Guests & Speakers
Guests & Speakers
The Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 invites a diverse group of guests and speakers that encompass the multitude of topics the SFB covers. Guests come from both inside and outside of Germany to participate in workshops, to hold colloquia, and to present at conferences.
Winter 2017/2018
- Ulf Engel, Katharina Döring & Jens Herpholsheimer – “”Neue Regionalismen” und gewaltsame Konflikte in Afrika: Die Politik von AU und ECOWAS in Mali und Guinea-Bissau“ (11 October 2017)
- Dmitri van den Bersselaar, Geert Castryck & Adam Jones – “Scale, Scope, and End of Berlin’s Africa as Spatial Order and Spatial Format” (18 October 2017)
- Diego Trindade d’Ávila Magalhães – “Globalisers: A Theory on the Power of Countries over Globalisation” (25 October 2017)
- Maren Möhring & Antje Dietze – “Produktion von Massenkultur zwischen Europa und Nordamerika. Akteure und Zirkulationswege, 1830er-1930er Jahre“ (1 November 2017)
- Elisabeth Kaske – “The Spatial Distribution of Engineering Cultures in Late Qing China“ (1 November 2017)
- Ursula Rao – “The Spatial Embedding of Electronic Infrastructure” (8 November 2017)
- Sarah Sippel & Michaela Böhme “Digital Food Futures? Exploring the Emergence of Digital Farming and Big Data” (8 November 2017)
- Matthias Middell, Megan Maruschke & Julia Oheim – “Respatialization of the World and the Emergence of the Global Condition During the 19th Century” (15 November 2017)
- Hannes Warnecke-Berger – “Politische Ökonomie transnationaler Räume“ (6 December 2017)
- Sebastian Lentz & Jana Moser – “Zwischen Ort und Welt: Raumbezogene Visualisierungspraktiken im Internet“ (6 December 2017)
- Judith Miggelbrink, Frank Meyer & Tom Schwarzenberg – “Agenten der Globalisierung in Geographien der Gesundheit“ (13 December 2017)
- Thilo Lang & Lukas Vonnahme – “Spaces of Innovation“ (13 December 2017)
- Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez – “Geographies of Empire: Der transpazifische und zirkumkaribische Raum in der Literatur der USA“ (3 January 2018)
- Philipp Clart & Nikolas Broy – “Transnationale Lokalreligion und globale Buddhisten in China“ (3 January 2018)
- Philipp Schorch – “Un/re-doing Spatial Knowledge Orders: Collections, Regions, Disciplines“ (10 January 2018)
- Katja Werthmann – “Globalization Projects in Socialist Eastern Europe” (17 January 2018)
- Stefan Troebst, Uwe Müller & Frank Hadler – “Spatialities of Extractivism” (17 January 2018)
- Ute Wardenga, Ninja Steinbach-Hüther, Maximilian Georg, Stephan Pietsch & Dirk Hänsgen – “Geographien Geographischer Gesellschaften, 1821–1914“ (24 January 2018)
- Dirk van Laak – “Anschlüsse. Zwischen statischen Räumen und fließenden Netzen“ (24 January 2018)
- John Comaroff – “Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: On the Metaphysics of Global Dis/Order” (31 January 2018)
- Andreas Fahrmeir – “Respatialization and its Discontents: Territory, Descent, Ideology and Pragmatism in Definitions of Citizenship”
- Christian Ayne Crouch – “The French Revolution in Indian Country: Restoring Native Americans to French Imperial Worlds”
- Ernesto Bassi Arevalo – “Transimperial Mobility and Geographical Configurations in the Greater Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions”
- Jane Landers – “The Black Auxiliaries of Carlos IV: Before, During and After the Revolution”
- Antonis Hadjikyriacou – “Shifting perceptions of Cypriot insularity during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars”
- Federica Morelli – “From Empire to Republics: The Collapse of the Spanish Monarchy and the Respatialization of America”
- Laura di Fiore – “The Respatialization of the Kingdom of Naples between 1799 Parthenopean Republic and Napoleonic Domination”
- Tabetha Ewing – “Frontiers of Punishment: France, Liege, and the Problem of False Coin”
- Damien Tricoire – “Extensions of France or places of relegation? Concepts of imperial policy towards the southern Indian Ocean”
- Matthias Middel – “Revolution and respatialization – a comparative reflection”
- Megan Maruschke – “Bordering Practices through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition”
- Johanna Bockmann – “Keynote & Introduction”
- Eric Burton – “Diverging visions in post-revolutionary spaces. East German advisers and revolution from above in Zanzibar, 1964-1970”
- Monika Motylinska – “The COMECON and knowledge production in the fields of architecture, town planning and design”
- Chris Saunders & Thorsten Kern – “A Space of Interaction: the GDR and Namibia in the Cold War.”
- James Mark – Discussant
- Tamás Szentes – “Roundtable: Negotiating a New International Economic Order (NIEO) – Perspectives from Behind the Scenes”
- Mihály Simai – “Roundtable: Negotiating a New International Economic Order (NIEO) – Perspectives from Behind the Scenes”
- Stuart Holland – “Roundtable: Negotiating a New International Economic Order (NIEO) – Perspectives from Behind the Scenes”
- Jun Fujisawa – “A united front against the Seven Sisters? The Soviet-East European support for the Iraqi oil industry and the nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 1967-1979”
- Max Trecker – “The grapes of cooperation: Bulgarian and East German plans to build a Syrian cement industry from scratch”
- Marcia Schenck – “Working the factory and the dance floor: Angolan and Mozambican worker-trainees in East Germany, 1979-90”
- Nana Osei-Opare – “Breaking paradigms through communist science: Ghana and Soviet relations, 1957-1966”
- Iolande Vasile & Bodgan Iacob – “Elective affinities under duress: limits of Romania-Mozambique bilateralism (1976-1984)”
- Anne Dietrich – “Bartering within and outside the COMECON: The GDR’s import of Cuban fruits and Ethiopian coffee”
- Simon Yin – “China-Soviet rubber cooperation (1950-1953)”
- Yury Skubko – “National interests above ideology: Soviet diamond deals with South African De Beers cartel during the Cold War”
- Victor Petrov – “The Rose and the Lotus: Bulgarian electronic entanglements in India 1967-1990”
- Amina Nolte – “Infrastructural spaces – An ethnography of mobility, fear and contested sovereignty in Jerusalem”
- Setha Low – “Spatializing culture: The ethnography of space and place”
- Matthew David Unangst – “Appropriating the hinterland: The Indian Ocean world and German colonial geographies”
- Bogdan Iacob – “Guinea as Romanian Dreamworld: Socialist production of decolonized space in Africa (1959–1969)”
- Samuel Iwilade – “Fluid militants of the oil delta: Mutations of post-conflict youth gangs in transnational space”
- Baptiste Colin – “Spatial justice: How squatters deal with it. An historical review of squatting movements in France”
- Tim Hanrieder – “Global health in the United States: The making of a de-territorialized medical South”
- Nils Zurawski – Comment
- Jan Botha – “Higher education leaders grappling with the notion of “World Class Universities” in the context of global forces in higher education”
- Pascal Goeke – “Global philanthropy and the organization of legitimacy”
- Evelyn Moeser – “Global philanthropy and the organization of legitimacy”
- Courtney Cole – “Practices and processes of post-conflict space-making by International Criminal Tribunals”
- Stephan Rindlisbacher – “ Territorialising Soviet space 1918–1929: National forms with economic content”
- Martin Müller – “Comment”
Summer 2017
- Hakim Adi – “The Russian Revolution’s Impact on Africa and the African Diaspora” (12 April 2017)
- Andreas Pott – “Räume der Migration. Raum als Medium der Ko-Produktion von Migration“ (26 April 2017)
- Jonathan Everts – “Viren, Schnitzel, Springkraut: Umkämpfte Raumordnungen im post-globalen Zeitalter“ (3 May 2017)
- David Maxwell – “African Studies and the Challenge of the Global” (10 May 2017)
- Peter Fibiger Bang – “The League of Universal Monarchies: Global History, Ancient History and a World History of Precolonial Societies” (17 May 2017)
- Kate Higgins – “Place, Time and Scale: Reconceptualising Governance and the State in Melanesia” (31 May 2017)
- Rita Abrahamsen – “Space, Fields, Assemblages: The Study of Africa in International Relations” (14 June 2017)
- Ulla Berg – “Regimes of (Im)mobility: Race, Migration, and Deportability across the Americas” (21 June 2017)
- Matthias Middell & Steffi Marung – “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition: A Conceptual Framework (Working Paper Draft)” (28 June 2017)
- Kaveh Yazdani – “The Reasons Behind the Rise of Western Europe from an “Indian Perspective”” (5 July 2017)
- Rongze Lin – “一貫道在韓國及緬甸的傳播與發展 (The Spread and Development of Yiguandao in South Korea and Myanmar)”
- Mingqian Hong – “東南亞一貫道的發展:以星加坡、馬來西亞、泰國為例 (The Development of Yiguandao in Southeast Asia: Taking Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand as an Example)”
- Tsz Yiu Heung – “一貫道在香港的發展現況 (The Development and Current Situation of Yiguandao in Hong Kong)”
- Qianye Huang – “東南亞一貫道的發展:以星加坡、馬來西亞、泰國為例 (The Development of Yiguandao in Southeast Asia: Taking Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand as an Example)”
- Yijian Yang – “一貫道在澳洲、紐西蘭的發展現況 (The Development and Current Situation of Yiguandao in Australia and New Zeeland)”
- Xiumei Yang – “一貫道在澳洲、紐西蘭的發展現況 (The Development and Current Situation of Yiguandao in Australia and New Zeeland)”
- Aidan Russell – “The Inevitable Borders: Rwanda, Burundi and the Political Imagination of Secession”
- Henri Médard – “Lake People (Basese), Clan Protest and Colonial Territorial Rule in the Kingdom of Buganda (1886-1924)”
- Miles Larmer – “Nation-making at the Border: Zambian Diplomacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
- David Maxwell – “Free Slaves, Christian Modernity and Ethnic Imagination in Katanga, Belgian Congo”
- Gillian Mathys – “Re(b)ordering Space: Fixing Mobility and the Territorialization of Identities in the Lake Kivu Region (19th-20th Century)”
- Margot Luyckfasseel – “The Road as Actant: A New Materialist Approach to Colonial Space”
- Achim von Oppen – “Moving Along, Moving Across, Moving in Time: Linear Geographies, Translocal Practices and the Making of the Zambia – Angola Border (c. 1890 to 1950)”
- Geert Castryck – “Bordering the Lake: Transcending Spatial Orders in Kigoma-Ujiji”
- Bas De Roo – “The Making of a Territorial Order in the Belgian Congo: the Case of the M’Bomu Basin (19101932)”
- Gesa Mackenthun – “Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Decolonial Inscriptions of the Land”
- Michael Zeuske – “Slaveries and Colonization of the Americas: the Appropriation of Space”
- Claudia Rauhut
- Megan Maruschke – “Breaking from Empire: American and Haitian Independence, 1770–1830”
- Peter Birle – “Regional Cooperation and Integration in Latin America: Challenges and Obstacles”
- Heinz Peter Brogiato – “Big Apple and Big Trees – German Tourists Discover the New World Travel Photography at the End of the 19th Century”
- Ute Wardenga & Stefan Pietsch – “Between Inventories of the ‘National Space’ and International Networking: The Evolution of the National Geographic Society, 1888–1914”
- Heike Paul – “Spatializing Freedom: Abolitionist Utopias in Mid-19th Century North America”
- Heidrun Zinecker – “The Maras between the Americas – Where are their Boundaries?”
- Antje Dietze – “Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century”
- Hannes Warnecke-Berger – “Transcending El Salvador? Mana-ging the Transnational Remittan-ces Economy”
- Josef Raab – “Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: U.S.-Mexican Borderland Vistas from Occupied America to Lone Star and Current U.S. Political Rhetoric”
- Jana Moser – “How Differently a Border Region Can be Spatialized by Using Maps: A Look at the US‐Mexico Border”
- Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez – “Florida as a Hemispheric Region”
Winter 2016/2017
- Thilo Lang & Lukas Vonnahme – “World Market Leaders in Germany: A Heuristic Device to Analyse Forms of Knowledge Generation in Peripheral and Central Locations” (19 October 2016)
- Ute Wardenga, Maximilian Georg, Dirk Hänsgen, Stephan Pietsch, Michael Rubener, Ninja Steinbach-Hüther & Max Stintzing – “Geographische Gesellschaften als Akteure der Formatierung von Räumen“ (26 October 2016)
- Nikolas Broy – ““Mit Taiwan als Basis das Dao in die Welt tragen”: Eine chinesische Sekte zwischen kultureller Identität und globalem Anspruch“ (2 November 2016)
- Matthias Middell – “Der Wandel der aktuellen Globalisierungsdebatte und was Historiker dazu sagen können“ (9 November 2016)
- Jan Bachmann – “The technopolitics of statebuilding – The entanglement of infrastructure, security and political order in Western stabilization efforts in Africa (A research outline)” (23 November 2016)
- Geert Castryck, Jens Herpolsheimer & Eilert Stamm – “Roundtable: Typologisierung von Raumformaten – Ansätze aus den Teilprojekten“ (30 November 2016)
- Heidrun Zinecker & Judith Miggelbrink – “Territorium, Territorialität und Territorialisierung – zur konzeptionellen Diskussion“ (7 December 2016)
- Antje Dietze, Frank Mattheis & Heidrun Zinecker – ““Druckfrisch” Book Presentation (in cooperation with ENIUGH and the Centre for Area Studies):The New Politics of Regionalisms. Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific (Routledge 2016)” (14 December 2016)
- Steffen Wöll – “Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in US Literature” (4 January 2017)
- Anthony Hopkins – “Globalisation and DeEcolonisation” (18 January 2017)
- Katja Naumann & Antje Dietze “Situating Transnational Actors” (25 January 2017)
- Sebastian Lentz & Jana Moser – “Visualising Globalisation – Types, Graphic Languages and the Role of Production Conditions” (1 February 2017)
- Vadim Oswalt – “Atlanten der Weltgeschichte in Europa und die Herausforderung der Globalgeschichte“
- Matthias Middel – “Karten in Weltgeschichten“
- Steffi Marung – “Vernetzte Imperien: Ostmitteleuropäische Räume und ihre Verflechtungen in Dr. Kochs Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsatlas (1894-1909)“
- Alexander Sievers – “Hermann Berghaus‘ Chart of the World: Zur Produktgeschichte einer besonderen Weltkarte des 19. Jahrhunderts“
- Philipp Meyer – “„Je höher, desto intensiver“: Die „Farbenplastik“ als Darstellungsmittel von Terrain und Kultur in den Wandkarten von Hermann Haack“
- Jana Moser & Sebastian Lentz – “Zur graphischen Wirkung von Weltkarten am Beispiel von internationalen Handelsrouten“
- Haim Goren – “Holy, Land, or Holy Land: Tradition, Reality and Imagination in 19th Century Palestine Maps”
- Dániel Zoltán Segyevy – “Karten und Text – Eine britische ethnographische Landesbeschreibung von Ungarn“
- Guntram Herb – “Global Imaginaries in International Geopolitical Traditions”
- Christian Lotz – “Ein vermessenes Vorhaben? Die Weltkarte/Karta Mira 1:2.500 000 und die Herausforderungen grenzübergreifender Zusammenarbeit, 1956-1988“
- Geert Castryck – “The Map of the Bull Elephant: Imag(in)ing Lake Tanganyika across Time, Space and Culture in German East Africa”
- Stephan Pietsch – “Imagination(en) des Nordpolarmeeres in den Karten und Texten von August Petermann“
- Ute Wardenga – “Karte, Diagramm, Text: Verräumlichungen, Raumformate und Raumordnungen der akademischen Länderkunde um 1900“
- Jutta Faehndrich – “Narrativer, ästhetischer und kartographischer Raum: Die drei Palästina des Herrn van de Velde“
- Matthias Middell – “The French Revolution as a Moment of Re-spatialization”
- Till Van Rahden – “Democratic Spaces”
- Nari Shelekpayev – “What is a Capital City? A Reflection on the Elaboration and Typologies of Contemporary Capital Cities, 1850-2000”
- Megan Maruschke – “Zones of Reterritorialization: India’s Free Trade Zones, 1947-1980s”
- Ahmed Hamila – “Spaces and Power: Migration and Homosexuality”
- Mohamed Boukayeo – “Reforming Food Subsidies, Digitizing State-Society Relations: Egypt’s Smart Card System”
- Elisabeth Tutschek – “Multilingual (Mental) Spaces and the (Un)Translatability of Heterogeneous Narratives”
- Antje Dietze – “Cultural Mediation and Brokerage”
- Eva Bischoff – “Looking for an Elm Tree: Imagining Settler Space|Time in 1830s Van Diemen’s Land”
- Laurence McFalls – “Spaces of Memory”
- Nikolas Schall – “The World Social Forum in Montreal as an Illustration of a Utopian Space – Understanding Social Complexity by Using the Concept of a “Global Assemblage”
- Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez – “Spatial Fictions: Imagining Space in the Southern and Western Peripheries of the 19th-century United States”
- Ninja Steinbach-Hüther – “Geographic Societies and Spatial Imaginations. The Example of Marseille in a Global Context”
- Paula Fernandez-Wulff – “Legal and Policy Concerns in Transregional Agri-Food Movements: Between Convergence and Contextualisation”
- Julia Dennis – “Empowering Civil Society in Europe: The Case of Germany’s Global Food and Development Policy”
- Cornelia Reiher – “Food and Agriculture in the Anti-TPP Campaign: Perspectives from Japan”
- Jane Dixon – “The Social Change Potential of Transregional Nutricentrism: The Case of Quinoa and Other ‘Super- Foods’”
- Prajal Pradhan – “Optimisation of Urban Food Networks and Its Climate Benefits”
- Anne Siebert – “Transforming Urban Food Systems: The Role of Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture Initiatives. Perspectives from South Africa”
- Carol Richards – “Food Sovereignty in Australia? Pathways of a Food Movement in the Developed World Context”
- Alessa Heuser – “Food Sovereignty in the German Context – the Glue which Ties Agroecological Practitioners, Urban Gardeners, and Food Savers Together?”
- Markus Keck – “Transregional Food Networks in the Light of the Multiple Modernities Theory”
- Michael K. Goodman – “New Matters of Concern in Food Studies: A Polemic”
- Katharina Schiller – “The Transition to Agroecology in Nicaragua: Transformation or Reconfiguration of the Agri-Food System?”
- René Trappel – “Sunsetting Smallholder Farming? Thoughts on the Future of Agriculture in China”
- Emilio Travieso – “Transformative Social Innovation Through Coffee Networks: The Case of Yomol A’tel”
- Alexander F. Day – “Re/structuring Peasant Politics in China: Agrarian Structural Difference and Impediments to Transnational Connections”
- Sophia Hagolani-Albov – “Agroecological Symbiosis: Pilot Project for (Re)Localising Food Systems and Prompting Sustainable Countryside Development”
- Nicolette Larder & Sarah Ruth Sippel – “Food Sovereignty as a Traveling Concept? Initiating and Practicing Food Sovereignty in Australia”
- Felipe Roa-Clavijo – “Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Transnational Links and the Food Sovereignty Movement”
- Sony Pellissery – “How Democratisation of Genetic Resources Changes Food Systems: The Case of Community Seed Banks”
Workshop: “African Peace and Security Architecture” (Thursday, 1 December 2016 – Saturday, 3 December 2016)
- Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu – “Towards the Full Operationalization of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): Bringing the Civil Society Back in”
- Charles Ukeje – “Between Norms-Building and Agenda-Setting: The AU-PSC and Peace and Security in Africa”
- Nickson Bondo – “An Assessment of the ICGLR’s Peace and Security Architecture in Promoting Sustainable Peace and Security in the Great Lakes Region”
- Katharina Döring – “Entangled Consequences: Mali and the African Peace and Security Architecture”
- Ulf Engel – “The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance and the lack of implementing existing compliance mechanisms”
- James Hentz – Discussant
- João Gomes Porto – Chair
- Noura Abdelwahab – “Towards Reforming Food Policies in Egypt”
- Jörg Gertel – “Spatial Orders of Hunger: Food Insecurity in Cairo”
- Wolfgang Amann – “French Soft Wheat for Egypt”
- Mohamed Boukayeo – “Egypt’s Smart Card System: Reforming Food Subsidies, Digitizing State-Society Relations”
- Mona El-Fiqi – “The Egyptian Subsidy System and the Right to Food”
- Marion Dixon – “The ‘New National Consumer’ in Egypt as a Class Project and Ecological Process”
- Charlotte Malterre-Barthes – “Receding Rurality: Impacts of Cairo’s Informal Urbanization on Agriculture”
- Birgit Kemmerlin – “Food Insecurity and Water Scarcity: Two Sides of the Same Coin”
- Ray Bush – “Staying Hungry: Food Politics in Egypt”
- Malak Rouchdy – “Egyptian Rural Protests Between the Urban Imaginary and State Policies”
- Thomas Heyne & Tamara Wyrtki – “Food Protests: Slogans of Resistance”
- Bob Jessop – “Spatio-temporal fixes and multi-spatial metagovernance”
- Glenda Sluga – “Seeking out International spaces, 1900-1990”
- Gilad Ben-Nun – “The birth of ‘International Space’: The example of UNHCR’s Executive Committee (ExCom) establishment”
- Hennie Kotzé – Comment
- Gustav Visser – “The origin and growth of geography as a discipline at South African universities: early 1900s to 2016”
- Bernd Belina – “The urban form and some spatial forms that form the urbanThe urban form and some spatial forms that form the urban”
- Holger Weiß – “Hamburg Rothesoodstrasse 8 – Global space and non-place”
- Marc Boeckler – “Global territories and contemporary supply chain capitalism”
Summer 2016
- Michael Goebel – “Migration and Space in the Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and Nationalism in the Global South” (13 April 2016)
- Christian Lübke – “Eine mittelalterliche Willkommenskultur? Das östliche Europa als Migrationsraum für «Gäste»“ (20 April 2016)
- Dirk Hoerder – “Spaces and Permeable Borders: East European Migrations in (Near) Global Perspectives” (27 April 2016)
- Hannes Warnecke-Berger – “Raumittances? Migration, Rücküberweisungen, transnationale Wirtschaftsräume“ (4 May 2016)
- Donna Gabaccia – “Migration and the Scale and Temporality of Space: Some Examples from History” (10 May 2016)
- Dariusz Stola – “Communist Regime, State Territory, Social Space: Transnational Migrations from Poland” (18 May 2016)
- Michael Esch – “Flüchtlingskrisen 1830–1938. Über Richtung, Wahrnehmung und Verwendung von Fluchtbewegungen in Europa“ (25 May 2016)
- Stefan Troebst – “Bürgerkriegsflüchtlinge aus Griechenland und Strategien der Verteilung zu Beginn des Kalten Krieges“ (8 June 2016)
- Heidrun Zinecker – “(Re-)Migrationen und Diaspora in translokalen Räumen: Das Beispiel der Mara (15 June 2016)
- Nina Glick-Schiller – “Multiscalar Perspectives: Studying and Theorizing about the Relationships Between Migrants and Cities” (22 June 2016)
- Ulf Brunnbauer – “Spaces of Movement and of Control: Migrants and the State in 20th-century Southeastern Europe” (29 June 2016)
- Adamantios Skordos – “Die Lausanner Konvention (1923) und Konzepte des Bevölkerungstransfers“ (6 July 2016)
Workshop: “The Ways Israel and GDR Searched for Cooperation with African Countries 1960-1990“ (Saturday, 17 September 2016 – Monday, 19 September 2016)
- Lynn Schler
- Workshop: “Peripher global: Weltmarktführer auf dem Lande“ (Thursday 14, July 2016 – Friday, 15 July 2016)
- Ron Boschma
- Olivier Crevoisier
- Michael Fritsch
- Richard Shearmur
- Anna Butzin
- Markus Grillitsch
- Anna Growe
- Oliver Ibert