Joint event by the project team LANUSYNCON (At the Science Policy Interface: LANd Use SYNergies and CONflicts within the framework of the 2030 Agenda) at ZEF and the Staff Unit for the Bonn Research Alliance (BORA), University of Bonn
» moreSymposium at ZEF on the occasion of international One Health Day.
» moreShared Experiences - Pooling Resources: Teaching and Qualification Programs "South-South-North"
» moreA changing world - sustainable and resilient dryland food systems
» moreEvent co-organized by the RLC Campus Bonn: Lecture by Nnimmo Bassey (Laureate of the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation)
» moreThe first major Crossroads Asia conference on "Figurations of Mobility" will be held from November 22-24, 2012 in Berlin. This conference aims to provide a forum to discuss approaches of figurational sociology with the objective to re-conceptualize Area Studies. Theoretical advantages and shortcomings will be related to concepts such as networks or translocality and empirical case studies.
» moreThe competence network 'Crossroads Asia' convened an international conference on 'Figurations of Mobility' in Berlin on November 22-24. Conrad Schetter, acting director of ZEF, chaired the kick-off panel on figurational analysis within the context of area studies.
» moreThis workshop at ZEF continued the research efforts on urban climate change adaptation within the International Consortium for Comparative Water and Development Studies (ICCWaDS), in which ZEF has been collaborating with SOAS in London and the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, since 2011.
» moreZEF participated in the 2nd Scientific Conference of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) on the "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas", held in Bonn, April 9-12, 2013.
» moreZEF will co-organize a public panel discussion on:
"Women's rights in Afghanistan: status quo and post-2014" on May 27, 2 p.m.
in cooperation with RLC, BICC and Cross Roads Asia.
» morePlease note:
ZEF is an interdisciplinary research institute with a focus on research in, with, and for the Global South. In our public lectures series, external invited speakers talk about their work and express their own opinions, ideas and views which do not necessarily constitute ZEF’s official position.
