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New Phase, New Connections: Our Journey along the BRI Continues​

Since the De:link//Re:link research consortium formed in April 2021, there have been dramatic political changes in (Eur)Asia. Among them the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan later that year, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The expansion of the BRICS group of nations added to significant shifts in international relations. These

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Recent publication: “New Silk Road Narratives”

It is not only goods, financial capital or technologies that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative but also values, emotions and cultural practices. The latter are often decisive when imagining and establishing a transregional infrastructure of the scale of the BRI. This book explores connections and disconnections along

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Dr. Beril Ocaklı

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

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

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

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,

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China in Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

In this talk Tamás Peragovics provides a general assessment of reactions to and effects of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Eastern Europe. It starts by sketching the key BRI-associated projects in the region, and the mixed responses to them in the host countries. Hungary will serve as an example to discuss the difficulties

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

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

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The Belt and Road Initiative in Africa–China–Europe Relations

The second lecture in the Silk Road Lecture series will be held by Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo and explores the subject of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa–China–Europe relations. Adams Bodomo is Professor of African Studies (Chair of African Linguistics and Literatures) at the University of Vienna with the following research expertise: – African

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