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Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Global and European Studies Institute
Course Catalogue
(Vorlesungsverzeichnis)
MA „Global Studies – A European Perspective‚
Summer Term 2015
Updated: 07.04.2015
Table of Contents
Addresses and Contact Persons .................................................................................................. 2
Timeline – Summer Term 2015 ................................................................................................... 3
List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................. 3
A Word of Welcome ................................................................................................................ 4
Preliminary Remarks .................................................................................................................. 5
First Year – Global Studies ......................................................................................................... 8
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation: Africa and the Near East I ....................................................... 8
GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation: The Americas I ..................................................................... 10
GS-0830 Regions in Globalisation: Asia and the Middle East I ..................................................... 13
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation: Europe I .............................................................................. 16
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School .......................................................... 20
Second Year – Global Studies .................................................................................................. 22
GS-1010 World Orders under the Global Condition ................................................................... 22
GS-1020 Cultural Transfers under the Global Condition ............................................................... 25
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloqium II ........................................................................................ 26
German Classes (First- and second-year students) ........................................................................ 27
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 2015
Academic Term
01.04.2015 – 30.09.2015
Lecture Time
07.04.2015 – 18.07.2015
Holidays:
Ostermontag / Easter Monday
06.04.2015
1. Mai
01.05.2015
Himmelfahrt / Ascension Day
14.05.2015
Pfingstmontag / Whit Monday
25.05.2015
Deadlines:
Submission Essays – Global Studies First Year
Global Studies Second Year
Submission Master Thesis
31.08.2015
15.08.2015
31.07.2015
List of Abbreviations
BS
C
CAS
Co
GESI
GWZ
GWZO
HSG
L
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
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 2015 at the University of Leipzig, both for the MA ‚Global Studies – A
European Perspective‛, or 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.
For the third time we are 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 just held the first graduation ceremony in Addis Ababa in February 2015.
With regard to research, GESI is closely collaborating with the 2009 established 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.
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 Danish colleagues from Roskilde (1-4 July).
Apart from this, the Graduate Research Training Group (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) ‚Critical Junctures of
Globalization‛ will organise its final conference on 7-9 May. Apart from our so far 55 PhD students we
have invited an interesting rage of international and national colleagues. Look out for announcements on
the respective websites!
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 2015. 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 31 July 2015.
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 15 August 2015 (second study year) or 31 August 2015 (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 2015).
Stephan Kaschner
Programme Coordinator
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First Year – Global Studies
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation: Africa and the Near East I
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Ulf Engel/Gilad Ben-Nun: Peace and Security in Africa: Transitional Justice
Adam Jones: Debates on African History
Rose Marie Beck: Language as Cultural and Social Practice: Ebola
Katja Werthmann: Lifestyles and Livelihoods
Adam Jones: The Arts in Africa
Ulf Engel: New Regionalisms
Nadine Sieveking: Gender and Migration
GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation: The Americas I
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S
S
S
S
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Crister Garrett: Cultures of Capitalism in a Transatlantic and Global Context
Crister Garrett: Mediating American Politics and Policy
Peter Gärtner: Entangled Histories: Inter-American Relations in a Globalized World
Peter Gärtner: Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: New Orleans in Fiction
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: Frontier, Borderlands, Nation: Imagining Inter-American Space
Michael Riekenberg: Rasse, Kaste, Ethnie in Lateinamerika
GS-0830 Regions in Globalisation: Asia and the Middle East I
S
S
S
S
S
Megan Maruschke: Entangled Spaces of the Global Economy: Export Processing Zones in Asia
Philip Clart: Reform Movements in Chinese Buddhism since the 19th Century
Ursula Rao: Regional Ethnologie Südasiens
Gilad Ben-Nun: Settler-Based Conflicts
Angela Glodschei: United Nations History in Global Perspective
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation: Europe I
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Alexandra Athanasopoulou/Steffi Marung: The EU as a global power: between dreams and
reality.
Hartmut Elsenhans: Political Economy of the European Integration
Gilad Ben-Nun: Settler-Based Conflicts
Stefan Troebst: Europa-Geschichten: Die Zeitgeschichte Europas in der internationalen
Historiographie
Stefan Troebst: Die Prägung des modernen Völkerrechts durch die Konfliktgeschichte des
östlichen Europa
Angela Glodschei: United Nations History in Global Perspective
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School
Co
Ashley Hurst/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
S
Hartmut Elsenhans: Social Movements and Capitalism
Wolfram von Scheliha: Transitional Justice as a Global Project
Micha Fiedlschuster: Alter-Globalization Movements: Becoming Actors in the Global Condition
Sarah Ruth Sippel : ‘Rule No. 1: never lose money’: The Rise and Diffusion of Finance
Angela Glodschei: United Nations History in Global Perspective
GS-1020 Cultural Transfers under the Global Condition
S
S
Scarlett Cornelissen / Matthias Middell: Cultural Transfers and World Orders
Nadine Sieveking: Gender and Migration
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloqium II
S
Matthias Middell/Ulf Engel: Master’s Thesis Colloquium
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First Year – Global Studies
GS-0810 Regions in Globalisation: Africa and the Near East I
Peace and Security in Africa: Transitional Justice
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel and Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (Frankfurt/M.)
Time:
Tuesday, 1pm – 5pm
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Examination: Essay
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).
This seminar is open to 8 students from the MA African Studies, 8 students from the MA Global Studies
and 8 students from the MA Global Studies with a special emphasis on Peace and Security (Addis
Ababa).
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
Time:
Thursday, 11am – 1pm
Place:
GWZ, Room 2.215
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
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 / globalization.
Language as
Seminar
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Participation:
Examination:
Cultural and Social Practice: Ebola
Prof. Dr. Rose Marie Beck
Tuesday, 9am – 11am
GWZ, Room 2.215
Choice
Essay
Description:
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Ebola has been in the news for quite some time now and has certainly attracted the attention of anyone
who is dealing with Africa. Most shocking is the recognition that Ebola is „a well prepared disaster‚
(Lachenal 2013), that in fact since the mid 1990s the factors that lead to the current outbreak are
known. It is outrageous to realize that the dysfunction of local public health systems is a major vector of
infection. Even worse that almost everything we read about the terrible outbreak has been been known
before. The course will deal with backgrounds to the current outbreak, a history of previous outbreaks,
local responses to the epidemic (care, stigma, fear, knowledge and practices), global and public health
and the response of international institutions, biomedicine in times of Ebola, medial representations and
prevention, various aspects of security and securitization, ethical issues in research on Ebola, scientific
knowledge production. As most of the information available about the current outbreak has not yet been
cast into academic literature, some attention will be paid to issues of analytical approaches and their
actual usage in class.
Expected work: regular attendance of the course, definition of an individual research project, reading of
available literature.
Lifestyles and Livelihoods
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Katja Werthmann
Time:
Monday, 1pm – 3pm
Place:
GWZ, Room 2.215
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
One characteristic of cities in Africa is the multitude of livelihoods in what is called the informal sector.
Both migrants from rural areas and city-born young people are looking for possibilities of making a living and of access to urban lifestyles in an environment where formal employment is limited. There have
been various attempts at defining and measuring the informal sector in African urban economies. Anthropologists and other social scientists have tended to favour actor-centered approaches in order to
understand how informality works from the perspectives of the individuals and communities involved.
This seminar looks at some approaches to studying informal economic activities in urban Africa.
The Arts in Africa
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Adam Jones
Time:
Wednesday, 1pm – 3pm
Place:
GWZ, Room 3.215
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The seminar will look at specific regional styles of sculpture and textiles, as well as discussing general
problems relating to artistic authenticity, ethnicity and ritual. Taking the history of the European reception
of African "art" as its starting point, it will focus upon the relationship between art, society, religion and
history.
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New Regionalisms
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Time:
Tuesday, 11am – 1pm
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Description: tba
Gender and
Seminar
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Examination:
Migration
Dr. Nadine Sieveking
Thursday, 3pm – 7pm
NSG 323
Essay
Description:
Migration is considered as an important element of contemporary global flows and transformations and
has received a lot of attention in academic as well as public debates. The question how these processes
are related to gender, by contrast, has tended to be neglected. Meanwhile, recent debates about the
feminization of international migration and related cultural changes and challenges have contributed to
an increasing awareness of its relevance. The seminar addresses this question by providing an understanding of gender – in the double sense of an omnipresent social category of difference and a specific
process of social structuration – and of the way in which gender affects and is affected by international
migration processes. Thereby we will explore the interrelations between gender and migration in and
between different cultural contexts.
In the first part of the seminar the concept of gender is introduced. We will discuss how gender orders
and how gendered identities are (re-)produced, with a special focus on labour division, stratified reproduction, and the intersections of gender with other markers of difference, like class, race or ethnicity. In
the following, an overview of contemporary theories of international migration is given and the concept
of transnational migration is introduced. This will bring us to a discussion of more specific aspects of
gendered migration phenomena, such as the transformation of household structures, status and moral
orders in transnational social fields, the influence of religious values, and the dynamics of empowerment
or discrimination and marginalization. These aspects will be explored on the basis of empirical studies
from various parts of the world, including examples from Africa (this regional focus can be deepened on
demand).
Course requirements include active participation and the writing of an essay. The last two sessions will
be dedicated to the presentation and discussion of participants’ essay topics.
GS-0820 Regions in Globalisation: The Americas I
Cultures of Capitalism in a Transatlantic and Global Context
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Crister Garrett
Time:
Tuesday, 3pm – 5pm
Place:
GWZ 3.515
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
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
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course of American history inherently inform how Americans perceive themselves and pursue politics.
American capitalism influences in turn global politics, and global politics influence 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.
Mediating American Politics and Policy
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Crister Garrett
Time:
Monday, 11am – 1pm
Place:
GWZ 3.515
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
Politics involves the mediating of ideas, identities, and interests within an identifiable societal space.
Ultimately politics reflects competition between contrastive narratives of order that have been constructed
to pursue power for diverse purposes. The media through which politics is pursued -- from materiel
means to institutional initiatives to normative negotiation -- become communicated in a wide variety of
formats ranging from evolving technology to complex systems of societal interaction at the national,
transnational, international and global levels. Thus one can speak of media ecosystems in which politics
is constructed, practiced, and communicated.
Considering what is "American" is fundamentally an extension of such mediation and media ecosystems. Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and communication of foreign policy. By
definition foreign policy involves the creation of an "other" to practice politics in the interest and legitimization of "self" (national interests). As America mediates itself it engages the international community
to distill what it sees as "exceptional" or uniqe to the American experience and thereby the foundation
for international politics and policy. Naturally such practices of identity construction and politics inform
mediation exercises in societies around the world. Central for the United States and its engagement with
the international media ecosystems are contrastive and comparative models from Europe and elsewhere
globally. Thus while exploring the media of American foreign policy this seminar will integrate comparative examples from such countries as Germany, France, and China.
Entangled Histories: Inter-American Relations in a Globalized World
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner
Time:
Tuesday, 5.15pm – 6.45pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.04
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
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 rela-
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tions, 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.
Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner
Time:
Monday, 5.15pm – 6.45pm
Place:
NSG, Room 4.04
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
This seminar will examine indigenous peoples’ social movement in Bolivia. Indigenous peoples form a
sizable and well-organized minority in many Latin American countries, such as Ecuador, Peru, Mexico,
Colombia and Chile, and represent a majority of the population in Bolivia and Guatemala. Their political and cultural movements have gained international visibility in recent years – most notably though the
Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the democratic election of Evo Morales as first indigenous president in
the history of Bolivia. The Bolivian Case is both paradigmatic and unique. It is the aim of the course to
analyze these aspects on the base of the historical and recent developments in Bolivia. We discuss the
Bolivian features in a Latin American comparative perspective, especially such aspects like colonialism,
nation-building, revolution, neoliberalism, social movements and development. Thus, in the last session
we summarize some general trends of the current decolonisation in Latin America 200 years after independence. Course material is provided on university platform Moodle.
Suggested Readings:
Klein, Herbert S.: Bolivia: The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society (1992), Oxford University Press;
Grindle, M. and Domingo, P.: Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective (2003), Harvard University Press; Gotkowitz, L.: A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 (2007), Duke University Press.
New Orleans in Fiction
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
Time:
Tuesday, 11am – 1pm, starting on 14 April 2015
Place:
GWZ 3 5.15
Examination: Essay
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. A hub for illegal slave
trading in the 19th century, 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; moreover, it has been considered a
liminal zone between the Anglo and the Latin worlds. While the city has been framed as one of the most
exotic places within the U.S., it has at the same time been represented as an abject place within the
national body linked to contagious tropical diseases, sinfulness, and racial contamination. In this course
we will discuss representations of New Orleans in fiction and film from the 19th to the 21st centuriesin-
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cluding texts/films by George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Dave Eggers,
Spike Lee, and others. A list of texts and films will be provided at the beginning of the semester.
Frontier, Borderlands, Nation: Imagining Inter-American Space
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
Time:
Wednesday, 9am – 11am
Place:
GWZ 2 5.16
Examination: Essay
Description:
This course will focus on the border region between the United States and Mexico as a geographical,
conceptual and creative space. We will discuss the cultural production about and emerging from this
region in the context of the theoretical fields of Border Studies and Inter-American Studies, revisiting the
pervasive myth of the ‚mobile frontier‛ created by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 in the light of more
recent conceptualizations of border space and ‚border gnosis‛ (Mignolo) as well as within current debates about immigration and border control. Our readings will include historiography, cultural theory,
fiction, and visual texts.
Rasse, Kaste, Ethnie in Lateinamerika, 1500-1900
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Michael Riekenberg
Time:
Thursday, 9.15am – 10.45am
Place:
GWZ, 5.216, starting on 16 April
Language:
German
Examination: Essay
Description:
Das Seminar behandelt die Unterteilungen der lateinamerikanischen Gesellschaften in Bevölkerungsgruppen und die Definitionsprozesse, die darin eingegangen sind.
Es wird empfohlen, begleitend zum Seminar die Vorlesung „Der atlantische Sklavenhandel und die Sklavengesellschaften in Lateinamerika‚ (Mittwoch 17-19 Uhr, HS 4) zu besuchen. Die Vorlesung befasst
sich mit dem atlantischen Sklavenhandel in seinen Grundproblemen und Daten und erörtert den Aufbau
von Sklavengesellschaften und sklavenhaltenden Gesellschaften in Lateinamerika. Punktuelle Vergleiche
zu den USA werden hin und ab gezogen.
Suggested Readings:
Jürgen Osterhammel: Sklaverei und die Zivilisation des Westens, Darmstadt 2000.
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Entangled Spaces of the Global Economy: Export Processing Zones in Asia
Seminar
Lecturer:
Megan Maruschke
Time:
Monday, 3pm – 5pm
Place:
NSG 327
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
There are over 3,500 special economic zones or export processing zones around the world, in which
over 66 million people are employed, up from just 80 zones in the mid 1970s. Of those 66 million, 56
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million are employed in Asia. Likewise, Regional Trade Agreements have become prevalent since the
1990s. As of 2013, 575 Regional Trade Agreements have been notified, out of which 379 are in force.
In Asia, only 3 such agreements were in force by the year 2000. Today, there are 38 implemented
agreements in Asia. Furthermore, over fifty percent of people live in urban areas and this percentage is
expected to rise to two-thirds (6 billion people) by 2050. Eight out of ten of the largest cities around the
world are from developing countries, and seven of the ten are located in Asia. In this course, we will
discuss the institutionalization of the global economy in relation to political decentralization and economic liberalization policies and the emergence of various spatial economic forms, including economic
zones, regional trade agreements, growth triangles, and urban spaces in Asia. An emphasis will be
placed on the interactions and entanglements between these spaces, including the nation state. The
course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course will provide a broad introduction to the various topics and will focus on the spatial aspects of economic change- the increase of cross-border trade
in the 20th century with a simultaneous rise in territorialization through the use of trade barriers, tariffs,
and zoning strategies. The material will include academic texts from urban studies, anthropology, political economy, and political geography. Furthermore, news articles, urban planning, blogs, and visual
material will also form the basis of readings. The second half of the course will involve theoretical texts
from authors such as Harvey, Brenner, Ong, Bach, Cross, and Sassen, among others. Students will need
to choose a topic (city, zone, RTA, growth triangle, etc.) and analyze this topic based on the theoretical
material provided in the second part of the course, thereby broadening the discussion and applications
of the concepts. The student’s topic should form the basis of his or her final paper.
Reform Movements in Chinese Buddhism since the 19th Century
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Philip Clart Ph.D.
Time:
Wednesday, 3pm – 5pm, additional reading class on Thursday 3-5pm
Place:
tba
Examination: Essay
Description:
Just like China itself, Chinese Buddhism was confronted with an existential crisis in the second half of the
19th century, which threatened both its socio-economic and its doctrinal structures. A Buddhist reform
movement sought to counter these threats and to secure the continuation of both the Buddhist community
(sangha) and its teachings (dharma) in a modernizing China. The seminar introduces the key reformers
and their influence on Chinese and Taiwanese Buddhism in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is accompanied by a reading class (on Thursday 3-5pm) devoted to key texts of and on the Chinese Buddhist reform
movement. The language of instruction and discussion will be English; the term paper (Hausarbeit) can
be submitted in English, German, or French.
Regional Ethnologie Südasiens
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao, Institute for Cultural Anthropology
Time:
Monday, 1.15pm – 2.45pm
Place:
HS 4
Language:
German
Examination: Essay
Description:
Studierende werden in die Geschichte und Gegenwart der Region eingeführt. Wir behandeln klassische
Themen wie Kaste, Religion, tribale Gesellschaften und das Dorf, und neue Themen wie Mode, städtisches Leben und Diaspora. Ziel ist eine grundlegende Einführung in die kulturellen Dynamiken der Region, sowie ein Verständnis für Kulturwandel unter Bedingungen von Globalisierung und Kulturaustausch.
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Settler-Based Conflicts in a Comparative Analysis
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun/Frankfurt a. Main
Time:
Wednesday, 9 am – 1 pm, starting on 15 April
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
Settler-based conflicts are characterized by their perpetual protractedness and lethality. Contrary to imperial colonial conflicts, or border conflicts where occupiers plunder the land and then leave, in settler
based conflicts the descendents of the first comers remain and attach themselves to the land. These settler communities gradually distance their motherland ties, eventually severing them. And thus they reduce
their desire or ability to disengage from the native population. The eternal ever-growing cycles of intercommunity violence, waged between the privileged settlers and the oppressed local indigenous populations, these cycles become self perpetuating preventive mechanisms, running counter to the prospects of
the conflict’s resolution.
However, settler-based conflicts have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability for resolution and significant improvement. This has been most notable in the mother of all settler conflicts, Northern Ireland,
as well as in South Africa. The Palestinian/Israeli conflict, in turn, has assumed the primordial role of
intractability, hitherto reserved for Northern Ireland.
This seminar deals with the history, theory, and development of settler-based conflicts. It looks at the
prospects for their resolution and at the pitfalls of their failed attempts for resolution and exacerbating
characteristics.
United Nations History in Global Perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Angela Glodschei
Time:
Monday, 1pm – 3pm and Thursday, 9am-11am
Place:
NSG 2.04 (Monday), HS16 (Thursday)
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The overall objective of the seminar is to provide a nuanced picture of United Nations history from different perspectives and topics. The regional focus will be Africa. The seminar is set out to be a research
seminar, meaning that not only the existing literature will be discussed but also original sources. The
goal is to relate the empirical material to the literature discussed. Therefore, after a general introduction
to different research perspectives on international organizations and the United Nations the course is
divided into three main topics, development, decolonization and human rights. The idea is to provide
first a preliminary overview of the state of the art. Students should identify different research perspectives
as well as gaps in the existing literature. Afterwards we will discuss one or two case studies on the basis
of an introductory text as well as original sources.
Requirements:
Presentation 20 minutes
Presentation/Interpretation of one source (5 minutes)
Active Participation in the seminar and discussions (as the presentations are not a repetition of
the required literature, I will ask for a short summary of the respective texts in the beginning of
each session)
Essay
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Suggested Readings:
Amrith, Sunil, and Glenda Sluga. "New Histories of the United Nations." Journal of World History 19,
no. 3 (2008): 251-74.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865. Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen
Ordnung. Darmstadt: WBG, 2009.
Mazower, Mark. No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United
Nations, Lawrence Stone lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Reinalda, Bob. Routledge Handbook of International Organization. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis,
2013.
Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the age of nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2013.
GS-0840 Regions in Globalisation: Europe I
The EU as a global power: between dreams and reality
Seminar
Lecturer:
Alexandra Athanasopoulou and Dr. Steffi Marung
Time:
Monday 3pm – 5 pm and Thurday 1 pm – 3 pm, starting on 20 April
Place:
GESI 3.16
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
This seminar will investigate the external policies of the EU. Since the emergence of the European Coal
and Steel Community (the predecessor of today’s EU) interaction with the external world was source of
lengthy discussions, negotiations and disagreements within the community. The EU’s external policies
are trapped between existing aspirations and discourse of what the EU should do and the actual reality
if what is happening and what the EU can do. The main approach of this seminar is that there is not one
external policy to the EU but many. It is therefore important to differentiate what we are talking about
because each policy has its own historical and institutional development.
During the seminar we will uncover and discuss the main theories of EU integration and their impact on
the one side and on the other the students will be presented will policy documents by the EU institutions
but also by thinks tanks and lobby groups.
Political Economy of the European Integration
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. em. Dr Hartmut Elsenhans
Time:
Tuesday, 9am – 11am; supplementary sessions 22 May (11am – 3pm)
Place:
NSG 329
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
European Integration in a long-term perspective: Permanent challenges and 1945 insights: How it
started? / Institutions between supranationality and intergovernmentalism: The basic structures and their
origins / The nature of the ‚beast‛: A state, a confederation, a federation, or what else? / The hierarchy
of law: Ordinances, directives, the court, the principle of subsidiarity / The threat of polarisation and the
politics of cohesion: The threat of polarisation, the Common Agricultural Policy, Regional Policy, The
politics of cohesion / How much social policy in order to converge? Wages and employment policies /
Convergence of management and industrial policies. A European sphere of business culture / Sources
of identity and support: Public opinion, European parties, European pressure groups / The Euro as an
instrument of convergence and integration / The Euro as a source of identity / The international dimen-
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sion: An Atlanticist versus a European Union, A Civilian Power? An Economic power of civilising the
world? / The Common Foreign Policy: Evolution, types, areas, institutions / The Southern dimension /
The Eastern enlargement of the European Union / The world financial crisis: demise or reinforcement of
the Union/ How to get out of the Eurocrisis or the opportunity of deepening integration and the actual
situation and challenges.
Suggested introductory reading:
Elsenhans, Hartmut: "Two Superpowers in the Making: Dangerous Misunderstandings for Their Trajectories: The Idealism/Realism Debate and the Perceptions of the EuroCrisis*", in: Foreign Policy Research
Centre Journal, 13 (2013); forthcoming Jan 2013.
Elsenhans, Hartmut : Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2014).
Elsenhans, Hartmut: "Eurocrisis, Neoliberalism and the Keynesian Solution: How to Use the Crisis for
Renovating Capitalism", in: Journal of European Studies (Karachi) (2015); forthcoming.
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).
Settler-Based Conflicts in a Comparative Analysis
Seminar
Lecturer:
Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun/Frankfurt a. Main
Time:
Wednesday, 9am- 1pm, starting on 15 April
Place:
GESI, Room 3.16
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
Settler-based conflicts are characterized by their perpetual protractedness and lethality. Contrary to imperial colonial conflicts, or border conflicts where occupiers plunder the land and then leave, in settler
based conflicts the descendents of the first comers remain and attach themselves to the land. These settler communities gradually distance their motherland ties, eventually severing them. And thus they reduce
their desire or ability to disengage from the native population. The eternal ever-growing cycles of intercommunity violence, waged between the privileged settlers and the oppressed local indigenous populations, these cycles become self perpetuating preventive mechanisms, running counter to the prospects of
the conflict’s resolution.
However, settler-based conflicts have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability for resolution and significant improvement. This has been most notable in the mother of all settler conflicts, Northern Ireland,
as well as in South Africa. The Palestinian/Israeli conflict, in turn, has assumed the primordial role of
intractability, hitherto reserved for Northern Ireland.
This seminar deals with the history, theory, and development of settler-based conflicts. It looks at the
prospects for their resolution and at the pitfalls of their failed attempts for resolution and exacerbating
characteristics.
Europa-Geschichten: Die Zeitgeschichte Europas in der internationalen Historiographie
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst
Time:
Thursday, 9.15am – 10.45am
Place:
GESI, Room 3.15
Language:
German
Description:
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Enzyklopädische, nach Staaten und Nationen sowie Kriegen und Friedensschlüssen gegliederte Darstellungen der Zeitgeschichte Europas dominieren zwar weiterhin das Feld, doch werden zunehmend neue
Perspektiven angelegt. Dies gilt für geschichtsregionale Untergliederungen ebenso wie für die Sicht auf
Europa durch ein regionales Prisma, für thematische Fluchtpunkte wie „Freiheit‚ oder „Barbarei‚, auch
für die Aufkündigung eines Nachkriegskonsensus wie für transregionale Vergleiche und transnationale
Strukturmerkmale. Zudem wird der Bezugsrahmen „Europa‚ aus globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive kritisch hinterfragt sowie die Europahistoriographie in größere interdisziplinäre Zusammenhänge wie
„Europäistik‚ oder „Europawissenschaften‚ eingeordnet. Im Seminar werden klassische wie neue Sammelwerke und Monographien zur europäischen Zeitgeschichte vorgestellt und exemplarisch traditionelle
wie innovative Forschungsansätze und Darstellungsformen beleuchtet. Teilnehmen können Masterstudenten der Fächer European Studies, Global Studies, Kulturwissenschaften, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie,
Geographie und Geschichte mit guten englischen Sprachkenntnissen.
Suggested Readings:
Clio-online-Themenportal „Europäische Geschichte‚ (URL http://www.europa.clio-online.de); „EGO –
Europäische Geschichte Online‚ (URL http://ieg-ego.eu); Porciani, I., L. Raphael (eds.): Atlas of European Historiography (Basingstoke 2010); Schneider, A., D. Woolf (eds.): The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Vol. 5: Historical Writing since 1945 (Oxford 2011); Duchhardt, H., u. a. (Hrsg.): EuropaHistoriker. Ein biographisches Handbuch. 3 Bde. (Göttingen 2006-2007); Stone, D. (ed.): The Oxford
Handbook of Postwar European History (Oxford 2012); James, H.: Europe Reborn. A History, 19142000 (London 2003); Diner, D.: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung (München
1999); Wirsching, A.: Der Preis der Freiheit. Geschichte Europas in unserer Zeit (München 2012); Judt,
T.: Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945 (New York 2005 – dt als. Geschichte Europas. Von 1945
bis zur Gegenwart [München 2006]); Mazower, M.: Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century (London 1998 – dt. als Der dunkle Kontinent. Europa im 20. Jahrhundert [Berlin 2000]); Lowe, K.: Savage
Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (London 2012 – dt. als Der wilde Kontinent. Europa
in den Jahren der Anarchie 1943-1950 [Stuttgart 2014]); Stone, D.: Goodbye to All That? The Story of
Europe since 1945 (Oxford 2014); Lang, S.: European History for Dummies (Chichester 2. Aufl. 2011);
Halecki, O.: The Limits and Divisions of European History (London 1950 – dt. als Europa. Grenzen und
Gliederung seiner Geschichte [Salzburg 1957]); Arnason, J. P., N. Doyle (eds.): Domains and Divisions
of European History (Liverpool 2010); Rößner, S.: Die Geschichte Europas schreiben. Europäische Historiker und ihr Europabild im 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt/M., New York 2009); Chakrabarty, D.:
Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton 2000 – dt. als Europa
als Provinz. Perspektiven postkolonialer Geschichtsschreibung [Frankfurt/M., New York 2010]); Stourzh,
G. (Hrsg.): Annäherungen an eine europäische Geschichtsschreibung (Wien 2002); Dülffer, J.: Zeitgeschichte in Europa – oder europäische Zeitgeschichte? In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (2005), H. 1-2,
18-26; Cornelißen, C.: Vom Schreiben einer Geschichte Europas in 20. Jahrhundert. Perspektiven und
Herausforderungen. In: Zeiträume 2012/2013, 65-86.
Die Prägung
Europa
Seminar
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Language:
Examination:
des modernen Völkerrechts durch die Konfliktgeschichte des östlichen
Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst
Wednesday, 3pm – 5pm
GWZO, 4th floor, Auditory
German
Essay
Description:
Die Verrechtlichung der internationalen Beziehungen in Gestalt des sich dynamisch entwickelnden Völkerrechts ist ein universell angelegtes Projekt der europäischen Moderne. Dennoch weist seine Entstehungsgeschichte bezüglich einer Reihe von Prinzipien, Regelungsfeldern und Regime eine starke regionale Prägung auf. Zuvörderst gilt dies für die Wirkungen des Konfliktgeschehens im östlichen Europa im
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Zeitalter von Nationalismus und Nationalstaatsbildung. In Seminar soll anhand ausgewählter Quellen
und Studien sowie Fallbeispielen die Geschichte internationaler Beziehungen und ihrer Verrechtlichung
in Form des Völkerrechts untersucht werden. Aufgrund historischer Strukturmerkmale war die Konfliktdichte im östlichen Europa zur Zeit des Übergangs vom klassischen zum modernen Völkerrecht sowie
das gesamte 20. Jahrhundert hindurch außerordentlich hoch – und ist es bis heute, wie etwa die aktuellen Expansionsbestrebungen der Rußländischen Föderation belegen. Die wiederholten und häufig dramatischen Veränderungen der politischen Landkarte, bedingt durch imperialen Zerfall, zeitlich verschobene Nations- und Nationalstaatsbildung, Großmachteinfluss, diktatorische Herrschaft, religiöse Pluralität, sprachliche Vielfalt und ethnische Diversität bewirkten unmittelbar erhöhten regionalen Regelungsbedarf, der sich mittelbar in völkerrechtlichen Neuerungen niederschlug. Dieser Kausalzusammenhang ist zugleich Grund dafür, dass ein hoher Anteil an prominenten Theoretikern sowie Praktikern des
Völkerrechts aus der Osthälfte Europas, hier vor allem aus Minderheitengruppen, stammt.
Parallel zum Seminar findet eine GWZO-Projektringvorlesung „Ostmitteleuropäische Prägungen des
modernen Völkerrechts‚‚ statt, ebenfalls mittwochs um 17 Uhr c.t., dito im GWZO-Vortragssaal. Ein
Programm wird rechtzeitig ausgehängt.
Suggested Readings:
Fassbender, B., A. Peters (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford
2012); Paech, N., G. Stuby: Völkerrecht und Machtpolitik in den internationalen Beziehungen (Hamburg 2. Aufl. 2013); Neff, S. C.: Justice among Nations. A History of International Law (Cambridge,
Mass., London 2014); Kleinschmidt, H.: Geschichte des Völkerrechts in Krieg und Frieden (Darmstadt
2013); Ziegler, K.-H.: Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Ein Studienbuch (München 2. Aufl. 2007); Max Planck
Encyclopedia of International Public Law (URL http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/EPIL - von der UB abonniert); Ipsen, K. (Hrsg.): Völkerrecht. Ein Studienbuch (München 6. Aufl. 2014); Schweisfurth, T.: Völkerrecht (Tübingen 2006); Herren, M.: Internationale Organisationen seit 1865. Eine Globalgeschichte
internationaler Ordnung (Darmstadt 2009); Dülffer, J., W. Loth (Hrsg.): Dimensionen internationaler
Geschichte (München 2012); Troebst, S.: Speichermedium der Konflikterinnerung. Zur osteuropäischen
Prägung des modernen Völkerrechts. In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 61 (2012), 404-431;
Skordos, A.: Geschichtsregionale Völkerrechtsforschung. Der Fall Südosteuropa. Ebd., 433-473;
Koskenniemi, M.: The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960
(Cambridge 2001); Mälksoo, L.: Russian Approaches to International Law (Oxford 2015); SwatekEvenstein, M.: Geschichte der „Humanitären Intervention‚ (Baden-Baden 2008); Geistlinger, M.: Revolution und Völkerrecht (Wien u. a. 1991); Schweisfurth, T.: Sozialistisches Völkerrecht? (Heidelberg, New
York 1979); Randelzhofer, A. (Hrsg.): Völkerrechtliche Verträge (München 13. Aufl. 2013).
United Nations History in Global Perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Angela Glodschei
Time:
Monday, 1pm – 3pm and Thursday, 9am-11am
Place:
NSG 2.04 (Monday), HS16 (Thursday)
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The overall objective of the seminar is to provide a nuanced picture of United Nations history from different perspectives and topics. The regional focus will be Africa.The seminar is set out to be a research
seminar, meaning that not only the existing literature will be discussed but also original sources. The
goal is to relate the empirical material to the literature discussed. Therefore, after a general introduction
to different research perspectives on international organizations and the United Nations the course is
divided into three main topics, development, decolonization and human rights. The idea is to provide
first a preliminary overview of the state of the art. Students should identify different research perspectives
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as well as gaps in the existing literature. Afterwards we will discuss one or two case studies on the basis
of an introductory text as well as original sources.
Requirements:
Presentation 20 minutes
Presentation/Interpretation of one source (5 minutes)
Active Participation in the seminar and discussions (as the presentations are not a repetition of
the required literature, I will ask for a short summary of the respective texts in the beginning of
each session)
Essay
Suggested Readings:
Amrith, Sunil, and Glenda Sluga. "New Histories of the United Nations." Journal of World History 19,
no. 3 (2008): 251-74.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865. Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen
Ordnung. Darmstadt: WBG, 2009.
Mazower, Mark. No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United
Nations, Lawrence Stone lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Reinalda, Bob. Routledge Handbook of International Organization. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis,
2013.
Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the age of nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2013.
GS-0850 Global Studies Colloquium I and Summer School
Global Studies Career Perspectives
Lecturer:
Ashley Hurst, Konstanze Loeke
Time:
Fri,
10.04.; 17.04.; 08.05.; 05.06; 12.06; 19.06; 26.06.: from 11:30 – 1 pm
22.05.; 29.05.: from 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Bloc seminar on 24th to 25th April
Place:
NSG 102
Participation: Mandatory
Examination: Group work and motivation letter, CV
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 academic systems and career outlooks in
selected countries and at the same time introducing you to other working opportunities outside Higher
Education institutions. For each session a different guest speaker will be invited.
The insights gained from the presentations of the different experts should thus help you to decide on your
prospective professional path after graduation, e.g., by learning about different doctorate opportunities
worldwide as well as requirements needed for a certain position and the duties and (daily) work related
to it.
The weekly colloquium will be complemented by a two days workshop on 24th and 25th April (each day
from 09:00 am to 6:00 pm) that will help you to develop techniques for making potential employers
aware of your competencies and skills.
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The assignments for this Colloquium will comprise individual tasks (motivation letter, CV and participation) which will comprise 80% of the final grade and group work (presentation), which will count 20%
of the final grade.
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Second Year – Global Studies
Please note: All courses in the fourth semester will end with the beginning of June and are therefore
scheduled twice a week or combined with a block seminar.
GS-1010 World Orders under the Global Condition
Social Movement and Capitalism
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans
Time:
Tuesday, 3pm – 5pm, block sessions:10th and 24th April; 8th and 15th May 11am – 3pm
Place:
NSG S 323; 10th April + 15th May: HS 16; 24th April: NSG 202; 8th May: NSG 203
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description: Capitalism depends on the limit of surplus through rising mass incomes. The transition to
capitalism as well as the preservation of capitalism depends on the embeddedness of the economic
structure into political and social systems where labour can impose its participation in the increase of the
possibilities of consumption, which come about by investment. The relation between capitalism and the
social movements is constitutive for capitalism itself and its dynamics. Capitalism shapes the ways subalterns acquire negotiating power on the workplace and in society. The subalterns interact with their permanent innovativeness in defending their interests with the capitalist accumulation process which creates
new technologies, new patterns of work organisation and new patterns of labour control at the level of
the firm and of the society in many dimensions, including culture and politics. The course will look into
different structures of social movements, starting with confronting the constitution of the working class to
the precapitalist regular peasant revolts (Jacqueries) including differences in ideological representation
of alternatives and turns to the political and cultural integration on the working class by institutions of
political negotiations. It confronts this movement with the rise of a resistance movement in the periphery
of the capitalist system where capitalism does not exist and gives an overview on the attempts of the
periphery to overcoming underdevelopment. The course reflects the actual fragmented state of resistance
movements at the world level and within the different societies, and insists on the ideological demise of
the working classes in the capitalist industrialised countries and the contradiction between secular and
cultural nationalism in periphery.
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
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Transitional Justice as a Global Project
Seminar with Excursion
Lecturer:
Dr. Wolfram von Scheliha
Time:
Wednesday, 5pm – 8pm
Place:
NSG 304
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
With the Nuremberg Trials after WWII a process began which, after the end of the cold war, became
more dynamic and which is usually summarized under the term Transitional Justice. The launch of a
universal human rights agenda led to the need for the international community to enforce these principles in some cases of severe violations, to punish the perpetrators, and to do justice to the victims. The
institution of the International Criminal Court in Den Haag in 1998/2002 is a milestone in this development, although some important states „ including China, Russia, India, and the USA „ have not
signed or ratified the treaty. While the notion of Transitional Justice seems to be a global project, there
is no universal scheme how to implement it. Since a rigorous reckoning with the perpetrators may lead
to new instability, for centuries the idea prevailed which the Roman philosopher Seneca had expressed
with the words ‚the best precaution against civil war is oblivion‛. Transitional societies are, therefore, in
the need to balance the victims’ legitimate call for justice with the necessity of reconciling the society
and of stabilizing its new institutions. The seminar will address the problem in the first part from a general, theoretical point of view. In the second part several cases of Transitional Justice will be examined.
While the main focus, thereby, is on the Central and East European experience, cases in other areas
will be also considered, depending on the interest of the participants. As part of the seminar, we will
make an excursion to the Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar.
Suggested readings:
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies. Ed. by A. James McAdams. Notre Dame
1997 / Mark Arenhövel: Democratization and Transitional Justice. In: Democratization 15 (2008): 3,
pp. 570-587 / David P. Forsythe: Human Rights and Mass Atrocities: Revisiting Transitional Justice. In:
International Studies Review 13 (2011), pp. 85-95 / Katy A. Crossley-Frolick: The European Union and
Transitional Justice: Human Rights and Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Europe and Beyond. In:
Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice 3 (2011): 1, pp. 33-57
Alter-Globalization Movements: Becoming Actors in the Global Condition
Seminar
Lecturer:
Micha Fiedlschuster
Time:
Monday, 3pm – 5pm and Tuesday 1pm – 3pm
Place:
Monday: NSG S 303, Tuesday: NSG S 213
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
Many historical examples show how protest events and social movements had an impact beyond their
political unit: the French Revolution, the Abolitionist Movement, the Labor Movement, the Women’s
Movement and many more. In the contemporary era, the growing consciousness of an economic and
ecological entanglement of the world, as well as the growing importance of international and supranational actors like the United Nations and the European Union, social movement activists increasingly felt
the need to form alliances beyond the borders of the nation state, in order to succeed at the national or
local level. Counter-summits and world social fora have emerged as spaces that provide participants
with a condensed experience of global interconnectedness. These spaces do not only provide the possibility to stage protests, but also serve as a meeting place where strategies and ideas are exchanged. In
this course we will study alter-globalization movements as counter-hegemonic forces in the current and
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emerging world order. On the one hand, these actors develop their own strategies of acting globally.
On the other hand, they can be analyzed as indicators of synchronization processes of political and
social crisis. We will focus on questions of this kind: How do activists perceive of ‚globalization?‛ How
do they attempt to become (powerful) actors under the global condition? How do transnational coalitions of activists attempt to overcome cultural, ideological, social and economic barriers? Additionally,
this course provides an entrance route for students into the analytical and theoretical approaches for
studying social movements in the context of globalization processes. What are the predominant theoretical approaches in this field? Which difficulties and limitations do we face when analyzing protests,
particular in a global context? Has there been a spatial turn in the study of contentious politics?
‘Rule No. 1: never lose money’: The Rise and Diffusion of Finance
Blockseminar
Lecturer:
Sarah Ruth Sippel
Time:
Monday, 3pm – 5pm
Blockseminar on Thursday, 14.05.2015 (Public Holiday) and Friday, 15.05.2015
Place:
NSG 205, Blockseminar in GESI 3.16
Examination: Essay
Description:
‘Rule No. 2: don’t forget rule No. 1’ (The Tao of Warren Buffet) – financial interests, motives, and actors
are increasingly influencing more and more parts of the society. Apart from the traditional areas of finance banking and capital markets, financial thinking has recently also entered areas such as food production and provision or the health system, thereby affecting the daily life of people. The ‘global food
crisis’ in 2007/08 in particular has shown the tremendous impact of new stakeholders from the financial sector betting on commodity prices and seizing new investment opportunities in farmland. This development has been described as a process of ‘financialization’, a term which in its narrower version
has been used to capture the growing influence of financial markets over economy, polity, and society.
Adopting a wider lens, ‘financialization’ has been characterized as a process of cultural and economic
transformation that is deeply altering social behaviour and values. Starting from the meaning of the term
‘financialization’, the course aims to address and reflect upon how financial ideas and concepts are
changing the way our society is organized. The first part of the course will be based on key texts from
various social sciences investigating money and finance. The second part of the course will look more
deeply into different areas of society that have recently become ‘financialized’. Students are expected to
do extensive reading and participate actively in the course, e.g., by giving short introductions and presentations.
Introductory Literature: Dicken, P. (2011), Chapter 12 in ibid. Global Shift. Mapping the Changing
Contours of the World Economy (The Guilford Press)
United Nations History in Global Perspective
Seminar
Lecturer:
Angela Glodschei
Time:
Monday, 1pm – 3pm and Thursday, 9am – 11am
Place:
NSG 2.04 (Monday), HS16 (Thursday)
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The overall objective of the seminar is to provide a nuanced picture of United Nations history from different perspectives and topics. The regional focus will be Africa. The seminar is set out to be a research
seminar, meaning that not only the existing literature will be discussed but also original sources. The
goal is to relate the empirical material to the literature discussed. Therefore, after a general introduction
to different research perspectives on international organizations and the United Nations the course is
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divided into three main topics, development, decolonization and human rights. The idea is to provide
first a preliminary overview of the state of the art. Students should identify different research perspectives
as well as gaps in the existing literature. Afterwards we will discuss one or two case studies on the basis
of an introductory text as well as original sources.
Requirements:
Presentation 20 minutes
Presentation/Interpretation of one source (5 minutes)
Active Participation in the seminar and discussions (as the presentations are not a repetition of
the required literature, I will ask for a short summary of the respective texts in the beginning of
each session)
Essay
Suggested Readings:
Amrith, Sunil, and Glenda Sluga. "New Histories of the United Nations." Journal of World History 19,
no. 3 (2008): 251-74.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865. Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen
Ordnung. Darmstadt: WBG, 2009.
Mazower, Mark. No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United
Nations, Lawrence Stone lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Reinalda, Bob. Routledge Handbook of International Organization. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis,
2013.
Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the age of nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2013.
GS-1020 Cultural Transfers under the Global Condition
Cultural Transfers and World Orders
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch) and Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell
Time:
Monday 9am -11am, Tuesday, 5pm – 7pm, starting on 14 April
Place:
CAS
Participation: Choice
Examination: Essay
Description:
The aim of the seminar is to introduce theories and approaches used by different disciplines to analyze
the conditions, formats, and effects of cultural encounters. These encounters have become a more prominent topic within many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities with the increasing interest in
global processes, but theoretical foundations and the operationalization of research differ a lot. The
seminar combines theoretical debate and examples where these approaches have been applied.
Gender and
Seminar
Lecturer:
Time:
Place:
Examination:
Migration
Dr. Nadine Sieveking
Thursday, 3pm – 7pm
NSG 323
Essay
Description:
Migration is considered as an important element of contemporary global flows and transformations and
has received a lot of attention in academic as well as public debates. The question how these processes
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are related to gender, by contrast, has tended to be neglected. Meanwhile, recent debates about the
feminization of international migration and related cultural changes and challenges have contributed to
an increasing awareness of its relevance. The seminar addresses this question by providing an understanding of gender – in the double sense of an omnipresent social category of difference and a specific
process of social structuration – and of the way in which gender affects and is affected by international
migration processes. Thereby we will explore the interrelations between gender and migration in and
between different cultural contexts.
In the first part of the seminar the concept of gender is introduced. We will discuss how gender orders
and how gendered identities are (re-)produced, with a special focus on labour division, stratified reproduction, and the intersections of gender with other markers of difference, like class, race or ethnicity. In
the following, an overview of contemporary theories of international migration is given and the concept
of transnational migration is introduced. This will bring us to a discussion of more specific aspects of
gendered migration phenomena, such as the transformation of household structures, status and moral
orders in transnational social fields, the influence of religious values, and the dynamics of empowerment
or discrimination and marginalization. These aspects will be explored on the basis of empirical studies
from various parts of the world, including examples from Africa (this regional focus can be deepened on
demand).
Course requirements include active participation and the writing of an essay. The last two sessions will
be dedicated to the presentation and discussion of participants’ essay topics.
GS-1030 Global Studies Colloqium II
Master’s Thesis Colloquium
Seminar
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell and Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Time:
Block seminar, introductory session: 23.04.2015 1pm
Place:
GESI 3.16
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.
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German Classes (First- and second-year students)
Beginners
Time: Monday, 7 – 8:30 pm
Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 104, 1st session: April 13th
Instructor: Dr. Ludmila Vojtkova
Intermediate
Time: Thursday, 9:30 – 11 am
Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 320.
Instructor: Dr. Katharina Storch
Advanced
Time: Wednesday, 11 am – 12:30 am
Place: GESI, 3.15
Instructor: Dr. Katharina Storch
Additional courses
Advanced Methods: Qualitative Interviews
Workshop
Lecturer:
Nils Kumkar
Time:
Introduction on 24.04., Blockseminar on 29./30.05.
Place:
tba
Participation: Choice
Description:
The seminar is a platform for PhD-candidates and Master-students in social sciences, political science
and global studies to develop a research design for their thesis, focusing especially but not exclusively
on the potential and limitations of non-standardized and semi-standardized interviews. The seminar will
be divided in three parts. The preparation meeting and the closing two hours are dedicated to a discussion of the participants’ research projects and the methods they themselves consider adequate for the
purpose of their study. The morning of the first day will be a discussion of classical epistemological critiques of scientific methods such as Paul Feyerabends’ ‚Against Method‛ and Roy Bashkars’ ‚Critical
Realism‛. The second part of the first day and the largest part of the second day are presentations on
different types of interviews and interview analysis, such as expert interviews, group-discussions, problem-centered interviews, and biographical-narrative interviews, structural hermeneutics and content
analysis.
Requirements for a successful participation are the completed reading of all suggested literature, active
participation in discussion, and a presentation on one topic. After the seminar, students are expected to
either write a short methodological discussion as a preparation for their research project, or an academic paper on the subject of their presentation.
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