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Upcoming Film Screenings: New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics

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From Pakistan to Duisburg, from Kenya to the tiny Greek island of Soufli and beyond: John Njenga Karugia has collected personal insights and academic perspectives on the BRI. His documentary film New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics is currently screening at various locations around Germany. The next event will take place on Thursday, 20 […]

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New Article: Land Reforms in Gilgit-Baltistan

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From Khalisa Sarkar Land to Land Reforms: Legal Liminality, State Control, and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Nadia Ali’s latest article explores how infrastructural expansion under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), alongside growing state and private interests in tourism and mineral extraction, has altered the region of Gilgit-Baltistan.  Abstract This article examines the evolution of the

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First Brown Bag Talk: Infrastruture and Sustainability at Sohar Port

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We are thrilled to announce the first in our new series of lunchtime talks: “Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Investment at Port Sohar: A BRI-Era Perspective“. Dr. Abdullah Al Abri and Dr. Dawud Ansari will discuss the interaction of infrastructure and sustainability at the Omani port and freezone, located near the Strait of Hormuz. The lecture will

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Impressions from the Long Night of the Sciences 2025

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Our stand at the 25th anniversary edition of the Long Night of the Sciences included something for all ages. Here’s a taste of what we presented at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 28 June 2025.  A map of the Belt and Road Initiative’s land and sea routes, designed by Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS), helped visitors visualise the

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Global China in/from Africa: Transforming Governance in BRI Frontier Zones

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On 22 May 2025, Jana Hönke, professor and chair for Sociology in Africa at the University of Bayreuth, gave a fascinating talk based on the edited volume Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice. The talk examined Chinese projects within the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Africa. It asked how Chinese

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Performance, Politics and Shadow Puppets: Indonesian Studies Day 2025

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As the second phase of De:link//Re:link will focus more on the implications of the BRI in Southeast Asian countries, members of our network took part in the HU’s Indonesian Studies Day on 9 May 2025. Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs, whose research focuses on Indonesia, chaired a roundtable on the subject of China, Indonesia and the

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New Phase, New Connections: Our Journey along the BRI Continues​

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Since the De:link//Re:link research consortium formed in April 2021, there have been dramatic political changes in (Eur)Asia. Among them the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan later that year, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The expansion of the BRICS group of nations added to significant shifts in international relations. These

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Infrastructures of Memory: EU-China Global Geopolitical Competition and its Effects on Africa

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Our very own PI Dr John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will give the next Silk Road Talk on 22 November from 4.15 to 5.45 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Department of Asian and African Studies at Invalidenstraße 118, Room 410. China and the European Union’s interests and competition across Africa are

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The Digital Silk Roads in Africa: How the Chinese Huawei Group is Rewriting the Future of Technologies in Senegal

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We are delighted to anounce that Dr. Ibrahima Niang (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar/ZMO, Berlin) will give the next Silk Road Talk on 25 October from 4.15 to 5.45 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Department of Asian and African Studies at Invalidenstraße 118, Room 410. The New Silk Roads celebrate their tenth

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