For the third time, the IAAW cordially invites all interested parties to participate in an exciting program on the occasion of the International Mother Language Day. The Mother Language Day will take place on February 21, 2023 in room 315 at the IAAW, Invalidenstraße 118, 10115 Berlin. The two collaborative research projects De:link//Re:link – Local …
On October 21st 2022 we held a De:link // Re:link workshop entitled Translating the “Chinese Dream”: Narratives and Languages in New Silk Road Regions in Berlin. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, initiated 2013 under Xi Jinping) is a large transregional infrastructure project that not only aims to connect trade, politics and people. It …
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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 …
In order to identify synergies between single projects and thematic lines, we conceptualized and organized two reading group sessions open to all De:link // Re:link researchers. In the third reading group we continued to engage with translocality but looked at it via a case study. We dealt with the notion of translocality as space as …
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In order to identify synergies between single projects and thematic lines, we conceptualized and organized two reading group sessions open to all De:link // Re:link researchers. In the second reading group session, we were interested in the (trans)local and its relation to scale. The concept of translocality as defined by Freitag & von Oppen foregrounds …
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 …
