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,
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 a
In order to identify synergies between single projects and thematic lines, we organized and conceptualized 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 local
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
