Veranstaltungen im FS 2026

This panel discussion brings together curator Gabi Ngcobo (Director, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam) and composer and installation artist Neo Muyanga (The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg) to reflect on how artists and curators engage with, subvert and reimagine institutional frameworks in museums, biennales and festivals, challenging the hierarchies of knowledge, authorship and cultural authority in the process. The panel will explore how cross-disciplinary dialogue between the visual and performing arts can generate shared strategies for institutional critique, renewal and more equitable cultural infrastructures. The event forms part of the MUSIKTHEATER–MACHT–GESELLSCHAFT series, the SMG Section Bern and the Global and Transregional Studies Doctoral Program.

Public lecture: 26.03., 5.30–7pm, room F-123 Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36

Workshop: 27.03., 10am–1pm, room 224 Mittelstrasse

This performance lecture explores the practice of decolonizing sound archives through the interlinked projects Sonic Entanglements and DeCoSEAS (Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives). Drawing from the concept of sonus—the relationship between sound, body, and community—the session examines how colonial sound collections held in European institutions have been separated from the communities where their meaning lives. Through a combination of scholarly discussion and performative dialogue, the talk presents rematriation, and reconnection as acts of resuscitation that reanimate archived sounds back to life. The talk repositions the archive not as an object or repository, but as a living ecosystem rooted in source communities. The session invites doctoral students to reflect on how heritage survives through the systems that hold it, and how education, policy, and pedagogy can work in resonance toward what we call “Sonic Justice.”

The monthly Global and Transregional Studies coffee break is held on the last Tuesday of each month at Caffè Bar Sattler. This event offers an opportunity to share and exchange ideas, such as planning workshops and suggesting upcoming events, ask questions about the Global and Transregional Studies program, or simply enjoy a casual conversation with fellow PhD students over a cup of coffee.

At the Global and Transregional Studies Retreat, doctoral students in Global and Transregional Studies can exchange ideas outside the university environment. The retreat takes place at Hotel Schloss Münchenwiler near Murten, which features a large park. The program will be adapted to meet the needs of the participants.