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Our stand at the 25th anniversary edition of the Long Night of the Sciences included something for all ages. Here’s a taste of what we presented at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 28 June 2025.Â
A map of the Belt and
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As the second phase of De:link//Re:link will focus more on the implications of the BRI in Southeast Asian countries, members of our network took part in the HU’s Indonesian Studies Day on 9 May 2025. Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs, whose
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The conference marking the end of our first phase of funding took place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 23 and 24 May 2024. Titled ‘Local Roads, Global Belts’, the event covered the wide spectrum of research on the BRI that
On 28 November 2023, a World Café followed by a ZOiS Forum took place at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS).
At the World Café, entitled “New Insights about the Belt and Road from (Eur)Asia to (East)Africa:
The International Silk Roads Symposium: Local and Transregional Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative took place on 22 February 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. It was co-organised by the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA Nairobi), Zentrum für Moderne
At the invitation of Gropius Bau and SAVVY Contemporary under the auspices of Berliner Festspiele, various artists, authors, musicians, filmmakers and thinkers participated in the international exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea
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Berlin has witnessed myriads of events that shaped global politics. One such event was the 1884-1885 Berlin Congo Conference which subdivided Africa amongst colonialists (i). China often strategically invokes Western colonialism within its juxtapositional diplomatic memory
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We were privileged to host four international fellows this past Summer Semester. During their stint in Berlin, we held a Silk Roads Roundtable session where we discussed various research approaches to study the Belt and Road
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Two Confucius Institutes exist in Tanzania. Their construction was financed by China and they are hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma. The Tanzanian Director of the Confucius Institute at
