Description: International and Italian scholars and high-level practitioners will conduct lectures and workshops, and animate cinematographic sessions and book presentations. In its first edition, the summer school addresses the topics of health and healthcare, in connection with internal and transnational mobility and with socio-cultural transformations that have been changing the healthcare scene in the African continent during recent decades.
The TOAfrica summer school offers Master’s students and professionals an introductory framework to the African continent with particular attention to the Sub-Saharan regions, that in recent years have undergone impressive changes: demographic and economic growth, fast urbanization, internal and external mobility, the development of digital technologies, artistic creativity, social, cultural and religious transformations, but also conflicts and environmental, health and political crises. A new landscape that
The program, entirely offered in English, is organized by the Africanistic section of the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society (CPS Africa) of the University of Turin (UniTo), in partnership with Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), one of the most renowned academic institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the Summer School profits from the collaboration with the Torino World Affairs Institute (Torino, Italy), the Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala, Sweden), the Consorzio delle Ong Piemonte
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