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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.
Science Silk Road Seminar: The “New Cold War” and the Securitization of China’s Earth Science Research in the Arctic
Trym Eiterjord (University of British Columbia) will explore how Chinese research in the Arctic has been swept up in – and contributed to – the past decade of deteriorating US-Chinese relations.
New episode of Exchanges now available
The De:link//Re:link podcast explores the backgrounds of our researchers: How did they choose their themes? What drives their work? Which challenges have they faced? In the second episode, we speak with Julia Langbein.
Brown Bag Talk: China’s Science Silk Road and the New Geopolitics of Knowledge Production
Our new advisory board member Han Cheng will give us a short introduction to his work in a lunchtime talk on 16 April 2026. Register now to attend online.