CONNECTIVITY IN SCIENCE – TODAY. TOMORROW. FUTURE. The annual conference of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) will take place in Sharjah, UAE, from 17-20 November 2025. It is organized by AGYA in partnership with the University of Sharjah and the University of Khorfakkan. Our co-speaker Claudia Derichs will participate in the […]
We’re proud to announce that Fiona Katherine Naeem has now published her PhD dissertation Pamiri Lifeworlds: Narratives of Rupture in Gorno-Badakhshon Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. The book is currently available from De Gruyter Brill. Abstract Living through imperial border disputes resulting in the separation of many communities and families, Pamiris find themselves surrounded by rupture, both
On 28 November 2025, De:link//Re:link researcher Katja Mielke (bicc) will give a short and accessible German-language talk about the BRI in Afghanistan. From 12:00 to 13:00 CET, anyone interested can join to listen to the 20-minute presentation and ask questions afterwards. The lecture forms part of a series of lunchtime talks organised by the Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Lunchtime Talk: China in Afghanistan: Die Neue Seidenstraße im Land der Taliban Read More »
John Njenga Karugia‘s documentary film New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics is currently screening at various locations around Germany and beyond. In Berlin, the next event will take place on Thursday, 20 November. We look forward to seeing you there. The film is a journey along the maritime and land routes of the
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Does China’s growing role in Eastern Europe challenge the EU’s approach to promoting development in the region? Tanja Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu & Valentin Krüsmann explore this question in their latest open-access article in the journal Global Policy. Abstract Against the backdrop of China’s growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative
From Khalisa Sarkar Land to Land Reforms: Legal Liminality, State Control, and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Nadia Ali’s latest article explores how infrastructural expansion under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), alongside growing state and private interests in tourism and mineral extraction, has altered the region of Gilgit-Baltistan. Abstract This article examines the evolution of the
We are thrilled to announce the first in our new series of lunchtime talks: “GCC Economies and Changing Geopolitics: Connectivity through Sustainability at Sohar Port and Free Zone“. Dr. Abdullah Al-Abri and Dr. Dawud Al-Ansari will discuss the geopolitical shifts happening in the Gulf with reference to the Omani port. The lecture will take place
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Our stand at the 25th anniversary edition of the Long Night of the Sciences included something for all ages. Here’s a taste of what we presented at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 28 June 2025. A map of the Belt and Road Initiative’s land and sea routes, designed by Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS), helped visitors visualise the
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On 22 May 2025, Jana Hönke, professor and chair for Sociology in Africa at the University of Bayreuth, gave a fascinating talk based on the edited volume Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice. The talk examined Chinese projects within the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Africa. It asked how Chinese
Global China in/from Africa: Transforming Governance in BRI Frontier Zones Read More »
As the second phase of De:link//Re:link will focus more on the implications of the BRI in Southeast Asian countries, members of our network took part in the HU’s Indonesian Studies Day on 9 May 2025. Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs, whose research focuses on Indonesia, chaired a roundtable on the subject of China, Indonesia and the
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