Confronting the Coloniality of Time through Afrotopias
Worldwide, we are witnessing a constant production of utopic registers of the future as part of their struggles for reexistence and reworlding. However, African utopias have been neglected and overshadowed by Euro-American utopian studies. Although there is an increasing debate on Afrotopias, little knowledge exists of the different meanings of utopia and the vibrant existence […]
Nowhere, No-Place, and A World Without Borders. The Colonial Legacy of Utopia and its Limitations in Researching Futures
Lea Ebeling reads from her ethnoraphic novel ‚Hoffen, wenn die Welt schmerzt. Ein ethnografischer Comic über dekoloniale und anti-kapitalistische Zukünfte [ENG: Hope in times of World-Weariness. An Ethnographic Novel on Decolonial and Anti-Capitalist Future Imaginaries]‘ and discusses obstacles and potentials of imagining better futures in activist practice as a form of resistance against capitalist realism […]
Contested Utopia(s) in African Afrofuturism: Wanuri Kahiu’s „Pumzi”
This talk will use Wanuri Kahiu’s short film „Pumzi“ as a jumping off point for a wider discussion of Afrofuturism and its exploration of possible futures which push against Utopian/Dystopian projects originating in the Global North. It will explore these Afrofuturist counter-narratives along emerging dimensions such as dreams and care, paying attention to the ways […]
Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and Its Diasporas
What happens when official archives are inaccessible, or when they are lost during conflict? What happens when what remains for survivors of wars and dictatorships is not an institutional record, but a family album, a memory of a television series, or a fragment of an everyday object? This talk is an invitation to think about […]
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 […]
