Events

Engagement all the Way Down: Practice and Critique in International Politics

With Marieke de Goede (Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam)

This talk asks about the practices and forms of critique afforded at the intersection between Science-and-Technology Studies (STS) and the critical study of security politics. Can engagements with practice generate effective forms of critique? How does the attention to materialities and the fine-grained analysis of technical practices, that typically accompany STS-inspired research, feed into ways of practicing critique? How can the analytical attention to “little security nothings”, i.e. banal security devices and practices such as programming algorithms or looking at a CCTV surveillance feed, be translated into critical agendas?

A key message of the lecture is derived from Isabell Stengers' argument that critical practice is “engagement all the way down”. Thus, a non-judgmental critique suspends certainty and recognizes that political engagement is open-ended and to some extent unpredictable. It means that we linger with the problematisation. De Goede thinks through the ways in which the work of Stengers and others can be put in practice in qualitative critical security research. She identifies the notions of laughter, leveraging, joined risks and unexpected following as key pathways of non-judgemental critique. And in consequence one might (temporarily) find oneself in unlikely and uneasy alliances in the security domain.

Venue: LS 105 (NRW School of Governance), Lotharstraße 53, 47057 Duisburg

Date: February 11, 2020, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Das Glücksversprechen der Nachhaltigkeit

Event in German

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)

In the current debate on climate neutrality, sustainability and the renunciation of consumption are regarded as ecologically and ethically imperative standards. But can we also be happy despite the associated call for self-regulation? After all, according to liberal philosophy, it is the task of state institutions to set no unnecessary limits to the individual pursuit of happiness - an idea that is still anchored in the collective consciousness of the Western world in the form of expectations of growth and prosperity. Against this background, how is it possible to reconcile sustainable behaviour and individual happiness and what role does politics play in this? Starting from global "recipes" for worldwide well-being, we would like to address the local conditions for sustainable forms of life. On what basis can such considerations exist in a city like Duisburg, where happiness was closely linked to the fossil fuel industry for many years?

A cooperation event with the VHS Duisburg

Date: 12.03.2020, 18:30 - 20:30

Location: Lecture hall of the VHS Duisburg Mitte/Süd (VHS in the city window), Steinsche Gasse 26, 47051 Duisburg

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

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