A taste of the multimedia offering we presented at the 25th anniversary edition of the Long Night of the Sciences on 28 June 2025. The line-up included something to appeal to all ages.
On 22 May 2025, Jana Hönke, professor and chair for Sociology in Africa at the University of Bayreuth, gave a fascinating talk based on the edited volume “Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice”.
As the second phase of De:link//Re:link explores on the implications of the BRI in Southeast Asia, various members of our network took part in the HU’s Indonesian Studies Day on 9 May 2025 – an event heavily focused on the arts.
The event marking the end of our first phase of funding took place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 23 and 24 May 2024. Titled ‘Local Roads, Global Belts’, the event covered the wide spectrum of research that we have produced since 2021.
Since the De:link//Re:link research consortium formed in April 2021, there have been dramatic political changes in (Eur)Asia. During our second phase of funding, we’ve adjusted our focus to cover major shifts across the globe.
Entitled “New Insights about the BRI from (Eur)Asia to (East)Africa: Strategies, Narratives and Reactions”, the event brought together scholars from all four of De:link//Re:link’s research consortium partners. Intensive discussions were followed by presentations for the ZOiS Forum.
A short introduction to the book from one of the editors. The volume looks at the values, emotions and cultural practices that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative.
“Local and Transregional Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative” took place on 22 February 2024 in the Kenyan capital. It was co-organised by the French Institute for Research in Africa, the Zentrum für Moderne Orient, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and provided a valuable forum for some of our researchers to present their work.
The exhibition “Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora” took place at Gropius Bau and SAVVYContemporary, Berlin, from April to August 2023. John Njenga Karugia presented his work there in a session chaired by Hajra Haider Karrar.
In September 2023 the Dekoloniale Festival looked at transnational Afro-Asian connective memories in Berlin, Germany and Bandung, Indonesia. John Njenga Karugia attended the exhibition, walking tour, and international conference.
