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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics

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

04/06/2026

🕌🌍 How did one million Muslim refugees from the North Caucasus reshape the Ottoman Empire – long before the world even knew what a "refugee system" was?

➡ At next week's , Vladimir Hamed-Troyanski will present his book "Empire of Refugees", which reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.

📆 10 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/empire-of-refugees-north-caucasian-muslims-and-the-late-ottoman-state

📖 Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

03/06/2026

🕊 The handbook "Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South" sets out to initiate a new research agenda that is more strongly rooted in the ground realities, contexts, imaginations – political, economic, and social – of the Global South(s).

📖 At next week's , editors Solveig Richter and Siddarth Tripathi, as well as co-author Edward Kaweesi, will present and discuss their publication.

📆 10 June 2026, 3 p.m. (CET)
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/handbook-of-peace-and-conflict-studies-perspectives-from-the-global-south

ℹ This handbook is the first of its kind with a comprehensive and inclusive agenda for the field of peace and conflict studies: It engages in a thorough academic discussion not only about the Global South(s) but includes perspectives from the Global South(s). It reflects productive discussions with scholars from the Global South(s) that constitute the majority of authors in this handbook. In addition, while the handbook is a scholarly knowledge product, it is also an ongoing process for scholars, students and practitioners from both South(s) and North(s) with diverse backgrounds and positionalities.

02/06/2026

🏛️The rise of the far right across Europe has renewed questions about the relationship between memory culture and nationalist mobilization, questions with which other regions, particularly the Balkans, have long been familiar.

📆 4 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/the-end-of-normative-memory-studies-1

With: Jasna Dragović Soso, Noam Tirosh, Katarina Ristić, Félix Krawatzek. Chaired by Hakob Matevosyan.

🔄 This roundtable addresses the contested field of memory cultures, additionally complicated with the use of social media and AI, asking about the global travels of the “German model” and its local contestations in various regional memoryscapes.

🎓 The discussion brings together memory scholars who have published widely on topics of memory, dealing with the past and memory wars, to critically reflect on the future of (normative) memory studies in an increasingly polarized political landscape.

28/05/2026

📚 At our upcoming , Mariam Goshadze (Leipzig) will present her publication "The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars". Joining the discussion are Christoph Kleine (Leipzig) and Laura Thompson (Boston); the talk is chaired by Bernadett Bigalke (Leipzig).

📆 3 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/the-noise-silence-makes-secularity-and-ghanas-drum-wars

For generations, the Ga community in Accra, Ghana, has enforced an annual citywide ban on noisemaking during an important religious festival. In the 1990s and 2000s, this “ban on drumming” became a point of conflict between the Ga people and the newly popular Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, which refused to subdue their loud worship during the ban. Although the Ghanaian state constitutionally and institutionally grants superior status to Christianity and Islam, it ruled in favor of the Ga community, which emphasized its “cultural” rather than religious rights. In The Noise Silence Makes, Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, showing how the Ga people have adopted colonial mechanisms of noise control to counter Pentecostal/Charismatic dominance over Accra’s soundscape. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins, demonstrating that they are instrumental players in contemporary African urbanity.

26/05/2026

☸ Wie begegnet Bhutan als CO2-negatives Land und buddhistische konstitutionelle Monarchie im Himalaja den schon jetzt großen Herausforderungen der Klimakrise am “3. Pol der Erde”?

📆 1. Juni, 17:15 Uhr
📍 Campus Augustusplatz, Hörsaal 11
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltungsdetail/termin/buddhistische-identitaet-bhutanesische-rechtkodize-und-alternative-modernitaet-in-der-klimakrise

🇧🇹 In ihrer Antrittsvorlesung zeigt Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schwerk anhand ihrer Forschungen zur alternativen bhutanesischen Nationalstaatenbildung seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, wie buddhistische Identität und bhutanesische Rechtsvorstellungen in globaler Verflechtung die Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsentwicklungsmodells (Gross National Happiness) und Denken über eine alternative Modernität seit den 1970iger Jahren ermöglicht haben. Dies konkretisiert sich nun in der Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) als erster nachhaltiger Megacity der Welt, Handels- und Finanzknotenpunkt Asiens und Zentrum des globalen Buddhismus, gelegen in einem Flussdelta als “Aqueous Earth” zwischen Indien und China.

ℹ Der Vortrag ist Teil der Ringvorlesung "Mensch-Natur, Umwelt und Klimakrise: Wissensräume der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften" am Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften.

21/05/2026

🌳 Coming up next week at our : Solvejg Nitzke (Bochum) will explore ways in which the humanities could address the hermeneutic challenges of dealing with non- and more-than-human entities.

📆 27 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.5 https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/event-detail/event/hermeneutic-challenges-thinking-trees-and-networks-as-a-literary-scholar

📃 It is difficult enough to learn what a text is, or can be, but recently, the humanities are tasked to broaden the scope of their attention to all kinds of non- and more-than-human phenomena. Especially as a literary scholar, dealing with non-artistic, technological and organic entities poses a challenge that seems difficult if not outright threatening for the discipline as such.

💡 Yet, Nitzke proposes, not only are the humanities uniquely equipped to deal with current challenges (and coming catastrophes), it does require far fewer “new” strategies than we often think. Following some of the present hermeneutic challenges and cultural theories addressing them, this talk will connect arboreal and computational webs to test the limits of reading.

14/05/2026

🗺️ Were the colonial wars fought between 1890 and 1914 shaped uniquely by each European empire, or were there commonalities? Historian Tom Menger argues for a shared "Colonial Way of War", revealing the transimperial connectivity of colonial violence. He will present and discuss his publication at next week's .

📆 20 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/the-colonial-way-of-war-violence-and-colonial-warfare-in-the-british-german-and-dutch-empires

📖 In his book (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Menger explores how shared thought and practices arose from exchanges and transfers between actors of different empires, both Europeans and non-Europeans. These transfers can be traced in military manuals and other literature, but most notably in the transimperial mobility of military attachés, regular soldiers, settlers or 'adventurers'. Pioneering in its scope, Menger's work re-thinks the supposed exceptionality of standout cases of colonial violence, and more broadly challenges conceptions we have of imperial connectivity.

12/05/2026

🔥 In den verkohlten Hügeln Portugals wird Feuer als „er" bezeichnet – eine Kraft von Schönheit und Zerstörung zugleich. Ein finnisches Waldbrandteam, dem solche Infernos fremd sind, taucht in diese Welt ein und lernt an der Seite erfahrener portugiesischer Einsatzkräfte.

🎬 Am Montag zeigen wir den Dokumentarfilm "An Europas Feuerfront (Lessons in Fire)" in seiner Deutschlandpremiere. In Kooperation mit ARTE und dem Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften.

💬 Im Anschluss an die Vorführung sprechen Prof. Dr. Michael Müller (TU Dresden) und Uwe Becker (Waldbrandkompetenzzentrum Brandenburg) über die Themen des Films – moderiert von Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schwerk (Universität Leipzig).

An Europas Feuerfront (Lessons in Fire; Originaltitel: Palava Maa)
Finnland | 2025 | 102 min.
Regie: John Webster

📆 18. Mai 2026, 18:30 Uhr
📍 Kinosaal im GRASSI Museum, Zugang über den Eingang im Täubchenweg 2
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/zentrum/detailansicht/termin/arte-filmvorstellung-lessons-in-fire-palava-maa-omu

Die Veranstaltung ist außerdem Teil der Ringvorlesung "Mensch-Natur, Umwelt und Klimakrise: Wissensräume der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften" am Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften.

11/05/2026

🏛️ Over its nearly 100 year long history, the Institute for Advanced Study has built a reputation as a pioneering institution of theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. Princeton-based historian of science Myles Jackson is our guest at this week's to present and discuss the institute's history and its role today.

📆 13 May 2026, 5.15 pm
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/the-granddaddy-of-them-all-the-institute-for-advanced-studys-past-and-present

🎓 Myles Jackson explores the intersections between science, technology, aesthetics, history, and society. The breadth of Jackson’s research extends from the artisanal production of scientific knowledge in nineteenth-century Germany to molecular biology and physics, intellectual property and privacy issues, knowledge sharing, race and genomics, bioengineering, and the interactions between musicians, natural scientists, and radio engineers. His scholarship is noted for its cross-disciplinary methodology and interweaves economic, commercial, and scientific insights, pushing the boundaries of the field to establish fresh lines of inquiry.

04/05/2026

⚡ How are racial and national boundaries secured through the political mobilisation and unequal distribution of affect? At this Wednesday's , sociologist and social theorist Billy Holzberg will discuss his publication "Affective Bordering".

📆 6 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
📍 Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 10, Room 5.55 & ZOOM
https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/affective-bordering-race-deservingness-and-the-emotional-politics-of-migration-control

📚 Examining key events in the wake of the 'refugee crisis' in Germany, the publication traces how the initial hope and empathy of the long summer of migration of 2015 gave way to national anger, fear and shamelessness in the years following. Challenging the assumption that positive emotions like compassion necessarily work as a counter to negative emotions like anger or fear, the book reveals the racial grammars of deservingness that shape border governance today. Combining q***r feminist theories of affect with postcolonial border and migration studies, Affective bordering offers a thought-provoking perspective on borders in today's world.

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