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TraCe @trace-center.de · 2d

📢 Join us for a public keynote taking place as part of the Workshop “Urban Violence” @tuda.bsky.social: TraCe Fellow Gruia Bădescu explores “Violence in/against the city: Making sense of urban violence from urbicide to feral cities.”
🗓 13 Oct 2025, 18:15
📍 Room S3|13 30, TU Darmstadt

Event Poster Workshop Urban Violence and Promotion of Keynote on 13th October, 6:15 PM at TU Darmstadt.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 12d

💬 TraCe Policy Brief on violence against social activists in the Brazilian Amazon also published in Portuguese!

“Violência contra ativistas sociais na Amazônia
brasileira: o papel do desmatamento“
– Agora também em português como TraCe Policy Brief No. 11:

www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

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PRIF @prif.org · 13d

A Amazônia brasileira é perigosa para ativistas sociais que lutam pelos direitos à terra e pela proteção ambiental. Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak e Jonas Wolff analisam por quê. Agora também em português no #PRIFblog (e @trace-center.de Policy Brief). ⬇️
blog.prif.org/2025/09/25/v...

Violência contra ativistas sociais na Amazônia brasileira: o papel do desmatamento - PRIF BLOG

A Amazônia brasileira é um lugar perigoso para ativistas sociais, especialmente aqueles que lutam por direitos fundiários e pela proteção ambiental. Em nosso estudo recente, publicado no Journal of Pe...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 19d

🏢 We welcome Gruia Bădescu as TraCe Visiting Fellow @tuda.bsky.social & look forward to his perspectives on violence in urban spaces!

He is interested in the relationship between urban reconfigurations and the societal processing of difficult pasts:

www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

TraCe @trace-center.de · 23d

📣 Welcome back to TraCe, @leoncastjan.bsky.social!

Based at @jlugiessen.bsky.social, León returns as a TraCe Visiting Fellow from September to November 2025 – investigating European rearmament policy from the perspective of legal accountability.

Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · Aug 27

We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here:
www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

TraCe: 2025: Beyond the Spectacle

The fourth TraCe annual conference ‘Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm’ from November 19 until 21, 2025 in Marburg, aims to expand research on vi...

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PRIF @prif.org · 28d

Registration is still open until today. We look forward to seeing you there.

PRIF @prif.org · Aug 28

📢 Register until September 10 for our Annual Conference “Colonial Pasts and Contemporary Search for Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Restitution and Redress for Colonial Violence”! With @trace-center.de & @valuepast.bsky.social, Sep. 25–26.
👉 www.prif.org/veranstaltun...

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PRIF @prif.org · Sep 4

Am 17. September spricht Jani Silva mit Laura Barrios Sabogal und Juliana González über ihre Erfahrungen und gemeinschaftliche Praktiken zum Schutz der Umwelt, lokale Kämpfe für Frieden und Menschenrechte. 📅 18–21 Uhr,📍@institutocervantes.bsky.social Frankfurt/M. ⬇️

www.prif.org/veranstaltun...

Sharepic zur Veranstaltung. Auf dunklem, petrolfarbenen Hintergrund steht in leuchtend grüner Schrift: "Friedensaufbau von unten in Kolumbien: Stimmen aus den Regionen" und "Podiumsdiskussion mit hessischer Friedenspreisträgerin". Auf der linken Seite ist ein Porträtfoto von Jani Silva abgebildet, auf der rechten Seite sind neben den Daten zur Veranstaltung (Uhrzeit, Ort, Partner) ihre Diskussionspartnerin Laura Barrios Sbogal und die Moderation Juliana González angegeben.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Sep 4

📣 Welcome to our newest Associate Fellow: Frederik Schissler from @prif.org!

External actors increasingly internationalize intrastate conflicts. Frederik Schissler explores their different forms of involvement in civil wars & the resulting transformation.

🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Sep 3

📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025

Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social!

📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence
🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

Text reads: Beyond the Spectacle. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm. TraCe Annual Conference Marburg, November 19 – 21, 2025.
DIALOGPANEL (in GERMAN)
Gewalt in Zeitlupe: Fehlende Aufmerksamkeit für schleichende Zerstörung
Theresa Deichert (Kunsthistorikerin & Kuratorin), Carla Hinrichs (Klimaaktivistin),
Anika Oettler (Soziologin) & Jakob Simmank (Gesundheitsjournalist)
Moderation: Verena Mischitz

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (IN ENGLISH)
with more than 40 presenters on 8 panels and keynotes from
Rachel Pain (Newcastle University) & Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture).

Logos of Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, TraCe and the BMFTR are displayed. Picture shows a close-up of mold in black and white.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Sep 1

Danke KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN für den bewegenden Abend!

Am 22.08. eröffnete die von Theresa Deichert, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann @prif.org & Nadia Ismail kuratierte Ausstellung „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ mit mehr als 100 Besucher:innen & eindrücklichen Redebeiträgen.

www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Sieben Personen posieren für ein Gruppenfoto vor einer schwarzen Wand.

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PRIF @prif.org · Aug 30

Verschwindenlassen ist eine drastische Form unsichtbarer Gewalt. Zum Internationalen Tag der Opfer von Verschwindenlassen diskutieren Tina Cramer & Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann im #PRIFblog dessen verschiedene Formen. ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/08/30/z...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 28

📃The Brazilian Amazon is a dangerous place for social activists. In TraCe Policy Brief No. 10, Jonas Wolff @prif.org, Juan Albarracín, and Rodrigo Moura Karolczak examine the linkage between violence against social activists & deforestation:

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Cover of TraCe Policy Brief No. 10:

Violence against Social Activists in the Brazilian Amazon: The Role of Deforestation

Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Jonas Wolff

Photo shows a misty rainforest with smoke rising between the trees.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 27

The 2015 Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada report documented the devastating legacy of the Indian Residential School System. In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Rita Kopp (@prif.org) examines the Commission’s work, political progress & ongoing challenges.
🔗 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Cover of TraCe Policy Brief No. 9 titled Truth Spoken, Progress Delayed: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 22

Welche Mechanismen bestimmen die Sichtbarkeit oder Unsichtbarkeit von Gewalt?

Pünktlich zur Eröffnung der gleichnamigen Ausstellung heute um 19h in Gießen erscheint #TraCe Working Paper 6 „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ in Kooperation mit kunsthalle-giessen.de.

📃 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Cover des TraCe Working Papers No. 6. Abbildung zeigt: Ein elektrischer Stuhl steht in der Mitte eines kahlen Raumes. Auf der linken Seite ist ein rechteckiger Ausschnitt in der Wand, in der sich die Uhr, die hinter dem Stuhl an der Wand hängt spiegelt.

(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt

Hannah Ahlheim | Tina Cramer | Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann | Laura Guntrum | Nadia Ismail | Sabine Mannitz | Thilo Marauhn | Verena Lasso Mena | Anika Oettler | Regine Schwab | Sara-Luise Spittler | Jonas Wolff

Sonderausgabe in Kooperation mit der KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN.

TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 20

📺 TraCe Lecture Series – Part 1 now on YouTube
This year’s lecture series explored how political violence is remembered, institutionalized & contested. Part 2 kicks off in the upcoming winter semester @goetheuni.bsky.social!
▶️ Watch now on Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TraCe Lecture Series “Transformations of Political Violence: New Perspectives” - YouTube

This lecture series showcases new approaches to the changing forms, institutions, and interpretations of political violence as they are studied within TraCe....

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 18

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Elspeth Oppermann!
She will spend her Fellowship from mid-August to mid-November 2025 @zfk-mr.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social. Her research focuses on ethics & politics of heat stress risks arising from global heating.
👉Learn more: www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 7

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Liudmyla Pidkuimukha!
Our new Visiting Fellow @jlugiessen.bsky.social explores how language becomes a target, a tool and a site of resistance in the context of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war. ⬇️
www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 4

📣 Welcome to TraCe, Ayşe-Martina Böhringer. Our new Associate Fellow joins from @jlugiessen.bsky.social. In her research, she explores questions of collective security & and how international law can contain armed violence.
Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

TraCe @trace-center.de · Aug 1

📣 We warmly welcome our new Associate Fellow Markus Bayer!

As part of TraCe, he investigates the collective & individual knowledge in Germany regarding its colonial history in Namibia. He leads the project “Echoes of the Past” @prif.org.

Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

A portrait of Markus Bayer, a man with brown hair and beard, who wears glasses.

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Adam Kochanski @adamkochanski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Back in Toronto after spending last five weeks in Frankfurt at @goetheuni.bsky.social as a @trace-center.de Visiting Fellow. Huge thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and others in the Chair on International Institutions and Peace Processes for hosting me and stimulating discussions about IR norms research.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Jul 25

📢 KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN in Kooperation mit TraCe: Ausstellung zu „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“

Diese Gruppenausstellung nimmt vor allem oft unsichtbare Facetten wie strukturelle Gewalt in den Blick. Eröffnung: 22.08.2025, 19 Uhr

kunsthalle-giessen.de/en/2025_en_i...

Image: Lucinda Devlin

Auf dem Bild ist ein weißer mit einem verspiegelten Fenster auf der linken Seite und einer Uhr an der rechten Wand zu sehen. Im Zentrum steht ein Elektrischer Stuhl, der einem Holzstuhl ähnelt, der auf einer leicht erhöhten Plattform steht.

TraCe @trace-center.de · Jul 24

Beyond Crises: Resilience & (In)stability – TraCe at MSA

2025 marks a year of collective remembrance, raising questions about how societies recall turning points. Several TraCe members contributed to this year’s @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague: www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

A wood-panelled hall with a statue on the left and some flags on the right. People sit in rows to the right, listening to a speaker at the podium in front of them at the center of the picture.

A picture of A. Dirk Moses (right), Sabine Mannitz (middle) and Sally Ghattas (left).

Sabine Mannitz speaking at a podium at the left of the picture, while a presentation is projected at the wall behind her.

Kaya de Wolff stands at the left next to Jephta Nguherimo and speaks into a microphone, while a presentation is projected next to them on a screen.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Jul 16

🌏Ecocide as Political Violence?

On June 30, TraCe @tuda.bsky.social hosted a TraCe research colloquium, inviting practitioner's perspectives from @stopecocide.bsky.social & Ecocide Law Alliance to discuss Ecocide's legal, political, and economic dimensions.

www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

A room full of people sitting with their backs to the photographer. A woman is sitting at the front in the center, speaking to the group. Behind her, a presentation can be seen on a screen.

In the center of the picture is a man gesticulating in front of a screen.

TraCe @trace-center.de · Jul 15

Sally Ghattas (University of Sydney) joined us for a lunch talk @prif.org on Australia's genocide discourse & Aboriginal politics, with comments by @dirkmoses.bsky.social.

Both co-authored TraCe Working Paper No. 4, together with Sabine Mannitz & Núrel Reitz: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Over the heads of the audience, you can see Sally Ghattas standing and speaking. In the background is her presentation projected on a screen on the wall.

Four people stand next to a TraCe roll-up banner: A. Dirk Moses and Núrel Reitz on the left and Sabine Mannitz and Sally Ghattas on the right.

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