🏢 We welcome Gruia Bădescu as TraCe Visiting Fellow @tuda.bsky.social & look forward to his perspectives on violence in urban spaces! He is interested in the relationship between urban reconfigurations and the societal processing of difficult pasts: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

📣 Welcome back to TraCe, @leoncastjan.bsky.social! Based at @jlugiessen.bsky.social, León returns as a TraCe Visiting Fellow from September to November 2025 – investigating European rearmament policy from the perspective of legal accountability. Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

Registration is still open until today. We look forward to seeing you there.

Am 17. September spricht Jani Silva mit Laura Barrios Sabogal und Juliana González über ihre Erfahrungen und gemeinschaft­liche Praktiken zum Schutz der Umwelt, lokale Kämpfe für Frieden und Menschenrechte. 📅 18–21 Uhr,📍@institutocervantes.bsky.social Frankfurt/M. ⬇️ www.prif.org/veranstaltun...

📣 Welcome to our newest Associate Fellow: Frederik Schissler from @prif.org! External actors increasingly internationalize intrastate conflicts. Frederik Schissler explores their different forms of involvement in civil wars & the resulting transformation. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025 Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social! 📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence 🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

Danke KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN für den bewegenden Abend! Am 22.08. eröffnete die von Theresa Deichert, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann @prif.org & Nadia Ismail kuratierte Aus­stellung „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ mit mehr als 100 Besucher:innen & eindrücklichen Redebeiträgen. www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Verschwindenlassen ist eine drastische Form unsichtbarer Gewalt. Zum Internationalen Tag der Opfer von Verschwindenlassen diskutieren Tina Cramer & Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann im #PRIFblog dessen verschiedene Formen. ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/08/30/z...

📃The Brazilian Amazon is a dangerous place for social activists. In TraCe Policy Brief No. 10, Jonas Wolff @prif.org, Juan Albarracín, and Rodrigo Moura Karolczak examine the linkage between violence against social activists & deforestation: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

The 2015 Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada report documented the devastating legacy of the Indian Residential School System. In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Rita Kopp (@prif.org) examines the Commission’s work, political progress & ongoing challenges. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Welche Mechanismen bestimmen die Sichtbarkeit oder Unsichtbarkeit von Gewalt? Pünktlich zur Eröffnung der gleichnamigen Ausstellung heute um 19h in Gießen erscheint #TraCe Working Paper 6 „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ in Kooperation mit kunsthalle-giessen.de. 📃 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

📺 TraCe Lecture Series – Part 1 now on YouTube This year’s lecture series explored how political violence is remembered, institutionalized & contested. Part 2 kicks off in the upcoming winter semester @goetheuni.bsky.social! ▶️ Watch now on Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Elspeth Oppermann! She will spend her Fellowship from mid-August to mid-November 2025 @zfk-mr.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social. Her research focuses on ethics & politics of heat stress risks arising from global heating. 👉Learn more: www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Liudmyla Pidkuimukha! Our new Visiting Fellow @jlugiessen.bsky.social explores how language becomes a target, a tool and a site of resistance in the context of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war. ⬇️ www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Ayşe-Martina Böhringer. Our new Associate Fellow joins from @jlugiessen.bsky.social. In her research, she explores questions of collective security & and how international law can contain armed violence. Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

📣 We warmly welcome our new Associate Fellow Markus Bayer! As part of TraCe, he investigates the collective & individual knowledge in Germany regarding its colonial history in Namibia. He leads the project “Echoes of the Past” @prif.org. Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

Back in Toronto after spending last five weeks in Frankfurt at @goetheuni.bsky.social as a @trace-center.de Visiting Fellow. Huge thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and others in the Chair on International Institutions and Peace Processes for hosting me and stimulating discussions about IR norms research.

📢 KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN in Kooperation mit TraCe: Ausstellung zu „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ Diese Gruppenausstellung nimmt vor allem oft unsichtbare Facetten wie strukturelle Gewalt in den Blick. Eröffnung: 22.08.2025, 19 Uhr kunsthalle-giessen.de/en/2025_en_i... Image: Lucinda Devlin

Beyond Crises: Resilience & (In)stability – TraCe at MSA 2025 marks a year of collective remembrance, raising questions about how societies recall turning points. Several TraCe members contributed to this year’s @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague: www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

🌏Ecocide as Political Violence? On June 30, TraCe @tuda.bsky.social hosted a TraCe research colloquium, inviting practitioner's perspectives from @stopecocide.bsky.social & Ecocide Law Alliance to discuss Ecocide's legal, political, and economic dimensions. www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

Sally Ghattas (University of Sydney) joined us for a lunch talk @prif.org on Australia's genocide discourse & Aboriginal politics, with comments by @dirkmoses.bsky.social. Both co-authored TraCe Working Paper No. 4, together with Sabine Mannitz & Núrel Reitz: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

What is “home”? And when does a home cease to be a home? On July 1, @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social ‬visited @prif.org for an interesting presentation of her book “The Home I worked to make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora”, organized and moderated by TraCe member @reginesonja.bsky.social.

Am 8. Juli diskutierten @sabanurcheema.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social sowie Gäste der Brunnenpassage Wien, @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social & @zfk-mr.bsky.social „Die Zukunft des Erinnerns“ mit Moderator & Organisator @jannikpfister.bsky.social. Mehr Infos: www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

📢 Final TraCe Lecture for this semester Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social. www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

I’m very grateful for the warm welcome I’ve received from Lisbeth Zimmermann and the wonderful IR community @goetheuni.bsky.social, as well as the wider @trace-center.de network. I’m looking forward to sharing my research and our next month of exchanges as TraCe Visiting Fellow.

We welcome Adam Kochanski @adamkochanski.bsky.social as TraCe Visiting Fellow! He will research the circulation of local norms and ideas in world politics. Join his presentation of the TraCe lecture series on July 9 at @goetheuni.bsky.social. www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...

„Sonntagsreden werden den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt nicht retten“ Mein Interview in der Frankfurter Rundschau heute zur Eröffnung der neuen "Vertrauensfragen"-Reihe in der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social www.fr.de/politik/rett... cc @fgz-risc.bsky.social @prif.org @trace-center.de

Anlässlich des "Manifests" der SPD-Linken habe ich letzte Woche in @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy über diskursive Polarisierung und die Notwendigkeit des öffentlichen Streits über Friedenspolitik gesprochen. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/manifest-der...

📢 TraCe Lecture Series Continues How do competing memories of victimhood shape global memory culture? Jie-Hyun Lim from Sogang University will present his research as part of the TraCe lecture series on June 24, 2 p.m. @goetheuni.bsky.social. www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

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📢 Jetzt anmelden für „Die Zukunft des Erinnerns“ im Literaturhaus Frankfurt! eveeno.com/trace-erinne...

Join us for a book talk with Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) @prif.org on July 1, 2025. She will present her book “The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora”, moderated by @reginesonja.bsky.social. More information & registration: www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

📢 Next TraCe Lecture on June 17, 18h Join Jephta Nguherimo’s lecture “The Struggle continues” on the transgenerational memory of the OvaHerero people's genocide and the ongoing struggle for restorative justice in Namibia @goetheuni.bsky.social. www.trace-center.de/en/events/de...

💼 Seit dem 8.6. ist das neue Präsidium im Amt! Helen Ahner (@univie.ac.at), @haniharb.bsky.social (@tudresden.bsky.social), Benedikt Hartl (Opposite Office), @hannapfeifer.bsky.social (@ifshhamburg.bsky.social), Philipp Rothemund (@unistuttgart.bsky.social) 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/ne...

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada issued a historic report and promised healing. Ten years later, Rita Theresa Kopp takes a critical look at the process. Now on #PRIFblog blog.prif.org/2025/06/04/t...

We warmly welcome @dirkmoses.bsky.social as TraCe Visiting Fellow @prif.org! As Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York his research interests include genocide, mass violence, intellectual history, and memory: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/... Photo: Nora Savosnick

Wie lässt sich Erinnerung an kollektive Gewalt gestalten? Die Veranstaltung „Die Zukunft des Erinnerns“ am 8. Juli 2025 im Literaturhaus Frankfurt greift dieses Thema mit einer Buchpräsentation und einer Podiumsdiskussion auf. Mehr Infos & Anmeldung: www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Ecuadors Präsident Daniel Noboa rief bereits im Januar 2024 einen „Krieg“ gegen das Verbrechen im Land aus. Nun tritt er seine erste reguläre Amtszeit an. Im #PRIFblog ziehen Elena Dressler und Jonas Wolff eine ernüchternde Bilanz seiner Maßnahmen und Pläne. 🔗 blog.prif.org/2025/05/26/f...

Migration ist Realität – aber der Streit darüber spitzt sich zu. Der Streitclub #14 bringt heute Abend zwei starke Stimmen in Frankfurt zusammen. Ab 19:30 Uhr in der Fliegenden Volksbühne:

We are delighted to welcome our new Associate Fellow Bettina Brockmeyer from Justus Liebig University Giessen (@jlugiessen.bsky.social) at TraCe. Her research focuses on political violence during and after colonialism. Welcome to the TraCe team, Bettina Brockmeyer! Image by Rolf K. Wengst

Das Grundgesetz wird 76 Jahre alt. Darüber, dass die Wissenschaftsfreiheit als Grundrecht zunehmend unter Druck gerät, sprachen wir in unserer gemeinsamen Vortragsreihe mit dem Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social für das BMBF-Wissenschaftsjahr 2024: www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Die Zeit für Lösungen des menschengemachten Klimawandels drängt. Doch wie geht die Weltgemeinschaft damit um? In der neuen Folge #PRIFtalk spricht Markus Lederer (@trace-center.de) über globale Umweltpolitik und teilt seine Erfahrungen von UN-Klimakonferenzen. blog.prif.org/2025/05/22/p...

🌍 Roundtable: Ist Entwicklungszusammenarbeit noch zeitgemäß? 💬 Mit: Valeria Hänsel, Mariel Reiss & Myriell Fußer 🎙️ Moderation: Prof. Anika Oettler 🗓️ 22. Mai | 14:15 Uhr 📍 Raum 305, Pilgrimstein 12, Marburg 📣 Offen für alle!

After days of escalating clashes, India and Pakistan have agreed on a ceasefire – but the dispute remains unsolved. Suparna Banerjee examines the conflict’s political ramifications within India, particularly through the lens of right-wing discourse, on #PRIFblog. 🔗 blog.prif.org/2025/05/12/t...

How have rural communities in the Colombian border regions developed defense strategies amidst armed conflict? A new study (in Spanish) by the Instituto CAPAZ showcases alternative governance & resistance mechanisms. www.instituto-capaz.org/amenazas-de-...

We warmly welcome our new Associate Fellow Hannah Ahlheim, Professor of Contemporary History @jlugiessen.bsky.social! Her research focuses on the manifestation of political violence in a society and what role knowledge plays in that process. www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gerät zunehmend unter Beschuss. Welche Bedeutung hat das für geopolitische Machtasymmetrien, Migrationsdynamiken und Menschenrechte? Darüber spreche ich am 22.5. mit Valeria Hänsel, Mariel Reiss und Myriell Fußer.

Join our Visiting Fellow Tania Li at the Center Colloquium “Let's Talk about Conflict” organized by @zfk-mr.bsky.social on May 26. 👇

We welcome Tania Li www.taniali.org (@uoft.bsky.social) as TraCe Visiting Fellow @zfk-mr.bsky.social in May 2025! 🌴Her research explores perspectives of people living with the violence built into the infrastructure of Indonesia’s oil palm plantation zone: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...