By Oliver Tappe. When I first visited the Lao tin mining area by the river Nam Phathaen in 2019, I was struck by the image of local villagers digging small pits and tunnels next to the roaring excavators of a Chinese mining company operating in the area.
By Juan Miguel Leandro L. Quizon. Travel entails expectations, musings, and meanderings. The moment travelers make final confirmations of flight bookings, their minds begin to explore the countless possibilities of their new journey. However, this year reminded us how a pandemic can seize travel instantaneously.
By Shaun Lin | As a geographer, comparative research is central to my training. In particular analysing the similarities and differences in spatial transformations (both visible and structural) in two or more places.
The sound performance “Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations” premiered at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin on 16 May 2019. The event was produced by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and funded by...
By Bence Kocsev A couple of years ago, during one of his eye-opener lectures, Irish-American thinker James M. Skelly coined the term “recovering sociologist”. With this term, he tried to...
by Wulandani Dirgantoro The Workshop on “Histories of Art and Art as History in Contemporary Southeast Asia” was convened by Wulandani Dirgantoro (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow 2016/2017). It ...
By Nadine Sieveking How are conditions of uncertainty affecting gendered life projects and anticipated futures? How can we take account of the significance of demographic ‘vital events’ (such as...
Report of the Summer Academy: “Language, Science and Aesthetics” in Beirut, September 11-19, 2014 by Monique Bellan (Orient-Institut Beirut), Nadia Bou Ali (American University of Beirut) and Dahlia Gubara (American University...
International Summer Academy for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Researchers in Beirut Closing Date: April 15, 2014 As a member-institute of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad, the Orient-Institut...
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