Syllabus - GESI - Universität Leipzig

Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Global and European Studies Institute
Course Catalogue
(Vorlesungsverzeichnis)
MA „Global Studies – A European Perspective‚
Summer Term 2016
Updated: 15 March 2016
Table of Contents
Addresses and Contact Persons .................................................................................................. 2
Timeline – Summer Term 2016 ................................................................................................... 3
List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................. 3
A Word of Welcome ................................................................................................................ 4
Preliminary Remarks .................................................................................................................. 5
First Year – Global Studies ......................................................................................................... 8
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East I ......................................... 8
GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas I ....................................................... 10
GS-0830 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East I ....................................... 13
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe I ................................................................ 14
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School .......................................................... 18
Second Year – Global Studies .................................................................................................. 19
GS-1010 World Orders Under the Global Condition .................................................................. 19
GS-1020 Cultural Transfers Under the Global Condition .............................................................. 21
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloquium II ...................................................................................... 22
Additional Courses ................................................................................................................. 23
Addresses and Contact Persons
Address:
Universität Leipzig
Global and European Studies Institute
Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1
04105 Leipzig
Programme Directors:
Prof. Dr Matthias Middell
Head of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium
E-Mail: middell@uni-leipzig.de
Prof. Dr Ulf Engel
Programme Director
‚Global Studies – A European Perspective’
E-Mail: uengel@uni-leipzig.de
Prof. Dr Stefan Troebst
Programme Director
‚European Studies’
E-Mail: troebst@uni-leipzig.de
Programme Coordinators:
Dipl.-Kffr. Konstanze Loeke
Global Studies – A European Perspective
Tel. +49 341 97 30 230
Fax +49 341 96 05 261
E-Mail: gesi@uni-leipzig.de
Stephan Kaschner, M.A.
European Studies
Global Studies – A European Perspective
Tel. +49 341 97 30 263
Fax +49 341 96 05 261
E-Mail: europastudien@uni-leipzig.de
gs@uni-leipzig.de
Internet:
gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de
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Timeline – Summer Term 2016
Academic Term
01.04.2016 – 30.09.2016
Lecture Time
04.04.2016 – 09.07.2016
Holidays:
Himmelfahrt / Ascension Day
05.05.2016
Pfingstmontag / Whit Monday
16.05.2016
Deadlines:
Submission Essays – Global Studies
Submission Master Thesis
31.08.2016
01.08.2016
List of Abbreviations
BS
C
CAS
Co
GESI
GWZ
GWZO
HSG
L
LS
NSG
S
Block Seminar
Consultations
Centre for Area Studies (Thomaskirchhof 20, 04109 Leipzig)
Colloquium
Global and European Studies Institute (Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 04105 Leipzig)
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig)
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas
(Specks Hof, Eingang A, Reichsstr. 4-6, 04109 Leipzig)
Hörsaalgebäude (Universitätsstraße 7, 04109 Leipzig)
Lecture
Lecture Series
Neues Seminargebäude (Universitätsstraße 5, 04109 Leipzig)
Seminar
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A Word of Welcome
On behalf of the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) I would like to welcome all of you joining
us for the academic summer term 2016 at the University of Leipzig, both for the MA ‚Global Studies – A
European Perspective‛, and the MA ‚European Studies‛. GESI at Leipzig University and its partner
institutions, both inside and outside Europe, are happy to host you for your next academic steps towards
graduation.
This brochure provides information about the courses taught in both programmes in the coming summer
term. You will discover that some courses are designed for the specific requirements of the Global
Studies and some for the European Studies programme. Some courses, however, are offered to students
from both programmes, they will thus allow for academic exchange and a cross-fertilization of
perspectives.
Now for the fourth time we are also happy to welcome our graduate students from the Master’s
programme ‚Global Studies with a special emphasis on peace and security‛ which is based in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. The programme was launched in September 2012, jointly with our partner, the
Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS). Under the aegis of the two mayors of the twin-cities of
Leipzig and Addis Ababa we have held the first graduation ceremony in Addis Ababa in February
2015.
With regard to research, GESI is closely collaborating with the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) which is
located in Thomaskirchhof 20 (just opposite of the church). You should definitely seize the opportunity to
engage with well-known guest scholars and visiting faculty! You are also invited to the regular
Wednesday CAS Colloquium, always at 5 pm.
As we have started in January 2016 a major research project, the Collaborative Research Group 1199
‚Spatializations under the Global Condition‛ (see <http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~sfb1199/cms/>),
you can also expect even more guest speakers and researchers to visit. Again, an opportunity for you to
engage with cutting edge research on space and globalization projects.
For many of us this term’s highlight, as always, will be the annual summer school of the Global Studies
consortium. This year it will be hosted by our Polish colleagues from Wroclaw in Puck near Gdansk (710 July).
You might also note that we have tried to improve our website (ULR: http://gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de).
Your comments for further improvements are always very much welcome!
I wish all of you an excellent start into this summer term,
Yours
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Programme Director Leipzig
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Preliminary Remarks
Dear Global Studies students,
We are happy to share with you the course catalogue of the summer term 2016. We hope you like the
courses we compiled and wish you an exciting and intellectually challenging term! Following the wish
expressed by your student’s representatives, we invited all lecturers to develop detailed syllabi of their
courses and will publish them soon on our website and on Moodle. We hope that this will help you in
your choice.
Please read the following instructions for the course registration carefully.
First year students have to choose two of the following four regional modules (two seminars each):
Module
Module
Module
Module
GS-0810:
GS-0820:
GS-0830:
GS-0840:
Regions
Regions
Regions
Regions
in
in
in
in
Globalisation:
Globalisation:
Globalisation:
Globalisation:
Africa and the Near East I
The Americas I
Asia and the Middle East I
Europe I
and have to attend the Colloquium plus Summer School (Module GS-0850).
Second year students have to attend two modules (one seminar each):
Module GS-1010: World Orders under the Global Condition
Module GS-1020: Cultural Transfers under the Global Condition
and the mandatory Colloquium II (Module GS-1030), in which the topics of the Master’s theses are
presented. The Master’s theses (three bound copies and one electronic version) have to be submitted to
the office 3.14 of the Global and European Studies Institute by 01 August 2016.
Most courses are supported by the online learning platform Moodle: https://moodle2.uni-leipzig.de/.
Links and passwords to the respective courses will be communicated to you by your lecturers.
The main examination form within the Master’s course ‚Global Studies – A European Perspective‛ is the
essay. All essays have to be sent electronically to the respective lecturers and cc’ed to gs_shk@unileipzig.de by 31 August 2016 (first study year). Students who will spend the third semester in Delhi or in
Stellenbosch will be granted an extension for submission of the essays for the summer semester (until 31
January 2017).
Stephan Kaschner
Programme Coordinator
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First Year – Global Studies
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East I
S
S
S
S
S
Ulf Engel: Respacing Africa: Regionalism
Ulf Engel/Gilad Ben-Nun: Peace and Security in Africa: Transitional Justice
Adam Jones: Debates on African History
Adam Jones: The Arts in Africa: Music
Steffi Marung: After empire or inventing new empires? The transformations of imperial space
since the 19th century in global perspective
GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas I
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Crister Garrett: Cultures of Capitalism in a Transatlantic and Global Context
Crister Garrett: Constructing and Contesting Policy Communities in a Transatlantic and Global
Context
Peter Gärtner: Entangled Histories: Inter-American Relations in a Globalized World
Peter Gärtner: BRICS as a Modern World System. New Rising Powers Against the West?
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: New Orleans in Fiction
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: People on the Move – Borders, Nations, and Migrations
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: The Local and the Global – Literary Regionalism Revisited
GS-0830 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East I
S
S
S
BS
Gilad Ben-Nun: Law of International Organizations
Peter Gärtner: BRICS as a Modern World System. New Rising Powers Against the West?
Megan Maruschke: Portals of Globalization. Examples from India
Praveen Jha: Global Production Networks and Implications for Labour
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe I
S
S
S
L
S
S
Johanna Wolf: ArbeiterInnen in Bewegung: Von der Herausbildung der europäischen
ArbeiterInnenbewegung im 19. Jahrhundert bis zu den chinesischen Arbeitskämpfen der
Gegenwart
Hartmut Elsenhans: Political Economy of European Integration
Stefan Troebst: „Europäische Identität durch Geschichte‚ – Chancen und Risiken eines EUProjekts
Holger Lengfeld: Social Integration in the EU
Steffi Marung: After empire or inventing new empires? The transformations of imperial space
since the 19th century in global perspective
Wolfram von Scheliha: Transitional Justice before Transitional Justice
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School
Co
Konstanze Loeke: Global Studies Career Perspectives
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Second Year – Global Studies
GS-1010 World Orders under the Global Condition
S
S
S
BS
Hartmut Elsenhans: Social Movements and Capitalism
Wolfram von Scheliha: Transitional Justice before Transitional Justice
Gilad Ben-Nun: Law of International Organizations
Praveen Jha: Global Production Networks and Implications for Labour
GS-1020 Cultural Transfers under the Global Condition
LS
S
S
Frank Hadler/Katja Naumann: Räume der Migration
Rafael Mrowczynski: Culture, Law and Society in Comparative Perspective
Eric Losang: A Picture of Globalization
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloqium II
Co
Matthias Middell/Ulf Engel: Master’s Thesis Colloquium
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First Year – Global Studies
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East I
Respacing Africa: Regionalism
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (Institute for African Studies)
Time:
Tuesday and Thursday, 11.15 am – 12.45 pm, from 12 April until 9 June 2016
Place:
Tuesday: GESI, Room 3.16
Thursday: GESI, Room 3.15
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 8
Description:
The seminar takes a look at current debates about regional integration in Africa, new regionalisms and
regionalisation with a view to political, economic and security projects of the AU, the RECs and other
actors.
Introductory Literature:
Fred Söderbaum 2016. Rethinking Regionalism. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Peace and Security in Africa: Transitional Justice
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel and Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (CAS)
Time:
Tuesday, 1.00 – 5.00 pm (4 academic hours each session), from 12 April until 24 May
2016
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 5
Description:
The seminar aims at an analysis of a variety of transitional justice process after prolonged violent conflict
in a comparative perspective – introducing case studies from Chile, Cambodia, Bosnia and a number of
African countries (such as Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, and others).
Introductory Literature:
UN HRC 2014. Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed. Wrongs
of the Past: the Memorialization Challenge. UN doc. A/HRC/25/49, 23 January.
Debates on African History
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Adam Jones (Institute for African Studies)
Time:
Thursday, 09.15 – 10.45 am
Place:
GWZ, Room 2.215
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
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Our knowledge of Africa's past consists largely of ideas which are fiercely debated in academic circles.
The seminar will deal with recent discussions concerning Afrocentrism, the number of persons affected
by the Atlantic slave trade, the history of begging, the Mfecane, the political economy of the Kalahari
Desert, reasons for Africa's "underdevelopment", the significance of the occult, the weakness of
precolonial states, human sacrifice, and world systems / globalisation.
The Arts in Africa: Music
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Adam Jones (Institute for African Studies)
Time:
Wednesday, 1.15– 2.45 pm
Place:
GWZ, Room 3.215
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The seminar deals with what is often – misleadingly – termed "traditional" music. It will discuss some
differences between European and sub-Saharan African music, including certain aspects of
instrumentation, rhythm and tone. It will locate music in its human context, dealing with the position of
musicians in society, the role of dance and the significance of music for social identity. We will also
look at the complex relationship between "African" and "world" music.
After empire or inventing new empires?
The transformations of imperial space since the 19th century in global perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Steffi Marung (CAS)
Time:
Monday, 1.15 – 2.45 pm
Double session (1.15 – 4.45 pm) on 18 April, 23 May, 30 May and 16 June 2016
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The seminar will address the transformations of imperial spaces in a comparative and entangled
perspective, investigating selected cases of imperial transformations in different world regions. How did
and what happened when empires come into crisis? Which actors developed visions of re-organizing
imperial spaces? Which alternative offers were developed and disputed? How did the reorganization –
and in some cases also dissolution – of empires result in new kind of imaginaries and spatial formats?
Providing a conceptual and theoretical introduction into how spatial formats and the transformations of
imperial space can be investigated, as well as giving an insight into larger historical and global contexts
of imperial transformations, the regional and historical focus of the seminar will be on Europe and Africa
since the late 19th century. Against this background also contemporary discourses mobilizing the
concept of empire will be analyzed in the seminar. Students will work in groups studying selected
empires from different angles. The result of the group work will be presented and discussed in class and
provide the basis for the essay.
Suggested Readings:
Frederick Cooper/ Ann Laura Stoler (eds.) Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.
Berkeley CA, 1997.
Ann Laura Stoler et al. (eds.), Imperial Formations, Santa Fe 2007.
Jane Burbank/ Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History. Power and the Politics of Difference,
Princeton 2010.
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GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas I
Cultures of Capitalism in a Transatlantic and Global Context
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Crister Garrett (American Studies)
Time:
Thursday, 3.15 – 4.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 2.24
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 6
Description:
Understanding the American experience, and interpretations of it, runs fundamentally through narratives
of capitalism. The expectations, norms, institutions, and stories about the pursuit of profit during the
course of American history inherently inform how Americans perceive themselves and pursue politics.
American capitalism influences in turn global politics and political economy, and global politics
influences American politics and economic development. Perhaps no arena is more important for the
evolution of American capitalism than the transatlantic space, as the country compares and contrasts its
culture of capitalism with varieties of capitalism found in Europe. Exploring discourses of capitalism and
their differences underscores how cultures of capitalism emerge, and are contested, in both a
transatlantic and a global context.
Constructing and Contesting Policy Communities in a Transatlantic and Global Context
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Crister Garrett (American Studies)
Time:
Tuesday, 1.15 – 2.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.28
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 6
Description:
It has become a truism of the twenty-first century that whether for America or any other nation-state, key
issues of societal well-being can no longer be framed in purely national terms. Scholars and
practitioners are thus increasingly turning to the study and use of international, multinational, and
transnational policy architectures to address complex issues impacting fundamentally the security of a
society. This seminar will explore how three such core issues -- migration, environmental policy, and
trade -- are placed in international policy communities to construct new forms of political practice. The
seminar will focus especially on contemporary EU-US relations, with the transatlantic policy community
arguably the most important for America in terms of reassessing and recalibrating national norms,
institutions, and political practices.
Entangled Histories: Inter-American Relations in a Globalised World
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner
Time:
Monday, 5.15 – 6.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 2.26
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
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Description:
The course provides an overview of the Inter-American relations by focusing on processes, forces and
outcomes. It is divided in three parts. In the first we will analyze the historical causes of later bifurcation
of the Americas. The second looks at key historical periods and U.S. policies directed toward the
Nations of Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the repressive oppression of the
Guatemalan Revolution in 1954. The third part is devoted to the new dynamics in U.S.-Latin American
relations resulting from the Cuban Revolution. Specific emphasis will be placed on the reason why these
relations have often been characterized by factors of tension and mistrust. By the end of the course
students will be expected to have acquired a structured, contrastively-based knowledge of these
InterAmerican relations, thereby helping them to understand the key factors affecting the present-day
situation within the American continent.
Suggested Readings:
Coerver, Don M. and Hall, Linda B.: Tangled Destinies: Latin America and The United States, The
University of New Mexico Press 1999 / Holloway, Thomas H. : A Companion to Latin American
History, Blackwell Publishing 2008.
BRICS as Modern World Systems. New Rising Powers Against the West?
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner
Time:
Tuesday, 5.15 – 6.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 3.23
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The arrival of a new group of emerging economies grouped in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa) has caused an important change in the modern World-System. The original
categorization by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001 contained only Brazil, Russia, India and
China – in 2010 South Africa was added to the group. The BRICS members are all developing or newly
industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant
influence on regional and global affairs. As of 2015, the BRICS countries represent over 3 billion
people, or 42 percent of the world population. They have a combined nominal GDP of US $ 16.039
trillion, equivalent to approximately 20 percent of the gross world product, and an estimated US$4
trillion in combined foreign reserves. Since 2009, the BRICS nations have met annually at formal
summits. Russia currently holds the chair of the BRICS group, and hosted the group's seventh summit in
July 2015. As a club of new rising powers, representing a different variety of capitalism, the BRICS
challenge the dominance of the West. The course seeks to analyse the following questions: How has the
international scenario changed with the presence of the BRIC? Could BRIC eclipse the power of the
West? What are the strategies of BRIC to project its power? And how the West is reacting against the
BRICS' challenge? Attention is also paid to continuities and discontinuities in state formation and foreign
policy, regime types, and political culture of the five BRICS nations.
Course material is provided on university platform Moodle.
New Orleans in Fiction
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (American Studies)
Time:
Tuesday, 9.15 – 10.45 am, starts on 12 April 2016
Place:
GWZ 2.516
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 5
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Description:
New Orleans has always taken a special place in the imagination of Americans, due to its
geographical position as a major port city linking the United States to the Caribbean as well as due to
its tropical climate, racially and ethnically diverse population and distinctive mix of cultures. New
Orleans was the center of the slave trade by 1850 but also the home of the largest number of free
people of color in the Deep South; it is considered a liminal zone between the Anglo and the Latin
worlds; it has been framed as one of the most exotic but also the most abject places within the national
body of the U.S., linked to contagious tropical diseases as well as to racial contamination.
In this course we will discuss representations of New Orleans in fiction and film from the 19th to the 21st
centuries, including texts/films by George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Dave
Eggers, Spike Lee, and others.
Please buy Dave Eggers, Zeitoun.
People on the Move – Borders, Nations, and Migrations
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (American Studies)
Time:
Thursday, 5.15 – 6.45 pm, starts on 7 April 2016
Place:
GWZ 2.516
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 5
Description:
This course will discuss migration, borders, and the biopolitics of the nation from a cultural studies
perspective.
We will address issues such as displacement, citizenship, marginality, and
transnationalism and their representation in fiction, documentary film, essays, and autobiographical
writing, as well as in historiography and cultural theory. While the American hemisphere will be our
focus, the seminar will also include a comparative border studies component, where we will consider the
U.S. borderlands in the context of global migratory movements and the current refugee crisis in Europe.
The Local and the Global – Literary Regionalism Revisited
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (American Studies)
Time:
Tuesday, 3.15 – 4.45 pm, starts on 12 April 2016
Place:
GWZ 2.516
Examination: Essay
Slots available: 3
Description:
What is the relationship between a particular geographical framework or ‚mapping‛ of the world and
the ways in which people perceive and respond to their surroundings? How does a regionalist sensibility
manifest itself in narrative? How can regional literature remain relevant in a modern global community?
And why should we continue to read regionalist fiction in an age of expanding international
communications and increasing nonlocal forms of affiliation? In this course we will address these and
other questions, reading the regionalist tradition of the late 19th and early 20th century as well as more
contemporary writings about regions such as the West, the South, or the Pacific Northwest in American
and global contexts.
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GS-0830 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East I
BRICS as Modern World Systems. New Rising Powers Against the West?
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner
Time:
Tuesday, 5.15pm – 6.45pm
Place:
NSG, Room 3.23
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The arrival of a new group of emerging economies grouped in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa) has caused a important change in the modern World-System. The original
categorization by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001 contained only Brazil, Russia, India and
China – in 2010 South Africa was added to the group. The BRICS members are all developing or newly
industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant
influence on regional and global affairs. As of 2015, the BRICS countries represent over 3 billion
people, or 42 percent of the world population. They have a combined nominal GDP of US $ 16.039
trillion, equivalent to approximately 20 percent of the gross world product, and an estimated US$4
trillion in combined foreign reserves. Since 2009, the BRICS nations have met annually at formal
summits. Russia currently holds the chair of the BRICS group, and hosted the group's seventh summit in
July 2015. As a club of new rising powers, representing a different variety of capitalism, the BRICS
challenge the dominance of the West. The course seeks to analyse the following questions: How has the
international scenario changed with the presence of the BRIC? Could BRIC eclipse the power of the
West? What are the strategies of BRIC to project its power? And how the West is reacting against the
BRICS' challenge? Attention is also paid to continuities and discontinuities in state formation and foreign
policy, regime types, and political culture of the five BRICS nations.
Course material is provided on university platform Moodle.
Law of International Organizations
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (CAS)
Time:
Wednesday, 11.15 am – 12.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.05
Examination: Essay
Description:
This course aims to acquaint the students with the laws that govern the central international humanitarian
organizations: The UN, the ICRC and refugee law as seen through the laws of UNHCR. Rather than
running through the mill of plain legal texts, this course takes a historical approach to the subject,
demonstrating how the abstract laws enshrined in the UN Charter, or the ICRC Conventions have
evolved.
In order to further acquaint the student with the subject the course will focus on the perpetual exceptions
to the universality of these laws – in the case of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict. The intention here is to
demonstrate the cases in which the law is not applied so as to demark the difference between legal
theory and political practice, and to push forward the message that this distance – between legalities
and politics is an integral part of a legal system which is ipso facto political. The main message to the
student here is that exemptions are not necessarily exogenic to the norms – but often form an integral
part of them – when it comes to the law of International Organizations.
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Portals of Globalization. Examples from India
Seminar
Lecturer:
Megan Maruschke (CAS)
Time:
Monday, 11.15 am – 12.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.05
Examination: Essay
Description:
In this course, we discuss a variety of concepts from global history and political geography that seek to
focus research on particular places where strategies for dealing with global connectedness are carried
out. We will look at these concepts such as portals of globalization, the global city, and the glocal state
through the Indian example. The course brings these and other concepts into conversation with empirical
examples such as ports, special economic zones, and urban planning.
Global Production Networks and Implications for Labour
Block Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi)
Time:
Block Seminar in June
Place:
tba
Examination: Essay
Description:
Tba.
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe I
ArbeiterInnen in Bewegung:
Von der Herausbildung der europäischen ArbeiterInnenbewegung im 19. Jahrhundert
bis zu den chinesischen Arbeitskämpfen der Gegenwart
Seminar
Lecturer:
Johanna Wolf
Time:
Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45 am
Place:
NSG, Room 4.05
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay/Projektarbeit zu einem Thema des Seminars
Language:
German
Description:
In den letzten Jahrzehnten glaubte eine große Zahl an SozialwissenschaftlerInnen, die
ArbeiterInnenbewegung sei in einer allgemeinen Krise. Die Streiks waren zurückgegangen,
Mitgliederzahlen in Gewerkschaften gesunken, fallende Löhne und steigende Arbeitslosigkeit deuteten
auf ein Ende der Arbeiterklasse und die Krise ihrer Bewegungen hin. Die größte der sozialen
Bewegungen Europas schien an ihr Ende gekommen und die Frage stand im Raum, ob sich an den
Orten, in die sich die Produktion auf Grund wirtschaftlicher Globalisierung verlagerte, neue
Bewegungen herausbilden würden. Das Seminar will in einem großen zeitlichen wie räumlichen
Rahmen die Herausbildung von ArbeiterInnenbewegungen herausarbeiten und die Besonderheiten der
damaligen wie heutigen Bewegungen gegenüberstellen. Dabei gehen wir zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert
und beschäftigen uns mit den Anfängen der europäischen ArbeiterInnenbewegung, der Frage von
Arbeiterklasse und Arbeiterbewusstsein, besprechen die Entwicklungen um die 1960er/70er-Jahre, in
denen Diskussionen über das Ende der Arbeiterklasse und ihren Kämpfen postuliert wurde und gehen
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auf neue Bewegungen außerhalb Europas ein. Wir nähern uns dem Thema entlang von Themenfeldern
der Arbeitsgeschichte: Migration, Streiks und internationale Solidarität.
Präsentation und Projektarbeit sind auch auf Englisch möglich.
Political Economy of European Integration
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. em. Dr Hartmut Elsenhans (Institute for Political Science)
Time:
Wednesday, 1.15 – 2.45 pm + Bloc session on Friday, 17 June 2016, 1.30 – 5 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.05; Bloc session: NSG, Room 120
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
This course describes the contradictions of European integration and the institutional set-up, arguing that
there is an overarching process of maintaining European integration, with the consequence that until
now elites react to crises by intensifying the networks of supranational governance. The institutional setup and the main policy area are points of departure for this reflection. Some areas of major importance
for thickening the ties are focused on. European integration is an elite-driven process based on the
conviction of a large enough segment of European elites on the necessity of unification for maintaining
European independence in a world of increasingly continental states or empires. Starting from the
historical process and its embeddedness in political and economic contradictions of the pre-unification
European state system, the hybrid institutions of the Union are analysed in their dynamics. Key social
and political fields are analysed. Regional homogenisation and polarisation processes are analysed in
their relation to the deepening of the integration process also via commitment of increasingly large
groups in the integration process. Standard theory of European integration is confronted with the actual
process of elite-led identity creation. Socially uncontroversial policy fields such as foreign policy
behaviour are instrumentalised, as are highly controversial issues of such as the actual Euro crisis.
Suggested introductory reading:
Elsenhans, Hartmut: "Two Superpowers in the Making: Dangerous Misunderstandings for Their
Trajectories: The Idealism/Realism Debate and the Perceptions of the Euro Crisis", in: Foreign Policy
Research Centre Journal, 13 (2013); pp 127-156.
Schmidt, Siegmar; Schünemann, Wolf: Europäische Union. Eine Einführung (Baden-Baden: Nomos,
2009).
Wallace, Helen; Wallace, William: Policy-Making in the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996).
Warleigh, Alex: Understanding European Union Institutions (London; New York: Routledge, 2002).
MacCarthy, Patrick: France - Germany in the 21st Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).
„Europäische Identität durch Geschichte“ – Chancen und Risiken eines EU-Projekts
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst
Time:
Tuesday, 3.15 – 4.45 pm
Place:
GESI, Room 3.15
Language:
German
Examination: Essay
Description:
Die massive Erweiterung der Europäischen Union der Jahre 2004-2007 um zehn Staaten Südost- und
Ostmitteleuropas hat das Selbstverständnis des Brüsseler Mehrebenensystems grundlegend verändert:
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Nicht länger die Erfolgsgeschichte des (west-)europäischen Integrationsprozesses sollte fürderhin als
Grundlage einer „EU-Identität‚ dienen, sondern der reflektierte Rückblick auf die tragischen Aspekte des
„kurzen‚ 20. Jahrhunderts – Krieg, ethnische Säuberung, Genozid, Holocaust, GULag, Diktatur,
Rassismus, Antisemitismus. Entsprechend diskutierte das Europäische Parlament von 2004 bis 2009
heftig über eine EU-kompatible Sicht auf die Geschichte ganz Europas. Dabei kam es zu einer West-OstFrontstellung, die als „Holocaust as Unique‚ vs. „Hitler and Stalin as equally Evil‚ bezeichnet wurde (A.
Littoz-Monnet). Im Ergebnis wurde die Ablehnung von Totalitarismus als kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner
identifiziert – mit etlichen konkreten Folgen: 2008 wurde der 23. August, der Tag, an dem 1939 das
„Dritte Reich‚ und die Sowjetunion einen als „Hitler-Stalin-Pakt‚ bekannten Nichtangriffsvertrag
unterzeichneten, als Europäischer Gedenktag für die Opfer von Stalinismus und Nazismus festgelegt;
2009 wurde eine umfassende Resolution „zum Gewissen Europas und zum Totalitarismus‚
verabschiedet; 2011 wurde das Parlamentarium, d. h. das Besucherzentrum des Parlaments, eröffnet,
welches eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte Europas seit 1939 sowie zum europäischen
Integrationsprozess enthält; und 2016 soll ein weiteres historisches Parlamentsprojekt, das Haus der
Geschichte Europas, in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Parlamentsgebäude inauguriert werden.
Suggested Readings:
Troebst, Stefan: Gemeinschaftsbildung durch Geschichtspolitik? Anläufe der Europäischen Union zur
Stiftung einer erinnerungsbasierten Bürgeridentität. In: Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte 5 (2014), 1542;
Littoz-Monnet,
Annabelle:
The
EU
Politics
of
Remembrance,
Genf
2011,
(http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/international_history_politics/shared/working_papers/WPIH_
9_Littoz-Monnet.pdf; dies.: The EU Politics of Commemoration Post-Eastern Enlargement, in: Bruno
Arcidiacono et al. (Hrsg.): Europe Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War. The New Europe, New
Europes? Brüssel u. a. 2012, S. 63–78; Europäisches Parlament. Generaldirektion Interne
Politikbereiche. Fachabteilung B: Struktur- und Kohäsionspolitik. Kultur und Bildung: Europäisches
historisches Gedächtnis: Politik, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven. Themenpapier. Brüssel,
September 2013; Bottici, Chiara, Benoît Challand: Imagining Europe. Myth, Memory, and Identity.
Cambridge 2013; Risse, Thomas: A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public
Sphere. Ithaca, NY, London 2010; European Identity. Ed. by Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein
(Hrsg.): Cambridge 2009; Schmale, Wolfgang: Geschichte und Zukunft der Europäischen Identität.
Stuttgart 2008; Fligstein, Neil: Euro-Clash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Oxford,
New York, NY, 2008; Weigl, Michael: Europas Ringen mit sich selbst. Grundlagen einer europäischen
Identitätspolitik. Gütersloh 2006; Quenzel, Gudrun: Konstruktion von Europa. Die europäische Identität
und die Kulturpolitik der Europäischen Union. Bielefeld 2005; Meyer, Thomas: Die Identität Europas.
Der EU eine Seele? Frankfurt/M. 2004; Shore, Cris: Building Europe. The Cultural Politics of European
Integration. London 2000.
Social Integration in the EU
Lecture
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Holger Lengfeld (Institute for Sociology)
Time:
Monday, 11.15 am – 12:45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 126
Language:
English
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After empire or inventing new empires?
The transformations of imperial space since the 19th century in global perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Steffi Marung (CAS)
Time:
Monday, 1.15 – 2.45 pm
Double session (1.15 – 4.45 pm) on 18 April, 23 May, 30 May and 16 June 2016
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The seminar will address the transformations of imperial spaces in a comparative and entangled
perspective, investigating selected cases of imperial transformations in different world regions. How did
and what happened when empires come into crisis? Which actors developed visions of re-organizing
imperial spaces? Which alternative offers were developed and disputed? How did the reorganization –
and in some cases also dissolution – of empires result in new kind of imaginaries and spatial formats?
Providing a conceptual and theoretical introduction into how spatial formats and the transformations of
imperial space can be investigated, as well as giving an insight into larger historical and global contexts
of imperial transformations, the regional and historical focus of the seminar will be on Europe and Africa
since the late 19th century. Against this background also contemporary discourses mobilizing the
concept of empire will be analyzed in the seminar. Students will work in groups studying selected
empires from different angles. The result of the group work will be presented and discussed in class and
provide the basis for the essay.
Suggested Readings:
Frederick Cooper/ Ann Laura Stoler (eds.) Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.
Berkeley CA, 1997.
Ann Laura Stoler et al. (eds.), Imperial Formations, Santa Fe 2007.
Jane Burbank/ Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History. Power and the Politics of Difference,
Princeton 2010.
Transitional Justice before Transitional Justice
Seminar with excursion
Lecturer:
Dr. Wolfram von Scheliha
Time:
Thursday, 5 – 8 pm, from 14.04.2016 until 02.06.2016
Place:
NSG, Room 326
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The today commonly used term Transitional Justice was not coined until the mid-1990s. At the same
time, the international community started to develop instruments for implementing transitional justice
measures in post-conflict societies and eventually established the International Criminal Court as a
permanent institution for dealing with major war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, states,
societies and international actors had been confronted with these problems already for centuries. The
seminar explores how the experience of violence was addressed traditionally and how this approach
was gradually altered, starting at the end for the First World War. We will also look at ideology driven
attempts to execute transitional justice that actually led to new crimes and injustice. The regional focus of
the seminar is on Central and Eastern Europe. Part of the seminar is a one-day excursion to the
Buchenwald Memorial in Weimar where we study the histories of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp
(1937-1945) and the Soviet Special Camp no. 2 (1945-1950) as well as their memorialization in the
GDR and in united Germany.
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Introductory reading:
Ronan Steinberg, ‘Transitional Justice in the Age of the French Revolution’, International Journal of
Transitional Justice 7 (2013): 2, pp. 267-285; Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy and Jon Elster
(eds.), Transitional Justice. New York, London 2012;Christian Tomuschat, ‘The Legacy of Nuremberg’,
Journal of International Criminal Justice 4 (2006), pp. 830-844.
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School
Global Studies Career Perspectives
Lecturers:
Ashley Hurst, Anne Cornelia Kenneweg, Konstanze Loeke,
Gabi Struck and guest speakers
Time:
Thursday, 1 – 3 pm
Dates: 07.04. (introduction), 19.05., 26.05., 02.06., 09.06. and 23.06.
Friday: 24.06. (round table with PhD-students)
Bloc seminars on: 15. + 16.04. (Fri/Sa); and 22.04 (Fri) + 29.04. (Fri)
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Participation: Mandatory
Examination: Group work, motivation letter, CV, active participation
Description:
What to do after having successfully completed the Master’s course in Global Studies? For sure a
question each student has asked her- or himself at least once.
Although this question will need to be answered by each graduate individually, the Global Studies
Colloquium aims at familiarizing you with a range of different career outlooks. Guest speakers will
introduce you to different opportunities and inform you about requirements needed for a certain position
and the duties and (daily) work related to it. The colloquium should help you in this regard to sensitize
you for prospective professional paths after graduation.
It will however not be limited to the dissemination of information; you will thus also have the chance to
further develop skills demanded on the labor market.
During a two days application training (conducted on 15th AND 16th April) you will practice techniques
for making potential employers aware of your competencies and skills.
This training will be completed with a further two days workshop which will acquaint you with
techniques on how to organize knowledge/information for specific purposes. You may choose between
two different workshops. The first workshop will make you familiar with project management techniques.
It will focus on methods used within development cooperation and you will be introduced on how to set
objectives and achieve them. The second workshop will be related to knowledge management and
transfer. You will learn about different concepts and forms of knowledge and organizational learning.
The workshop also gives an introduction to knowledge management tools used to organize and present
knowledge for different purposes and audiences. Both workshops will take place on April 22 nd and April
29th. You will be provided with further information on the workshops via e-mail and will need to register
online for one of the two offers.
The final grade will be comprise the following components: active participation in the colloquium
sessions (10%), application training (40%: motivation letter, CV and active participation) and workshop
(50%: group work and active participation).
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Second Year – Global Studies
GS-1010 World Orders Under the Global Condition
Social Movements and Capitalism
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (Insitute for Political Science)
Time:
Tuesday, 11.15 am – 14.45 pm, from 12.04.2016 until 31.05.2016
Place:
NSG, Room 327
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
Capitalism depends on negotiating power of labour. The economy, has to be embedded in social
structures are which empower labour. This link between economy and political structure is discussed is
discussed with reference to pre-capitalist forms of resistance and its limits, the constitution of social
structures which are favourable to resistance from below, the homogenisation of living conditions of the
lower ones and the failure of statist development strategies and social regulation by the elites. On this
basis das the emergence of new cultural identitarian movements is analysed. Central topics are
precapitalist peasant movements and specialisation of working classes, rents, structural heterogeneity,
and lack of homogenisation of the lower classes, patterns of anti-imperialist resistance into deeds
underdeveloped world was reform oriented so-called bourgeois nationalists, state classes, new cultural
identitarian political movements and the relation to the new forms of pro Western bridgeheads, the nongovernmental organisations. In the course economic, culturalist, sociological and political approaches
are combined. Synergetic effects from one or other areas are limited. Class struggle and social conflicts
are less the unfolding of a civilisational process of increasing control over society, than tragically failing
attempts to liberation
Suggested Readings:
Elsenhans, Hartmut: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. A Contribution to Global and Historical
Keynesianism (Beverly Hills, Cal.; London; New Delhi: Sage, 2014) / Elsenhans, Hartmut; Ouaissa,
Rachid; Schwecke, Sebastian; Tétreault, Mary Ann: The Transformation of Politised Religion: Zealots
Turned into Leaders (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015) / Elsenhans, Hartmut: Kapitalismus global. Aufstieg Grenzen - Risiken (Stuttgart et al.: Kohlhammer, Juni 2012); 264 pp/ Elsenhans, Hartmut: The Rise and
Demise of the Capitalist World System (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011); 217 pp.. /
Elsenhans, Hartmut: "World System Theory and Keynesian Macroeconomics: Towards an Alternative
Explanation of the Rise and Fall of the Capitalist World System", in: Cahiers du CREAD, 97 (2011); pp.
5-61
Transitional Justice before Transitional Justice
Seminar with excursion
Lecturer:
Dr. Wolfram von Scheliha
Time:
Thursday, 5 – 8 pm, from 14.04.2016 until 02.06.2016
Place:
NSG, Room 326
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The today commonly used term Transitional Justice was not coined until the mid-1990s. At the same
time, the international community started to develop instruments for implementing transitional justice
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measures in post-conflict societies and eventually established the International Criminal Court as a
permanent institution for dealing with major war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, states,
societies and international actors had been confronted with these problems already for centuries. The
seminar explores how the experience of violence was addressed traditionally and how this approach
was gradually altered, starting at the end for the First World War. We will also look at ideology driven
attempts to execute transitional justice that actually led to new crimes and injustice. The regional focus of
the seminar is on Central and Eastern Europe. Part of the seminar is a one-day excursion to the
Buchenwald Memorial in Weimar where we study the histories of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp
(1937-1945) and the Soviet Special Camp no. 2 (1945-1950) as well as their memorialization in the
GDR and in united Germany.
Introductory reading:
Ronan Steinberg, ‘Transitional Justice in the Age of the French Revolution’, International Journal of
Transitional Justice 7 (2013): 2, pp. 267-285; Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy and Jon Elster
(eds.), Transitional Justice. New York, London 2012;Christian Tomuschat, ‘The Legacy of Nuremberg’,
Journal of International Criminal Justice 4 (2006), pp. 830-844.
Law of International Organizations
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (CAS)
Time:
Wednesday, 11.15 – 12.45 pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.05
Examination: Essay
Description:
This course aims to acquaint the students with the laws that govern the central international humanitarian
organizations: The UN, the ICRC and refugee law as seen through the laws of UNHCR. Rather than
running through the mill of plain legal texts, this course takes a historical approach to the subject,
demonstrating how the abstract laws enshrined in the UN Charter, or the ICRC Conventions have
evolved.
In order to further acquaint the student with the subject the course will focus on the perpetual exceptions
to the universality of these laws – in the case of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict. The intention here is to
demonstrate the cases in which the law is not applied so as to demark the difference between legal
theory and political practice, and to push forward the message that this distance – between legalities
and politics is an integral part of a legal system which is ipso facto political. The main message to the
student here is that exemptions are not necessarily exogenic to the norms – but often form an integral
part of them – when it comes to the law of International Organizations.
Global Production Networks and Implications for Labour
Block Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi)
Time:
Block Seminar in June
Place:
tba
Examination: Essay
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GS-1020 Cultural Transfers Under the Global Condition
Räume der Migration
Lecture Series
Lecturer:
Frank Hadler/Katja Naumann (GWZO)
Time:
Wednesday, 5.15 – 6.45 pm
Place:
GWZO
Participation: Choice
Language:
German
Examination: Essay
Description:
Migration erschüttert bestehende Raumordnungen und schafft gleichzeitig neue Raumformate – manche
von ihnen langfristiger und stabiler Natur, andere dagegen nur von kürzerer Dauer. Zugleich passen
Gesellschaften, wenn sie mit Migration konfrontiert sind, ihre bisherige Praxis der Kontrolle des Raumes
an und suchen nach neuen Möglichkeiten der Ordnung. Das aktuelle Flüchtlingsgeschehen fordert die
Frage nach vergleichender historischer Einordnung heraus. Die Ringvorlesung bringt Forschungen zu
Ostmitteleuropa mit den Erträgen der Untersuchung zu anderen Weltregionen zusammen und hilft damit
die Reaktionen von Regierungen und Gesellschaften im östlichen Europa auf die derzeitige Flüchtlings
krise zu erklären.
Geplante Themen und Referenten:
1.
Zur Spezifik Ostmitteleuropas als regionales Migrationsregime (Dirk Hoerder)
2.
Die Geografie der Migration im östlichen Europa (Heinz Fassmann (Wien); Jelena Sadovskaja;
Timothy Heleniak – Geografie)
3.
Migration und Diaspora in transregionaler Perspektive (Donna Gabbacia)
4.
Mittelalterliche Migration im östlichen Europe und ihre Tradierung (Christian Lübke)
5.
Frühneuzeitliche Migrationsbewegungen (N.N.)
6.
Konturen von Flucht und Emigration vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Dariusz Stola
7.
Zwangsmigration im 20. Jahrhundert im Umkreis des Lausanner Abkommens (Adamantios
Skordos)
Migration und städtischer Raum (Wolfgang Kaschuba)
8.
Transnationale Räume und die Maras (Heidrun Zinecker)
9.
Raumittances? Migration, Rücküberweisungen, und transnationale Wirtschaftsräume (Hannes
Warnecke)
10.
Raumformate der Migration (Matthias Middell und Steffi Marung)
Begleitet werden die Vorträge von einer Podiumsdiskussion mit Vertretern der ungarischen, tschechi
schen und slowakischen Botschaft sowie einer Buchvorstellung (Peter Gatrell, The Making of the Modern
Refugee).
Culture, Law
Seminar
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Examination:
and Society in Comparative Perspective
Rafael Mrowczynski
Monday, 9.15 – 10.45 am
GWZ, 5.116
Essay
Description:
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Law is a social and a cultural phenomenon. It regulates human interactions in societies and it is
embedded in the respective culture(s) present on the territory where it is in force. Even occupying powers
have to provide for a minimum of their normative compatibility with the cultural norms of subjugated
populations (or parts of them) if they intend to prevail over a longer period of time. The social and
cultural character of law becomes particularly visible in comparisons, because the latter allow observers
to discern similarities and differences in ways how members of different societies or social groups deal
with issues of normative regulation like violence, breaches of contractual obligations, abuse of office etc.
This course will offer an introduction to the very diverse universe of sociological & cultural studies in law
and normative regulation. It will cover such themes as general theorizing in sociology of law, legal
cultures, entangled legal histories, law outside the West, legal pluralism, gender and law, language(s)
of lawyering, legal professions as well as depictions of legal issues in popular culture. It will also look at
forms of normative regulation and norm enforcement different from law. The general aim of the course is
to provide its participants with an initial orientation in intertwined and multifaceted debates.
A Picture of Globalization
Seminar
Lecturer:
Eric Losang (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
Time:
Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45 am
Place:
GESI, Room 3.15
Examination: Map Project Draft and Presentation
Description:
Over the last two decades the dissemination of globalization processes often mainly focused on the use
of world maps. By employing the "appropriate" projection of the earths sphere for a two dimensional
depiction, a variety of "pictures of the world" emerged - in print an on the internet. The course will focus
on a variety of possible depictions of globalization processes while introducing a methodology for a
critical utilization of maps - as a source of information and as medium for the visualisation of research
findings.
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloquium II
Master’s Thesis Colloquium
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell and Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Time:
Thursday, 1.15 – 2.45 pm, only on 21.04., 12.05., 19.05., 26.05.
Place:
21.04. + 12.05.: GESI, Room 3.15
19.05. + 26.05.: GESI, Room 4.16
Participation: Compulsory
Examination: Presentation
Description:
In the colloquium research topics of Master’s theses are presented and topics of general and individual
concern are discussed. The first two dates of the Colloquium will be held by Prof. Engel and the second
two dates by Prof. Middell.
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Additional Courses
LGBT Culture
Seminar
Lecturer:
Gómez Prada, Hernando C. (Faculty of Philology)
Time:
Monday, 7 – 9 pm, starts on 4 April 2016
Place:
For further Information about rooms and dates please contact Dr. Tanja Schwan:
tanja.schwan@uni-leipzig.de
Description:
Students will learn about gender and queer theory, with a special focus on their application in political,
bodily and aesthetic practices (film, fashion or comics, among others). Supported by the teacher, the
students will work together in small groups on individual projects like film-making or website-creation in
order to render LGBT Culture visible. These activities will also serve to develop practical skills relevant to
future professions in the fields of culture and media.
Stereotypen
Workshop
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Language:
in der interkulturellen Kommunikation
Dr. hab. Katarzyna Gelles / Dr. Joanna Trajman (University of Wroclaw)
14 April 2016, 1 – 5 pm
GESI, Room 3.15
German
Description
Angesichts der Integrations-und Globalisierungsprozesse in der heutigen Welt spielt die interkulturelle
Kommunikation immer größere Rolle. Zwischen Repräsentanten verschiedener Kulturen geknüpfte
Kontakte zeigen Ähnlichkeiten, aber auch Unterschiede, die eine Barriere im gegenseitigen
Kennenlernen darstellen können. Sie sind oft auf die Stereotype, Vorurteile und Klischees
zurückzuführen. Der Kurs besteht aus zwei Teilen. Wie die Stereotype entstehen und welche Funktion sie
haben, wird anhand von z.B. Karikaturen aus verschiedenen Epochen, Sprichwörtern und Spielfilmen
über die deutsch-polnische Nachbarschaft veranschaulicht. Einen praktischen Einblick in den
Entstehungsprozess von Stereotypen werden die Teilnehmer im Rahmen eines Workshops (Spiele,
Gruppenarbeit usw.) bekommen.
Gemeinsame Geschichte, gespaltene Erinnerung? Deutsche, polnische und
europäische Dimensionen der Erinnerungskultur
Workshop
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Language:
Dr. hab. Katarzyna Gelles / Dr. Joanna Trajman (University of Wroclaw)
12 and 13 April 2016, 3 – 5 pm each
GESI, Room 3.15
German
Description:
Die heftigen Diskussionen in Polen über den Film „Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter‛ und Vorwürfe polnischer
Politiker deutschen Filmmachern gegenüber zeigten, dass 70 Jahre nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Geschichte immer noch die deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen prägt. Die zum Teil negativen Kritiken, die
Filme wie „Sonnenalle‛ und „Good Bye, Lenin‛ bekamen, wiederspiegeln Spannungen bezüglich der
angebrachten Form des Erinnerns an die DDR. Der Zweite Weltkrieg (seine Ursachen und Folgen) und
die Teilung Europas im Zuge des Kalten Krieges sind die wichtigsten Bezugspunkte für die Identitäten
beider Nationen. Wie wird an diese Ereignisse im öffentlichen Diskurs erinnert? Verändert sich die
Erinnerungsform mit der Zeit? Ist es möglich, dass die Erinnerung ihre nationale Ausprägung verliert und
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eine gemeinsame europäische Erinnerungskultur entsteht? Wir laden Sie herzlich zum aktiven Ideen- und
Meinungsaustausch ein!
Der Workshop wird im Rahmen des Seminars „Europäische Identität durch Geschichte“ – Chancen und
Risiken eines EU-Projekts“ von Herrn Professor Troebst angeboten, kann jedoch auch gerne unabhängig
davon besucht werden.
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