Participation in Collaborative Networks

De:link // Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements

The network project De:link//Re:link investigates new spatial configurations and local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative initiated by China in 2013. link indicates the network's focus on local insights and new knowledges.

The overarching goal of cooperation among the four partners in the consortium (ZMO, HU Berlin, ZOiS, BICC) is to strengthen a pluri-directional exchange of knowledge and shared knowledge production between and of scholars and other academic actors in Germany and the core regions of research (Africa, Asia, Europe, Eurasia, Afrasia).

 

Working Group: Thinkers and Theorizing from the South

The working group ‘Thinkers and theorizing from the South’ was initiated in late 2018, in order to cultivate conversations and discussions on thinkers and regional intellectual histories, and more widely on ways of thinking and theorizing the world from the perspective of ZMO’s regions of research (as part of the wider so-called ‘Global South’). Related themes are covered and discussed among ZMO colleagues, together with further Berlin-based researchers at Free University Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin. In monthly meetings, we engage in interdisciplinary and inter-regional conversations, with a sense for the diverse (trans)regional intellectual traditions and languages, with an interest in the respective relevant key concepts, debates, genres, and arguments – all this also particularly with a view to current decolonial challenges, and to the need to redress the dominance of Eurocentrism in scholarship.

 

Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”

The central subject of the interdisciplinary Leibniz Research Network ‘Value of the Past’ (LFVWdV) is ‘Value formation processes and value competitions in social debates about the past’.


The research network analyses the significance and status of the past for societies, especially in times of political and social transformation processes, but also in crises and conflicts on a national or global scale. Researchers from 21 institutes, research museums and educational science institutions of the Leibniz Association work together with national and international co-operation partners within the framework of the network.

The ZMO is involved in the three thematic areas (HUBs) of the Leibniz research focus: Evidence Regimes, Spatiotemporal Patterns of Order and Past as a Public Resource.