• 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"

• 17.10.2018 Wolfram Schaffar, University of Vienna:
  "Facebook-Based Vigilante Groups in Thailand and the Philippines and the Global Rise of new Authoritarianism"
• 24.10.2018 Maribeth Erb, National University of Singapore & Kathryn Robinson, Australian National University:
  "Mining and Contentious Politics in Indonesia"
• 07.11.2018 Judith Bosnak ,University of Frankfurt:
  "The Representation of Natural Disaster in Indonesian Popular Culture"
• 14.11.2018 J. Buchholz, former GIZ Malawi:
  "Regional and Country Specific Development Strategies and Organisational Logics"
• 21.11.2018 Sabine Gruber, University of Trier:
  "Community Supported Agriculture from the Perspective of Economic Sociology and its Contribution to Comparative Development Studies"
• 28.11.2018 Elke Ahrens, Intercultural Training & Consulting, Stuttgart:
  "Triple Win – Fishing for Nurses in the Philippines"
• 09.01.2019 Sandra Kurfürst, University of Cologne:
  "Urban Commons: Social Media and Face-to-Face Interaction in Social Movements"
• 23.01.2019 Johannes Jütting, Paris 21 (Partnership for Development in the 21St Century), Paris:
  "Development 4.0 – Myth and Realities"
• 30.01.2019 Guntra Aistara, Central European University, Budapest:
  "Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade"
• 07.02.2019 Delphine Allès, INALCO, Paris:
  "God‘s Part: The Confessionalization of World Politics and its Strategic Appropriations in Indonesia"

• 11.04.2018 Claudia Götze-Sam, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin:
  "Introduction to CrossAsia – Specialised Information Service Asia – with a Focus on Southeast Asia"
• 25.04.2018 Jamie Furniss, University of Edinburgh, UK:
  "Development and Waste: Imagining and Intervening on Cairo’s Garbage Collectors"
• 16.05.2018 Arahmaiani Feisal, Performance Artist, Yogyakarta, Indonesia:
  "Creative Resistance against Divide & Rule Policy"
• 23.05.2018 Vorawan Wannalak, University of Potsdam:
  "Exploring China’s Aid for Greening the Mekong: Local Actors and Aid Modality for Low-Carbon Transition in Southeast Asia"
• 30.05.2018 Subhasish Dey, University of York, UK:
  "Do Political Parties Practise Partisan Alignment in Social Welfare Spending? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India"
• 06.06.2018 Julia Behrens, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin:
  "Cultural Eco-Imperialism in Vietnam: Influences on the Human-Nature Relationship in the Red River Delta"
• 20.06.2018 Judith Bosnak, University of Frankfurt:
  "The Representation of Natural Disaster in Indonesian Popular Culture"
• 27.06.2018 Holger Warnk, University of Frankfurt:
  "Islamic Printing and Publishing in Southern Thailand in the 21st Century"
• 04.07.2018 Kristina Großmann and Alessandro Gullo, University of Passau:
  "Central Kalimantan in the Year 2030. Conflicting Future Visions of Natural Resource Extraction and Reflections on Participative Research"

• 18.10.2017 Rainer Einzenberger, University of Vienna:
  "Contested Frontiers: Land Enclosures and Indigenous Mobilization in Myanmar’s Uplands"
• 25.10.2017 Alexander Moradi, University of Sussex:
  "The Economics of Missionary Expansion and the Compression of History"
• 08.11.2017 Viola Thimm, University of Hamburg:
  "From Malaysia to Dubai: Muslim Pilgrimage and Gender in the Context of Consuming Practices"
• 15.11.2017 Wolfram Schaffar, University of Vienna:
  "New Authoritarianism, Military Dictatorship or Fascism: Making Sense of the Thai Regime since 2014"
• 22.11.2017 Jan Priebe, University of Göttingen:
  "(Ethnic) Discrimination and the Value of an Elite College Degree: Experimental Evidence from a Correspondence Study"
• 06.12.2017 Patrick Franke, University of Bamberg:
  "How Islamic Should Indonesia Be? Political Debates on the Jakarta Charter from 1945 to the Present"
• 20.12.2017 Sandra Kurfürst, University of Cologne:
  "This Is Me! Language and Gender in Vietnamese Hip Hop"
• 10.01.2018 Dieter Neubert, University of Bayreuth:
  "Class Concepts and Inequality under Conditions of Uncertainty. The Case of Kenya."
• 24.01.2018 Johannes Jütting, Paris 21 (Partnership for Development in the 21St Century), Paris:
  "Big Data: Friend or Foe of Development?"
• 31.01.2018 Björn Vollan, University of Marburg:
  "Can One More Vote Make You More Pro-Social? Evidence from Marginally Elected Local Leaders in the Philippines."
• 07.02.2018 Edwin Wieringa, University of Cologne:
  "On Tradition and Modernity:
  Script Change in Contemporary Java"

04.05.2017:Danny Morrison, Autor, Schriftsteller und Kommentator, Nordirland: The Irish Hunger Strike and Prison Protests

31.05.2017: Dr. Warawit Kanithasen, CPG, Thammasat Universität, Thailand: Der Widerstand in Thailand im Zweiten Weltkrieg