Upcoming events
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.
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.
Events in the past
Progress and Regression
32nd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Rahel Jaeggi
Visions of World Order in Pan-Africanism
31st Käte Hamburger Lecture with Rita Abrahamsen
Transnational Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection: The Case of the Mediterranean Migration ‘Crisis’
30th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Tanja Aalberts
Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets
29th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Terence Halliday
China, the Global Order, and Two Ages of Rising Powers: Comparing and Contrasting the World of 1900 and the World of Today
28th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Jeff Wasserstrom
Age Structures and State Behaviour: A Political Demographer's Guide to the Future in National and International Politics
27th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Richard Cincotta
An Alternative Vision of Peace in International Relations: Learning from Sudanese Sufi Theologian Mahmud Muhammad Taha
26th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Meir Hatina
Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation
25th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Claudia Derichs
Multi-layered Constitutionalism in the Age of Illiberal Politics and Democratic Backsliding: A Global Perspective
24th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Renata Uitz
Applied History: Still Learning from 60 Years of Development Co-Operation
23rd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Brian J. Atwood
The Interplay between Fairness and Ambition: The Example of the Paris Agreement
22nd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Christina Voigt
Financial Institutions as Microinstitutional Forms
21st Käte Hamburger Lecture with Karen Knorr Cetina
The Place of International Courts and Tribunals in Contemporary International Relations: Functions and Motivations
20th Käte Hamburger Lecture with David Caron
Englisch Postcolonial Approaches Towards Global Cooperation
19th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Nikita Dhawan
Global Scholarship in Local Settings: Professionalism and Academia in Secular India
18th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Ummu Salma Bava
The Financialization of Humanitarian Aid
17th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Susan Erikson
The Failure of the Mediterranean Union - History and Consequences
16th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Wolf Lepenies
Inequality – what can be done?
15th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Tony Atkinson
Doing Politics in Translation
14th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Richard Freeman
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation: Origins, Actions and Future Prospects
13th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Talaat Abdel-Malek
Good Faith Cooperation? Why Global Cooperation Sometimes Succeeds (and Mostly Not)
12th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Scott Barrett
Identity and Political Mobilization of Diasporas: A Gendered Perspective
11th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Nadje Al-Ali
The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered
10th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Jeffrey Alexander
Humanitarianism's Contested Culture: Pollyanna Is Not a Role Model
9th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Thomas Weiss
The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance – With Special Reference to the G20 and the BRICS
8th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Andrew Cooper
Tolerance and Cooperation in Primate Society
7th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Julia Fischer
Rethinking State Power and Governance in a "World" of Complexity
6th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Bob Jessop
Global Governance and the State of Nuclear Weapons
5th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Ramesh Thakur
World Financial Crisis and Civil Society: Implications for Global Democracy
4th Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Jan Aart Scholte
Democracy, Visibility and Resistance
3rd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. David Chandler
Beyond 2015: Getting Serious about Global Justice
2nd Käte Hamburger Lecture with Prof. Pogge
Can (and should) there be global norms for freedom of expression?
1st Käte Hamburger Lecture with Timothy Garton Ash