Past and Upcoming Events
Conferences | Workshops | Scientific Presentations
Conferences
Transcending Traditional Tropes. Conceptualizing politics and policies in 21st century Upper Guinea Coast
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 09:00 to Friday, September 28, 2012 | 18:00
Organiser: Jacqueline Knörr and Christian Kordt Højbjerg, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast”
The Upper Guinea Coast in Transnational Perspective
Thursday, December 09, 2010 | 09:45 to Saturday, December 11, 2010 | 13:30
Organiser: Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
Margins, Networks and Alliances: the Upper Guinea Coast and the making of the Atlantic
Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 09:00 to Saturday, December 20, 2008 | 18:00
Organiser: Jacqueline Knörr (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale) and Ramon Sarró (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon)
The Powerful Presence of the Past: historical dimensions of integration and conflict in the Upper Guinea Coast, West Africa
Thursday, October 19, 2006 | 09:00 to Saturday, October 21, 2006 | 18:00
Organiser: Research Group Upper Guinea Coast, headed by Jacqueline Knörr
Workshops
Fifth "Workshop in the Field", participants: members of the research group, Freetown, 19 March – 25 March 2013
Fourth "Workshop in the Field", participants: members of the research group, Ghana, 28 September – 4 October 2011
"Workshop beyond the Field", participants: members of the research group, Düsseldorf, Germany, 8th to 10th March, 2011.
Third "Workshop in the Field", participants: members of the research group and invited guests, Cape Coast, 1st to 10th October, 2010.
Second "Workshop in the Field", participants: members of the research group and invited guests, Banjul, The Gambia, 11th to 16th July 2008.
Workshop "The Upper Guinea Coast. Topics and Problems Addressed in Current Research", participants: members of the research group and invited guests, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 8th February 2008.
First "Workshop in the Field", participants: members of the research group, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1st to 7th March 2007.
Scientific Presentations
Thursday, October 29, 2015 | 17:00
Organiser: Anita Schroven (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) and Rose Marie Beck (University of Leipzig)
Lecture
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | 18:00
Speaker: Susan L. Erikson (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)
Organiser: Anita Schroven (Max Planck University for Social Anthropology) and Rose Marie Beck (University of Leipzig)
Monday, February 02, 2015 | 16:00
Speaker: Rose Marie Beck (Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig)
Organiser: Jacqueline Knörr
Ethnography as Evaluation: understanding local experiences of agricultural land-grabs in transitional states
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 16:15 to Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 18:00
Organiser: Research Group 'Upper Guinea Coast', Department 'Integration and Conflict'
Monday, May 02, 2011 | 16:15
Speaker: Dorothea E. Schulz (Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln)
Organiser: Research Group 'Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)'