Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Some are replicas, many were looted, some were given away: during the colonial era, countless international cultural objects crossed national borders. How we should deal with these objects today is the subject of controversial debate. Venezuelan legal scholar María Julia Ochoa Jiménez argues for respecting the interests of the Indigenous groups that once produced the objects.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
What links music with plastic waste, emissions or oil leakages? The Nigerian Olusegun Stephen Titus explores just how protest songs can trigger re-thinking and help to achieve ecological sustainability.
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How colonialism is still affecting science – and where supposedly self-evident facts fall apart
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Press Release
21/2024
Geordie Williamson receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2024, and Max Planck-Humboldt Medals go to Laura Waller and Torsten Hoefler
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20/2024
Kant’s philosophy from a non-European and post-colonial viewpoint
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19/2024
The South African researcher Daya Reddy to speak on inclusivity in global science and scholarship
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When the forensic linguist and Georg Forster Fellow Endurence Midinette Dissake talks about her research, she talks about justice. “It is my greatest motivation and the reason why I do research.” Her sense of justice and her fascination with language regularly take the Cameroonian researcher into courts in her country. She is currently part of the team headed by her host, Professor Andrew Stewart, at the University of Bayreuth’s Academy of Advanced African Studies.
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18/2024
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation launches new strategy
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The awards for Humboldtians’ best networking initiatives go to Cameroon, Mexico and the Netherlands. Applications for the 2025 Humboldt Alumni Award may be submitted until 15 December 2024.
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