Our Event Formats

CRC Events

Future Rural Africa hosts a variety of different event formats:

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CRC Public Lecture Series

We regularly invite leading scholars working on relevant challenges related to our research.

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Summer Schools

By bringing together students, researchers, and experts from different backgrounds and disciplines, summer schools are an important tool in capacity building and help to create a vibrant research community that is well-equipped to address complex challenges.

Early-career researchers in a group workshop during the CRC Summer School 2020.

Workshops

Workshops provide a collaborative and interactive environment for researchers to share ideas, receive feedback, and learn new skills, ultimately leading to the development of higher quality research.

Retreats

Research retreats provide an opportunity for our researchers to collaborate, brainstorm, and focus on their work in a distraction-free environment.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions provide an opportunity to showcase our findings and make research outcomes available to a wider audience and help us to fulfill our third mission commitments.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous events include conferences, kick-off events, book launches and more.

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CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Kai Koddenbrock

Mon | May 5th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST) Earnest Struggles for Structural Transformation in West Africa: Governing the Disarticulated Economy Since Independence Prof. Dr. Kai Koddenbrock (Bard College Berlin) How have postcolonial West ...

14. April 2025

Exploring Platformization in Africa: Insights from a Workshop on Digital Transformation

By Victoria Luxen (Project C01 Future in Chains). From February 24 to 27, 2025, I participated in the workshop “Writing about Platformization from Africa” at the University of Cape Town. Funded by the British Academy, ...

25. March 2025

CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Stefan Ouma

Mon | April 7th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST) Between the City and the Countryside: Centering Accumulation in African Studies Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma (University of Bayreuth) Thinking beyond clear-cut rural-urban divides, this presentation ...

24. March 2025

Workshop: Human-Carnivore Co-Adaptation – Exploring Changing Behaviours, Perceptions and (Research) Practices

March 17th – 18th, 2025 Human-Carnivore Co-Adaptation – Exploring Changing Behaviours, Perceptions and (Research) Practices Man-eaters, pests, rivals, demanded trophies, spiritual beings or iconic and keystone species – carnivores are ambiguous animals that have always ...

10. March 2025

Hybrid Event: Launch of NJAS Special Issue “Framing Difference in Age and Generation in Africa” at the University of Cologne

Wed | April 9th, 2025 | 10:00 – 11:30 (CEST) and online The researchers of Future Rural Africa Project C05 Framing Futures recently edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS), ...