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Jolyn Phillips was afgelopen semester verbonden aan het Gents Centrum voor het Afrikaans en de Studie van Zuid-Afrika als research fellow, na haar functie als tweede leerstoelbekleder Zuid-Afrika: talen, literaturen, cultuur en maatschappij aan de UGent. In deze rol gaf ze gastcolleges aan zowel master- als bachelorstudenten.

Marcos Leitão de Almeida is a Professor of African History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a historian of Africa specializing in the long history of slavery in Central Africa, with a focus on the Lower Congo.

Op vrijdag 13 maart ontvangt het Gents Centrum voor het Afrikaans en de studie van Zuid-Afrika (GAZ) drie collega's uit Zuid-Afrika. Eerst geven dr. Janien Linde en dr. Benito Trollip elk een informele lezing over hun recent onderzoek naar resp. de letterkunde en de taalkunde van het Afrikaans.

Daarna brengt prof. Wannie Carstens verslag uit over het boekproject waaraan hij werkt. We sluiten af met een korte toelichting over de werking en doelstellingen van de nieuwe vakvereniging ATLV (Afrikaanse Taalkunde-en-Letterkunde-Vereniging).

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.

Join us for a workshop on Archival Research Practices by Onyeka Igwe, centering around the question: How do we approach archival practices and their value in decolonized arts-based research?

This workshop takes place in the context of Onyeka Igwe’s presentation of her film ‘a so-called archive’ at the Africa Film Festival.

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

Join us on 26 March 2026 at Flanders Expo Ghent for the live interuniversity Job Market for Young Researchers, Flanders’ largest career fair for PhDs and postdocs.

Over 100 companies and organisations will showcase career opportunities inside and outside academia, complemented by workshops, presentations, and a panel debate organised by the Ghent University postdoc community.

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 present contribution is concerned with scalar concessive conditionals (SCCs) in 9 Bantu languages. The Bantu data will then be compared to data from 30 non-Bantu languages spoken in Africa, revealing broader cross-linguistic tendencies.

Karine Ramondy is a historian and associate researcher at UMR SIRICE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the history of Europe-Africa relations in the 20th century, the history of decolonization/independence in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Central Africa, war violence and the circulation of combatants.

In this presentation she will address the many acts of repressive violence perpetrated by colonial authorities and the French army before and after independence of Cameroon in 1960.

Het Gents Centrum voor Afrikaans en de Studie van Zuid-Afrika nodigt u van harte uit voorstellen in te dienen voor een tweedaags colloquium over Breytenbach in context. Het congres heeft plaats in Gent op 26-27 november 2026.

De intrinsieke verwevenheid van de literaire, artistieke en intellectuele nalatenschap van Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024) nodigt uit tot interdisciplinaire en comparatistische onderzoeksvragen.

We warmly invite you to the 10th edition of Africa Film Festival Ghent, which is co-organised by the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association. We will be screening short films, movies and documentaries from countries such as Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

For this 10th edition we offer you a 5-day festival programme with, in addition to the film screenings, two concerts, a number of special guests, panel discussions, a Kizomba workshop and lots of good vibes and networking opportunities.