ACTIVITIES

Here you find information about recent and upcoming events that we organise or recommend, reports about fieldtrips and research activities, and teaching related news and suggestions. We also use this blog to highlight activities within our research networks and to share our current inspirations.

Activities, Latest Publications

New publication: Mediating Infrastructural Discipline: Established Practices and Changing Structures of Dar es Salaam’s Transport Sector

The article discusses the interplay of urban transport infrastructures and their need to and of discipline. Drawing on participatory observation, ride-alongs, and interviews, it elaborates the case of BRT introduction in Dar es Salaam and illustrates how various humans and nonhumans needed to be disciplined...

Events, Activities

Catching energy? Insights from a workshop on hacking the city by means of design interventions

Rupert Neuhöfer participated in the interdisciplinary Autumn School “Frictioned Functionality. Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter” in October 2022. The Autumn School was organized by the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” based at HU Berlin. Established in 2019, the Cluster of Excellence convenes researchers from over 40 disciplines who pursue...

Events, Presentations, Activities

International Guest Lecture by Sandra F. Joireman (29th November 12:00 c.t. -14:00)

“Return: Going home after fleeing violent conflict” During this Lunch Talk Sandra Joireman, Weinstein Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond, VA, USA will present her new book on return migration after violent conflict. About the book: Using...

Field, Activities

Malve Jacobsen conducted empirical research for her project “Urban air in crisis”

In October 2022, Malve Jacobsen went to Paris – a European metropolitan area with high air pollution, on the one hand, and various initiatives to combat air pollution, on the other hand. Within the framework of her research project on urban air technologies and breathability, she conducted...

Events, Activities

Sandra Petermann receives The Grand Princely Order of the Pink Flamingo from the Principality of Aigues-Mortes

As part of her research project on micronations, Sandra Petermann went to Camarque, more precisely to the Principauté d’Aigues-Mortes, at the end of September. The micronation was founded in 2011 to strengthen the local economy and community and is based on human rights values like gender and race...

Field, Presentations, Activities

Lecture and Prix Molière at the 3e Sommet de la MicroFrancophonie in Blaye

At the end of August, the 3rd summit of the MicroFrancophonie took place from 26 to 28 August 2022 on the French Atlantic coast in the Principauté d’Hélianthis, situated in Blaye (see here for more information on the event). On the one hand, this meeting serves to deepen the acquaintance and exchange between...

Catching energy? Insights from a workshop on hacking the city by means of design interventions

New publication: Mediating Infrastructural Discipline: Established Practices and Changing Structures of Dar es Salaam’s Transport Sector

International Guest Lecture by Sandra F. Joireman (29th November 12:00 c.t. -14:00)

Malve Jacobsen conducted empirical research for her project “Urban air in crisis”

Sandra Petermann receives The Grand Princely Order of the Pink Flamingo from the Principality of Aigues-Mortes

Lecture and Prix Molière at the 3e Sommet de la MicroFrancophonie in Blaye

Bayreuth und Fränkische Schweiz B (Oktober 2022)

Bayreuth und Fränkische Schweiz A (August 2022)

Research Group Members participating in the Annual Meeting of British Geographers in Newcastle

Urbane Natur: Geländetage in Berlin (Juli 2022)

Guest Lecture by Frank Edward (UDSM)

„Ab in den Süden“: Exkursion in Südfrankreich (April 2022)

Geländetage im Rhein-Main Gebiet zum Urbanen Fahrradfahren

Bonn – ehemalige Hauptstadt, UN-Stadt, Postkoloniale Stadt

Joint research and teaching with colleagues from the State University of Zanzibar

Anchoring Indian Ocean Studies at JGU Mainz

Disaster communication beyond the state?

Das tansanische Reisfeld als lebendes Labor?

New Book Publication: Cargoes in Motion

Film Screening at Geography Department on 09 June 2022: “Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin”

Counter-Geographies of Extinction

Tansania notes from the field #2

Unruly Sites? Exploring the Brachen of Berlin – A Workshop by the Research Group of Environmental Anthropology

Tansania notes from the field #1

Starting fieldwork in India: First impressions and more

VR-glasses available for student research projects in the GeoPool

LK Arava