The Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies further expanded its activities within its research networks in 2024-25. Numerous lectures, guest residencies, and research trips were organized through the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) and the collaborative project ConnecCaribbean / Connected Worlds. Among others associated with CEAGS are the postdoctoral program with African universities Knowledge for Tomorrow: Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities in Sub-Saharan and North Africa, the multi-year research IberLAND: Beyond Property. Law and Land in the Iberian World (1510-1850), the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Hollywood Memories. Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations, as well as the projects Global Situation Analysis on the Health of Indigenous Peoples, funded by the WHO, and Ethnographic and Anthropological War Loot from Military Expeditions in German East Africa as Collection Items for German Museums, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation.
Projects that have recently received substantial third-party funding include the "Change Fellowship" (Volkswagen Foundation) of Dr. Javier Lastra-Bravo (At the Crossroads of Global Just Energy Transition: EU's Lithium Policy and Its Impact on Indigenous Communities in South America's Lithium Triangle), the DFG-funded research group of Prof. Dr. Anja Bandau on TransExile, Negotiations of Aesthetics and Community in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, and the Emmy Noether Research Group of Dr. Carmen Becker on The Reproduction of Religion in Secular Societies.
The expertise of CEAGS members is receiving national and international attention, as demonstrated, for example, by the book The Foreign Office and the Colonies: History, Memory, Heritage, co-edited by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald (African History), which was presented at the Federal Foreign Office in June 2024.
In addition, the junior researchers at CEAGS defended two dissertations (Dr. Natascha Rempel on the Cuban cultural magazine "Diásporas" and transatlantic intellectuals, and Dr. Ronja Hollstein on the discourse of the Colombian guerrilla group FARC-EP in the peace processes of El Caguán (1998-2002) and La Habana (2012-2016)) and submitted another (Wolf Behnsen: Broken Chains and Broken Dreams: Christian Mission and the Transformation of Unfreedom in Suriname, 1863-1900).
