Global South Studies Center Erfurt

Global South Studies are a rather recent, vibrant and interdisciplinary research field. Global South is understood here in its relation to the Global North and Global East, as a relational concept. The term first appeared officially in world politics in 1980 with the report of Willy Brandt’s North-South Commission (1977-79), entitled North-South: A Programme for Survival, but "Global South" was used since the 1960s.
The concept of the Global East has recently been introduced into the discussion in order to include the post-Soviet and postsocialist spaces, the former “Second World”, liminally positioned between Global South and Global North. Global South, North and East are not to be understood as geographical descriptions, but rather as deterritorialized concepts used to describe and analyze transregional, transnational and translocal relationships, spaces and movements within the global economic and political order. Thus, there is “South” to be found in the “North” and "East" (and vice-versa). Through related experiences of subaltern positions of marginalization (and often alienation), the concepts Global South and East are also used to both express and analyze powerful social and political Imaginaries that have been able to transcend the contradictions and disjunctions of the societies and politics involved.

Navigating China: A Tri-Regional Conversation on Power, Policy, and Partnership.

21.04.2026.
Haus Dacheröden: Anger 37, 99084 Erfurt.

Panel:

• Thomas Yoshimura, Policy Advisor China, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
• George Yin, Senior Fellow, Mercator Institute for Chia Studies
• Michael Laha, Senior Fellow, German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP)
• moderated by Dr des. Madeleine Böhm, Academic Coordinator of the doctoral program De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)

When: Wednesday June 3, 18:00
 

Where: LG1 HS3
 

Running Time 90 min
 

Organizers: FSR Geschichte

Global South Movie Night Presents:

Here We Drown Algerians. 17 October 1961

On the evening of 17 October 1961 thousands of Algerians
gathered in the streets of Paris to protest the war in Algeria as well
as their living conditions in France. The protests were peaceful and yet
the response of the French police was brutal: Up to 200 Algerians died,
many of whom were drowned in the Seine, thousands were rounded
up and held without charges for days, hundreds subsequently
deported. The official police reports spoke of only two people
killed that evening. Chiefly responsible for the violence that day was head of Paris police, Maurice Papon. Papon who was a Nazi
collaborator and Vichy official during the Second World War, as well as a colonial official in both Morocco and Algeria after the war, 
is an example of how fascist and colonialist tendencies were intertwined, and even managed to survive after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

This documentary is film-maker Yasmina Adis’ attempt to reconstruct the events of 17 October 1961.  
Based on archival footage Adi juxtaposes official statements and press releases with eyewitness accounts and archived internal police communications, as well as original pictures and video footage.
The intensed documentary shows how colonial and and Fascist policies were entwined and lasted far into the 20th century after the end of the Nazi regime and its collaborators and supporters.