<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Forum for Africa Studies</title><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/1051</link><description></description><language>sv</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 Uppsala universitet, MedfarmDoIT</copyright><item><title>Afrosvenska historier: SpÃ¥ren av slaveri och kolonialism, del 1</title><description>Forum för Afrikastudier och Upsala Nya Tidning anordnar ett panelsamtal om afrosvenska historier och erfarenheter. Forskare, kulturpersonligheter och representanter för afrosvenska organisationer möts i ett samtal om spåren av slaveri och kolonialism i Sverige, om osynliggörande och förminskning, som ofta möter svenskar med afrikanska rötter.

Deltagare
Faaid Ali-Nuur, projektledare, Afrosvenskarnas Riksförbund, Victoria Kawesa, doktorand i genusvetenskap, Linköpings universitet, lektor i genusvetenskap, Södertörns Högskola, och politiker, Feministiskt Initiativ, Göran Rydén, professor i ekonomisk historia, Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning, Uppsala universitet, Ryan Skinner, FD i musikantropologi, The Ohio State University och gästforskare vid Uppsala universitet, Adam Tensta, artist och krönikör

Moderatorer
Sten Hagberg, professor i kulturantropologi och ordförande frö Forum för Afrikastudier vid Uppsala universitet
Maria Ripenberg, debattredaktör och ledarskribent, Upsala Nya Tidning</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5769</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:06:08 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Afrosvenska historier: SpÃ¥ren av slaveri och kolonialism, del 2</title><description>Forum för Afrikastudier och Upsala Nya Tidning anordnar ett panelsamtal om afrosvenska historier och erfarenheter. Forskare, kulturpersonligheter och representanter för afrosvenska organisationer möts i ett samtal om spåren av slaveri och kolonialism i Sverige, om osynliggörande och förminskning, som ofta möter svenskar med afrikanska rötter.

Deltagare
Faaid Ali-Nuur, projektledare, Afrosvenskarnas Riksförbund, Victoria Kawesa, doktorand i genusvetenskap, Linköpings universitet, lektor i genusvetenskap, Södertörns Högskola, och politiker, Feministiskt Initiativ, Göran Rydén, professor i ekonomisk historia, Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning, Uppsala universitet, Ryan Skinner, FD i musikantropologi, The Ohio State University och gästforskare vid Uppsala universitet, Adam Tensta, artist och krönikör

Moderatorer
Sten Hagberg, professor i kulturantropologi och ordförande frö Forum för Afrikastudier vid Uppsala universitet
Maria Ripenberg, debattredaktör och ledarskribent, Upsala Nya Tidning</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5770</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:14:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>LACET Virtual Seminar "Breaking the Glass Ceiling in West Africa"</title><description>Introduction by Sten Hagberg.</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14144</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:20:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>LACET Virtual Seminar "Breaking the Glass Ceiling in West Africa"</title><description>Discussion (Part two)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14147</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:13:36 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>LACET Virtual Seminar "Breaking the Glass Ceiling in West Africa"</title><description>Discussion (First part)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14146</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>LACET Virtual Seminar "Breaking the Glass Ceiling in West Africa"</title><description>Presentations by Adjara Kokonbo and Bintou KonÃ©.</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14145</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:06:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sahelian Insecurities & Opportunities</title><description>A Round-Table on Political Stakes, Community Conflicts, and Citizen Mobilisations
(Part 2) 

Presentations by Mariame SidibÃ© and Aly Toungara</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14893</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:18:41 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sahelian Insecurities & Opportunities</title><description>A Round-Table on Political Stakes, Community Conflicts, and Citizen Mobilisations (Part 1)

Presentations by Virginie Baudais, Ludovic O. Kibora, Yaouaga FÃ©lix KonÃ©</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14892</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sahelian Insecurities and Opportunities</title><description>A Round-Table on Political Stakes, Community Conflicts, and Citizen Mobilisations (Part 4)

Discussion (Second Part)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14895</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sahelian Insecurities and Opportunities</title><description>A Round-Table on Political Stakes, Community Conflicts, and Citizen Mobilisations (Part 3)

Discussion (First Part)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14894</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:28:29 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Webinar on West African Dynamics co-hosted by Forum for Africa Studies and Mande Studies Association</title><description>Welcoming words by Sten Hagberg, Uppsala University (Sweden)

First Panel: Prospects for Peace, Democracy and Gender Equality? â Collaborative Research, Grounded Policy, and Citizen Mobilization 
 
Chair: Kajsa Hallberg Adu, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden) 

Speakers: Carole Ammann, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and William Moseley, Macalester College (USA) 

(In English)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/13932</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:29:51 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Webinar on West African Dynamics co-hosted by Forum for Africa Studies and Mande Studies Association</title><description>First Panel: Prospects for Peace, Democracy and Gender Equality? â Collaborative Research, Grounded Policy, and Citizen Mobilization 
 
Chair: Kajsa Hallberg Adu, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden) 

Speakers: Ludovic Kibora, Institut des Sciences des SociÃ©tÃ©s (Burkina Faso) In French
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University (USA) In English</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/13933</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:36:38 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Webinar on West African Dynamics co-hosted by Forum for Africa Studies and Mande Studies Association</title><description>Second Panel: African Studies in the Global Village? â Transdisciplinarity and the Decolonization of Methodologies and Epistemologies  

Chair: VÃ©ronique Simon, Uppsala University (Sweden) 

Speakers: Maria Grosz-NgatÃ©, Indiana University (USA) In English
Baba Coulibaly, Institut des Sciences Humaines (Mali) In French</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/13935</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:45:19 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Webinar on West African Dynamics co-hosted by Forum for Africa Studies and Mande Studies Association</title><description>Second Panel: African Studies in the Global Village? â Transdisciplinarity and the Decolonization of Methodologies and Epistemologies  

Chair: VÃ©ronique Simon, Uppsala University (Sweden) 

Speakers: Rosa de Jorio, University of North Florida (USA) In English
ChÃ©rif KeÃ¯ta, Carlton College (USA) In English</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/13936</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Webinar on West African Dynamics co-hosted by Forum for Africa Studies and Mande Studies Association</title><description>Second Panel: African Studies in the Global Village? â 
Transdisciplinarity and the Decolonization of Methodologies and Epistemologies  

Chair: VÃ©ronique Simon, Uppsala University (Sweden) 

Speaker: Alain Sissao, Institut des Sciences des SociÃ©tÃ©s (Burkina Faso) In French

Discussion, in French and English</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/13937</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:49:19 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>VarfÃ¶r tillÃ¥ts rasistiska organisationer i Sverige? Del1</title><description></description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/8323</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>VarfÃ¶r tillÃ¥ts rasistiska organisationer i Sverige? Del2</title><description>Panelsamtal måndagen den 12 november kl. 18.1520.00, Universitetsaulan anordnat av Forum för Afrikastudier och Upsala Nya Tidning om rättsliga, politiska och moraliska förutsättningar för en lag mot rasistisk organisering. Forskare, kulturpersonligheter och opinionsbildare möttes i ett initierat och viktigt samtal om hur demokratin och det öppna samhället kan skydda sig mot nazism, rasism och våldsbejakande extremism.

Deltagare:
Ingrid Helmius, universitetslektor i offentlig rätt, Uppsala universitet; Mohamad Hassan, kommunstyrelsens 1:e vice ordförande samt kommunalråd (L), Uppsala kommun; Maureen Hoppers, kommunikationsansvarig Integration & Mångfald, Axfoundation,
medgrundare MeR Barnkultur; Heléne Lööw, docent i historia, Uppsala universitet; Peter Nobel, jur dr, fd generalsekreterare i Svenska Röda Korset, fd expert i FNs rasdiskrimineringskommitté; pch Evin Ismail, ledarskribent Arbetarbladet, doktorand i sociologi, Uppsala universitet

Moderatorer:
Sten Hagberg, professor i kulturantropologi, föreståndare Forum för Afrikastudier,
Uppsala universitet; och Maria Ripenberg, debattredaktör och ledarskribent, Upsala Nya Tidning</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/8322</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Conference Opening Wednesday June 16 2021</title><description>Welcoming words by Anders Hagfeldt, Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University

Presentation by Sten Hagberg
Beyond Crisis and Insecurity in West Africa : Key Challenges / Au-delÃ  des 
crises et des insÃ©curitÃ©s en Afrique de lâOuest : les dÃ©fis-clÃ©s</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14471</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:45:46 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Conference Opening Wednesday June 16 2021 (Part 2)</title><description>La lutte des femmes au Burkina Faso : les principaux dÃ©fis 
InÃ¨s Lydia Rouamba (Institut des Sciences des SociÃ©tÃ©s (INSS/CNRST), Burkina Faso) 

Socializing Warlord Democrats: explaining violent discursive practices in post-war democratic politics
Anders ThemnÃ©r (Uppsala University, Sweden) 
Roxanna SjÃ¶stedt (Lund University, Sweden)
Mimmi SÃ¶derberg-Kovacs (Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden)
Henrik Persson (Uppsala University, Sweden)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14472</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:35:39 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session - Relativizing the Universal: Reconciling Human Rights, the Public Sphere, and the State in West Africa. Thursday June 17 2021 (Part 2)</title><description>Marriage, gender, and the law in Bamako 
Bruce Whitehouse (Lehigh University, USA)

Panic at the Wedding: Queer Marriage, Human Rights, and the Language of Belonging in CÃ´te dâIvoire 
Joseph Hellweg (Florida State University, USA)

Discussion</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14475</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:51:13 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session - Relativizing the Universal: Reconciling Human Rights, the Public Sphere, and the State in West Africa. Thursday June 17 2021 (Part 1)</title><description>Human Rights as Memoryscapes for the Future 
Rosa de Jorio (University of North Florida, USA)

Human rights, popular perceptions and the struggle against insecurity in Burkina Faso
Zakaria SorÃ© (University Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14474</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:43:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session -  Contestation over the mining boom in West Africa: actors, discourses, and  governance. Friday 18 June. (Part 1)</title><description>Introduction by Bettina Engels (Freie UniversitÃ¤t Berlin, Germany)

Violence and Discrimination of women in artisanal mining
Hermann Moussa Konkobo (UniversitÃ© Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso)

Extractive territorialization and gold panning in the Republic of Guinea
Anna Dessertine (Institut de Recherche pour le DÃ©veloppement (IRD), France)</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14476</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session -  Contestation over the mining boom in West Africa: actors, discourses, and  governance. Friday 18 June. (Part 2)</title><description>After the Boom Comes the Bust? Notions of âSecurityâ in Mining Investment Decisions Helmholtz 
Diana Ayeh (Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany)

Discussion</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14477</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Saturday 19 June. (Part 3)</title><description>Discussion</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14480</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:14:59 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Saturday 19 June. (Part 2)</title><description>Baba Coulibaly, Editor-in-Chief, Ãtudes maliennes 

Maria Grosz-NgatÃ©, Associate Editor, Africa Today</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14479</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:10:05 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MANSA 2021, Uppsala. Plenary Session - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Saturday 19 June. (Part 1)</title><description>Rosa de Jorio, Editor-in-Chief, Mande Studies 

Fatoumata Ouattara, former Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologie & DÃ©veloppement</description><link>https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/14478</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>