IW
Lecture Series "Signatures of World Society"
Each semester, the Institute hosts a lecture series called "Signatures of World Society", which is co-organized by the Research Training Group "World Politics". Following the keynote speeches by renowned speakers, there will be an opportunity for mutual exchange and discussion. We cordially invite all interested parties to attend the lectures.
Current Lecture Series
|
Tuesday, 15.10.2024, 6:15 p.m., X-C3-107 |
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Paris): Migrations in the World: Between Realities and Politics |
|
Tuesday, 29.10.2024, 6:15 p.m., X-C3-107 |
Ronaldo Munck(Dublin): Migration and Social Transformation: A Complexity Lens |
|
Tuesday, 14.01.2025, 6:15 p.m., X-C3-107 |
Stefan Rother (Freiburg): Global Migration and Refugee Governance from Below: A Comparative Perspective |
|
Tuesday, 21.01.2025, 6:15 p.m., X-C3-107 |
Mirca Madianou (London): Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful, in cooperation with the AB Sociology of the Media |
|
Tuesday, 28.01.2025, 6:15 p.m., X-C3-107 |
Thomas Faist (Bielefeld): The Socio-Ecological Question: Climate-Related Mobility as a Wicked Issue |
All lectures will also be broadcast via Zoom (Meeting ID: 67434132155, Passcode: 301974).
Past Lecture Series
| Summer Term 2024 | |
| Tuesday, 7.05.2024 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
in cooperation with ZDES Jan Busse (München): |
| Tuesday, 14.05.2024 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
in cooperation with lecture series Understanding Asia Jiwei Ci (Hong Kong): |
| Tuesday, 11.06.2024 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
Roundtable UTOPIC - Understanding the Transformations of World Politics with members of the ZiF Resident Group "Understanding the Transformation of World Politics: Ordering Principles and Infrastructures of Communication" |
| Tuesday, 9.07.2024 6.15 p.m. room X-B2-103 & via Zoom |
Bettina Mahlert (Innsbruck) and Heikki Patomäki (Helsinki): |
| Winter Term 2023/24 | |
| Tuesday, 31.10.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
Markus Ciesielski (Gießen/Hildesheim): Claiming in Colombia: A Regional Approach to Social Rights Insights |
| Tuesday, 14.11.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam): Coerced and Free Labour in Global Perspective |
| Tuesday, 5.12.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz (London): The Right to Health and the Amazon Forest: Brazil, the Americas and the World |
| Tuesday, 23.01.2024 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 & via Zoom |
Angelika Siehr (Bielefeld): |
| Summer Term 2023 | |
| Tuesday, 02.05.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Benedikt Stuchtey (Marburg): Writing the History of the British Empire |
| Tuesday, 13.06.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Andrea Muehlebach (Bremen): Can Waves have Rights? From Rights of Nature to Earth Law |
|
***Postponed*** Monday, 19.06.2023 |
Ina Kerner (Koblenz):
Towards a Postsecular Feminist Critique of Religion |
| Tuesday, 04.07.2023 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Tobias Berger (Berlin): |
|
Tuesday, 11.07.2023 |
Larissa Buchholz (Northwestern): |
| Winter Term 2022/2023 | |
| Tuesday, 25.10.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Gurminder Bhambra (Sussex) |
| Tuesday, 13.12.2021 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Manuela Boatcă (Freiburg): Most Common, Most Deceptive: Society as a Unit of Analysis |
| Tuesday, 24.01.2022 9.15 a.m. via Zoom |
Raewyn Connell (Sydney) |
| Summer Term 2022 | |
| Tuesday, 12.04.2022 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Ieva Birka (Riga): Harnessing the Potential of the Diasporas |
| Tuesday, 27.04.2022 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Felix Schürmann (Erfurt): From the Head of the Snake to a Unity of the World: Mapping Blurred Transitions at the Congo Estuary, 1859-1887 |
| Tuesday, 14.06.2022 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Vineeta Sinha (Singapore): Contesting the Hegemony of the ‘neo-liberal, Corporate University‘: Implications for academic Freedom and critical intellectual Scholarship |
| Tuesday, 12.07.2022 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
in Cooperation with Understanding Asia Eva Gerharz (Fulda): |
| Winter Term 2021/2022 | |
| Tuesday, 19.10.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Roundtable Questions, Problems, Challenges |
| Tuesday, 07.12.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld): What is new? The Corona-Pandemic compared to earlier (20th- and 21st-century) pandemics |
| Tuesday, 25.01.2022 6.15 p.m. X-C3-107 |
***Cancelled*** Benedikt Stuchtey (Marburg) |
| Summer Term 2021 | |
| Tuesday, 27.04.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Christina Morina (Bielefeld): The Intervention of Marxism. How an Idea conquered the World |
| Tuesday, 15.06.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Hedwig Richter (München): The problem with 'equality' in the long 19th century. A narrative about democratization |
| Tuesday, 29.06.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Lothar Brock & Hendrik Simon (Frankfurt a. M.): Constituting World Order through the Justification of War. From Early Modernity to the Present |
| Winter Term 2020/2021 | |
| Tuesday, 15.12.2020 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Rudolf Stichweh (Bonn): The COVID-19 Pandemic in the System of World Society |
| **Canceled** Tuesday, 12.01.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Christina Morina (Bielefeld): The Intervention of Marxism. How an Idea conquered the World **The lecture will be postponed to the summer term 2021.** |
| Tuesday, 26.01.2021 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Book Launch: What in the World? Understanding Global Social Change (Bristol Universtiy Press 2021, ed. by Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron (Bielefeld)) |
| Summer Term 2020 | |
| Tuesday, 30.06.2020 6.15 p.m. via Zoom |
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld): Der Fall Tönnies und das Produktionsmodell der deutschen Fleischindustrie |
| Winter Term 2019/2020 | |
| Tuesday, 08.10.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Boris Holzer (Konstanz): Social Structure and Semantics in the Sociology of World Society |
| Monday, 28.10.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Eva M. Hausteiner (Bonn): In the Conceptual Twilight Zone: Federation, Empire, and the Description of large polities |
| Tuesday, 19.11.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-B2-103 |
Hannah Bennani (Tübingen): Globalizing categories. The case of "Indigenous Peoples" |
| Tuesday, 21.01.2020 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti (Teheran): From a 'World' to a 'Global' Society: Normative Globalization |
| Summer Term 2019 | |
| Tuesday, 07.05.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Andrew Zimmerman (Washington): A Global History of the American Civil War |
| Tuesday, 14.05.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Jennifer Mitzen (Columbus): Symphony or Schism? The Concert of Europe in History and Theory |
| Tuesday, 21.05.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Lene Hansen (Copenhagen): Images and International Security: How Visual Representations Impact World Politics |
| Wednesday, 05.06.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Anja Jakobi (Braunschweig): Governing Global Illegal Markets - Countering Crime or Regulating Economic Flows |
| Winter Term 2018/2019 | |
| Wednesday, 24.10.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Benjamin Tallis (Prague) Identities, Borderscapes, (Dis)orders: Understanding the EU’s Migration and Neighbourhood Crises |
| Tuesday, 18.12.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Teresa Koloma Beck (München) Globalisation and the Everyday. How sociologies of everyday life can contribute to globalisation research |
| Tuesday, 08.10.2019 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Anja Weiß (Duisburg-Essen) Sociology of Global Inequalities |
| Summer Term 2018 | |
| Tuesday, 08.05.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Or Rosenboim (London): Globalism: historical perspectives on a contested concept |
| Tuesday, 05.06.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Shih-Jiunn Shi (Fellow at ZiF): Cultural Convergence or Political-economic Divergence: A Comparative Perspective on the Welfare Development in Greater China |
| Tuesday, 19.06.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld): Observing transnational labor markets through the lens of economic sociology - on the production of a transnational labor market in the meat industry |
| Thuesday, 12.07.2018 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Georgios Varouxakis (London/Göttingen): Towards a genealogy of the concept of "the West” |
| Winter Term 2017/2018 | |
| Tuesday, 24.10.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Heidi Tworek (Vancouver): “Lies are the Law of the World!” News and Global Media Networks in the Twentieth Century |
| Tuesday, 28.11.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
George Lawson (London): "Global Historical Sociology" |
| Summer Term 2017 | |
| Tuesday, 09.05.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Paul Stubbs (Zagreb) Post- or Neo-Colonialism? Socialist Yugoslavia, The Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations |
| Tuesday, 11.07.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Martin Geiger (Ottawa) Weltorganisationen in der Migrationspolitik |
| Tuesday, 18.07.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Julian Go (Boston) Postcolonial Thought, Field Theory, and Global Transformation: the End of Empires in the 20th Century |
| Winter Term 2016/2017 | |
| Tuesday, 22.11.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Antje Flüchter (Bielefeld) Indien im 'Warteraum der Geschichte'? Wie der Westen zur Zukunft der Welt wurde |
| Tuesday, 06.12.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Jens Bartelson (Lund) From the International to the Global? |
| Tuesday, 07.02.2017 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Peter Haldén (Stockholm) New polities in the shadow of the World Society: No longer state-formation |
| Summer Term 2016 | |
| Wednesday, 15.06.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Siri Hettige (Colombo) Structural Impediments for Decent Work and Social Mobility in a Global Context: the case of Sri Lanka |
| Tuesday, 28.06.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Gabriele Köhler (München) 70 Jahre Entwicklungspolitik und die 'drei UNs' |
| Tuesday, 05.07.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Edward Keene (Oxford) Stratificatory differentiation and the historical origins of modern world society |
| Tuesday, 12.07.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Eckart Conze (Marburg) Jenseits von Präsentismus und Globalismus. Überlegungen zu einer Zeitgeschichte internationaler Beziehungen |
| Winter Term 2015/2016 | |
| Tuesday, 27.10.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Stephan Stetter (München) Spectre Ante Portas: Stand und Perspektiven der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bondforschung |
| Tuesday, 10.11.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Ellen Ehmke (Kassel) Welfare and social policy in the global south - Insights from India |
| Tuesday, 15.12.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg) Rechtsrevolutionen - Der Anteil von Recht und Revolution an der Evolution der Weltgesellschaft |
| Tuesday, 26.01.2016 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Andrea Liese (Potsdam) Wer hat das Sagen? Zur Expertenautorität internationaler Organisationen |
| Summer Term 2015 | |
| Tuesday, 19.05.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Paul Stubbs (Zagreb) Thinking 'social policy otherwise': translation, assemblage and variegation |
| Tuesday, 16.06.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Ellen Ehmke (Kassel) Welfare and social policy in the global south - Insights from India |
| Tuesday, 14.07.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Andrea Liese (Potsdam) Wer hat das Sagen? Zur Expertenautorität internationaler Organisationen |
| Winter Term 2014/2015 | |
| Tuesday, 18.11.2014 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Thorsten Bonacker (Marburg) Reproduktive Gesundheit als umkämpftes institutionelles Feld der Weltgesellschaft |
| Tuesday, 02.12.2014 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Eveline Dürr (München) Globalisierte Dimensionen von Abfall in Umwelt und Gesellschaft |
| Tuesday, 20.01.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Rudolf Stichweh (Bonn) Demokratie und Autoritarismus als globale politische Modelle. Zu einer soziologischen Theorie politischer Regimes |
| Tuesday, 27.01.2015 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Alexandra Kaasch (Bielefeld) Protecting Domestic Workers: Emergence and Implementation of Global Social Policy |
| Summer Term 2014 | |
| Tuesday, 06.05.2014 6.15 p.m. room U4-120 |
Stefan Kühl (Bielefeld) Organisationen in der Weltgesellschaft |
| Tuesday, 27.05.2014 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Elmar Rieger (Bamberg) Historische Globalisierungs- und Weltgesellschaftsforschung: Der Fall des Hellenismus |
| Tuesday, 10.06.2014 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Boris Holzer (Bielefeld) Modernisierung als Missverständnis |
| Tuesday, 01.07.2014 6.15 p.m. room X-C3-107 |
Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv) Constitution Writing, Democracy and Religious Freedom |
| Winter Term 2013/2014 | |
| Monday, 11.11.2013 6.30 p.m. Plenarsaal ZiF |
Sally Engle Merry (New York) Quantified Governance and the Paradox of Measurement |
| Tuesday, 19.11.2013 6.15 p.m. room U4-120 |
Volker H. Schmidt (Singapur) Globale Moderne: Konzept und Wirklichkeit |
| Tuesday, 14.01.2014 6.15 p.m. room U4-120 |
Mathias Albert (Bielefeld) Weltpolitik in der Weltgesellschaft |
| Summer Term 2013 | |
| Thursday, 20.06.2013 6.15 p.m. room U4-120 |
Misha Petrovic (Singapur) Asian Cities as Centers of Global Modernity |
| Winter Term 2012/2013 | |
| Tuesday, 20.11.2012 6.15 p.m. room U5-211 |
Sven Opitz (Hamburg) Streit an der Grenze des Weltrechts: Wozu benutzt das Recht die Form des Menschen? |
| Tuesday, 11.12.2012 6.15 p.m. room U5-211 |
Alexander Engel (Göttingen) Wo ist der Weltmarkt? Zur Räumlichkeit globaler Waren- und Terminmärkte um 1900 |
| Tuesday, 15.01.2013 6.15 p.m. room U5-211 |
Daniel Speich (Luzern) Die Weltkarte der Wohlstandsunterschiede. Weltinnenpolitik und statistisches Wissen im Zeitalter der Dekolonisation |