All Articles
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23. February 2017
Donald Trump – Aggravator or Catalyzer of the European Crises?
public lecture by Prof. Wolfgang Seibel, held at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, 15 February 2017.
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7. December 2016
Last redeployments of the EU border regime
A glance into the Greek Islands hotspots. Personal report by Estela Schindel, based mostly on field diary notes of her recent research stay in Leros and Kos.
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4. April 2016
Doing fieldwork in Myanmar – a workshop report
By Prof. Judith Beyer
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30. November 2015
Integration
Integration was a headline long before numerous people sought refuge in Europe from civil war in Syria and political persecution elsewhere as well. Integration plays a role across a wide range of disciplines whether as an expectation or a claim for the future. By Andreas Langenohl
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27. July 2015
“The average […] is really where the challenge lies.”
In his Wolfgang Iser Lecture 2015, literary historian Franco Moretti focusses on an reatively underexamined textual segment: the paragraph as a worthwile object of study. Refer to the video
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22. October 2013
The place beneath the pines
Notes from an EU external border (in days of media refugee-hype). Estela Schindel visited Pikpa on Lesbos, an open door place for immigrants
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9. September 2013
Diverging Worldviews, Improvable Strategies – German-Russian Relations and the Syrian Crisis
“Are German foreign policymakers in a position to influence Russian key-players?” Wolfgang Seibel asks in his recent blog post for the Hertie School of Governance. refer to article
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6. August 2013
Lectures of this year's Meisterklasse ”Crisis and Collapse“ online now
You can now watch the lectures held by Karl Heinz Bohrer, Karin Knorr Cetina, Saskia Sassen, and Richard Sennett
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19. April 2012
Art in the public space
Fellow Prof. Ariane Berthoin Antal (Berlin) investigates the role of the public in the process of commissioning art on the basis of Constance's controversial statue Imperia. The recent article on her academic blog
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4. November 2011
“What good is it in these bad days to read literature at all?”
J. Hillis Miller addressed the fundamental question of the value of literature in and for contemporary society. Report of the Wolfgang Iser Lecture 2011 by Dr. Ana Sobral and PD Dr. Monika Reif-Hülser. With a video recording