Afrikadagar vid Uppsala universitet

Forum för Afrikastudier arrangerar Afrikadagar med ett brett program och vitt skilda deltagare: information om universitetets Afrikasatsningar med Rektor, en session för unga forskare, forskningspresentationer från universitetets tre vetenskapsområden (Humsam, Medfarm och Teknat) och Sverigepremiär för filmen Katanga – the dance of the scorpions av den burkinske filmskaparen Dani Kouyaté.

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Måndag 9 Juni 2025, Lecture-Hall IX

13.15-14.30 Opening Session med Rektor professor Anders Hagfeldt, professor Sten Hagberg, Dr. Kajsa Hallberg Adu och Dr. Jecinta Okumu. Ordförande: professor Kajsa Ahlstrand

15.00-15.45 Collaborative Research Presentation: Humanities and Social Sciences: Towards an anthropology of social and political transformations in Mali: Ethnography, training, and engagement, Prof. Yaouaga Félix Koné, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Mali; and Prof. Sten Hagberg, Uppsala University

15.45-16.30 Collaborative Research Presentation: Science and Technology: Designing collaborative hybrid learning: The case of the Kujenga course developed to onboard PhD students in seven African countries. Panel: Prof. David J Sumpter, Dept. of Information Technology, Dr. Titilope F Ajayi, Founder & Co-Director, Higher Education Leadership Project-Africa, Otema Yirenkyi and Kweakyie Afi Blebo, co-founders of the Because She Can organisation. Moderator: Dr. Kajsa Hallberg Adu, Forum for Africa Studies

17.00-20.00 Swedish Premiere: Katanga – the dance of the scorpions, by and with Dani Kouyaté

Tisdag 10 juni 2025, Lecture-Hall IX

9.30-10.15 Collaborative Research Presentation: Medicine and Pharmacology: Transdisciplinary frameworks of collaboration across disciplines, institutions and countries: Examples from GUILD-ARUA clusters of excellence, Dr. Jecinta Okumu, Forum for Africa Studies

10.15-10.45 Kaffe

10.45-12.00 Research project presentations by early career scholars

Obstetric uncertainties: navigating perinatal and maternal technologies in Mozambique, Márcia Manhique, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology

Navigating continents and disciplines: Doing transdisciplinary PhD work on Gender, Health and Sustainability within Sweden, Uganda and Kenya, Jasmine Arcilla, Centre for Gender Research, and Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health

Development of New Cathode Materials for organic batteries, Jean Bosco Nkuranga, Dept. of Physics

Tracing Performance through Audiovisual Archives: A case study on West African Koteba theatre FD Oulia Makkonen, Dept. of English

Wordalisation: Represent data into words, Amandine Caut, Dept. of Mathematics

Handwritten Text Recognition for Ajami Manuscripts, Oreen Yousuf, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology

13.00-13.30 International Science Programme

FD Bengt-Ove Turesson och professor Carla Puglia

13.30-14.30 Other Opportunities for strengthened collaborations

SLU Global, FD Sara Gräslund

The Nordic Africa Institute, FD Eleanor Fisher

Swedish-South African University Forum (SASUF), Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM), Helin Bäckman Kartal, Research and Partnership Support

Southern Africa-Nordic University Centre (SANORD), professor Sten Hagberg

African Student Association in Uppsala, Tendai Abiola Dhodho

14.30-15.20 Key Note Lecture: Democracy and Academic Spaces: Political Parties’ Invasion of Higher Education in Africa, George Bob-Milliar, Associate Prof. in African Studies (Politics & History) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; Adjunct Prof. at the Centre for Africa Studies, Copenhagen University; and Visiting Fellow at Nordic Africa Institute

15.20 Closing Remarks

15.30 Farewell Fika