Month: May 2022

We are excited to announce that the next Guest Lecture Series will be jointly hosted with the Institute of Political Science. We welcome Claudia Derichs, Ph. D., who is a professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She will talk about "Connecting Relig...

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Our next guest lecturer is Mirjam Lücking, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She will talk about "Good Gifts from the Middle East in Indonesia – Expressing Religious Identities, Class Affiliation and Gender Ideals through Consumption and Charity" The lecture will be hel...

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Next Monday, we welcome Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Their topic is "Four Questions of the Metaverse" The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 16th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. ...

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We are very honored to welcome Magnus Fiskesjö from Cornell University for the very special guest lecture he kindly agreed to give to us. For this lecture, he will talk about “China's Forced Confessions: The Performance of Obedience.” The lecture will take place in person on Monday 16th, 2-4 pm. ...

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Our third Guest Lecture features Tomáš Petrů for his talk, "China-Malaysia Ties and Belt-and-Road Projects: A ‘Special Friendship' Going Toxic?" The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 9th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. Thimm (viola....

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We are excited to announce the joint event of our Guest Lecture Series and the Oberseminar of the Institute of Sociology. We welcome Sharon Quinsaat and she will take about "Transnational Memory Movement and Filipino Diaspora Formation", and after the lecture, we organize a get-together dinner fo...

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