220139 Colloquium Global Entanglements (Ko) (SoSe 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, April 14th, 18:15-19:45, X-E0-226
Maria Fernanda Lopez Sandoval (Quito): Rethinking the Anthropocene as an Analytical Framework to understand Land Use Change and Human-Driven Frontiers in the Tropical Andean Páramo

Tuesday, April 28, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
Aleksandra Kaye (Jena): Crude Visions of the Future at the Onset of Petromodernity: Circulation of Knowledge between Argentina and Poland, 1880-1910

Tuesday, April 28, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Arno Simons (Berlin): Can we know a concept by the company it keeps? Computational conceptual history with LLMs

Tuesday, May 05, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
Suzana Alpsancar: Computing the Cryptoshere: Space, Time, Practices, Values

Tuesday, April 28, 18:15-19:45, X-E0-226
Yolanda Chirino López / Lucero Oropeza (Berlin): ENAC Films Proyecto artístico cultural 2026

Tuesday, May 12, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Kirill Postoutenko: Scholarly and political concepts: semantic alignment, contestation, splitting and strategic ambiguity

Tuesday, May 19, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
Per Högselius (Stockholm): Carbon Transnationalism: Conflict and Cooperation Around Coal in Interwar Europe

Tuesday, May 19, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Alfred Freeborn (Bielefeld): Biomedical Diagnostics and the Concept of Disease

Wednesday, Mai 20, 12:15-13:45, X-E0-211
Reka Krizmanics (Bielefeld): Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia. Expertise Unsettled

Thursday, May 21, 16:15-17:45, tba
Orit Matza (Tel Aviv): Between Anne Frank and Chiune Sugihara: Jewish Holocaust commemoration in Japan as an 'Act of Remembrance' (1990's- Early 2000's)

Wednesday, May 27, 18:15-19:45, tba
Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Adelaide): Artificial Historians Colluding, tba

Tuesday, June 09, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Mathias Grote (Greifswald): A Healthy Planet: Complex Scientific Legacy, Conceptual Challenge and Transdisciplinary Task

Tuesday, June 09, 16:15-17:45, X-E0-226
Maria Herrera Cardenas (Bielefeld): Affective Distress and the Politics of Legibility: Gender, Medicalization, and Care in Europe and Mexico

Tuesday, June 16, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Willem Frankenhuis (Amsterdam): Strategic Ambiguity in the Social Sciences

Tuesday, June 16, 18:15-19:45, X-E0-226
Luisa Raquel Ellermeier (Bielefeld): Alterity on the Road: Human and Nonhuman Others in Inter-American Road Movies

Wednesday, June 17, 12:15-13:45, X-E0-211
Julie Deschepper (Utrecht): (Neo-)Imperial Heritage Politics. Russia’s Weaponization of Material Culture in Ukraine

Tuesday, June 23, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
David Sabean (Los Angeles): Near and Far: Thoughts on the History of Marriage as a Geopolitical Problem

Wednesday, June 24, 12:15-13:45, X-E0-211
Melis Koncakçi: History as a Political Strategy: Right-Wing Populism and the Use of History in the United Kingdom and Turkey (1990s–2020s)

Thursday, June 25, 18:15-20:30, X-E0-222
Patrik Winton (Örebro): The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Fiscal-military State, c. 1700-1850

Tuesday, June 30, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Catherine Herfeld: Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science

Thursday, July 02, 16:15-17:45, X-E0-002
Luisa Passerini (Florence): (Inter)Subjectivity and Historical Analysis

Tuesday, July 07, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Nancy Cartwright (Durham): In Defense of Ambiguity

Tuesday, July 07, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
Dirk Bonker (Durham): Alfred Vagts: Intellectual Biography of an Emigré Scholar

Tuesday, July 07, 18:15-19:45, X-E0-226
Kawrne Dixon (Washington): 250 Years After the Declaration of Independence: Will US Democracy Survive Trumpism?

Tuesday, July 17, 16:15-17:45, X-E1-001
Sebastian Linke (Gothenburg): Fishing for Alternatives - Knowledge for sustainability transformations in fisheries and environmental governance

Tuesday, July 14, 18:15-19:45, X-B2-103
Eleonora Rohland / Louis Gerdelan (Bielefeld): Deciphering OLD Ship Records to Understand the Maritime Structure of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone (DOLDRUMS)

Thursday, July 16, 18:15-20:30, X-E0-222
Filip Vukuša (Bielefeld): Reconstructing Medieval Social Networks: A Case Study of Notaries in 14th Century Zadar and Rab

Wednesday, July 22, 18:15-19:45, tba
Sandrine Kott, A World More Equal