of historical analysis in recent years; might bringing them together help put both to work in more productive ways?

As anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies are ramped up in our public spheres, and as the academy - and historical scholarship in particular - are subject to sustained ideological attack, what are the responsibilities of historians in Europe and America writing about Muslim history as global history? 

Interested members of the BantUGent community are invited to register for a Doctoral School specialist course taught by professor Pattie Epps in March.

This course focuses on exploring the how: How have languages been structured, maintained, and lost over time, as molded by the movements and interactions of peoples, aspects of human communication and cognition, sociocultural dynamics, and the interplay between synchronic structural features and diachronic processes?

We are pleased to invite you to the joint workshop Rethinking Legal Research in and with Africa: Legal Methods, Critical Perspectives, and Decolonial Approaches in the Context of Human Rights and Sustainable Development, which will take place in collaboration with the Chair of African Legal Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

In this seminar we will explore and critically reflect on the concept of positionality in research—that is, who we are, the contexts we work in, the relationships we build, and the methodological choices we make together shape the research process and its outcomes.

We are honored to welcome Prof. Sarojini Nadar, a renowned critical feminist scholar from the University of the Western Cape, whose work on social justice, reflexivity, and research methodology has inspired scholars across disciplines

Rice has played an important role in Madagascar’s political economy and historical trade within the western Indian Ocean. This subject has been recently explored in historiography, covering both ancient and early modern periods.

Dr. Sanchez's work is based on the administrative archives of the Merina monarchy, written in the Malagasy language, and allows new approaches to the rice economy in the nineteenth century.

The InterContinental Academic Exchange Programme (ICON) finds its origin in long-lasting collaborative links between the SGroup network, its members, and institutions located in strategic regions linked to the SGroup Think Tank Academy.

As part of this mobility programme, the academic/administrative staff and PhD Candidates of full-member European Universities of the SGroup (like Ghent University) can apply for a SGroup scholarship for a short mobility period in a partner institution of their choice outside Europe and belonging to one of the Think Tank Academy regions (also Africa).

TEAM projects are medium-term (5 years), impactful projects designed to explore, build, and deepen academic/scientific collaborations among diverse teams of academics and researchers focusing on sustainable development challenges.

In 2026, the Foundation fiat panis will once again announce its two science awards dealing with problems of food security in the Global South.

The Hermann Eiselen Science Award is awarded for excellent dissertations and is endowed with 30,000 €.

The Hans Hartwig Ruthenberg-Graduate-Award is awarded for outstanding Master's theses and is endowed with 7,500 €.