Events

Internet and Social Media

With Nicole Krämer

Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, 1. Floor, Horst-Schimanski-Saal, Schifferstrasse 44, 47059 Duisburg

Is the Paris Agreement Working?

With Prof. Dr David Victor (Professor at the School of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego)

As a global response to the threat of catastrophic climate change, the Paris Agreement offered a fresh approach to fostering cooperation among countries to address the imminent climate crisis. By design, it is more flexible and inclusive than earlier agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Many analysts supported this new approach because it would be more effective. From our vantage point of today, four years later, this lecture will take stock of the evidence to assess whether it is indeed working.

Date: October 30, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Venue: Gerhard-Mercator Saal, Gebäude LR (Gerhard-Mercator-Haus), Lotharstraße 57, 47057 Duisburg

Please register by October 27, 2019 at events@gcr21-uni-due.de.

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

With Zeynep Sahin Mencutek

Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, 1. Floor, Horst-Schimanski-Saal, Schifferstrasse 44, 47059 Duisburg

New coalitions of change for just & in-time climate protection?

In cooperation with UNU-EHS, UNFCCC and Fridays for Future.

The UN Summit of the Secretary General of the UN in September 2019 made clear that accelerating climate action is necessary to avoid dangerous climate change. “Fridays for Future”, as a transnationally organized movement, drives climate policy debates worldwide. Is Fridays for Future a game changer in international climate politics? How do they influence political and economic decision makers? Do they have an impact on the UN? How do they cooperate with science? And why is Fridays for Future so visible in public debates – nationally and internationally?

Venue: UN Campus Bonn, Room 2309, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, 53113 Bonn

Date: November 11, 2019, 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Please register by November 5, 2019 at events@gcr21.uni-due.de.

Shadow Negotiators: How the UN Shapes the Rules of Global Trade to Protect Food Security

In the 34th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Dr Matias E Margulis, Lecturer in International Political Economy at the School of Social and Political Science (University of Edinburgh), will shed light on the interlinkages between food security and international trade in global governance.

Fighting hunger is a longstanding goal of international cooperation based on the recognition that hunger is a global problem that cannot be solved by states acting alone. In this talk, Margulis will analyse efforts by international organizations to incorporate human rights and development concerns related to food security into international economic law. Thereby he seeks to demonstrate that multiple United Nations agencies – including the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – have intervened in global trade rule-making at the World Trade Organization in an effort to steer such rules toward outcomes that protect global food security.

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

Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 6:00-8:00 pm

Please register by November 20, 2019 at events@gcr21.uni-due.de.

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