We are happy to share with you that the University of Bayreuth is currently hosting the 14th edition of the European Summer School for the Anthropology of Development and Social Dynamics. From May 23rd to 26th, PhD students from eight European universities present their research projects focusing on topics related to development and social change…
DetailsWe are excited to share with you that the edited volume ‘Africa’s Global Infrastructures South–South Transformations in Practice’ is available for pre-order! Edited by INFRAGLOB researchers Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne and Yifan Mia Yang, it is part of the African Arguments series by Hurst. Click here for an exclusive preview of the book and here if…
DetailsAfter months of preparation, we are happy to announce that the international workshop ‘Development Beyond Aid – Financialization and Socio-Political Change in Africa’s Global Infrastructure’ will be held at the University of Bayreuth from 7 to 9 June. The workshop is convened by Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke on behalf of the INFRAGLOB Project together with…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsCopyright 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…
DetailsAs 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…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsCopyright 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.…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsWe 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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