January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Julia Verne (née Pfaff) is currently working as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt. After having completed her MA in Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, from 2006-2010 she worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Social Geography at the University of Bayreuth where she also obtained her PhD. 2010-2011 she spent as a post-doc Research Scholar at the History Department at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) engaging in a research project on the relation of culture and space in the context of Indian Ocean Studies. Julia Verne has done extensive ethnographic research in East Africa (esp. Zanzibar, the Tanzanian hinterland and the Kenyan coast), the Comoros, on the Arabian Peninsula (Dubai, Muscat) and in London, mainly focusing on questions of mobility, translocality, virtuality and trade. Moreover, she is interested in recent epistemological and methodological issues in cultural geography as well as in the history of geographic thought, esp. in relation to the humanities and anthropology in particular. Her publications include ‘A mobile phone: Mobility, materiality and everyday Swahili trading practices’ (in: Cultural Geographies 2010, 17(3), pp. 341–357), ‘Le terrain, c’est moi?’ Reflections on the emergence of the field in translocal network research (in: Annales de Geographie, 2012, 687-688, pp. 561-582), ‘Ethnographie und ihre Folgen für die Kulturgeographie: eine Kritik des Netzwerkkonzepts in Studien zu translokaler Mobilität’ (in: Geographica Helvetica 2012, 4) and ‘Living Translocality: Space, Culture and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trading Connections’ (2012, Franz Steiner Verlag (Erdkundliches Wissen): Stuttgart).
Verne, J. (2012): “Le terrain, c’est moi?” Reflections on the emergence of the field in translocal research, Annales de Géographie 687-688, 561-582.
Verne, J. und Doevenspeck, M. (2012): Bitte da bleiben! Sedentarismus als Konstante in der Migrationsforschung, in: Steinbrink, M. und Geiger, M. (eds.) Migration und Entwicklung aus geographischer Perspektive, IMIS-Beitraege 42/2012, IMIS: Osnabrueck, 61-94.
Verne, J. (2012): Living Translocality: Space, Culture and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trading Connections, Franz Steiner Verlag (Erdkundliches Wissen): Stuttgart. Müller-Mahn, D. und Verne, J. (2011) Post-Development: Geographische Entwicklungsforschung jenseits binärer Raumbilder, in: Gebhardt, H. et al. (Hrsg.) Geographie. Physische Geographie und Humangeographie, 2nd Edition, Spektrum: Heidelberg.
Verne, J. und Dorsch, H. (2011); “Othering your neighbour.” Eine kritische Perspektive auf kommunale Integrationspolitik, in: Popp, H. (ed.); Migration und Integration in Deutschland (Bayreuth Kontaktstudium Geographie, Bd. 6), Verlag Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellsch. Bayreuth e.V.: Bayreuth.
Müller-Mahn, D. und Verne, J. (2010): Geographische Entwicklungsforschung - alte Probleme, neue Perspektive, in: Geographische Rundschau 10, 4-11.
Pfaff, J. (2010): Mobile Phone Geographies, Geography Compass 4, 10, 1433-1447.
Pfaff, J. (2010): A mobile phone: mobility, materiality and everyday Swahili trading practices. In: cultural geographies 17, 3, 341-357.
Pfaff, J. (2009): The Mobility of a Mobile Phone: Examining 'Swahiliness' through an Object's Biography. In: de Bruijn, M., Nyamjoh, F. and Brinkmann, I. (eds.): Mobile phones in everyday Africa, ASC Leiden: Netherlands and Langaa Publishers: Cameroon, 134-150.
Pfaff, J. (2007); Finding one’s way through places – a contemporary trade journey of young Zanzibari traders, in: Klute, G. and Hahn, H. (eds.); Cultures of migration – African perspectives, LIT: Münster, 61-88.
Pfaff, J. (2006); Die Union der Komoren, in: Weiss, W. (ed.); Lexikon arabischer Staaten, Palmyra: Heidelberg, 133-142.
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January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.
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