Oduma Adelio (Assistant Lecturer)

Oduma Adelio is assistant lecturer and doctoral researcher in the Department of Anglophone Literary Cultures and Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen. He studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Tübingen. His research is situated at the intersection of genocide studies, moral philosophy, transitional justice, trauma studies, and literature. His teaching focuses particularly on post-genocide Rwandan literature as well as Caribbean and Black British writing from the 1950s to the present. His first co-authored book Negotiating Peace, Mediating Conflict (Routledge 2025 [forthcoming]) explores the microdynamics of peace and builds on the premise that peacebuilding must be reconceptualized in terms of relationality and interconnection.

He previously worked as a researcher at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace as well as the Global Humanity for Peace Institute at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where he contributed to the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative. He has also conducted research in AI ethics at the International Center for Ethics in the Humanities with various publications examining ethical debates in media and digitalisation.

Publications

Edited Volumes

Adelio, O (ed.) 2025 [forthcoming]. Negotiating Peace, Mediating Conflict. Routledge, London, UK.

Chapters and Articles

Adelio, O & West-Pavlov R 2025 [forthcoming], ‘Introduction’, in Negotiating Peace, Mediating Conflict. Routledge, London, UK.

Adelio, O 2025 [forthcoming], ‘Discuss and redeem, not discipline and punish’, in Negotiating Peace, Mediating Conflict. Routledge, London, UK.

Schelenz L, Segal A, Adelio, O & Gal K 2023, ‘Transparency-Check: An Instrument for the Study and Design of Transparency in AI-based Personalization Systems,’ ACM Journal on Responsible Computing. 10.1145/3636508.

Stapf V, Heesen J, Bieß, C & Adelio, O 2022, ‘Ethical Guidelines for doing research with children in sensitive subject areas’ trans. Adelio O, Tübingen: IZEW, Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 20.

Stapf I, Bieß, C, Heesen, J, Adelio, O, Pavel, C et al. 2022, ‘Zwischen Fürsorge und Forschungszielen. Ethische Leitlinien für die Forschung mit Kindern zu sensiblen Themenbereichen’, Tübingen: IZEW, Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 20

Stapf, I et al. 2023, ‘Privacy and Children’s Rights’, trans. Adelio, O, Eds. Friedewald, M et al., Forum Privatheit und selbstbestimmtes Leben in der digitalen Welt, White Paper, Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI.

Stapf, I, Heesen, J, Adelio, O et al. 2022, ‘Zwischen Fürsorge und Forschungszielen. Ethische Leitlinien für die Forschung mit Kindern zu sensiblen Themenbereichen’, Tübingen: IZEW, Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 20.

Teaching Experience (selected)

ICGSS Spring School: Proximate Worlds from the South (Seminar, Summer Semester, 2025)
Black British Writing: Race, Nation, and Representation (Seminar, Summer Semester, 2024)
Rwanda after the Itsembabwoko: Testimonies, Change, and Reconciliation (Seminar, Summer Semester, 2024)
Introduction to Cultural Studies (Tutorial, Winter Term 2020)
Introduction to Cultural Studies (Tutorial, Summer Term 2019)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Tutorial, Winter Term 2018)

Talks and Conference Presentations (selected)

UNESCO: New Perspectives on Collective Healing, Social Justice and Well-Being, 2023-2024
‘Proximity-as-Method’ Conference, University of Tübingen, 2023
International Forum 2023: ‘Un/thinking the “Crisis”: Knowledge, Art, Politics’, 2023
11th Tübingen Writing Week, University of Tübingen, 2019