Review on Past Events

On 9 March 2021, the fourth event in the framework of the “Racism in Academia” series took place.

Election of new members in the Executive Committee

Round table discussion with Senayon Olaoluwa (University of Ibadan), Maria Martin ( University of California), and Victor Araujo (University of Zurich) moderated by Abena Yalley (Zukunftskolleg).

The goal of this seminar is to give an overview of the German academic system as well as to provide you with the most important information on academic careers in Germany.

The meeting of the recruitment committee took place on the 28th January 2021.

Hybrid/Digital Jour Fixe presentation of the 2019 CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) group on 26 January 2021.

Online information session for the ZUKOnnect Call 2021 on 20 January 2021.

Movie event in the framework of the "Racism in Academina" event series.

Hybrid/Digital Jour Fixe open discussion on "Sustainability" on 12 January 2021.

The Executive Committee Meeting took place on 12 January 2021.

Hari Sridhar presented the talk: Reading between the lines of a scientific paper

This special issue took place in the context of the #4GenderStudies Science Day which started in 2017 with the intention to show Gender Studies in all their diversity and to portray their scientific contribution.

Digital Filmfestival presents the documentary "Our Dance Revolution" on 17 December 2020.

Digital Jour Fixe presentation by Hari Sridhar (Writer in Residence) on 15 December 2020.

On 8th December the Executive Committee Meeting took place.

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 3 December 2020 Birger Kollmeier talked about that the hearing impairment is the most frequent chronic neurosensory disease; it often leads to social isolation.

On 2 December 2020 this new event series launched and is part of our commitment to address institutional racism in our place of work, in research and teaching, in academia.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Abena Yalley on 1 December 2020.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Armin Bahl on 24 November 2020.

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 19 November 2020 Arunima Bhattacharya talked about the aim to read two contemporary novels and analyse them in relation to the official anthropological documentation and interpretation of the complex socio-ecology aspects.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Sidney Carls-Diamante on 17 November 2020.

Filmvorstellung: Der zweite Anschlag: Rassistische Gewalt in Deutschland. Eine Anklage der Betroffenen

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Jacob Bloomfield on 10 November 2020.

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 5 November 2020 Chrissy Kolaya shared excerpts from her novel Charmed Particles and discussed the research she conducted in preparation for writing it.

• Welcome to the winter semester 2020/21
• Short introduction of Writer in Residence Hari Sridhar
• Short introduction of ZUKOnnect Fellows
• Short introduction of “Antiracism” event series
• Safety instructions
• Funding programmes presentation (esp. Senior Fellowship Programme – new call, deadline: 15.12.)
• EC elections

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 22 October 2020 Merja Polvinen talked about: How do readers imagine the places and spaces of fiction?

The multifaceted online festival took place as part of the international postcolonialism project "Everything passes except the past".

Besides a lecture by Bénédicte Savoy, activists, artists, experts, curators and scholars from Africa, Latin America and Europe discussed the sensitive field of (neo-)colonial entanglements from a discursive and artistic perspective. The contributions illuminated the challenge of decolonizing ethnological museum collections, public space and film archives and…

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