Confucius Institutes and Linguistic Neutrality
Our research fellow Prof. Dr. Aldin Mutembei will give the next in our Silk Road series of talks on 15 June from 6 to 8 p.m. It will take place online and in Room 410, Invalidenstraße 118.
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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
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,
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
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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The Belt and Road Initiative, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Road Safety in Pakistan
The first lecture in the Silk Road Talks series will be held by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zaman and examines the Belt and Road Initiative, the 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 Islamabad. He earned his PhD from the University
Film Screening: An Image of India
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
This is not the 1960s: A Reading on Chinese–Zambian Relations
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
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