Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and Its Diasporas
Mina Ibrahim is an anthropologist and community archivist from Cairo, Egypt, and a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany (within the Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies (MeDiMi) research group). He is also the founding director of Shubra’s Archive, Egypt’s first neighborhood community archive, and serves […]
Researching Postcolonial Hierarchies in Conflictive Times. Entanglements, Power Hierarchies and Academic Integrity in German Institutions
The research network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict will hold its first Think Lab of the second funding phase on 20 May 2026, hosted by the Centre for Conflict Studies Marburg. The second phase is dedicated to strengthening the network´s focus on global entanglements, which will also frame the discussions of the event. Titled “Researching Postcolonial […]
Extraktivismus & Widerstand in den Anden Ecuadors und darüber hinaus
Herzliche Einladung zur Ausstellung „Extraktivismus & Widerstand in den Anden Ecuadors und darüber hinaus“ in Marburg! Wir freuen uns auf alle, die am 24. April um 18 Uhr zur Eröffnung und anschließendem Austausch oder am 25. April zur offenen Ausstellung von 14-16 Uhr kommen.
Right Wing Shift in Chile
The Cluster “Contested Governance” at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) Freiburg invites you to a talk and discussion with Dr. David G. Miranda (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile), currently visiting Freiburg as an international fellow. 🗓 Thursday, 19 March 2026 ⏰ 10:00–12:00 📍 Arnold Bergstraesser Institut (ABI) Windausstr.16, 79110 Freiburg, & via zoom As of […]
Conversatorio y Taller – Resistencias y Activismo: „Sábanas Revueltas“
Con la participación de David G. Miranda. Marla Freire (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile). David ofrecerá una mirada al actual momento político en América Latina, marcado por el auge de movimientos neoconservadores y de ultraderecha, así como por diversas formas de resistencia. Marla compartirá la metodología artivista “Sábanas Revueltas”, una propuesta situada en la intersección […]
Thinking a-politicized peace: Reflections from Kazakhstan
In this talk, Filipp Semyonov introduces the idea of ‘a-politicized peace’ as a heuristic category that sheds further light on the persistence of postcolonial structures within Kazakhstani society. He examinse how everyday peace is framed as inherently outside of politics, i.e., imagined as natural, universal, and uncontested. The issue, however, is that rendering societal antagonisms […]
Resistance against Autocratisation: media, society, and politics
The policy workshop examined how different forms of resistance can counter processes of autocratisation. It focused on artistic, journalistic, academic, and legal perspectives on practices of resistance under conditions of shrinking civic space. A wide range of forms of resistance was considered, from artistic and aesthetic interventions and civil society engagement to journalistic and legal […]
Fracturing Security: The Global South in a Polycentric World Order
Two-Year Extension Granted for the Research Network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict
We are pleased to announce that the competence network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict(Hierarchies) has been granted a two-year extension by the BMFTR, beginning 1 April 2026. Hierarchies examines how historically rooted postcolonial power structures shape contemporary conflicts and influence sustainable conflict transformation. The network critically engages with peace and conflict practices, the transfer […]
Les juifs dans l’histoire tunisienne. Une histoire postcoloniale
Prof. Dr. Habib Kazdaghli from Tunis comes to Marburg as a guest fellow of the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict network and shares his latest research projects with us in two engaging lectures. The first lecture will be about the history of the Tunisian left in Arabic and the second lecture on Judaism in […]
