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Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of the Center of African Studies, invited the two Privacy Scholars, Natacha Klein Käfer and Natália da Silva Perez, with a scholarly profile on Digital Humanities to…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen, CAS, is invited to participate in a panel by the Democracy in Europe Information Society on the bilateral relationship between the two unions. The panel will address the following…

Two PhD scholarships (three-year) will be available from 1 December 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Centre of African Studies on the South Campus of the University of Copenhagen is looking for a new student assistant.

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, contributes to the newly published Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies with a chapter on ‘Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives’.…

Francis research focuses on Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity intersects and…

Hans Olsson, Marie Curie Fellow at CAS has contributed with a chapter in the recently published book Across the Waves Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies edited by Iain Walker & Marie-Aude Fouéré…

CAS guest researcher Dr. Primus M. Tazanu delivered a keynote at the 4th Biennial Conference of African Studies Association of Africa hosted by the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town,…

CAS Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach has given one of three keynotes at the 13th GloPent conference on 1-2 April 2022. The international and interdisciplinary conference is organized by the European…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written article for GlobalNyt explaining that several countries in Africa see Russia as an attractive partner because they are fed up with what they perceive as the West's know-it-all…

Nordic Africa Research Network (NARN) and Centre of African Studies (CAS), University of Copenhagen.

Assistant professor Toke Møldrup Wolff has written an article in GlobalNyt explaining that the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine extend beyond Europe's borders. Africa, where many countries are already…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written article for 'Vid&Sans'. He explains that despite a fatal accident, a corona crisis and threats of terrorist attacks, Cameroon managed to stage a successful Africa Cup of…

AFRICA // CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT - Donors are lining up to support a 7000km forest belt across Africa. But can it be done? Stig Jensen has been following Africa's green wall since its infancy. Inspired by several visit…

Tibesti and northern Chad came on the media map when President Idriss Déby died under mysterious circumstances in April 2021 just after his re-election. For perhaps that was where he was killed. In a three-part article…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a review in GlobalNyt about former CAS student Lars Zbinden Hansen’s newly published book “På kanten af asfalten – Fra Kampala til Niamey og retur”. Associate Professor Stig…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written an opinion piece based on his experience at the front line of the COVID-19 Omicron closure in southern Africa in connection with fieldwork related travel in Zambia and…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written two article discussing AFCON, COVID-19, low turnout and high interest

CAS Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach has co-authored an article with George Bob-Milliar (Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) published in the scientific journal Africa…

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