Current news and events

Viviana García Pinzón receives Christiane Rajewsky Prize

We congratulate Viviana García Pinzón on receiving the Christiane Rajewsky Prize for her dissertation.

12. April 2023

During the Easter weekend, Chad expelled Germany's ambassador. Our colleague Helga Dickow was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on this matter.

11. April 2023

Human remains were returned from the Alexander Ecker Collection of the University of Freiburg and from the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart.

6. April 2023

We were happy to welcome Rita Aduako Agyen Takyi, Head of the International Relations Department of the City of Accra in Ghana, to the ABI.

28. March 2023

Guy Eyre reviews a work that seeks to explain the evolution of clandestine Islamism from an anti-system praxis to loyalist and legalist Islamism.

17. March 2023

In his new book, Jan Völkel examines how knowledge about the MENA region and Europe is produced at higher education institutions.

16. March 2023

A workshop in Ghana that aims to critically reflect on the research topics, categories, theories and methodologies of Africanist migration research.

15. March 2023

"What holds Chadian society together?", asks Helga Dickow in The Conversation.

20. February 2023

The research project "Promises of democratic connection? The Politics of Transregional Energy Infrastructure Expansion" now has its own website.

14. February 2023

Eyre takes up postdoc position (2022-25) in the Sectarianism, Proxies, and De-Sectarianisation (SEPAD) project.

3. February 2023