January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Dr. Stefan Schmid is a Geographer with a focus on remote sensing, protected areas management, and development policy. He studied Geography, Sociology, and Social Anthropology in Heidelberg, Aix-en-Provence, and Zurich Universities and worked from 1994 to 2002 in the SFB 268 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Goethe University where he wrote his PhD thesis on vegetation mapping with satellite imagery in Burkina Faso. Since 2003 he is coordinating the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies and has organized numerous international events and programs as well as exhibitions in Africa as in Germany. He is also coordinator of the Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences financed by Volkswagen Foundation, and together with PD Dr. Thomas Feldhoff, coordinator of the AFRASO project.
Schamp, E. & Schmid, S. (Hrsg.) (2008): Academic cooperation with Africa – lessons for partnership in higher education.- LIT, Berlin
Schmid, S. (2005): Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluß auf das Afrikabild in Deutschland.- Africa Positive 16: 8-9.
Schmid, S. (2002a): Kinderlachen und Hungerbäuche - Vom Umgang mit Afrika-Klischees und Political Correctness am Beispiel einer Wanderausstellung der Universität Frankfurt.- epd-Entwicklungspolitik 15/2002 August: K1-K5.
Schmid, S. (2002b): Les images satellites multi-temporelles comme outil d’analyse du couvert végétal : le cas des savanes du sud du Burkina Faso (Afrique occidentale).- Etudes flor. Vég. Burkina Faso, 7: 31-36; Frankfurt/Ouagadougou.
Schmid, S. (2002c): Alle lieben Afrika - fast alle. Zum Afrikabild in Deutschland.- In: Leben in Westafrika. Katalog zur Ausstellung (Hrsg: A. Reikat): 3-14; Frankfurt am Main.
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January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.
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