The first BIGSAS Colloquium of this year will happen today, Thursday, 30 January 2025 between 16:00 and 16:45 (There will be a mentor lecture right afterwards!) in the Knowledge Lab of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in S58, RWI as well as online via Zoom. One Junior Fellow will give insights in his research project: Augustine Gyan – “From ‘Cash-Cow’…
Biruk Terrefe, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bayreuth and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre took part in the “Rural Futures in Eastern Africa” workshop on 29th of January 2025. Abstract: The uncertainties of rural life in Eastern Africa’s underdeveloped arid and semi-arid districts have always presented challenges for…
22 January 2025 | 18:00-19:30 CET | H27, GWII, University of Bayreuth & Livestream We kindly invite you to the upcoming lecture by Prof. John Heathershaw (University of Exeter), held at the University of Bayreuth and accessible via livestream (link below). The event is hosted by Prof. Jana Hönke (University of Bayreuth) and co-organized by…
The Infraglob team is thrilled to share that the book Africa’s Global Infrastructure is now available in open access! This volume, co-edited by Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, and Yifan Yang, is the culmination of collaborative research conducted within our project. As a truly global endeavor, it brings together the perspectives and contributions of authors from…
Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke and Dr. Raoul Bunskoek participated in the panel “Global South Internationalism” at the First CGSS Forum, held at Tongji University, Shanghai, on December 14-15, 2024. Organized by the Global South Research Center (CGSS), the forum brought together scholars to discuss diverse perspectives on international relations. Dr. Hönke and Dr. Bunskoek presented…
The Infraglob team is delighted to announce the release of the book Africa’s Global Infrastructure. Resulting from research conducted within the project, this volume is co-edited by Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, and Yifan Yang. However, the book itself is a global project. We thank our authors –from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe—for beautiful chapters,…
As you might already know, our project is working on an edited volume together with our great contributors. Now that our book has a title and a contract, we are thrilled to share with you a first preview! In the post-2000s, Africa has witnessed a radical diversification away from primarily Western-centric funding and frameworks of…
We were very happy to welcome Professor Chih-yu Shih from the Department of Political Science at the National Taiwan University at the University of Bayreuth some weeks ago where he gave a public talk titled “Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities”. In the following, we would like to…
We are very happy to announce the publication of the article “The South-South investment that never happened: Vale in Guinea” by Eric Cezne and Mathias Alencastro in The Extractive Industries and Society. In this article, the authors approach the (failed) extractive ambitions by the Brazilian mining giant Vale in Guinea. Thus, they provide clues on the…
