WONAGO Activities in Hamburg

In the following you can find out more about events organised by the WONAGO Team since summer 2021. All events are directly linked to our WONAGO fellows and guests who participated in guest lectures, workshops and conferences.

UPCOMING EVENTS

2025

• 23 June 2025, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (CET), Online
  WONAGO Lecturies Series
  Prof. Dr. Daniel F. Wajner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Title: "Towards a Populist International Order? Patterns, Effects, and Prospects of Global Populism"
  More information on this event and registration for online event is available here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/wonago-lecture-series
  
  

PAST EVENTS

2025

• 6 May 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (CET), Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg, room: Hörsaal C - Hybrid Event
  WONAGO Lecturies Series
  Dr. Eric Lob (Florida International University)
  Title: "Iran-Venezuela Relations: Presidents, Postures, and Pressures"
  
  
• 7 April 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (CET), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, room: ESA W 221
  WONAGO Lecturies Series:
  Dr. Happymon Jacob (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Title: "From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment: Arguments About India’s Evolving Foreign Policy"
  

2024

• 18 July 2024, (CET), Universität Hamburg, Philosophenturm, Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg, room C1004
  Workshop - organised by Dr Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (WONAGO Project, UHH) and Dr Thiago Prates (WONAGO Project, UHH)
  Title: "América Latina: cultura, política y relaciones exteriores durante la Guerra Fría"

• 19 June 2024, 18:30-20:00 (CET), Universität Hamburg, room Hörsaal G, Philturm, Von-Melle-Park 6, Hamburg
  Talk - organised by ASTa (UHH) 
  Dr. Thiago Prates (WONAGO Project, UHH) and Javier Sadarangani (PhD Candidate, UHH)
  Title: "Rechtsruck in Lateinamerika / Far-Rights in Latin America"

• 13 June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CET), Universität Hamburg, room Hörsaal M, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hamburg
  Talk - organised by Dr. Julian zur Lage (UHH) and Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer (UHH) in collaboration with research centre "Hamburg's (post)colonial Legacy"
  Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (WONAGO Project, UHH)
  Title: "Koloniale Fotografien: Vom kulturellen Genozid zur digitalen Restitution"

• 7 May 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CET), Universität Hamburg, room Hörsaal M, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hamburg
  Talk - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH) and Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer (UHH) in collaboration with research centre "Hamburg's (post)colonial Legacy"
  Naita Hishoono (Namibian Institute for Democracy, Windhoek)
  Title: "Namibia-Deutschland – wer erinnert wie an den deutschen Kolonialismus?"

• 25 April 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CET), Universität Hamburg, room Hörsaal M, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hamburg
  Book launch - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH) and Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer (UHH) in collaboration with research centre "Hamburg's (post)colonial Legacy"
  Dr. Reginald Elias Kirey (University of Dar es Salaam)
  Title: "Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania" - CANCELLED

• 20 March 2024, 10:00-11:30 (CET), GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, room 550 - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz (GIGA and IMES Institute for Middle Eastern Studies)
  Dr. Ann-Christin Zuntz and Dr. Joe Zuntz (both at University of Edinburgh)
  Title: "Countermapping the infrastructure of displacement: Conceptualising an interactive atlas of Syrian refugees’ circulations"

2023

• 12 October 2023, 12:00-14:00 (CET), Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park (Philturm), 20146 Hamburg - Oberseminar
  Guest lecture - organised by Prof. Eckart Woertz (GIGA) and Prof. Markus Friedrich (UHH)
  Dr. Nadav Samin (Catholic University of America)
  Title: "Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia"

• 10 Juli 2023, 16:15-18:00 (CET), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (room 118), 20146 Hamburg - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH) and Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)
  Dr. Aldo Marchesi (Universidad de la República)
  Title: "América Latina en los sesentas globales: Cuándo la períferia se hizo centro?"

• 6-7 July 2023, 09:00-17:30 (CET)
  Conference (in English) with Prof. Dr. Eugenia Palieraki (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Dr. Thiago Prates (University of Hamburg), Dr. Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin), Dr. Matías Marambio (Alberto Hurtado University), Prof. Dr. Fernando Camacho Padilla (Autonomous University of Madrid), Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (University of Hamburg), Dr. Khalil Dahbi (German Institute for Global and Area Studies), Dr. Francesco Saverio Leopardi (University of Padua), Prof. Dr. Eliana Lacombe (National University of Córdoba, Argentina), Dr. Montassir Sakhi (KU Leuven), Prof. Dr. Aldo Marchesi (University of the Republic, Colombia), Prof. Dr. Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos (Federal University of Sao Paulo).

Title: "Radical Lefts of the South: Cross-Regional Dialogues and Research Trends in the MENA and Latin America"

Organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH), Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH) and Dr. Khalil Dahbi (GIGA) 

• 26 Juni 2023, 17:15-19:00 (CET), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (room 118), Hamburg - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH)
  Prof. Dr. Fabio Luis dos Santos Barbosas (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
  Title: "Radical Rights in the Global South: Comparisons"

• 7 June 2023, 11:00-17:30 (CET), Collaboration with research centre "Hamburg's (post)colonial Legacy", Rothenbaumchaussee 35, 20148 Hamburg - Hybrid event 
  Workshop (in English) with Prof. Dr. Heike Becker (University of the Western Cape), Dr. Nicola Brandt (WIndhoek, Namibia), Isabel Eiser, MA (UHH), Dr. John Nakuta (University of Namibia), Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH), Dr. Artwell Nhemachena (University of Namibia), Dr. Christoph Rippe (Stuttgart, Germany), Dr. Napandulwe Shiweda (University of Namibia), Dr. Florian Wagner (Erfurt University).

Title: "Decolonising Africa in German Research - Changing Narratives from the Global South"

Organised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer (UHH) and Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH) 

• 24 May 2023, 17:00-18:30 (CET), GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, room 550 - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough (GIGA)
  Prof. Dr. Jaap de Wilde (University of Groningen) and Dr. Benjamin Herborth (University of Groningen)
  Title: "Counternarratives, Opposition, and the Politics of Global Order"

• 5 May 2023, 15:00-17:00 (CET), GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, room 550 - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough (GIGA)
  Dr. Jagannath Panda (Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA))
  Title: "India and the Indo-Pacific: Between Thucydides and Kindleberger Trap"

• 2 May 2023, 10:00-12:00 (CET), MARKK, Rothenbaumchaussee 38, 20148 Hamburg
  Workshop on colonial photography - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH) 
  Participants: Dr. Sandrine Colard (Rutgers University Newark), Dr. Catharina Winzer (MARKK), Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH) and Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH) 

• 17 April 2023, 17:00-18:15 (CET), GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, room 550 - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Alex Waterman (GIGA)
  Prof. Dr. Francisco Guetiérrez-Sanín (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Title: "Rebellion at the Agrarian Frontier: Peasant Political Sociability, Globalism and the Colombian State"

• 22 March 2023, 10:00-11:30 (CET), Research Centre "Hamburg's (post)colonial Legacy, Rothenbaumchaussee 35, 20148 Hamburg
  Workshop - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH)
  Dr. Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town)

• 14 March 2023, 16:15-18:00 (CET), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA W 221, Flügel West, 20146 Hamburg - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Khalil Dhabi (GIGA)
  Dr. Montassir Sakhi (KU Leuven)
  Title: "Jihad and Revolution in Syria: Political and Scientific Narratives and Counter-narratives"

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

• 18 January 2023, 17:00-18:30 (CET, Berlin), Research Centre "Hamburg´s (post)colonial Legacy, Rothenbaumchaussee 35, 20148 Hamburg - Hybrid event 
  Guest lecture- organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH)
  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 - organised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mücke (UHH) 
  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 - organised by Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)
  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 - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH)
  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
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH) 
  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, 10:00-12:00 (CET, Berlin), Von-Melle-Park 8, Room 209, Hamburg (Faculty of Education) - Hybrid event
  Guest lecture - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH)
  Prof. Dr. Heike Becker (University of the Western Cape)
  Title: "Falling Monuments, Rising Memories: The Politics and Aesthetics of Postcolonial Memory Cultures and Urbanscape in Southern Africa"

• 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 and Santiago Roncagliolo
  >> 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
  Organised by Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough (GIGA)
  More information

• 12 May 2022, 18:30-20:00 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg - Hybrid event
  Guest Lecture - organised by Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)
  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) - organised by Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)

• 13 April 2022, 18:00-19:30 (CET, Berlin), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westen , Room 221 (ESA W 221), Hamburg - Hybrid event
  Guest Lecture - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH)
  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 - organised by Dr. Thiago Prates (UHH) - with Dr. Matthew Rothwell (Independent Scholar)

• 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET) - online event
  Guest Lecture - organised by Dr. Alex Waterman (GIGA)
  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) 
  Workshop at GIGA with Dr. Ryan O´Connor (Birmingham City School of Social Sciences) & Dr. Yuri van Hoef (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - organised by Dr. Alex Waterman (GIGA)
  
  
• 14 February 2022, 17:00-18:30 (CET) - online event
  Guest Lecture - organised by Dr. Khalil Dahbi (GIGA) 
  Dr. Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin)
  Title: "The Unfinished Project: Reconstituting Omar Benjelloun's Legacy Between Martyrdom and the Social Revolution"
  
  
• 16 February 2022, 17:00-18:30 (CET) - online event
  Workshop - organised by Dr. Khalil Dahbi (GIGA)
  Dr. Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin)
  Title: "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) - online event
  Workshop - organised by Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough (GIGA)
  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) - online event
  Guest Lecture at GIGA - organised by Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough (GIGA)
  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)
  Workshop at UHH with Dr. Vineet Thakur (Leiden University) - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann (UHH)
  • 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) - online event
  Guest Lecture - organised by Dr. Diana M. Natermann (UHH)
  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)
  Workshop - organised by Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)
  Dr. Eugenia Palieraki (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

• 03. November 2021, 17:45-19:15 (CET)
  Guest Lecture organised by Dr.  Natália Ayo Schmiedecke (UHH)
  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"

• 22. October 2021, 13:00-15:00 (CET) - online event
  WONAGO Workshop on "Poverty Narratives and Weaponized Interdependencies"

• 12. October 2021
  Visit to Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
  Meeting with curator and photography specialist Caroline Bräuer - organised by Dr. Diana Miryong Natermann
  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 20^th 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) - online event
  WONAGO Workshop about Narratives in Political Science

• 09. August 2021, 13:00-15:00 (CET) - online event
  WONAGO Workshop about Narratives in Literature

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