💬🌍 Join our colleague @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social on September 10 at the Universidad de Playa Ancha (Chile) for his talk on “Global Hierarchies, Neoliberalism, and Interimperial Conflicts in Latin America: Global Infrastructures, Institutional Reconfigurations, and Resistance”!

🤝🥳 ABI welcomes two new associated researchers! Read more on Dr. Sharri Plonski and Dr. Anna Fünfgeld on our website: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

🥳 Afua Boatemaa Yakohene visited ABI from the University of Ghana. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy she has spent June to August at @actunifreiburg.bsky.social and ABI in #Freiburg. Read about her stay www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/afua...

⏰ Reminder! Call for Contributions: Technology, conflict and coloniality Apply until September 15 and contribute to our Virtual #Encyclopedia! Find all info below, we are looking forward to your ideas ⬇️ @postcolh.bsky.social, MECAM & Forum Transregionale Studien

Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg@abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🫵📢 Call for contributions: Technology, conflict and coloniality @postcolh.bsky.social, Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) & Forum Transregionale Studien Open tomorrow, July 1, 2026. All relevant information: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call...

📽️ PolMig Fieldwork Diaries – now on YouTube! Returning from the first phase of fieldwork across Africa, the PolMig (“The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa”) team members share their reflections and experiences from the field. ▶️: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🔋The UAE's Exposure to Regional Conflict In an interview for Atlas Broadcasting, @philippwa.bsky.social analyses how the regional war between the United States and Iran exposed the UAE’s security and energy vulnerabilities. atlasbroadcasting.com/articles/uae...

💡The art of agreeing to disagree about history In The Daily Star, Anas Ansar examines #Bangladesh’s complex relationship with competing #memories of the country’s political history. www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news...

🤝 Professor Mary B. Setrana visits ABI from the University of Ghana. As @miasa-ug.bsky.social - Alumna she visited the @actunifreiburg.bsky.social l and @uni-freiburg.de during the month of August. In a short Q&A she tells more about her visit: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/prof...

🌊Transfeministische Kämpfe um Wasser Am Beispiel des Netzwerks Río Feminista (dt.: feministischer Fluss) in #Argentinien beleuchtet Miriam Bartelmann in der @iz3w.bsky.social die transfeministische Arbeit des Netzwerks im Kampf um sauberes Wasser. www.iz3w.org/artikel/tran...

Welches Wasser wirst du trinken?

Trans[-]feministische Kämpfe um Wasser zeigen, wie Extraktivismus, Umwelt[-]zerstörung und soziale Ungleichheit in Argentinien zusammen[-]hängen.

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🔋 Energiewende und Rohstoffkonflikte im Globalen Süden In der Zeitschrift KlimaWandelBar, die sich an Lehrkräfte und Bildungsakteur*innen richtet, beleuchtet @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social die #Energiewende als globales #Gerechtigkeitsproblem. ▶️: phfr.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/de...

The regional escalation around the Strait of Hormuz strongly affects global energy markets. As part of my visiting fellowship at @ecfr.eu & @ecfrmena.bsky.social, I gave an interview on the implications of disrupted energy supply in the Gulf and in the UAE: atlasbroadcasting.com/articles/uae...

UAE Navigates War, energy and security risks

The U.S.-Iranian conflict exposed the UAE's vulnerabilities while highlighting its growing role in regional diplomacy, energy security and economic stability.

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Helga Dickow über interreligiösen Dialog im #Tschad, zitiert in @welt-sichten.bsky.social: "Religionsdialog mit staatlichem Segen" Hier lesen Sie, warum Helga Dickow das neue Gremium mit Skepsis betrachtet: www.welt-sichten.org/artikel/4572...

📝 Betrayal of South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Promise? In the context of the recent anti-immigration protests in South Africa, Edwin Mutyenyoka sheds light on the role of the state in facilitating anti-migrant sentiments at TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research. ▶️: trafo.hypotheses.org/67317

📚 "After the Exodus" by Farhana Afrin Rahman @universitypress.cambridge.org is our #ABIBookofMonth for August. It examines gender relations and lived experiences of Rohingya women after forced migration through a feminist lens. Browse through the ABI library: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/library

The #Rohingya #Diaspora organizes digitally. ABI's Anas Ansar argues in the Daily Star (#Bangladesh) that this is a real chance for the Rohingya to develop political leverage. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/g...

🎧 "Ihr seid nicht vergessen" Beitrag des südnordfunk zur Aussegnung der Maka-Ahnen mit Prof. Albert Gouaffo, Dr. Richard Tsogang-Fossi, Rektorin Prof. Kerstin Krieglstein und Seine Majestät Effoudou III. ▶️: www.iz3w.org/artikel/maka...

✝️The ABI owes an immense debt of gratitude to Professor Hanf. Current and former staff, the Executive Board and other committees will honour the memory of our former long-serving Director, who passed away on 7 August 2026. More about his life and work: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

🥳New Contribution on our ALMA-Review Blog: Hinda Fneish reviews the essay "Confessions of a Xenophile" by Amitav Ghosh Read the full review here: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/alma...

🔎💬 ABI contributes to Model UN in Freiburg @franziscaz.bsky.social & @timglawion.bsky.social shared their expertise at the Freiburg Model UN conference wich took place from July 30-August 1, 2026 @uni-freiburg.de Read more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

Refugee camps explained: why #SouthAfrica has avoided them At @theconversation.com, @franziscaz.bsky.social and @ulrikekrause.bsky.social explain why South Africa has avoided refugee camps, and why they have opend one now. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/fran...

🎓 ALMA Lecture Series 2026: Take-aways and way forward Read the full report on our ALMA lecture series "Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics" on our website. ▶️ www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/alma... Recordings of the lectures are available on YouTube.

⏰Reminder: Apply until August 15 and contribute to our online-encyclopedia! @postcolh.bsky.social @miasa-ug.bsky.social & Forum Transregionale Studien ⬇️

Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg@abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for Contributions! Methodological innovations and alternative formats of knowledge production and circulation in Peace and Conflict Studies @postcolh.bsky.social @miasa-ug.bsky.social & Forum Transregionale Studien All relevant information: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call...

😍🎥 ALMA Lecture Series 2026: Now on YouTube! Find a recording of this year's last ALMA lecture by Somdeep Sen on racism in international relations and how this shapes our perception of Palestine on YouTube. ▶️: youtu.be/9cHsgEprBJk?...

ALMA Lecture: Race, International Relations and the Politics of Israel-Palestine

YouTube video by Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)

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🌍🎧 Warum werden Menschen aus #Südafrika vertrieben? In Südafrika wütet ein migrationsfeindlicher Mob, Zehntausende verließen in den letzten Wochen das Land. Edwin Mutyenyoka ordnet im Weltspiegel-Podcast der ARD ein. Die ganze Episode: www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:...

Podcast: Warum werden Menschen aus Südafrika vertrieben?

Zehntausende Migrantinnen und Migranten verlassen Südafrika, aus Angst vor fremdenfeindlicher Gewalt. Sie fühlen sich nicht mehr sicher, seitdem selbst ernannte "Ordnungshüter” Menschen aus Malawi, Si...

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Nach den aktuellen Plänen des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) sollen nahezu alle DAAD-Programme zur Hochschulkooperation mit Partnern in den Ländern des Globalen Südens eingestellt werden. Ein Positionspapier: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/daad-ho...

Interessierte Schülerinnen des Politik LK des Freiburger Angell Gymnasiums haben sich kurz vor den Sommerferien am @abi-freiburg.bsky.social über Forschung zum globalen Süden informiert. Vielleicht sieht man den ein oder anderen im nächsten Jahr im Politikstudium @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social wieder.

🤗 The ABI warmly welcomes our new staff member, Dr. Mira Burmeister-Rudolph! With Mira Burmeister-Rudolph on board, ABI gains expertise in labour migration between India and the EU. Find out more about her work: lnkd.in/eig4K_EV

💬 Aussegnung von sechs Maka-Ahnen aus Kamerun in #Freiburg Sechs Ahnen der Maka wurden vor über 100 Jahren für rassistische Forschung an die Universität Freiburg gebracht. Jetzt steht die Rückführung der Schädel bevor. Mehr: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/aussegn...

😍🎥 ALMA Lecture Series 2026: Now on YouTube! Find a recording of this year's third ALMA lecture by Toni Haastrup on African Agency and feminist pan-Africanism on YouTube. ▶️: youtu.be/3hoUPfGNgqE?...

ALMA Lecture: Whose World? Whose Rules? African Agency in a World Remade

YouTube video by Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)

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Why the #Rohingya crisis needs a new political imagination Anas Ansar, together with Benjamin Etzold, on the 75th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention and the 9th anniversary of the Rohingya's mass exodus from Myanmar in 2017, in The Daily Star. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/anas...