Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Current Research Projects:

• Where have all the workers gone? labour and Work in Ghana, 1951-2010
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Hedvig Lagercrantz, Felix Yao Amenorhu (10/2022 - 09/2025)
• Pharmacy and Colonialism. Preliminary study
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Tristan Oestermann, together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer, Kim Sebastian Todzi (University of Hamburg) (09/2022 - 08/2023)
• Provenance of “Kolonialdubletten”: Actor Networks and Infrastructures of Accumulation in East and Central Africa (1880-1939)
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Dr. Patrick Hege (03/2022 - 02/2024)
• Making the African University: Histories of Inquiry in Eastern Africa, 1750-1985
  Dr. Morgan Robinson (05/2021 – 05/2022)

• Sprache und Identität: Reaktionen lokaler Sprachen und ihrer Sprecher auf Veränderungen ihres physischen und emotionalen Lebensraumes
  Dr. Linda Gerlach (04/2021 – 03/2024)

• Eine Neuvermessung des kulturellen Feldes: zur Rolle der Konfuzius-Institute in Ost- und Westafrika. Teilprojekt im Verbundprojekt De:link / Re:link - Localperspectives on transregional (dis-)entaglements
  Prof Dr Susanne Gehrmann (04/2021 - 03/2024)

• Die Politik der Kampagne. Temporale und räumliche Konfigurationen kolonialer Governmentalität in den britischen Kolonien Ostafrikas, 1919-1960
  Dr Michael Pesek (09/2020 - 08/2023)

• Financialized Adulthood in Germany
  Dr Hadas Weiss (10/2020 - 09/2023)

• The Berlin Mission Archive as a repository of African knowledge
  Dr Annekie Joubert & Prof Lize Kriel 

• Noun classification in Africa between gender and nominal declension (deriflection)
  Prof Dr Tom Güldemann & Dr Ines Fiedler (04/2020 - 03/2023)

• Generic innovations, intermedial aesthetics and the circulation of African literatures: Togo in a comparative perspective
  Prof Dr Susanne Gehrmann (04/2020 - 07/2020)

• Gendering Military Communities: Black Civilian Women and Apartheid South Africa’s Military
  Dr. Lennart Bolliger (2019 - 2021)

• The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)
  Dr Beate Althammer (11/2018 - 02/2024)

• Whaleboats in the Forest: History and Anthropology of Engines, Materials and Mobility on the Upper Congo River (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  Dr Peter Lambertz (03/2019 - 08/2020)

• Transport in Africa
  Dr Marie Huber, Dr Peter Lambertz in collaboration with Baz Lecoq, Alina Oswald, Norman Aselmeyer, Daniel Tödt, William Lyon and Robert Heintze (since 03/2019)

• A documentation of the remnant Baka-Gundi language Limassa
  Prof Dr Tom Güldemann, Benedikt Winkhart (07/2016 - 08/2020)

Upcoming Research Projects

• Au-delà des ténèbres. Darstellung und Begründung von Gewalt in der kongolesischen Literatur nach 1960 
  

  Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann, Prof. Dr. Marie Guthmüller  (01.04.2024 - 31.03.2027)

Completed Research Projects