Lecture Series
Starting in the winter term 2012/13, Euroculture Göttingen has organized interdisciplinary lecture series. All of the speeches were public lectures. The series was meant to invite colleagues from participating disciplines in Göttingen as well as from other institutions to share their perspectives on a given topic. Proceedings from the series "Imagining Europe" were published with Göttingen University Press (see "Publications"). Up to 2017, the Lecture Series was organized in cooperation with the Master Programme "Intercultural Theology". The series 2019/20 was held jointly with the Erasmus Mundus MA "Global Markets, Local Initiatives" (GLOCAL).
Europe and the Global Economy - WS 2019/20
The public lecture series presents current research on Europe’s interrelationship with the global economy (past and present). Speakers from various disciplines provide a wide array of specialized topics to explore different facets of European engagement with economic globalization including: issues of trade and international investment, multinational companies and organizations, cross-cultural management and marketing, transfers of knowledge and know-how, questions of development and immigrant entrepreneurship, as well as finally issues of global migration and international labor markets. The lecture series addresses core questions of two Erasmus Mundus MA Programs in Göttingen about central issues for European politics and culture (Euroculture) and about regional perspectives on global markets (GLOCAL).
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2018/19 and convened by Prof. Dr. Simon Fink, PD Dr. Jan Logemann and Dr. Lars Klein.
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2018/19 and convened by Prof. Dr. Simon Fink, PD Dr. Jan Logemann and Dr. Lars Klein.
- Prof. Dr. Simon Fink
Euroculture, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
EU, ASEAN, Mercosur: Regional Integration in Global Perspective
29.10.2019 - PD Dr. Jan Logemann
Economic History, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
European “Roots” of Consumer Capitalism? Emigres and Transatlantic Knowledge Transfers
05.11.2019 - Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer
Economics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Different Modes of Innovation: Fostering Global Competitiveness through Innovation Policies in Germany
12.11.2019 - Prof. Dr. Fabian Froese
Economics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
European Expats in East Asia: Issues in Cross-Cultural management
19.11.2019 - Prof. Dr. Céline Teney
Sociology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Does the EU Economic Crisis Undermine Subjective Europeanisation?
26.11.2019 - Dr. Lucas Drouhot
Sociology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Immigrant and Second Generation Entrepreneurs: Assimilation in the Knowledge Economy
03.12.2019 - Dr. Bruno Witzel
Economics / Economic History, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Migration and Development: Knowledge Transfers between Europe and Brazil in the 19th Century
10.12.2019 - Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos
Economics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Globalization and Social Change: Trade Liberalization and Gender Dynamics
17.12.2019 - Prof. Dr. Sascha Münnich
Sociology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Legitimacy of Financial Profits in a Global Perspective
07.01.2020 - Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
History / CeMEAS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
China and the World: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
14.01.2020 - Prof. Dr. Udo Kreickemeier
Economics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Globalisation and Labour Market Polarisation
21.01.2020
Many current and historical debates in the social sciences and humanities focus on the question of regulation of human behavior. This ranges from small-scale social units such as families, villages or tribes to full-fledged industrial societies or even to the global level. Basically, there are two opposing camps in the diverse debates. One position holds that it is desirable and possible to develop societal aims, develop formal rules that help to steer groups towards these aims, devise institutions to monitor the implementation of these rules, and sanction noncompliance with these rules. The normative conclusion is that we can to some extent see government and governance as a feat of engineering, as a way of finding the right rules and incentives. The competing position holds that boundedly rational human decision makers cannot fully grasp the full consequences of their plans and rules. Moreover, informal rules and socially constructed notions of legitimacy are often more powerful than formal rules. Therefore, decision makers should refrain from overly ambitious projects and rather have an evolutionary approach to rules.
The lecture series will approach these debates from different disciplines, always trying to find answers to the question how we can (and should) govern human communities, and discuss empirical patterns of the ambitions (and shortcomings) of governance efforts.
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2018/19 and convened by Prof. Dr. Simon Fink and Dr. Lars Klein.
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2018/19 and convened by Prof. Dr. Simon Fink and Dr. Lars Klein.
- Prof. Dr. Simon Fink
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
How do we want to govern?
23.10.2018 - Dr. Levke Aduda
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Third-Party Conflict Management: Mediation in Intrastate Conflicts
30.10.2018 - PD Dr. Kirsten Sandrock
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Colonial Utopias/Dystopias
06.11.2018 - Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The design of international organizations. Why some international organizations are more authoritative than others
13.11.2018 - Dr. Julia Martinez-Arinio
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Regulating religion from within? Participatory governance of religious diversity in European cities
20.11.2018 - Dr. Lars Klein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
"Impetous, adversarial, petty and ineffective". Fashioning the White House under Trump
27.11.2018 - Dr. Matthias Roick
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Between Ethics and Politics: Virtue, Self-Government and Governmental Power in Early Modern Europe
04.12.2018 - Vincent Lindner
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Take it or leave it! Social Concertation and Social Pacts in Europe during times of crises
11.12.2018 - Dr. Karthikeyan Damodaran
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Caste, Class and Political Society in Southern India
18.12.2018 - Miriam Schafer
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Polic*e Work in Practice. Processes of Typification in the German Police
08.01.2019 - Dr. Christina Gabbert
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Land use governance in Ethiopia
15.01.2019
The diagnosis that Europe – and/or the European Union – is in crisis is not new. The debate has deep historical roots, as the idea of “Europe”, and the notion of an ever-expanding and ever-deepening political union have been called into question for decades. However, current trends make the diagnosis even more pertinent. Recent economic and financial crises have shown that Europe is socially and economically extremely disparate. Politically, the legitimacy of the whole European Union as a project is challenged by the Brexit and, again, the rise of nationalism and populism. Culturally, the question in how far ideas of a “European identity” provides for an umbrella in the search for Europeanization processes has long been contentious. With the rise of nationalism and the so-called “Migration crisis”, this question is in the spotlight of cultural and political discourse. The lecture series tries to generate a multi-faceted debate among different academic disciplines, discussing different symptoms of Europe in crisis – among them identity and culture, social cohesion, and political legitimacy. It is meant to give insights into how a “Europe in crisis” is discussed in the different disciplines and which ideas for problem solving are seen. Hopefully, the lecture series will also spark some ideas on how to re-invigorate Europe as an idea and as a political project.
Following lectures took place during autumn and winter 2017/2018:
Following lectures took place during autumn and winter 2017/2018:
- Dr. Dimitri Almeida
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Euroscepticism in Crisis? The Populist Radical Right and the EU
24.10.2017 - Julian Plottka
Institute for European Politics (IEP), Berlin
The Commission's White Book Process: Making Europe Crisis Proof?
07.11.2017 - Prof. Dr. Simon Fink
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
When Do Crises of the EU Spur Reforms?
14.11.2017 - Lavinia Marin / Benedikte Custers
University of Leuven / University of Porto
Higher Education in European Discourse. A Conversation That Never Took Place
21.11.2017 - Dr. H. Pinar Senoguz
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Hospitality Discourse and Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Uniting or Dividing?
28.11.2017 - Dr. Flora Ferati-Sachsenmaier
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue: A Litmus Test for the EU Diplomacy
05.12.2017 - Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Goering
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
De/Construction Zone Europe: American Media Representations of Europe in Crisis
12.12.2017 - Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Tamcke and students from Perm State University
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / Perm State University
How Do We Want to Live? Russian Students Interpret Life after the Political Changes 1990/91 Through Literary Texts
19.12.2017 - Dr. Lars Klein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Europe - Anatomy of a Crisis
09.01.2018 - Jesse van Amelsvoort
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Contemporary Europe is Postcolonial: Transitions, Representations and Connections
16.01.2018 - Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege / Dr. Alexander Gallas
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / Universität Kassel
What is 'Conjunctural Analysis' and What Are its Uses? Revisiting a Transdisciplinary Program in a New Time of Crisis
23.01.2018
This seminar is meant for students to discuss questions of inclusion/exclusion in Europe with a special focus on the role of religion. As a case study, the debate on the so-called “refugee-crisis” will be analysed throughout the seminar, because it is here, that the terms and conditions of integration and participation are being discussed and ideas of Europeanness are formulated.
In order to allow for a multi-faceted debate, the class includes lectures and discussions with guest from different (academic) fields. The block seminar on “intercultural hermeneutics” will introduce theoretical approaches to interaction between people.
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2015/16 and convened by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke and Dr. Lars Klein.
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2015/16 and convened by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke and Dr. Lars Klein.
- Prof. Dr. Larisa Deriglazova
Tomsk
What does it mean to be a Russian?
04.11.2015 - Dr. Benjamin Martin
Uppsala Universitet
A Historical Perspective on Muslims, Migrations, and European Identities
11.11.2015 - Dr. Sabine Selchow
London School of Economics, UK / LMU Munich
The Refugee Crisis and the Dialects of a Cosmopolitised Europe: Understanding Inclusion and Exclusion in Germany
12.11.2015 - PD Dr. Claudia Jünke
Universität Bonn
Constructing Europe, Reconstructing the Past. Cultural Memory and Traumatic History in Contemporary
Literature
13.11.2015 - Dr. Lars Klein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
New Forms of Participation? Sketching a "Citizenship in Europe"
04.12.2015
- Dr. Kamal Sido
GfbV – Society for Threatened Peoples, Göttingen
Discussing the "refugee crisis"
04.12.2015
The lecture series was held in the winter term 2014/15 and convened by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke and Dr. Lars Klein. It was held jointly with the MA Intercultural Theology.
- Dr. Alexander Kamkin
Russian Academy of Science
Intellectual turnover. Reception of German romantic ideas by Russian slavophiles. Example of intercultural dialog
23.10.2014 - Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Tamcke
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
West - East identity: the example of Henry von Heiseier
30.10.2014 - Svetlana Fakhrazeeva
Perm State University
Russian Orthodox Church in Contemporary Russia
06.11.2014 - Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The Return of the Sacred to the Public Square: Muslim Migration to Europe
20.11.2014 - Dr. Vladimir Svetkovic
Nis/Belgrad/Göttingen
Serbian Church and Europe on the Threshold of the Third Millennium?
04.12.2014 - Dr. Fritz Erich Anhelm
Evangelische Akademie Loccum
Minority Religion and Identity Politics - Muslims in Germany and Christians in Egypt and their strategies for political acceptance
15.01.2015
During the financial crisis that has been going on since 2008, the role of the European Union has been under much discussion. The economic usefulness of the Euro has been debated just as the political implications of European unification. Most often, the current state of Europeanization has been presented as being without alternatives. For this lecture series, we invited scholars from various disciplines to elaborate on ways of imagining Europe that goes beyond the rather limited view of EU institutions that has been presented by politicians. How was, how is Europe imagined? Which memories are evoked, which visions explicated? Which counter-narratives to prominent discourses are there? How is the role of the university envisioned? The lecture series was dedicated to these and other questions and features speakers from Sociology, Political Science, English as well as French Literature, History and Theology.
The public lecture series was organized by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke and Dr. Lars Klein.
Following lectures took place in the winter term 2013/14:
Following lectures took place in the winter term 2013/14:
- Dr. Sabine Selchow
London School of Economics, UK / LMU Munich
Beyond Globalisation and Transnationalisation. Thinking about Europe in Times of Cosmopolitization
31.10.2013 - PD Dr. Peter W. Schulze
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
German-Russian Relations as a Decisive Factor of the EU's Eastern Policy. Unforeseen Consequences of Shifts of Paradigm
21.11.2013 - PD Dr. Claudia Jünke
Universität Bonn
Entangled Pasts. Remembering War and Violence in Contemporary French Fiction
22.11.2013 - Dr. Lars Klein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Sketching a Cosmopolitan Europe
28.11.2013 - Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Imagining a Transcultural Europe. Irish Counter-Narratives
05.12.2013 - Christina Norwig
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Re-inventing Europe. Visions and Experiences of Europe in the European Youth Campaign 1951-1958
12.12.2012 - Dr. Esther von Richthofen
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The European Higher Education Area and the Internationalization of the University of Göttingen
19.12.2013 - Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Tamcke
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The Eurpeans in us. The use of "Europe" by Orhan Pamuk
16.01.2014
You can download the poster here.
During the lecture series, the Erasmus Mundus MA Euroculture asked how Europe is seen from both the inside and from other parts of the world. Political Scientists, scholars from Literary Studies, Theology and History presented their perspectives on Europe from India, UK, New Zealand, Spain, the United States and Germany. The former foreign minister Markus Meckel and the former Bishop for Ecumenical Relations of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Rolf Koppe, shared their insights on negotiating European identity in the Wider World.
The public lecture series was organized by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Tamcke and were held every week in autumn and winter 2012.
- Prof. Dr. George Zachariah
Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India
The Ecological Crisis: Eurocentric Morals and Subaltern Alternatives
25.10.2012 - Dr. Sabine Selchow
London School of Economics, UK / LMU Munich
Security and the "New World" in Europe
01.11.2012 - Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Gender Identities in Europe: A Clash of Cultures?
- 08.11.2012
- Dr. Lars Klein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Belonging without Believing? Reflections on European Identity
15.11.2012 - Prof. Dr. Natalia Chaban
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Communicating Europe in the Times of Crisis: EU Images and Perceptions from Asia-Pacific
22.11.2012 - Prof. Dr. Monika Oberle
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Learning EU at School: An Emperical Look at Pupils‘ Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding the European Union
29.12.2012 - Markus Meckel
Former Member of Federal Parliament, Berlin
Challenges for the European Union and Transatlantic Relations: An Issue for Germany
06.12.2012 - Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
The Pillars of Identity: Representations in Irish Writing
07.12.2012 - Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Goering / Dr. Andrea Krause
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA / Universität Paderborn, Germany
Forever Old? Cultural Mis/Perceptions of Europe in American Film
13.12.2012 - Dr. Rolf Koppe
Göttingen
A Soul for Europe: The Contribution of Churches and Religions for a More Just, Participatory and Sustainable Europe
20.12.2012 - Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Tamcke
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
European and Arab, Christian and Oriental: Mono-, Bi- or Multipolar Existence in Europe
10.01.2013
You can download the poster here.