GSGAS Summer School: Multi-crisis around the World: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and the Humanities

22nd International Summer School of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Leipzig University, in cooperation with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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PROGRAMME

Monday, 24 June

10 am – 10.30 amWelcome by the Rector of Leipzig University Eva Inés Obergfell and by Jonathan Everts (Halle) and Megan Maruschke (Leipzig)10.30 am – 12 pm

Jenny Haase (Halle): Aesthetic Perspectives on Multiple Crises from the Latin American South: Socio-economic, Ecological and Feminist Entanglements.

Moderation: Felix Schiedlowski (Halle)

1 pm – 3.30 pm

Panel 1 - The Climate of Method: How to do Research in Critical Times. 

Chair: Jonny Grünsch (Halle) 

Jonny Grünsch (Halle): Field-Philosophy: Climate Justice and Social-Ecological Transformation in, for, and from Pödelwitz

Luisa Mohr (Catania): Which Method Responds to Multi-Crisis Lifeworlds? Visual and Collaborative Research on Ecological Reparation in Late Industrial Sicily

Helena Böhmová (Halle): On the way to Urgent Repair? (Late) Industrial Landscape Culture in Saxony Anhalt

Kim Dittmann (Halle): Legitimise the Energy Transition: An Para-Ethnographic Analysis of Citizen Participation in Saxony & Baden-Württemberg

Comment: Amy Walker (Halle)

4 pm – 6 pm 

Panel 2 - Governance and Domestic Policy in Response to Global Dynamics and Multiple Crises

Chair: Wyatt Constantine (Leipzig)

Fengru Zou (London): Complexity Science and Democratic Stability: A Case Study of Serbia under Vučić's Rule

Johann Christoph Gümmer (Leipzig): Global Dynamics, Locals Responses. Domestic Policies of the Federal Republic of Germany towards Ḥizb Allāh

Cynthia Makouo Happi (Addis Ababa/Leipzig): Governance Challenges in Central Africa: Taking Stock of Significant Strides by the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States

Comment: Gilad Ben-Nun (Leipzig)

Tuesday, 25 June

9:30 am – 11.45 pm

Panel 3 - Crisis Management as a Struggle over (Democratic) Sovereignty

Chair: Tom Vörkel (Leipzig)

Luisa Stuhr (Cottbus): Energy Crisis and Resource Conflicts in Local Government 

Fabian Rasem (Frankfurt): Transformation Conflicts, Participation Processes and Social Cohesion 

Carla Ostermayer (Innsbruck): Die Rückkehr des Naturschrecks – Naturbeherrschung und die radikalen Rechten in Zeiten der Klimakrise

Comment: Daniela Ruß (Leipzig)

1.30 pm – 3 pm

Roundtable – Transnational and Transregional Research and the School of New Global Dynamics

Matthias Middell (Leipzig), Jonathan Everts (Halle), Megan Maruschke (Leipzig), Jens Herpolsheimer (Leipzig),  Nadin Hee (Leipzig), Antje Dietze (Leipzig)

Moderator: Martina Keilbach (Leipzig)

4 pm – 6.30 pm

Panel 4 - Democracy in Crisis: (South-) Eastern Europeans Response to Global Changes

Chair: Camille Vern (Leipzig) and Margarita Artemova (Leipzig)

Lilit Mnatsakanyan (Budapest): Constructed Relativities: Analyzing the Perceptions of Eastern Europe in Armenian Sources

Rebecca Grossi (Leipzig): Aiming for Big: Romania's Use of the Argument 'Black Sea' in the Country's Official Foreign Policy Narrative after NATO and EU Integration

Margarita Artemova (Leipzig): Seeking Home Amidst Multiple-Crisis: Exploring Migration Narratives of (South-) Eastern Europeans in Germany

Nora Mandru (Leipzig): Fervent Europeans or Orbán's Children? Youth EU Attitudes across Hungary's Peripheries

Indira Hajnacs (Leipzig): Evocation of the 'Ancient': Renegotiating History in Hungarian Popular Music

Comment: Dr. Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leipzig) and Dr. Timm Schönfelder (Leipzig)

Wednesday, 26 June

9.30 am – 11.30 am

Panel 5 - Cultural Transfer in Times of Crisis

Chair: Lea Middell (Leipzig/ Seoul)

Ryu Seunghwan (Berlin): A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: "Intercultural Transfer" between North Korea and Tanzania against the Multiple Crises in the 1970s and the 1980s

Yang Junghee (Seoul): Transnational Culture and Activism: Chinese feminism and anti-racism activists in the COVID 19 pandemic

Comment: Antje Dietze (Leipzig)

Kontakt

Dr. Martina Keilbach

Global and European Studies Institute
Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1
04105 Leipzig

keilbach@uni-leipzig.de

Telefon: +49 341 97 - 30286