The De:link // Re:link podcast explores local insights and new knowledges. We invite intellectuals from different backgrounds to engage them in conversations about new spatial configurations and local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects. For this episode, we invited Kenyan author and public intellectual Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor to talk about knowledge production, China’s presence in Africa, Europe’s …
We will be hosting our second lecture in the Silk Road Lecture Series. The lecture will be held by Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo. His lecture is entitled: “The Belt and Road Initiative in Africa – China – Europe Relations”. Adams Bodomo is a Professor of African Studies (Chair of African Linguistics and Literatures) at the …
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We will be hosting our first lecture in the Silk Road Lecture Series. The lecture will be held by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zaman. His lecture is entitled: “The Belt and Road Initiative, China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Road Safety in Pakistan”. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zaman is a sociologist at the Department of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University …
From the German point of view, India has been a distant but important point of reference, a place of longing, since the beginning of the 19th century. Ethnological collections in German museums, with their enormous holdings on South and South-East Asia, reflect this interest in Indian culture. The aim of scientifically recording it, explaining it and making it …
A reading on Chinese-Zambian relations with Mukuka Chipanta author of “A casualty of power” (2016). Dear students, friends and colleagues, the collaborative research project „De:link // Re:link: Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements“, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), cordially invites you to an online reading from “A Casuality of Power” (2016) by and with …
During the three-year funding phase (2021-2024), the network project De:link//Re:link will investigate new spatial configurations and local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative initiated by China in 2013. link indicates the network’s focus on local insights and new knowledges. In this context, the consortium examines the dynamics of entanglements …
