Nessim Znaien
is Professor of Colonial/Postcolonial Maghreb at Phillips-Universität Marburg, attached to the History Department and the Centre for the Near and Middle East (CNMS). He studied history in Lyon and Paris, and Arabic, Italian and Turkish at the University of Aix-Marseille.
Martine Toppenberg Dahl
is a student assistant helping to develop the Virtual Encyclopaedia in the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in International Relations at Malmö University in Sweden.
Freiheitskämpfe, aber wo? Über Aktivismus im Lokalen und Globalen
Wann: 6.11., 18:00-20:00Wo: Deutschhausstraße 12, Raum 00A26Referenten: Armin Djamali, Tarek Shukrallah, Tareq SydiqModeration: Thorsten Bonacker Weltweit streiten Menschen für ihre Rechte, mal mit mehr und weniger Erfolg. Drei Bücher setzen sich mit diesen Kämpfen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln auseinander: In „tofan (sturm)“ (edition assemblage) gehen literarische Interventionen an die Grenzen des geschriebenen Wortes, widmen sich […]
(Dis)Arming Responsibility – An interdisciplinary workshop
Oktober 25 – 26, 2024 The workshop brings together an interdisciplinary team of European scholars, practitioners, and activists engaged in studying international arms production and transfer, with a particular focus on European arms companies. While there has been significant scholarly attention devoted to the responsibilities of states in managing the trade in arms, much less […]
Keynote Opening Panel: ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality‘
https://youtu.be/Z31ciXvLWmU?si=ZHZITKGp67ULspnQ Speakers: Emma Pritchard, University of Oxford; Alvaro Okura, State University of Londrina (UEL/Brazil); Juliana González Villamizar, Giessen University Moderated by Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg, is hosting an Opening Panel on ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality.‘ […]
Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times“
https://youtu.be/OOmTPyWU-M4?si=dloKLnU9ScWzcSYW With an introduction by Prof. Annika Oettler and Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel. Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg is hosting a Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times.“ The event is held as part of […]
Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South
Peace and Conflict Studies was broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, influencing how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in the Global North via a core-periphery relationship with the Global South, automatically rejecting alternatives like Third Worldism. This has led to the implicit strengthening of asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge about […]
TEMPORALITIES OF RUPTURE AND CONTINUITY
TEMPORALITIES OF RUPTURE AND CONTINUITY October, 16-17 2024 Marburg After exchanging and engaging with each other’s work for our 4th Think Lab held in Frankfurt, we continue to explore themes and concepts under the umbrella of PostColonial Hiearchies in Peace and Conflict. This time we will be convening to discuss a theme of temporality and […]
Roundtable “Coloniality in the City“
The edited video recording will be available in due course.
The Bodies that don’t Count: Understanding the Coloniality of Violence in our Times
In a far from perfect world full of suffering and violence, our theoretical and conceptual understandings need to be constantly reinvented, to remain both relevant and responsive to the challenges of the times. The pandemic and the last few years of unpredictability in global politics have demonstrated the inadequacies of the existing understandings of violence, […]
