💡 #Gen-Z Protests in #Asia In this interview with @jungle.world, ABI staff member Teresa Jopson shares her expertise on youth uprisings and movements in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Myanmar, and other countries. ▶️ Find out more: jungle.world/artikel/2025...

📆 Save the Date: 2nd "Freiburger Migrationsforum" on December 19th, 2025! This time, the topic will be "Dealing with and understanding experiences of racism", with inputs by Christian Mair, Samson Ajagbe, Rafaela Tosin & Erkan Tümkaya. ▶️ Registration via www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/de...

🥳 New DAVO elections: ABI represented by Benjamin Schuetze and Dina Wahba! At the annual conference of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Benjamin Schütze & Dina Wahba took on responsibility. Read more about their roles: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

🗓️Join Dina Wahba for a Discussion on Arab Feminisms: Resistance and Resilience! Saturday, Oct 25 in Berlin - Panel on Nawal Al Sadaawi Revisited: Women‘s Rights, Body Rights More information and registration link: campaign-statistics.com/browser_prev...

📝The network @postcolh.bsky.social concludes its first phase! Read the report in their concluding conference in #Tunis. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/inte...

🤝Join us on Wednesday online! Meet the filmmaker, a survivor from Senegal, and scientist who work on the West-Atlantic-Route! The event will be translated between #English and #French www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

📅Film screening & discussion: colonial legacy in land disputes in Kenya Save the Date! 7.11.2025 in Freiburg - our staff member Edwin Mutyenyoka will discuss the implications of the dynamics highlighted in the documentary 🤝 Part of #greenmotions festival www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

🥳 Dr. Franzisca Zanker appointed deputy director at ABI @franziscaz.bsky.social is a longstanding member of the ABI's research staff and a #migration #expert. She has now been appointed Deputy Director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute in #Freiburg. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/fran...

Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum... And we must talk about researcher safety! @kristoftiteca.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

ABI-Direktor @mehler.bsky.social übernimmt Geschäftsführung des Seminars für Wissenschaftliche Politik Unterstützt wird er dabei von @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social Mehr zu ihren neuen Aufgaben: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/abi-dir...

🆕 IQAS Issue: Reclaiming Voice – Afghan Women and the Politics of Knowledge Production The contributions combine academic analysis with poetry and art. The issue asks: Whose knowledge is considered valuable? www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/iqas...

🥳 We congratulate our colleague Anas Ansar to his Junior Professorship at North South University in Dhaka, #Bangladesh Read more about his motivation and his life between Dhaka and Freiburg: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/anas...

Deadline approaching - #DAAD #fellowships for the interdisciplinary MSc #Environmental Governance Programme at the @uni-freiburg.de Deadline: 15.10.2025 @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📚 "La Lucha", edited by Carolina Orloff, is October's #ABIBookofMonth. The collection explores feminism in Latin America, touching on reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism and more. Browse through the ABI library and its latest acquisitions: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/library

🎞️Film Screening: (Re)Contextualizing the West-Atlantic Route On 22nd October 2025 at 6pm CEST: Screening of "Bracelets" and a panel discussion on #migration, #exploitation, and #self-empowerment along the West Atlantic Migration Route. Find out more: 🔗 www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

💡TODAY AT ABI & online: Lloyd George Banda: Policy Development in Unitary Subsystems: The Case of Access to Information Act in Malawi, 1999 – 2020 Dr. Nneka Okechukwu: The International Legal Order in Times of Geopolitical Splintering: A Subaltern African Review uni-freiburg.de/act/africa-r...

🤝ABI's @timglawion.bsky.social is at MIASA in #Accra from August to December as part of an interdisciplinary fellow group. They aim to develop a novel approach to comparative research in the field of peace and security studies. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

📚 The ongoing #war in #Sudan and its consequences for the civilian population are a recurring topic of discussion within the ABI team and a subject of numerous publications. We therefore recommend:

📝Why does #Uganda accept #asylum seekers from the #US? ABI staff member @franziscaz.bsky.social and Ronald Kalyango Sebba analyze the migration agreement between Uganda and the US for @theconversation.com. ▶️ Find their article here: 🔗 theconversation.com/refugee-prot...

📚 „Black History – Die vergessene Geschichte Afrikas” bei @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social ist unser #ABIBookofMonth: Amat Levin erzählt Afrikas Geschichte aus schwarzer Perspektive und macht vergessene Kulturen und Stimmen sichtbar. Die ABI Bibliothek entdecken: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

📆Vom 26. bis 27.9.25 findet die #Africa Week Germany 2025 in #Freiburg statt unter dem Motto: „Sichtbar / Unverzichtbar“. -> Rolle der afrikanischen #Diaspora in Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kultur @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social german-africainsight.de/einladung-in...

📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined. ▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

📖🎉 New Monograph by Anas Ansar Anas Ansar's first monograph, “Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia,” has been published with De Gruyter. The ABI congratulates him on this! ▶️ Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

📝Analyse: Kamerun vor Präsidentschaftswahlen Für das Magazin iz3w hat ABI-Direktor @mehler.bsky.social aufgeschrieben, warum die Wahlen in #Kamerun im Oktober spannend werden - der 92-jährige Präsident tritt noch einmal an! www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/die-lag...

Arrived in #Accra #Ghana for a 4month stay with @miasa-ug.bsky.social Together with scholars from all over Africa +Eur we will discuss ways of comparing peace and conflict qualitatively. Join the discussion - what are your thoughts, projects, fav reads, best practices? @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📚 New encyclopaedia entry: #Decolonial Peace & #Resistance Theory Nijmeh Ali reframes #peace through a decolonial lense, centering #justice, historical redress, and indigenous epistemologies. ▶️ rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/08/18/d...

🎙️ @postcolh.bsky.social release 4th podcast episode! Guests Hanna Al-Taher and Firoozeh Farvardin explore a range of topics, including authoritarianism, collective mobilization, epistemic hierarchies, and the relationship between resistance, praxis, and academia. ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/1FA4...

🤝Helga Dickow continues at ABI as associate Her first contract with us was in 1988! Having completed 21 years as a senior researcher at the ABI, Helga Dickow now joins the ranks of associates and continues her work on #Tchad and the #Sahel region. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/helg...

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

📝Bangladesch ein Jahr nach dem Sturz der Regierung Anas Ansar im Interview mit der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social ABI-Mitarbeiter Ansar gibt Einblicke in die gesellschaftliche Stimmung, innenpolitische #Herausforderungen und die #Sicherheitsfrage in #Bangladesch www.fr.de/politik/vor-...

🎤Jamila Hamidu à la Deutsche Welle Guerres de succession dans les partis politiques #ivoiriens "Il n’y a pas une forme d'unité parmi l'opposition et ça, ça pose un problème en ce qui concerne comment contester contre l'inéligibilité de Monsieur Gbagbo." www.dw.com/fr/guerres-s...

🥳 New Project on #WaronDrugs in the #Americas! Starting 2026, @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social will fund the the network on "Dimensions of Regulation: Conceptualizing the Popular in the Drugs/Violence Nexus"! At ABI, @alkejenss.bsky.social will coordinate. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

Der Gemeinschaftskunde Leistungskurs des Angell Gymnasiums Freiburg war zu Besuch am ABI @abi-freiburg.bsky.social Prof. Arnold Bergstraesser war in den 1950er Jahren einer der Initiatoren des Fachs Gemeinschaftskunde in Baden-Württemberg.

🤝 María Belén Garrido visits the ABI Garrido, director of @noviolenciala.bsky.social, discussed potential collaborations with ABI researchers, exchanging ideas about research on nonviolent action and conflict transformation in the Global South. ▶️ See: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/visi...

🚴🌳 #STADTRADELN 2025 From June 28th to July 18th, the ABI team participated in the nation-wide initiative "STADTRADELN" - and was able to save about 500 kg CO2 in the process! Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

📚 "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad is our #ABIBookofMonth of July - a powerful memoir on disillusionment with the West’s promises of freedom and justice for all. Browse through the ABI library and its latest acquisitions: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social 👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

🌍 Categorizing People on the Move in Africa On July 9–10, 2025, the PolMig Team led by @franziscaz.bsky.social at ABI hosted an authors’ workshop for a special issue to be published in Comparative Migration Studies. ▶️ Read the report on the ABI website: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/spec...

💐🤝 Farewell of Alexander Makulilo The ABI says goodbye to Professor Alexander Makulilo. He is leaving the ABI to pursue a professorship at the University of Dar es Salaam. The ABI congratulates him on this success and wishes him all the best! ▶️ www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/fare...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?' Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together! rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

📆 Open lecture: Presidential Breakdowns: The Actions of Public Forces Against #Nonviolent Movements in #Ecuador (1997, 2000, and 2005) Join @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social and his guest Maria Belén Garrido via Zoom! July 17, 4pm Germany, 9am in Ecuador. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/op...

➡️ From Campus to Confrontation: Youth Movements against #Authoritarianism in #Asia - 15 researchers from 10 countries Read about our Author's Workshop, hosted by ABI and the International Quarterly for Asian Studies. Funded by @boelleu.bsky.social www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/auth...

📚 Sudan is facing one of the world’s most devastating yet underreported humanitarian crises. ABI staff member Dina Wahba and Millicent Hughes have compiled a reading list on the past and present of Sudan. The reading list is available for download at: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/read...

📆 „Koloniale Gewalt und postkoloniale Identität: auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in Westafrika“ Vortrag von Dr. Kokou Azamede, Université de Lomé, Togo 08.07.2025 von 20:15 bis 21:45 HS 1228 im KG I @uni-freiburg.de 👉 lmy.de/zFWyc @decolonialitynow.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📖 Privatizing the #energy sector in #CostaRica? Alke Jenss and Hanna Schnieders discuss Costa Rica's proposed energy sector reform in this article at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, outlining what it could mean for the role of the state and energy #justice. ▶️ www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ene...

💡 How objective is political neutrality? Dina Wahba calls for German academics to recognize that a refusal to engage is a political act that typically favours the status quo - especially regarding the shrinking spaces for open debate on #Palestine. ▶️ Read more on: qantara.de/en/article/g...

Studierende der UFreiburg @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social und der RUB informierten sich im @bmz.de über aktuelle Trends der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik. Die vom @abi-freiburg.bsky.social organisierte Exkursion fand in Zusammenarbeit mit der RUB und dem GSI-Bonn statt.

📚 Die Verhältnisse begreifen heißt, ihnen weniger ausgeliefert sein. Unser #ABIBookofMonth "Monster Verstehen" von Mario Candeias diskutiert grundlegende transformatorische Themen - die Aufgabe: eine mögliche #Zukunft erarbeiten. Die ABI Bibliothek entdecken: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

💡Internship at ABI? Apply now! We offer internships to students in the Social Sciences for an insight into the work of the institute. The application deadline for an internship in the period September to February is June 30th, 2025. Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/appl...

👩‍🎓 Call for applications: Freiburg Rising Stars Academy 2025–26, hosted by @uni-freiburg.de ➡️For outstanding PhD candidates, postdocs, and early career researchers from around the world for collaborative research and international exchange Deadline: 15.7. ➡️https://uni-freiburg.de/frsa/application/