Thursday, 18 June 2009
Venue: Seminar building, room 420
10.00-10.20 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Martin Schlegel, Vice-rector Research
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, co-spokesperson of the centre for Area Studies
Chair: Stefan Troebst (Universität Leipzig)
10.20-11.30 Ulf Engel (Universität Leipzig): Critical junctures of globalisation – the research agenda
Comment: Charles Bright (University of Michigan)
- coffee break -
12.00-13.30 Jörg Gertel (Universität Leipzig): "Disrupting Territories and Critical Places - Cairo"
Comment: Asef Bayat (Universität Leiden) - angefragt
- lunch break -
Chair: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Universität Leipzig)
15.00-16.30 Sebastian Lentz (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde): The place of critical junctures of globalisation in new political geography
Comment: David Newman (Ben Gurion University)
- coffee break -
17.00-18.30 Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig): Global History and the critical junctures of globalisation: regimes of territorialisation and portals of globalisation
Comment: Ulrich Mücke (Universität Hamburg)
Friday, 19 June 2009
Venue: Seminar building, room 202
Chair: Heidrun Zinecker (Universität Leipzig)
10.00-11.00 Ulf Engel (Universität Leipzig): Changing sovereignty and territoriality in Africa
Comment: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
11.00-11.45 Sarah Sippel (Universität Leipzig): New Spaces of Insecurity: Export Production and Local Livelihoods in Southern Morocco)
Comment: Helmut Asche (Universität Leipzig)
- coffee break -
12.15-13.30 Debora Gerstenberger (Universität Leipzig): Junctures of Empire: Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro in times of global crisis (1808-1821)
Comment José Vicente Serrão (ISCTE Lisboa)
- lunch break -
14.30-15.15 Ulf Engel (Universiät Leipzig): Conclusions and the way ahead