Annual Report 2025

18
Events
14
Grants & distinctions
13
Media Presence
33
Teaching
90
Talks
54
Publications

Events organized by fellows

Gruia Badescu

  • 15 November 2024, Slow Memory and the City, Workshop, online.
  • 5-6 June 2025, Colloquium in East European History, University of Konstanz, on-site.
  • 15 July 2025, Spatial Practices of Memory, Roundtable at the Memory Studies Association (MSA) Annual Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), on-site.
  • 17 July 2025, Dialogues between Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe: Reflections on the Past, Roundtable at the Memory Studies Association (MSA) Annual Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), on-site.

Anamaria Bentea

  • 5 July 2025, Clubul de POVESTe - Atelier practic despre bilingvism, Workshop co-organised with the UK-based Romanian school Povești spuse-n românește, online.

Elisa Deiss-Helbig

  • 11-13 June 2025, Annual Conference of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) "Inequalities in agenda-setting", International conference co-organised with Christian Breunig (University of Konstanz), on-site.

Julia Ditter

  • 10-11 September 2024, EVENT 2024 - A Flightless Conference with NAVSA | BAVS | AVSA | VI | DACH-V, Local Hub, University of Konstanz, on-site.

Jonas Kuckling

  • 9-11 October 2024,14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2024), Scientific conference, on-site.

Eduardo Luersen

  • 27 November 2024, Telling the Future: Re-Imagining the Technosphere, Workshop, Bischofsvilla University of Konstanz, on-site.
  • 27 November 2024, Climate Images, Climate Cultures: Studying Aesthetics of Meteorology in Art and Science, ZKF Public Talk by Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam), Bischofsvilla University of Konstanz, hybrid.

Morgane Nouvian

  • 17-19 November 2024, Zukunftskolleg annual retreat, Schloss Hohenfels (Germany), on-site.

Valeria Vegh Weis

  • 11 September 2024, Criminalisation of Environmental Activism, European Society of Criminology, Bucharest University, Bucharest (Romania), on-site.
  • 8 December 2024, Beyond the Western-Non-Western Divise, Workshop Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan), on-site.
  • 15 December 2024, Victim Participation in International Criminal Law, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan), on-site.
  • 11 September 2025, Southerning Crimes of the Powerful, European Society of Criminology, Athens (Greece), on-site.

James Wilson

  • 10-12 October 2024, 25 Years After Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives, Workshop co-organised with Mohamad el-Merheb, University of Groningen, Groningen (Netherlands), on-site.
  • 25-28 October and 8 November 2024, Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630-1614), International conference co-organised with Eric Böhme, Alejandro Peláez Martín and Hossameldin Ali, University of Konstanz.

Abena Yalley

  • 7-15 October 2024, Politics of Reproduction: Obstetric Violence, Mental Health and Narrative Exposure Therapy, Workshop, University of Konstanz.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions

Gruia Badescu

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (COFUND Programme), RFIEA and LABEX, Marie Curie Fellowship (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945408) and FIAS Fellowship, Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (Grant ANR-11-LABX-0027-01), “Urban imaginaries and political ruptures: Three aspiring Parises and their discontents“, 130,000 EUR, 2024-2025.
  • German Ministry for Science, Research and Art, Seed Grant for ERC application, 5,858 EUR, 2024.

Yitzchak Ben Mocha

  • GSO Klaus Tschira Boost Fund, “Understanding cooperation & advancing comparative research: An integrative, “live” Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD)”, 120,000 EUR, October 2025 – September 2027.

Julia Ditter

  • Centre for Cultural Inquiry, Publication of “Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination”, 8,000 EUR.
  • Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz, Publication of “Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination”, 2,710 EUR.

Eduardo Luersen

  • NOMIS Foundation, “Transcoding the Earth Systems: Climate and Weather Models in Digital Games”, 92,500 CHF, 01 September 2025 – 31 August 2026.

Morgane Nouvian

  • Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, “How to be different together: comparing recruitment behaviour in European and African bees”, 10,000 EUR, 01 December 2024 – 30 November 2025.

Cristina Ruiz Agudo

  • LBS Stiftung Umwelt und Wohnen, „LBS Wissenschaftsförderung für nachhaltiges Leben und Wohnen“, 10,000 EUR.

Katerina Suverina

  • Fritz Thyssen Conference Grant, "HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives”, 15.450 EUR.

Valeria Vegh Weis

  • Global Criminal Justice Hub, University of Oxford (UK), Academic Visitor Fellow, 5,000 GBP.
  • Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Japan, Visiting Scholar (housing).
  • Restorative Justice Working Group of the European Society of Criminology, Romania, Runner-up Best Paper Prize,

James Wilson

  • Three-year Individual Research Grant by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), ”Translating the Crusades: Historical Legacies of the Orientalist Translation Movement”, 304,903 EUR, September 2025 – August 2028.

Abena Yalley

  • Human Rights Watch, Travel Grant for 1st Convening on Obstetric Violence in Africa, 2000 USD, 15 -17 October 2024.

Media Presence

Anamaria Bentea

Elisa Deiss-Helbig

Julia Ditter

Morgane Nouvian

Katerina Suverina

Valeria Vegh Weis

James Wilson

Teaching

Gruia Badescu

  • Summer semester 2024: Nationalism and Empire, BA/MA course.

Anamaria Bentea

  • Winter semester 2024/25: Acquisition du français: aspects morphosyntaxiques dans différents contextes d’acquisition, BA/MA lecture, Romanisches Seminar, University of Zürich.

Elisa Deiss-Helbig

  • Summer semester 2025: Research Design II: Case studies and qualitative methods, MA lecture (co-teaching with Dirk Leuffen).
  • Summer semester 2025: Electoral Representation: From Promises to Policy, MA seminar.
  • Summer semester 2025: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Advanced BA seminar.
  • Summer semester 2025: Colloquium, thesis colloquium.

Julia Ditter

  • Summer semester 2025: Victorian Literature and Science, Advanced seminar.

Jonas Kuckling

  • Summer semester 2025: Learning for multi-robot systems, Master course (lecture + practical exercises).

Morgane Nouvian

  • 16 January 2025: Honeybee physiology, lecture given as part of the course on Bees and bee pathologies, Veterinary school of Nantes (France).
  • Winter semester 2024/25 – Summer semester: Supervision of the MSc thesis of Richmond Appiah-Kubi.

Cristina Ruiz Agudo

  • Winter semester 2024/25: Chemistry of Construction Materials, Master course.
  • Winter semester 2024/25 and summer semester 2025: Supervision of several Bachelor, Master and PhD theses.

Katerina Suverina

  • Summer semester 2024/25: Why Paranoia is Popular? History and Conspiracy Theory in Russia and the USA, course.

Valeria Vegh Weis

  • Winter semester 2024/25: Criminology, BA seminar, Universidad Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Argentina.
  • Summer semester 2025: Criminology, BA seminar, Universidad Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Argentina.

James Wilson

  • Winter semester 2024/25: Pillage and the Plough: Nomads and Peasants in the Medieval Islamicate world, seminar taught in cooperation with Dr. Alejandro Peláez Martín.
  • Winter semester 2024/25: Der Erste Kreuzzug 1095-1099: aus der Perspektive der Kreuzfahrer und der Kreuzgefallenen (The First Crusade 1095–1099: from the perspective of the Crusaders and the Crusaded), seminar.

Abena Yalley

  • Winter semester 2024/25: Gender, Global Health and Health Systems Equity, MA seminar.
  • Summer semester 2025: African Feminisms, Development and Epistemologies, Advance BA seminar.
  • Summer semester 2025: Gender and Global Health, MA seminar.

Talks

Gruia Badescu

  • “Urbicide, mémoricide : villes, guerres et mémoire d'ex-Yougoslavie à l'Ukraine", Rendez-vous de l’Histoire de Blois, Blois (France), 12 October 2024, on-site.
  • "Cities after political ruptures: Architecture, memory, and repair", Cidades Seminar, Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 1 November 2024, online.
  • "Outlook on community spaces: Designing sustainable environments", Rhodes Forum on Technology and Society, Rhodes Trust, Oxford (UK), 2 November 2024, on-site and online.
  • "Après les nouvelles guerres : Débats contemporains sur la destruction et la reconstruction du patrimoine dans les Balkans et le Levant après 1945", Conference ‘Le Patrimoine de la Reconstruction : connaître, pérenniser et adapter, transmettre et valoriser’, Caen (France), 14-16 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Refonder le paysage urbain – Iconoclasmes nationaux et pression impériale dans l’espace urbain post-Habsbourg", INALCO, Paris (France), 19 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Urban geopolitics of memory: War, destruction, and reconstruction in cities", Tchudi Annual Lecture in Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo (Norway), 21 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Urbicide and beyond: Narratives of violence against cities in twentieth-century Europe", Conference ‘Calibrating Narratives of Violence in 20th Century Europe: Liberal, Fascist, Communist, (Post-)Colonial’, Masaryk Institute and Archive, Prague (Czech Republic), 28-30 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Remaking the cityscape: Imperial duress and regionalist populism in post-Habsburg urban space", Conference Memory and Populism from the Margins, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), 2-4 December 2024, on-site.
  • "Emancipatory promises: Revisiting anti-imperial struggle and nationalism in-between Eastern Europe and the Global South", University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany), 19 December 2024, on-site.
  • "Narratives of victimhood and perpetration in post-war reconstruction", Conference ‘The Visceral and the Virtual: Memorial Practices in Eastern and Southeastern Europe’, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (Germany), 29 January – 1 February 2025, on-site.
  • "Architectes en exil et la constitution de l’imaginaire urbain : faire et défaire trois « Paris » régionaux – Bucarest, Beyrouth, Buenos Aires", International symposium ‘L'exil comme voyage. La Méditerranée des architectes et le monde, XVIIIe–XXe siècle’, University of Poitiers, Poitiers (France), 4 April 2025, on-site.
  • "On urban imaginaries and memoryscapes: Cities, ruptures, and spatial remakings", Urban Humanities Symposium: ‘How Do We Learn About the Urban?’, Malmö University, Malmö (Sweden), 11 April 2025, on-site.
  • "Trois Paris à travers le monde et leurs désenchantements : Imaginaires urbains et ruptures politiques à Bucarest, Buenos Aires et Beyrouth", Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie (CREE), Inalco, Paris (France), 5 May 2025, on-site.
  • "In the wake of urbicide: reconstruction, sustainability, and violence from Beirut to Ukraine", Conference War and the Anthropocene, Central European University, Vienna (Austria), 30 May 2025, on-site.
  • "Le Paris désiré : construire l’imaginaire urbain par le visuel à travers des ruptures politiques à Buenos Aires, Bucarest et Beyrouth", Workshop ‘Ville désirable / ville désirée : construire les imaginaires urbains par le visuel (XVIIIe–XXIe)’, Lyon (France), 10-11June 2025, on-site.
  • "Cosmopolitan imaginaries and syncretic place-making in Beirut and Sarajevo", Symposium ‘Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Imagining the Nation in Urban Space’, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, University of Lund, Lund (Sweden), 12-13 June 2025, on-site.
  • “Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time”, ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Critical Security Studies Section, 23 June 2025, online.
  • “Rescaling Memory: Dialogical Practices and Intergenerational Engagement in Rural Romania”, Memory Studies Association (MSA) Annual Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 17 July 2025, on-site.

Anamaria Bentea

  • "Subject and object wh-question comprehension among Farsi-speaking adults, monolingual children, and heritage child speakers of Farsi" (with T. Ghaemi), Workshop on Heritage language research through the lens of psycho- /neurolinguistics and individual differences, International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań (Poland), 8-14 September 2024, on-site.
  • "Morphosyntactic development in child heritage speakers: DOM and number agreement in heritage Romanian" (with T. Marinis), Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 16), Lisbon (Portugal), 12-14 September 2024, on-site.
  • "Comprehension and production of which-questions in child heritage speakers of Romanian: The role of DOM and number agreement" (with Theo Marinis), Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), Boston (US), 7-10 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Bilingualism, Working Memory, and Relative Clause Comprehension in Children" (with E. Solaimani, V. Chondrogianni, H. Delage, P. Wolfer, F. Baumeister, & S. Durrleman), Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), Boston (US), 7-10 November 2024, on-site.

Henrique Almeida de Castro

  • “Democratic backsliding as a judicial reason: Powerful idea or self-justifying rhetoric?”, Legal Infrastructures of Democracy, Frankfurt (Germany), 20-21 January 2025, on-site.
  • “Adjudicating for Democracy? How Backsliding Theories Shape Legal Interpretation”, Warwick Institute for Advanced Studies, Coventry (England), May 2025, online.
  • “From antagonizing to participating in the state: Union choice and factional conflict in Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2025 Annual Conference, Montreal (Canada), 9-12 July 2025, on-site.

Yitzchak Ben Mocha

  • “GCoo-BreeD: advancing comparative research on cooperative breeding with a peer-reviewed and updatable Global Cooperative Breeding Database”, International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Melbourne (Australia), 29 September – 4 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Co-BreeD: advancing comparative research on cooperative breeding”, Seminar at the Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz (Germany), March 2025, on-site.
  • "Understanding Animal Behaviour", public talk, Leipzig International School, 4 April 2025, on-site.
  • "Habitat, Diet & Appearances of desert animals", public talk, Leipzig International School, 13 June 2025, on-site.
  • “The animal’s inner world: A defense of critical anthropomorphism”, photo exhibition, Leipzig International School.
  • “Should we prefer quantity over quality of data? Lessons from the Cooperative-Breeding Database”, Seminar at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département d'Ecologie Physiologie et Ethologie, Strassburg (France), June 2025, on-site.
  • “The Ecology & Sociality of Sleep in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird (Argya squamiceps)”, Seminar Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Konstanz (Germany), June 2025, on-site.
  • “The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD)”, European Ornithologists' Union conference, Bangor (U.K.), 18-22 August 2025, on-site.

Elisa Deiss-Helbig

  • "Lesereise Demokratie", Lange Nacht der Demokratie, Stuttgart (Germany), 2 October 2024, on-site.
  • "Zwischen Erfüllung und Misstrauen: Wahlversprechen unter der Lupe", Invited talk by the vhs, Fellbach (Germany), 14 February 2025, on-site.
  • "Knowing, Benefiting, Voting? Why Voters Do (Not) Respond to Distributive Policy Offers", 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Madrid (Spain), 26-28 June 2025, on-site.
  • "Does Going Narrow Pay Off? The Electoral Trade-Offs of Pledge Targeting", Workshop 'Promises Under Pressure?', Göttingen (Germany), 10-11 July 2025, online.

Julia Ditter

  • “Energy and the Periodical Press ‒ An Infrastructural Reading of Charles Dickens’s All the Year Round (1859-1895)”, EVENT2024 – Konstanz Hub, Konstanz (Germany), 10-11 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Beyond the Caledonian Antisyzygy: Scottish Studies for the Future”, Anglistiktag University of Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany), 15-18 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Extractivism and Forms of Representation”, Roundtable Imperial Minerals Project, 7 April 2025, online.
  • “Scottish Studies for the Future”, ScotHub: Reading Scotland Series, 13 May 2025, online.

Jonas Kuckling

  • “Living on the edge: Scalability and two-phase performance in mulit-robot systems”, Thursday Morning Talk series of the SCIoI Excellence cluster, Berlin (Germany), 13 March 2025, on-site.

Eduardo Luersen

  • “Ocean Machine: Imageries of Connectivity and Disruption Surrounding Submarine Cable Networks”, International conference Transoceanic Imaginations, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 2 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Humming: Data/Transfer/Heat”, Making the Invisible Visible Workshop, Merz Akademie, 25 March 2025, online.
  • “Modder Earth: The Image Logistics of Digital Earth in Entertainment Software”, Collaborative WIAS-ZuKo Jour Fixe on Human / Non-Human, University of Konstanz / Waseda Institute, 29 April 2025, online.
  • “Transcoding Earth into Design Protocols in Digital Games”, Environmental Humanities initiative at the ZKF, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 04 July 2025, on-site.
  • “‘Aquele Calor, Aquela Agonia’: Termoculturas do Jogar em Tempos de Emergência Climática” [“‘The Heat, that Torment’: Thermocultures of Play in Times of Climate Crisis”) with Tarcízio Macedo (Fluminense Federal University/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), 48th Brazilian Conference for Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), 12 August 2025, online.

Angelo Neira

  • “Bridging Soil Adsorption Models and Regulation: A Framework for Integrating Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships and Pedotransfer Functions Approaches”, SETAC Latin America 16th Biennial Meeting, Lima (Peru), 26–29 August 2024, on-site.
  • “(Re)Thinking Soils: An interdisciplinary journey”, Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Warwick, 25 June 2025, online.

Morgane Nouvian

  • "Regulation and adaptation of colony defence in social bees", Institute Evolution, Genome, Behaviour and Ecology, Gif-sur-Yvette (France), 28 November 2024, on-site.
  • "Regulation and adaptation of colony defence in social bees", Insect cognitive neuroethology lab, Paris (France), 29 November 2024, on-site.
  • “Colony defence in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)”, Seminar of the biology department, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 24 April 2025, on-site.

Cristina Ruiz Agudo

  • “Insights on the effects of anionic additives on the nucleation of M-S-H”, CEM-NET meeting, Bern (Switzerland), 9 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Organic additive´s influence on cement hydrates formation”, SubLime conference, Funchal (Portugal), 11 November 2024, on-site.
  • “Crystallization of (alternative) cement hydrates”, Invited Talk, Bochum (Germany), 18 March 2025, on-site.
  • “Effect of additives on Magnesium Silicate Hydrate (M-S-H) Formation for Low Carbon Cement”, Goldschmidt 2025, Prague (Czech Republic), 9 July 2025, on-site.

Katerina Suverina

  • “Perestroika the Perestroika and Its Queer Discontents: Mobilizing Social Advocacy in the Late Union Late Soviet Union”, ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston (US), 20 – 24 November 2024, on-site.
  • “The Outbreak. The Unknown History of HIV/AIDS in the USSR”, University of Bristol, Bristol (UK), 16 June 2025, on-site.
  • "Activisms and Memories in Search of Hope”, XI ICCEES, University College London, London (UK), 21 July 2025, on-site.
  • “The Outbreak. The Unknown History of HIV/AIDS in the USSR”, Pushkin House, London (UK), 23 July 2025, on-site.
  • "Challenging Narratives: Decentering the History of HIV/AIDS in Europe”, EAHMH, Berlin (Germany), 27 August 2025, on-site.

Valeria Vegh Weis

  • “Tribute to Vincenzo Ruggiero”, European Group, 28 August 2024, online.
  • “llegal Fishing in Argentina”, European Society of Criminology, Bucharest (Romania), 13 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Reparations for Colonial Crimes in Latin America”, European Society of Criminology, Bucharest (Romania), 13 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Book presentation: Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade”, European Society of Criminology, Bucharest (Romania), 13 September 2024, on-site.
  • “Southern Criminology”, All Souls Criminology Seminars, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), 12 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Decolonising International Criminal Law”, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK), 27 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Lawfare in Latin America”, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 3 March 2025, on-site.
  • “Commentary: Workshop on the aftermath of Nuremberg”, Nuremberg Academy, 20-21 March 2025.
  • “Angriff auf die Erinnerungskultur in Argentinien“, Fritz Bauer Forum, 24 March 2025.
  • “Criminologia e Prisões”, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2 April 2025, on-site.
  • “Green Criminology”, Female Ecologies Workshop, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 22 May 2025, on-site.
  • “El Debilitamiento del Regimen Internacional de los Derechos Humanos y su Impacto en América Latina”, Fundación Ford, 3 June 2025.
  • “Delitos de Lesa Humanidad”, Curso de Posgrado Derecho Internacional, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 9 June 2025.
  • “Female Ecologies”, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 24 June 2025, on-site.
  • “Southern Contributions to the Development of the Crime of Enforced Disappearance”, University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany), 16 June 2025, on-site.
  • “Green Criminology”, Italian Environmental Sociology Conference, Turin (Italy), 8 September 2025, on-site.

James Wilson

  • “Provincialising jihād in Ibn al-ʿAdīm’s Zubda”, Workshop ‘25 Years after Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives’, University of Groningen, Groningen (Netherlands), 10 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Crusade studies and the Historical Legacies of Orientalist translations”, Forschungskolloquium Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 7 January 2025, on-site.
  • “Translations of Arabic 'Crusade' Chronicles as Objects of Historical Enquiry”, Fordham University, New York (US), 12 February 2025, on-site.
  • “Joseph Chahin: A Syrian Maronite Merchant and the Recueil des historiens des croisades”, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (US), 17 February 2025, on-site.
  • “Translating the Crusades: Historical Legacies of the Orientalist Translation Movement”, Public Lecture at the Medieval Program of Princeton University, Princeton (US), 19 February 2025, on-site.

Abena Yalley

  • “Restitution is Equal to What? The restitution of the Head of Badu Bonso II”, Association of African Studies in Germany conference on Reconfiguring Africa, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth (Germany), 29 September – 2 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Navigating the Academic Career System in Germany: Funding towards early independence”, Hilde-Domin Programme, Konstanz (Germany), 11 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Abuse and Humiliation in the Delivery Room: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Obstetric Violence in Ghana”, 1st convening on Obstetric Violence in Africa Organized by the Human Rights Watch Africa, Banjul (Gambia), 16-17 October 2024, on-site.
  • “Abuse and Humiliation in the delivery Room: Analysing the Gendered Dynamics of Obstetric Violence in Ghana”, Female Ecologies, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 29 April 2025, on-site.
  • “Migration Crises in Europe: Is it a colonial problem?”, Diversity Days, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 20 May 2025, on-site.
  • “Restitution is Equal to What? The restitution of the Head of Badu Bonso II”, Colloquium on African Arts, Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany), 10 June 2025, on-site.
  • “Layers of Inequalities: Gender, Medicalization and Obstetric Violence in Ghana and Nigeria”, European Conference on African Studies, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), 25-28 June 2025, on-site.
  • “Maternal Health in Ghana”, Obstetrics and Gynecologic Lecture Series, Klinikum Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany), 16 July 2025, on-site.

Publications

Gruia Badescu

  • Badescu, Gruia 2024: Towards Sustainable Post-War Reconstruction: Reflecting on City-Making and Conflict, in: Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou and Georgeen Theodore (eds.): Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities. MDPI, 2024, pp. 311-331. doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03897-871-8-19
  • Bădescu, Gruia, and Trošt, Tamara 2025: Memory, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press 2025.
    doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.645

Anamaria Bentea

  • Bentea, A. 2025: Comprehending which-questions in real-time: An eye-tracking study with Romanian-speaking children and adults, in: Veronica Tomescu & Anca Sevcenco (eds.): New Topics in Monolingual and Multilingual Language Acquisition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Bentea, A., Belletti, A., Rizzi, L. & Durrleman, S. 2025: Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number, in: Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.): The Ziggurat of Grammar. In honor of Ur Shlonsky. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Solaimani, E., Wolfer, P., Baumeister, F., Chondrogianni, V., Bentea, A., Durrleman, S. 2025: Bilingualism, working memory and relative clause comprehension in children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
  • Guest editor for special issue on The Acquisition of Heritage Romanian in Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics.

Henrique Almeida de Castro

  • Castro, Henrique A 2025: Labor-inclusive corporatism after democratic transitions: Institutionalization in South Africa and Brazil. Socio-Economic Review 2025, Vol. 23, no. 1, p. 97–123. 
    /doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae065

Julia Ditter

Jonas Kuckling

  • Kuckling, J., Luckey, R., Avrutin, V., Vardy, A., Reina, A., Hamann, H. 2024: Do We Run Large-scale Multi-Robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-Phase Performance in System Size ScalingIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2024, S. 4562-4568. 
    doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610771
  • Hamann, H., Dorigo, M., Pérez Cáceres, L., Reina, A., Kuckling, J., Kaiser, T. K., Soorati, M., Hasselmann, K., Buss, E. (eds.) 2024: Swarm Intelligence14th International Conference, ANTS 2024, Konstanz, Germany, 9. Okt. 2024 - 11. Okt. 2024. Cham: Springer.

Eduardo Luersen

  • Luersen, E. H., Da Silva de Paula, B. 2024: After the Stack Opaque: Cloud Gaming Infrastructure and Environmental Outsourcing Metabolisms, in: Koenig, N., Denk, N., Pfeiffer, A., (eds.): Money | Games | Economies. Krems an der Donau: University of Krems Press, 2024, S. 283-306. 
    doi.org/10.48341/xrtn-se56
  • Luersen, E. H., Gonzatti, C., Henn, R. (eds.) 2024: Fronteiras: Media Studies (Special Issue Cultura Digital). São Leopoldo: Unisinos. 
    revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/issue/view/1002
  • Luersen, E. H., Paula, J. 2025: Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds, in: Games and Culture. Sage, 2025, 20(2), S. 231-254. 
    doi.org/10.1177/15554120231200396
  • Luersen, E.H.: Mare Medium: Imaginaries of Connectivity and Disruption Surrounding Submarine Cable Networks, in: Kraume, A., Brander, M.L. (eds.): (Trans-)Oceanic Imaginations. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach Wissenschaft (accepted).
  • Luersen, E.H.: Above and Within the Earth: Flight Simulator and the Metabolic Connections Between a Simulated World and Its Twin Systems, in: Joieux-Prunel, B. et al.: The Struggle for Digital Images: An Agonistic Perspective of New Media Floods. University of Geneva. London: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture (accepted).
  • Luersen, E.H, Da Silva de Paula, B.: Hydrating, Humming, Commuting: Scenes from the Regional Geographies of Cloud Infrastructures. In: Kulturanthropologie Notizen (Special Issue Digital Transformations and Climate Change: Futures, Infrastructures and Data) (under review).
  • Luersen, E.H, Wilson, J. (eds.): Digital Culture & Society (Special Issue Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded History). De Gruyter (under development).

Angelo Neira

  • Neira Albornoz, A. J., Martínez-Parga-Méndez, M., González, M., Spitz, A. 2024: Understanding requirements, limitations and applicability of QSAR and PTF models for predicting sorption of pollutants on soils: a systematic review, in: Frontiers in Environmental Science. Frontiers. 2024, 12, 1379283. 
    doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1379283

Morgane Nouvian

  • Ramirez-Moreno, D., Galizia, C.G., Nouvian, M. 2025: Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2025. 
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0272
  • Kannan, K., Galizia, C.G., Nouvian, M. 2025: Consistency and individuality of honeybee stinging behaviour across time and social contexts. Royal Society Open Science, 2025.
    doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241295

Cristina Ruiz Agudo

  • Zhuang, H., Guo, Z., Lan, Y., Ruiz-Agudo, C., Wang, F., Cölfen, H., Qu, Z. 2024: Thermal-responsive soil-hydrogel composite for additive construction. Journal of Building Engineering 98, 111118, 2024.
  • Gruber, D., Ruiz-Agudo, C., Rao, A., Pasler, S., Cölfen, H., Sturm, E.V. 2024: Complex Coacervates: From Polyelectrolyte Solutions to Multifunctional Hydrogels for Bioinspired Crystallization. Crystals 14 (11), 959, 2024.
  • Cheng, J., Mao, Y., Zhang, B., Wu, H., Ruiz-Agudo, C., Jiao, D., Guo, Z., Deng, Z., et al. 2025: A comprehensive investigation of the rheology of cement pastes containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Construction and Building Materials 490, 142438, 2025.
  • Emminger, Y.H., Ladner, L., Ruiz-Agudo, C. 2025: Comparative study of the early stages of crystallization of calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) and calcium aluminate silicate hydrate (CASH). Cement and Concrete Research 193, 107873, 2025.
  • Zhang, B., Qu, Z., Ruiz-Agudo, C., Yang, L., Chi, B., Kong, Y., Wang, F. 2025: Lightweight magnetic carbon nanotube/cellulose nanofibre aerogels with microstructure engineering for enhanced microwave absorption. Carbon 234, 120020, 2025.
  • Bastian, A., Emminger, Y.H., Kerdieh, N., Bernard, E., Ruiz-Agudo, C. 2025: Insights into the impact of small anionic additives on Mg-silicate hydrate nucleation. The Journal of Chemical Physics 162 (6), 2025.
  • Zhuang, H., Guo, Z., Zhang, B., Leng, D., Ruiz-Agudo, C., Wang, F., Chen, H., et al. 2025: Analysis of the migration behavior and performance impact of modified starch in gypsum plasterboard. Construction and Building Materials 463, 140031, 2025.
  • Ruiz-Agudo, E., Ruiz-Agudo, C. 2025: Geochemical applications of mineral-water interactions. Elsevier 2025.

Katerina Suverina

  • Roldugina, I., Suverina, E. 2024: The Outbreak. The Unknown History of HIV/AIDS in the USSR. Individuum Press 2024.

Valeria Vegh Weis

  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: The Ping-Pong Strategy: Confronting Atrocities from the Exile. The International Journal of Human Rights, pp. 1–19.
    doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2424400
  • Vegh Weis, V., Rey, S. 2024: Argentina’s Commitment to International Criminal Justice to Address the Crimes of the Last Dictatorship (1976–1983), International Criminal Law Review, X, pp. 1-14.
    doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10189
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: Southern Green Victimology: A look at the Cycle of Environmental Harms, Resistance and Over-criminalisation, in: Sozzo and Dal Santo (eds.): Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins, Emerald 2024.
    doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-328-620241011
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: ¿Funcionan las cortes comunitarias para asegurar la justicia restaurativa? Observaciones de la experiencia en los Estados Unidos, in: Almada, J.M., Fava, G. (eds.): Entramados de Paz y Justicia en los Sistemas Penales. Hilos desde la Justicia Restaurativa. Editores del Sur, pp. 261-276.
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: Qué es la Criminología Verde? Qué es la Criminología Azul? Qué aporta la Mirada en/desde/para el Sur Global? Errepar 2024, pp. 2-19.
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: Víctimas como protagonistas de la resistencia. Más allá del modelo participativo, Tramas y Redes 7, 2024, pp. 101-12.
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: Los Patrones del Mal, Legados de Impunidad. Un dossier sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos, Andhes, 2024, pp. 11-14.
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2024: Indicators of Lawfare: Assessing the Criminalisation of Progressive Politics in Latin America, MCLR+ (crimlrev.net), Oct. 28 2024.
  • Vegh Weis, V. 2025: Southerning Non-punitive and Abolitionist Feminism, in: Coyle (ed.): Abolitionist Handbook. Bristol University Press, pp. 200-222. 
    doi.org/10.56687/9781529224061-014
  • Gómez Alcorta, E., Vegh Weis, V.: Jujuy: el laboratorio de la repression. Buenos Aires/Konstanz, Juni 2025.

James Wilson

  • Böhme, E., Peláez Martín, A., Wilson, J., Demichelis, M. (eds.) 2024: Special Issue: Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and Around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614), Religions 2024.
  • Wilson, J. 2024: Curating the enemy? Re-reading the ‘Recueil des historiens des croisades: historiens orientaux’, Crusades 23, 2024, pp. 230–253. 
    doi.org/10.1080/14765276.2024.2430777
  • Luersen, E., Wilson, J. 2025: Re-enacting 9th century Baghdad: Interview on the Narrative and Worldbuilding Aspects of the Past, as Rendered in Assassin’s Creed Mirage (2023), Special Issue on ‘Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded Histories’, Digital Culture & Society, (Forthcoming, Autumn 2025).
  • Wilson, J.: Saljuq Aleppo, in: Fulton, M. S. (ed.): A Military History of the Levant during the Era of the Crusades Conflict and Perspective (Routledge: London, forthcoming).
  • Luersen, E., Wilson, J. (eds.): Special Issue: Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded Histories. Digital Culture & Society, Volume 10, Issue 2/2024 (forthcoming December 2025).
  • Wilson, J.: Translating the Crusades: Historical Legacies of the Orientalist Translation Movement (under contract with Edinburgh University Press: forthcoming 2027).
  • Wilson, J.: The unheralded contributions of Joseph Shāhīn to Islamic and Crusade Studies, in: Mallett, A. (ed.): The Middle East and Europe, 1097-1517 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). (In review).
  • Wilson, J.: Provincialising jihād in Ibn al-ʿAdīm’s Zubda, in: El-Merheb, M. Wilson, J. (eds.): Crusades and the Crusaded: Memory, Multivocality and Sources (Leiden: Brill – forthcoming 2026). (In review).
  • El-Merheb, M., Wilson, J. (eds.): Crusades and the Crusaded: Memory, Multivocality and Sources (Leiden: Brill – in review).
     

Abena Yalley

  • Yalley, A. A. 2024: Layers of inequality: Gender, Medicalisation and Obstetric Violence in Ghana. Int J Equity in Health 23, article 243. 
    doi.org/10.1186/s12939-024-02331-z
  • Yalley, A. A., Azubuike, C.M. 2024: PUMP and PWFA Laws for Women in the USA: What Is It and Why Are Women Still Concerned? Commentary. Gender and Behaviour Volume 22, No. 2, 2024. 
    ajol.info/index.php/gab/article/view/277700
  • Olutayo, M.S., Yalley, A.A. 2024: Caring for my Old Age: Social Protection and Women in Informal Sector in Selected Communities in Ibadan (Nigeria), in: Kah, H.K., Lundt, B. (eds.): Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe, LIT VERLAG, Berlin.
  • Opoku, F.B., Yalley, A.K., Nii-Trebi, N.I. Yalley, A.A. 2024: Brief communication: coagulation profiles of HIV positive patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the Mampong Municipal Hospital, Ashanti-Region, Ghana: a case control study. AIDS Res Ther 21, 72, 2024. 
    doi.org/10.1186/s12981-024-00665-w
  • Yalley, A.A.: Politics of Reproduction and the Realities of Obstetric Violence in Ghana, Frontiers in Global Women’s Health (accepted).
  • Yalley, A.A.: African Feminism and Epistemologies, Struggles and Strategies (under review).
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