Important Information

• When: 📅 28th of January 2026, 15:00 CET
• Where: 🌐 Online (via Zoom) 🧑‍💻
• Price: 💰 Free

The next inaugural HAAM-Radio Webinar will be taking place online on the 28th of January, 2025! This webinar will focus on advances in reconstructing past demography, interactions, and social organisation in Africa.

We are delighted to announce the two invited speakers:

• “Insights into population genomics and human history in Africa and the African Diaspora” Cesar Fortes-Lima @Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden

• “Genomic Insights into Initial and Secondary Bantu Migrations in Western Central Africa” Oguzhan Parasayan @Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

Additionally, the following early career researchers will be presenting their work:

• “Population Mobilities and Genetic Diversity of Eastern Africans” Emmanuel Kipruto Ngetich @University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States

• “The Green Sahara genomic landscape: insights from whole genome analysis of modern northern African and Sahelian Populations” Flavia Risi @Population genetics group, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• “Linguistic perspectives on the population history of Southern Africa” Hilde Gunnink @BantUGent (UGent Centre for Bantu Studies), Ghent University, Belgium

• “The palaeoecological shift that enabled our species to leave Africa” Michela Leonardi @Natural History Museum, London, UK

Registration

If you would like to attend the webinar, please register here or scan the QR code below.

⚠️ For security reasons, registration is required to receive the zoom link.

The Zoom link will be sent out to participants, who have registered their attendance, and presenters via email on the 27th of January 2025.

Organisation team: Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Xavier Roca Rada, Tina Saupe