MHHA is a network of practitioners, researchers and artists across Africa interested in health-related issues.
Our aim is to provide a space for people to develop work in this area, to showcase their projects and to provide information on related initiatives on the continent and beyond.
CAP Talk Series PHENOMENOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AFRICAN PHENOMENOLOGY AND BEYOND at the Centre for African Phenomenology, University of Fort Hare, South Africa Convenors: Amara Esther Chimakonam and Jean du Toit DescriptionArtificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a technical or technological problem; rather, it transforms how experience, embodiment,...
Decolonising Humanities Fellowship Are you a Southeast Asia (excluding Indonesia) or Africa scholar committed to challenging colonial legacies and reimagining foundational concepts in the humanities from a Global South perspective? The Decolonising Humanities Fellowship, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia (UI), supported...
Call for papers and closed panels. 1 – 3 September 2026Future Africa | University of Pretoria | South Africa Scholars in various disciplines use the notion of “affinity” to describe closeness, similarity, aptitude and attraction. Affinity speaks to the ties that bind: bonds of blood and closeness; the entanglements of...
Graduate School, Arts Faculty of Arts Aarhus University, Denmark PhD candidate in social anthropology – Dual PhD degree between Aarhus University and Makerere University The Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus (AU), in collaboration with Makerere University (MU), invites applications for one fully-funded 3-year PhD fellowship...
The African Report named Dr Sandra Mauel a social anthropologist from the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique, as one of 10 most influential researchers in Africa. Dr Manuel’s work focuses on the social analysis of the body, gender, and sexuality, as well as health, disease, and treatment. She’s...
Contributions are currently being accepted for the Handbook project on Postcolonial Sociology, as part of the Routledge Handbooks program.
Led by Angela Woods (Director) and Ben Alderson-Day (Co-director), the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) will tackle intellectual and practical barriers – of diversity, connection, risk, evidence and scale – faced in medical humanities research.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
During the first quarter of 2021 UGHE institutionalized Hamwe Festival and other arts in health activities, that transitioned from project in incubation to a university department. To support the new department in the achievement of its mission, UGHE will put a board of external advisors in place. The role of...
