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Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy Global and European Studies Institute

Course Catalogue (Vorlesungsverzeichnis)

MA “Global Studies – A European Perspective“

Winter term 2019/2020

Table of Contents Addresses and Contact Persons .................................................................................................. 2

Timeline – Winter Term 2019/2020 ........................................................................................... 3

List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................. 3

A Word of Welcome ................................................................................................................ 3

Preliminary Remarks .................................................................................................................. 5

First Year – Global Studies ......................................................................................................... 7

GS-0710 Global History ............................................................................................................ 8

GS-0720 International Studies .................................................................................................. 10

GS-0730 Methods for the Study of Globalisation ........................................................................ 13

GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation: Africa and the Near East I ..................................................... 15

GS-0920 Regions in Globalisation: The Americas I ..................................................................... 16

GS-0930 Regions in Globalisation: Asia and the Middle East I ..................................................... 19

GS-0940 Regions in Globalisation: Europe I .............................................................................. 19

GS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills ......................................................................... 20

German Classes (First- and second-year students) ........................................................................ 26

Sports (First- and second-year students) ...................................................................................... 26

Addresses and Contact Persons

Address: Universität Leipzig

Global and European Studies Institute Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1 04105 Leipzig

Programme Directors:

Prof. Dr Matthias Middell Head of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium E-Mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr Ulf Engel Programme Director “Global Studies – A European Perspective” E-Mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr Stefan Troebst Programme Director “European Studies” E-Mail: [email protected]

Programme Coordinators:

Dipl.-Kffr. Konstanze Klemm Global Studies – A European Perspective Tel. +49 341 97 30 230 Fax +49 341 96 05 261 E-Mail: [email protected]

Stephan Kaschner, M.A. Global Studies – A European Perspective European Studies Tel. +49 341 97 30 263 Fax +49 341 96 05 261 E-Mail: [email protected]

Internet:

gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de

mailto:[email protected]



Timeline – Winter Term 2019/2020

Academic Term 01.10.2019 – 31.03.2020 Introduction Week 07.10.2019 – 11.10.2019 Lecture Time 14.10.2019 – 08.02.2020 Holidays: Reformationstag 31.10.2019 Buß- und Bettag (Holiday only in Saxony) 20.11.2019 Dies Academicus 02.12.2019 Winter break 23.12.2019 – 05.01.2020 Deadlines: Submission Essays – Global Studies 29.02.2020 Submission Master Thesis Exposé (2nd year) 31.01.2020

List of Abbreviations

C Colloquium GESI Global and European Studies Institute (Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 04105 Leipzig) GWZ Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig) GWZO Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (Specks Hof, Eingang A, Reichsstr. 4-6, 04109 Leipzig, 4th floor) HSG Hörsaalgebäude (Universitätsstraße 1, 04109 Leipzig) IFL Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Schongauerstraße 9, 04328 Leipzig) L Lecture NSG Neues Seminargebäude (Universitätsstraße 1, 04109 Leipzig) S Seminar SFB Sonderforschungsbereich 1199 / Collaborative Research Centre 1199 “Processes of

Spacialization under the Global Condition” (Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 6 - 10, 5th floor, 04109 Leipzig)

A Word of Welcome

Dear Global Studies students, On behalf of the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) I would like to welcome all of you joining us for the academic year 2019-2020 at the University of Leipzig. GESI at Leipzig University and its partner institutions, both inside and outside Europe, are happy to host you for your next academic steps towards graduation.

This brochure provides information about the courses taught in the programme in the coming winter term. You will see that some courses are designed for the specific requirements of the Global. Some courses, however, are offered to students of other programmes, such as European Studies or African Studies. They will thus allow for academic exchange and a cross-fertilization of perspectives.

For our second year Global Studies students a Master’s thesis writing workshop will be held in November. This year’s Global Studies winter school will be held from 05.12.-08.12 Payerbach, Österreich.

With regard to research, GESI is closely collaborating with the 2009 established Centre for Area Studies (CAS, http://cas.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/welcome/) as well as the DFG Collaborative Research Group (or Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” (http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~sfb1199/?id=7), that was launched in 2016. Both are located in Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, 5th floor (which is close to Nikolai Church). You should definitely seize the opportunity to engage with well-known guest scholars and visiting faculty! The academic highlights in the upcoming term include:

The SFB’s 4th annual conference, this year on the theme “Imaginations and Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition”, held on 30 September to 3 October.

The regular Wednesday 5-7 pm sessions with guest researchers at the CAS / SFB.

This year’s graduation ceremony of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies consortium will be held on 23 November in Leipzig. As always this occasion will be used by our alumni for reunions of all kind.

I wish all of you an excellent start into this winter term and hope you will discover both the city of Leipzig and its university as convenient places for your study time.

Yours

Prof Dr Ulf Engel

Programme Director Global Studies Leipzig

Preliminary Remarks

Dear Global Studies students,

On the next pages you find the courses we offer in the winter term 2019/2020. We hope you like what we compiled and wish you an exciting, intellectually challenging term. Please read the following instructions for course registration carefully! First year students have to attend the following modules during their first semester in Leipzig: Module GS-0710 Global History Module GS-0720 International Studies Module GS-0730 Methods for the Study of Globalisation Lectures and tutorials in the three modules are mandatory. In the modules GS-0710 Global History and GS-0720 International Studies students can choose one out of several seminars. Second year students need to choose two of the following four regional modules: Module GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East Module GS-0920 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas Module GS-0930 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East Module GS-0940 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe In each module two seminars have to be chosen. Please note that registration for all seminars in all modules is on first- come, first-serve basis. The Module GS-0950 “Academic Writing and Research Skills” is mandatory for all second year students. Part of this module is also a compulsory research internship. All students who have not completed an internship during EMGS which has been recognised as equivalent to the research internship within this module need to apply for one of the internships offered with a motivation letter. The call for applications will be published on the website and via e-mail. Please note, only the courses listed for the respective modules can be chosen. It is not possible to replace the listed courses with courses from other modules or with courses offered within other programmes of the University. Additional courses can be attended as long as slots are available and professors accept your participation. You will have to register for courses online, via https://tool.uni-leipzig.de/. The enrolment period will start

on Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 12:00 and ends on 9 October 2019, at 5 pm. During the introductory week we will have enough time to discuss the study program in detail, and we can help you if you face issues with the enrolment process.

The main examination form within the Master’s course “Global Studies – A European Perspective” is the essay. All essays have to be sent to the respective lecturer and to the address [email protected] by 29 February 2020. Essay guidelines will be explained during the introduction week and can be downloaded from the GESI website. Basic readings for some of the courses are available on the learning platform of the University of Leipzig Moodle: https://moodle2.uni-leipzig.de/. Registration for Moodle is possible only after the enrolment at the University of Leipzig. Further information in this respect will be provided during the introductory weeks.

Stephan Kaschner Study Coordinator

First Year – Global Studies GS-0710 Global History

L Matthias Middell: Global History

T Steffi Marung/Ana Moledo: Introduction to Global History

S Megan Maruschke: The Early Age of Revolutions (1776–1804) in Global History and Global

Studies

S Steffi Marung: Global History of Development: Ideas, Actors and International Organizations

S Michel Espagne: Wege der transnationalen Kulturgeschichte

GS-0720 International Studies

L Ulf Engel: International Studies

T Claudia Baumann: Introduction to International Studies

S Hartmut Elsenhans: Introduction to Political Economy

S Hartmut Elsenhans: Modes of Production and the Trajectory of Capitalism

S Tine Hanrieder: Medicine and Violence in Global Politics

S Jens Köhrsen: Climate Change: What are its Social Dynamics and Solutions in the Digital Age?

S Jens Köhrsen: Sustainable Development in a Post-Secular World

GS-0730 Methods of Globalisation Research

L Matthias Middell/Katarina Ristic: The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research

S Katarina Ristic: Introduction to the Qualitative Methods

T Ute Wardenga/ Ninja Steinbach-Hüther/Oliver Krause: Introduction to Methods in the Study of

Globalisation

Second Year – Global Studies

GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East I

S Ulf Engel: The State in Africa

S Dmitri van den Bersselaar/Mariusz Lukasiewicz: Topics and Debates in African Economic History

S Dmitri van den Bersselaar/Lara Krause: Political Economy of Africa

S Gilad Ben-Nun: Settler-Based Conflicts in a Comparative Perspective

GS-0920 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas I

S Peter Gärtner: Oil, Power and Climate

S Peter Gärtner: Indigeneity and Europeanisation – World Regions in Comparative Perspective

S Adamantios Skordos: Transitional Justice in Southern Europe, East-Central Europe and in Latin America


GS-0930 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East I

S Wolfram von Scheliha: On new and old Great Games: Central Asia as a contested global area (19th-21st cent.)

S Elisabeth Kaske: Cultures of Knowledge: National Language Movements in China and Asia

S Phillip Clart: Reform Movements in Chinese Buddhism since the 19th century

S Gilad Ben-Nun: Settler-Based Conflicts in a Comparative Perspective

GS-0940 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe I

L Holger Lengfeld: Is there a European Society Emerging?

S Michel Espagne: Wege der transnationalen Kulturgeschichte

S Adamantios Skordos: Transitional Justice in Southern Europe, East-Central Europe and in Latin America

S Stefan Troebst: Germania Sovietica: Sowjetische Präsenz in Deutschland (1944-1994)

S Jens Köhrsen: Climate Change: What are its Social Dynamics and Solutions in the Digital Age?


GS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills

W Matthias Middell/Ulf Engel: Global Studies Master’s Thesis Workshop

W Caroline Allen: Demystifying the Master’s Thesis

First Year – Global Studies

GS-0710 Global History

Global History Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell (GESI) Time: Monday, 9.15 – 10.45, starts on 7 October (during Introduction week) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Combined with exam in tutorial

Description:

The lecture introduces students to the wide field of global studies by focussing on approaches to rewrite world history in a global age. The first major aim is to explore how historians of different times and places have answered questions like: Why should we write, study or read global history? How have understandings of global or world history changed across time? What is global history good for? What is the relation between Globalisation and global history? What are the difficulties of studying and writing global histories? Does world history writing influence our common future? What are Euro- and Americano-centrism? Are non-centric world histories possible? How has the professional and public reception of world history changed? The second aim of the course is to explore the relationship between an historical approach and other perspectives on Globalisation. Globalisation, understood as a political project, pursued by specific actors with conflicting interests and characterized by dynamic power relations across time will be analysed on a variety of key areas such as economic and social inequalities, global governance and world orders, the role of technology, worldwide migration systems or the history of war and political competition during the 19th and 20th century. This lecture is supported by the university’s online platform Moodle, which will also provide access to compulsory readings.

Introductory Literature: For this course, a good general reference work like Patrick Manning’s Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (University Library of Leipzig: NB 5100 M265), the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Thinking (NB 5100 B789-1), the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History or the little volume Fifty Key Thinkers on History by Marnie Hughes-Warrington (NB 5650 H894) can be useful. Main journals in the field are the American-based Journal of World History, the British Journal of Global History and the Leipzig-based journal Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung – all of them provide important articles, book reviews and thematic issues on topics in the field and should be regularly consulted. The online journal World History Connected is also worth a look (http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/).

Introduction to Global History Tutorial Lecturer: Dr. Steffi Marung and Ana Moledo (Centre for Area Studies) Time: Tuesday 11.15 – 12.45 (group 1) and 13.15 – 14.45 (group 2) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Essay Description: The tutorial complements the lecture in Global History and shall enable students to discuss and apply the content of the lecture. Group work and in-depth analysis of readings are part of the tutorial. Readings are provided for each session individually on the university online platform Moodle.

http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/

The Early Age of Revolutions (1776–1804) in Global History and Global Studies Seminar Lecturer: Dr. Megan Maruschke (GESI) Time: Wednesday, 15.15 – 16.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 327 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: The Age of Revolutions is the time period in which political revolutions and wars of independence erupted in Europe and the Americas. Historians have traditionally thought of the American (1776–1783) and French (1789–1799) revolutions as ushering in the birth of the modern world; these national revolutions culminated in the creation of nation states, democracy, and the end of monarchy. Recent global approaches to the age of revolutions have critiqued and qualified these narratives, showing the impact of the Haitian (1791–1804) revolution and the role of non-European actors who influenced the course and direction of American and French political reforms. Furthermore, this scholarship emphasizes the transnational entanglements between these national revolutions and stresses their imperial contexts. This course is centered on entanglements of the age of revolutions and the repercussions of these events in global history and global studies. As such, we will also ask how these revolutionary moments impacted later major world historical events and their continued impact in global society today. As a result, the Haitian revolution takes center stage in this syllabus. Key questions include: in what ways did the revolutions between 1775 and 1804 impact economic, political, and social institutions like slavery and citizenship? How did/do societies cope with social and ethnic differences? Where do human rights come from? And who have been the key actors in “making the modern world”? The required seminar readings will include primary source material, secondary literature, and other media (websites and documentary). Students are required to read one major book in the field, write a book report, and present the work to the class. I will also provide a list of additional readings that will be helpful for essay preparation. This course is followed by a seminar in the spring semester on empire in the Americas in the nineteenth century, which will include sessions on Spanish American independence.

Global History of Development: Ideas, Actors and International Organizations Seminar Lecturer: Dr. Steffi Marung (Centre for Area Studies) Time: Wednesday 11.15 – 12.45 Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.15 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: “Development” is not only a contested concept and political project, connected to similarly disputed terms such as “modernity” and “backwardness”. It also has a longer history extending back to imperial times and its history is an essentially global one, connecting actors in different world regions in often unequal relations, promoting the transregional circulation of ideas, evolving in often competing projects and practices on multiple scales (national, regional, international) and in variable spaces (empires, nation states, communities). Covering the time period between the 1930s to the early 21st century, this seminar firstly introduces into visions and ideas of development and how these ideas were critiqued and reshaped throughout the 20th century. Secondly, larger historical currents such as decolonization and the Cold War, the rise and fall of the socialist camp, global economic crises, and regional integration processes will be discussed to better

situate the specific dynamics of the history of development in a global perspective. Thirdly, the seminar introduces specific actors and institutions – such as scholars and experts, international organizations, NGOs and local communities – as the agents and arenas for how development is filled with meaning and translated into practices and projects. In this context, the seminar integrates often neglected geographies of the history of development, that were far more complex than simply spreading from the West, but also unfolded in South-South-interactions or in encounters between the socialist camp and the “Third World”. Questions of rural development, health, food, and gender will receive particular attention as fields of development initiatives. Reading: Unger, Corinna R. 2018. International development. A postwar history. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Macekura, Stephen J., and Erez Manela. 2018. The development century: A global history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Packard, Randall M., and Frederick Cooper. 1997. International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wege der transnationalen Kulturgeschichte Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Michel Espagne (ENS Paris) Time: Friday, 11.15 – 12.45 Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Language: German Beschreibung: Das Seminar wird Momente der transnationalen Geschichtsschreibung beleuchten und dabei auf Forschungsergebnisse der letzten Jahre zurückgreifen.

GS-0720 International Studies

International Studies – Introduction to Social Science Theories on Globalisation (with emphasis on Africa) Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (African Studies Institute, GESI) Time: Thursday, 13.15 – 14.45 Place: HSG, Universitätsstraße 1, lecture hall 12 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Combined with exam in tutorial Description: This lecture is an introduction to social science theories on “Globalisation” and Africa’s place within these debates. First, we will look at classis mainstream economic/political economy approaches; second, we will have a closer look at perspectives challenging this mainstream – based on post-colonial studies, new political geography and critical areas studies; third, these perspectives will be applied to a range of global policy fields/case studies (including the rise of the BRICS, climate change politics, the so-called Arab Spring). This seminar is supported by the university’s online-platform Moodle through which access to compulsory readings will be provided. Suggested readings for preparation: Held, D. and A. McGrew 2007. Globalization / Anti-Globalization. Beyond the Great Divide. 2nd ed., Cambridge, Malden MA: Polity.

Martell, Luke 2007. “The Third Wave in Globalization Theory”, International Studies Review (9) 173-196.

Introduction to International Studies Tutorial Lecturer: Dr. Claudia Baumann (GESI) Time: Thursday, 11.15 – 12.45 (Group 1), 15.15 – 16.45 (Group 2) Place: Group 1 : GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Group 2 : NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 223 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Essay Description: The tutorial complements the lecture in international studies and shall enable students to discuss and apply the content of the lecture. Group work and in-depth analysis of readings are part of the tutorial.

Introduction to Political Economy Seminar Lecturer: Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (GESI) Time: Tuesday 15.15 – 16.45 additional session on Friday, 13.12.2019, 14.00 – 19.00 (NSG, 203) Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, room 414 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: Standard economic teaching rarely makes a significant link between social and economic dynamics. Neoclassical economists prevail. Keynesian economics are limited to the analysis of the consequences of state spending. In this course the original question of political economy is taken once more: why does capitalist growth appear, and how does capitalist growth change the social structures. This course introduces main terms, categories of Political Economy like determination of prices, production costs and profit, rents, growth and underdevelopment, and presents classical liberal, Marxist and Keynesianist answers to these questions. The contemporary export oriented industrialisation is shown to be a chance of overcoming underdevelopment. With respect to questions of environment and future consumption, the chances of capitalism to survive in its actual forms are discussed. Introductory Reading: Wilcock, Neil; Scholz, Corinna: Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism. Conversations on Theory and Policy Implications (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Elsenhans, Hartmut: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. A Contribution to Global and Historical Keynesianism (Beverly Hills, Cal.; Londres; New Delhi: Sage, 2015); 326 S., Elsenhans, Hartmut: "World System Theory and Keynesian Macroeconomics: Towards an Alternative Explanation of the Rise and Fall of the Capitalist World System", in: Cahiers du CREAD, 97 (2011); S. 5-61. Elsenhans, Hartmut: The Rise and Demise of the Capitalist World System (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011); 217 S.

Modes of Production and the Trajectory of Capitalism Seminar Lecturer: Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (GESI)

Time: Tuesday, 17.15 – 18.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, room 414 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: Precapitalist modes of production tend to inequality. Capitalism depends on the empowerment of labour. It therefore depends on social and economic conditions which are unstable and are not produced automatically in the course of history. Capitalism is an incidental outcome of special configurations and threatened if it does not transform the rest of the world economy. Capitalism dissolves noncapitalist structures but does not necessarily transform them into capitalist ones. The actual world situation is characterised by strong tendencies of reducing capitalism and generalising the globalisation of rent. There is a list of introductory readings. There will be a list of texts for each session. In each session there will be a presentation by one of the students. This student will chose among the literature those texts which she/he sees most appropriate as a basis of the discussion.

Medicine and Violence in Global Politics Seminar Lecturer: Dr. Tine Hanrieder (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) Time: Tuesday, 13.15 – 16.45

The seminar takes place on the following dates: 29.10.2019, 12.11.2019, 26.11.2019, 03.12.2019, 14.01.2020, 21.01.2020, 04.02.2020

Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.15 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: Aims and method of the seminar

- thematic: Introduce students to global health as a field of global inquiry. The seminar draws on literature in International Relations and neighboring fields such as history, anthropology, and sociology.

- methodological/theoretical: Immersion into methods of critical social analysis through different conceptions of violence such as physical, structural, and symbolic violence. These concepts are not necessarily discrete but may overlap. By reconstructing their analytic value through concrete empirical studies, we gain a deep and critical understanding of different social science approaches to health and medicine.

- research-oriented: Apply concepts discussed in the seminar to analyze a phenomenon of global health politics.

Requirements

- careful reading of the compulsory literature for each session - presentation on a designated theme (see presentation themes in course outline below). You are

expected to find additional literature in consultation with the instructor. - preparation of an outline (around 2–3 pages) for a seminar paper, to be sent to T. Hanrieder

via email until January 17. You may draw on/extend the theme you worked on for your presentation. Additional suggestions for cases and topics can be found in the outline below.

- seminar paper, due date: March 31

Climate Change: What are its Social Dynamics and Solutions in the Digital Age? Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen (Universität Basel)

Time: Wednesday, 17.15 – 18.45, starts 23rd October Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.15 Description: Climate change is arguably the most threatening and complex problem of the global world. As such, the global community is currently struggling to evolve strategies to mitigate climate change and to adapt to its consequences. Social scientists have increasingly started to participate in these efforts. They critically reflect the chosen strategies, theorize the needed socio-technical transitions processes, study ongoing transformation efforts, and develop alternative solutions. The seminar addresses climate change from a social science perspective, providing an overview about the way in which social scientists are engaging with this topic.

Sustainable Development in a Post-Secular World Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen (Universität Basel) Time: Wednesday, 15.15 – 16.45, starts 23rd October Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.15 Description: Religion continues to shape the lives of billions of people. In particular, in the Global South, religion is prominent. Here, it informs the worldviews, ethics and daily practices of large population segments. While development politics have long ignored religion, in recent decades, it has received increasing attention. Some think that it favours development work, as it helps to reach the massive number of believers in the Global South and influence their attitudes. By contrast, others regard religion as a hindrance for development, as it blocks social change and constitutes a source of conflict. This seminar explores in what way religion can facilitate and block sustainable development. It provides an overview about current research about development and religion and the ways religious organizations are engaging in international development activities.

GS-0730 Methods for the Study of Globalisation

The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research Lecture/Seminar Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell and Dr. Katarina Ristic Time: Monday, 11.15 – 12.45 (first 5 weeks) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Participation: Compulsory

Description: The methods module consists of three main segments: Lectures, Seminar I and Seminar II. The lectures address Global Studies as pluri- and partly postdisciplinary field of research, and the consequences of that status in terms of methodological design of future research. Since it is impossible to introduce all kinds of methods that may be used by any scholar in this vast field, the lecture limits itself to a reflection on the historical development of the various approaches to a canon of methods and why none of these agendas has remained stable over the course of the 20th century? It comes in five parts: what do we mean by post-disciplinarity, what is the impact of the spatial turn, the relationship comparison and connectivity, the opposition and combination of quantitative and qualitative research, and the role of reflexivity in a field where positionality plays such an important role.

The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research Lecture/Seminar Lecturers: Dr. Katarina Ristic (GESI) Time: Group 1: Monday, 11.15 – 12.45 Group 2 : Wednesday 13.15 - 14.45 Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 (Monday, Group 1)

GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 2nd floor, room 2.17 (Wednesday, Group 2) Participation: Compulsory Description: Conceptualized as an introduction to the qualitative methods in global studies, the course addresses the whole research process from the research design, literature review, and formulation of research question, to the analysis and interpretation, focusing on the practical application of analysis methods. The course is divided in two parts: the first part addresses general methodological questions like relation between theoretical approach, methodology and methods, unit of analysis, production of documents/facts and position of the researcher. In the second part, students will probe practical text analysis in the class, using the method extrapolated from four previously introduced methodological frameworks (content analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, critical discourse analysis).

Introduction to Methods in the Study of Globalisation Tutorial Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ute Wardenga, Dr. Ninja Steinbach-Hüther, Dr. Oliver Krause (Leibniz-Institute

for Regional Geography) Time: Wednesday, 9.15 – 10.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, room 426 Examination: Group Project Participation: Compulsory Description: The seminar gives an in-depth overview of methods of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The main aim is to become acquainted with the existing literature but also to learn how to deal with, and solve, the challenges that may emerge from the application of particular methods.

Second Year – Global Studies

GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation: Africa and the Near East I

Please choose two of the following seminars:

The State in Africa: Debates from Southern Africa Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (African Studies Institute, GESI) Time: Wednesday, 13.15 – 14.45 Place: SFB, Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 10, 5th floor, Conference Room Participation: Choice Examination: Essay

Description: In African Studies, the African state is one of the most heatedly debated concepts. In this seminar Southern Africa will be used as the regional context in which we will discuss various mainstream, critical and post-colonial contributions to this debate, with a focus on the nature of settler economies and their legacy, liberation movements in power and their political culture, the political economy of states in the region, regional integration through SADC and SACU as well as recent processes of state capture in South Africa, etc. For preparation Roger Southall 2013. Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa. Woodbridge: James Currey.

Topics and Debates in African Economic History Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar and Mariusz Lukasiewicz (Institute for African

Studies) Time: Monday, 9.15 – 10.45 Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, room 5 2.16 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay

Description: African economic history is experiencing a resurgence. This seminar explores current topics and debates in the economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1500-2010. Methodologically, the seminar invites students to assess critically both qualitative and quantitative empirical contributions to the “new economic history of Africa”. Introductory reading: Hillbom, Ellen, and Erik Green. An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Transformations and Political Changes. Palgrave, 2019. Austen, Ralph A. African economic history: Internal development and external dependency. James Currey, 1987.

Key Questions in African Studies Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar and Lara Krause (Institute for African Studies)

Time: Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45 and 11.15 – 12.45 Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, H2 2.16

Participation: Choice Examination: Essay

Description: This reading course will start with a critical overview of the development of African Studies, its positioning and current role. Following this, in the main body of the course we will introduce in historical and contemporary perspective an exemplary selection of important topics, debates and authors relevant for the field of African Studies. We will approach the literature from the perspective of Five General Questions about Africa. We will critically examine the topics and perspectives implied in these questions, and the diverse answers provided by authors working in various disciplines within African Studies.

Settler-Based conflicts in a comparative perspective Lecturer: Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (GESI) Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45 This seminar takes place on the following dates only: 10. + 12.12.2019 ; 17. + 19.12.2019 ; 07. + 09.01.2020 ; 14. + 16.01.2020 ;

21. + 23.01.2020 ; 28. + 30.01.2020 ; 04. + 06.02.2020 Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16

Description: Settler-based conflicts are characterized by their perpetual protractedness and lethality. Contrary to colonial conflicts or border conflicts, where occupiers plunder the land and then leave, in settler-based conflicts the descendants of the first comers remain on the land and attach themselves to it. Over time, these settler communities gradually distance themselves away from their motherlands, eventually severing the ties to that motherland. And thus their desire or ability to disengage from the native population decreases. The ever-growing cycles of inter-community violence which ensue, waged between the privileged settlers and the oppressed local indigenous populations, become self-perpetuating destructive violence cycles, running counter to the prospects of those conflicts’ resolution. Yet contrary to Camus' grim vision of his own native Algeria and the prospects for his natal Pied Noir community, settler based conflicts have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability for resolution and significant improvement. This has been most notably in the mother of all settler-based conflicts: Northern Ireland as well as South Africa. The Palestinian/ Israeli conflict in turn, has assumed the primordial role of intractability, hitherto reserved for Northern Ireland and South Africa. This seminar deals with the history, theory, and development of settler-based conflicts. It looks at the prospects for their resolution, and at the pitfalls of their failed resolution attempts and exacerbating characteristics.

GS-0920 Regions in Globalisation: The Americas II

Please choose two of the following seminars.

Oil, Power and Climate Seminar Lecturer: Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner (GESI) Time: Monday, 17.15 – 18.45 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 222 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: This course examines the intersections of the global trends of oil policy, the tensions between the most important producer regions and the consumer countries, the challenges of the energy security and climate

change. The course seeks to explore the goals and challenges of oil policy as a result of the (asymmetric) interactions between the United States as global oil power, the oil regions (Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Central Asia) und the most important extra-regional actors of the global energy policy (EU, Russia, China). A special focus is directed on the debate around ‚Peak Oil‛ and its global impact (energy crisis, food crisis, ecological crisis and the resulting conflicts). The goal of the course is to give students a good understanding of the complexity and realities of the global and regional oil policy building through reliance on theoretical literature and specific case studies. Suggested Readings: Karl, Terry Lynn: The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Berkeley 1997 Klare, Michael: Rising powers, shrinking planet. How scare energy is creating a new world order. Oxford 2008 Leggett, Jeremy: Half Gone – Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis. Portobello Books Ltd. 2005 Yergin, Daniel: The Quest. Energy, Security, and the remaking of the Modern World. New York 2011

Indigeneity and Europeanisation – World Regions in Comparative Perspective Seminar Lecturer: Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner (GESI) Time: Tuesday, 17.15 – 18.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 320 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: This course explores the intersections of Globalisation, Europeanisation and indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples may not be numerically significant, but their rising strength as new political actors has catapulted indigenous peoples’ politics to the centre of the global stage. Indigenous survival, resistance and mobilisation have deep historical roots in the experience of conquest, European colonialism and state formation after independence. The course is organised around the analysis of indigenous peoples: First, as victims of European colonialism, second, as new political actors in the most Europeanised world regions (the Americas and South Pacific) and third, as a new global movement. The course focuses on the transformative capacity of the indigenous movements both in the (post-)settler societies of Canada, United States, Australia and Aotearoa/ New Zealand as well as the plurinational societies of Mexico and Bolivia. All themes we will discuss in a comparative perspective. Suggested Readings: Anaya, James: International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples. Austin et al. 2009 Ashcroft, Bill/ Griffiths, Gareth/ Tifflin, Helen (eds.): The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (2. Auflage). London/ New York 2006; Part Six: Indigeneity, pp. 163-188 Maaka, Roger: The Indigenous Experience. Global Perspectives. Toronto 2006 Minde, Henry (ed.): Indigenous Peoples: Self Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Delf 2008 Niezen, Ronald: The Origins of Indigenism. Human rights and the Politics of Identity. Berkeley et al. 2003

Transitional Justice in Southern Europe, East-Central Europe, and in Latin America Seminar Lecturer: PD Dr. Adamantios Skordos (GWZO/GESI) Time: Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45, starts on the 24th of October Place: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO),

Specks Hof, Reichsstr. 4-6, Eingang „A“, 04109 Leipzig, 4th floor Participation: Choice Examination: Essay

Description: The aim of the seminar is the study of democratic transitions in Southern Europe in the 1970s (Portugal, Spain, Greece), in Latin America during the 1980s (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and in East-Central Europe after 1989 (Romania, Bulgaria, Poland) focusing especially on the topic of transitional justice. In particular, the seminar will address in a comparative perspective and through a transregional approach the factors causing the end of authoritarian rule and shaping the terms of democratic transition in the above cases by introducing key concepts related to transitional justice. The mode of transition, associated with different processes of remembrance and forgetting, is decisive for criminal prosecution of crimes committed during dictatorship. For instance, in Spain, Uruguay and Chile, the political elites in charge of transition adopted an “Amnesia Modell” to tackle the legacies of dictatorial past. In these cases, societies witnessed in the beginning phases to democracy a silencing of any discussion on the dictatorship which again led to a suspension of criminal prosecution of human rights abuses. In Greece and Argentina, by contrast, those persons of the military dictatorship with maximum responsibility for human rights violations were put on trial and sentenced either to death or to life imprisonment immediately after the collapse of their regimes (“Selective Punishment”). Decisive for this development was in both cases the fact that the end of the juntas was the direct result of a military defeat (Cyprus crisis, Falklands War). Similar, in the Portuguese case, the Angolan War had a great impact on the process of dissolution of the Salazar regime. Furthermore, the seminar will draw comparisons to Eastern European cases. For example, the Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu was 1989 not in position to initiate a "regulated" transition to democracy and retain control of the military and judiciary after the transfer of power according to the Chilean or Spanish model. As a consequence, Ceauşescu and his wife were sentenced to death in a show trial and executed by a firing squad. In Bulgaria, transitional justice took a different path. Todor Živkov, the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Head of State for decades, was charged several times but did not face any criminal consequences ultimately. In Poland, again, the parliament decided as early as 1993 to stop the prosecution against General Wojciech Jaruzelski who had proclaimed 1981 martial law and sent the military into the streets to suppress the Solidarność uprising. More than a decade later, a new attempt was launched by the Institute of National Remembrance to prosecute the former Polish Communist party prime minister along with other high-ranking communists.


GS-0930 Regions in Globalisation: Asia and the Middle East II

Please choose two of the following seminars.

Great Game 2.0 — Central Asia as a lab of geopolitical competition Seminar Lecturer: Dr. Wolfram von Scheliha (GESI) Time: Thursday, 17.15 – 18.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 224 Participation: Choice Examination: Presentation, Essay Description: The 19th century Great Game was the confrontation between the European colonial empires Great Britain and Russia over Central Asia. While Britain feared that Russia was determined to gain access to the Indian Ocean, Russia intended to secure its political, military, and economic ambitions in the East. But the Great Game was also closely related to the Great Power relations in Europe. With the independence of the Central Asian states in 1991 and the rising interests of the major powers in the region since the turn of the 21st century, some observers referred to a New Great Game. Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski († 2017) stressed that American geostrategy ought be preventing Russia from regaining control over Central Asia. The Obama administration’s New Silk Road initiative fell into this line. Russia, on the other hand, launched with the Eurasian Union a new project to integrate Central Asia into some post-imperial political structure. China with its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang province (Uighurs) and its rising demand for natural resources has also strong interests in the region which resulted in its One Belt, One Road policy and the investment of huge amounts of money. The seminar addresses, in addition to the analysis of the historical and current political developments, the following issues: geopolitics, Eurasianism, post-colonialism, Islam and Islamism, and “imitated democracies”. Introductory reading: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York, 1997); T. A. Heathcote, Balochistan, the British and the Great Game (London, 2016), pp. 21-40; Martin Ewans, Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia. Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865-95 (London-New York: 2010); Maria Raquel Freire, Roger E. Kanet (eds.), Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia. The Return of the ‘Great Game’ (New York: 2010); Michael B. Share ‘The Great Game Revisited: Three Empires Collide in Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang)”, Europe-Asia Studies 67 (2015): 7, pp. 1102–1129; Qamar Fatima, Sumera Zafar, ‘New Great Game: Players, Interests, Strategies and Central Asia’, South Asian Studies 29 (2014): 2, pp. 627-655.

Cultures of Knowledge: National Language Movements in China and Asia Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kaske (Society and Culture of Modern China) Time: Wednesday, 11.15 - 12.45 Place: Schillerstraße 6, M 104 (first floor) Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: The creation of national languages has featured prominently in national movements around the world. This seminar will study China’s national language movement in the twentieth century and its efforts to standardize the modern written and spoken language from a comparative perspective. We will explore how various factors shaped ideas of a national language in different countries of Asia, including regional identities, class politics, the role of antiquity in the image of the nation, educational policies and literacy campaigns, the impact of foreign languages, improved communications by newspaper and telegraph,

advances in linguistic scholarship, etc. This course is reading-intensive. Activities will include classroom discussions, with short lectures and student presentations. Assessment will be based on student participation in class and on individual research papers. The module is taught in English. Knowledge of Chinese is no prerequisite for attending the seminar, and students are welcome to present on and write their research paper about other Asian languages. Students in Sinology who take the module for ten credits will also take part in the exercise class where we will read and translate academic work and primary sources from Chinese. Introductory reading: Elisabeth Kaske, “Cultural Identity, Education, and Language Politics in China and Japan, 1870–1920“, in: David Hoyt, Karen Oslund (ed.). The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006, 215–256.

Reform Movements in Chinese Buddhism since 19th Century Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Philip Clart (Society and Culture of Modern China) Time: Thursday, 15.15 – 16.45 Place: Seminargebäude, Universitätsstraße 3, room 302 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: Just like China itself, Chinese Buddhism was confronted with an existential crisis in the second half of the 19th century, which threatened both its socio-economic and its doctrinal structures. A Buddhist reform movement sought to counter these threats and to secure the continuation of both the Buddhist community (sangha) and its teachings (dharma) in a modernizing China. The seminar introduces the key reformers and their influence on Chinese and Taiwanese Buddhism in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is accompanied by a reading class devoted to key texts of and on the Chinese Buddhist reform movement.

Requirements: A seminar seeks to address its chosen topic not primarily by means of lectures, but in a roundtable approach with input by all participants. This requires first of all regular participation, which in turn means not just physical presence, but careful preparation of and active intellectual engagement with the course materials. In addition to the general readings assigned to the whole group, each participant will choose several additional readings and give brief Powerpoint presentations on them throughout the semester. By the end of the semester, each participant wishing to receive credit for the class will submit a term paper of about 6000 words; its topic can be chosen by the student, but needs to be approved by the instructor. The last two sessions will be devoted to student presentations on their paper topics. An outline of the term paper is due on December 5. The reading class requires careful preparation of the assigned Chinese texts. Obviously, basic reading competence in both classical and modern Chinese is expected. Students not majoring in Chinese Studies can replace the reading class with another assignment, subject to the instructor’s approval (e.g., directed readings).

All readings and course materials will be made accessible via the Moodle platform.

Settler-Based conflicts in a comparative perspective Lecturer: Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun (GESI) Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45 This seminar takes place on the following dates only: 10. + 12.12.2019 ; 17. + 19.12.2019 ; 07. + 09.01.2020 ; 14. + 16.01.2020 ;

21. + 23.01.2020 ; 28. + 30.01.2020 ; 04. + 06.02.2020

Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay

Description: Settler-based conflicts are characterized by their perpetual protractedness and lethality. Contrary to colonial conflicts or border conflicts, where occupiers plunder the land and then leave, in settler-based conflicts the descendants of the first comers remain on the land and attach themselves to it. Over time, these settler communities gradually distance themselves away from their motherlands, eventually severing the ties to that motherland. And thus their desire or ability to disengage from the native population decreases. The ever-growing cycles of inter-community violence which ensue, waged between the privileged settlers and the oppressed local indigenous populations, become self-perpetuating destructive violence cycles, running counter to the prospects of those conflicts’ resolution. Yet contrary to Camus' grim vision of his own native Algeria and the prospects for his natal Pied Noir community, settler based conflicts have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability for resolution and significant improvement. This has been most notably in the mother of all settler-based conflicts: Northern Ireland as well as South Africa. The Palestinian/ Israeli conflict in turn, has assumed the primordial role of intractability, hitherto reserved for Northern Ireland and South Africa. This seminar deals with the history, theory, and development of settler-based conflicts. It looks at the prospects for their resolution, and at the pitfalls of their failed resolution attempts and exacerbating characteristics.

GS-0940 Regions in Globalisation: Europe II

Is there a European Society Emerging? Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Holger Lengfeld (Institute for Sociology) Time: Dienstag, 13.15-14.45 Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 1, S 328 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay (Literature Report)

Description: In this lecture I aim at investigating European integration as a process of rising transnational social integration between the citizens from European Union member states. I will start with an outline of the major fields of Europe’s systemic integration regarding economics and (social) policy. The main part of the lecture is about different dimensions of integration of people in Europe: European identity and trust, solidarity, transnational mobility, European citizenship, and the emergence of a European public sphere. To earn 5 ECTS, students from European and Global Studies are requested to participate in the lecture continuously (no more than 3 times of absence of the lecture) and have to write a literature essay (approx. 5 pages). Detailed regulations and topics for writing the essay will be given in the due course.

Wege der transnationalen Kulturgeschichte Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Michel Espagne (ENS Paris) Time: Friday, 11.15 – 12.45 Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.16 Language: German

Beschreibung: Das Seminar wird Momente der transnationalen Geschichtsschreibung beleuchten und dabei auf Forschungsergebnisse der letzten Jahre zurückgreifen.

Transitional Justice in Southern Europe, East-Central Europe and Latin America Seminar Lecturer: PD Dr. Adamantios Skordos (GWZO/GESI) Time: Thursday, 9.15 – 10.45, starts on the 24th of October Place: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO),

Specks Hof, Reichsstr. 4-6, Eingang „A“, 04109 Leipzig, 4th floor Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: The aim of the seminar is the study of democratic transitions in Southern Europe in the 1970s (Portugal, Spain, Greece), in Latin America during the 1980s (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and in East-Central Europe after 1989 (Romania, Bulgaria, Poland) focusing especially on the topic of transitional justice. In particular, the seminar will address in a comparative perspective and through a transregional approach the factors causing the end of authoritarian rule and shaping the terms of democratic transition in the above cases by introducing key concepts related to transitional justice. The mode of transition, associated with different processes of remembrance and forgetting, is decisive for criminal prosecution of crimes committed during dictatorship. For instance, in Spain, Uruguay and Chile, the political elites in charge of transition adopted an “Amnesia Modell” to tackle the legacies of dictatorial past. In these cases, societies witnessed in the beginning phases to democracy a silencing of any discussion on the dictatorship which again led to a suspension of criminal prosecution of human rights abuses. In Greece and Argentina, by contrast, those persons of the military dictatorship with maximum responsibility for human rights violations were put on trial and sentenced either to death or to life imprisonment immediately after the collapse of their regimes (“Selective Punishment”). Decisive for this development was in both cases the fact that the end of the juntas was the direct result of a military defeat (Cyprus crisis, Falklands War). Similar, in the Portuguese case, the Angolan War had a great impact on the process of dissolution of the Salazar regime. Furthermore, the seminar will draw comparisons to Eastern European cases. For example, the Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu was 1989 not in position to initiate a "regulated" transition to democracy and retain control of the military and judiciary after the transfer of power according to the Chilean or Spanish model. As a consequence, Ceauşescu and his wife were sentenced to death in a show trial and executed by a firing squad. In Bulgaria, transitional justice took a different path. Todor Živkov, the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Head of State for decades, was charged several times but did not face any criminal consequences ultimately. In Poland, again, the parliament decided as early as 1993 to stop the prosecution against General Wojciech Jaruzelski who had proclaimed 1981 martial law and sent the military into the streets to suppress the Solidarność uprising. More than a decade later, a new attempt was launched by the Institute of National Remembrance to prosecute the former Polish Communist party prime minister along with other high-ranking communists.

Germania Sovietica: Sowjetische Präsenz in Deutschland (1944-1994) Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst Time: Tuesday, 15.15 – 16.45, starts on October 22nd

Place: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Specks Hof, Reichsstr. 4-6, Eingang „A“, 04109 Leipzig, 4. Stock, Vortragssaal

Language: German Beschreibung: Im Herbst 1944 erreichte die Rote Armee das Territorium des Deutschen Reiches und nach dessen bedingungsloser Kapitulation am 8. Mai 1945 wurde in Mitteldeutschland die Sowjetische Miitäradministration für Deutschland (SMAD), in den drei westlichen Besatzungszonen sowjetische Militärmissionen sowie die Viermächteverwaltung für Großberlin in Form des Alliierten Kontrollrats und der Alliierten Kommandatura errichtet. Nach der Gründung der DDR 1949 wurde die SMAD zur Sowjetischen Kontrollkommission in Deutschland (SKK) transformiert, die wiederum 1955 in die Behörde des sowjetischen Hohen Kommissars der UdSSR in Deutschland umgebildet wurde. In Ostberlin wurde die Sowjetische Botschaft wiedereröffnet und auf dem Territorium der DDR etliche sowjetische Konsulate eröffnet. In der Bundesrepublik erfolgte das erst nach 1955. Die in der DDR stationierte Westgruppe der sowjetischen Streitkräfte umfasste bis zu 550.000 Offiziere, Soldaten und Zivilangestellte – hinzu kamen zahlreiche Familienangehörige. Auch nach der Implosion der UdSSR befanden sich im wiedervereinigten Deutschland postsowjetische Truppen, die jetzt unter dem Kommando der Streitkräfte der neuen Russländischen Föderation standen. Deren Abzug war am 31. August 1994 abgeschlossen. Im selben Jahr stellte die alliierte Flugsicherheitszentrale in Berlin-Schöneberg ihren Betrieb ein, wohingegen das alliierte Kriegsverbrechergefängnis in Berlin-Spandau bereits 1987 geschlossen worden war.

Das für Studierende der Masterstudiengänge European Studies, Global Studies, Kulturwissenschaften und Geschichte konzipierte Seminar wird von zwei eintägigen Exkursionen innerhalb Leipzigs und nach Halle/S. sowie von einer dreitätigen nach Berlin, Potsdam und Wünsdorf begleitet. Kenntnisse von Sprachen der Sowjetunion sind erwünscht.

Literatur: Norman M. Naimark, Die Russen in Deutschland. Die sowjetische Besatzungszone 1945 bis 1949, Berlin 1997; Silke Satjukow: Besatzer. „Die Russen“ in Deutschland 1945–1994. Göttingen 2008; Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Stefan Wolle: Roter Stern über Deutschland. Sowjetische Truppen in der DDR. 2. Auflage, Links, Berlin 2010; Horst Möller, Alexandr O. Tschubarjan (Hrsg.): SMAD-Handbuch. Die sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland 1945–1949. München 2009; Gerhard Wettig: Der Tjulpanov-Bericht: Sowjetische Besatzungspolitik in Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Göttingen 2012; Dietrich Rauschning (Hrsg.): Rechtsstellung Deutschlands. Völkerrechtliche Verträge und rechtsgestaltende Akte. München 1985; Matvej P. Burlakov (Hrsg.): Sovetskie vojska v Germanii 1945-1994. Pamjatnyj al’bom / Sowjetische Truppen in Deutschland 1945-1994. Gedenkalbum. Moskva 1994; Matvej P. Burlakov: Wir verabschieden uns als Freunde – Der Abzug. Aufzeichnungen des Oberkommandierenden der Westgruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte: Bonn [u. a.] 1994; Wladimir S. Semjonow: Von Stalin bis Gorbatschow. Ein halbes Jahrhundert in diplomatischer Mission. 1939–1991. Berlin 1995; Greogry Klimow. Berliner Kreml. Köln 1951; Hans-Albert Hoffmann, Siegfried Stoof: Die sowjetischen Truppen in Deutschland – Ihr Hauptquartier in Wünsdorf. Berlin 2008; Jörg Morré, Stefan Büttner: Sowjetische Hinterlassenschaften in Berlin und Brandenburg. Berlin 2014; Wladimir Gelfand: Deutschland-Tagebuch 1945-1946. Aufzeichnungen eines Rotarmisten. Ausgewählt und kommentiert von Elke Scherstjanoj. Berlin 2006; Karl-Heinz Lezim: Schulter an Schulter – Eine Bilddokumentation über die Klassen- und Waffenbrüderschaft der Bürger der DDR und der Angehörigen der Nationalen Volksarmee mit den Angehörigen der Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland (GSSD). Hrsg. von der Politischen Hauptverwaltung der NVA. Berlin (Ost) 1984; Horst Lohmann: GSSD – Die Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland. Ein historischer Abriss. Hoppegarten 2010.

Climate Change: What are its Social Dynamics and Solutions in the Digital Age? Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen (Universität Basel) Time: Wednesday, 17.15 – 18.45, starts 23rd October

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilko-Sascha_Kowalczuk

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilko-Sascha_Kowalczuk

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Wolle

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_M%C3%B6ller

http://www.zvab.com/advancedSearch.do?author=Wettig%2C+Gerhard%3A

Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 3rd floor, room 3.15 Description: Climate change is arguably the most threatening and complex problem of the global world. As such, the global community is currently struggling to evolve strategies to mitigate climate change and to adapt to its consequences. Social scientists have increasingly started to participate in these efforts. They critically reflect the chosen strategies, theorize the needed socio-technical transitions processes, study ongoing transformation efforts, and develop alternative solutions. The seminar addresses climate change from a social science perspective, providing an overview about the way in which social scientists are engaging with this topic.


DeGS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills

(In this module, attending both lectures as well as the workshop is compulsory. You will also have to complete a research internship and hand in an internship report.)

Global Studies Master’s Thesis Workshop Workshop Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell (GESI) and Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (Institute of African Studies, GESI) Time: tba Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room 3.15 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Essay Description: “How to write my Master’s thesis?” will be the major question for second-year GS students. The workshop will provide guidance in structuring the research process and help you improve the management of your thesis project. Based on your suggested thesis topics, we will continue to work on the following issues: finding a research question, handling literature, applying methods, structuring the exposé, structuring the thesis, contact with supervisors, requirements for a Global Studies Master’s thesis. The workshop will be divided into two parts: The first part will be a joint working session, whereas the second part will be conducted on an individual basis. Students should prepare their topics as well as possible. A reader is available at the website. Please send a short thesis proposal to [email protected] until 30 November 2018.


Introductory Literature: Bolker, J. 1998. Writing your Dissertation in fifteen Minutes a Day. A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing your Doctoral Thesis. H. Holt: New York. Glatthorn, A. and R. Joyner 2005; Writing the Winning Thesis or Dissertation. A Step-by-Step Guide. Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks. Robson, C. 2007. How to Do a Research Project. Blackwell: Malden/Oxford/Carlton.

Demystifying the Master’s Thesis Workshop Lecturer: Caroline Allen (Academic Lab Leipzig) Time: Friday, 24 January 2020, 13.15 – 16.15 Place: Burgstraße, tba. Participation: Compulsory

German Classes (First- and second-year students)

Beginners Time: Monday, 15.15 – 16.45 Place: GESI 3.15 Instructor: Hannes Diehl

Intermediate Time: Monday, 17.00 – 18.30 Place: GESI 3.15 Instructor: Hannes Diehl

Advanced Time: Monday, 13.15 – 14.45 Place: GESI 3.15 Instructor: Evelyn Koch

Sports (First- and second-year students) The schedule for the winter semester 2019/2020 is published on https://hochschulsport.uni-leipzig.de/angebote/Wintersemester_2019_20/index.html, where you can also register for courses

starting on 25 September, 8.00 am. How to book a sports course at the University of Leipzig:

1. Click “Programm und Buchung”, there you’ll find different options, click “buchen” and you will see this term’s programme. You’ll find all the courses that are offered in alphabetic order.

2. By clicking the course name, e.g., “Renaissance-Tanz”, you will enter the page which contains the details about the course of your choice. There you will be able to see date, time, place and price of the course and whether you can still apply for it. This is indicated by the button at the end of the description (“Buchung”). If it is green and says “buchen” there are still some places available in the course. If it is orange there are two possibilities: Either you can place yourself on a waiting list or it is already fully booked. Clicking the abbreviation of the place (see “Ort”), you will see the exact location of it on a map of Leipzig.

3. If you want to book the course, click the green button saying “buchen” or enter the waiting list by clicking on the orange one.

4. After that you will have to fill in a form with your details and then click the button “verbindliche Anmeldung” at the end of the page.

5. Then the bank account will appear to which you will have to transfer the attendance fee. Unfortunately, there is no other way to pay for the courses.

6. You will receive a confirmation of your course registration. Print it and keep it. They will ask for it the first time you go to attend your course.

Unfortunately, you can only apply for two courses. But after the start of the sports courses there will be the option to apply for places still available, for so-called Restplätze (the procedure is as described before). If you have any questions, you can contact the person in charge by clicking on “Über ZFH” - “Mit-arbeiter/Zuständigkeiten”.

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