News & Events Archive
Public Debate on "Researching Regionalism. The Case of ASEAN: Harmonizing Migration Policy"
On Monday 4 May 2015 Dr. Stefan Rother will participate in a public debate at the Office of United Nations and International Organizations, Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs
FRIAS Lunch Lecture on Thursday, 07 May
The presentation of "The Javanese in Southeast Sulawesi, c. 1930-2014" will be given by Dr. Agus Suwignyo, History, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta
First FRIAS Lunch Lecture on Thursday, 23 April
The presentation of "Disparities in local development and political competition in the Philippines" will be given by FRIAS Senior Fellow Prof. Joseph J. Capuno, Economics, University of the Philippines
Lecture | Prof. Rüland on ASEAN and Indonesian Foreign Policy at the University of Indonesia
On Wednesday, 11 March, Prof. Rüland will give a talk on "ASEAN and Indonesian Foreign Policy: Domestic Discourses and Indonesian Images of Regionalism"
Seminar | "Jokowi's Indonesia: A Preliminary Assessment" on 27 February
Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Freiburg, the FRIAS Research Group on Southeast Asia in cooperation with the Center for Transcultural Asian Studies (CETRAS) are organizing a seminar looking back at the first four months of the Jokowi presidency.
Lecture | FRIAS Colloquium with Judith Schlehe von 16 February
On 16 February, Judith Schlehe will hold a Colloquium as a part of the FRIAS Research Focus "Dynamic Alignments and De-Alignments in Global Southeast Asia"
Lecture and Exhibition on Political Freedom in Southeast Asia and Screening of "The Act of Killing" at Kommunales Kino Freiburg on 18 February
On 18 February, two events will take place at Kommunales Kino Freiburg (KoKi). Genia Findeisen from Stiftung Asienhaus Köln will give a lecture on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Expression in Southeast Asia to accompany an exhibition on display at KoKi. Afterwards, there will be a screening of "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer. Both events will be held in German.
Lecture | FRIAS Colloquium with Agus Suwignyo on 9 February
On Monday, 9 February, from 11:15 AM, Agus Suwignyo will hold a lecture on the subject of 'Citizenship, welfare and the non-state institution: Theorizing the case of the 20th century Indonesia'
Collaborative Colloquium | Upcoming session on 2 February
The next collaborative colloquium will take place on 2 February at 4 PM at the Seminarraum, Department of Anthropology.
Collaborative Colloquium | Upcoming session on 12 January
The next session of the regular collaborative colloquium will consist of a viewing of Amir Muhammad's movie 'The last communist'.
Lecture | FRIAS Colloquium with Prof. Rüland on EU-ASEAN relations on 12 January
As a part of the FRIAS Humanities Colloquium, Prof. Rüland will present his recent paper titled 'Paradoxes and Unintended Consequences of Interregional Capacity-Building: Normative and Conceptual Misunderstandings in EU-ASEAN Relations'
FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference from 14 to 16 January
In January, Stefan Rother, Kirsten Hackenbroch and Tabea Bork-Hüffer are convening a conference on the subject of 'Translocal Spatial Practices, Urban Transfomations: Migration and Mobile Urbanism in South and South-East Asia'
Badische Zeitung | Stefan Rother on negative attitudes towards migrants (German)
Worldwide hostility towards migrants.
TED Talk by Krisztina Kis-Katos
Krisztina Kis-Katos held a lecture on Globalization and the poor at a TEDx Conference in Stuttgart in which she challenges conventional wisdom on the relationship between Globalization and the poor.
Past lecture by Prof. Rüland at the Studienhaus Wiesneck
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014, Prof. Rüland held a lecture with the title "Militarization as a perspective? The Asia-Pacific region".
Lecture | FRIAS Lunch Lecture with Stefan Rother on 18 December
From 12:15 until 13:00, Stefan Rother will speak on "The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and a rights-based approach to labour migration". The lecture will take place at HS 3042 (KG III) and will be followed by an optional lunch at FRIAS.
Collaborative Colloquium | Upcoming session on 12 December
The upcoming session of the Collaborative Colloquium will focus on the preparation of the screening of "The last Communist"
Event | Visit of DAAD-sponsored Indonesian delegation
On 12 December 2014, a DAAD-sponsored delegation of Indonesian university and think tank scholars will visit the University of Freiburg. The FRIAS Research Focus program "Dynamic Alignments and Dealignments in Global Southeast" Asia provides the program for the delegation.
Lecture | FRIAS Colloquium with Stefan Rother on 1 December
On 1 December from 11.15 - 12.45, Stefan Rother will lead a colloquium on the topic of his current research on "Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political space(s): agency, gender roles and social class formation."
Methodology Workshop in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
On 5 and 6 of December 2015, Markus Siewert and Jonas Buche from Goethe University Frankfurt (Political Science, Chair for Qualitative Empirical Research Prof. Wagemann) will hold a workshop on the method.
Collaborative Colloquium | Next Sessions on 24 November and 1 December 2015
The next collaborative colloquia will take place on 24 November and 1 December in the Seminarraum Ethnologie at Werthmannstr. 10 (first floor).
Lecture | FRIAS Lunch Lecture by Prof. Jürgen Rüland
On Thursday, November 20th, 2014, Prof. Rüland will hold a lecture on "Studying Southeast Asia in Freiburg: How Social Actors Cooperate" The lecture will take place frm 12:15 until 13:00 at KG III, HS 3042, University of Freiburg.
Conference | Stefan Rother at EURA-NET Conference in Bielefeld
On 13 June 2014, Stefan Rother participated as a member of the academic advisory board at the EURA-NET Conference. The project is funded by the EU's 7th Framework Program for the period 2014-2017 under the title of "Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People"
Fellowship | Markus Mietzner (ANU)
From November 2014 until March 2015, Markus Mietzner will hold a fellowship at Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg on the research topic of 'Localizing democracy in Indonesia'
Lecture | Presentation of Judith Schlehe on her FRIAS Fellowship Project on 10 November 2014
On Monday, 10 November 2014, Judith Schlehe will present her project she will be researching as a part of her Senior FRIAS Fellowship in the Research Focus "Dynamic Alignments and De-Alignments in Global Southeast Asia". The topic of her presentation is 'Strategic Non-Alignments of "Culture" and "Religion" in Contemporary Indonesia'
FRIAS Fellowships in the Winter and Summer Terms 2014/2015
In the upcoming Winter and Summer Terms, five internal as well as two external fellows will be hosted by the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies for one year. The fellowships are embedded in the FRIAS Research Focus "Dynamic Alignments and De-Alignments in Global Southeast Asia". The internal senior fellows are Prof. Jürgen Rüland, Prof. Judith Schlehe, Prof. Günther Schulze and Prof. Sabine Dabringhaus, the external junior fellows are Agus Suwignyo and Katja Rangsivek. Additionally, Stefan Rother has been awarded an internal junior fellowship.
Collaborative Colloquium | Upcoming session on 3 November and beyond
This semester, the topic of the collaborative colloquia will be "Contentious Politics: Communism in Southeast Asia". The first session will take place next monday, 3 November, with a guest lecture by Patrick Hesse (History, Humboldt University Berlin).
Radio Dreyeckland | Anna Fünfgeld interviews Yandry Kuniawan on Jokowi's election
On 20 October 2014, Jokowi will be sworn into office as the new president of Indonesia. This is the third time since Indonesian independence in 1945 that the head of state was directly elected. Anna Fünfgeld, methodology and project coordinator, interviews Yandri Kuniawan, PhD student, on the elections in Indonesia and the political situation in the country.
