| Number | 
Date | 
Panel Title | 
Convenor(s) | 
| P 01 | 
June 09 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Political participation and micro-politics in African 
states | 
Tareq Sydiq | 
| P 05 | 
June 10 
12:30 — 16:00 | 
Lifeworlds in Crisis: challenging notions of difference | 
Andrea Behrends Tyler Zoannin | 
| P 06 | 
June 07 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Africa Plays: Leisure in Africa | 
Tom Michael Mboya Florian Stoll | 
| P 08 | 
June 07 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Challenging the Rule of Law: The African Laboratory | 
Jonas Bens 
Leonie Benker | 
| P 09 | 
June 08 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
Beyond the Nobel Prize for Peace – Turmoil and uneasy transformation in the Horn of Africa | 
Magnus Treiber 
Sabine Mohamed | 
| P 10 | 
June 10 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Unpacking EU-West African migration governance: stakes, actors and colonial continuities | 
Leonie Jegen 
Franzisca Zanker | 
| P 11 | 
June 08 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
Challenging the institutional bias in research on education – multiplicities of learning processes in Africa | 
Iris Clemens 
Erdmute Alber | 
| P 12 | 
June 10 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
Moralities in an entangled world: On studying moral configurations and questions of change | 
Martina Drescher 
Eberhard Rothfuß 
Eva Spies | 
| P 13 | 
June 07 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Utopia(n) Challenges in Africa? Grinding Practices, Ethical Controversies | 
Antje Daniel 
Melina C. Kalfelis | 
| P 15 | 
June 11 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
Conceptualising religious infrastructures in Africa | 
Yanti Hölzchen 
Benjamin Kirby | 
| P 16 | 
June 08 
12:30 — 16:00 | 
Dying, death and burial – the ‘challenging’ functions of end-of-life rituals on the African continent | 
Isabel Bredenbröker 
Joh Sarre | 
| P 18 | 
June 10 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
The impact of mobile technologies on social structures in Africa  | 
Tamara Gupper 
Roos Keja | 
| P 21 | 
June 09 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
In the shadows of autonomy: Decentralized state structures and local 
contexts in Africa | 
Matthew Sabbi 
Lamine Doumbia | 
| P 24 | 
June 09 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
The ‘Anglophone’ Conflict in Cameroon: Causes, Consequences and Conflict Resolution?< 
 | 
James Kewir Kiven 
Gordon Crawford | 
| P 26 | 
June 08 
12:30 — 16:00 | 
Lands of the Future – Futuremaking with Pastoralists in Africa | 
Echi Christina Gabbert 
Günther Schlee | 
| P 27 | 
June 07 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Governing African mobility: actors, institutions and practices | 
Johara Berriane 
Elieth Eyebiyi | 
| P 30 | 
June 09 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Questioning the coloniality of territory: the case of nineteenth century Ethiopia | 
Felix Schürmann Woldemariam Ambo Zegeye | 
| P 31 | 
June 09 
12:30 — 14:00 | 
Sustainable investments in Africa: creating synergies of profits, people and planet | 
Karin Wedig 
Matthias Rompel | 
| P 33 | 
June 10 
14:30 — 18:00 | 
Challenges of the future – care for the afterlife in Africa and its diaspora | 
Sophia Thubauville 
Sabine Klocke-Daffa | 
| P 35 | 
June 08 
14:30 — 18:00 | 
Challenges of the revolution: Making, living and keeping the Sudanese revolution | 
Valerie Hänsch 
Mai Azzam | 
| P 36 | 
June 10 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Adaptation to climate change and demographic Change in Africa: exposure and vulnerability assessments across different scale | 
Gabriel Tati | 
| P 37 | 
June 11 
12:30 — 14:00 | 
Between Annexation and Appropriation or the Production of the Colonial Space | 
Ute Hasenöhrl 
Nicole Wiederroth | 
| P 39 | 
June 09 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Seeing like a space: A methodological challenge for African Studies | 
Susann Ludwig 
Julia Büchele | 
| P 41 | 
June 09 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
The marketization of African wildlife encounter in safari tourism, conservation volunteering and trophy hunting | 
Antje Schlottmann 
Olivier Graefe | 
| P 42 | 
June 09 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Challenging Notions of Education and Knowing: Islamic Practices of Teaching and Learning across Africa | 
Anna Madeleine Ayeh | 
| P 44 | 
June 08 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
An African perspective on associations and the bureaucratization process | 
Laure Carbonnel 
Kamina Diallo | 
| P 45 | 
June 08 
12:30 — 16:00 | 
The challenge of misunderstandings in long-distance interconnections: Encounters, exchange and disparities in African history  | 
Susann Baller 
Amadou Dramé | 
| P 46 | 
June 11 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
Post-truth” politics: Potentials and challenges for African studie | 
Joschka Philipps | 
| P 47 | 
June 10 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Transnational anticolonial spaces: challenges to nationalism | 
Dmitri van den Bersselaar 
Ngozi Edeagu | 
| P 50 | 
June 07 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Writing a novel, or writing Africa? Recent fiction by writers from Africa and the challenge of addressing problems in African societies without reproducing hegemonic stereotypes about the continent | 
Anja Oed | 
| P 51 | 
June 08 
10:30 — 14:00 | 
Critical Reflections on Knowledge Production and Representation in African Studies | 
Alzbeta Sváblová 
Diana B. Kisakye 
Serawit B. Debele | 
| P 52 | 
June 11 
10:30 — 12:00 | 
African Universities or Universities in Africa | 
Akiiki Babyesiza 
Susanne Ress | 
| P 53 | 
June 11 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
What does it take to decolonize the VAD (Association of Africanists in Germany)? | 
Hans Peter Hahn 
Abimbola O. Adesoji | 
| P 54 | 
June 10 
14:30 — 16:00 | 
Opportunities and Challenges of Cooperative Provenance Research | 
Lars Müller | 
| RDD | 
June 07 
10:30 — 16:00 | 
Research Data Day/Forschungsdatentag | 
Kathrin Knodel Aisha Othman Anne Schumann Douosson | 
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Round Tables / Editors:
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| RT 01 | 
June 08 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Germany and the Rwandan genocide: New evidence from the German Foreign Office’s archives  | 
Anton Peez Antonia Witt | 
| RT 02 | 
June 08 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Providing Nuanced, Yet Coherent Assessments? Challenges for Social Science Research on Africa | 
Julia Grauvogel | 
| RT 03 | 
June 09 
14:30 — 18:00 | 
Futures Lost, Found, and Restituted: Archives, Curatorship and the Politics of Audiovisual Heritage 
in Africa | 
Vinzenz Hediger | 
| RT 04 | 
June 11 
12:30 — 14:00 | 
Forschungsfinanzierung in Afrika:Förderorganisationen und VAD – Ein neuer Dialog ? | 
Stefan Skupien | 
| RT 05 | 
June 09 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Social Security Coverage and Informal Employment – Implications of new Survey Data from six African Countries | 
Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung | 
| RT 07 | 
June 10 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
VAD Sahelausschuss: The governmental crisis in Burkina Faso and in Mali (in French) | 
Helmut Asche Hans Peter Hahn | 
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June 10 
12:30 — 14:00 | 
Meet the Editors of Africa Spectrum | 
Julia Grauvogel | 
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June 08 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Book Launch Berghahn | 
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June 09 
16:30 — 18:00 | 
Book Launch Nomos | 
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