BMFTR Approves Extension of "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" Network www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press... #BMFTR #UniBayreuth #UBT #ABI #Frieden #Forschung

Processes linked to the militarization of technology are increasingly blurring the line between civilian and military or security applications. This Paper examines the diversion and misuse risks generated by these developments and assesses potential policy responses. Read more: bit.ly/3KyZ2LF

We are happy to announce that the competence network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict(Hierarchies) has been granted a two-year extension by the BMFTR, beginning 1 April 2026.

Reminder – tomorrow with livestream!

„Orange the World“:  Krise und Radikalisierung. Extremistische Männlichkeiten und ihre Medien Vortrag morgen, online. www.uni-bayreuth.de/uninotizen-1...

📣 Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah (Associate Professor at Wake Forest University) & Livestream! "Whither Solidarity? The Global South between Fragmentation and Shifting Architectures of Power" 👉 www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025...

Global South Politics - Withering Solidarity? Join Lina Benabdallah and I on 10 December 16:00!

The archive of silence, listing people silenced because they spoke up for Palestine in Germany, now with a handy website with dates, links and more. archiveofsilence.org

Come work with us! This is an exciting role, to work with five cluster locations, to transform the structures we work in, plus shaping and doing research as well.

New IAS Expert Search! Bringing together the diverse expertise of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence & the Institute of African Studies at @unibayreuth.bsky.social. A hub for finding collaborators and connecting scholars across disciplines and regions. experts.ias.uni-bayreuth.de

Vorstellung unserer Forschungsergebnisse & Transferstrategien zu Deutungskämpfen im Übergang – heute bei der BMFTR-Statustagung zur Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Bonn Vortrag von @janahoenke.bsky.social & @jan-saendig.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

📢 Join us this Thursday, 20 November, for a hybrid roundtable at the University of Bayreuth! Details can be found in the poster. @unibayreuth.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @debele.bsky.social #UrbanStudies #AfricanCities #Migration #AfricaMultiple #BayreuthEvents

„Diese Absage ist nicht nur ein Rückschlag für den akademischen Diskurs über palästinensische Wissenschaft im Kontext schwerster Völkerrechtsverletzungen, sie wirft zugleich fundamentale Fragen nach Wissenschaftsfreiheit, institutionellem Rassismus & universitärem Selbstverständnis auf.“

„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/

ARMS EMBARGO ON THE UAE NOW British weapons are fuelling Sudan’s genocide through arms exports to the UAE! End the massacres and forced starvation of the Sudanese people now! ✍️ SIGN THE PETITION: caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...

Finally, in the practice category we have two articles. The first, by @ksailormoon.bsky.social @gadinsky.bsky.social & Stefan Groth, provides a framework for how to conceptualize the use of narratives in international studies. academic.oup.com/isp/article-...

2/2... Wolfgang Palaver ordnet seine Perspektive auf Gemeinsamkeiten und grundlegenden Dissens mit Thiel in einem aktuellen feinschwarz-Beitrag ein: www.feinschwarz.net/in-den-spure...

1/2 In der Analyse rund um Peter Thiel und seinen Umgang mit Theologie gibt es zwei neue Beiträge: Zeit-Redakteure besuchten die "Vorlesungen" Thiels in den USA, die er zuvor auch dank seiner langjährigen Bekanntschaft mit Wolfgang Palaver in Innsbruck hielt: www.zeit.de/2025/48/pete...

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Sharing our insights from INFRAGLOB (ERC) on South-South governance practices and contestations regarding large-scale infrastructure projects in Africa. #ChinaInAfrica Together with @janahoenke.bsky.social in the latest issue of NAB 👉 www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumen...

The IAS is pleased to announce the publication of the new NAB. 🎉 This edition offers a comprehensive look back at the IAS’s initiatives, projects, & events throughout 2024. 👉 You can access the digital version directly here: www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/de/IAS-Publi... @africamultiple.bsky.social

Workshop nächste Woche zu Transfer im Kontext der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung by @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social. Wer noch teilnehmen möchte, kann sich bei den Organisator*innen melden.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

🌍✨ Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social analyisert in der #taz, wie die extreme Rechte und Entwicklungen in Afrika miteinander verknüpft sind. #UniBayreuth taz.de/Afrikanische...

# afrika/ globale rechte: Mein Beitrag in der TAZ taz.de/Im-Schatten-... ist eine gekürzte und revidierte Version meines @pambazukanews.bsky.socialBeitrags pambazuka.org/Africa-in-th... Für eine Diskussion per Podcadt, siehe www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

The Masters Programme in African Studies @unibayreuth.bsky.social is still accepting applications from EU students until 30.09. As a major centre for African Studies in Germany, this is a great opportunity. For further details contact @terrefebiruk.bsky.social or see webpage.

Was viele nicht zu verstehen scheinen: Hier wurde ein Drehbuch durchgespielt, mit dem Ziel, eine für die AfD und damit für die schwarz-blaubraunen Träume gewisser Kreise bedrohlich wirkende Richterin zu verhindern und ein nur der AfD nützendes Kulturkampfszenario nach US-Vorbild durchzuziehen.

Kulturkämpfe sind allgegenwärtig. In Universitäten, Parlamenten, Theatern - überall wird über Identität, Freiheit, "Cancel Culture" und das gute Leben gestritten. Es sind keine Einzelphänomene, sondern Konflikte um die Moderne. Kommt vorbei zu unserer interdisziplinären Konferenz! gegenmoderne.de

Nächste Woche schon!

Publication day for Practicing Pluriversalism! By Raoul Bunskoek @clingendael.bsky.social and @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social @zmo-berlin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0002... Kindly supported by @africamultiple.bsky.social.

How can we overcome prejudice and political polarization? Together with freelance journalist Hanna Israel and @janahoenke.bsky.social we discuss this question and journalism’s role in bridging divides. Join us on July 17, 2025, for another exciting lecture from our Bayreuth Peace Talks series.

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

🚨New Article🚨 “Trusting under Extreme Uncertainty? Trust Relations and Institution-Building under ISIS Governance in Iraq” by Hanna Pfeifer Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

This looks great - apply! @postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social

Packed panel on digital platforms and conflict ecologies at #ECAS2025. Watch out for forthcoming work by Boubacar Haidara on Wagner group in Mali, Joschka Philipps on conspiracies, and Karen Büscher on urban digital warscapes!

This could be of interest for colleagues in #politicaltheory as well!: The University of #Bayreuth is currently seeking to appoint a Full Professor of #Political #Philosophy (m/f/d) at salary grade W3 For mor information: lnkd.in/dEb8rSy5 @theorieblog.bsky.social

Great panel on networks of opportunity, Chinese entrepreneurs and African brokers @ECAS2025 this morning! Organised by Constanza Franceschini and @drelisagambino.bsky.social

Why apply for the ICAS:MP Fellowship? • Work in an interdisciplinary environment • Monthly stipend up to €3,500 • Focused writing time • Present your research to the ICAS academic circle & receive expert feedback @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @unierfurt.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Join us this Wednesday at 12.00 for the talk "Africa's Global Infrastructures. Chinese Projects and Transforming Governance Practices" by @janahoenke.bsky.social . The Zoom link is available here: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

Ich freue mich auch besonders für die Kolleg*innen am CHREN @humanrights-fau.bsky.social. Glückwünsche! @simone.derix @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @FoKS

Such great news for @africamultiple.bsky.social ! I am excited to get to work on our collaboratively developed Research program on in:Securities and world making, one out of the six new focal areas. With colleagues in Burkina, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and @unibayreuth.bsky.social @IAS

yes of course you are right. There are notable exceptions . Julian Go's Policing Empire ; Markus-Michael Müller and @janahoenke.bsky.social's The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives ; Georgina Sinclair's At the End of the Line ; Lynsey Black's work ; etc. Some excellent work

Such great news! I am super-excited to get to work on our collaboratively developed Research Programm on in:Securities and world making. With colleagues in Burkina, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana. @africamultiple.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social @IAS

Much looking forward to this today!

I learned a lot from yesterday‘s book talk about African Parks and the militarisation of conversation www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025.... Thanks @esthermarijnen.bsky.social for great comments! I recommend reading on here:

Reading & Discussion – Olivier van Beemen "In the Name of the Animals" ("Im Namen der Tiere") 19.5.2025 | 5-7 pm | Conference Hall, FZA, University of Bayreuth & livestream! 👉 www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025... #Conservation #AnimalProtection #Africa Photo© C.H.Beck-Verlag

please stay tuned for a zoom link. Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social and @Esther Marjinen will give some comments

At the invitation of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Dutch journalist Olivier van Beemen is coming to Bayreuth to present his book “Im Namen der Tiere” (In the name of the animals). The reading will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke

Coming up - our next Bayreuth Peace Talks event: "Exit Wounds: Aftershocks of the Gaza Conflict in Levantine Middle East" Lecture by Prof. Kingshuk Chatterjee (Calcutta University), 13 May @unibayreuth.bsky.social ▶️ www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025... #MiddleEast #Gaza