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Mar282023

Apply now: New English-language M.A. programme ‘African Studies: Critical Perspectives on Society, Politics and Culture’ at the University of Bayreuth

NewsBy Infraglob March 28, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that our new English-language Master of Arts programme in “African Studies: Critical Perspectives on Society, Politics and Culture” has officially launched. It will be starting in winter semester 2023/24 and is now accepting applications for admission from March 15 until July 15! Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair in Epistemologies of…

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Mar232023

INFRAGLOB at the ‘African Futures’ European Conference on African Studies in Cologne

NewsBy Infraglob March 23, 2023

Copyright featured image: https://ecasconference.org/2023/ As time flies and the European Conference on African Studies ‘African Futures’ draws closer, we would like to share with you a preview of the participation of the INFRAGLOB in this year’s conference that takes place between the 31st of May and 3rd of June and is hosted by the University…

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Feb282023

Preview: Book Africa’s Global Infrastructures. South-South Transformations in Practice – Coming soon!

Blog, NewsBy Infraglob February 28, 2023

As you might already know, our project is working on 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 ‘development’…

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Feb282023

Call for Papers for the next EISA Conference on “Transnational Professionals within and beyond ‘the West’: Reshaping Global Governance?”

NewsBy Infraglob February 28, 2023

We are happy to share this call for papers with you! Dear colleagues, We are co-organizing a panel or two on Transnational Professionals within and beyond ‘the West’: Reshaping Global Governance? (abstract below) for the European International Studies Association conference 5-9 September 2023 in Postdam. Please send us and our co-convener Nina Reiners (University of…

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Jan162023

INFRAGLOB at the EISA PEC 2022 in Athens

Events, NewsBy Infraglob January 16, 2023

Copyright of the photos: European International Studies Association We would like to look back with you at the 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations and the contributions of INFRAGLOB members to the conference. The conference titled ‘Pandaemonium: Interrogating the Apocalyptic Imaginaires of Our Time’ was held in Athens from 1st to 4th September last year.…

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Jan162023

Throwback to the Bayreuth International Summer School in African Studies co-organized by INFRAGLOB!

Events, NewsBy Infraglob January 16, 2023

In the past summer, INFRAGLOB team members Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke and Dr. Raoul Bunskoek co-organized the African Studies courses of the Bayreuth International Summer School 2022. This edition featured courses on Africa-Asia relations which they approached from two different angles to show the depth and complexity of the relationship but also its global implications…

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Jan162023

Public Talk by Dr. Nina Reiners on ‘Human Rights Elites: The United Nations, Independent Experts, and the (un)making of Inequalities’

Events, NewsBy Infraglob January 16, 2023

We are happy to announce that we will host Dr. Nina Reiners, political scientist at the Free University Berlin and the Graduate Institute of Geneva at the University of Bayreuth this week! You are warmly invited to join her talk ‘Human Rights Elites: The United Nations, Independent Experts, and the (un)making of Inequalities’, held online…

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Jan22023

Digital talk on ‘Ubuntu, Tianxia, and the Rights of Nature’ by Dr. Raoul Bunskoek

NewsBy Infraglob January 2, 2023

We are happy to announce that on 06.01.2023, INFRAGLOB team member Raoul Bunskoek will give a digital talk on ‘Ubuntu, Tianxia, and the Rights of Nature’ at the workshop, ‘Post-Western IR Revisited: Relational Autocracy & Foreign Policy’, to be held at National Taiwan University.

Dec132022

Talk by Professor Chih-yu Shih on “Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities”

Blog, NewsBy Infraglob December 13, 2022

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…

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Dec132022

Call for papers – ECAS 2023 “Is the developmental state back? How post-neoliberal extractivism reshapes social contracts in Africa”

NewsBy Infraglob December 13, 2022

We are hosting a panel at the upcoming European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) “African Futures” at Cologne, 31 May-3 June 2023. Looking forward to your submissions! “Is the developmental state back? How post-neoliberal extractivism reshapes social contracts in Africa.” African governments have turned towards post-neoliberal policies of natural resource governance lately. The panel critically…

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