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Cluster of Excellence initiative @unifreiburg.bsky.social. De/Coloniality today in a global 🌏🌍🌎 perspective. Focus on decolonial research practices.

https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/coloniality-decoloniality/
Join us for Joshua Price's talk "Untranslatable Dictionaries and Haunted Glossaries: Eve Tuck and Christina Sharpe’s Decolonial Translation Practice" – the last talk in the online series "Coloniality and Decoloniality in Translation"! Tue, May 21, 3pm CEST.
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May 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Join us on Tuesday! :)
Next Tuesday, May 7, at 3pm CEST:
Johanna Pink: "Visible translators: The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur'an translation".
All welcome!
Register here: uni-freiburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 5, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Next Tuesday, May 7, at 3pm CEST:
Johanna Pink: "Visible translators: The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur'an translation".
All welcome!
Register here: uni-freiburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 1, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Join us this Tuesday, April 23, to hear Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) speak about "Unbinding Ethiopia: Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in global print culture", with Simona Oberto as discussant!
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April 21, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Now on YouTube: Ivars Šteinbergs on a context we rarely hear about, that of Latvia: "Translating Poetry into Latvian: Decoloniality, Global Modernism, Representation" #sovietcolonialism

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April 9, 2024 at 2:48 PM
This Tuesday, April 9: Ivars Šteinbergs on "Translating Poetry into Latvian: Decoloniality, Global Modernism, and the Pitfalls of Representation", with Heinrich Kirschbaum as discussant. Come and join us! 🤩
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April 6, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Now on YouTube: The talk by Kimani Njogu, co-written with Alamin Mazrui, on "Ngũgĩ and the Quest for a Paradigm Shift: Between Language and Translation". The discussant is Christian Mair. Enjoy!
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March 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This Tuesday, March 19: Kimani Njogu and Alamin Mazrui on "Ngũgĩ and the Quest for a Paradigm Shift: Between Language and Translation", with Christian Mair as discussant. Come and join us! 😊
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March 17, 2024 at 9:50 AM
If you missed yesterday's talk and want to watch it, it's on Youtube now!

Kathryn Batchelor: "Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives on Translation: Compatibilities and Contradictions", plus a discussion with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social .

youtu.be/8qnja7qbxt4
March 6, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Check out our brand new YouTube channel. The first video is today's talk by Lena Salaymeh in the series "Coloniality and Decoloniality in Translation"!

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February 20, 2024 at 7:20 PM
On Tuesday this week: Lena Salaymeh on "Coloniality in translations of the Islamic tradition". Really looking forward. It's online - come and join us! 😊
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February 18, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Only two weeks left until the start of Coloniality and Decoloniality in Translation!
Register here: uni-freiburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 6, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Wir werden über die kolonialen Anfänge und die gegenwärtigen kolonialen Muster unserer jeweiligen Disziplinen sprechen und zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Lehr- und Forschungspraxis mitbringen! Wir freuen uns auf rege Diskussionen! 👇
Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf die Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Wie überwinden wir Eurozentrismus in der Forschung?" mit @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, Michaela Haug, Maria Sulimma
👉5.12.2023, 18-20 Uhr
👉Hörsaal 1015, KG I, Universität Freiburg
December 3, 2023 at 5:36 PM
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Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief
👉Auch Deutschland hat da einiges zu tun!

www.theguardian.com/culture/2023...
Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief
Nick Merriman says inclusion of difficult stories of slavery and empire is not wokery, but ‘simply good history’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2023 at 8:12 PM
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In just under a week (Nov 16-17, 2023) the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies is delighted to host the 2023 CrossArea Conference with together with the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast Studies & the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World."
November 10, 2023 at 7:16 AM
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Coming up on the 28th November: AMMODI Virtual Roundtable which brings together librarians, researchers and journal editors to discuss how to challenge the knowledge production hierarchies in migration research. You can register here: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/ammodi-vi...
November 9, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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"Ich verneige mich vor den Opfern der dt Kolonialherrschaft"
"Als Bundespräsident möchte ich um Verzeihung bitten für das, was Deutsche..Ihren Vorfahren angetan haben."
Guter 1. Schritt v Steinmeier! Nun gilt es auch kolon. Kontinuitäten in D aufzuarbeiten
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...
Steinmeier bittet in Tansania um Verzeihung für Kolonialverbrechen
Bei seinem Besuch in Tansania hat Bundespräsident Steinmeier um Verzeihung für die Gewalttaten der deutschen Kolonialherren gebeten. Das Ziel der Bundesregierung sei es, die Zeit der Ausbeutung und ...
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November 1, 2023 at 11:48 AM
Very excited about our upcoming talk series "Coloniality and decoloniality in translation". Save the dates!
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October 24, 2023 at 10:11 AM
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We had a very successful start of the @decolonialitynow.bsky.social lecture series
@unifreiburg.bsky.social on Thursday, opened by Sunnie Chang's inspiring presentation "The Perpetual Foreigner in Serbia. On Being Marked & Unmarked in a 'Raceless' State". Very engaged audience, intense discussions!
October 21, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Zur Auslandsreise des Bundespräsidenten Steinmeier nach Tansania: Manuela Boatcă, Andreas Mehler und Johanna Pink über die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Erbe des deutschen Kolonialismus
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„Ohne Aufarbeitung in den ehemaligen Kolonialzentren hält die Kolonialität an“ — Hochschul- ...
Zur Auslandsreise des Bundespräsidenten Steinmeier nach Tansania: Manuela Boatcă, Andreas Mehler und Johanna Pink über die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Erbe des deutschen Kolonialismus
kommunikation.uni-freiburg.de
October 19, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Join us on site @unifreiburg.bsky.social this Thursday for the first @decolonialitynow.bsky.social event of the semester, Sunnie Chang's guest lecture “The ‘Perpetual Foreigner’ in Serbia: On Being Marked and Unmarked in a ‘Raceless’ State”!
October 18, 2023 at 7:31 AM