GSSC Seminar Series: Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?
GSSC Seminar Series 15 August 2023 Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities? Michael Kleinod, Freya Purzer, Julia Rongen (Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne) 12:00-13:00 The public discussion about the restriction of freedom of speech under the banner of the so-called “Cancel Culture” is increasingly manifesting […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Taming the Residual – Animals, Workers, and Cities in India
Taming the Residual: Animals, Workers, and Cities in India Ajay Gandhi (Leiden University) Abstract: This Public Lecture draws from a book manuscript on Old Delhi, male workers and residents there, and the urban condition in north India. A work of anthropology, it theorizes the wider state of postcolonial modernity. To do so, the lecture develops […]
Workshop: Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment 3 – 4 July 2023 Workshop of the EASA Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA), EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) Capitalism has produced ongoing environmental crises. Degradation, mass extinction, and violent conflict about resources dominate the relations between ecology, communities, and economy. While the signs of environmental collapse appear as […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms
Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms Alexandra Coţofană (Zayed University, UAE) Abstract: The keynote presentation uses several years of research in Romania to address questions at the intersection of fascism and economy. In Romania, entire segments of the population understand the landscape as sentient and accept narratives in which the landscape acts […]
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Kate Rigby one of the co-editors of a recently published book entitled “Religion, Materialism and Ecology” that is part of the Routledge “Environmental Humanities” book series that covers anything “from microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends”. Description This timely […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the EarthGSSC Seminar Series:
GSSC Seminar Series 6 June 2023 Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the Earth Jonathan DeVore 12:00-13:00 This paper conceptualizes the misrecognition involved in claims about mastery over human and other nature in the Anthropocene, drawing comparative insight from one of […]
ECAS 9 (European Conference of African Studies) “African Futures”
As member of the AEGIS network, the GSSC organized the “African Futures” Conference, which explored the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. 1900 delegates from 80 countries came together in Cologne addressing the theme by presenting 1400 papers across 245 panels/roundtables. Because the GSSC cooperated with the city of Cologne as well as […]
CRC-TRR 228 “Future Rural Africa’s” Exhibition aboard the “MS Wissenschaft”
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Future Rural Africa” is one of several exhibitors on the “MS Wissenschaft”, a floating science centre on a former transportation ship measuring over a hundred meters in length, with interactive exhibits on socially relevant topics. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with various partner institutions including […]
B/OR/DER ST/OR/IES Exhibition at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne
B/OR/DER ST/OR/IES consists of an exhibition and a homepage. The exhibition intervention will take place from 25 May to 25 August 2023 in the permanent exhibition of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. Five stations inform about different aspects such as colonialism, the closed-door policy of Europe, discrimination – but also about criticism of borders and resistance […]
Publication: Dancing Youth – Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam by Sandra Kurfürst
Dancing Youth – Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam by Sandra Kurfürst In her book, “Dancing Youth – Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist VIetnam”, “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Sandra Kurfürst examines Hip Hop and gender in late socialist Hanoi: Breaking, popping, locking, waacking, and hip-hop dance are practiced […]
