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TAZARA Stories wins Best Documentary at Kilimanjaro Film Festival
As part of the golden jubilee celebrations for the Tanzania–Zambia Railway, the documentary film TAZARA Stories was screening on 9 July 2026. The film examines the collaboration between the two African countries and China from the perspective of the workers who built it.
Summer Break for our Brown Bag Talks
Our series of lunchtime talks is finished for the moment, but it will return in the autumn with talks from a selection of experts from our network. Here’s what we’re planning.
Textiles and Identities on the BRI: The Long Night of the Sciences 2026
Our stand at this year’s Long Night of the Sciences focused on the changing textiles and identities in East Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pamir region, and Rotterdam. The lively stations attracted visitors of all ages.
Science Silk Road Seminar: Moon Rocks in China: Tracing a Galactic Empire in Lunar Anthropocene
Feng Schöneweiß (MPIWG) will examine the recent acquisition of lunar samples from the Moon and trace China’s galactic ambitions. Register now to attend on 18 June 2026.
Film Education: Unlearning the Colonial Gaze
An evening of film screenings followed by a discussion with Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews) and Reyazul Haque, M.Phil. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). It will take place on 29 May at Sinema Transtopia.
Brown Bag Talk: Africa-China Engagement from the 1980s to the Present
Jamie Monson, professor at Michigan State University and member of the De:link//Re:link advisory board, will talk about a chapter of a book she is currently writing in a lunchtime talk on 21 May 2026. Register now to attend online.