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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · May 19

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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Johanna Pink @jabunna.bsky.social · May 8

My talk "Visible translators: The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur'an translation" is available on Youtube now. :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvu1...

Johanna Pink: Visible Translators. The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur’an translation

"Visible Translators. The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur’an translation" Sixth installment in the De/Coloniality Now online talk series "Coloniality and decoloniality in translation", 7 May 2024. Discussant: Daniel Jacob Credits to Fadhli Lukman for his work on the Ahok case in Indonesia, mentioned towards the end of the talk. See: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0289

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · May 5

Join us on Tuesday! :)

De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · May 1

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...

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · May 1

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...

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Apr 21

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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Apr 9

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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Apr 6

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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Mar 19

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!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjra...

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Feb 20

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"!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW6d...

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Feb 18

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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Feb 6

Only two weeks left until the start of Coloniality and Decoloniality in Translation!
Register here: uni-freiburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 3

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! 👇

Frieder Vogelmann @frieder-vogelmann.net · Dec 3

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

Das Plakat für die Ringvorlesung "Forschungspraktiken erforschen. Zur kritischen Reflexion akademischer Wissensproduktion" listet folgende Vorträge:
14.11.2023 Andrea Esser: Wie gehen wir mit Rassismus in den „Klassiker:innen“ um?
21.11.2023 Eva von Redecker: Wie wird Wissenschaft engagiert?
05.12.2023 Manuela Boatca, Michaela Haug, Maria Sulimma: Wie überwinden wir Eurozentrismus in der Forschung? (Podiumsdiskussion)
19.12.2023 Martin Mulsow: Wie dezentrieren wir Geschichtsschreibung?
16.01.2024 Sigrid Schmitz: Wie de/konstruieren wir Geschlechter in Forschungspraktiken?
30.01.2024 Sarhan Dhouib: Wie forschen wir transkulturell?
06.02.2024 Kocku von Stuckrad: Wie nehmen wir alternative Wissensformen auf?

Alle finden im Hörsaal 1015, KG I, an der Universität Freiburg statt, jeweils von 18-20 Uhr.

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Nov 24

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

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Nov 10

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."

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · Nov 9

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...

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Nov 1

"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
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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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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Oct 24

Very excited about our upcoming talk series "Coloniality and decoloniality in translation". Save the dates!
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Oct 21

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!

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Oct 19

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

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De/Coloniality Now @decolonialitynow.bsky.social · Oct 18

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”!

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