Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
THURSDAY, 18.04.2024
08:30 – 09:00 Registration + Coffee
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 11:00 Panel I
Ground as Resource: State, Territory and Environment in East Africa
Convenor: Ismay Milford
Emily Brownell (University of Edinburgh – online): (Para)sites of development: Soil, Labour, and Foreign Exchange in Postcolonial East Africa
Hassan Kochore (Independent researcher, Halle): (Re-)Claiming the Frontier: Mega Infrastructure Projects and Ground Realities in the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderlands
Ismay Milford (Freie Universität Berlin): An inventory of resources: From aerial surveys to remote sensing satellites in East Africa
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Panel II
Theorizing Technology and Digitization: Ethnographic Approaches (Part I)
Convenors: Prof. Dr. Marian Burchardt & Dr. Edwin Ambani Ameso
Discussants: Dr. Phillip Willians Leite (Leipzig University), Dr. Kebene Kejela Wodajo (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Kim Chung (Leipzig University): Blood collection and storage in northern Ghana: Observations at the Tamale Teaching Hospital
Evans Awuni: (Erfurt University): Digitalization and the Future of Work and Policy in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Macro Picture
Edwin Ambani Ameso (Leipzig University): Digital Entanglements: Medical Drones in African Healthcare Systems
12:45 – 14:45 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Members’ Assembly ReCentGlobe (upon invitation only)
14:45 – 16:15 Panel III
Theorizing Technology and Digitization: Ethnographic Approaches (Part II)
Convenors: Prof. Dr. Marian Burchardt & Dr. Edwin Ambani Ameso
Discussants: Dr. Phillip Willians Leite (Leipzig University), Dr. Kebene Kejela Wodajo (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Viddy Ranawijaya and Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling (Erfurt University): Navigating Digitalization on Work: Content Analysis on Indonesian Online Media
Sreya Dutta Chowdhury (Leipzig University): People as data infrastructures: Digitizing Villupuram's health centers
Dr. Gift Mwonzora and Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling (Erfurt University): Transcending the ‘Jobs Gained and Jobs Lost’ duality: Mapping Digitalization and the Future of Work in Middle Income Countries
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Panel IV
Panel Discussion on the joint Halle-Leipzig Transregio Initiative: Transformative Practices
Convenor: Jonathan Everts
With inputs by:
Nina Mackert, Dirk Hanschel, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Christoph Zielhofer (tbc), Martin Bauch (tbc), Christoph Brumann, Christian Tietje (tbc), Melanie Schmidt, Jörg Dinkelaker
18:00 – 18:30 Small Break
18:30 – 19:30 Keynote Lecture
Richard Rottenburg: Technicization, Colonization, and Decoloniality
19.30 - 22:00 Reception: Buffet Dinner and Drinks
FRIDAY, 19.04.2024
09:00 – 11:00 Panel V
Navigating the Material Consequences of Global Energy Transitions
Convenors: Sina Leipold / Diana Ayeh
Hannes Warnecke-Berger (University of Kassel): Green Growth, Unequal Specialization, and the Dark Sides of Sustainability: Implications for the Global South
Sina Leipold (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig): The Circular Economy and Renewable Energy: A Critical Look at Justice & Equity
Meike Schulze (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)): Fostering EU Raw Material Policy: Strengthening the Foreign Policy Dimension
Diana Ayeh (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig): The Global Aluminum Value Chain and German Responsibility in Guinea
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Panel VI
Shifting resources in floodplains from a multidisciplinary perspective
Convenor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Zielhofer
Chair: Dr Martin Bauch – GWZO, Environmental History
Prof Dr Christoph Zielhofer (Leipzig University, LeipzigLab Historical Anthropospheres working group): Fluvial Anthroposphere, floodplain transformation and shifting resources
Dr Michael Hein (Leipzig University, LeipzigLab Historical Anthropospheres working group): Understanding of floodplain transformation from a fluvial geomorphological perspective
Dr Mathias Scholz (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department Conservation Biology): Understanding of floodplain transformation from an ecological perspective
Dr Iris Nießen (Leipzig University, LeipzigLab Historical Anthropospheres working group) Understanding of floodplain transformation from historical and archaeological perspectives
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break