• 27.04.2023 Mirjam Le, University of Passau:
  "The Peri-Urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities."
• 04.05.2023 Florian Reinold, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin:
  "The German Political Foundations: Unique Instruments for National Democracy Building and International Development Work."
• 10.05.2023 Felix Wemheuer, University of Cologne:
  "China and the War in Ukraine"
• 25.05.2023 Swathi Manalodiparambil, Central European University (CEU), Vienna:
  "Conserving by Tilling: Landless Laborers and Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Wayanad, India"
• 15.06.2023 Simon Rowedder, University of Passau:
  "Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness" 
• 26.01.2023 Solomon Addisu, Habtamu Assaye;
  Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
  Halimu Shauri, Maarifa Mwakumanya;
  Pwani University, Kenya
  Marianne Maghenda; Taita Taveta University, Kenya
  Maria Fungomeli; National Museums of Kenya,
  Coastal Forests Conservation Unit, Kilifi, Kenya (in cooperation with the Chair of Physical Geography with a focus on Human-Environment Research, Prof. Dr. Christine Schmitt):
  "Cultural Traditions and Biodiversity Conservation: Insights from Ethopia and Kenya."
• 22.06.2023 Christina Sathyamala, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague:
  "Stepping Stones into Thamirabarani River in South India: A Feminist Political Ecology Inquiry"
• 29.06.2023 Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University (in cooperation with the Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies, Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz):
  "Energy Raw Materials, Energy Transitions, and Geopolitics"
• 06.07.2023 Aum Neko, Paris:
  "Social Movements through the Lens of Intersectional Feminism: from Thailand to World Politics"
• 13.07.2023 Panitda Saiyarod, University of Cologne:
  "Retrofitting the Mekong River: Community-Based Environmental Response to Chinese Transnational Infrastructure in a Thai Border Town"
• 20.07.2023 Wolfram Schaffar, University of Passau:
  "Law and Development in Bhutan – The Jingme Shingye Wangchuk School of Law"

• 10.11.2022 Su Mon San, ZEF and Bonn University:
  "Is development and a sustainable land use on the agricultural frontier possible through agroforestry-based community forestry? A study in Myanmar."
• 17.11.2022 Prof. Khayaat Fakier, Institute of Social Sciences Den Haag:
  "Caring Connections told through four stories."
• 24.11.2022 Fausto Ignatov, Rachel Carson Centre and LMU:
  "Reciprocal Shaping or Conditioning? Debating the Materiality and Discourse of Natural Resources in Ecuadorian Development Policies"
• 01.12.2022 Dr. Paulina Trejo Mendez, Bonn University:
  "Rethinking methodology: Decolonial methodological approaches in development studies."
• 15.12.2022 Huiying Ng, Rachel Carson Centre and LMU:
  "Soil as a body of work in Thailand and beyond: reading land/thidin futures through an agroecological learning assemblage." 
• 26.01.2023 Dr. Atakan Büke, Leibzig University:
  "Digitalization of the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century: Insights from “Agriculture 4.0” Policies and Politics in Turkey."
• 02.02.2023 Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri, Kassel University:
  "From Conflict to Co-production: A Grassroots-Led Model of Polycentric Water Governance in the Postcolonial South."
• 09.02.2023 Mark Philip Stadler, University of Copenhagen:
  "Urban Transformation from the Kampung. Urban Poor Activists’ Struggles against Hegemonic Urban Structures & Authoritarian-Populist Urbanism"

• 05.05.2022 Christa Wichterich, University of Kassel: "Heroines Needed! Transnational Care Chains and Care Extractivism during the Covid-19 Pandemic"
• 19.05.2022 Felix Mallin, University of Copenhagen: "The Blue Economy Paradigm: A Shock Doctrine for the Global Oceans?"
• 02.06.2022 Phill Wilcox, Bielefeld University: "The Price of Development – A View from Laos"
• 09.06.2022 Alexander Horstmann, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: "Vernacular Resistance in the Borderlands of
  Thailand and Myanmar"
• 23.06.2022 Oliver Tappe, University of Heidelberg: "Contested Resource Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Insights from Upland Laos"
• 14.07.2022 Stefanie Siebenhütter, Waseda University, Tokyo: "Digital Presence of Small Languages without Writing Systems: The Multilingual Kui in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia"
• 21.07.2022 Christoph Antweiler, University of Bonn: "The Anthropocene as Fact and as Narrative
  Social Criticism"
• 28.07.2022 Wimonsiri Hemtanon, Mahidol University, Thailand: "Social Safety Net : Social Capital of Bangkok Homelessness during COVID-19"
  
  
   

• 04.11.2021 Rey Louis Adeva Montesclaros, University of the Philippines, Diliman: "How the Spaniards Won in Marawi but Lost in Cavite: Northern Mindanao Rancherias in the Twilight of Spanish Empire" 
• 25.11.2021 Silvia Mayasari-Hoffert, Goethe University of Frankfurt: "Literary Representation of the Red Scare in Indonesia"
• 09.12.2021 Andreas Thiel and Ariane Götz, University of Kassel: "Agroecological Transitions through the Lens of Normative Polycentric Governance Conditions. The Case of Tunisia"
• 20.01.2022 Sanchali Sarkar, Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, India, "Situated Intersectionality and Translocality: Studying South Asian Women’s Travel Experiences in Germany"
• 10.02.2022 Daniel Bultmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, "Reproduction and Change in the Cambodian
  Field of Power"

• 06.05.2021 Jakub Hruby, The Oriental Institute, Department of East Asia, Prague, "China’s Buddhist Diplomacy towards South and Southeast Asia"
• 27.05.2021 Alexander Mewes + Johanna Hansmann, Centre for Rural Development, Berlin, "Food Security in Cape Town SA – Outcomes of the SLE / Centre for Rural Development Training Programme"
• 10.06.2021 Florence Dafe, Technical University of Munich (TUM) + Lena Rethel, University of Warwick: "Domestic Banking Systems and the Contingent Nature of the Structural Power of Finance in
  Emerging Markets"
• 17.06.2021 Monika Arnez, Institute for Social Anthropology,
  University of Bern, "Exploring Land Reclamation in Malaysia through Visual Documentation"
• 24.06.2021 Daniel May, GIZ Germany, "Multistakehoder Initiatives in Banana Supply Chains"
• 01.07.2021 Oona Morrow, Rural Sociology, Wageningen‚ University & Research, "Careful Circularity for an Urban Food Commons?"
• 08.07.2021 Alfred Gerstl, Department of Asian Studies, Palacký
  University Olomouc (Czech Republic), "Sinophone Borderlands – Research on China’s
  Relations with Asia and Europe in the Czech Republic"
• 15.07.2021 Mirjam Lücking, Social Anthropology in The Martin Buber Society of Fellows (MBSF), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Indonesian Tourism to Jerusalem: Competition and Cooperation on Muslim and Christian Pathways"

• 19.11.2020 Wening Udasmoro, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta and Elisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute, Geneva, "No Matter What – I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java" 
• 26.11.2020 Roger Casas, Institute for Social Anthropology,
  Vienna, "The Will to Ignore: Reflections on Science, Culture, and How the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna Tackled the Coronavirus Crisis"
• 10.12.2020 Sabrina Hoffmann, Municipal Development Policy, District of Passau, "Communal Development and Sustainability in the City and District of Passau"
• 17.12.2020 Werner Kraus, Center for Southeast Asian Art, Passau, "Art, Anthropology and Crime in Malaya, 1937 – 1942"
• 21.01.2021 Marlene Gomez Becerra, Free University of Berlin, "Governing Food as a Commons through Urban Community Kitchens. The Cases of Berlin and Barcelona"
• 28.01.2021 Petra Dannecker, University of Vienna, "Transdisciplinarity ‘Meets’ Power Structures:
  Challenges and Experiences of a Capacity Building Project on Transdisciplinarity"
• 04.02.2021 Kerstin Schiele, University of Koblenz, "Questions of Belonging in the Context of Diaspora Tourism. The Case of Vietnamese Living in German"
• 11.02.2021 Monika Arnez, University of Hamburg, "Exploring Land Reclamation in Malaysia
  through Visual Documentation"

• 04.06.2020 Andreas Lange, GIZ Eschborn, "An Introduction to GIZ: Our Work in Rural Development, Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security"
• 25.06.2020 Iliana Monterroso Ibarra, Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals, Barcelona, "Mobilizing Change for Women within Collective Tenure Regimes"
• 16.07.2020 Dian Ekowati, University of Brighton, WEGO, "A Gendered Discourse Analysis of Care and
  Family Farms in Indonesian Oil Palm"
• 23.07.2020 Leonor Veiga, University of Lisbon, "Southeast Asian Environmental Art Practices
  from the 1990s to Today"

• 31.10.2019 Christa Hainz, Ifo Institute, Munich, "Credit Contracts, Collateral and Culture: Gender Differences"
• 07.11.2019 Rainer Einzenberger, University of Vienna, "Current and Future Research Perspectives
  on Frontiers in Upland Myanmar"
• 21.11.2019 Sanchali Sarkar, Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, "The Precarious Condition of Women
  Commuters: A Study of the Matribhumi Train in West Bengal, India"
• 28.11.2019 Janina Danneberg, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, "Collective Land Ownership and the Crisis
  of the (Re)Productive"
• 05.12.2019 Sandra Manickam, University of Rotterdam, "Racial Narrations in the Malay Archipelago
  during the Greater East Asia War"
• 12.12.2019 Saba Joshi, Graduate Institute, Geneva, "Gendered Repertoires of Contention:
  Women‘s Mobilizations over Land Dispossession in Authoritarian Cambodia"
• 19.12.2019 Amanda tho Seeth, Philipps-University of Marburg, "Indonesian State Islamic Academia as a
  Political Actor: From Local to Global Outreach"
• 16.01.2020 Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri, German Development
  Institute, Bonn, "Governance Mechanisms for Achieving Water,
  Food and Energy Securities: Ensuring Policy Coherence for Implementing Agenda 2030"
• 23.01.2020 Philipp Bruckmayr, University of Vienna, "Arab-descended Ruling Houses of Southeast Asia"
• 30.01.2020 Erhard Berner, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, "Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs"
• 06.02.2020 Kerstin Schiele, University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz, "The Migration – Tourism Connection: Questions of Belonging in the Context of Diaspora Tourism"

• 08.05.2019 Joachim Nieß, Goethe University of Frankfurt, "Media and Literature in Late Colonial Indonesia"
• 29.05.2019 Roger Casas, Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna, "Dreams, Desires and Needs: Reflections on Economic Transformations and Agency in the Upper Mekong Borderlandss"
• 05.06.2019 Erhard Berner, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, "Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs"
• 12.06.2019 Elke Ahrens, Intercultural Training & Consulting, Stuttgart, "Triple Win – Fishing for Nurses in the Philippines"
• 19.06.2019 Janina Danneberg, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, "Collective Land Ownership and the Crisis of the (Re)Productive"
• 26.06.2019 Melanie Hackenfort, University of Koblenz-Landau, "The Comfort of Modern Housing and its
  Challenges – Ethnographic Insights into a Resettlement Project in the Philippines"
• 17.07.2019 Christina Sathyamala, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, "Meat and Non-Meat: The Cultural Politics of Food"
• 24.07.2019 Kho Suet Nie, University of Kebagsaan Malaysia & Wimonsiri Hemtanon, Mahidol University, Bangkok, "Social Media in Southeast Asia"

04.05.2017:Danny Morrison, Author, writer and commentator, Northern Ireland: The Irish Hunger Strike and Prison Protests