13 July,  2 pm - 2:30 pm (CEST) | online

The International Office is organizing an online lecture series, in which the international researchers at the University of Cologne present some of the projects that they are working on. Some researchers already had their presentations published on our website.

This next presentation will be held by Dr. Jonathan Ngeh from Cameroon:

The conventional approach to knowledge production is hierarchical, and research collaborations, for example, in the context of North-South relations, occur within established structures that systematically disadvantage historically marginalised people.

We take this problem as the starting point of our inquiry. We aim to critique the conventional approach to intercultural collaboration in knowledge production and explore ways to overcome this challenge.

The analysis will draw on our research collaboration in the project “Communication during and after COVID-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates”.

This is a multi-sited project that is funded by a German funding institution and involves scholars from the Global South and North and research collaborators in the United Arab Emirates. A self-reflexive ethnographic approach and Homi Bhabha’s concepts of third space and hybridity will inform the analysis.

  Register at https://portal.uni-koeln.de/international/internationale-forschende/international-lecture-series