Wednesday, 27 April, 6:00 pm​ | Keynote Lecture

18:00 - 18:15 Words of Welcome
by the Rector of Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Eva Inés Obergfell

18:15 - 18:30 Opening of the Annual Conference
by Matthias Middell, Director of ReCentGlobe

18:30 "What Amazon collapsology can teach us about history, globalization and tipping points" (Susanna Hecht)

Thursday 28 April 22 09:00-11:00 am | Parallel Panel Slot I
“Nature, Resources, and Development: Historical Perspectives on the Global Environment"
Corinna Unger, Introduction: Histories of Environment and Development
Tomás Bartoletti, Pest Control and Commodity Frontiers: Global Dynamics of Economic Entomology
Simone Müller, “A Symbiotic Relationship”: Industrial Waste Exports to the Global South and International Development Schemes
Rohan D’Souza, Limits to Boundaries: Environmental Histories of South Asia and Sustainability in the Anthropocene

“Rise of Chinese infrastructure investments in Europe and the New Cold War”
Lela Rekhviashvili & Thilo Lang (both Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), “Are Chinese infrastructure investments special? Competition and collaboration between rival hegemonic powers in financing and developing large-scale infrastructure projects in Georgia”
Margot Schüller, (German Institute for Global and Area Studies), “Competing Connectivity Strategies: Challenges and Prospects for European Union–China Collaboration on Transport Infrastructure”
Kean Fan Lim (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University), “From the city of steel to Germany’s ‘China City’: Economic restructuring, the EU-China transcontinental railway, and infrastructure-led development in Duisburg” (Co-author: Kristin Limbach, (European Institute for Energy Research), Karlsruhe, Germany)
Andy Pike, (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University), “Beyond Belt and Road: new research directions in the geographical political economy of Chinese global infrastructural investments”

"War against Ukraine: New Dynamics of Power Politics and its Gendered Effects"
Organizers: Maren Röger and Frank Hadler (Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig)
Participants:
Jan Zofka (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig)
Olena Petrenko (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Svitlana Teluha (National Technical University Kharkiv, now Moldova-Institute Leipzig)

"Panel Discussion of the Graduate School Global & Area Studies", Organizer: Martina Keilbach (Leipzig University)
Panelists: Antje Dietze (ReCentGlobe), Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO), Thorben Pelzer (tbc), Megan Maruschke (tbc)

Thursday 28 April 22 01:00-03:00 pm | Parallel Panel Slot II
“Conspiracy Narratives - Political and Social Psychological Function in Times of COVID-19"
Organizer: Oliver Decker (Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institut, University Leipzig)

"Which Global History for the 2020s?"
Organizer: Matthias Middell (Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig)
Participants/Contributions:
Matthias Middell (Leipzig) - The World after the Cambridge World History
Catherine Jami (Paris)
Chair and Discussant: Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO, Leipzig)

"Rassismus als globales oder nationales Problem?"
Organizer: Gert Pickel (University of Leipzig)
Participants:
Reines Podium: Moderation Susanne Kailitz (Dresden); Gert Pickel (Leipzig); Maria Alexopolou (FGZ Berlin); Yasemin Shooman (Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung Berlin)

28 April 03:30-06:00 pm | Parallel Panel Slot III
"Health in the Global Condition – Arenas of the Planetary
Organizers: Caroline Meier zu Biesen (University of Leipzig), Nina Mackert (University of Leipzig)
Participants/Contributions:
Silke Guelker/Nina Mackert (University of Leipzig): Introduction: Covid-19 as a Planetary Health Problem
Nina Mackert (UL): Interrogating the Planetary Health Diet
Claudia Lang/Caroline Meier zu Biesen (UL): Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Planetary
Michelle Mart (Pennsilvania State University, Berks): Re-Thinking How the Global Food System Impacts Health: Failures from Recent American History
Lucilla Barchetta (University of Venice): HealthXCross. Reconfigurations of Health in the Age of Big and Open Data
Laura-Elena Keck (Leipzig)

Roundtable:“ Reconsidering AU/ECOWAS responses to UCGs: The recent wave of coups d’état in Africa”
Organizer: Ulf Engel (Leipzig University)
Participants: Ambassador Said Djinnit (African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD, Brussels office)); Ulf Engel, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University; Christof Hartmann, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), Duisburg-Essen University; Antonia Witt, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

"Rechtspopulismus, Rechtsextremismus, Ende der Demokratie?"
Organizer: Gert Pickel (Leipzig University)
Podium: Alexander Yendell; Michael Minkenberg; Ursula Birsl; Steffen Kailitz; Johannes Kiess

"Globality and German Memory Culture"
Organizer: Julius Wilm (University of Leipzig)
Participants/Contributions:
Amir Theilhaber, Bielefeld University “ Hitler and Palestine at Documenta 2022. Problems of Translations between Memory Spaces”
Eva Bischoff, University of Trier / Anja Schwarz, University of Potsdam, “German-Australian Naturalists and the Multiple Trajectories of Colonial Memories”
Julius Wilm, University of Leipzig “Global Impulses, National Historiographies: Carl Schurz and the Recent Historical Reckoning in the United States and Germany”

Keynote Lecture
“Three authoritarianisms: Globalization resets.” (Jan Nederveen Pieterse)

29 April 09:00-11:30 am | Parallel Panel Slot IV
Roundtable Discussion: „Die globale Diffusion und lokale Diversifikation konkurrierender Episteme vor dem Hintergrund der Covid-19-Pandemie“
Organizer: Christoph Kleine (U Leipzig)
Participants: Christoph Bochinger (Bayreuth); Andreas Grünschloss (Göttingen); Silke Gülker (Leipzig); Christoph Kleine (Leipzig; Einführung und Moderation); Alexander Leistner (Leipzig); Gert Pickel (Leipzig)

"Epistemic Hierarchies and Knowledge Production in the Global South: Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic"
Organizer: Solveig Richter (University of Leipzig)
Participants: Stefan Peters (tbc) Director, German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ, Bogotá, Colombia /Professor for Peace Research, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; Michelle Small (online) Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Siddharth Tripathi, Senior Research Fellow, Käthe-Hamburger-Kolleg, University of Duisburg-Essen; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (online, tbc), Professor in International Politics & Director, Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University; Maria Ketzmerick, Akademische Rätin Uni Bayreuth; Jalale Getachew Birru, PhD Student, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany

"The Attempts to Shape a New World Order: Military Interventions from 1991 till today"
Organizer: Katarina Ristić (U Leipzig)
Speakers:
Katarina Ristic, Leipzig University: Military Interventionism and Globalization Projects (Introduction)
Christian A. Nielsen, Aarhus University: The Use and Abuse of Balkan Analogies and Precedents in Russia’s Wars with Georgia and Ukraine
Ugur Ümit Üngor, University of Amsterdam and NIOD: The Specter of Intervention(ism) in Syria and Iraq
Erna Burai, The Graduate Institute Geneva: Justificatory Discourses on "Responsible Sovereignty" and Imaginations of World Order
Vladimir Petrovic, Boston University: A Long March: Modalities of American involvement in the Yugoslav Crisis

"Revival of Geopolitics - Spatial imaginations and strategic narratives"
Organizer: Oliver Krause (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig)
Panelists: Claudia Eggart (Postgraduate University of Manchester (School of Social Sciene) / Research Fellow Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin); Stefan Rohdewald (Universität Leipzig); Oliver Krause (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig)