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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.
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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.
Performance, Politics and Shadow Puppets: Indonesian Studies Day 2025 Read More »
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.
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.
“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.
Transregional Dynamics of Cosmopolitan Memory Spaces Across Maritime Silk Roads Read More »
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.
Transnational Anticolonial Afro-Asian Memory Spaces in Berlin Read More »
During the summer and winter semesters of 2023, we hosted four research fellows. In order for them to share their work with our network, we hosted a Silk Roads Roundtable session. They shared their diverse approaches to researching the multifacted BRI.
Silk Roads Roundtable with De:Link//Re:Link Fellows Read More »
Two Confucius Institutes exist in Tanzania. Their construction was financed by China and they are hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma. The Tanzanian Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Prof. Dr. Aldin Mutembei is a Fellow of our De:Link // Re:Link research project. Prof. Mutembei gave a very insightful public lecture at the Institute for Asian and African Studies here at the Humboldt University zu Berlin.
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
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