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A decade on, China through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) continues to occupy minds and political geographies. Unveiled a decade ago at the Nazarbayev University Campus in Astana, Kazakhstan, the BRI remains an unprecedented undertaking for seamlessly interconnecting people and places in Asia with Africa and Europe through multifarious large-scale infrastructure. Drawing on published …

Guest Lecture: Dr. Beril Ocaklı on Re/searching Connections: Geopolitics and Poetics of the BRI Infrastructure in Eurasia Read More »

Museums seem to be everywhere in post Soviet Central Eurasia. From magnificent state buildings to regional, private, and ‘house’ museums, they all attest to an interest in and an urge to document and shape collective, national and public discourses of identity that relate to specific visions of the past. By engaging a variety of material, …

Workshop: Museums as Cultural Infrastructures. Claiming History and Heritage in Central Eurasia Read More »

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 21 February 2023 in room 315 at the IAAW, Invalidenstraße 118, 10115 Berlin. The two collaborative research projects De:link//Re:link – Local …

Mother Language Day: Transcultural Encounters with Chinese Communities, Languages and Cultures in Asia and Africa Read More »

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 …

Film Screening: An Image of India Read More »

A Reading on Chinese–Zambian Relations with Mukuka Chipanta, Author of A Casualty of Power (2016). 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 Zambian …

This is not the 1960s: A Reading on Chinese–Zambian Relations Read More »

During its 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 will examine the dynamics of …

Kick-off Event: De:Link//Re:Link Begins! Read More »