Thanks to a generous grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, our Remoboko research group organised its final conference entitled “University Campuses in Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas” at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin on 6-8 September.
This conference sought to examine how university campuses in Africa and beyond:
- offer training for various skills and know-how which translate into key assets for the social becoming of students beyond the campus;
- become a site of moral activism where competing claims of social good and citizenry lead to projects of self-transformation (individual, collective) and/or even conflicts of norms;
- feed on various forms of engagements (intellectual, religious, political) while developing their own politics (regional, religious, ethnic, ideological, etc.).
The event featured 22 papers in 8 panels, a book launch, a photo exhibition and the screening of an ethnographic film.
We are very grateful to Rakiya El Matine, Patrycja Komor, Hala Mardini and Tim Fedke for all the logistical work they have done.
