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Belmundo Festival is het jaarlijkse Gentse stadsfestival rond internationale solidariteit, georganiseerd door Stad Gent, 11.11.11 en het Gentse middenveld.

Belmundo heeft als doel de Gentse actoren een kader te bieden om activiteiten op te zetten rond mondiale thema’s en om bij de Gentenaars een draagvlak te creëren en te versterken voor internationale solidariteit.

Van vrijdag 24 t.e.m. zondag 26 maart strijken we neer in de Brugse Poort met het thema ‘recht op actievoeren’.

Between 2018 and 2022 the BantuFirst archaeology team conducted seven field seasons across Kinshasa, Kwilu, Mai-Ndombe, and Kongo-Central provinces. Through a combination of large-scale survey and targeted excavations, the project has identified 176 new sites ranging in age from the Middle Stone Age (~300ka BP) through the colonial period.

This BantuFirst workshop is meant to prepare an edited book volume that will publish, contextualize and valorize this wealth of new and varied datasets. It will develop from these original data new insights on early settlement south of the Congo rainforest over the last three millennia.

In this series of talks, which forms part of the BA Course/Elective Course in African Studies 'Antropologie van Visuele en Materiële Culturen in Africa' (prof. Hugo Deblock), we will focus on a plethora of artforms, from visual and material cultures to performance and drama and film and immaterial culture and art. The list of speakers includes performance artist, critical writer and dramaturg at VIERNULVIER Kopano Maroga, acclaimed visual artist Aimé Mpane, activist and artivist Laura Nsengiyumva, filmmaker and artist Renzo Martens and documentary-filmmaker Rosine Mbakam.

The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated on 10 December 2023. Since its adoption, the Declaration has been read in multiple ways. Some have been inspired by it, others have found it wanting. At this conference, Ghent University will take stock and look forward, embracing a resolute engagement with human rights in their multiple contemporary dimensions.

There is an interesting thematic track on decolonization and racial justice.

ECAS9 2023, 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2023

ECAS9 will be organized by the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne) and the IARA, Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa, University of Leuven, under the theme of “African Futures”. “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements.

We kindly invite you to a workshop Moving beyond development cooperation that will take place on May 2 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm in Het Pand.

During this workshop, the findings and recommendations of a 2-year policy study on international cooperation between Ghent University and partners in the Global South will be discussed. The research examines the question of how international cooperation with partners in the Global South can take shape in the future, paying attention to reciprocity, equality and justice.

OBSG is an organisation which aims to promote human, brotherly and harmonious development, which, for half a century, has been committed to the reception, housing, assistance, and guidance of students, PhD candidates and trainees from partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation.

We offer accommodation for (in total) about 50 students who come to study at the University and colleges in Ghent. Our emphasis is on creating an atmosphere that feels like a “home away from home”.

First edition of the newsletter

At the invitation of the President of the Republic of South Africa, H.E. Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, Their Majesties the King and Queen will pay a state visit to South Africa from Wednesday 22 to Monday 27 March 2023. They will be accompanied by Minister for Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib, Minister-President of Wallonia Elio Di Rupo, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region Rudi Vervoort, Minister Matthias Diependaele, representing the Flemish Government.

This visit will include several cultural, academic and economic visits and activities in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

On Saturday 25 March Ghent University will co-organise an alumni event at the University of the Western Cape.

The University of the Western Cape, Ghent University
and the University of Missouri invite you to attend
a joint symposium on Precision Medicine: Therapeutic Targets.

Precision medicine has been defined as an emerging practice of medicine that uses an individual’s genetic profile to guide decisions made about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

This symposium has been designed to bring together researchers from UWC, Ghent and the University of Missouri to share their current work, brainstorm on needed resources including innovative data sharing and co-create opportunities for collaboration and competitive funding applications. Ultimately we hope to provide
precision medicine interventions that are more cost-effective than population-based measures and will improve health care in Africa, Europe and the United States.

Be invited to our 7th Africa Film Festival Ghent. This will be an exciting four days with a combination of short films, documentaries, fully-fledged movies, music and debate. 

Films will come from a variety of regional backgrounds, such as Cameroon, South Africa, Sudan, Senegal and Niger.

We will close on Saturday evening with a concert by Buadee + PE Live (reggae vibes).