ECAS countdown

New interview series with NAI researchers

Only a few days to go before the ECAS 4 Conference in Uppsala 15-18 June! The event will attract some 1500 participants, mostly Africanists within social sciences and humanities. In a new series on the NAI website NAI researchers are interviewed about an academic panel discussion that they will chair at the conference.

No special program is needed to view the filmed interviews.

Debating the boundaries of Islamic practice

Ten panels about religion during ECAS

PART ONE
Interview with cultural anthropologist Dr Tea Virtanen.

Land grabbing devastating for African farmers

Great focus on land issues at upcoming ECAS 4 conference

PART TWO
Interview with NAI senior researcher Kjell Havnevik. 

”More grassroots involved in city planning”

Focus on dynamics of urban informality at ECAS 4

PART THREE
Interview with NAI researcher Jenny Cadstedt

How to deal with colonial architecture?

Urban Africa discussed at ECAS 4

PART FOUR
Interview with NAI researcher Andrew Byerley.

Who are the brokers and fixers?

Many panels about urban Africa at ECAS 4

PART FIVE
Interview with NAI researcher Mats Utas.

What is African Engagements about?

PART SIX
Interview with NAI research director Fantu Cheru and Carin Norberg, director of the Nordic Africa Institute.

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