Past Events / Dates

Der Vortrag skizziert die Entwicklung der "Kolonialwissenschaften", die seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts einen wichtigen Zweig der Hochschulausbildung im Frankreich der Dritten Republik darstellten.  Mit der "Ecole coloniale" wie auch den kolonialwissenschaftlichen Bildungszweigen der Universitäten und Hochschulen sollte einerseits die Grundbildung der Kolonialbeamten sichergestellt werden und andererseits auch auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene eine Legitimation für Frankreichs koloniale Ausdehnung geliefert werden. Der Vortrag präsentiert eine Reihe von Initiativen und Forschungen, die sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten mit diesem "kolonialen Erbe" des französischen Hochschulssystems befassten, und diskutiert die Schwierigkeiten, welche die Aufarbeitung dieses Kapitels der französischen Bildungsgeschichte noch heute bereitet.

Salomé Deboos is an anthropologist who works on belonging and identities in the Himalayan region of Zanskar. She will speak at the ALMA Research Series, Freiburg's interdisciplinary colloquium on social transformations in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Khangelani Moyo is currently a Fellow at ACT Freiburg and will hold a lecture as part of the ALMA Research Series, Feiburg's interdisciplinary colloquium on social transformations in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Not least since the European “refugee crisis” in 2015, there has been a lot of focus in newspapers and discussions on African migration to Europe, the live of African migrants in Europe and to some extent their journeys coming here. The understanding of African migration is overtly simplified, stripped from all nuances and near-exclusively put into a negative light. In this roundtable discussion, three African scholars will discuss their work in migration research, their positionality, contemporary debates in academia and society as well as what a more nuanced understanding of African migration could mean for a better relationship between the two continents.

This nine-part online lecture series discusses securitization, perceptions on migration and new research agendas that decentralize the European perspectives when it comes to Afro-European Relations in Migration Governance. It brings together African, European, Anglo- and Francophone academics and activists.

“Why are we allowing these people from shit-hole countries come here?” (D.J. Trump, 45^th President of the United States of America).

Anti-Black sentiments have always been part of the linguistics map of the Americas for over 600 years. In the lecture, Onookome Okome will briefly investigate the cultural history of this linguistic violence. To do this, he will also draw on the works of three major European authors, which will allow him to show patterns in the use of linguistic violence against black bodies in historical and political perspective.

Within the first AMMODI Key Note Address, the Kenyan writer and researcher Nanjala Nyabola will talk about "African Migration, Mobility, and Displacement".

Orientalist Leila Samadi Rendy will present her paper on space and gender in the novels of Iranian women in the 21st century. The case study of her research includes the most significant novels of Iranian female writers of the 21st century, which have rarely been studied theoretically.

The ALMA Research Series is Freiburg’s interdisciplinary colloquium on social transformations in Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. The lectures take place four times during term in digital space.

In the context of rising authoritarianism, this Seminar asks how we understand the broader forces of capitalism within different cities in the South and the North? What are the relations between more general crises of democracy, the rise of authoritarianism and a new right, renewed austerity policies, and the production of urban space?

As part of the ALMA Research Series digital in the winter semester Sheila Fernández Miguez (law) presents her paper "Law on Domestic Violence and Mapuche Justice. An analysis from decolonial feminism", Rosa Lehmann (political science) will discuss it.