Postcolonial Hierarchies

Kategorie: Public Lecture

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

اليسار والحزب الشيوعي في تاريخ تونس

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 […]

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 […]