Alongside other centers and collaborative research alliances, the following institutes hold a central position in this focus area:

• SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of social coexistence in mobile worlds (since 2015)
• Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (since 2008)
• Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group: Reaching the People: Kommunikation, Zugang zur Weltöffentlichkeit und globale Ordnung im 20. Jahrhundert (since 2018)
• FOR 2615: Rethinking Oriental Despotism (since 2017)
• ERC Project: Governing with Data: Local Experimentation in Authoritarian (since 2020)
• ERC Project: Law Without Mercy: Japanese Courts-Martial and Military Courts During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-45 (since 2019)
• Graduate School of East Asian Studies (since 2012)
• Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS), John-F.-Kennedy-Institut (since 2006)
• Internationales GRK 2445: Temporalities of Future in Latin America (since 2019)
• Italienzentrum (since 1996)
• Institute for Latin American Studies (since 1970)

Activities

2024

• July 16, 2024, Talk: Taoufik Ben Amor (Columbia University/FU Berlin): Ghosts in the Archive: Recordings of North African Prisoners of War (1916-18), EXC Temporal Communities
• July 11, 2024, Panel discussion: Friederike Beier (Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft): Gender Lunch Talk: Teile und Regiere. Die globale Quantifizierung und Regierung re_produktiver Arbeit und Zeit, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum 
• July 5, 2024, Workshop: The Road to Market Economy: China's Economic Reform and the Conversation with the World, Graduate School of East Asian Studies
• July 4-5, 2024, Workshop: Understanding mobilization on social media: Methodological approaches to activists' affective and networking practices, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in Bewegten Welten"
• July 4, 2024, Talk (Keynote): Sarah J. Jackson (University of Pennsylvania), Revisiting #HashtagActivism: Methods, Ethics, and Moving On, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies"
• July 4, 2024, Book talk: Alexandria N. Ruble (University of Idaho): Entangled Emancipation: Women's Rights in Cold War Germany, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum
• July 1-2, 2024, Conference: Queer Contemporary Histories - International and Intersectional Perspectives, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
• June 21, 2024, Workshop: The Road to Market Economy: China's Economic Reform and the Conversation with the World, Graduate School of East Asian Studies
• June 20, 2024, Workshop: Christian Armbrüster Sara Landini, Margarida Lima Rego, Willem van Boom (FU Berlin/ Università degli Studi di Firenze/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/Radboud Universiteit): Insurance based investment products, between the market and policyholder protection. What responses from European Union law?, Italienzentrum
• June 12-13, 2024, Workshop:  Rebuilding Ukraine: The Social Dimension, Osteuropa-Institut
• June 12, 2024, Workshop: Pop-up Theory: Intellectual Encounters Between East and West, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, Peter Szondi-Institut
• June 12, 2024, Workshop: Welcome to the (Il)liberal State: Place Branding as a Historical Practice, SCRIPTS
• June 10, 2024, Talk and conversation: Benedetta Tobagi, La Resistenza delle donne, Italienzentrum
• June 10, 2024, Panel discussion: Europa hat gewählt – was jetzt?, SCRIPTS
• May 27, 2024, Talk: Bruno Felipe Miranda (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Temporalidades e (in)movilidad en la frontera entre Mexico y EEUU, Latinamerika-Institut
• May 24, 2024, Reading and conversation: Melibea Obono (Universität Duisburg-Essen/Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung) Menschenrechte und Literatur“, SFB 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• May 22-24, 2024, Workshop: Political Captivity, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, MIT, University of Stockholm
• May 13, 2024, Talk: Rafael Behr: "He, Sie da!" Ein ethnographischer Streifzug durch das Interventionsregime der deutschen Polizei, SFB 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• May 13 2024, Talk: Andrea De Petris (CepItalia, UNINT Rom): Italien als politisches Labor: Die Direktwahl des Regierungschefs zwischen Regierbarkeit und demokratischem Prinzip, Italienzentrum
• May 13, 2024, Panel discussion: Rosa Castillo (HU Berlin), Hossam el-Hamalawy: Scholar Activism/ Positionality: Intersection between Academia and Politics, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• May 13, 2024, Talk: Zarina Burkadze (Ilia State University Tbilisi): Opportunities and Challenges for Georgia on its Path to EuroAtlantic Integration, Scripts Cluster of Excellence 
• May 7, 2024, Panel discussion: Sophia Hoffinger, Udi Raz (University of Edinburgh/FU Berlin): Research and Politics: Anti-Palestinian Racism in Germany, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• April 23, 2024, „Sagen, was ist“. Festveranstaltung der Gesamtausgabe, Book Launch The Life of the Mind & Lesung, Hannah Arendt Forschungsstelle - Kritische Gesamtausgabe
• April 18, 2024, Book Talk: Georgische Nationalliteratur vs. Sowjetische Nationalliteratur - »Das Lächeln des Dionysos« von Konstantine Gamsachurdia, EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities"
• March 6, 2024, Workshop: Scientific Workshop with Cynthia Fleury, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"

• March 5, 2024, Talk: Out of bitterness, into society! Cynthia Fleury and Carolin Emcke in dialogue, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• January 30, 2024, Talk: Was Europa kann – die Vision des Erasmus von Rotterdam, Italienzentrum
• January 23, 2024, Vortrag: German consuls in South America as transnational agents (1840-1918), Lateinamerika-Institut
• January 18, 2024, Lecture: La Resistenza delle donne, Italienzentrum
• January 11, 2024, Lecture: Temporalities of Migration at the US-Mexico Border. Ethnographic Narratives and Literary Approaches, Lateinamerika-Institut
• January 9, 2024, Lecture series: Die Westberliner Lateinamerikastudien während des Kalten Krieges, Lateinamerika-Institut
• January 9, 2024, Lecture: Politics of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation fellowship program and the emergency of a scientific elite for the ‘peripheral’ world, 1917-1970, Lateinamerika-Institut

2023

• November 14, 2023, Lecture: La madera de la clase obrera argentina. Izquierdas, etnicidad y género en una industria de Buenos Aires (1889-1930), Lateinamerika-Institut
• November 7, 2023, Vortrag: Emotional Configurations of Politics in Chile. 1808-1861, Lateinamerika-Institut
• October 31, 2023, Vortrag: ¿Un Barrio Chino a orillas del Riachuelo? Territorio portuario y migración asiática en Buenos Aires a inicios del siglo XX,  Lateinamerika-Institut
• Oktober 24, 2023, Vortrag: Contours of Belonging: Ideologies of Racial Harmony and the Arts in Cuba, 1938-1963, Lateinamerika-Institut
• October 13, 2023, Workshop: The phenomenon of the New Right in European and Latin American narrative literature: new perpetrators – old patterns of thinking?, Lateinamerika-Institut
• July 12–14, 2023, Conference: Concepts of Governance and the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Societies, DFG Kolleg Forschungsgruppe 2615 "Rethinking Oriental Despotism"
• July 7, 2023, Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Temporalidades del Futuro, International Research Training Group (IRTG) ‘Temporalities of Future’
• May 23, 2023, Lecture: En busca de “los extranjeros que profesen ciencia, arte o industria útil”: Leyes de extranjería e inmigrantes europeos en el Ecuador de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, Lateinamerika-Institut
• May 25–27, 2023, Conference: Audio/Vision/Culture – New Perspectives on Turkish German Cinema, Lateinamerika-Institut
• May 4–6, 2023, Conference: Affecting Parenting Politics, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten", die Tageszeitung
• April 28–30, 2023, Conference: XXIV. Mesoamerikanistik-Tagung, Lateinamerika-Institut
• February 15, 2023, Talk: Brazil under Lula III: Challenges and Perspectives, Lateinamerika-Institut

2022

• December 2, 2022, Talk: "Gehört der Buddhismus zu Deutschland?", Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten", die Tageszeitung
• July 14–15, 2022, Conference: Erhitzte Gemüter, Habitus der Kälte. Zur Ambivalenz affektiver Rhetoriken in der politischen und literarischen Öffentlichkeit, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• July 14, 2022, Lecture: »Die Farbe der Wörter« mit Martin R. Dean, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• 11.–12. Juli 2022, Workshop: Audio / Vision / Culture, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• July 6, 2022, Panel: Öffentlichkeit, digitale Netzwerke und politische Kommunikation, Lateinamerika-Institut
• June 1, 2022, Panel: Soziale Kämpfe, politische Bündnisse und die Wahlen, Lateinamerika-Institut
• May 23, 2022, Talk: Vários 22: semana de arte moderna, independência e o presente, Lateinamerika-Institut
• May 4, 2022, Panel: Die drei Gewalten und demokratische Governance, Lateinamerika-Institut
• Mai 11, 2022, Talk: Images of Freedom: Race, Gender and the Political Body, Lateinamerika-Institut
• April 26, 2022, Conference: Pluralismo y usos del enfoque pragmático en ciencias sociales, Lateinamerika-Institut
• February 1, 2022, Conference: Isabell Lorey (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne): Democracy in the Present Tense. A Theory of the Political Present, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum
• January 18, 2022, Conference: Leticia Sabsay (London School of Economics): Vulnerability, cruelty and the politics of hope, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum

2021

• October 19, 2021–February 15, 2022, Lecture series: Die Anfänge von Demokratie, DFG Kolleg Forschungsgruppe 2615 "Rethinking Oriental Despotism" 
• December 16, 2021, Conference: Transnational Feminist Dialogues: The Present and Future of Women and Gender Studies in Afghanistan, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum
• December 9–10, 2021, Workshop: Thronfolge aks Krisenmoment: Akteure, Strategien, Institutionen und Verfahren vom "Alten Orient" bis zum "frühen Mittelalter", DFG Kolleg Forschungsgruppe 2615 "Rethinking Oriental Despotism"
• November 3, 2021, Book Launch with Naika Faroutan: "Umkämpfte Vielfalt – Affektive Dynamiken institutioneller Diversifizierung"
• October 28–29, 2021, Workshop: Das anatolische Königtum, DFG Kolleg Forschungsgruppe 2615 "Rethinking Oriental Despotism"
• June 29, 2021, Talk: Palestinian Press in the Diaspora: The Case of Chile, Department of History and Cultural Studies
• January 19, 2021, Conference: Berliner Weltliteraturen | Prof. Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos (Freie Universität Berlin): Der griechische Bürgerkrieg und das geteilte Berlin: "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" und Antigone lebt, Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin

2020

• June 9, 2020, Lecture: Sino-Soviet anxiety: Science and Chinese conditions in the PRC coal industry (1951–1965), Sinologie - Chinastudien
• February 27–28, 2020, Workshop: "Begriffsforschung - am Beispiel von Staat und Politik", DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615
• February 6, 2020, Panel discussion: Geteilte Erinnerungen. Geschichte, Erinnerung und Identität in heterogenen Gesellschaften, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
• January 28, 2020, Vortrag von Moritz Sommer: Fridays For Future im Profil - Ergebnisse von Protestbefragungen in Deutschland und Europa

2019

• July 1–4, 2019, Summer School: The Politics of Literature – Literature and Politics, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of literary Studies
• June 25, 2019, Discussion: Design, Social Innovation and Public Services: cross-sectoral Perspectives of Transformation, Italienzentrum
• June 19, 2019, Lecture by Prof. Andrea De Petris: Weimar 1919, Bonn 1949, Rom 2019: Die Rezeption der Weimarer Verfassung und des Bonner Grundgesetzes im italienischen Verfassungsdiskurs, Italienzentrum
• June 6–7, 2019, Conference: Spot the Stereotype!, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 16, 2019, Lecture by Sarah Kiani: ,Sexual revolution‘ oder ,sexual evolution‘? Repression und Überwachung von Homosexualitäten im Vergleich: Berlin-Ost und Berlin-West (1970–1980), Frankreichzentrum
• February 20–22, 2019, International Conference: Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation, CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces”
• February 12, 2019, Lecture: "PEGIDA als kollektive Performanz. Die Dresdener Demonstrationen im Lichte einer theaterwissenschaftlichen Aufführungsanalyse", CRC 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamics of social coexistence in mobile worlds"

2018

• December 17, 2018, Lecture of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huss: Politik, Gesellschaft, Satire in Italien, Italienzentrum
• November 29–30, 2018, Workshop: "The “Ethical” and the “Everyday”: Interrogating analytical turns for/in the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• October 23, 2018, Lecture: Rape and the Reader. Classic Arabic Poetry Comes to Light, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• May 30, 2018, Lecture: Governing Islam: Knowledge Production, Bureaucratic Ethos and Strategy Development in German Ministries of the Interior, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• May 3, 2018, Lecture: Being a Muslim and a devotee: Lineage, Practice, and the Transcendent among the followers of Muslim holy men in South Asia, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
• March 22–24, 2018, Conference: Wild Publics: Language in public space under the conditions of late modernity, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2017

• October 20–21, 2017, Conference: The Fault Lines of Democracy. Conversations, Contestations and Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS), John F. Kennedy Institute