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Activities

NEWS

  • We are happy to announce that the Brazilian National Association of Professors and Researchers of History of the Americas [Associação Nacional de Professores e Pesquisadores de História das Américas – ANPHLAC] granted the best dissertation award (2020-2021) in the category “History of Independent America (20th and 21st centuries)" to our colleague Dr. Thiago Prates for his work “A revisionist guerrilla: intellectuals, revisionism and politics of History in Ediciones de Crisis (Argentina, 1973-1976)”  [Uma guerrilha revisionista: intelectuais, revisionismo e políticas da História nas Ediciones de Crisis (Argentina, 1973-1976)], defended in 2021 in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). 

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UPCOMING

  • 26 January 2023, 16:15-17:45 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA, Room 118, Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Guest lecture (in Spanish)
    Dr. Tânia Garcia (São Paulo State University) 
    Title: "Políticas culturales, patrimonio y memoria en la música popular brasileña durante la dictadura militar"

  • June 2023, Research Centre "Hamburg´s (post)colonial Legacy, Rothenbaumchaussee 35, 20148 Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Workshop (in English)
    Prof. Dr. Heike Becker, Dr. Divine Fuh, Dr. Napandulwe Shiweda and others 
    Title: ""Decolonising Africa in German Research - Changing Narratives from the Global South"

  • For more details on past and upcoming events please click here.

PAST EVENTS

  • 18 January 2023, 17:00-18:30 (CET, Berlin), Research Centre "Hamburg´s (post)colonial Legacy, Rothenbaumchaussee 35, 20148 Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Guest lecture
    Dr. Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town)
    Title: "Hold Your Tongue: Towards a Comparative History of “Small Languages” in Southern Africa and South Asia, 1850s–1930s"

2022

  • 3 November 2022, 16:00-17:30 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA, Room 118, Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Guest lecture (in Spanish)
    Dr. Gabriela Pellegrino Soares (University of São Paulo) 
    Title: "José Miguel Covarrubias, México indígena en conexiones americanas del saber, de las ediciones y las artes. Ciudad de México y Nueva York, 1920-1950"

  • 21 September 2022, 16:00-17:30 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Western, Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Guest lecture
    Prof. Dr. Sergio Guerra Vilaboy (University of Havana)
    Title: "La recomposición de las relaciones internacionales de Cuba tras la caída del muro de Berlín (1989-2022)"
  • 17 August 2022, 18:15-19:45 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Western, Room 122 (ESA W 122), Hamburg - Hybrid Event
    Guest lecture
    Prof. Dr. Stella Franco (Universidade de São Paulo)
    Title: " Latin American Travels in the 19th Century: Gender, Narratives, and Projections on Europe and the United States”
  • 15 July 2022, 10:00-20:00 (CET, Berlin), Überseering 35 #5, Room 01022, Hamburg
    Gues lecture
    Prof. Dr. Celia Cussen (Universidad de Chile)
    Title: "Tracing the Global Expansion of the Catholic Devotion to Martin of Porres in the mid-Twentieth Century: A Research Proposal"
  • 29 June 2022, 10:00-20:00 (CET, Berlin), Von-Melle-Park 8, Room 209, Hamburg (Faculty of Education)
    Workshop in which Prof. Heike Becker (Head of Anthropolgy Department, University of the Western Cape) will present her research on: Falling Monuments, Rising Memories: The Politics and Aesthetics of Postcolonial Memory Cultures and Urbanscape in Southern Africa.
    The workshop is to take place from in person and hybrid form. Please register for attendance (limited spaces) or for the online link via friederike.odenwald@uni-hamburg.de
  • 22 June 2022, 18:15 -19:45 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Western, Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg 
    Roundtable dicussion 
    Title: ¿Cómo recordar el período de la violencia en el Perú (1980-2000)?
    Participants: Manuel Burga, Diana Jáuregui Jáuregui , and Santiago Roncagliolo. 
    Language: Spanish
    >> Inivitation (PDF) 
  • 13–14 June 2022 Networking event  
    “Crisis and Reordering.”
    The overall aim of this event is to bring together project leaders and participants, as well as their international partners, in the following funding lines of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF):
    - Area Studies, in which Universität Hamburg and the GIGA jointly run the WONAGO research project
    - MERIAN Centers, of which the GIGA is a member of two: MECAM in Tunisia and MIASA in Ghana
    - Käte Hamburger Kollegs
    Organisation: Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough
    Language: English 
    More information
  • 12 May 2022, 18:30-20:00 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg,
    Guest Lecture organised by Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke, the event will be held in person and hybrid 
    Dr. Fernando Camacho Padilla (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
    Title: “Narratives and testimonies of Cuban internationalists in Africa and the Middle East during the Cold War”

  • 13 May 2022, 10:00-12:00 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 121 (ESA W 121), Hamburg,
    Workshop with Dr. Fernando Camacho Padilla (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

  • 13 April 2022, 18:00-19:30 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg,
    Guest Lecture organised by Dr. Thiago Prates, the event will be held in person and hybrid
    Dr. Matthew Rothwell (Independent Scholar)
    Title: “Clandestine Transcripts of Revolutionary Globalization: The Shining Paths of Late Cultural Revolution Maoism”

    14 April 2022, 18:00-20:00 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 120 (ESA W 120), Hamburg,
    Workshop with Dr. Matthew Rothwell (Independent Scholar)

  • 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Guest Lecture at GIGA and organised by Dr. Alex Waterman, the event will be held online via ZOOM
    Dr. Ryan O´Connor (Birmingham City School of Social Sciences) & Dr. Yuri van Hoef (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Title: “Exploring Elites’ Use of Friendship Narratives through the Erdogan-Obama Relationship”

  • 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop at GIGA with Dr. Ryan O´Connor (Birmingham City School of Social Sciences) & Dr. Yuri van Hoef (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • 14 February 2022, 17:00-18:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Guest Lecture at GIGA and organised by Dr. Khalil  Dahbi, the event will be held online via ZOOM
    Dr. Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin)
    Title: "The Unfinished Project: Reconstituting Omar Benjelloun's Legacy Between Martyrdom and the Social Revolution"

  • 16 February 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop at GIGA with Dr. Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin) on the topic of: "Beyond Myths and Toward Radical histories in the Post-Colonial Maghrib: Students, Trade Unionists and Cultural Dissidents (1960s-1970s)"
  • 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop at GIGA with Dr. Jonathan Fulton (Zayed University)
    Following the previous evening's lecture, this internal WONAGO workshop was held to further discuss China and Middle East relations.
  • 20 January 2022, 18:00-19:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Guest Lecture at GIGA and organised by Dr. Mohamad Forough, the event will be held online via ZOOM
    Dr. Jonathan Fulton (Zayed University)
    Title: "China and the Middle East. Narratives of Global and Regional Order"

2021

  • 03. December 2021, 10:30-12:00 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop at UHH with Dr. Vineet Thakur (Leiden University)
    • Following the previous evening´s lecture, this internal WONAGO workshop was held to further discuss the Asia Relations Conference (1947) and how to link it to the definitions of terms like western, Global South/North, or Third World, thereby furthering the discussion from the previous workshop with Dr. Palieraki on Sauvy´s creation fo the term Third World.
  • 02. December 2021, 18:00-19:30 (CET, Berlin)
    Guest Lecture at UHH in room Hörsaal M  and organised by Dr. Diana M. Natermann, the event will be online via ZOOM
    Dr. Vineet Thakur (Leiden University)
    Title: "The very voice of international conscience: VS Srinivasa Sastri and Liberal Internationalism"

    • This second event in our guest lecture series allowed us to welcome Dr. Thakur, Assistant Professor at Leiden Universtiy,  to speak about his newest publication on VS Srinivasa Sastri as well as the creation of internationalism in connection with modern global orders.  In addition, the use of biographical writing was added to ideas of changing narratives and possibilities of decolonising postcolonial histories from a non-Western perspective.
  • 04. November 2021, 14:00-16:00 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop at UHH with Dr. Eugenia Palieraki (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
    • The day after Dr. Palieraki's guest lecture, the WONAGO team had an internal workshop with her to discuss our current research projects and plan future collaborations. Therefore, the visit resulted in valuable exchanges in learning and it constituted a successful starting point for our in-person activities. Following the same model,  Dr. Vineet Thakur, from Leiden University, will be our next guest in December.
  • 03. November 2021, 17:45-19:15 (CET, Berlin)
    Guest Lecture at UHH and organised by Dr.  Natália Ayo Schmiedecke
    Dr. Eugenia Palieraki (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
    Title: "The Birth of the ‘Third World’: Alfred Sauvy and the Rise of a Key Global Post-War Concept"

    • On this day we received our first WONAGO guest at the University of Hamburg: the Greek historian Dr. Eugenia Palieraki, Associate Professor in Latin American Studies at CY Cergy Paris University. Her research projects and publications focus on the history of revolutionary movements and the circulation of revolutionary ideas and actors between Latin America and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean during the Cold War.

      Dr. Palieraki´s public lecture was entitled “The Birth of the ‘Third World’: Alfred Sauvy and the Rise of a Key Global Post-War Concept” and held at the Asian-African Institute of the UHH. The lecturer shared her research on the intellectual trajectory of French economist and demographer Alfred Sauvy, his theoretical, political and cultural repertoire, and its importance in the making of the term “Third World”, a concept that, as pointed out by Dr. Palieraki, became global through its association with a constellation of key Cold War ideas and representations.    

  • 22. October 2021, 13:00-15:00 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop on "Poverty Narratives and Weaponized Interdependencies"
  • 12. October 2021
    Visit to Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
    Meeting with curator and photography specialist Caroline Bräuer
    Visit to exhibition "RESIST!" on different types of colonial resistance and the changing of narratives throughout global history

    • The WONAGO team traveled to Cologne to visit the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Opened to the public in 1906, the institution emerged from the private collections of scientist Wilhelm Joest and trader Eugen Rautenstrauch and was one of the biggest colonial museums in Germany in the 20th century. Its collection comprises approx. 65,000 objects from Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Americas, as well as about 100,000 historical photographs and 40,000 reference books. In the past few years this colonial legacy became an important issue that has been made visible and discussed both in the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions.

      Directly linked to this issue is the “RESIST! The Art of Resistance” exhibition that is currently taking place 1 April 2021 - 9 January 2022). It deals with different forms, instances and (hi)stories of resistance against colonialism and its current continuities. This forms of resistance comprise images, photographs, audios, musics, testimonies, and objects from historical processes ranging from the conquest of the Americas to the Black Lives Matter movement and from African anticolonial posters to the Zapatista insurrection in Mexico. It also discusses the role of historical narratives on the construction of both coloniality and its resistance. The exhibition hosts several installations and interventions from artists of the so-called Global South that are directly debating colonialism and ways to overcome it. 

    • Future collaborative possibilities between the museum and WONAGO were discussed in a meeting with Caroline Bräuer. 
  • 06. September 2021, 13:00-15:00 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop about Narratives in Political Science
  • 09. August 2021, 13:00-15:00 (CET, Berlin)
    Workshop about Narratives in Literature

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