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The African Refugee Equilibrium

By George Njung. Africans’ lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent. For far too long, the global refugee situation has been misconstrued as static, with certain parts of the globe generating disproportionate numbers of refugees and others perpetually faced with the burden of hosting displaced peoples.

“I’m interested in the movement of people with strange ideas” – 5in10 with Gregory Afinogenov

Gregory Afinogenov is an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University and a Tandem Fellow in Global & Transregional History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He received his PhD in Russian history from Harvard University and his BA in history and philosophy from Fordham. His first book, “Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and the Pursuit of World Power in Imperial Russia”, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Spring 2020. More broadly, Afinogenov’s research deals with the international social and political consequences of knowledge-making, from cybernetics in the Soviet Union to pastoral poetry in eighteenth-century New York.

Transregionale Verflechtungen: Räumliche Zusammenhänge jenseits etablierter Metageographien

Einführung in die Vortragsreihe “Transregionale Verflechtungen: Räumliche Zusammenhänge jenseits etablierter Metageographien” am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg im Wintersemester 2016/17 und Sommersemester 2017. von Steffen Wippel  ...