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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 2014/2015
Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy Global and European Studies Institute
Course Catalogue (Vorlesungsverzeichnis)
MA „Global Studies ” A European Perspective‚
Winter term 2014/2015
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Table of Contents Addresses and Contact Persons .................................................................................................. 2
Timeline ” Winter Term 2014/2015 ........................................................................................... 3
List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................. 3
A Word of Welcome ................................................................................................................ 4
Preliminary Remarks .................................................................................................................. 5
First Year ” Global Studies ......................................................................................................... 8
GS-0710 Global History ............................................................................................................ 8
GS-0720 International Studies .................................................................................................. 10
GS-0730 Methods of Globalisation Research ............................................................................. 12
Second Year ” Global Studies .................................................................................................. 14
GS-0910 Regions in Globalization: Africa and the Near East I ..................................................... 14
GS-0920 Regions in Globalization: The Americas I ..................................................................... 15
GS-0930 Regions in Globalization: Asia and the Middle East I ..................................................... 18
GS-0940 Regions in Globalization: Europe I .............................................................................. 21
GS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills ......................................................................... 22
EMGS Winter School 2014 at Sebnitz (First-year students) ........................................................... 23
German Classes (First- and second-year students) ........................................................................ 23
Sports (First- and second-year students) ...................................................................................... 24
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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 Loeke 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. European Studies Global Studies ” A European Perspective Tel. +49 341 97 30 263 Fax +49 341 96 05 261 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Internet:
gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de
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Timeline – Winter Term 2014/2015
Academic Term 01.10.2014 ” 31.03.2015 Introduction Week 06.10.2014 ” 10.10.2015 Lecture Time 13.10.2014 ” 07.02.2015 Holidays: Reformationstag 31.10.2014 Buß- und Bettag 19.11.2014 Dies Academicus 02.12.2014 Winter break 21.12.2014 ” 04.01.2015 Deadlines: Submission Essays ” Global Studies 28.02.2015
List of Abbreviations
BS Block Seminar C Consultations Co Colloquium GESI Global and European Studies Institute (Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 04105 Leipzig) GWZ Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig) GWZO Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (Specks Hof, Eingang A, Reichsstr. 4-6, D”04109 Leipzig) HSG Hörsaalgebäude (Universitätsstraße 7, 04109 Leipzig) L Lecture NSG Neues Seminargebäude (Universitätsstraße 5, 04109 Leipzig) S Seminar
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A Word of Welcome
On behalf of the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) I would like to welcome all of you joining us for the academic year 2014”2015 at the University of Leipzig, both for the MA ‚Global Studies ” A European Perspective‛, or the MA ‚European Studies‛. GESI at Leipzig University and its partner institu-tions, 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 both programmes in the coming winter term. You will discover that some courses are designed for the specific requirements of the Global Stud-ies and some for the European Studies programme. Some courses, however, are offered to students from both programmes, they will thus allow for academic exchange and a cross-fertilization of perspectives. For out second year Global Studies students a Master’s thesis writing workshop will be held on 11 No-vember (9-11 pm).
The term’s highlight, as always, will be the graduation ceremony of the Global Studies Consortium. It will be held on 15 November 2014 ” for the third time in Vienna. Again this year’s annual winter school of the Global Studies consortium will be hosted in Germany, in the small town of Sebnitz (50°58`28‚ N, 14°1635‚ O), that is east of Dresden along the German-Czech border (4-7 December).
With regard to research GESI is closely collaborating with the 2009 established Centre for Area Studies (CAS) which is located in Thomaskirchhof 20 (just opposite of the 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:
“ In collaboration, the Imre Kertész Kolleg (U Jena), the Centre for Area Studies (U Leipzig), and the Centre of Imperial and Global History (U Exeter) will hold a conference on ‚alternative encounters‛ in the post-war period (3-4 November, in Jena). As decolonization accelerated, new linkages opened up and existing ties were remade between the so-called ‚Second World‛ (from the Soviet Union to the German Democratic Republic) and the ‚Global South‛ (from Latin America to Africa to Asia).
“ You are also invited to the regular Wednesday CAS Colloquium, always at 5 pm.
You might also note that we have tried to improve our website (ULR: http://gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de). Your comments for further improvements are still very much welcome!
I wish all of you an excellent start into this winter term and hope you will discover both the city of Leip-zig and its University as convenient places for your study time.
Yours
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Programme Director Leipzig
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Preliminary Remarks
Dear Global Studies students,
On the next pages you find the courses we offer in the winter term 2014/2015. We hope you like what we compiled and wish you an exciting, intellectually challenging term. Please read the following instruc-tions 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 three seminars. Please note that registra-tion for seminars in these modules is on first- come, first-serve basis. 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 seminars in these mod-ules is on first- come, first-serve basis. The Module GS-0950 ‚Academic Writing and Research Skills‛ is mandatory for all second year stu-dents. Part of this module is also a compulsory research internship. All students that 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 applica-tions will be published on the website. 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.
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 the end of February 2015. 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://moodle.uni-leipzig.de/. Registration for moodle is possible only after the enrolment at the University of Leipzig. Instructions in this respect will follow during the introductory weeks.
Stephan Kaschner Programme Coordinator
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First Year – Global Studies GS-0710 Global History
L Matthias Middell: Global History
T Geert Castryck/Steffi Marung: Introduction to Global History
S Matthias Middell: France in Processes of Globalization
S Beata Hock: Women's Movements Worldwide: Alliances, Exclusions, Theoretical Perspectives
S Dietmar Müller/Jan Zofka: State Socialism in a Global Perspective: Planned Economies and
Transnational Entanglements in the Cold War Era
GS-0720 International Studies
L Ulf Engel: International Studies
T Claudia Baumann: Introduction to International Studies
S Hartmut Elsenhans: Development Economics
S Hartmut Elsenhans: Introduction to Political Economy
GS-0730 Methods of Globalisation Research
L Matthias Middell: The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research
T Victoria Reinhardt: The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research
S Ute Wardenga/Eric Losang: Critical Readings of Global and European Maps
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Second Year – Global Studies GS-0910 Regions in Globalization Processes: Africa and the Near East I
S Ulf Engel: The State in Africa
S Adam Jones: Historical Mission Photographs from Africa
S Nadine Sieveking: Migration and Development
GS-0920 Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas I
S Crister Garrett: Contesting the Transatlantic Space
S Peter Gärtner: Oil, Power and Climate ” A Global Perspective
S Peter Gärtner: Indigeneity and Europeanisation ” World Regions in Comparative Perspective
S Michael Riekenberg: Staatsferne Gewalt. Eine Geschichte Lateinamerikas 1500-1930
S Prof. Dr. Heidrun Zinecker / Patricia Rendón Galván: Radio Comunitaria en América Latina: Comunicación local y participación.
S Prof. Dr. Heidrun Zinecker / Patricia Rendón Galván: Medios, comunicación y democracia en América Latina
GS-0930 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East I S Tayyibe Zeynep Armagan: From Empire to Nation ” Politics of Transition in Turkey
S Wolfram von Scheliha: Central Asia under Soviet Rule (1917-1991)
S Markus Höhne: Current debates in anthropology
S Johannes Frische: Urban Informality and Marginality in the MENA-Region
GS-0940 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe I S Tayyibe Zeynep Armagan: From Empire to Nation ” Politics of Transition in Turkey
S Matthias Middell: France and Globalization
S Dietmar Müller/Jan Zofka: State Socialism in a Global Perspective: Planned Economies and Transnational Entanglements in the Cold War era
GS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills
W Martha Boeglin: Workshop in Academic Writing
W Matthias Middell/Ulf Engel: Global Studies Master’s Thesis Workshop
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First Year – Global Studies
GS-0710 Global History
Global History Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Monday, 9am ” 11am Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room 3.16 (except on Monday, 02 February 2015,
Room 2.17) Participation: Compulsory Examination: Combined with exam in tutorial Language: English Moodle: tba.
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 globalization and global history? What are the difficulties of studying and writ-ing 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 re-ception of world history changed? The second aim of the course is to explore the relationship between an historical approach and other perspectives on globalization. Globalization, understood as a political project, pursued by specific actors with conflicting interests and characterized by dynamic power rela-tions 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 uni-versity’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: Histo-rians Create a Global Past (University Library of Leipzig: NB 5100 M265), the Encyclopedia of Histori-ans 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/).
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Introduction to Global History Tutorial Lecturer: Dr Geert Castryck (Centre for Area Studies) / Dr Steffi Marung (Centre for Area Studies) Time: Tuesday, 11 am ” 1 pm (Group 1) and 1 pm ” 3 pm (Group 2) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Essay Language: English 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.
France in Processes of Globalization Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Monday, 1 pm ” 3 pm Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16, (except on Monday, 02 February 2015,
Room 2.17) Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Slots available: 15 Description: The aim of the seminar is to have a look into the long history of France being in contact with other world regions and the effects of these contacts on French elites’ concepts of dealing with the global condition. Attention: Since the seminar is based on material in English, French and sometimes in German, it will be given preference to those students who have the necessary linguistic skills to work through the reading list.
Women's Movements Worldwide: Alliances, Exclusions, Theoretical Perspectives Seminar Lecturer: Dr Beata Hock (GWZO) Time: Wednesday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay and group presentation Language: English Slots available: 15 Description:
This course is designed to give a thorough introduction into how women’s movements and feminisms developed over centuries worldwide. The course aims to show that ” in contrast to widely held views ” ‚feminism‛ did not start in the 1960s, nor is a ‚Western‛ phenomenon. Historically, women’s move-ments and feminisms have taken many forms, and the seminar will survey the variety of politics historical actors pursued to improve the condition of women and change the gender order in society and culture. A second aim of the course is to reveal that women’s movements and feminist ideas are not isolated phenomena. Instead, they develop in relation to specific local, national, or transnational economic and political conditions and dominant ideological discourses, while also interact with other social movements or intellectual agendas. The seminar explores these interrelations parallel to its basic inquiry into the major problem areas of the „woman question"„ what were these and how were they constructed and
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represented in various women’s movements? Responding to these questions will involve an overview of the basic terms, developments and debates of and within feminist theory.
The course is structured roughly along chronological lines and it follows a transnational approach. Women’s movements have always been part of the history of specific communities, individual countries, and of a multi-faceted, transnational social reform movement. Moreover, from the late 19th century on feminism also created genuinely international and institutionalized organizational structures, which un-derwent substantial change and diversification over time. The course focuses on the variety and diversity of interests, perspectives, and visions informing feminist discourse and action on all of these levels; on conflict and convergence in women’s movements local and global; and on complicity and resistance of women to relations of dominance and hierarchy on the local and global levels.
State Socialism in a Global Perspective: Planned Economies and Transnational Entan-glements in the Cold War era Seminar Lecturer: Dr Dietmar Müller (GWZO)/Dr Jan Zofka (GWZO) Time: Friday, 9 am ” 11 am Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 421 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: The seminar focusses on transnational, transregional and global phenomena in Cold War state social-ism. State socialism often is associated with economic autarky and isolationism ” an examination of planned economies during the Cold War reveals another reality: command economies were entangled with each other, highly dependent of world markets, and Communist Party leaderships did not manage to plan, control and command economy to the degree they might have wished. In particular, we will look at foreign economic relations of socialist states, at technological transfers in industrialisation proc-esses. Furthermorre we deal with international division of labour inside the COMECON, the conse-quences of the world economic crisis in the 1970s on Socialism, and with the patterns of support and exploitation in (European) socialist states’ relations towards the Global south.
GS-0720 International Studies
International Studies Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr Ulf Engel (African Studies Institute, Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Thursday, 11 am ” 1 pm Place: HSG, Universitätsstraße 7, HS 6 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Combined with exam in tutorial Language: English
Description: This lecture is an introduction to social science theories on globalization, with an emphasis on Africa and its place in these debates. The lecture will provide an introduction into classic mainstream ap-proaches to globalization (political science, economics) and confront these with approaches from differ-ent knowledge orders such as post-colonial studies, area studies and new political or critical geography. These different approaches will then be applied to different case studies, including the BRICS, climate change and Arab Spring.
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Suggested readings for preparation: Held, D. and A. McGrew 2007. Globalization / Anti-Globalization. Beyond the Great Divide. 2nd ed., Cambridge, Malden MA: Polity.
Introduction to International Studies Tutorial Lecturer: Claudia Baumann (PhD Candidate) Time: Thursday, 3 pm ” 5 pm (Group 1) and 5 pm ” 7 pm (Group 2) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Essay Language: English 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.
Development Economics Seminar Lecturer: Prof. em. Dr Hartmut Elsenhans (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) Time: Tuesday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 421 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Course Description: Underdevelopment is analysed as a structure instead of a level of development, where the mechanisms of the transition to capitalism are blocked. There is a surplus of labour and a surplus of resources for investments but lack of incentives for invest in such resources. Marginality implies rent as the form of surplus. Rent to the difference of profit does not lead to ‚automatic‛ accumulation, but has to be me-diated by political and social processes. Rent becomes the more important, the more the simultaneous existence of ‚more developed‛ economies blocks at the same time market employment and local tech-nology production, and with this basically the empowerment of the subaltern masses. The course looks into different more or less comprehensive strategies for overcoming these obstacles such as redistributive measures (agricultural reform, small scale industrial development etc.), state correction of market processes (planning, import substitution, industrialisation, balanced or unbalanced growth) and ultimate-ly looks into the precondition for overcoming underdevelopment through integration into the world econ-omy via export oriented industrialisation. The course confronts this perspective with the actual tendencies of development thinking in a free floating disc ourse on politics and ideologies. The argument of the course is based on the observation that capitalist accumulation requires the limitation of surplus through rising mass incomes and the empowerment of labour, which creates outlets for capital investment.
Introduction to Political Economy Seminar Lecturer: Prof. em. Dr Hartmut Elsenhans (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) Time: Tuesday, 5 pm ” 7 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 7, Room 421 Participation: Choice
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Examination: Essay Language: English
GS-0730 Methods of Globalisation Research
The Use of Methods for Globalization Research Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Dr Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Monday, 11 am ” 1 pm
Only on the following dates: 20.10.14, 10.11.14, 17.11.14, 05.01.15, 12.01.15, 26.01.15
Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Case study project (combined with tutorial) Language: English
Description: The lecture provides an overview of the development of debates on methods and the professionalization of various disciplines now converging into the study of globalisations. It introduces students to what one might call a post-disciplinary methodology of globalization research including quantitative and qualita-tive approaches from the social sciences, comparison and various methods to analyze interactions, in-terpretation of historical source material as well as the visualization of results in maps. Introductory Reading: Della Porta, Donatella; Keating, Michael (2010): Approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. A pluralist perspective. Reprinted with corr. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press / Punch, Keith F. (2009): Introduction to social research. Quantitative and qualitative approaches. 2. ed., Repr. London: SAGE Publ / Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2005): Palgrave Advances in World Histories, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Additional bibliographical references will be provided during the first session.
The Use of Methods for Globalization Research Tutorial Lecturer: Dr Victoria Reinhardt Time: Wednesday, 9 am ” 11 pm (Group 1) and Friday 3 pm ” 5 pm (Group 2) Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Project Work Language: English Description: This tutorial introduces students to the post-disciplinary methodology of globalization research focusing on the approaches presented in the lecture but now experimenting with their combination when it comes to concrete research questions. This seminar does not replace any systematic study of methods well an-chored in the various disciplinary contexts, but discusses their cross-fertilization with respect to key issues in globalization research.
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Critical Readings of Global and European Maps Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Ute Wardenga and Dipl.-Geogr. Eric Losang (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde) Time: Thursday, 9 am ” 11 am Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16 Participation: Compulsory Course Description: While maps are often looked at as objective and natural depictions of the world, a closer look not only at what but how cartographers have depicted information might unveil their potential power. They are able to create order, structure and clarity ” and ignore the unique and singular. Thus, maps and their widespread use created a new readability of the planet that in turn could be perceived more and more easily as ‚one world‛. However, maps are treacherous visual instruments that create and maintain par-ticular discourses about the world and international relations, with very real implications for those in the territory they depict. This seminar wants the participants to develop a critical awareness of mapping techniques used to con-struct meaning and perpetuate intersubjective understandings. Therefore, we provide different methods of analysis and deconstruction of maps, focusing on mapping techniques and their practice as well as on historical and societal contexts of map production and perception. Using sample maps, we will get familiar with technical terms of cartography such as scale, projection, but also have a look at the generalization and labelling on maps, the various types of maps, and the chances and limits of map readability. What is included, what is left out in the making of a map? Ulti-mately, we will thus understand the map as a socio-technical artefact, diagnose the chances and limits of technical systems, and show how knowledge systems are shaped by the visual media of the map. Depending on students' regions of origins, we will analyze, interpret and de-construct historic and recent maps from various locations around the globe. Introductory Reading: Crampton, Jeremy W. (2001): Maps as Social Constructions: Power, Communication and Visualization. In: Progress in Human Geography 25, pp.235-52. / Harley, John Brian (1989): Deconstructing the map. In: Cartographica 26 (2), pp. 1”20. / Kitchin, Rob; Thrift, Nigel (Eds.) (2009): International En-cyclopedia of Human Geography. Volume 1-12. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Article: Cartography, History of (Delano-Smith, C. & Kain, R. J. P., Vol. 1, pp. 428-440), Critical Cartography (Wood, D. & Krygier, J., Vol. 2, pp. 340-344), Map Perception and Cognition (Freundschuh, S. M., Vol. 6, pp. 334-338), Map-ping, Non-Western (Pearce, M. W., Vol. 6, pp. 372-384), Mapping, Philosophy (Perkins, C., Vol. 6, pp. 385-397), Maps and Governance (Harvey, F., Vol. 6, pp. 431-435), Maps and the State (Farish, M., Vol. 6, pp. 442-454), Scale (Sayre, N. F. & Di Vittorio, A. V., Vol. 10, pp. 19-28). / Monmonier, Mark (1991): How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press. / Schelhaas, Bruno; Wardenga, Ute (2011): „Inzwischen spricht die Karte für sich selbst‚. Transformation von Wis-sen im Prozess der Kartenproduktion. In: Steffen Siegel & Petra Weigel (Hg.): Die Werkstatt des Karto-graphen. Materialien und Praktiken visueller Welterzeugung. München: Fink (Laboratorium Aufklärung, 9), S. 89”107. / Wood, Denis; Fels, John, Krygier, John (2010): Rethinking the Power of Maps. New York: Guildford Press.
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Second Year – Global Studies
GS-0910 Regions in Globalization: Africa and the Near East I
The State in Africa Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Ulf Engel (African Studies Institute, Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Introductory Session: 15 October 11 am ” 1am
Then every Tuesday, 11 am ” 1 pm Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2216 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: In African Studies the African state is regarded to be at a critical juncture: Since the early 1990s some states have managed a reconfiguration of state-society relations which led to new legitimacy of incum-bent governments, usually in formally democratic settings (e.g., Benin, Ghana). However, some states have also ceased to function and are described as ‚collapsed‛ or ‚failed‛ (e.g., DR Congo, Somalia). Against this background, this seminar will introduce students to major social science approaches to the study of African statehood as they have developed since the 1960s. In particular we will look at the historicity of African statehood, the nature of the post-colonial state, the development of quasi-states, the concept of neopatrimonialism, the critical juncture of the 1990s and, finally, the emergence of translocal and transnational social spaces beyond the state since.
Historical Mission Photographs from Africa Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Adam Jones (African Studies Institute) Time: Monday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2216 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Slots available: 10 Description: The seminar, which is based on scholarly literature concerning the interconnections between mission and photography, is designed to prepare an exhibition of photographs taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by members of the Moravian Church (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine) in what are now Tanzania and South Africa. The photographs will be selected from a corpus which is accessibile online: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa/
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Migration and Development Seminar Lecturer: Dr. Nadine Sieveking (Centre for Area Studies) Time: Wednesday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, NSG 211 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: This seminar introduces a transnational perspective on the debates about migration and development with a regional focus on Africa. The first sessions provide an overview of general literature on interna-tional and transnational migration. We will discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of a transnational perspective and critically inquire the renewed political and academic interest in the ‘migra-tion-development-nexus’ with its strong focus on economic remittances. The second part of the seminar focuses on changing migration dynamics in Africa since the late 20th century. We will discuss the useful-ness of a transnational migration approach with regards to regards to different aspects and meanings of ‘development’. Case studies will highlight in particular the relevance of translocal mobility and rural-urban migrations, migrant associations, ‘social remittances’ and ‘reverse’ flows, e.g. in the domain of religion and politics, and the significance of the gender dimension. Special attention will be given to the contentious issue of ‘illegal’ migration from Africa to Europe.
GS-0920 Regions in Globalization: The Americas I
Contesting the Transatlantic Space Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Crister Garrett (Institute for American Studies) Time: Thursday, 5 pm ” 7 pm Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2 5.16 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Slots available: 7 The United States and Europe are of fundamental importance to each other in terms of interests, influ-ences, and their coinciding cooperation and competition in shaping global politics. The transatlantic space ” or the institutions, norms, and issues around which and with which the U.S. and Europe interact ” is undergoing a dynamic phase of recalibration, or more pointedly, contestation. One overarching theme that underlines the challenges to the transatlantic space is security in its fullest sense. With the end of the cold war and in the context of 9-11 the United States and Europe are engaged in a fundamental discussion about what societies mean by security, and what priorities citizens and governments want to set for pursuing security. In this seminar the concept of security communities will play a central role. Stu-dents will have a wide space in which to explore their more focused interests in the context of security communities, including economic issues, environmental and energy issues, cultural issues, historical is-sues, religious issues, and of course more traditional military issues.
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Oil, Power and Climate – A Global Perspective Seminar Lecturer: Dr habil. Peter Gärtner Time: Monday, 5 pm ” 7 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 405 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 cli-mate 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) and the most important extra-regional actors of the global energy policy (EU, Russia, and China). A special focus is on the debate around ‚Peak Oil‛ and its global im-pact (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 introductory reading: African Development Bank and the African Union: Oil and Gas in Africa. Nov. 2009 Bromley, Simon: American Hegemony and World Oil: The Industry, the State System and the World Economy. Cambridge 1991 Shankleman, Jill: Going Global: China’s Oil and Mining Companies and the Governance of Resource Wealth. Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. 2009 Simmons, Matthew. Twilight in the Dessert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. Ho-boken (N.J.) 2005 Topik, Stephen/ Wells, Allen (eds.): The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil. Austin 1998
Indigeneity and Europeanisation – World Regions in Comparative Perspective Seminar Lecturer: Dr habil. Peter Gärtner Time: Tuesday, 5 pm ” 7 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 405 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Description: This course explores the intersections of globalisation, Europeanisation and indigenous peoples. Indige-nous 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.
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Suggested introductory reading: Adas, Michael: From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History, in: The American Historical Review, Dec. 2001, vol. 106, no. 5. Boldt, Menno: surviving as Indians. The Challenge of Self-Government. Toronto/ Buffalo/ London 1994. Brotherstone, Gordon: Book of the Fourth World. Reading the Native Americas through their literature. Cambridge et al. 1992
Staatsferne Gewalt. Eine Geschichte Lateinamerikas 1500-1930 Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Michael Riekenberg Time: Thursday, 9 am ” 11 am Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 5216 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: German Description: Ds Seminar befasst sich auf Grundlage meiner neueren Forschungen zum Gegenstand mit der Bedeutung kollektiver Gewalt in der neueren Geschichte Lateinamerikas. Begleitend zum Seminar wird die Teilnahme an der Vorlesung Dienstag 17-19 Uhr im HSG HS 4 empfohlen. Literatur: Michael Riekenberg: Staatsferne Gewalt. Eine Geschichte Lateinamerikas 1500-1930. Frankfurt M./New York: Campus Verlag 2014.
Radio Comunitaria en América Latina: Comunicación local y participación. Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Heidrun Zinecker / Patricia Rendón Galván (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Tuesday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4116 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: Spanish Description: En los últimos años las políticas públicas de comunicación en algunos países latinoamericanos han incluido la modalidad de Radios Comunitarias como expresión de procesos de apertura y democratización de la comunicación. El seminario analiza algunas de estas experiencias de comunicación local y pública y las discute en el marco de los contextos sociopolíticos de los países en studio. El seminario ofrece la posibilidad de intercambios entre los estudiantes con radialistas y expertos en el tema en Latinoamérica a través de videoconferencias en tiempo real. Introductury Reading: Aguirre, J. M. (2010). Prácticas y travesías de comunicación en América Latina(1. ed.). Caracas: Fun-dación Centro Gumilla. Alfaro Moreno, Rosa Ma ria (1998): Opinion publica, medios y ciudadania. In: Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicacion (Quito); Cárdenas Lorenzo, L. (2009). Comunica-ción y construcción de ciudadanía: Aportes para el desarrollo.Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata [u .a.]; Howley, K. (2010). Understanding Community Media. SAGE; Pereira, J. M. (2011). Comunica-ción, desarrollo y cambio social: Interrelaciones entre comunicación, movimientos ciudadanos y me-dios(1. ed.). Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Fac . de Comunicación y Lenguaje; Rodriguez,
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Clemencia (2001). Fissures in the mediascape: an international study of citizens’ media. New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc.
Medios, comunicación y democracia en América Latina Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Heidrun Zinecker / Patricia Rendón Galván (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Tuesday, 1 pm - 3 pm Place: GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4116 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: Spanish Description: El interés que guía el presente seminario es explorar en qué medida han aportado los medios de comunicación en los procesos de democratización en América Latina. El seminario propone reflexionar sobre las transformaciones que en la esfera pública se han dado en algunos países latinoamericanos en las dos últimas décadas, y el rol que los medios de comunicación han jugado en dichas transformaciones. Preguntas sobre la construcción de lo público, la movilización ciudadana, reformas en el paisaje politico - comunicativo, esferas públicas emergentes, serán abordadas a partir de la discusión de conceptos y el análisis de casos en América Latina. Introductury Reading: Aguirre, J. M. (2010). Prácticas y travesías de comunicación en América Latina (1. ed.). Caracas: Fundación Centro Gumilla; Becerra, M., Mastrini, G., & Alessandro, A. /. (2009). Los dueños de la palabra: Acceso, estructura y concentración de los medios en la América Latina del siglo XXI. Buenos Aires: Prometeo; Bruchmann, H. (2012). Medien und Demokratie in Lateinamerika. Berlin: Dietz. Lugo; Ocando, J. (2008). The media in Latin America (1. publ.). Maidenhead [u.a.]: Open University Press; Matos, Carolina. (2012). Media and politics in Latin America: Globalization, democracy and identity. London: Tauris; Mejía Quintana, O. (2011); Democracia y medios de comuni-cación en Colombia (1. ed.); Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Fac. de Dere-cho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales; Rettberg, A., & Amado, A. (2011). Medios, democracia y poder: Una mirada comparada desde Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela y Argentina (1. ed.). Bogotá, DC: Un-iversidad de los Andes, Facul tad de Ciencias Sociales; CESO [u.a.]. Sorj, Bernardo. (2010). Poder político y medios de comunicación: De la representación política al reality show (1. ed. argenti-na.). Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI de Argentina Editores; Tilleard, Cole, R. R. (1996). Communication in Latin America: Journalism, mass media, and society (1. publ.). Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources;
GS-0930 Regions in Globalization: Asia and the Middle East I
From Empire to Nation – Politics of Transition in Turkey Seminar Lecturer: Tayyibe Zeynep Armagan (PhD Candidate) Time: Wednesday, 1-3 pm, Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 113 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English
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Description: For a larger part of the last century, the topic of the fall of the empire and the consequent rise of the nation-state had predominantly been dealt with in a teleological manner. That being said, late 20 th and early 21st century historiography has witnessed many a lengthy chapter written on the transition from empire to nation-state in which more critical analyses of the process have been adapted. The socially and discursively constructed nature of ‚imagined communities‛ that emerged out of collapsed empires as well as problematics arising from this artificial construction have begun to be acknowledged and ad-dressed in this literature. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey at the onset of the 20th century is one case where seeds for such problematics have been planted. The objective of this course is to detect and tackle these problematics which were inevitable conse-quences of the transition from empire to nation-state, while at the same time, surveying the political, social and economic history of contemporary Turkey. Accordingly, the course is made up of three parts; the first of these provides background knowledge through an historical and theoretical overview. In the second part, the aforementioned problematics are investigated individually at thematic sessions. The final part, presents what could be viewed as the most recent phase of this transition where Turkish for-eign policy and political economy undergo changes at unprecedented pace and scale. Overall, the course aims to provide an alternative perspective in understanding some of the chronic problems of modern day Turkey by analyzing them within the framework of empire to nation transition.
Central Asia under Soviet Rule (1917-1991) Seminar Lecturer: Dr Wolfram von Scheliha, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) Time: Tueday, 5 pm ” 7 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, R 212 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English, German (depending on participants) Description:
Central Asia is one of the core areas in the current global order. Central Asia borders to both China and the Soviet Union and it has become an operational area of the US and European armies in the Global War on Terror. Central Asia is also rich of natural resources. Consequently, Central Asia attracts the interest of many ‚global players‛ and is an area of international conflicts. Within the greater Central Asian region, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan form a distinct space because of their common Soviet experience. The seminar aims at establishing, how Soviet rule shaped these countries politically, culturally, economically, demographically and also in terms of nation build-ing. It will be discussed if and how far the concept of post-colonialism can be applied to this region. Although the seminar is focused on Central Asia, it also provides a general overview on the history of the Soviet Union.
Introductory reading:
Arne Heugen: The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia. Basingtoke 2003; Doug-las Taylor: Veiled Empire: Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca, NY 2004; David Chioni Moore: Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet? Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique. In: Publications of the Modern Language Association 116 (2001): 1, pp. 111-128.
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Current debates in anthropology Seminar Lecturer: Dr Markus Höhne (Institute for Anthropology) Time: Wednesday, 1 pm ” 3 pm Place: Institute for Anthropology, Schillerstr. 6, Room M 104 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Slots available: 5 Description: This seminar concentrates on important and relatively recent debates in anthropology. It covers discus-sions since about 1990. The idea is to learn about a topic in depth by reading and discussing key texts that, ideally, take standpoints for and against an argument and in this way develop a debate further. Each topic will be dealt with over at least two seminar sessions (four hours). Several topics, albeit differ-ent in detail, are combined in thematic blocks, e.g. under the heading ‘globalization’. Within the con-text of the anthropology of globalization, topics will be the ‘character of globalization’ (as a truly new phenomenon or just the logical extension of late capitalism), the debate about ‘global versus local know-ledge’ and ‘migration and transnationalism’ as new concepts challenging established perspectives on identity and belonging. Another thematic block is ‘security, war and humanitarianism’. Within this con-text, issues such as ‘anthropology and war’ (about the entanglement of anthropological theory building and war), ‘human security’ and ‘securitization of development’ will be discussed. Questions of ‘applied versus analytical research’ constitute a third thematic block, comprising topics such as ‘anthropology of expertise’ and ‘anthropology of morality’. This is not an exhaustive list of topics and thematic blocks. Additional issues featuring in the seminar will be anthropology of power and questions of neoliberalism.
Urban Informality and Marginality in the MENA-Region Seminar Lecturer: Johannes Frische (PhD Candidate) Time: Tuesday, 3 pm ” 5 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 211 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: Threat to the national economy or promising instrument to overcome poverty and social marginalization? Today, positions vis-à-vis urban informality and the informal economy are negotiated more controversially than ever before. This course deals with different approaches that, beginning with the debate on the so-called ‚informal sector‚, intend to grasp informality in the urban context of the MENA-region (Middle East, North Africa) and beyond. Dualist, structuralist and legalist approaches will be compared and tested on their epistemological premises. From a macro-level perspective informalization will also be connected with other pressing issues such as synchronized urbanization and economic restructuring at a global scale that have particularly affected countries in the global South. The course will raise questions of state-society relations, the impact of state power, control and regulation. Providing an alternative perspective, bottom-up concepts will be looked at that refer to informal practices as sociopolitical agency and everyday resistance from below. Drawing upon case studies from different countries in the MENA-region (Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) the empirical implications of different approaches will be discussed. The case studies shed light at informality in different domains such as housing and informal settlements, informal markets, informal social networks and forms of in-formal self-employment, notably informal trade. Micro-level struggles of street vendors in public urban space or everyday tactics of cross-border traders are meant to illuminate informality as everyday (trans-
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)local practice. These case studies will be related to the wider context of a global condition shaped through political upheaval, social marginality and economic crisis. Taking into account structural causes of the ‚Arab Spring‚ the question will be addressed in how far informal practices may come along with social unrest and dissenting subjectivities among the grassroots.
Participants will give a 15-minute presentation and write an essay.
GS-0940 Regions in Globalization: Europe I
France in Processes of Globalization Seminar Lecturer: Prof. Dr Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Monday, 1 pm ” 3 pm Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3rd floor, Room. 3.16, (except on Monday, 02 February 2015,
Room 2.17) Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: The aim of the seminar is to have a look into the long history of France being in contact with other world regions and the effects of these contacts on French elites’ concepts of dealing with the global condition. Attention: Since the seminar is based on material in English, French and sometimes in German, it will be given preference to those students who have the necessary linguistic skills to work through the reading list.
State Socialism in a Global Perspective: Planned Economies and Transnational Entan-glements in the Cold War era Seminar Lecturer: Dr Dietmar Müller (GWZO)/Dr Jan Zofka (GWZO) Time: Friday, 9 am ” 11 am Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 421 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: The seminar focusses on transnational, transregional and global phenomena in Cold War state social-ism. State socialism often is associated with economic autarky and isolationism ” an examination of planned economies during the Cold War reveals another reality: command economies were entangled with each other, highly dependent of world markets, and Communist Party leaderships did not manage to plan, control and command economy to the degree they might have wished. In particular, we will look at foreign economic relations of socialist states, at technological transfers in industrialisation proc-esses. Furthermorre we deal with international division of labour inside the COMECON, the conse-quences of the world economic crisis in the 1970s on Socialism, and with the patterns of support and exploitation in (European) socialist states’ relations towards the Global south.
From Empire to Nation – Politics of Transition in Turkey Seminar Lecturer: Tayyibe Zeynep Armagan (PhD Candidate) Time: Wednesday, 1-3 pm,
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Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, S 113 Participation: Choice Examination: Essay Language: English Description: For a larger part of the last century, the topic of the fall of the empire and the consequent rise of the nation-state had predominantly been dealt with in a teleological manner. That being said, late 20 th and early 21st century historiography has witnessed many a lengthy chapter written on the transition from empire to nation-state in which more critical analyses of the process have been adapted. The socially and discursively constructed nature of ‚imagined communities‛ that emerged out of collapsed empires as well as problematics arising from this artificial construction have begun to be acknowledged and ad-dressed in this literature. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey at the onset of the 20th century is one case where seeds for such problematics have been planted. The objective of this course is to detect and tackle these problematics which were inevitable conse-quences of the transition from empire to nation-state, while at the same time, surveying the political, social and economic history of contemporary Turkey. Accordingly, the course is made up of three parts; the first of these provides background knowledge through an historical and theoretical overview. In the second part, the aforementioned problematics are investigated individually at thematic sessions. The final part, presents what could be viewed as the most recent phase of this transition where Turkish for-eign policy and political economy undergo changes at unprecedented pace and scale. Overall, the course aims to provide an alternative perspective in understanding some of the chronic problems of modern day Turkey by analyzing them within the framework of empire to nation transition.
GS-0950 Academic Writing and Research Skills
Academic Writing Workshop Lecturers: Dr Martha Boeglin Time: Wednesday, 26.11., 3 pm ” 7 pm and Friday, 28.11., 10 am ” 6 pm Place: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, Room 3.15 Participation: Compulsory Examination: Participation Language: English Course Description: Writing research is one of the most difficult ” and unavoidable ” requirements of graduate study. When the time comes, however, many students feel left to their own devices. But experience shows that most of the writing problems are technical in nature. In this workshop you will learn to apply simple and clearly structured methods step by step in order to reach your goal ” without losing time. Concrete exercises support structuring of ideas and formulating the main questions. Revision techniques help to create clar-ity and precision. The feedback on the written texts generates cooperation between you as writers and your readers: you'll become aware of your progress and, by looking at your text ‚from a distance‛, you'll notice your strong and weak points and take the expectations of your audience into account. Learning Objectives: Learning and practicing an appropriate strategy for an efficient execution of a research paper. Topics: avoiding writer's blocks; methodical preparation of a research paper; segmentation of a research paper into manageable parts; formulation of research goals; strategies for quickly composing the first draft; revision tools, improvement of self-organisation, time-management. In this workshop you will prepare your own Master’s thesis project. Therefore, it is recommended that the topic of your project is chosen before the workshop.
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Recommended reading:
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.: http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk1.html
Global Studies Master’s Thesis Workshop Workshop Lecturers: Prof. Dr Matthias Middell/Prof. Dr Ulf Engel Time: tba. Place: tba. Participation: Compulsory Language: English Moodle: https://moodle2.uni-leipzig.de/course/view.php?id=761 (Password: Coll) Preliminary Course Description: ‚How to write my Master’s thesis?‛ will be the major question for second-year GS students. The work-shop 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, struc-turing the thesis, contact with supervisors, requirements for a Global Studies Master’s thesis. The work-shop 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. 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.
EMGS Winter School 2014 at Sebnitz (First-year students)
Excursion Time: 4 ” 7 December 2014 Place: KiEZ "An der Grenzbaude" Sebnitz, Bergweg 28, 01855 Sebnitz Participation: Recommended Examination: Participation Language: English
German Classes (First- and second-year students)
Beginners Time: Monday , 7 ” 9 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 122 Instructor: Dr. Ludmila Vojtkova
Intermediate Time: Tuesday, 9 ” 11 am Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 329
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Instructor: Dominik Gläsner
Advanced Time: Tuesday, 7 ” 9 pm Place: NSG, Universitätsstraße 5, Room 222 Instructor: Herr Dominik Gläsner/Dr. Lucie Steinacker
Sports (First- and second-year students) The schedule for the winter semester 2014/2015 is published on http://www.hochschulsport-leipzig.de, where you can also register for courses starting on Wednesday, 24 September 2014, at 7 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. Unfor-tunately, 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 be-fore). If you have any questions, you can contact the person in charge by clicking on ‚Über ZFH‛ - ‚Mit-arbeiter/Zuständigkeiten‛.
