BRI, CPEC and Road Safety in Pakistan
9. October 2023
De:link//Re:link fellows Hifza Irfan and Muhammad Zaman discuss how the issue of road safety is integrated into projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
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Localizing Confucius Institutes Through African Languages: The Confucius Institute in Dar es Salaam
21. June 2023
John Njenga Karugia discusses the Silk Road Talk given by De:link//Re:link fellow Prof. Dr. Aldin Mutembei in June 2023.
Talk: The Power of Transcultural Politics Along China’s BRI
16. June 2023
On June 15, 2023 Jamila Adeli and Linda Ammann gave a presentation at the University of Vienna. Under the title “The power of transcultural politics along China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The promise of culture in Sino-African relations” we introduced a decidedly (trans)cultural perspective on the BRI and its reciprocal relations in so-called new silk
Confucius Institutes and Linguistic Neutrality
9. June 2023
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.
Guest Lecture: Dr. Beril Ocaklı on Re/searching Connections: Geopolitics and Poetics of the BRI Infrastructure in Eurasia
2. June 2023
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
1. June 2023
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
2. May 2023
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
Mother Language Day: Transcultural Encounters with Chinese Communities, Languages and Cultures in Asia and Africa
1. February 2023
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
Academic Workshop: Translating the “Chinese Dream”
26. October 2022
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 Belt and Road Initiative in Africa–China–Europe Relations
13. July 2022
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