Press Releases
2022:
- Radio interview with BIGSAS Junior Fellow Andreas Wüst on the topic of "Morocco: Football as Soft Power" (interview in German)
- Frobenius Research Grant Award for BIGSAS Alumna Valerie Nur (German article)
- "Building Bridges": Federal Cross of Merit for Bayreuth African Studies Alumnus
- Federal Cross of Merit for BIGSAS Alumnus Dr Hanza Diman (German article)
- BIGSAS honorary doctorate for the West African sociologist and women's rights activist Fatou Sow
- Dr Fatou Sow to receive an honorary doctorate from the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies
2021:
- BIGSAS JF Mingqing Yuan and Alumna Joh Sarre honoured at the annual President's Dinner (Special achievements honoured at the President's Dinner, 22 November 2021)
- BIGSAS JF Oladapo Ajayi awarded 2021 Klaus Dieter Wolff Prize (Klaus-Dieter-Wolff-Preis Bildung ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg, October 28)
- BIGSAS Alumna Sabrina Maurus honoured for her dissertation (German Anthropology Association honours dissertation of social anthropologist Sabrina Maurus, 21 October 2021)
- BIGSAS Junior Fellow Sabrina Maurus awarded Young Researcher Award for excellent and practice-relevant development research (Bayreuth Social Anthropologist Receives Prize for Development Research: Study on Compulsory Education in Ethiopia, 30 June 2021)
2019:
- BIGSAS JF Nikitta Adjirakor receives the DAAD Prize 2019 (Ehrungen für herausragende Leistungen an der Universität Bayreuth, 15 November 2019)
- Africa in Bayreuth: BIGSAS Journalist Award and Opening ceremony of The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (Afrika in Bayreuth: Verleihung des BIGSAS Journalist Award und Eröffnung des Exzellenzclusters „Africa Multiple“, 18 October 2019)
- BIGSAS Journalist Award 2019 (Ausschreibung: Journalist Award für exzellente Beiträge über Afrika, 24 June 2019)
2018:
- UBT will get a Cluster of Excellence (Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern: Universität Bayreuth erhält ein Exzellenzcluster, 27 September 2018)
- UBT economists on the effect of food price changes on child labour in Uganda (Bayreuther Ökonomen zeigen: Verteuerte Lebensmittel lassen die Kinderarbeit steigen, 21 August 2018)
- Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures 2018 (Widerstand und Feminismus: BIGSAS-Literaturfestival in Bayreuth vom 25. bis 27. Juni 2018, 19 June 2018)
2017:
- BIGSAS Junior Fellow Rose Nyakio Kimani and Alumnus Michael Stasik awarded at the President's Dinner 2017
- (Dies academicus 2017 - Höhepunkt des akademischen Jahres auf dem Campus, 28 November 2017)
- BIGSAS Alumna Antonia Valerie Hänsch awarded for her dissertation
- (Preisgekrönte Dissertation: Bayreuther Ethnologin erforscht inhumane Folgen eines Staudamm-Projekts im Sudan, 20 October 2017)
- Success for University of Bayreuth: full proposal for Excellence Strategy can be handed in
- (Auf zum Endspurt: Die Universität Bayreuth auf Erfolgskurs in der Exzellenzstrategie, 29 September 2017)
- BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures 2017
- (BIGSAS Literaturfestival vom 8. - 10. Juni: Migration ist urmenschlich und eine Chance für Europa, 6 June 2017)
- BIGSAS Journalist Award 2017
- (Afrika ohne Klischees: Graduiertenschule der Uni Bayreuth verleiht den BIGSAS-Journalistenpreis 2017, 31 May 2017)
- BIGSAS Journalistenpreis 2017, 9 May 2017
- BIGSAS Alumnus Dr. Gilbert Shang Ndi at the meeting of DAAD alumni at the University of Bayreuth
- (Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs aus aller Welt zum DAAD-Stipendiatentreffen auf dem Unicampus, 25 April 2017)
- BIGSAS Alumnus Dr. Gilbert Shang Ndi becomes member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Bayreuther Forscher aus Kamerun jetzt im Jungen Kolleg der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 7 March 2017)
- Higher Education Cooperation in the EU project "Academic Mobility for African Sustainable Development" (Nachhaltige Entwicklungen in Afrika durch Hochschulkooperationen stärken, 11 January 2017)
BIGSASworks!
The publication of the (online) journal BIGSASworks! appears in the series 'Working Papers' of the Institute of African Studies (IAS). Each volume contains miscellaneous thematic areas and this output of common or overlapping interests of the Junior Fellows offers a publication platform.
- 2021 "Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa" (DOI)
- 2019 "Gender and Social Encounters: Experiences from Africa" (DOI)
- 2018 "Living in African Cities: Urban Spaces, Lifestyles and Social Practices in Everyday Life" (URI)
- 2017 "Perspectives on Translation Studies in Africa" (URI)
- 2016 "Religion and Space: Perspectives from African Experiences" (URI)
- 2015 "Actors, Institutions and Changes: Perspectives on Africa" (URI)
- 2013 "Challenging Notions of Development and Change from Everyday Life in Africa" (URI)
- 2013 "The making of Meaning in Africa: Word, Image and Sound" (URI)
- 2012 "Trends, Discourses and Representations in Religions in Africa" (URI)
- 2011 "Women's Life Worlds 'In-Between'" (URI)