220144 Colloquium Global Structures and Interactions (Ko) (WiSe 2025/2026)

Please keep a colloquium journal for the study requirements. You can download a form for the journal from the degree programme website (https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/worldstudies) in the downloads section. Enter 10 lectures of the colloquium that you attended in the journal. For five meetings, you must also enter your personal questions, comments or notes on the content of the lecture in the "Study requirement" column. Finally, you can send the completed journal by e-mail attachment to stefan.gorissen@uni-bielefeld.de so that the study requirement can be recorded.

Lectures:

Tuesday October 28th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-A2-103
Ben Johnson (Berlin): How Energy Became "Clean" (and suggestions of how to connect to the natural sciences)

Tuesday November 4th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-A2-103
Cyrus Modi (Maastricht): Oil and its Alternatives: The Oil Industry's Other Business in the 20th Century

Tuesday November 4th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Matti Steinitz & Philipp Wolfesberger: Trump 2.0 in Hemispheric Perspectives: Authoritarian Shift and Popular Response

Wednesday November 5th 2025, X-E0-209
Alexandr Rusanov (Bielefeld): Politicized and Depoliticized Global Medievalismin Russa, 2010-20s

Tuesday November 11th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, UHG-S1-126
Uillermo Restrepo (Leipzig), Unveiling Chemistry's Self-Reinforcing Historical Practices: A Precondition for Excaping the Dangers of the Anthropocene

Tuesday November 18th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, UHG-S1-126
Luis Aue (Berlin): Pipes or Pills? Technological Divergence and the Science-Politics of Darrheal Diseases

Tuesday November 18th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Julia Roth (Bielefeld): Revitalizando el estado masculinista: El género como campo de batalla en el discurso autoritario des gobierno de Trump y sus aliados latinoamericanos

Tuesday November 25th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Martin Lutz (Bielefeld): The Politics of Religion: What the Anabaptist Case Can teach us About the Political Landscape in the Americas

Tuesday November 25th 2025, 18:15 – 19:45, X-E0-214
Anna Marie Sitz (Tübingen): Erasing the Gods in Late Roman Asia Minor: Some Reflections on Rasurae in Greek Inscriptions

Tuesday December 2nd 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Marin Lüthe (Berlin): Of NYC and CJT: Hip Hop Music and the (Un-)Making of Donald J. Trump

Wednesday December 3rd 2025, X-E0-209
Anna Leshchenko: What Makes a Museum a Museum? Inside ICOM#s Debates on Museum Identity

Tuesday December 9th 2025, 18:15 – 19:45, X-E0-001
Jürgen Renn (Jena): The Anthropocene - a Challenge for Humanity and for Science

Tuesday December 16th 2025, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Astrid Haas (Bergen): Drawing Resistance in the Borderlands: Fightinge Trumpism in/with the Peso Hero Comic Series

Wednesday January 7th 2026, X-E0-209
Aline Sierp (Maastricht): The Past as Ressource - Memory and Emotions in the Ukraine War

Thursday 8th January 2026, X-A2-103
Yanara Schmacks (Bremen): Reproductive Nation: Cold War Fantasies and German Unification

Tuesday January 13th 2026, 16:15 – 17:45, UHG-S1-126
Jannike Böwing (Bielefeld): Tracing Back Political Epistemology of Science: Neurath and Hayek on Knowledge and Expertise in Democracies

Tuesday January 20th 2026, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Johannes Völz (Frankfurt): Trump and the Populist Space of Appearance: On the Rally as Political Form

Tuesday January 20th 2026, 16:15 – 17:45, X-E0-226
Veronika Lipphardt: Ancestral Tunnesl, Grandparental Biases: Intricacies of Refence Data in Population Genetic Analysis

Tuesday January 20th 2026, 18:15 – 19:45, X-A2-103
Antoine Missemer (Paris): Broadening without Provincializing: Towards Multilateral and Global Histories of Energy Economics

Tuesday February 3rd 2026, 18:15 – 19:45, X-E0-214
Cucia Criscuolo (Bologna): Boni imperii istrumetum: Old and New Perspectives of Gifts of Land in the Greek World