May 15, 2023
On May 04th, students of the seminars “Decolonising Research Collaborations” (MA, led by Everjoy Chiimba and Julia Verne) and “Postkoloniale Geographien” (BSc, led by Malve Jacobsen) […]
December 9, 2022
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” […]
October 18, 2022
“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 […]
November 17, 2022
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 […]
September 22, 2022
In late August, some members of our research group travelled to Newcastle (UK) to participate in this years’ Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society […]
July 19, 2022
On June 23rd 2022 we were able to welcome Frank Edward from the History Department of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to our Lecture Series.
May 17, 2022
As part of the partnership on “Appraising risk, past and present” , the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University hosted an online conference from the […]
June 20, 2022
The Brachen of Berlin are unique. Emerging from war-time destruction, economic malaise, and geo-political division, these ostensibly empty sites evolved into laboratories for botanists, artists, and […]
June 13, 2022
While abstract numbers and lists with latin species names dominate science communication around extinction, what it means for species and their place-specific ways of life to […]