Shows
DRUCKFRISCH Book DiscussionIsmay Milford: "African Activists in a Decolonising World"This edition of ReCentGlobe’s Druckfrisch Book Discussions on march 07 2023 at ReCentGlobe features the book “African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966” by Ismay Milford, published by Cambridge University Press in the Global and International History Series. Three experts in the field joins the author Ismay Milford to critique the book and discuss its contributions to the global history of anticolonialism and decolonisation.
Many thanks for the organization to Steffi Marung and Roman Krawielicki!
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Ismay Milford is a historian based at ReCentGlobe, with research interests in East and Central Africa, activism, educatio...2024-05-301h 19DRUCKFRISCH Book DiscussionPierre Hazan: "Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation"At the next edition of Druckfrisch Book Discussion, Pierre Hazan (Geneva) will present his new book “Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation”.
Comment by: Steffi Marung (Leipzig)
Moderation: Gilad Ben-Nun (Leipzig)
Organized in cooperation with the Global and European Studies Institute.
After many years in the little-known world of back-channel mediation, helping sworn adversaries to prevent, manage or resolve conflict, Pierre Hazan felt compelled to re-examine the acute practical and ethical dilemmas that affected his work in Bosnia, Ukraine, the Sahel and the Central African Republic. What is the...2024-05-0659 min
Transformative PodcastDialectics of (Im)Mobility: Historical Transformations Through the Lens of Movement (Steffi Marung)The Covid-19 pandemic has forced governments across the world to rethink (free) movement of peoples and things, and to revise mobility regimes in the face of new constraints. This is not a new phenomenon, argues Steffi Marung (University of Leipzig) in this episode of the Transformative Podcast. To a certain extent, each moment of major socio-economic or political transformation in the 20th century has been also characterised by a change in our understanding of, and attitudes towards, mobility. In conversation with Anna Calori (RECET), Dr. Marung reflects on how we can better understand historical transformations and caesuras by looking at mo...2023-01-1217 min
RevDem PodcastHow Socialism Went Global – and Why It Withdrew. An Alternative Global HistoryIn this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, three authors of the new collective monograph Socialism Goes Global. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation, Péter Apor, James Mark, and Steffi Marung, dissect the relationship between eastern Europe and the extra-European world in the age of decolonization; explain how key East European traditions of relating to the extra-European world have evolved over time; analyse the extent to which long-standing civilizational and racial hierarchies were overcome, or perhaps reproduced, via East–South connections during the Cold War; show how the study of this alternative form of globa...2022-09-121h 21