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Founded in 2020. Bringing together more than 200 researchers from various disciplines to examine globalization projects and global challenges.

29/10/2026

For next week's , Stefan Rohdewald will give insights into the discussion surrounding the development of spatial concepts that go beyond the notion of container spaces. A "Global Easts" perspective encompasses the whole of Asia and a large part of Europe – the challenge lies in evaluating approaches or metaphors that are suitable both for mesohistorical spatial configurations and for interconnections spanning very great distances and several historical periods.

📆 4 November 2026, 5.15pm
📍 GWZO, Reichsstraße 4-6, 4th floor & online via ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/multiple-configurations-of-eastern-transimperialities

ℹ Stefan Rohdewald is Professor for Eastern and Southeastern European History at Leipzig University. From 2017 until 2025, he headed the DFG Priority Programme (SPP 1981) "Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics"

The lecture is part of a series jointly organized together with Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa - GWZO and the Department of East Asian Studies.

26/10/2026

Was the Axis Berlin-Rome-Tokyo more than a coalition between three indepentent regimes? For this week's , historians Constantin Iordachi, Daniel Hedinger and António Costa Pinto will discuss how the Axis was marked by transnational cooperation, interaction, and mutual radicalisation. The roundtable is moderated by Nadin Heé.

📆 28 October 2026, 5.15 pm
📍 Strohsackpassage, Room 5.55 & online via ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/the-axis-and-global-fascism

At the height of their power in mid-1942, the Axis of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo ruled over much of Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The alliance that had plunged the world into war was far more than a military coalition: it grew out of intensifying interaction between the three countries from the 1930s onwards and stood for an ideologically grounded alternative to the liberal-capitalist and communist models alike. Long dismissed as an alliance in name only, it is now being reassessed — not least because fascism itself is no longer read as a European product but as a global phenomenon of the interwar years.

19/10/2026

We're kicking off our mini series "Global Easts" this week, together with Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa - GWZO.

The keynote lecture of Jie-Hyun Lim will rescue "Global Easts" from geopositivistic Eurocentrism, by radically juxtaposing historical self-imageries in Eastern Europe and East Asia. "Global Easts" evokes a hinge, not a margin, to disrupt the complacent binary of East and West.

Taking part in the roundtable discussion are Frank Hadler (GWZO Leipzig), Nadin Heé (Japanese Studies, Leipzig University), Elisabeth Kaske (Department of East Asian Studies, Leipzig University), as well as Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Seoul).

📆 21 October 2026, 5 pm
📍 GWZO, Reichsstraße 4-6, 4th floor & ZOOM

➡️ All information and ZOOM registration: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/positivist-versus-imaginative-east-displacing-east-and-west-in-global-easts

13/10/2026

Why do some individuals turn to far right parties? 🗳

At our first of the semester, sociologist Félicien Faury (Paris) will provide insights into his fieldwork researching voters of the Rassemblement National in France. 🇫🇷

📆 14 October 2026, 6 p.m.
📍 Lecture Hall 8, Lecture Hall Building (Hörsaalgebäude) & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/understanding-far-right-voting-in-france-insights-from-fieldwork

The lecture will emphasize the need to consider the interplay between class experiences and forms of racism in order to understand far-right voting. It will show how support for the RN takes shape at the intersection of class fatalism and the politicization of racism, in a context of widespread distrust of political and cultural elites. Finally, from a comparative ethnographic perspective, the presentation will consider how these findings might resonate with, or differ from, far-right dynamics in other national contexts.

Félicien Faury is a tenured research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of CESDIP (Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales). His research focuses on local far-right politics, political attitudes, the articulation of class and race, and processes of politicization.

12/10/2026

✨ Our GlobeColloquium programme for the winter semester 2026/27 is here!

💬 GlobeColloquium is ReCentGlobe’s core platform for academic exchange. It presents humanities and social science research that takes questions central to Leipzig University’s area of excellence Global Dynamics in new directions, with transregional, global and planetary perspectives. Researchers at all career stages meet external guests and students.

From 14 October to 10 February, 18 events run in five thematic series. Two of them are new this winter.

🟣 Global Easts, co-organized with the Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) and the East Asia Institute at Leipzig University, traces the history of economic, intellectual and scientific entanglements between Eastern Europe and East Asia beyond Sino-Soviet and Sino-Russian ties.

🟡 Ethical Lives of Capitalism examines the ethical claims and practices that shape capitalist formations. It asks how ambitions of “doing good” and “doing right” contribute to capitalism’s ability to weather recurring crises.

Three series continue from previous semesters:
🔵 Global Fascism / Authoritarianism: how authoritarian drift takes shape in different societies, from historical fascism to today’s far right
🔴 Transimperial History: connections, cooperation and competition between empires
🟢 Entangled Ecologies: humans and nonhumans in global histories of extraction and ecological change

ℹ Most sessions are hybrid. You can join us in Leipzig or follow online; you'll find the respective link on each session's website. The colloquium is open to everyone and held in English.

➡️ We start on Wednesday, 14 October, with Félicien Faury (Paris) on far-right voting in France. Please note the different time and venue: 6 pm, Lecture Hall 8, Augusteum.

You'll find all relevant information in the programme overview at the link in bio!

24/08/2026

Alejandro Esguerra joined ReCentGlobe as a Senior Fellow in late 2025. As a political scientist who combines Science and Technology Studies with sociological approaches, he examines the dynamics of knowledge politics in environmental issues across scales.

💡 He is particularly interested in how claims to knowledge – whether based on scientific evidence, lived experience or different cosmologies – come to be regarded as authoritative, whose knowledge is deemed relevant, and which visions of the future guide processes of transformation.

📖 Last autumn, his monograph "The Politics of Beginning" was published by the University of Michigan Press; it demonstrates how political authority is shaped in its early stages – and which alternative visions remain unfulfilled in the process.

➡ After seven years at Bielefeld University, he was drawn to Leipzig by its dense network of relevant research institutes. We spoke to Alejandro Esguerra as part of our “Hub ● Encounters” series, in which we meet new and established members and guests of ReCentGlobe and discuss their research, perspectives and academic careers.

Read the interview here: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details-2/artikel/vom-weltklimarat-zum-plastikabkommen-wie-erhaelt-expertise-ihre-autoritaet-2026-06-29

18/08/2026

❔ Was bringt 700 internationale Historiker:innen nach Leipzig?

➡ Ende August wird der Jubiläumskongress des internationalen Historikerverbands CISH an der Universität Leipzig ausgerichtet. Dabei geht es nicht nur um neue Forschungsergebnisse, sondern auch darum, wie Geschichte weltweit gedeutet, genutzt und künftig erzählt wird.

Matthias Middell ist Professor für Kulturgeschichte und fungiert als Vorsitzender des lokalen Organisationskomitees. Lea Middell ist Doktorandin an der Leipziger Graduate School Global and Area Studies und koordiniert den Kongress.

💬 Im Interview sprechen sie darüber, was es heißt, einen Kongress dieser Größe zu organisieren, warum sich keine politische Bewegung ohne historische Begründung legitimiert und wie umkämpft die Deutung von Geschichte heute ist – von Erinnerungsgesetzen bis zu der Frage, ob künstliche Intelligenz Historiker:innen überflüssig macht.

Zum Interview: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/zentrum/detailansicht-news/artikel/geschichte-umgibt-uns-ueberall-ein-gespraech-ueber-den-weltkongress-der-historikerinnen-in-leipzig-2026-08-18

06/07/2026

⚡ Welche sozialen Kipppunkte lassen sich in sozial-ökologischen Systemen identifizieren – und wie können sie für deren Transformation nutzbar gemacht werden?
➡ Yvonne Jaeckel und Alexander Yendell diskutieren erste Ergebnisse aus dem Projekt "Pro-Climate" in der Ringvorlesung "Mensch-Natur, Umwelt und Klimakrise: Wissensräume der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften".

📆 13. Juli 2026, 17:15 Uhr
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6–10, Raum 5.55
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltungsdetail/termin/soziale-kipppunkte-im-prozess-sozial-oekologischer-transformation

🎓🤝 “Pro-Climate” ist ein von der Europäischen Union gefördertes Forschungsprojekt zur Entwicklung inklusiver und gerechter Strategien der Klimaanpassung. In sechs europäischen Städten – Leipzig, Sligo, Bergen, Gdańsk, Zakynthos und Badajoz – werden sogenannte Living Labs aufgebaut, in denen lokale Akteurinnen und Akteure gemeinsam praxisnahe Lösungen zur Stärkung der Klimaresilienz entwickeln und erproben. Wissenschaftlich steht die Frage im Fokus, welche sozialen Kipppunkte sich identifizieren lassen, um sozial-ökologische Transformation voranzutreiben.

02/07/2026

📚 Eine neue Ausgabe von steht an: Herausgeber Konrad Clewing und Hannes Grandits stellen den dritten Band der Reihe "Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas" vor, welcher sich um "Staatlichkeit und Politik in Südosteuropa nach 1800" dreht. Kommentiert wird die Präsentation von Stefan Rohdewald, die Moderation übernimmt Adamatios Skordos.

📆 8. Juli 2026, 17:15 Uhr
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Raum 5.55 & ZOOM
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltungsdetail/termin/das-handbuch-zur-geschichte-suedosteuropas

💡Südosteuropa ab 1800 ist zunächst gekennzeichnet durch ein starkes Fortbestehen der imperialen Ordnungsrahmen durch Habsburgermonarchie und Osmanisches Reich, neben der nationalstaatlichen Strukturierung, die auf zuvor osmanischem Boden bald nach 1800 begann. Das religionspolitische Ordnungsmoment trat schrittweise zurück. Wie in Gesamteuropa rückt in den staatlichen und politischen Prozessen die Frage nach administrativer und machtpolitischer Teilhabe mit neuen Ordnungsvorstellungen in den Vordergrund.

29/06/2026

📈💥 Since April 2026, South Africa has experienced a renewed surge in xenophobic violence, increasingly facilitated by digital networks that amplify misinformation and coordinate mobilisation.

➡️In a new blog article, Constanze Blum examines how online platforms have become a critical infrastructure for exclusionary movements, connecting localised grievances with broader political agendas. Blum argues that social media has played a crucial role in transforming public frustration over structural socio-economic challenges into hostility towards migrants.

https://recentglobe.hypotheses.org/4374

👤 Constanze Blum is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leipzig section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) at Leipzig University, Germany. Her work focuses on transnational approaches to social cohesion and populism, with a particular emphasis on Southern and East Africa. Prior to joining academia, she worked with various NGOs in Maputo and Berlin.

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