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Lunchtime Talk: China in Afghanistan: Die Neue Seidenstraße im Land der Taliban
On 28 November 2025, Katja Mielke will give a short and accessible German-language talk about the BRI in Afghanistan. From noon CET, anyone interested can listen to the 20-minute presentation and ask questions afterwards.
Shifting Tracks: Life After the BRI Railway Project in Mombasa, Kenya
In 2017, Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) – a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – was unveiled as a symbol of national progress. How has this affected the lives of ordinary people in Mombasa?
AGYA Annual Conference 2025
Our co-speaker Claudia Derichs will participate in the panel discussion ‘Connectivity in Science: Arab-German Research Cooperation’, which forms part of the public programme at the annual conference of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
New Publication: Pamiri Lifeworlds
We’re proud to announce that Fiona Katherine Naeem has now published her PhD dissertation “Pamiri Lifeworlds: Narratives of Rupture in Gorno-Badakhshon Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan”.
Upcoming Film Screenings: New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics
John Njenga Karugia‘s documentary film is currently screening at various locations in Germany and Austria.
New Article: Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China’s BRI and the EU’s Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe
Does China’s growing role in Eastern Europe challenge the EU’s approach to promoting development in the region? Tanja Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu & Valentin Krüsmann explore this question in their open-access article.