Partners

As of 2016, the Erasmus Plus Partner Countries program between the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin and the College of Humanities at Makerere University has been activated and funded. This initiative enables and fosters both scientific and educational collaboration between the two departments.

A cooperation agreement between the University of Turin and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, has been in effect since 2004. Scientific collaboration between the two universities has been implemented over time through joint research projects, faculty and researchers exchanges, conferences, congresses, and collaborative scientific publications.

Mission Director Alessandro Gusman is the head of the Turin Unit of the PRIN project "Genealogies of African Freedoms." The other units involved are the University of Milan-Bicocca, the University of Pavia, and the University of Bologna. The project explores the meanings of freedom from the perspective of African men and women of the past and present, bringing into dialogue political anthropology, African studies, African history, theoretical and political philosophy, critical sociology, ethnolinguistics and psychology.