The De:link // Re:link podcast explores local insights and new knowledges. We invite intellectuals from different backgrounds to engage them in conversations about new spatial configurations and local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects. For this episode, we invited Kenyan author and public intellectual Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor to talk about knowledge production, China’s presence in Africa, Europe’s […]
The second lecture in the Silk Road Lecture series will be held by Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo and explores the subject of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa–China–Europe relations. Adams Bodomo is Professor of African Studies (Chair of African Linguistics and Literatures) at the University of Vienna with the following research expertise: – African
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The first lecture in the Silk Road Talks series will be held by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zaman and examines the Belt and Road Initiative, the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and road safety in Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zaman is a sociologist at the Department of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. He earned his PhD from the University
From the German point of view, India has been a distant but important point of reference, a place of longing, since the beginning of the 19th century. Ethnological collections in German museums, with their enormous holdings on South and South-East Asia, reflect this interest in Indian culture. The aim of scientifically recording it, explaining it and making it
A Reading on Chinese–Zambian Relations with Mukuka Chipanta, Author of A Casualty of Power (2016). The collaborative research project “De:link // Re:link: Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), cordially invites you to an online reading from A Casuality of Power (2016) by and with Zambian
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During its three-year funding phase (2021–2024), the network project De:link//Re:link will investigate new spatial configurations and local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative initiated by China in 2013. “Link” indicates the network’s focus on local insights and new knowledges. In this context, the consortium will examine the dynamics of
