Konferenzen und Sommerschulen

Konferenz, 11. bis 13. Juni 2024

Transnationale und globale Perspektiven waren für die kommunistische Bewegung von Beginn an von zentraler Bedeutung. Mit dem Aufschwung der Globalgeschichte und der postcolonial studies erfahren sie in der historischen Kommunismusforschung wieder mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Globalen Verflechtungen, transnational agierenden Akteur:innen sowie transnationalen Praktiken widmet sich auch die 6. Hermann-Weber-Konferenz zur Historischen Kommunismusforschung. Sie thematisiert den Wandel von Transnationalität in kommunistischen Bewegungen und Regimen für das „kurze 20. Jahrhundert“ (1917–1989/90). Dabei wird von der These ausgegangen, dass aus der anfänglichen übernationalen Zusammenarbeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg internationale Beziehungen zwischen ethnisch abgeschlossenen Entitäten wurden. „Völkerfreundschaft“ ersetzte die Kommunistische Internationale.

Konzept und Organisation: Dr. Marcel Bois (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg), PD Dr. Christian Dietrich (Institut für Landesgeschichte, Halle/Saale) und Rhena Stürmer, M.A. (Universität Leipzig). Gefördert von der Gerda-und-Hermann-Weber-Stiftung, in Kooperation mit der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg und der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Ort: Eröffnung im Senatssaal, ab 1. Konferenztag Logensaal

Sprachen: Englisch und Deutsch

18.–19. Juni 2024, Logensaal der Europa-Universität Viadrina

Thema: „Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen in neuen Dimensionen“

Organisiert durch die Abteilung Multimedia-Service des IKMZ der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Summer School, August 17 – September 1 2024

Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the discussions around the notion of learning city during the last year’s edition, in 2024 the school focuses on urban space as the space for various (un)learning practices, activating different modes of knowing, sensing and being/becoming together. 

It invites students, young researchers, civil society activists, artists and cultural workers to critically reflect upon the experiences of (un)learning as a vehicle of urban transformation through constant re-imagining of the cityscape contours and trajectories. Attentive to the promises of participatory pedagogics and spatial aspects of knowledge production, the school looks into the ways how learning infrastructures are constructed through institutions of formal and non-formal education, as well as into their potential for creating diverse and transgenerational learning communities.

Location: Frankfurt (Oder) & Słubice

Genshagen Trilateral Summer School, 21 - 28 August 2024

Every summer since 2012, the Genshagen Trilateral Summer School brings together Master’s and PhD students from German, French, and Polish universities at Genshagen Castle close to Berlin to discuss a topic of European relevance. This year’s edition will take place from 21-28 August 2024 and will deal with the future of transatlantic relations. The structure of the Summer School will be threefold. First, a series of lectures given
by experts on the topic will provide participants with an overview of diff erent aspects, challenges, and implications of transatlantic relations. This theoretical part will be complemented, secondly, by a study trip to Berlin during which participants will get the chance to discuss the Summer School topic with practitioners active in the policy fi eld. At the end of the Summer School, thirdly, students will develop a future agenda for transatlantic relations (against the backdrop of a possible American withdrawal from Europe). The summer school is co-organised by the Lettres Sorbonne Université and the European University Viadrina.

Application deadline: 9 June 2024

Who can apply?
Students at Master’s level as well as PhD students enrolled at a German, French or Polish university (all nationalities) and students with German, French or Polish nationality enrolled at universities in other countries.

Location: Genshagen Castle, Am Schloss 1, 14974 Ludwigsfelde, Germany

Language: English

International Conference, 19 to 21 September 2024

We live in a world of constant change. There are periods, however, of accelerated change in the political, economic, social or technological sphere. Usually, these spheres are closely interrelated and entangled. If this change is of fundamental character, scientists usually speak of ´transformations´. Common examples are the political and economic system changes, i.e. transformations, in Latin America, Southern Europe or Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the past decades.

The aim of the conference is to shed light on technological, but also political, societal and environmental sides of these transformations in Europe and other regions in past and present. Technology can be a major factor to enhance, slow down or ease such transformations. Processes of circulation and appropriation of knowledge, ideas and artefacts provide a broad field of research to better understand aspects of political, societal or environmental transformations in connection with technology. Special attention can be paid to the following themes: (1) technologies as a driver of political, societal or environmental changes or as an obstacle, (2) technological “revolutions”, transitions and “transformations” and their impact on politics, societies and environment, (3) discourses on (technological) changes, especially with regard to sustainability.

Deadline for registration: July 2024

Location: European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Economics & Business Conference, October 10 to 11, 2024

The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of business & economics related to gaming and esports.

Contact: videogaming@europa-uni.de

Location: ESCP Business School, Berlin