Wednesday, 27 April, 6:00 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)