Events

Climate and Capitalists: The Long History of Business and Global Governance of the Environment

With Prof. Dr Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute and visiting Professor at the University of Sidney

In cooperation with the Historical Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen

The lecture takes up the 1972 UN Human Environment conference: the first example of the attempted global governance of environmental issues and climate change that foundered on the challenges of development and North-South antagonisms. That history connects Delos, the ancient capital of the Athenian League, with the club of Rome, and the New International Economic Order. The talk's specific aim is to recover the importance of business and intellectual networks, in all their problematic historical messiness and stir them back into our understanding of the changing character of ‘global’ imaginaries. This is a history that reconnects debates about the environment and development, as well as the interdisciplinary not always visible connections between scientists, humanists, women activists, and businessmen. It evokes the longer history of the international governance of economic problems, and of economic actors in international politics.

Venue: Bibliothekssaal Essen, Universitätsstraße 9-11, 45141 Essen

Date: Tuesday, 21st April 2020 (18:00-19:30h)

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

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

Prof. Dr Wolfram Kaiser

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

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?

Governing the Returns of Displaced Syrians: Actors, Policies, and Consequences

Dr Zeynep Sahin Mencutek

Is the Paris Agreement Working?

Internet and Social Media

Nicole Krämer

Was heißt 'liberale Migrationsethik'?

China's Social Credit System: Producing Social Control as Source for Value Extraction

Julia Musitz

Power in Humanitarian Governance

Dr Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre

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

Dr Florian P. Kühn

The Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean: Politics and Repercussions on Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Dr Maria Koinova

Examining the Privatization of Migration: lessons from security studies

Dr Joseph Anderson

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

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 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

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