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
Time: 16:15 – 17:45
Join in person: X E0-205
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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)
In collaboration with the Signatures of World Society colloquium series and the focus area UNIVERSAL
Date: 6. May 2026
Time: 16:15 – 17:45
Join in person: X E0-002 (We changed to a new room!)
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The Acehnese Struggle: Narrative, Ethnic Relations, and Conflict
Presented by Dr. Cut Maya Aprita Sari (Bielefeld University)
Date: 2. June 2026
Time: 16:15 – 17:45
Join in person: X-E0-220
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Beyond speech acts: Rethinking securitisation through silence, ambiguity, and narrative power
Presented by Prof. Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba)
Event cancelled!
A financial empire? China’s changing global financial footprint
Presented by Dr. Johannes Petry (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Date: 23. June 2026
Time: 16:15 – 17:45
Join in person: X E0-226
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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
Time: 16:15 – 17:45
Join in person: E0-108 (UHG)
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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)
Understanding Asia is a long-standing colloquium series of the Department Sociology of Transnationalisation and Social Anthropology in collaboration with other departments in Bielefeld University's Faculty of Sociology, featuring invited scholars from around the world.
Coordinators:
- PD Dr. Phill Wilcox (phill.wilcox@uni-bielefeld.de)
- Nguyen Vo (nguyen.vo@uni-bielefeld.de)
- Lana Emmerling (lana.emmerling@uni-bielefeld.de)
