Upcoming Events
Searching for Solutions: Lessons and Warnings from Refugee Situations
International Workshop, organized by Bidisha Biswas and Volker Heins
Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research
Online Training Course, organized by Órla Meadhbh Murray and Adriana Suárez Delucchi
People like us? Crafting Emotional Proximity and Distance in World Politics
Author's Workshop, 13-14 September 2022, Freiburg
Organizers: Amya Agarwal, Simon Koschut, Christine Unrau
Events in the past
Practice Theory and International Law: Normativity, Access, and the Ethics of Methodology
Presenter: Nora Stappert and Yuna Han (Oxford)
Comment: Frank Gadinger
Chair: Anna Geis
US-China Technology Decoupling and the Future of the Internet in Africa
International Workshop, organized by Emeka Umejei and Jan Aart Scholte
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States
Presenter: Mneesha Gellman (Emerson College, Boston)
Comment: Adriana Suárez
Chair: Frank Gadinger
The Contested People: Democratic Dissent on Collective Identity and Affiliation
Presenter: Franziska Martinsen
Comment: Christine Unrau
Chair: Lauren Eastwood
Interventionism, Peace and Security in a Rapidly Changing World Order
Authors' Workshop
Anna Geis, Patricia Rinck and Siddharth Tripathi
Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981)
Prof. Dr Monika Baár
Critical Junctures: Challenges and Opportunities for ‘Great Green Transformations
Authors' Workshop
Lauren Eastwood & Anders Blok
In cooperation with: Governance of Green Transition Network, University of Copenhagen
The (Non-) Recognition of the Taliban as Legitimate Actor by the International Community
Prof. Dr Anna Geis
Misogyny and Masculinity: Using Gender to Understand Extremism
47th Käte Hamburger Lecture
Elizabeth Pearson, Lecturer in Criminology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Webinar 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
Narrative Urgencies: A Narrative Approach to EU-Ukraine Relations in German Online Debate
PD Dr Stefan Groth
Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential
6th Global Migration Lecture with Heba Gowayed
16:00-17:30 CEST
Webinar
Exploring Fridays for Future Visual Climate Storytelling
Dr David Shim
Far-Right Visual Narratives and Translation on Digital Platforms
Prof. Dr Nicole Doerr
Visual Methods in Global Cooperation Research
Workshop
Visuality and the Populist Appeal
24th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
With Bernhard Forchtner, Paolo Gerbaudo, Emilia Palonen and Melanie Schiller, moderated by Nicole Doerr
18:00-19:30, CEST | Webinar
An Anthropology of 21st Century Pan-Africanism
Dr Layla D. Brown
Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Perspektiven der NRW-Friedensforschung
Public Symposium
Kolpingsaal im Townhouse Düsseldorf / Livestream
In cooperation with INEF, BICC, IKG, FONAS
17:00 - 20:00 CEST
Overcoming the International Division of Humanity – Would a New Project for Emancipation in the South Be Possible?
46th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Vijay Prashad
Discussant: Dr Siddharth Tripathi, Senior Research Fellow, KHK/GCR21
Moderator: Dr habil Nina Schneider, Research Group Leader, KHK/GCR21
Webinar
US-China Decoupling: Clash of two 'Internets' in Africa
Dr Emeka Umejei
Entangled Biographies and Questions of Positionality: Reflections of an IR Scholar of Colour
Dr Siddharth Tripathi
IFP Mittagsforum
War in Ukraine
23nd Käte Hamburger Dialogue
with Patricia Rinck (introduction), David Carment, Oksana Huss, Tamara Martsenyuk, Siddharth Tripathi, Andreas Zumach (moderation) and Cornelia Ulbert (concluding remarks)
Online Event
Ordering in a Controversial World: A Call to Study the Normativity of International Practices
Presenter: Frank Gadinger and Holger Niemann
Discussant: Max Lesch
Capitalizing on Virtue. The Discourse of a Global Status Order
Presenter: Katja Freistein and Thomas Mueller
Discussant: Frank Gadinger
Chair: David Shim
Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of Border Regimes
Presenter: Volker Heins and Frank Wolff
Chair: Christine Unrau
Becoming a ‘Good Producer’ in the Agri-Environmental Project Organisation
Dr Adriana Suárez Delucchi
Critique’s Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice
Seminar with Dr Mark Jackson (University of Bristol)
Borders and Money. The Moral Economy of Coming to Europe
5th Global Migration Lecture
Hannah Pool, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
In Cooperation with InZentIM
Online-Lecture
National Identity and Global Internet Governance: The Case of Russia
Dr Stanislav Budnitsky
Critical Junctures: Challenges and Opportunities for a ‘Great Green Transformation’
In cooperation with the Governance of Green Transition Network, University of Copenhagen
Beyond Cooperation and Competition: NGO-NGO Interactions in Global Politics
Prof. Dr Sigrid Quack, Dr Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre
Get Me Out of Here! Drawing Psychoanalytic Insights into Our Account of the Crisis Politics of COVID-19
Dr Ayşem Mert
Midterm Conference: New Avenues of Global Cooperation Research
Conference in Duisburg & Online
Picture Gallery
Governing Transit and Irregular Migration: Formal Policies and Informal Practices
In cooperation with the University of Warwick
Private legal reforms and transnational learning processes in the late 19th century. Methodological considerations
PD Dr Borbala Zsuzsanna Török
De/Legitimizing Global Migration Control
International Conference
University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus
28-29 October 2021
Cooperation for Counter-Revolution: The Emergence of Exile Politics, c. 1800
Presenter: Jan C. Jansen
Peace- and Statebuilding in Afghanistan: Partial Success or Predictable Failure?
22nd Käte Hamburger Dialogue
with Tobias Debiel (Introduction), Conrad Schetter, Nargis Nehan, Thomas Ruttig, Patricia Gossman and Andreas Zumach (Moderator)
Online Event
Collective Burden-Sharing or Burden-Shifting? Lessons from Bangladesh's Experience with Refugees, 1971-2019
Prof. Dr Bidisha Biswas
Heinrich Barth and African Book Cultures
Public Keynote Lecture
with Prof. Dr. Shamil Jeppie
Hybrid-Event: In-Person & Online
Racism-free encounters with the Other? Reflections from the Past and Present
21st Käte Hamburger Dialogue
with Layla Brown, Elena Furlanetto, Christoph Marx, Nina Schneider and Stefanie Zehnle
Hybrid-Event: In-Person & Online
Black Memory and White Memory
Public Keynote Lecture
with Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhard
Hybrid-Event: In-Person & Online
Power and Authority in Internet Governance: What Role for the State?
20th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
with Blayne Haggart, Sigrid Quack, Niels ten Oever, Ting Luo and Jean-Marie Chenou
Online-Event
The Distribution of Distributed Data Governance: Power, Complexity and Instability in Markets for Ordering
Dr Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
The Pandemic as a Historical Conjuncture: Understanding the Present, Imagining the Future
Prof. Dr Sigrid Quack
Border Violence: The Case of Melilla
4th Global Migration Lecture
Dr Estela Schindel
Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
Online-Lecture
The Governance of COVID 19 Apps
Dr Carolina Aguerre
Rückschaufehler / Hindsight Bias
Special Lunchtime Event: Artist Intervention
Rückschaufehler / Hindsight Bias
A Visual Essay by Eiko Grimberg
Online-Event
Remembrance between Retrieval and Retro-projection
45th Käte Hamburger Lecture
Dr Dr h.c. Aleida Assmann
Professor Emerita of British Literature and Literary Studies, Konstanz University
Online-Lecture
Re-Imagining the Past – A Conference Report
Conclusion Representants and International Orders: Challenges to the Liberal International Order
Dr Alena Drieschova
Human Rights after Fukuyama
Dr Michele Tedeschini
Engineering Rules: ‘Good Governance’ According to Standards Movements since 1880
44th Käte Hamburger Lecture
Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
JoAnne Yates, MIT Sloan School of Management
Online-Lecture
Donor-funded Women's Empowerment in Tajikistan: Trajectories of Women's NGO's and Changing Attitutes to the International Agenda
Dr Karolina Kluczewska
IfP Mittagsforum
Cooperating Across Global Regions: Societal Actors, Transnational Mobilization, and Regional Integration 1960s - 2020
Online-Workshop, 7–8 June 2021
Jointly funded and organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), University of Duisburg-Essen & EU Jean Monnet Centre for the Study of Transnational Europe (CESTE2), University of Portsmouth
Creating Legitimacy in a Pluralist World Order: The New Political Arts of Global Cooperation
43rd Käte Hamburger Lecture
Terry Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne
Online-Lecture
New Forms of Hybrid Governance in the Global South
Presentation. Theresa Reinold, Institute of Political Science, UDE
Comment: Aysem Mert, Senior Research Fellow, GCR21
Chair: Frank Gadinger, Research Group Leader, GCR21
Social Justice Globally: The ILO Experience
42nd Käte Hamburger Lecture
Sandrine Kott, Professor of Modern European History, Université de Genève
Online-Lecture
If Democracy is the Answer, What is the Question?
41st Käte Hamburger Lecture
With Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Philosophy and Law at New York University
Online-Lecture
Global Right, Global White: Transnational Radical Conservatism and South Africa
Prof. Dr Rita Abrahamsen
Authors Workshop 'Beyond Cooperation and Competition: NGO-NGO-Interactions in Global Politics' (2)
Online-Workshop, 3–5 May 2021
This is the second in a series of authors’ and practitioner workshops organized by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the George Washington University.
Convenors: Sigrid Quack and Maryam Z. Deloffre
Revisiting Net Neutrality From a Polycentric Perspective
Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício
3rd Annual Conference: Ideas for Re-ordering the World in Times of Multiple Crises
Online-Conference
Organized in conjunction with the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and the Main Research Area 'Transformation of Contemporary Societies' at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Building Bridges or Digging the Trench? UN Communication of the Global Compact for Migration on Twitter
Dr Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt
Peacebuilding and Human Security in the Shadow of the Pandemic
19th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
With Johannes Vüllers, INEF
Maryam Z. Deloffre, GWU
Anna Holzscheiter, TU Dresden
Hafsa Maalim, African Union
From Critique to Reaction: The New Right, Critical Theory and International Relations
Prof. Dr Michael C. Williams
Governing the Use of Facial and Health Data in AI: The Case of Health Code in China and Implications for Implementations of the GDPR
Dr Janet Hui Xue
Truth or Post-truth? Let’s Go Credibility
40th Käte Hamburger Lecture
With Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Convenor of the research group Doing International Political Sociology
Online-Lecture
Transnational Boundaries in Practice: Thwarting or Enabling Global Cooperation
Online Workshop
by Maren Hofius (KHK/GCR21) & Matthias Kranke (University of Kassel)
18th-19th March 2021
New Voices in International Practice Research
Online Workshop organized by the EISA Section ‘International Practices’ in collaboration with the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and the University of Copenhagen
18th and 19th of February 2021
The Secret Lives of Luise and Eva Geissler and the Private Spaces of Indian Anticolonialism in Europe, c. 1914–55
Dr Joanna Simonow
Visuality and Emotions in International Politics
Workshop organized by the Doing International Political Sociology Transnational Hub in collaboration with the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
EURODAC und die Politik der Feindschaft. Zur verkörperten Identität der Migration und die Biometrie der Grenze
3rd Global Migration Lecture
With Vassilis Tsianos, Professor für Soziologische Grundlagen der Kindheitspädagogik, Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit und Gesundheit der Fachhochschule Kiel
Online Lecture (German)
Militant Motherhood in Conflict: Stories from Palhaalan village, Kashmir
Dr Amya Agarwal
Post-conflict Transformation and Exclusion in Sierra Leone: Assessing the Analytical Potential of a Feminist Political Settlement Perspective
Patricia Rinck
The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance
With Dr Alexandru Grigorescu Professor of Political Science and Chair at the Political Science Department, Loyola University Chicago
Online Lecture
Diplomacy at the Frontlines: Knowing and Ordering in Crisis
Dr Maren Hofius
Balance of Power as Europe's Order-creating Mechanism
Dr Alena Drieschova
Authors Workshop 'Governing Refugee Returns in the International System'
Online-Workshop, 26–27 Nov 2020
Workshop convened by Alumni Fellows Zeynep Sahin Mencutek and Tamircace Fakhoury, together with their colleague Derya Ozkul (University of Oxford)
Everything in a few hands? Explaining network structure of successful civil resistance campaign in Nepal
Johannes Vüllers, INEF
Climate and Capitalists: The Long History of Business and Global Governance of the Environment
With Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute, Florence and Visiting Professor at the Department of History, University of Sydney
Online Lecture
Internationales Literaturfestival Literatürk: "Wie Rassismus und rechte Netzwerke unser Land herausfordern..."
Im Gespräch: Ferda Ataman, Stephan Anpalagan
Revisiting the Notion of Data Colonialism in Practice
Dr Carolina Aguerre
Unclosure: Another Look at Part XI of the Law of the Sea Convention
Dr Michele Tedeschini
Inside the Business of Cybercrime: Trust and Cooperation among Cybercriminals
With Jonathan Lusthaus, Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project at the Extra-Legal Governance Institute, the Department of Sociology, Oxford University.
Conjuring a Cooler World? Blockchain Techno-Imaginaries and the Legitimacy of Climate Governance
Dr Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Authors Workshop 'Beyond Cooperation and Competition: NGO-NGO-Interactions in Global Politics'
Online-Workshop, 26–28 Oct 2020
This was the first in a series of authors’ and practitioner workshops organized by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the George Washington University.
Convenors: Sigrid Quack and Maryam Z. Deloffre
Beyond Pity and Fear? Sentimental Education and the European 'Refugee Crisis'
Dr Christine Unrau
‘Urgency’ and ‘Responsibility’ in Global Cooperation - Covid-19 and Beyond
International Conference
5 & 6 October 2020
Online-Event via Zoom
In cooperation with: School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg
Global Cooperation under Covid-19
17th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
5 October 2020
17:30–19:00 (CEST)
Online-Event via Zoom
In cooperation with: School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg
The Elite-Citizen Gap in International Organization Legitimacy
Prof. Dr Jan Aart Scholte
Clash of Imaginaries in Conflict and Resistance: Bonds of Shared Pain versus Strategic Partnerships
Dr Amya Agarwal
Multi-Scale Governance of Land
Laura Gerken, MPIfG
2nd Annual Conference: Communicative Power and Global Cooperation
Online-Conference
Organized in conjunction with the Main Research Area 'Transformation of Contemporary Societies' at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Struggling with Complexity: How Governments Fail to Limit Fragmentation in Global Governance
36th Käte Hamburger Lecture
Online Lecture with Orfeo Fioretos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University in Philadelphia
Salient Status Dimensions and Norms in Multilateral Diplomacy: Dynamics in the United Nations General Assembly
Dr Catherine Hecht
Child Labour Opponents and Their Campaigns in Global Perspectives, 1888-1938
PD Dr Nina Schneider
Populism and Environmental Protection: Friends or Foes? Mapping a Stratified Field
Dr Umberto Mario Sconfienza
Hierarchy and Legitimacy in Multistakeholder Global Governance at ICANN
Prof. Dr Jan Aart Scholte
Das Glücksversprechen der Nachhaltigkeit
16th Käte Hamburger Dialogue as part of the "Duisburger Akzente"
Panel discussion on the compatibility of increasing environmental awareness with the individual pursuit of happiness
With Prof. Dr Christa Liedtke (Wuppertal Institute), Dr Ines Maria Eckermann (author), Elisabeth Schumann (Weltladen Duisburg), Sascha Ivan (Tellavision Clothing)
Moderation: Sascha Devigne (Studio 47) & Josip Sosic (VHS Duisburg)
Engagement all the Way Down: Practice and Critique in International Politics
35th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Dr Marieke de Goede, Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, commented by Dr Florian P. Kuehn, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre.
Visuality and the Global
Prof. Dr Birgit Mersmann
Polycentric Governance of Transit Migration: Comparing Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Prof. Dr Maria Koinova
Familial Migration: Class, Gender, and Global Inequalities
2nd Migration Lecture with Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, School of Law at Middlesex University, London, commented by Prof. Anja Weiss, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen. A cooperation with InZentIM
Victimizing Europeans? Narrating Europe's Shared History in the House of European History
Migration as a Human Right? Mapping Theories and Practices of Global Solidarity in Europe
PD. Dr Stefania Maffeis
Shadow Negotiators: How the UN Shapes the Rules of Global Trade to Protect Food Security
34th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Matias Margulis
Criminalization of Kindness: the Legality and Politics of Migrant Rescue across the Sahara and the Mediterranean
Prof. Dr Volker M. Heins
Broken - A Palestinian Journey Through International Law
Towards Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: The imperative of Regulating Party Defections and Fragmentation for Political Party Institutionalisation
Benjamin Adeniran Aluko
International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia
Prof. Dr Jens Steffek
New coalitions of change for just & in-time climate protection?
15th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
Panellists: Niclas Svenningsen, Fatin Tawfig, Andrés López Rivera
Moderator: Dirk Messner
Governing the Returns of Displaced Syrians: Actors, Policies, and Consequences
Is the Paris Agreement Working?
33rd Käte Hamburger Lecture with David Victor
Internet and Social Media
Nicole Krämer
Was heißt 'liberale Migrationsethik'?
Imagining Pathways to Global Cooperation
China's Social Credit System: Producing Social Control as Source for Value Extraction
Julia Musitz
Power in Humanitarian Governance
Blurring Global Epistemic Boundaries: The Invention of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Governance
Andrés López Rivera
The Rise of Political Fact-Checking
Laurens Lauer
Comparing Afghanistan: the ‘Serious World’ and Normative Scaling of Crisis Knowledge
Contested Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?
The Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean: Politics and Repercussions on Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Prof. Dr Maria Koinova
Examining the Privatization of Migration: lessons from security studies
Dr Joseph Anderson
New Actors and Contested Architectures in Global Migration Governance
The Political Economy of Knowledge - Focus on Data, Intellectual Property and Trade
Dr Blayne Haggart
Progress and Regression
32nd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Rahel Jaeggi
Behind Walls and Inside Houses
Dr Katja Freistein, Dr Frank Gadinger, Dr Christine Unrau
From 'Another world is possible' to 'Our country first'? Populism and Global Cooperation
Panellists: Benjamin De Cleen, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Wolfram Kaiser, Taylan Yildiz
Moderator: Christine Unrau
Counter-narratives to Regional Cooperation: Contesting European union
Refugia: Towards a New Transnational Polity
Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data
Dr Natasha Tusikov
Desecuritization of Migration
Stephan Scheel
Endless Peacebuilding? The Missions in Afghanistan and Mali
Keynote Address by Clemens Hach
Panellists: Isaline Bergamaschi, Florian Kühn, Katja Mielke
Moderator: Julia Leininger
Concluding Remarks by Conrad Schetter
Migration and Urban Utopias: Past Visions and the Design of the Future City
Panellists: Ulrich Berding, Birgit Naujoks, Martin Schlemmer, Christoph Zöpel
Moderator: Aslı Sevindim
Visions of World Order in Pan-Africanism
31st Käte Hamburger Lecture with Rita Abrahamsen
GCR21 1st Annual Conference
1st Annual Conference
Date: 9th – 10th April 2019
Venue: Gerhard-Mercator-Haus, Lotharstraße 57, 47057 Duisburg
At this conference, the Centre would like to open a dialogue with other projects and agendas at the University Duisburg-Essen and partner institutions which address related topics from different perspectives and might therefore enrich, challenge or re-contextualize our research. These may include historical and contemporary processes of transnationalization, conflicts about global norms and values, global economic and social inequality, institution-building in the Global South, and the rise of regionalism, as well as tensions in specific fields of global governance, such as international migration, transnational labour markets, global health, trade, development cooperation or implications of digitalization.
Beyond the government-market-communities trichotomy: Conditions and instruments for cooperative, coercive and competitive interactions in natural resource and agri-environmental governance
Governance and the Interaction of Competition, Cooperation and Coercion
Polycentric Governing: Critical Interrogations of Techniques, Power and Legitimacy
Narration and Aesthetics in Transnational Law and Politics
Beyond Institutionalism in Global Governance Theory
Prof. Dr Jan Aart Scholte
Storytelling Between Interdisciplinary Potential and Narrative Imperialism
Julika Griem
The Initiation of Islamic Faith-based Mediation
Rakchanok Chatjuthamard
Transnational Violence
Dr Philip Liste
Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
Transnational Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection: The Case of the Mediterranean Migration ‘Crisis’
30th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Tanja Aalberts