Regional studies strengthened at the Rhine-Main Universities
The Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (ZIAF) as well as the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO) at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Center for Intercultural Studies (ZIS) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are cooperating for the first time in an interdisciplinary and international research project.
"Afrobeat", "K-Pop", "Nollywood" - terms such as these mark the significant changes in international cultural production and its reception in the digital age. Funded by the BMBF with 2.1 million euros for three years, representatives from economic sciences, African studies, Korean studies, sinology, cultural anthropology and film studies from Frankfurt and Mainz are addressing these fundamental shifts, which are creating a new global order of cultural production, in their joint research project "Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia" - CEDITRAA. Studies and research within the RMU alliance likewise profit from CEDITRAA: The project's research results will be incorporated into the joint bachelor program "African Languages, Media and Communication" which is currently being established.
More information is available in German on the websites of Goethe University Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in English at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw).