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April 2024

  • Fri 19 Apr 2024, 09:30–11:00

    Friday Seminars in Africa Studies: Jecinta Okumu

    Dear colleague,

     

    Please join us at our upcoming hybrid seminar by Jecinta Okumu, Uppsala University

     

    Friday 19th April 2024, 9.30 - 11.00.

    Venue: ENG3-2028, Engelska Parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H, Uppsala

    Zoom link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/66427229608

     

    Strategies on managing HIV infections and adherence to ARV’s

    by young people aged 15-24 in Kenya:

    a comparative analysis of boys and girls.

     

    In-spite of Kenya being classified as a high-burden country by WHO, less than half of those in need of HIV care and treatment are reached. HIV/AIDS-related deaths among adolescents have trippled worldwide since 2000; 85% of these deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa with Kenya being one of the high-burden countries. Even though more girls than boys are living with HIV, boys show more AIDS-related deaths than girls. Research in Kenya shows that although young people engage in sex at early ages, the government, family members and society as a whole choose to ignore/pretend that is not happening.

    This seminar will discuss the strategies employed by young people in Kenya to manage HIV infection in a context of cultural, religious, social and political contradictions on issues pertaining sex and sexuality, especially with regard to young people.

     

  • Wed 24 Apr 2024, 09:00 – Fri 26 Apr 2024, 18:00

    SANT Conference 24-26 April 2024: Improvisation

    The Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association (Sveriges Antropologförbund, SANT) is hosted by the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, on Improvisation. A round-table sponsored by kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology will be hosted on Real Open Access and the Public Responsibility of the University. Access the conference site here

     

Events

Since the launching in March 2012, Uppsala University's Forum for Africa Studies has hosted some 350 events (seminars, lectures, roundtables, film screenings, workshops, symposia, conferences), mostly at Uppsala University, but increasingly also at collaborating institutions in Africa. 2015-22 we led a collaborative project on Health, Politics, and Culture in Africa, which explains why many activities and research projects explore the interface of social sciences and humanities, on the one hand, and the medical and pharmaceutical sciences, on the other. We are also leading projects in Mozambique on municipal democracy, wellbeing, and biocultural heritage. In Burkina Faso, we study ongoing socio-political transformations from the perspectives of local actors in municipalities. Current projects also include Citizen Perspectives on Societal Challenges in Mali, and the Research School Decolonizing Research Methologies.

For more info about our recent activities, consult our 2022 Annual Report. From January 2023, the Forum has a broadened mission to cover the whole university.To follow our upcoming events consult this page and/or follow us on Facebook.

 

 

Friday Seminar in Africa Studies is our regular event for discussing research results and testing new ideas, here with Archaeologist Dr Anna Shoemaker.

 

 

Friday Seminar, Access and Participation in Mali

 

Launch of the Cluster of Excellence in Migration and Health on the 13th May 2024 at Uppsala University

 

CoRE on Food Environment Actions For promotion Of Health

 

We host 35-40 events per year ranging from seminars and workshops to public lectures and high levels panels. In February 2015 then Minister for Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke participated in a round-table on Afrophobia in Sweden in Aula Magna. Other participants included the researchers Oscar Pripp and Ylva Habel

 

We also host events in African countries, such as a workshop on municipal democracy at Point Sud in Bamako, Mali in March 2014, which ultimately led to a recently published book. More info, click on the image

 

We also host lectures in conjunction with official visits at Uppsala University, as when former president of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano, here talking with Deputy Vice Chancellor Anders Malmberg, visited Uppsala in 2012.

 

We often get lots of people who attend our events, such as the Author Talk with Maria Ripenberg on 7/11 2019 to which 180 people came to the Ihre Hall.

 

West Africa Conference 16-19 June 2021, click on the image

 

The Third Wave of the Liberation Struggles in Africa: From Anti- to De-Colonisation Friday 27 Oct. 10.15-11.30. Engelska Parken, room 3-2028 The seminar will be held at Engelska Parken, room 3-2028. For more info, click on image.

 
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