Global South Studies Center University of Cologne

Global South Studies Center University of Cologne The Global South Studies Center (GSSC) conducts research on socioeconomic, cultural and political ch

The Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Cologne was established at the University of Cologne in 2014 as part of the German Excellence Initiative. It brings together research expertise within the University of Cologne in relation to Africa, Asia and Latin America and promotes interdisciplinary cooperation with leading researchers in Germany and abroad. The member scientists conduct research into soc

ial, economic, political and cultural change in the countries of the Global South. Disciplines linked into the network include Geography, Ethnology, History, Sociolinguistics, Media Sciences, Regional Studies, Latin American History, Romance Philology, Islamic Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and African Studies.

Call for Participation✨Autumn School:  The Democratization of Heritage: Towards a Critical Engagement with Inclusive, Ac...
01/06/2026

Call for Participation

✨Autumn School: The Democratization of Heritage: Towards a Critical Engagement with Inclusive, Accessible, and Participatory Practices✨

21-25 September 2026, Paris, France

Application Deadline: 7 June 2026

We are seeking 15 graduate students and/or heritage professionals to participate in an Autumn school on the Democratization of Heritage. This Autumn School explores how museums and heritage institutions can translate the principles of accessibility, inclusivity, and participation—central to the 2022 ICOM museum definition—into everyday professional practice. The programme critically examines unequal access to art and cultural heritage, asking who is excluded, for what reasons, and how institutional structures, narratives, and practices can be transformed to address these barriers. Its main objective is to equip current and future heritage professionals and researchers with the theoretical knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical tools required to foster a sustainable culture of accessibility.

Read more ➡https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o7vjg3RqARLtKQ0j8EvlRFOWgZgTZKUx/view?usp=sharing

🇨🇳 Felix Wemheuer über "60 Jahre chinesische Kulturrevolution"Heute haben wir einen Artikel und zwei Youtube-Videos von ...
27/05/2026

🇨🇳 Felix Wemheuer über "60 Jahre chinesische Kulturrevolution"

Heute haben wir einen Artikel und zwei Youtube-Videos von Felix Wemheuer für euch, anlässlich des 60. Jahrestag der chinesischen Kulturrevolution am 16. Mai. Die offizielle Geschichtsschreibung vermeidet die Beschäftigung mit der Kulturrevolution – dabei ist kein anderes historisches Ereignis aus der Geschichte der Volksrepublik China so gut dokumentiert.

In dem Artikel erhaltet ihr einen kompakten Überblick zu der Entwicklung, eine detaillierte Einführung in zwei Teilen gibt es auf Felix Wemheuers Youtube-Kanal.

Zum Artikel 🔗 https://www.rosalux.de/news/id/54753/60-jahre-chinesische-kulturrevolution-geschichte-eines-scheiterns

Zum Youtube-Kanal 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/

✨WIR MÜSSEN REDEN #8: Solidarität unter Druck✨Talk | Heiße Diskussion & warme KücheModerator*in Kathrin Ebmeier diskutie...
21/05/2026

✨WIR MÜSSEN REDEN #8: Solidarität unter Druck✨

Talk | Heiße Diskussion & warme Küche

Moderator*in Kathrin Ebmeier diskutiert mit den Gästinnen Jamila Al-Yousef und Esther Dischereit, während in einer improvisierten „Küche für alle“ ein gemeinsames Menü zubereitet wird. Im Anschluss ist das Publikum zum Essen und Gespräch eingeladen.

Begrenzte Sitzplätze, wir empfehlen eine frühe Buchung.
In Kooperation mit dem Sommerblut Kulturfestival

Read more ➡https://www.fwt-koeln.de/veranstaltung/wir-muessen-reden-20260524

✨Filmvorführung "Mein illegales Leben"✨📅 21. Mai um 20 Uhr 📍Kölner Filmhaus Filmvorführung "Mein illegales Leben" mit an...
20/05/2026

✨Filmvorführung "Mein illegales Leben"✨

📅 21. Mai um 20 Uhr
📍Kölner Filmhaus

Filmvorführung "Mein illegales Leben" mit anschl. Gespräch mit Gerhard Schick (Regie), Esther Dischereit und Chana Freundlich

"Illegal als Jüd*innen im Nationalsozialismus, untergetaucht; das ist manchmal so weit weg, als stünden wir alle im Museum. Jetzt sind Menschen hier und da und da und fristen ihr Dasein als Illegale. „Kein Mensch ist illegal“ sagten wir in Kampagnen und Gebeten, und der amtierende Papst Leo der XIV. bat um Vergebung bei den Schwestern und Brüdern, die von den hartherzigen Gesetzen betroffen sind, die sich vor den „Illegalen“ verschließen, sodass sie keine Hoffnung auf ihre Rettung haben sollen. Die Mutter und das Kind, Jüdinnen, sollten getötet sein. Ausgelöscht als Ganzes unter dem Menschengeschlecht. Jetzt sind es andere, die anderen das Recht zu sein absprechen. Nichts ist im Museum: täglich Aushungern und Bomben. Verbrechen gegen Völker.

Read more ➡https://filmhaus-koeln.de/film/mein-illegales-leben-1

✨MPIfG Lecture: Gendering Tax Optimization: Insights from Ethnography of Wealthy Families from the Top One Percent Acros...
19/05/2026

✨MPIfG Lecture: Gendering Tax Optimization: Insights from Ethnography of Wealthy Families from the Top One Percent Across Continental Europe ✨

The gender wealth gap is most pronounced at the top of the wealth distribution. In her lecture on May 28, Céline Bessière from Paris-Dauphine University will show how tax strategies are gendered and what the consequences are for wealth inequality. We would like to invite you to attend this lecture.

The talk will take place in person at the MPIfG in Cologne. Online participation is not possible.
To register, please send an email to [email protected].

Read more ➡ https://www.mpifg.de/events/45337/725824

✨MPIfG Lecture: “The Good Domestic Owner” Group Logics and Tribalism as Substitutes for the Critique of Inequality✨In he...
18/05/2026

✨MPIfG Lecture: “The Good Domestic Owner” Group Logics and Tribalism as Substitutes for the Critique of Inequality✨

In her talk on May 26, MPIfG Scholar in Residence Hanna Kuusela will demonstrate how systemic critique of capitalism has gradually given way to nationalistic and tribalist group logics that celebrate domestic ownership and capital. We would like to invite you to attend this second lecture in her series.

The talk will take place in person at the MPIfG in Cologne. Online participation is not possible.
To register, please send an email to [email protected].

Read more ➡ https://www.mpifg.de/events/45064/725824

BIEA Seminar Series: Eastern Africa in the World✨The new geopolitics of eastern Africa: Emerging regional responses✨📆21 ...
15/05/2026

BIEA Seminar Series: Eastern Africa in the World
✨The new geopolitics of eastern Africa: Emerging regional responses✨

📆21 May I 11:00 - 12:00 (CEST)

🗣Abdul Mohammed (United Nations, United Nations, Head of the Sudan Mediation
Office)
Dr Mai Taha (Independent consultant)
Prof Awet Weldemichael (Queen's University, Canada)

Chair: Prof Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge)

📍Online and in person
BIEA Nairobi
Laikipia Rd,
Kileleshwa,
Nairobi

This event is part of the BIEA’s “Eastern Africa in the World” seminar
series. It invites scholars to think about Eastern Africa, broadly defined,
as a distinctive yet plurally constituted area-in-the-world. A region too
frequently essentialised or fragmented in outsiders’ contradictory and
entwined narratives, Eastern Africa lurches between being synonymous with
historical absence, calamity and failure and redemptive visions of a
techno-optimist ‘Silicon Savannah’ and ever ‘emerging’ promise. Too often,
the region’s remarkability is penned reductively from perspectives
elsewhere. Yet in its histories, imaginaries, agencies, and connectedness
Eastern Africa is a region that has as often written the elsewheres of the
world as been shaped by them. This is an intellectual space to think the
world from Eastern Africa, and center the scholarly significance of Eastern
Africa as world-making through time and across multiple domains.

Please
sign up for the meeting link and updates at tinyurl.com/eafriwo.

BIEA Seminar Series: Eastern Africa inthe World✨The new geopolitics of eastern Africa: Emergingregional responses✨📆21 Ma...
15/05/2026

BIEA Seminar Series: Eastern Africa in
the World
✨The new geopolitics of eastern Africa: Emerging
regional responses✨

📆21 May I 11:00 - 12:00 (CEST)

🗣Abdul Mohammed (United Nations, United Nations,
Head of the Sudan Mediation
Office)
Dr Mai Taha (Independent consultant)
Prof Awet Weldemichael (Queen's University, Canada)

Chair: Prof Sharath Srinivasan (University of
Cambridge)

📍Online and in person
BIEA Nairobi
Laikipia Rd,
Kileleshwa,
Nairobi

This event is part of the BIEA’s “Eastern Africa in the World” seminar series. It invites scholars to think about Eastern Africa, broadly defined, as a distinctive yet plurally constituted area-in-the-world. A region too frequently essentialised or fragmented in outsiders’ contradictory and entwined narratives, Eastern Africa lurches between
being synonymous with historical absence, calamity and failure and redemptive visions of a techno-optimist ‘Silicon Savannah’ and ever ‘emerging’promise. Too often, the region’s remarkability is penned reductively from perspectives elsewhere. Yet in its histories, imaginaries, agencies, and connectedness Eastern Africa is a region that has as often written the elsewheres of the world as been shaped by them. This is an intellectual space to think the world from Eastern Africa, and center the scholarly significance of Eastern Africa as world-making through time and across
multiple domains.

Please
sign up for the meeting link and updates at tinyurl.com/eafriwo.

✨Call for Papers: Voices. Rights. Justice in Africa: International Conference GAPSYM19✨🗣 The Ghent Africa Platform (GAP)...
14/05/2026

✨Call for Papers: Voices. Rights. Justice in Africa: International Conference GAPSYM19✨

🗣 The Ghent Africa Platform (GAP)

📍 De Krook in Ghent, Belgium

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 June 2026

The Ghent Africa Platform (GAP) is pleased to announce its 19th annual symposium (GAPSYM19), themed "Voices, Rights ,Justice in Africa". The symposia organised by the Ghent University Association (AUGent) Africa Platform have been trendsetting in the Belgian academic landscape over the last 19 years, providing a unique interdisciplinary forum to showcase academic research conducted in collaboration with African-based partners. These gatherings have fostered meaningful dialogue and collaboration across disciplines, contributing to a deeper understanding of Africa’s complexities and opportunities.

✨ALMA-Vortragsreihe 2026: Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics✨📆 29.04.26, 20 Uhr ...
13/05/2026

✨ALMA-Vortragsreihe 2026: Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics✨

📆 29.04.26, 20 Uhr c.t., HS 1098
💬 Is This New? Unmasking ‘Uncertainty’ and Rising Facism through Knowledge and Wordings from the Americas
🗣 Dr. María Cárdenas (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

📆 20.05.26, 20 Uhr c.t., HS 1098
💬 Reparations Beyond the Human? Rethinking (Post)Conflict Repair and Justice in the Bangsamoro, Philippines
🗣 Prof. Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo (Freie Universität Berlin / Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa)

📆 10.06.2026, 20 Uhr c.t., HS 1098
💬 Whose World? Whose Rules? African Agency in a World Remade
🗣 Prof. Dr. Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

📆 08.07.2026, 20 Uhr c.t., HS 1098
💬 Race, International Relations and the Politics of Israel-Palestine
🗣 Prof. Dr. Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

🔗 https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/alma-vortragsreihe-2026-global-ruptures-or-new-beginnings-southern-perspectives-world-politics

Die ALMA (Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia) Lecture Series ist eine Vortragsreihe, die vom Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut in Kooperation mit dem Colloquium Politicum der Universität Freiburg organisiert wird. Sie thematisiert theoretische, empirische und methodologische Fragen aus Perspektiven des Globalen Südens heraus. Dieses Jahr wird die Reihe in Kooperation mit der De/Coloniality Now Initiative der Universität Freiburg veranstaltet. Diese multidisziplinäre Initiative verfolgt das Ziel, den Einfluss der Kolonialität auf die heutige Welt und darauf, wie Menschen und Institutionen in allen Regionen der Welt, auch in unserer, das koloniale Erbe erinnern, aufrechterhalten, oder Widerstand leisten, zu verstehen.

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