The 2024 Sahel Symposium: Citizen Perspectives
- Date: 16 December 2024, 09:15 – 17 December 2024, 16:30
- Location: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Online event, Zootissalen
- Type: Conference
- Organiser: Forum for Africa Studies
- Contact person: Sten Hagberg
Join the 2024 Sahel Symposium organized parallely and hybrid in two conference venues in Uppsala and in Bamako (as well as online). This year, the focus is on the programme on Perspectives citoyennes des défis de société au Mali. It brings together Malian and Swedish researchers divided into a wide range of studies and projects. The Symposium is open to the public and free of charge.
The 2024 Sahel Symposium will bring together some 20 scholars working in, and on the Sahel with a particular focus on research carried out in Mali. It will be geared towards activities carried out within the programme Perspectives citoyennes des défis de société au Mali funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida. The symposium will include the presentation of research results from a series of joint studies, seed money projects, conferencing, and capacity enhancing activities that, taken together, aim to promote citizen perspectives. It will furthermore bring together a Round-table in order to allow for a general reflection on how to take on future research engagements in the Sahel. The Symposium will be in hybrid mode, connecting conference venues at Uppsala University (Sweden), and Institut des Sciences Humaines (Mali).