Presidential Breakdowns: The Actions of Public Forces Against Nonviolent Movements in Ecuador (1997, 2000, and 2005)
This open lecture by María Belén Garrido explores the factors that shaped the behavior of Ecuador’s Armed Forces and Police during three presidential breakdowns—1997, 2000, and 2005—triggered by nonviolent movements. It analyzes institutional, political, and social dynamics influencing public force decision-making, including historical shifts in military doctrine, relationships between the government and security forces, and […]
Legacies of Liberation: Revisiting Peace Studies in Contentious Times
In a context of ongoing wars and heightened social tensions the field of peace and conflict studies, which has long sought to explain the dynamics of war and efforts at peace, offers a range of perspectives. Some of these emanate from the Global South and speak to experiences of conflict and international politics there. The […]
Open Lecture: „The city as body“ by David G. Miranda
David G. Miranda develops an interdisciplinary analysis examining the complex relationship between body, public space, and artivism during the Chilean Social Uprising (2019-2020), a phenomenon that transformed the city into a corporeal extension of social protest. Through a comprehensive study of over 300 photographic records documenting urban artistic interventions and feminist artivist practices, David […]
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Interventions in Transitional Justice
https://youtu.be/I49AYxhR73U?si=KrMQgURXdhmvaXxA n this video, Prof. Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen explores key insights from their book project „Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes.“ Drawing on a qualitative approach termed „Activist Interpretive Protagonism“, the book examines how people of non-normative genders and sexualities in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia have resisted armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarianism. Through the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Keynote Opening Panel: ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality‘
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.‘ The […]
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, […]
Genealogies of African Studies in Germany: An intersectional critique and ways forward
https://youtu.be/0tlGXJrC5NYOf late, there is a lot of discomfort, irritation and unease in African Studies, incidentally just when it opens itself up to the business of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE). This affective state seems to mirror the overall ethos within academia in the North Atlantic that the African American intellectual Hortense Spiller describes as being […]
Rethinking the coloniality and violence of famines in the Global South [video]
“I am interested in the methodological and conceptual (un)doing of violence, in the study of famines or hunger deaths from a postcolonial perspective” Swati Parashar About this lecture: Postcolonial scholars contend that we are still doing body counts of colonialism’s violence, hence, epistemic and discursive categories may not account for the materiality of violence and […]
