News of the GIGA Doctoral Programme

Viviana García Pinzón, our DP alumna, has been awarded 1st place in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF) Prize for her dissertation. Additionally, the book based on her dissertation, "Trajectories of Governance", has been published by Bristol University Press. Congratulations, Viviana, on these outstanding accomplishments!  

Adhiraaj Anand took a summer course in Qualitative Interviews at Radboud University from June 17-21, followed by field research for his dissertation project for one month in Indonesia. While in Indonesia, he also attended the AAS-in-Asia conference 2024 from July 9-11. After that, he joined the EuroSEAS conference in Amsterdam from July 23-25. Moreover, he wrote in collaboration with Mahima Duggal, and David Kuehn a GIGA Focus Asia titled Taiwan’s New President: Priorities and Challenges. 

Hager Ali gave an interview on the war in Sudan to Der Tagesspiegel „Eine einzige Katastrophe“: Warum Osman trotz des Krieges im Sudan bleibt“ on June 17. 

Alina Ripplinger participated in the iCourts and MOBILE Summer School at the Faculty of Law, Copenhagen, June 17-21. She also gave a lecture in Mariana Llanos' course on autocratization at the University of Erfurt on June 24. Moreover, she presented her working paper on the concept of legal politics of resistance at the Department of Political Science, University College London, where she was invited to participate in the workshop on "Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts" on July 1. 

Johanna Pieper recently returned from an extensive 4–5-month fieldwork trip in Peru and Bolivia. During her stay, she conducted interviews with key figures involved in child labor policies and collected relevant documents for her empirical analysis. She was also affiliated with the universities Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) throughout her time there. 

Johanna and Désirée Reder participated in the LASA conference. Johanna presented the preliminary results of her fieldwork and Désirée her work on the legitimization of state violence towards different addressees. 

Indi-Carolina Kryg also participated in two activities at the LASA conference in Bogota, June 12-15. She was a panelist in the roundtable discussion "Ethics of Conducting Migration Research in Latin America 2: Privilege and Positionality" and presented her research findings on her Monterrey case study with the title "Civic Engagement, Escape Aid, and Political Voicing: Migrants’ Political Agency and Pro-Migrant CSOs". Moreover, she and our visiting Doctoral Researcher Luz Marcela Villalobos Andrade wrote a GIGA Focus Latin America titled: Mexico: Sheinbaum to Face Militarisation and Human Rights Concerns 

Julia Köbrich participated in the 23rd Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference in Dublin on June 17-19. She found it interesting and fun.

Mira Demirdirek and Hamid Talebian taught a course (Seminar) at Marburg University about Middle Eastern states' foreign policy towards Africa this summer semester. They also participated in the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) in Istanbul from July 3-4. They presented their paper "Populist Rebordering: Geopolitical Imagination in Turkey's Africa Policy under the AKP" in the workshop "Populist Geopolitics? Rethinking (Geo)Political Space through the Lens of Populism".