Past Events

31. January 2019

AFRASO Lecture-Series - Afrasian Futures. Emma Mawdsley: South-South Cooperation and Africa-Asia Relations in the Decade Ahead: The Challenges of Success

6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt

25. October 2018

AFRASO Lecture by Gerard Toal: "Theorizing Geopolitics Amidst Intense Spatial Crises"

Room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt

25. October 2018 to 31. January 2019

AFRASO Lecture Series "Afrasian Futures"

Goethe University, Campius Westend, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt, IG 411

21. June 2018

AFRASO Lecture by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018): "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 0.107

24. May 2018

AFRASO Lecture by Pádraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin): "Theorising and Researching South Space"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 0.107

24. May 2018 to 26. May 2018

Workshop: Embracing Messy Methods: Digital, Mobile and International Research Practices

Goethe University Frankfurt

16. April 2018

Interview “Even the dead have human rights”: A conversation with Homi K. Bhabha just published

24. January 2018

AFRASO Lecture by Sabine Burghart (University of Turku): "South Korea’s Foreign Aid: An East Asian Exception?"

Campus Bockenheim, Hörsaaltrakt H 10 (Gräfstr. 50)

18. January 2018

AFRASO Lecture by Seifudein Adem (AFRASO Fellow 2017): "Japan and China in Africa: Allies, Partners, or Adversaries?"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus SH 2.108

14. December 2017

AFRASO Lecture by Prof. Amirbahram Arabahmadi (Tehran University): "Civilizational and Historical Connections Between Iran and East Africa"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 3.101, 4 pm - 6 pm

16. November 2017

AFRASO Lecture by Elsje Fourie (University of Maastricht): "Kaizen and Ethiopia: A Match Made in Developmentalist Heaven?"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 0.106, 4 pm - 6 pm

26. June 2017

AFRASO Lecture by Wegene Demisie Jima (Leather Industries Development Institute, Addis Ababa): "Kaizen in Ethiopian Industries: The Case of an Ethiopian Leather and Leather Product Manufacturing Company"

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 0.106, 4 pm - 6 pm

26. June 2017 to 27. June 2017

Workshop: Dialogues with Ethnography: The Lived Experiences of Chinese in Africa

The University of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies/Chinese Studies

14. June 2017

AFRASO Lecture by Dr. Yejoo Kim (Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University): "The Two Koreas and Africa in the 21st Century"

Goethe University, Campus Bockenheim, Juridicum 717, 16.15h

13. June 2017

AFRASO Film Screening & Lecture: by Shihan de Silva (University of London): "Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants"

Goethe University, Campus Westend, CAS 1.801, 12.15h

11. May 2017

Filmvorführung: ADDIS ABABA — CHINESE NEW FLOWER by Silvan Hagenbrock

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 1.106, 16.00 c.t.

20. January 2017

LehrerInnenfortbildung: Entwicklungs- und Globalisierungsprozesse aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven

Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, PEG-Gebäude, Raum 1.G111

15. December 2016

AFRASO Lecture by Tesfaye Tafesse (Addis Ababa University): "Migration and Employment for Sustainable Development in Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of Africa"

Goethe University, Campus Westend, Seminarhaus SH 0.105, 16.15h

01. December 2016 to 03. December 2016

Public keynote by Philipp Ruch from The Centre for Political Beauty and AFRASO Workshop "Fraud, fake and make-believe: Transregional and transdisciplinary perspectives"

Campus Westend, Casino, Renate-von-Metzler-Saal, CAS 1.801

10. November 2016

AFRASO Lecture by Corinne Kumar: "„Asking, we walk“ The South as New Political Imaginary"

Goethe University, Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, HZ 15

28. September 2016 to 30. September 2016

Conference: African-Asian Encounters III: Afrasian Transformations: Beyond Grand Narratives?

Goethe University Frankfurt

28. September 2016

Keynote Lecture by Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University), 28 September

Uni Campus Westend, Casino, Room CAS 823

06. December 2018

AFRASO Lecture-Series - Afrasian Futures: Afro-Asian Solidarities to Afrasian Spaces and Identities? Exploring the Limits of Afrasia

6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt

01. December 2016 to 03. December 2016

Workshop: Fraud, fake and make-believe Transregional and transdisciplinary perspectives

Goethe University Frankfurt

02. June 2016

AFRASO Lecture by Dr. Ross Anthony (CCS, Stellenbosch University): 'China in Africa' in the Anthropocene

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, Raum, 0.107, 4 p. m. (c.t.)

12. May 2016

AFRASO Lecture by Prof. Mala Pandurang (Dr. BMN College, Mumbai): Life narratives and the sculpting of gendered trans-regional East African Asian memories.

Campus Westend, Casino, Raum, CAS 1.811, 6 p. m. (c.t.)

21. April 2016

AFRASO-Lecture by Prof. Joseph C. Agbakoba (University of Nigeria): Asian Influence on African Agency in Relation to Development: Challenges and Possibilities

Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, room SH 2.108, 4 p.m. (c.t.)

18. April 2016

Catia Batista: "Promoting Migrant Remittances Using Mobile Money: Evidence from a Field Experiment"

Campus Westend, RuW 4.201

01. February 2016

AFRASO Lecture Series TransArea: "Modelle kultureller Übersetzung: Impulse für transregionale Forschung?" by Doris Bachmann-Medick

Cas. 1801 (Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend

20. January 2016 to 21. January 2016

Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South

Campus Westend, Cas. 823 (Festsaal)

20. January 2016

Entanglements - Envisioning World Literature from the Gloabal South: A Literary Soiree with Priya Basil, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Amanda Lee Koe and Mukoma wa Ngugi

11. January 2016

AFRASO Lecture Series TransArea: "New Spatial Formats and the Emergence of Transregional Studies" by Matthias Middell

Cas. 1801 (Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend

03. December 2015 to 05. December 2015

Geteilte Forschung Epistemologische Herausforderungen gemeinsamen Forschens in transregionalen Zusammenhängen

Goethe Universität Frankfurt

03. December 2015

AFRASO Lecture Series TransArea: "Travelling as Learning Ethnography: Provisional Thoughts on the Study of Transregional Littoral Society" by Kai Kresse

Cas. 1812, Campus Westend

16. November 2015

AFRASO Lecture Series TransArea: "TransArea Studies: Translational Transformations between Africa, Asia, America and Europe" by Ottmar Ette

Cas. 1801 (Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend

16. November 2015

Transarea: New Paradigms in Area Studies - AFRASO Lecture Series WS 2015/16

Cas. 1801 & Cas. 1812, Campus Westend

24. June 2015

AFRASO Lecture by John C. Hawley: "Moving Cultures: Going to and from Mauritius, and Staying Put"

Cas. 1.811, Campus Westend

11. June 2015

AFRASO Lecture by Daniel Large: "Norms in Development and Conflict: China’s Foreign Policy and Evolving Security Engagement in Africa"

Campus Westend, HZ 3

30. April 2015

AFRASO Lecture by Anand Singh: Positive Discrimination or Reverse Discrimination: The Politics of Post Apartheid Transformation in South Africa

Campus Westend, Casino 1.801

24. March 2015 to 26. March 2015

Conference: African-Asian Encounters (II) Re-Thinking African-Asian Relationships: Changing Realities – New Concepts

Cape Town, South Africa

06. March 2015

Lehrer_innenfortbildung: "Afrika, Asien und wir? AFRASO macht Schule!"

Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, Casino-Gebäude, Raum 1.802

13. February 2015 to 14. February 2015

Seminar: Landwirtschaft im Globalen Süden. "Land grabbing" im Konfliktfeld unterschiedlicher Vorstellungen von Entwicklung

Fridtjof-Nansen-Haus, Ingelheim

29. January 2015

AFRASO Lecture by Dr. Andreas Fuchs: "China's Development Finance to Africa"

Goethe University, Campus Westend, RuW 4.202

18. December 2014

AFRASO Lecture by Godwin Kornes: "North Korean Aesthetics as Travelling Model: Mansudae Memorial Projects in Namibia"

Campus Westend, PEG, 1.G 192

13. November 2014

AFRASO Lecture by Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran: "Language Policy and Human Development: The experience of vernacularization in Asia and Africa"

Campus Westend, PEG, 1.G 192

17. June 2014

AFRASO-Lecture by Prof. Ajay Dubey: India and its Diaspora in Africa

PEG 1.G147 (PEG Building)

05. June 2014

AFRASO Lecture: Prof. Li Anshan

Campus Westend, IG Farben Building, Room IG NG 2.701

19. May 2014

AFRASO Lecture: Dr. Renu Modi

Campus Westend, IG Farben Building, Room IG 454

15. May 2014 to 17. May 2014

AEGIS Thematic Conference “Africa in the Global South: biographies of mobility and aspirations of success”

Goethe University, Campus Westend

11. March 2014 to 13. March 2014

AFRASO International Conference

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

13. February 2014

Confucius-Institute- AFRASO-Lecture: "China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa - The Case of Education and Training”

Konfuzius-Institut Frankfurt, Dantestr. 9

30. January 2014

AFRASO-Lecture: Ian Taylor

Room IG 411, IG-Farben building, Campus Westend

16. January 2014

Confucius Institute-AFRASO Lecture: Discussing China in Tanzania's Parliament

Konfuzius-Institut, Dantestraße 9

28. November 2013

Confucius Institute-AFRASO Lecture: CCTV in Africa – How Chinese Television Reports About Africa

Konfuzius-Institut, Dantestraße 9

14. November 2013

Confucius Institute-AFRASO-Lecture: OPENING: China’s Cultural Diplomacy in Africa – Recent Developments

Aula (2. Stock), Hauptgebäude (Jügelhaus), Campus Bockenheim, Mertonstraße 17-21, 60325 Frankfurt

28. October 2013

AFRASO Lecture: Jamie Monson

PEG 1.G 135, Campus Westend

02. August 2013

AFRASO Lecture: Dr. Shigehiro Sasaki

Juridicum, Room 718

11. July 2013

AFRASO Lecture: Prof. Dr. Sayaka Funada Classen

Alter Senatssaal, Jügelhaus, Campus Bockenheim

09. July 2013

AFRASO Ringvorlesung: Neue Chancen durch neue Interaktionen?