Understanding Asia Colloquium Series
Cultures of (De)Securitisation (Summer Semester 2026)
Unseeing Refugees: Topolgangers in the City
Presented by Prof. Gerhard Hoffstaedter (The University of Queensland)
Date: 28. April 2026
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The Asian Challenge in a Changing World Order: Nationalism, Imagination and Technologies of Sovereignty
Roundtable with Dr. Tam Ngo (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies),
Prof. Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Prof. Peter van der Veer (MPI Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Prof. Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld University)
Date: 6. May 2026
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Presented by Prof. Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba)
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A Financial Empire? China’s Changing Global Financial Footprint
Presented by Dr. Johannes Petry (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Date: 23. June 2026
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Beyond Duterte: Populism and accountability in the War on Drugs in the Philippines
Presented by Dr. Teresa Jopson (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)
Date: 14. July 2026
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Previous Understanding Asia Colloquiums
- Winter Semester 2025/26 Transforming Families (Poster)
- Summer Semester 2025 Religion and Society (Poster)
- Winter Semester 2024/2025 Gender and Power (Poster)
- Summer Semester 2024 Ideas, Democracy and Rights (Poster)
- Winter Semester 2023/2024 Inter-Asian Mobilieties (Poster)
- Summer Semester 2023 Living and Dying
- Winter Semester 2022/2023 Youth and Society (Poster)
- Summer Semester 2022 Social Movements (Poster)
- Winter Semester 2021/2022 Transnational Care (Poster)
- Summer Semester 2021 Bridging Margins (Poster)
- Winter Semester 2020/2021 Negotiating the Social in Collective Constellations (Poster)
The Understanding Asia colloquium series is a joint cooperation of four working groups (WG Missbach, WG Nguyen, WG Vasilache, and WG Winkel) of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.
Coordinators:
- Dr. Phill Wilcox (phill.wilcox@uni-bielefeld.de)
- Nguyen Vo (nguyen.vo@uni-bielefeld.de)
- Lana Emmerling (lana.emmerling@uni-bielefeld.de)
