Team

In its second funding phase, the collaborative project ‘Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict’ is responding to the changing global context and academic requirements.

The Arnold Bergstraesser Institute is seeking to fill the position of a Post-Doc Researcher (TVL 13/75%) with regional focus on Sout(East) Asia, starting April 1.

Since 2022 the ABI hosts part of the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict network. Now, the team has been granted a second phase and will continue their work until 2028.

The ABI welcomes two new ALMA fellows, Onike Shorunkeh-Sawyerr and Sophia Gessner.

The PolMig project team is feeling invigorated following the first annual advisory board meeting. It was dedicated to questions of research ethics in preparation for the first fieldwork phase.

Report on the concluding conference of the first phase of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network (2022-2026) in collaboration with Maria Sibylla Merian Centres for Advanced Studies.

ABI expands its executive team – the ABI e.V. Executive Board appointed Dr Franzisca Zanker as Deputy Director.

Udi Raz came to Freiburg for an equity and diversity workshop organised by the Emmy Noether Group ‘The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the MENA Region’.

Starting in the winter semester 2025/26, Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler will take over as head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg.

Franzisca Zanker moderated a panel discussion with prominent guests. The focus was on the African diaspora in Freiburg and Germany.