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Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies
 
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies Research Research Fields

Dealing with the colonial past and the colonial heritage

About this research field

This field of research includes culture of memory and colonial past, provenance and restitution research, (post)colonial crisis phenomena and conflict dynamics, racism.

 

Projects

  • Dissertationsprojekt: Fragmente kolonialen Sammelns. Erinnerungskulturen zur Kamerun-Sammlung von Kurt Strümpell (1872-1947) im Museum und der mündlichen Überlieferung
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald | joint project: Provenance Research in Non-European Collection and Ethnography in Lower Saxony - PAESE
    Led by: Isabella Bozsa, M.A. (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2023
    Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
  • Afro-Costa Rican Foundational Literature: Approaching the Ignored Histories of Anglophone Production
    Supervision: Prof. Dr Anja Bandau, Romanic Seminar) and Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch (English Seminar)
    Led by: Karla Araya (Universidad de Costa Rica)
    Year: 2023
  • Colonial Traces in Hanover
    The realisation that Germany is a postcolonial society has become increasingly established among the German public in recent years. With this, the question of how Germany should deal with its own colonial past is also gaining in importance. In this context, projects on (post-)colonial tracing, especially those that turn their attention to hitherto less noticed locations, situations and actors, have a special academic and social relevance.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, Jana Nadine Otto, M.A
    Year: 2022
    Stürzender Adler Stürzender Adler
  • Dealing with Violence – Resolving Conflicts in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
    International Conference
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Year: 2022
    Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
    © College of Law and Governmance Studies Addis Ababa University
  • Erwerbsstrategien und Wissensproduktion von Objekten der kolonialen Kamerun-Sammlung des Landesmuseums Hannover
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald | joint project: Provenance Research in Non-European Collection and Ethnography in Lower Saxony - PAESE
    Led by: Bianca Baumann, M.A. (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2022
    Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
  • African and South Asian Diaspora Cultures in Contemporary Britain
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Year: 2022
  • The Literature of Post-Slavery: Imagining Agency after Abolition
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Year: 2022
  • Anthropology and Contemporary Visual Arts from the Black Atlantic
    Between the Art Museum and the Ethnological Museum in the Global North, Summer Schools in Dakar, Senegal (March 2019), Port-au-Prince, Haiti (June 2019) and Hannover (April 2020) / postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald
    Year: 2021
  • Territorio, Autonomía y Autodeterminación de las comunidades Mapuche. Una visión desde la palabra, la práctica y la legalidad
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Led by: Javier Lastra Bravo
    Year: 2020
  • Habilitation: Appropriations of Time and Space in Industrial Capitalist England. Historical Cultural Studies in Practice
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Led by: Dr. Ellen Grünkemeier (Englisch Seminar)
    Year: 2020
  • Dissertation: „Traditions can be changed: Tanzanian nationalist debates around decolonizing ‘race’ and gender, 1960s-1970s”
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, Prof. Dr. Mathias Bös
    Led by: Dr. des. Harald Barre (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2020
  • Dissertation: „Afrikanische Initiativen zur Abolition an der Goldküste, 1841-1897. Die Einstellung lokaler Akteure zu Sklaverei und Sklavenhandel“
    Published as: "From Slavery and Freedom. African Abolition Initiatives on the Gold Coast (1841-1897)“ (Frankfurt/Main: Campus 2019) Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, Prof. Dr. Jan-Georg Deutsch (†) (Universität Oxford)
    Led by: Dr. Steffen Runkel (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2019
    Funding: DFG (Verbundprojekt „Nach der Sklaverei. Die Karibik und Afrika im Vergleich“)
  • Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Studying Postcolonial Readers in the Internet Era
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch)
    Led by: Hannah Pardey
    Year: 2019
  • „Disparate Zukunftsvorstellungen. Kolonialbewegte Jugend zwischen der Weimarer Republik und dem Mandatsgebiet Südwestafrika“
    Published as: „Kolonial bewegte Jugend. Beziehungsgeschichten zwischen Deutschland und Südwestafrika zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik“ (Bielefeld: transcript 2019) | Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther (Universität Wien)
    Led by: Dr. Susanne Heyn (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2019
  • Erinnerungen an die atlantische Sklaverei. Frankreich und Spanien, die französische Karibik und Kuba im Vergleich und im Kontext globaler Debatten um das Gedenken an Sklavenhandel und Sklaverei
    Based on the researcher's studies on slavery and postemancipation, especially on the French overseas department of Martinique and on formerly Spanish Cuba, the treatment of historical remains (plantations with the houses of the enslavers and accommodations of the enslaved) and the establishment of memorial sites (monuments and museums) in France and Spain, Martinique and Cuba are examined in the context of global debates on enslavement and remembering, apologising, compensating.
    Led by: PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder
    Year: 2018
    Duration: 2018-2022
    © Ulrike Schmieder
  • PAESE - Provenance Research in Non-European Collection and Ethnography in Lower Saxony
    The PAESE joint research project is based on close cooperation between the universities of Hanover, Göttingen and Oldenburg and various museums in Lower Saxony (Hanover, Hildesheim, Göttingen, Braunschweig & Oldenburg). By jointly researching the non-European ethnological collections there with researchers and museum representatives from the different regions of origin (Namibia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Central Australia & Papua New Guinea), the project systematically contributes to the international transfer of knowledge between universities and museums.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Reinwald
    Year: 2018
    Duration: 2018-2022
  • Dissertation: „Die Familie als (anti-)koloniale Metonymie: Jamaika und Südafrika in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. (The Family as Anti-Colonial Metonymy: Jamaica and South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century)“
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Led by: Henning Marquardt (Englisches Seminar)
    Year: 2014
  • Handlungsstrategien ehemaliger Sklaven und Sklavinnen in Kuba und Martinique nach der Abschaffung der Sklaverei
    This project aims to examine the period after the abolition of slavery on the Caribbean islands of Cuba (1886) and Martinique (1848) with regard to the transition from slave labour to other forms of labour (forced labour, free wage labour, share cropping), the transformations of gender relations with regard to new divisions of labour, new forms of couple and family relationships, intra- and inter-ethnic conflicts as well as the political and cultural resistance of the former slaves against new bondage and racial discrimination as well as cultural paternalism by state and church authorities. | Sub-project of the joint project: "After Slavery - The Caribbean and Africa in Comparison
    Led by: PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder
    Year: 2010
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2010-2014
  • After Slavery - Comparing the Caribbean and Africa
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald
    Year: 2010
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2010-2013
  • Afro-American Missionaries and Settlers in West Africa
    Part of the joint project "After Slavery - Comparing the Caribbean and Africa".
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Katja Füllberg-Stolberg
    Year: 2010
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2010-2013

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