

Crafting Entanglements
Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War
CRAFTE
Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Project
funded by the Leibniz Association
Project Number: K437/2022

Partners
Crafting Entanglements has established an innovative research network with the aim to historically trace Afro-Asian pasts of the global Cold War.
It connects three Leibniz institutes:
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO, Berlin),
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF, Potsdam)
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS, Erkner)
with two non-European collaborative partners:
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, , New Delhi, India)
(Andrew W. Mellon project, Howard University, USA)
Background Image: Solidarity, Magazine of the Czechoslovak Committee for Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America, Issue 6, 1989, published in Prague, Private Collections Arvind Srivastava, Madhepura, India, photo: Anandita Bajpai, March 2019.
CRAFTE Events
Watch out for our latest articles on archival and field work; exploration of local, regional and state archives; private collections with grey literature; photographs and objects; and reflections on conversations with interlocutors.
Calendar
Check out our day-to-day activities here
- Mi., 23. Okt.Berlin
- Mo., 13. MaiBerlin
- So., 12. MaiBerlin
News
Latest Publications
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Ketzmerick-Calandrino, Maria, "Colonial Dis/Continuities in Cameroon and the Postcolonial Dilemma in the Archive", Global Studies Quarterly, 4, 3, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae066
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Ketzmerick-Calandrino, Maria, "Security. Speaking with Fanon? Critical Security Studies in Tandem with De/Postcolonial Theories", 08.10.2024, Virtual Encyclopaedia Of Peace and Conflict, https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2024/10/08/security-speaking-with-fanon/
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Bajpai, Anandita, "Objects of Love: Remembering Radio Berlin International in India”, in: E. Emery, M. Hines and E. Preuß (eds.), The GDR Tomorrow: Rethinking the East German Legacy, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 279–310.
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Bajpai, Anandita, Material Lives of Cold War Radio Pasts in India, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 44(1): 86-119, 2024.
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Dutt, Bishnupriya, "Post-colonial Imaginations: Afro-Asian Dialogues in the Past and the Present", in: M. Haughton et. al. (eds.), Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood, London: Metheun, 2023, pp. 159-170,
Talks/ Lectures
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Nico Putz, "India-Germany Entanglements: New Avenues in the German Archival Landscape", Max Weber Forum, New Delhi, India, 22.03.2024.
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Anandita Bajpai, "The Inter-Image: Transgenerational Conversations with Material Internationalisms" (with Doreen Mende, SKD), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, part of exhibition programme Echoes der Brüderlander, 12.05.2024

Image: Cover Page, Asian-African Conference Bulletin, Issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia, 1955.
Work With us– CRAFTE Internships
We invite students from History, Area Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Studies or similar disciplines to become part of our team.
Are you a student looking for an internship that involves archival research, working with a database, shooting and editing interview videos, transcribing and indexing them, looking for interview partners in the city of Berlin, writing blog entries on research? (no renumeration possible)
If so then please get in touch and you will hear back from us soon.