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16.-17.02.2026 BCCN Event: Studying Global China Workshop

 

February 16th & 17th

Studying 'Global China' presents unique challenges. For researchers trained in Sinology, engaging with China's global entanglements requires new methodological approaches. For those from social science backgrounds, language barriers and limited historical or cultural knowledge can complicate research on China's global influence. The "Studying Global China" workshop offers a platform to explore these challenges, reflect on research approaches, and exchange fieldwork experiences. Connect with fellow scholars over coffee and snacks, listen to inspiring lectures on current issues, and learn with and from each other: Who is working on what? What are your fieldwork experiences? Join us for two days of debate and networking at Humboldt University Berlin!

This year's workshop features Ching Kwan Lee as keynote speaker. Professor Lee teaches Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is widely known for her book The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). She currently edits the Cambridge Elements in Global China series and co-convenes the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.

In addition, on Monday, February 16th, there will be lectures by Claus Soong (MERICS), Daniel Sprick (Universität Köln) and John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt University Berlin). On February 17th, based on participants' interests, there will be space for informal sessions on specific topics as well as a feedback session with C. K. Lee.

Participation is open to PhD students, postdocs, and other interested Berlin-based scholars. M.A./M.Sc. students may also join, depending on available capacity. Registration is possible until February 8th, 2026.

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Would you like to receive feedback on your research project in a small group setting with C. K. Lee?

We invite PhD students to submit a one-page summary of their research project (350–500 words). Your submission should outline your research question, methodology, current stage of research, and the status of your data collection. The workshop is open to all PhD students, with a preference for those in the early stages of planning, about to begin fieldwork, or who have recently conducted fieldwork. Please send your one-pager via email to merle.groneweg@hu-berlin.de

 

Monday, February 16th, 2026


10:00-10:15am Arrival & Welcome

10:15-11:45 am
Researching Global China: A Primer
Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA)

How does one go about researching global China? This talk offers theoretical and methodological suggestions to scholars interested in documenting and analyzing China's multi-faceted global engagement. We will first discuss two broad approaches in the field of Global China Studies in which scholars either focus on (1) grand strategy, elite discourses and aggregate tendencies or (2) granular dynamics of locality specific cases. Then, we will explore how empirical research can be formulated to move beyond this bifurcation by pursue "extensions" to theory, comparison, connection and circulation.

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Ching Kwan Lee is professor in the department of Sociology at UCLA. She is a sociologist working at the intersection of global and comparative issues, including labor, political sociology, global development, decolonization, comparative ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Africa. She has published three multiple award-winning monographs on contemporary China, forming a trilogy of Chinese capitalism through the lens of labor and working class experiences. The last of those monographs, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago 2017), follows the footsteps of Chinese state investors to Zambia and compares its relation with African state and labor to other global private investors. She is currently working on a monograph, Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Struggle for Decolonization (Harvard, under contract), the series editor of Cambridge Elements in Global China, and a convener of the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.

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12:00pm -1:00 pm
China's Global Strategy in East Asia
Claus Soong (MERICS)
[abstract to follow soon]

 

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Claus Soong specializes in China's global strategy with a particular focus on China's role in the Asia-Pacific and the Global South, China-US relations and Hong Kong. Prior to joining MERICS, he gained experience working with organizations such as the International Crisis Group and the Center for China and Globalization in Hong Kong and Beijing, and Greenmantle in New York.

Claus holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Delaware, a Master of Management Science in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar, and Master and Bachelor of Laws degrees from National Chengchi University in Taipei.


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2:00-3:00 pm
Legal Dimensions of China-Latin America Engagement: From the BRI to a Foreign-Related Rule of Law
Daniel Sprick (University of Cologne)

At a time when the international order is being challenged by one of its former champions, China wants to be seen as a responsible superpower that adheres to the sober principles of rule-based governance. In recent years, the rhetoric surrounding China's "Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics" has been bolstered by the development of "Xi Jinping Legal Thought", which also encompasses a concept called "foreign-related rule of law (FRROL)". Under this umbrella term, China has created a domestic legal framework for its international relations and strives to increase the global discourse power of its laws, courts, and legal professionals. However, the greater international reach of China's legal system is not only intended to safeguard a rule-based order. China's FRROL is explicitly designed to advance Chinese interests and protect Chinese actors against the long-arm jurisdiction of other countries.


This talk will introduce the core principles and main mechanisms of China's domestic legal framework for promoting the FRROL agenda, demonstrating its implementation in the legal engagements of Chinese actors in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as weöö as illustrating the complexities that must be navigated for China's FRROL to fulfill its promise of a rule-based Global China.

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Daniel Sprick is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne. He was awarded the Hanenburg-Yntema Fund Prize for a thesis on competition law and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the limits of self-defense in Chinese criminal law. His research interests include contemporary Chinese criminal law, AI regulation, and the inter- and transnational dimensions of Chinese law. He is currently PI in a research projects on Chinese Smart Courts and in a project on the application of "Socialist Core Values" in Chinese courts. His most recent publications deal with, among other things, the influence of the media on criminal proceedings in China, developments in predictive policing in China, the State Immunity Law, and the value alignment of AI in China. He has advised the European Parliament and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on issues such as investor-state dispute settlement, China's international trade courts, and China's understanding of human rights.
 

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3:30-4:30 pm
New Silk Roads: Global China and Decolonial Knowledge Production
John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt University Berlin)


With a focus on old and new silk roads, we shall discuss: knowledge archives about global China; how knowledge production about global China has evolved; how coloniality framed global China and afterlives thereof; and complexities of decolonial knowledge production about global China. We shall use case studies from my research about New Silk Roads including a film excerpt from the documentary film "New Silk Roads in Global and Local Politics" that I made in 2025. The film 'New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics' is a journey along maritime and land routes of the New Silk Roads from Xi'an to Mombasa, Duisburg to Chongqing, Gwadar to Makassar, Strait of Mallaca to Athens etc. It emerged from an attempt at understanding the impact and reception of infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across Africa, Asia and Europe. The film illuminates local receptions and implications of China's global investments in transregional infrastructure projects.

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John Njenga Karugia is a scholar of Transregional Memory Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Africa-China Relations, Asia Pacific Studies and Area Studies. His research is currently based at the Humboldt University of Berlin within the De:Link // Re:Link research consortium. He is a member of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform with a focus on memory politics, memory ethics and responsible cosmopolitanism. He is a Visiting Professor at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia, with a focus on transoceanic maritime research, and teaching that focus on diverse aspects of the Afrasian Sea, otherwise referred to as; Ziwa Kuu, Bahari, Ratnakara, the Swahili Sea, Indian Ocean, Bahari Hindi. He has travelled widely for research stints in many countries. His research has been featured within various international exhibitions such as 'Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora' at Gropius Bau in 2023 and 'Gardens in Transition: Commitments, Obligations and Practices.' As a documentary film-maker, he has made two films: "Afrasian Memories in East Africa" (2018) and "New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics" (2025). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, Shanghai Maritime University, Quaid e Azam University etc.

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February 17th


Informal sessions among PhD students as well feedback session with C. K. Lee.

11.02.2026 BCCN Film Screening: Bad Women of China（中华坏女人)

  • Wann 11.02.2026 von 18:30 bis 20:30
  • Wo Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin, Room 315
  • Name des Kontakts
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In what began as an attempt at reconciling with her mother, He Xiaopei’s first feature-length documentary takes us from the 1920-2020s through the lives, desires, and willpower of her mother, herself, and her daughter. As they experience political and social revolution, bend the rules and are desperate for a life to call one’s own, each woman passes to the next the most tender lover, but also, unintentionally, trauma.

A film by He Xiaopei. China, 2021, 82 minutes. Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

Dr. He Xiaopei is an independent film director and the founder of Pink Space, a Beijing-based NGO dedicated to promoting sexual rights and gender equality.As a teenager, Xiaopei worked as a shepherd in the hills. After graduating from university, she joined the Chinese Mountaineering Team and climbed the Himalayas, including the Namcha Barwa summit. Following her mountaineering career, she served as an economist at the State Council, conducting research on economic reform for 14 years.Since the 1990s, Xiaopei has been active in the feminist and lesbian movements in China and participated in the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. She later moved to the UK to pursue studies in sexuality and cultural studies, earning a Ph.D. before returning to China, where she founded Pink Space and began working with film as a medium to represent marginalised desires and lives.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät | Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften | ㅤOSTASIEN | Neuigkeiten | Termine | 28.01.2026 BCCN Talk: Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements

28.01.2026 BCCN Talk: Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements

 

https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/61485852898?pwd=fpQpvmsjen4unCMWPaU2zfc0SIf8d5.1

Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere, a recently published anthology edited by Elisabeth Lund Eengebretsen and Jinyan Zeng, explores the vibrancy and complexity of feminist activism across the Sinosphere in the Xi era. The book brings together scholars and scholar-activists to examine urgent issues such as the #MeToo movement, digital feminist mobilizations, online misogyny, and the lived experiences of queer, trans, and ethnic minority communities.. The BCCN conversation with Engebretsen and Zeng delves into how feminist engagements in China and beyond reconfigure activism through art, media, and digital platforms. By reflecting on the global and academic context of undertaking this kind of research, Engebretsen and Zeng offer fresh insights into the possibilities and challenges of building solidarities and producing critical knowledge in the post-2010s Sinosphere and beyond.

Bio:

Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen (she/they) is Professor of Gender Research in the Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway. A trained anthropologist, sinologist and feminist and queer studies scholar, Engebretsen specializes in ethnographic analyses of gender and sexual diversities, intersectional inequalities, political activism and theory-building in the empirical contexts of China, East Asia, transnational cultures, and Nordic Europe. Recent and current work focus on Nordic and transnational anti-LGBTQ+ mobilizations, Pride politics and activist engagements, climate justice and lesbian and queer history. Most recently, Engebretsen co-edited the anthology Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere (Bloomsbury 2024; with Jinyan Zeng) and published a chapter on queer climate justice for the anthology Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures (Berghahn 2025).

Dr. Jinyan Zeng 曾金燕 was born and raised as an ethnic Hakka in China. Since 2021, she has been affiliated with the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She is a scholar, creative writer, and documentary filmmaker. She earned her PhD in Gender and Sexuality from The University of Hong Kong and subsequently held fellowships at Colby College in the United States (2017) and at the University of Haifa in Israel (2020). Her research focuses on gender and sexuality, culture and politics, intellectual identity and activism, and ethnicity, with an emphasis on the Chinese speaking world. Zeng authored Feminism and Genesis of Citizen Intelligentsia in China (2016), co-edited Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere (with Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, 2024) and co-directed the documentary film Outcry and Whisper (2020, with Wen Hai and Trish McAdam). She has two forthcoming books—Structures of Affect: A Feminist Approach to China’s Political Culture (Bloomsbury) and Chinese Women Intellectuals (tentative title, Routledge).

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät | Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften | ㅤOSTASIEN | Neuigkeiten | Termine | 27.01.2026 BCCN & LMRG Lecture: Reputation Collectives: The Allure of Modernization: Guizhou’s Shift from Inclusive Development to Indebted Growth

27.01.2026 BCCN & LMRG Lecture: Reputation Collectives: The Allure of Modernization: Guizhou’s Shift from Inclusive Development to Indebted Growth

  • Wann 27.01.2026 von 17:00 bis 18:30
  • Wo Seminar für Ostasienstudien, Raum 201
  • Name des Kontakts
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Under what conditions will leaders of a developing economy resist dominant ideologies of modernization and development? If modernization implies maximizing GDP growth through urbanization, high-tech industry, and large-scale production, then Guizhou province in China once charted an opposing path. For more than two decades beginning in the mid-1980s, Guizhou prioritized rural-based development, that is, investing in infrastructure and livelihood opportunities that directly benefited the rural poor. Consequently, despite posting China's slowest GDP growth, the province achieved faster poverty reduction and rural income gains than many of its faster-growing neighbors. Yet by 2010, a new provincial regime embraced a mainstream modernization agenda centered on large-scale infrastructure and high-tech industries, especially big data. As a result, although GDP growth accelerated, poverty alleviation and rural income gains lagged, while Guizhou became China's most indebted province. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2025, John A. Donaldson analyzes the dialectical political forces and outcomes of these two divergent strategies, thereby highlighting the trade-offs between growth-centered modernization and more inclusive, rural-based development. He then exemplifies how this "Guizhou model" has been applied in other contexts, examining cases from countries ranging from Switzerland and Scotland to Costa Rica, Colombia, Chicago, and Hong Kong.

Bio:

John A. Donaldson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU). He researches on politics, rural development and poverty in China and elsewhere, having conducted extensive fieldwork in rural India and Thailand, as well as in Singapore.

John Donaldson is the author of Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China (Cornell University Press, 2011). His research has also been published in journals such as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Society, China Journal, China Quarterly and Journal of Contemporary Asia.

22.01.2026 BCCN Lecture: Government as Venture Capitalists in AI

  • Wann 22.01.2026 von 14:15 bis 15:45
  • Wo Online via Webex
  • Name des Kontakts
  • iCal

 

Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors’ deep knowledge of the technology, industry, and institutions, as well as their long-running relationships with the entrepreneurship and innovation community. China, in its pursuit of global leadership in AI innovation and technology, has set up government venture capital funds so that both national and local governments act as venture capitalists. These government-led venture capital funds combine features of private venture capital with traditional government innovation policies. In this paper, we collect comprehensive data on China’s government and private venture capital funds. We draw three important contrasts between government and private VC funds: (i) government funds are spatially more dispersed than private funds; (ii) government funds invest in firms with weaker ex-ante performance signals but these firms exhibit growth rates exceeding those of firms in which private funds invest; and (iii) private VC funds follow government VC investments, especially when hometown government funds directly invest on firms with weaker ex-ante performance signals. We interpret these patterns in light of VC funds’ traditional role overcoming information frictions and China’s unique institutional environment, which includes important frictions on mobility and information.

 

Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a

 

Bio:

David Y. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard. David is a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER, a Global Scholar at CIFAR, and a fellow at BREAD. David’s research focuses on political economy. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China. David received a B.A. in Statistics and B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley, and PhD in Economics from Stanford.

 

 

February 16th & 17th

Studying 'Global China' presents unique challenges. For researchers trained in Sinology, engaging with China's global entanglements requires new methodological approaches. For those from social science backgrounds, language barriers and limited historical or cultural knowledge can complicate research on China's global influence. The "Studying Global China" workshop offers a platform to explore these challenges, reflect on research approaches, and exchange fieldwork experiences. Connect with fellow scholars over coffee and snacks, listen to inspiring lectures on current issues, and learn with and from each other: Who is working on what? What are your fieldwork experiences? Join us for two days of debate and networking at Humboldt University Berlin!

This year's workshop features Ching Kwan Lee as keynote speaker. Professor Lee teaches Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is widely known for her book The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). She currently edits the Cambridge Elements in Global China series and co-convenes the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.

In addition, on Monday, February 16th, there will be lectures by Claus Soong (MERICS), Daniel Sprick (Universität Köln) and John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt University Berlin). On February 17th, based on participants' interests, there will be space for informal sessions on specific topics as well as a feedback session with C. K. Lee.

Participation is open to PhD students, postdocs, and other interested Berlin-based scholars. M.A./M.Sc. students may also join, depending on available capacity. Registration is possible until February 8th, 2026.

————

Would you like to receive feedback on your research project in a small group setting with C. K. Lee?

We invite PhD students to submit a one-page summary of their research project (350–500 words). Your submission should outline your research question, methodology, current stage of research, and the status of your data collection. The workshop is open to all PhD students, with a preference for those in the early stages of planning, about to begin fieldwork, or who have recently conducted fieldwork. Please send your one-pager via email to merle.groneweg@hu-berlin.de

 

Monday, February 16th, 2026


10:00-10:15am Arrival & Welcome

10:15-11:45 am
Researching Global China: A Primer
Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA)

How does one go about researching global China? This talk offers theoretical and methodological suggestions to scholars interested in documenting and analyzing China's multi-faceted global engagement. We will first discuss two broad approaches in the field of Global China Studies in which scholars either focus on (1) grand strategy, elite discourses and aggregate tendencies or (2) granular dynamics of locality specific cases. Then, we will explore how empirical research can be formulated to move beyond this bifurcation by pursue "extensions" to theory, comparison, connection and circulation.

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Ching Kwan Lee is professor in the department of Sociology at UCLA. She is a sociologist working at the intersection of global and comparative issues, including labor, political sociology, global development, decolonization, comparative ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Africa. She has published three multiple award-winning monographs on contemporary China, forming a trilogy of Chinese capitalism through the lens of labor and working class experiences. The last of those monographs, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago 2017), follows the footsteps of Chinese state investors to Zambia and compares its relation with African state and labor to other global private investors. She is currently working on a monograph, Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Struggle for Decolonization (Harvard, under contract), the series editor of Cambridge Elements in Global China, and a convener of the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.

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12:00pm -1:00 pm
China's Global Strategy in East Asia
Claus Soong (MERICS)
[abstract to follow soon]

 

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Claus Soong specializes in China's global strategy with a particular focus on China's role in the Asia-Pacific and the Global South, China-US relations and Hong Kong. Prior to joining MERICS, he gained experience working with organizations such as the International Crisis Group and the Center for China and Globalization in Hong Kong and Beijing, and Greenmantle in New York.

Claus holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Delaware, a Master of Management Science in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar, and Master and Bachelor of Laws degrees from National Chengchi University in Taipei.


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2:00-3:00 pm
Legal Dimensions of China-Latin America Engagement: From the BRI to a Foreign-Related Rule of Law
Daniel Sprick (University of Cologne)

At a time when the international order is being challenged by one of its former champions, China wants to be seen as a responsible superpower that adheres to the sober principles of rule-based governance. In recent years, the rhetoric surrounding China's "Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics" has been bolstered by the development of "Xi Jinping Legal Thought", which also encompasses a concept called "foreign-related rule of law (FRROL)". Under this umbrella term, China has created a domestic legal framework for its international relations and strives to increase the global discourse power of its laws, courts, and legal professionals. However, the greater international reach of China's legal system is not only intended to safeguard a rule-based order. China's FRROL is explicitly designed to advance Chinese interests and protect Chinese actors against the long-arm jurisdiction of other countries.


This talk will introduce the core principles and main mechanisms of China's domestic legal framework for promoting the FRROL agenda, demonstrating its implementation in the legal engagements of Chinese actors in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as weöö as illustrating the complexities that must be navigated for China's FRROL to fulfill its promise of a rule-based Global China.

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Daniel Sprick is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne. He was awarded the Hanenburg-Yntema Fund Prize for a thesis on competition law and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the limits of self-defense in Chinese criminal law. His research interests include contemporary Chinese criminal law, AI regulation, and the inter- and transnational dimensions of Chinese law. He is currently PI in a research projects on Chinese Smart Courts and in a project on the application of "Socialist Core Values" in Chinese courts. His most recent publications deal with, among other things, the influence of the media on criminal proceedings in China, developments in predictive policing in China, the State Immunity Law, and the value alignment of AI in China. He has advised the European Parliament and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on issues such as investor-state dispute settlement, China's international trade courts, and China's understanding of human rights.
 

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3:30-4:30 pm
New Silk Roads: Global China and Decolonial Knowledge Production
John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt University Berlin)


With a focus on old and new silk roads, we shall discuss: knowledge archives about global China; how knowledge production about global China has evolved; how coloniality framed global China and afterlives thereof; and complexities of decolonial knowledge production about global China. We shall use case studies from my research about New Silk Roads including a film excerpt from the documentary film "New Silk Roads in Global and Local Politics" that I made in 2025. The film 'New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics' is a journey along maritime and land routes of the New Silk Roads from Xi'an to Mombasa, Duisburg to Chongqing, Gwadar to Makassar, Strait of Mallaca to Athens etc. It emerged from an attempt at understanding the impact and reception of infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across Africa, Asia and Europe. The film illuminates local receptions and implications of China's global investments in transregional infrastructure projects.

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John Njenga Karugia is a scholar of Transregional Memory Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Africa-China Relations, Asia Pacific Studies and Area Studies. His research is currently based at the Humboldt University of Berlin within the De:Link // Re:Link research consortium. He is a member of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform with a focus on memory politics, memory ethics and responsible cosmopolitanism. He is a Visiting Professor at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia, with a focus on transoceanic maritime research, and teaching that focus on diverse aspects of the Afrasian Sea, otherwise referred to as; Ziwa Kuu, Bahari, Ratnakara, the Swahili Sea, Indian Ocean, Bahari Hindi. He has travelled widely for research stints in many countries. His research has been featured within various international exhibitions such as 'Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora' at Gropius Bau in 2023 and 'Gardens in Transition: Commitments, Obligations and Practices.' As a documentary film-maker, he has made two films: "Afrasian Memories in East Africa" (2018) and "New Silk Roads in Local and Global Politics" (2025). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, Shanghai Maritime University, Quaid e Azam University etc.

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February 17th


Informal sessions among PhD students as well feedback session with C. K. Lee.