Africa and Asia beyond the Headlines
Lecture series Asia Africa Institute
The lecture series "Africa and Asia beyond the Headlines" highlights contemporary events in regions of the two continents that receive little or no media coverage. By providing re-gional expertise and historical insight, the series aims to be informative and accessible to a wide audience and bring other perspectives on events or countries general known but little understood. It aims to give students and the academic community key elements to understand social and political developments in the region.
Friday 14:00 – 16:00 (CET), Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Lecture Hall H
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lectures in detail
10.04.2026
Mercy and Mortality in Maguindanao (Philippines): Peace, Power, and Community in the Bangsamoro Peace Process
Georgi Engelbrecht, International Crisis Group, Manila (Philippines)
17.04.2026
Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia - Imaginaries of Prosperity and Politics of Control
Amanuel Tesfaye Kebede, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Helsinki (Finland)
24.04.2026
Artificial Propaganda in Africa
Prof. Henning Schreiber, African Studies, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
08.05.2026
Guinea’s Coup, Military Rule and Elections: Media and Public Opinion
Dr. Gardy Stein, African Studies, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
22.05.2026
Port Politics and the Reconfiguration of the Horn of Africa
Tirsit Yetbarek, Head of Somaliland’s Center for African Studies/ Senior Researcher at Jigjiga University (Ethiopia)
29.05.2026
The Qeerroo and the Oromo Youth Protests in Ethiopia
Getaneh Wudeneh, Ph.D. Candidate, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (France)
05.06.2026
The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON): Football Tournament and the Improvement of the Quality of Play in Relation to the Bosman Ruling of 1995 in Europe
Dr. Mukhtar Lawan (rer. nat.), Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Hamburg
Thursday, 11.06.2026 – 18:00-20:00 CET
Asia floods in 2025. Indonesian case
Dr. David Gaveau, TheTreeMap (France/Indonesia)
12.06.2026
Political violence and genocide in Indonesia and Ethiopia: Historical memory
Double-lecture, in conversation: Prof. Dr. Elsa Clavé, Austronesian Studies / Prof. Dr. Hewan Semon Marye, African Studies, both, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
19.06.2026
Misrepresentations of Granular Commodity Prices in Nigeria
Buhari Abubakar, Deekwambos Farm Ltd/FarmRate + CGI (Nigeria)
26.06.2026
Elephant(s) in the Room. Southeast Asia between China and the US
Prof. Dr. Thomas Engelbert, Vietnamese Studies, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
03.07.2026
Land, deforestation and women’s resistance in West Papua
Marion Struck-Garbe, Austronesian Studies, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
10.07.2026
One Name, Many Lives: How Media and Politics Collapse Fulani Identity into “Herdsmen”
Dr. Umma Aliyu Musa, African Studies, Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg
17.07.2026
Roundtable: The challenges of reporting from and on Asia and Africa from Europe
Amir Aman Kiyaro, former journalist with AP in Ethiopia / Philipp Abresch und Udo Schmidt, both journalists, former correspondents in Southeast and East Asia, NDR
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