Focus area "Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements"
"Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements" (SHIFT)
The focus area "Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements" (SHIFT) builds on the entanglement approach of the Bielefeld social sciences and humanities, developed at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS). The three new thematic axes (planetary care, disembedding power, contested collectivities) extend ongoing collaborative projects, incorporate the disentanglement concept, and broaden the scope to encompass additional interdisciplinary perspectives. The objective is to establish a cross-faculty research focus at Bielefeld University, thereby amplifying the impact of research in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and natural sciences on the Americas in a global context.
News & Events
02.07.2025
BI.research Conference, Bielefeld University
16.06.2025
Internal Workshop, Bielefeld University
25.04.2025
Kick-Off Workshop, Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld
Program-Workshop-SHIFT-25-4-2025.pdf
31.03.2025 - Official start of the focus area SHIFT
Spotlight: SHIFT at BI.research Conference
SHIFT investigates transformation processes in social, political and ecological human-environment relations in the Americas in their relation to the global world. As part of the BI.research Conference, we are organizing an interdisciplinary panel that focuses on the underlying entanglement approach in relation to distinct practices, actors and epistemologies. Their interaction will be discussed in short contributions from the fields of natural and economic sciences, history of science as well as history, social and cultural sciences.
BI.research, Bielefeld University: 2 July 2025, 12:00-13:15 (H10)
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Kramer, Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland
Panel participants:
Prof. Dr. Christiane Clemens, Prof. Dr. Frank Grüner, Prof. Dr. Lena Neuenkamp, Prof. Dr. Carsten Reinhardt, Dr. Matti Steinitz, Dr. Philipp Wolfesberger
