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.…
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…
DetailsWe 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.
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…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsWe are very happy to share with you that Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke was invited to participate in the conference ‘Die deutsch-französische Afrikapolitik im Zeichen der Zeitenwende‘/‘Franco-German Africa Policy at the Turning Point‘ on December 1 in Berlin. The event was organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Institut Français des Relations Internationales and the German Institute…
DetailsProf. Dr. Jana Hönke will speak at the International Conference 2022 of the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) on Tuesday, November 29. Her presentation will be part of the “Conflict Dynamics in Development Corridors” session within the breakout group on “Interests of International Investors in Mega Infrastructures and Conflict Dynamics”. In her talk…
DetailsWe are happy to announce that Professor Shahar Hameiri will visit the University of Bayreuth to give a public talk on his new co-authored book “Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise” (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The talk is hosted by the Infraglob project and takes place in presence 7th November 2022 at…
DetailsIn mid-July 2022 the new DFG-funded network “From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding” gathered for the first time at the TU Braunschweig. Led by PD Dr. Tobias Ide (Murdoch University, Perth), the network brings together scholars that work from multiple angles on environmental and climate conflicts. The goal is to focus on the often-neglected environmental…
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