Brown-Bag-Lectures – Summer Semester 2022

Wednesdays, 12.00 – 13.00, FH 804/05

Concept

This semester, several guest researchers will visit the Department of Sociology, SMUS and the CRC 1265.The guests will introduce themselves and their research to the department in a series of Brown-Bag-Lectures.

Please bring your own lunch – we will be eating while listening to the lecture.

For those interested, we will also be ordering pizza, at a cost of €10 per person. You can place an order by registering at least two days before the lecture, using the links provided below. We will also provide mineral water.

If you have missed the deadline, you can still come to the lecture, but you will have to bring your own food and drink.

Please note that the current TU Covid-19-rules for lectures apply.


20.04.22, 12.00 – 13.00
Claire Wagner & Jacques Du Toit (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Interdisciplinary research and teaching collaborations in urban sustainability
Please register and order food for this date by 18.04. via this link

Dr. Jacques Du Toit
Prof. Claire Wagner

Speakers’ Email: claire.wagner@up.ac.za, jacques.dutoit@up.ac.za


08.06.22, 16.00 – 18.00
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Sentient Urbanity and an Affective Assemblage of Nature, Infrastructure and Atmos-phere in Bangkok
Please register and order food for this date by 06.06. via this link

Jakkrit Sangkhamanee

Speaker’s Email: jakkrit.sa@chula.ac.th


22.06.22, 12.00 – 13.00
Dominggus Elcid Li (Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change, Indonesia)

Doing Social Innovation during Pandemic Covid-19 in Front Line: A Movement from Periphery
Please register and order food for this date by 20.06. via this link

Dominggus Elcid Li

Speaker’s Email: elcidli@yahoo.com



29.06.22, 12.00 – 13.00

Eric Yankson (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)

Street Naming in a Postcolonial African Context: Conceptual and Empirical Perspec-tives from Windhoek, Namibia
Please register and order food for this date by 27.06. via this link

Eric Yankson

Speaker’s Email: eyankson@nust.na


06.07.22, 12.00 – 13.00
Gabriel Faimau (University of Botswana, Botswana)

Religion and Ethical Questions of Digitalization in Africa
Please register and order food for this date by 04.07. via this link

Gabriel Faimau

Speaker’s Email: faimaug@ub.ac.bw



13.07.22, 12.00 – 13.00

Binitha V Thampi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Rethinking Development: Issues and Questions
Please register and order food for this date by 11.07. via this link

Binitha V Thampi

Speaker’s Email: binithathampi@iitm.ac.in



20.07.22, 12.00 – 13.00

Fraya Frehse (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Homelessness in Covid-19 Brazil: Unexpected Spatial Contributions to Urban Sustain-ability
Please register and order food for this date by 18.07. via this link

Faya Frehse

Speaker’s Email: fraya@usp.br