University of Cologne

• Virtual Public Lecture: Ho-fung Hung (Johns Hopkins University, USA): "Market Economy, Social Inequality, and Paternalistic State in China since the 17^th-18^th Century", 12th October 2022, 5:45-7:15pm (CET)

• Virtual Public Lecture: Opolot Okia (Wright State University, USA):  "The Chimera of Abolition: Forced Labor in Colonial British East and West Afrika, 1894-1939", 18th May 2022, 5:45-7:15pm (CET) 

• Interview with the Research Unit conducted by the Division 7 Research Management of the University of Cologne. 23.02.2022, interview series 'UoC Insights'.

• Opening Conference of the Research Unit "The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities", 11.-12.11.2021, Conference Website

• Poster Presentation by Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican at the forum „Corona Crisis and Beyond“, Volkswagen Foundation Hannover, 5th-7th December 2022: Communication during and after Covid-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates and China.

• Lecture by Jonathan Ngeh at the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn, Bonn International Graduate School for Development Research (BIGS-DR) interdisciplinary course.10th October 2022:  "Inclusion and exclusion in knowledge production: lessons from intercultural collaborative research."

• Presentation by Jonathan Ngeh in the symposium "Uncertain mobilities" at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen. 8th October 2022: Ambivalence and the gendered dimension of human trafficking in cross border mobility".

• Presentation by Jonathan Ngeh in the "International lecture series: meet our international researchers" at the University of Cologne. 13th July 2022: "Confronting power asymmetry in knowledge production: lessons from intercultural collaborative research."

• International Workshop by Ulrike Lindner and Nicholas B. Miller on Plantation Knowledge, 15-17 June 2022.
  • Keynote (hybrid) by Richard B. Allen (Framingham State, Massachusetts): Transcending the Tyranny of the Particular in Plantation Labor Studies, 15 June 2022.

• Presentation by Jonathan Ngeh in the Panel "Activism, hope and future horizons on the African continent", Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropologial Association (SANT), Gothenburg, 29th April 2022: "Migration and human trafficking in the Global South: Cameroon to the Arab Gulf States."

•  Presentation by Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican in the Panel "Decentering Universities: Transnational collaborative research – biases, spaces, challenges”, Conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), 28th September 2021: Confronting Power Asymmetry in Knowledge Production: Lessons from Intercultural Collaborative Research.

• Seminar taught by Ulrike Lindner and Michaela Pelican on Inequality for M.A. students of History and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne, Summer Semester 2021.
  • Inequality Seminar Course Outline.
  • Review and Take Aways for the Research Unit.

• Presentation by Michaela Pelican and Jonathan Ngeh in the lecture series "Sixty Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology", University of Cologne, 14th July 2021: The production and reproduction of social inequalities: global contexts and concepts of labor exploitation.

• Roundtable Discussion with Michaela Pelican, Amrita Datta, Jonathan Ngeh, Ratna Mani Nepal and Habibul Khondker, NIICE Global Conclave 2021, Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement, 25th June 2021: Impacts of the Pandemic on Transnational Migration.

• Panel Discussion with Ulrike Lindner, Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican, 27th October 2020: Remembering Spanish Flu during Covid-19: Reinforcing Existing Inequalities or Opening up New Opportunities? Moderation: Amrita Datta, Web Talk Series: Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (Post)Covid Future.

• Guest lecture of Jonathan Ngeh in the World Science Café, 13th February 2020: Migration & Human Trafficking in the Global South.

• Guest Lecture of Meron Zeleke at the GSSC, 29th May 2019: Sisters on the Move: Ethiopia’s Gendered Labour Migration Milieu.

This Research Unit is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation