MIASA Publishing Workshop 2023

The MIASA Publication Workshop aims to foster research by African scholars to facilitate their publication in renowned African Studies journals. In doing so, it seeks to address asymmetries in knowledge production, which is the overarching goal of the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

GIGA researcher Dr. Tim Glawion will take over the editorship of the GIGA journal Africa Spectrum on an interim basis starting in April, succeeding the GIGA’s Dr. Julia Grauvogel. Leonardo R. Arriola from the University of California, Berkeley remains co-editor of the journal.

This year’s second issue of Africa Spectrum contains three research articles on agrarian labour exchanges in Zimbabwe, the mixed effects of gender quotas in Burundi, and community awareness and restitution in Tanzania. Additionally, this edition also includes three engaging book reviews.

Outstanding contributions by researchers from all over the world feature in the GIGA’s four journals. The GIGA Journal Family is presided over by Sage, maintaining the ”platinum standard” of the Open Access model.

The third MIASA Policy Conference “Dealing with conflict, preparing for sustainable peace” will provide space for exchange between researchers, policymakers and other key stakeholders in sustainable peace-making to present and discuss state-of-the-art research and its policy implications. Emphasis will be given to African perspectives on intervention practices and peacebuilding efforts on the continent, drawing on insights from both research and practice.

Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Prof. Dr. Jann Lay (Panelist)

This comic addresses rural transformations in Africa. Between February and May 2020, researchers from different countries worked together virtually and at the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa. This comic gives you an insight into our research.

The MIASA Publication Workshop aims to foster research by African scholars to facilitate their publication in renowned African Studies journals. In doing so, it seeks to address asymmetries in knowledge production, which is the overarching goal of the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

GIGA researcher Dr. Tim Glawion will take over the editorship of the GIGA journal Africa Spectrum on an interim basis starting in April, succeeding the GIGA’s Dr. Julia Grauvogel. Leonardo R. Arriola from the University of California, Berkeley remains co-editor of the journal.