LIAS Kolloquium Winter 2026/27
14. Oct - 27. Jan
In the winter semester 2026/27, the LIAS Colloquium will open its doors to the university community for the first time. The Fellows will present their current research projects, offering insights into the questions, methods and perspectives that shape their work. The weekly colloquium provides a space for focused exchange on the diverse research projects pursued at LIAS. All members of the university community are warmly invited to discover the programme and engage with the Fellows’ research.
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Senior Fellow Gertrud Koch
Animation – On the Relationship between Technology and Aesthetics
Campus Central Building| C40.704
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Artist Fellow Chepape Makgato
Reconfiguration, Recalibration and Redress of WHAG's Collection: Africa in Conversation with Europe
Campus Central Building| C40.704
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Justyna Aniceta Turkowska
„Forward Ever, Backward Never“: Ghana’s Triangular Scientific-Technical and Material Entanglements in the Cold War
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Faculty Fellow Natascha Zaun
The Effect of Judicial (In)Dependence on Asylum Status Determination
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Senior Fellow Ranabir Samaddar
Urban Futures in the South
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Liz Schoppelrei
Fan Edits as Queer Insistence
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 2 Dec 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Prerna Agarwal
Labour politics and Muslim Nationalism in Late Colonial Calcutta
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Mehmet Celil Çelebi
The Narcissistic Grammar of Populist Nationalism across Cases
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 9 Dec 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow María Laura Mazzoni
Divorce as a Privilege? Reflections on Subaltern Women and Their Strategies in the Judicial Arena
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2026, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Kirsten Kamphuis
The Archival Gap: Methodological Reflections on Leftist Women’s Internationalism during the Cold War
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 13 Jan 2027, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Senior Fellow Paula Banerjee
The City and its Intimate Labour: Women in the Informal Sectors
Campus Central Building| C40.530
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2027, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Koyal Verma
Decolonizing African Identity and History: Institutional Practices, State Intervention, and Artistic Sovereignty in Germany and India
Campus Central Building| C40.704
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2027, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
LIAS Fellow Maddalena Fragnito
Luxury Bunker Theory
Campus Central Building| C40.530