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Workshop "Calling and teaching World Dances" (part 2)
2025-05-31 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Professional Caller Andreas Hennecke teaches students to call and teach world dances for their English classroom. The focus in part 2 is on Teaching. Guests are welcome!
Our thanks go to the Liesel Hermes Foundation for sponsoring this event.

Decoloniality Praxis in Karlsruhe: decolonial English lessons at secondary schools
2025-07-01 07:45 - 2025-07-09 13:00
One outcome of ASA Academia project #1107 is teaching three different English lessons to different 9th grade classes at Sophie-Scholl Realschule and Gemeinschaftsschule Illingen over one intensive week. The three tandems of Team XV and their local student-partners from the “Decoloniality Praxis” seminar (Prof. Martin) prepared lessons on “Representations of and attributions about Africa in English textbooks”, “Language as a power tool and “Critical Language Awareness”. An official Press Release by PHKA will cover this.

"World Dance Calling" in Karlsruhe: "AccepDance" lessons at primary and secondary schools
2025-07-02 07:45 - 2025-07-11 13:00
In Prof. Martins’s new seminar “World Dance Calling”, students first experience world dances and then learn to call dances themselves. They will now apply their Caller skills in several English/sports/music/ethics classrooms of Sebastianschule Neuthard, Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Muggensturm, Sophie-Scholl-Realschule and Gemeinschaftsschule Illingen. Two teachers already booked this as an ongoing project under the title “Akzeptanz” (AccepDance) and “Zusammenhalt” (“holding together”) for their schools’ “Peace & Democracy Education” schemes.

"ASA Academia global" 2025 Team XV Phase 2
2025-09-22 08:00 - 2025-12-19 18:00
After Phase 1 at PH Karlsruhe, our German-Ghanaian tandem-project (#1107) under the ASA Academia global format programme (Engagement Global) continues from September to December 2025 at UCC in Cape Coast. We work towards Sustainable Development Goals #4, #10, #16, and #17 and have planned many school visits. The research activities for Team XV are decolonizing ELT, teaching materials, and English curricula at school level.

DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" at PH Karlsruhe (2025-2029)
2025-10-01 08:00 - 2029-12-31 18:00
With the new Get Ready for Global Teaching! project at PH Karlsruhe, we institutionalize and expand our international collaborations. With our partners in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Lao P.D.R., Norway, the UK and the USA, we will focus on global inequality, colonial thought patterns, and post-migrant societies. Through direct exchange, future teachers will further develop their cultural and linguistic awareness, reflect on key issues and challenges of our time from a global perspective, and design educational processes in diversity- and discrimination-sensitive ways.

Volunteer for Team XIV at Sunshine School
2025-10-06 08:00 - 2025-11-28 18:00
Our next PHKA volunteer Ms Meike Becker will work at Sunshine School in the winter of 2025 (Team XIV). 4 new places for 2026/27 are advertised by the PHKA International Office, the application deadline is 1 December (details in announcement below and on StudIP).

ASA Programme 65th Anniversary Jubilee
2025-10-09 16:00 - 21:00
65 years of ASA work to celebrate! Watch the jubilee video about the development and impact of the ASA programme, and a video showing our 2025 group getting prepared for their work.

"World Dance" Open House
2025-11-07 19:00 - 21:30
Our second “World Dance Open House” evening is a trans-generational fun & learning experience combining sports/dance, music, and English. No entrance fee, no prior knowledge or skills necessary; finger food welcome. Caller Andreas Hennecke, Prof. Martin and 20 students from the “World Dance Calling” seminar welcome you all!
World Dance Poster for 7.11.2025

"World Dance Calling" Workshop 1
2025-11-08 10:00 - 17:00
Part 1: Basics for Calling

Call for Applications 2026 internship in Laos
2025-11-16 08:00 - 2025-12-01 18:00
New Call for Applications for internships in Laos (2026) in Team XVI: Call_for_Applications_2026_TheLaosExperience. Inform yourself at the “International Day” on 19 November, 11:30-14:00, in the Foyer of PHKA building 3, or write to our International Office PHKA (io@ph-karlsruhe.de). The application deadline is 1 December 2025.

"International Day" at the Unviversity of Education Karlsruhe
2025-11-19 11:30 - 14:00
11:30-14:00: Visit the “Laos” table and talk to previous volunteers. 4 places for internships are available at Sunshine School and the Lao-German Technical College in the winter term 2026/27, with funding. Counseling is available as from 9:30.

"World Dance Calling" Workshop 2
2025-11-22 10:00 - 17:00
Part 2: Calling and Teaching

DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (Cameroon)
2025-11-24 08:00 - 2025-12-18 18:00
Visiting Lecturer Mr Donald Beteyeh Nchofua (University of Yaoundé 1, doctoral candidate) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” programme.

DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (Ghana)
2025-11-25 08:00 - 2025-12-19 18:00
Visiting Lecturer Dr Gifty Edna Anani (University of Cape Coast) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” programme.

DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (South Africa)
2025-12-01 08:00 - 2025-12-19 18:00
Visiting Lecturer Ass.Prof. Sibusiso Clifford Ndlangamandla (University of South Africa) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” programme.

International Winter School "Democracy - Language - Participation"
2025-12-14 08:00 - 2025-12-19 20:00
The one-week conference is part of the DAAD “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” programme (2025-2029) at PH Karlsruhe. Visiting lecturers from our partner universitites in Northern Ireland, Israel, Ghana, Cameroon, and newly South Africa will cooperate with local students and colleagues to deepen our understanding of how democracy, language, and participation intersect and how language can be a tool for both exclusion and empowerment in democratic societies. Info und Programm Winter School 2025_en

Interviews with Ghanaian applicants for ASA Academia 2026
2026-01-16 09:00 - 17:00
The shortlisted applicants for the ASA Academia global format project #1104 are interviewed live at UCC.

Deadline for German applications for ASA Academia 2026
2026-01-20
Submit your application for project #1104 by 23:59 on 20 January.

3 Lao exchange students at PHKA in the summer term 2026
2026-03-01 - 2026-08-31
3 students of Savannakhet University (Lao P.D.R.) study at the University of Education Karlsruhe in the summer term 2026 under the last leg of our 3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University. 2 are Informatics students, 1 is an English student: we welcome Ms Kaemmy Sithivong!

3 exchange students from Ghana and Cameroon at PHKA in the summer term 2026
2026-03-01 - 2026-08-31
1 student of the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) and 2 students of the University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon) study at the University of Education Karlsruhe in the summer term 2026 under the DAAD programme (2025-2029) “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” We welcome Mr Emmanuel Agyapong (English), Ms Adeg Nelvis Kissob (English), and Mr Noel Chick Forbang (Curriculum & Evaluation)!

Dissertation defense Ms Miaoxing Ye
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:00
KUE members are invited to the defence of “Accentedness, Comprehensibility and Intelligibility of Lao English: German and Chinese Listener Perspectives”

ASA Academia project #1104 (2026): 3 Ghanaian-German student-tandems
2026-04-19 09:00 - 2026-07-17 18:00
3 Ghanaian and 3 German students won stipends by Engagement Global to participate in our 3rd ASA Academia research & teaching Project #1104 from 20 April to 18 December 2026. Phase 1 of “Shaping educational change: recognizing and breaking colonial patterns in teacher training curricula” takes place at PH Karlsruhe, Phase 2 at UCC. We welcome Christian Agyei, Veronica Enyonam Ahiaba, Irene Sitsofe Kwawu, Jonas Florian Morbe, Jennice Radant and Cosima Reese to Phase 1 at PH Karlsruhe!

Square Dance "Open House" party
2026-04-24 19:00 - 21:30
Recommended as a warm-up for our “World Dance Open House” at the University of Karlsruhe on 8 May

World Dance "Open House" party
2026-05-08 19:00 - 21:30
World_Dance_Poster_2026
This event is open to the public across generations and offers fun, movement and fingerfood! Everyone welcome: no prior knowledge or experience, no fee – just enjoy the experience!
For Master students in Prof. Martin’s “World Dance Calling” seminar, this is the first session and followed by a full-day Caller workshop on the next day.

Workshop 1: Basics for Calling
2026-05-09 10:00 - 17:00
“World Dance Calling” seminar: 1st Caller Workshop – cooperation teachers are welcome!

"Black Heroes" Exhibition
2026-05-18 08:00 - 2026-06-11 19:00
This travelling exhibition consisting of 22 portraits is a NikLAS project based on the book Black Heroes: schwarz – deutsch – erfolgreich by Guy Kabengele and Kerstin Finkelstein and offers QR codes and Taskcards for teaching purposes at schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The author will present a short lecture on 9 June 11:30 and contribute to the seminars “Decoloniality Praxis” and “Global Englishes & Global Citizenship Education”, all in the library.

Workshop 2: Calling and Teaching
2026-06-06 10:00 - 17:00
“World Dance Calling” seminar: 2nd Caller Workshop – cooperation teachers are welcome!
