CEDITRAA 2 on Distribution starting on October 1, 2024

Ute Röschenthaler obituary

We mourn the loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Prof Dr Ute Röschenthaler, who passed away unexpectedly on 18 March 2024. As an internationally renowned specialist in cultural entrepreneurship, intellectual property and cultural mobility, Ute Röschenthaler played a key...

11th Korean Screen Culture Conference, 7-8 June 2024

With generous support from the Korea Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Goethe University of Frankfurt will host the 11th Korean Screen Culture Conference on June 7th and 8th, 2024. The theme of this year is...

“Afrobeats: Digital Encounters and the Global Mainstreaming of African Popular Music”, 12-14 September 2023, Lagos

In September, we came together in Lagos in order to explore contemporary African popular music in a moment of increased global exposition via digital media, specifically for West African “Afrobeats”. The conference was co-funded by Thyssen Foundation and CEDITRAA and was convened by Matthias...

A Travel Report: K-Pop and Korean Culture Events in Korea

The Changwon K-Pop World Festival and the K-Community Festivals are held annually and sponsored by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. They call global K-Pop and K-Wave fans to compete in K-Pop related challenges and invite the...

K-Pop Fans in South Africa: An Observation

During her field research trip to South Africa, Tabitha Adler had the opportunity to attend two K-pop fan events in Johannesburg, meet members of the South African K-pop fandom for interviews and visit the Korean Cultural Centre in Pretoria. She...

Empowering Insights: Prof. Sam Garg on Women Entrepreneurship in Korean Livestreaming

On 21 September 2023, CEDITRAA fellow Prof. Sam Garg kicked off the TIE Conference in Frankfurt with a thought-provoking keynote on Women Entrepreneurship in Korean Live Streaming. The audience engaged in a lively discussion on the evolving landscape of Korean live...

Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives: Tensions between Artists’ Interests and the Repatriation of Music

A short video with statements by participants of the international workshop “Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives: Tensions between Artists’ Interests and the Repatriation of Music”, is now available online. The statements sum up some of the central discussion points,...

Afrobeats: Digital Encounters and the Global Mainstreaming of African Popular Music

Conference, 12-14 September 2023, University of Lagos, Nigeria ‘Love Nwantiti’, a song by the Nigerian artiste CKay, became a global hit in 2021, through the platform TikTok and followed by Top 10 placements in the charts on all continents. It...

“Surfing the Korean Wave” Online International Summer School at Goethe University, 21-25 July 2023

The Online International Summer School on “The Korean Wave” held by the Korean Studies department and organized by Prof. Yonson Ahn, Casandra Chistinean, and Alexandra Fuchs at Goethe University of Frankfurt from 21st to 25th July 2023, has been a...

CEDITRAA welcomes fellow Sam Garg in Frankfurt

We are glad to announce that Prof. Sam Garg will join the team of Cornelia Storz in Frankfurt as an international Fellow in September 2023. Prof. Garg (PhD, Stanford University) is Associate Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School Singapore....

Asia Forum with Dong Yeon Won in Frankfurt | 6 July 2023

For the second Asia Forum, which CEDITRAA co-organises with the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO) and the ConTrust research initiative at Goethe University Frankfurt, we are looking forward to a public lecture by one of Korea’s most famous...

Introducing our international Guest Fellow James Yékú

We are delighted to introduce our esteemed CEDITRAA fellow for June 2023, James Yékú. As an Assistant Professor of African digital humanities at the University of Kansas, James Yékú’s research delves into the realm of digital literary studies, focusing on...

CEDITRAA welcomes Michael Lounsbury as an international fellow

The CEDITRAA team in Frankfurt is glad to receive Prof. Michael Lounsbury as an international Fellow in May 2023. Michael Lounsbury is the Roger S. Smith Professor of Business at the Alberta School of Business – Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship...

South Korean President Performs Soft Power at State Dinner

A CEDITRAA blogpost by Tabitha Adler Last week a short video clip from the White House state dinner to celebrate the 70-year long relationship between South Korea and the USA, went viral. It shows Korea’s president Yun Suk Yeol on...

Call for Applications: CEDITRAA Fellowship Frankfurt 2023

Open Call: Artists in Residence 2023

Artists in Residence at the African Music Archives (AMA) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, June/July ‘23 Application Deadline: 22 January 2023 The AMA* is looking for two DJs, musicians, sound artists or artists from related fields. To apply, artists should be...

2nd GSHS Research Day at Gutenberg University, Mainz  

On 14 October 2022, members of the project attended and represented ceditraa at the second Research Day of the Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS) at the Gutenberg University, Mainz. In line with ceditraa’s overarching topic, the...

Ann Heylen on the digitization of scholarly publishing in East Asian popular culture research

On 6 December 2022, Ann Heylen, Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and Executive Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), at the College of Liberal Arts, NTNU, will give...

CEDITRAA AT SITUATIONS 2022 Conference

Casandra Chistinean was part of this year’s interdisciplinary conference titled “Situations 2022 – Global Content Provider: Korean Film and TV Drama Industry and Entertainment”. “Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context” is an international print and online journal (indexed by...

4th Korean Popular Culture Workshop in Frankfurt, 16/11/2022

The 4th edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop will take place on the 16th of November 2022 between 4 and 6 pm CET. The event will be held online on Zoom with prior registration being required (registration link below)....

CEDITRAA AT BUSAN FILM FESTIVAL 2022

As part of her field research for CEDITRAA, Casandra Chistinean attended the 17th edition of the Busan Film Festival. She attended screening venues with open talks held by organisers, film staff and critics, actor talks, masterclasses, workshops and keynote speeches...

Workshop “Orality and Cinema in Kenya”

On 5-7 September 2022, the Workshop “Orality and Cinema in Kenya: the Practice of Film DJs and Audiences” took place in Naivasha, Kenya, as part of the Thyssen-project of CEDITRAA member Matthias Krings, with Claudia Böhme (Uni Trier) and Solomon Waliaula (JGU) as co-conveners...

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Martin Kretschmer

On 21 September, 2022, 4:30-6.00 p.m., Prof. Dr. Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow)  will give a public lecture on “Copyright and Non-Use” in the context of the expert workshop “Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives” at Mainz University. Abstract: ...

Workshop “Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives”

On 21 and 22 September 2022, CEDITRAA member Ute Röschenthaler and affiliate Hauke Dorsch act as co-convenors of an international workshop entitled “Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives: Tensions between Artists’ Interests and the Repatriation of Music” in Mainz. The...

The Future of Cinema Lies in Africa

CEDITRAA researchers Vinzenz Hediger and Sonia Campanini have been interviewed for the current edition of Forschung Frankfurt, a special issue on Africa research. Below is an English translation of the interview conducted by Pia Barth (Goethe University Frankfurt). Striking Continuity...

Workshop “Popular Music Production and Regulation Online”

From 14 to 15 July 2022, Alexander Peukert, associated CEDITRAA member, Goethe University Frankfurt, and CEDITRAA member Ute Röschenthaler organise an interdisciplinary workshop “Comparative Perspectives on Popular Music Production and Regulation Online”. The workshop brings together international scholars to discuss...

CEDITRAA fellow Dr. Patrick Oloko at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 

Dr. Patrick Oloko is the first CEDITRAA fellow at the department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Oloko is a well-known scholar of Literature and Cultural Studies at the department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria.  For the duration of one month, he works on new expressions of popular...

Meeting CEDITRAA research partners in Kinshasa

During a joint field trip to Kinshasa, DR Congo, Nico Nassenstein and Artemis Saleh met current research partners and strengthened their relationships with Congolese researchers, cultural workers, and local contacts.   On 18 March 2021, the researchers were able to share...

VAD Conference Panel: Reciprocal perspectives

Matthias Krings and Izuu Nwankwọ will host a double session panel with the title “Reciprocal perspectives: jocular anthropology and characterisations of the ‘other’ in African and European popular arts” at this year’s VAD conference in Freiburg, organised by the Association...

VAD Conference Panel: Digital transformation and the production of de-colonial cultural space

Sonia Campanini, Usaku Robinson Wammanda and Tom Simmert will host a panel at this year’s VAD conference, organised by the Association for African Studies in Germany. The hybrid event will take place from June 7th to 10th in Freiburg and...

Workshop on “Commentary and (social) media in East Africa”

Announcement of a Fellowship of the Project „CEDITRAA – Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia“

A Key to Korea‘s Compressed Modernity

Hwang Sok-yong is one of South Korea’s most widely read and most prolific writers. The author of more than a dozen novels and the hugely popular, ten-volume “Jang Gil-san”, an epic about a rebellious bandit which circulates in millions of copies in both South and North...

In a world in which power lies in the control of brands, Putin seeks power through the acquisition of lands

Is there a connection between Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine and the emerging new world order of cultural production? Yes there is, and it has to do with the fact that Russia is the biggest loser of the...

Cinema narrators as cultural entrepreneurs

On 25 February 2022, Matthias Krings and Solomon Waliaula (Mainz University) presented recent findings of their research project “Cinema narration in East Africa – an intermedial practice at the interface of film and storytelling” at the CEDITRAA research seminar. Cinema narration...

Call for Contributions until 28/02/22: BTS, a Critical Reader

Responsible Contact Person at CEDITRAA: Casandra Christinean Dr. Frances Gateward, one of the guest lecturers of last year’s Korean Popular Culture Workshop, and her research team are calling for contributions for their volume “BTS: A Critical Reader”.  They seek rigorous...

Ceditraa members meeting at Pan-Atlantic Univerisity, Lagos

Photo: Artwork in Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (Artemis Saleh) Yesterday Artemis Saleh went to visit Prof. Dr. Hyginus Ekwuazi and Usaku Robinson Wammanda at the Pan-Atlantic University campus in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos. Located a two hours car ride distance...

Screen Worlds workshop now online

The Screen Worlds Workshop “Shaping the Conversation: Decolonising Film with Nigerian Women Filmmakers Omoni Oboli + Tope Oshin” is now online. African women filmmakers are continuously making powerful statements through their creative efforts in film and television. These statements are...

Remaking Nollywood: Networks of Circulations and Memory Constructions

Over the last few years the so-called New Nollywood industry has produced several films that are remakes or sequels of Old Nollywood movies from the video era. We want to investigate this phenomenon, which can be seen as both a...

Project – K Korean Film Festival 10th Edition 2021

The 10th Korean Film Festival Frankfurt took place from October 20th to 31st, 2021. To celebrate its 10th anniversary the motto of the festival was “Identity”. The “What’s your ID?” campaign offered the Project K – Team and the over...

The 3rd edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop

The 3rd edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop was organized online on 9 December 2021 and started at 17:00 CET. The 96 participants listened to and discussed topics presented by the workshop’s three guest lecturers. On the topic of...

CEDITRAA Panel at International Film and Media Studies Conference

This year we are represented with a panel at the XXVIII International Film and Media Studies Conference, “And Yet It Moves! On Cinema, Media, and Mobility”, November 2 – 5 2021, held hybrid as a hybrid event online as well...

Conference on Bureaucra­tisation in Dakar

From 17-19 June 2021, the IHA-CREPOS research programme „La bureaucratisation des sociétés africaines” held an international conference entitled “Art, Culture, Creation: Des Pratiques (Anti)Bureaucratiques?” in the venues Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Institut Confucius and Maison des cultures urbaines de Ouakam,...