Events

World Ordering from the Margins: Authors Workshop for Special Issue

Two-Day Authors Workshop Organized by Sigrid Quack, Patricia Rinck, and Christine Unrau

13-14 October 2022

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

Conversation with Antoon de Baets about the international Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)

Prof. em. Dr Antoon De Baets, University of Groningen & Network of Concerned Historians

Horst Schimanski Hall

Online participation is possible.

Exposing Myths: A Dangerous Strategy for Historians

48th Käte Hamburger Lecture

Prof. em. Dr Antoon De Baets, University of Groningen & Network of Concerned Historians

In-Person and Online Lecture

Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research

Online Training Course, organized by Órla Meadhbh Murray and Adriana Suárez Delucchi

Searching for Solutions: Lessons and Warnings from Refugee Situations

International Workshop, organized by Bidisha Biswas and Volker Heins

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

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