Fellows 2019/20
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bergermann
Stay: 01.04.2020 - 31.07.2020
Ulrike Bergermann is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Art in Braunschweig, Germany, since 2009, with main areas of research in Gender and Postcolonial Studies and the history of knowledge ...more
To access the lecture by Prof. Burgermann, please click here.
Dr. Susanne Mohr
Stay: 01.03.2020 - 31.07.2020
Her main research interests are multilingualism and (cross-modal) language contact, as well as language and globalisation ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Mohr, please click here.
Dr. Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmi
Stay: 10.12.2019 - 30.06.2020
Dr. Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Languages, Adeyemi College of Education (A.C.E.), Ondo, Nigeria. He is an indigene of Ile Ife in Osun State, Nigeria, where he had his primary and secondary school education ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Adesanmi, please click here.
Dr. Matthew Sabbi
Stay: 01.01.2020 - 30.06.2020
Matthew Sabbi holds Dr. phil. in Development Sociology and has been a Postdoctoral researcher at the chair of Development Sociology, University of Bayreuth ...more
Dr. Paul Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
Stay: 01.02.2020 - 31.03.2020
His current research interest includes Bioethical issues in African Traditional Medicine, and this has worn him a Fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (BA) ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Akin-Otiko, please click here.
Dr. Amalia Dragani
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.03.2020
Amalia Dragani hold a PHD in Social Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS-Paris) where she is an associate member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie sociale (Collège de France- CNRS-EHESS) ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Dragani, please click here.
Dr. Magnus Echtler
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.03.2020
Lecturer in African Religions, 2005-14, research fellow (sacred space in Durban, South Africa), 2014-18, since 2018 Habilitand in anthropology ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Echtler, please click here.
Dr. Samuel Ndogo
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.03.2020
Dr. Samuel Ndogo is an alumnus of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he graduated in 2013 with a PhD in African Literature ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Ndogo, please click here.
Dr. Sybille Ngo Nyeck
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.03.2020
Sybille Ngo Nyeck is broadly trained in the international political economy of development, political theory and comparative politics with a focus on Africa ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Nyeck, please click here.
Dr. Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
Stay: 01.01.2020 - 20.03.2020
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis (Ph.D.) has been researching higher education issues in Africa since 2006. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he has also been working as a post-doctoral researcher between 2015 and 2018 ...more
Prof. Dr. Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
Stay: 06.01.2020 - 07.03.2020
Joseph C. A. Agbakoba is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nigeria. He has been a Volkswagen Foundation grantee and fellow, an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, an alumnus of Budapest’s Central European University, SUN program, a visiting scholar at Cape Coast and Frankfurt ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Agbakoba, please click here.
Dr. Stephen Muthoka Mutie
Stay: 01.01.2020 - 01.03.2020
Stephen Muthoka Mutie, Ph.D. is a Lecturer and a researcher based at Kenyatta University, Kenya. He is Chief Editor of the Editon Consortium Journal of Literature and Linguistic Studies (ISSN: 2663-9297), peer reviewer (Postcolonial text and Kabarak Journal of Research & Innovation), and a published author ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Mutie, please click here.
Dr. Melina Kalfelis
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.01.2020
Melina C. Kalfelis is working as a fellow at the “Africa Multiple” Cluster, where she is currently developing her postdoc project on morality, governance and justice in West African security fields ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Kalfelis, please click here.
Dr. Matthias De Groof
Stay: 04.11.2019 - 03.01.2020
Matthias De Groof is a former Fulbright and BAEF scholar at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. After his PhD in Cinema Studies on African cinema, he studied postcolonial film theory as a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. De Groof, please click here.
Dr. Nathalie Arnold Koenings
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 01.01.2020
Nathalie Arnold Koenings is a sociocultural anthropologist, literary translator and fiction writer. In anthropology, her interests include the mystical and geographical imaginations, the phenomenology of narrative, language, the poetics of landscape and memory, and, more recently, multispecies ethnography ...more
To access the lecture by Dr. Koenings, please click here.
Prof. Dr. Jaouad Serghini
Stay: 11.10.2019 - 11.11.2019
Prof. Dr. Jaouad Serghini, Professeur Habilité, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Oujda-Maroc. Domaines de recherche : littérature francophone, questions liées à l’interculturel, littérature comparée et dialogue des cultures et des religions ...more
To access the lecture by Prof. Serghini, please click here.
Prof. Dr. Mukhtar Umar Bunza
Stay: 01.10.2019 - 31.10.2019
Mukhtar Umar Bunza is a Professor of Social History, Department of History Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria ...more