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
Friday November 14th 2025, 13:00 - 14:15, X-E0-002
Conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary", Section I
Ricardo Uribe (FU Berlin): Entangled Synchrony: How to Intertwine Disconnected Times in Global History
Alina Horta (FU Berlin): Tracing expert entanglements: a proposal for the study of UNESCO’s post-war global education
Katharina Dube (Leipzig University): Producing planetary history? The anthropocene, transnational and global in the world knowledge production of German historical science
Friday November 14th 2025, 14:45 - 16:15, X-E0-002
Conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary", Section II
Robert Balogh (University of Ostrava): Tree Species, Sites of Research and Eurasian Entanglements during the Cold War
Josue Veiga (Bielefeld University): A planetary history of genetically modified crops in Latin America. An adjustment of scale and perspective
Yash Gupta (University of Bremen): Of Chilies in Our Blood: Intergenerational Dis/abilities and Scalar Contradictions in the Survivor Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Romy Köhler (Universität Bonn): Sacred Landscapes, Confession, and the Planetary Turn: Franciscan Writing in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Friday November 14th 2025, 16:45 - 19:45, X-E0-002
Conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary", Sections III & IV
Round Table: Antj Flüchter, Birte Förster, Frank Grüner, Olaf Kaltmeier, Réka Krizmanics, Eleonora Rohland, moderated by Justyna Aniceta Turkowska
Movie & Discussion: "Copper Woman: Afua Cooper Dub Poet" (2025), presented by Willy Raussert, Bielefeld University
Saturday November 15th 2025, 09:30 - 11:00, X-E0-002
Conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary", Section V
Bharti Chhibber (University of Delhi): Beyond the Individual Self: Spiritual Ecology, Planetary Consciousness, and the Ethics of Coexistence
Ezema Osinach (University of Ibadan): The Global Through the Eyes of the Local: Uwa as the Cultural Foundation of African Environmentalism
Francisco Vallejo (University of California San Diego): Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary
Saturday November 15th 2025, 12:30 - 14:00, X-E0-002
Conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary", Section VI
Christine Hoth de Olano (University Bern): Scaling Water Worlds: The Canal del Dique and the Entanglements of Hydrosocial Landscapes in the Caribbean
Daniel Costa (LMU): Global Cinnamon: Intercolonialism and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Jean Veloso (University Bern): Geographies of accumulation of slavery and its crisis in Brazil (1870-1890)
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
Wednesday November 19th 2025, 16:15 - 17:4, X-C03-103
Robert Heinze (Paris): Between Nationalism and Universalism: Decolonisation, African History and Postcolonial Studies
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
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| by appointment | n.V. | 13.10.2025-06.02.2026 | see section "contents, comment" for the dates of the lectures |
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23-WS-GE Globale Verflechtungen | Forschungsdiskurs | Study requirement
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