Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Experience the vibrant culture and sounds of Indonesia right in the heart of Berlin!

Artchipelago invites you to a full-day celebration featuring authentic street food, traditional crafts, interactive workshops, live performances, and music.

The workshop is the first event of the DFG project “Invisible Connections: Transdomesticity of Households in Global Comparison” (2026-2029). The project examines the diverse forms of households in urban contexts of the Global South—Nairobi (Kenya), Karachi (Pakistan), and Phnom Penh (Cambodia)—as well as in Berlin, serving as a decolonial counterpoint. It challenges conventional definitions of households as spatially bounded units of cohabitation and shared economy that are limited to the nuclear family. The study conceptualizes households as transdomestic collectives: multilocal, fluid entities shaped by both visible and invisible contributions to social reproduction. These include, for example, care work, financial support, spiritual practices, and digitally mediated services. 

In this first workshop of the project, mostly experts on Karachi will present their knowledge with a focus on households and their sociocultural embeddedness. 

The presentations will take one hour including discussion. 

The IAAW Study Day showcases research projects by students of our BA and MA programs. It also features a World Café Session on career perspectives alongside a MovieLog – this year on the implications of platform-economy-related employment precarity and livelihoods.

With a wide range of topics, this insightful, interactive, and thought-provoking event is well worth attending for anyone interested in New Area Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies and the wider Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

See the poster below for further program details.

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