Dominik Gerst and Ceren Çevik will be researching at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research from October 2025.

On 17th November 2025 Kristin Surak (Associate Professor at the London School of Economics) will give a talk on her book “The Golden Passport” within the Global Migration Lecture. 

This Global Migration Lecture is a cooperation event of InZentIM, CGCR and GRK2951.

Host chair Andreas Niederberger (Universität Duisburg-Essen) leads a session titled "The Ambivalences of Intercultural Transitions: How Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism and Autocracy Undermine Democracy" at the 42nd DGS Congress in Duisburg‑Essen.

Host chairs Georg Datler and Sigrid Quack (both from the University of Duisburg‑Essen) lead an interdisciplinary panel at the 42nd DGS Congress in Duisburg‑Essen, exploring the tensions between democratic participation and ecological sustainability.

The book Philosophie der Menschenrechte (Philosophy of Human Rights), written by Andreas Niederberger, was published by UTB in 2025.

The article Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene, authored by former fellows Bruna Bosi‑Moreira and Matthias Kranke, was published in the journal Global Environmental Politics in 2025.

The book Administrative Reform in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire, written by Sebastian Meurer, was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2025.

The journal article Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions, written by Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Soetkin Verhaegen and Sigrid Quack, was published in the journal International Studies Quarterly in 2025.

On 8-9 December 2025, the Centre for Global Cooperation Research will host an interdisciplinary conference on the political debate on ecological limits, sustainability and democracy. Scientists from all disciplines who deal with questions of necessary limits and their significance for sustainable and democratic societies are invited.

On 30 June and 1 July, the international conference ‘What's the Problem with Property in Democracy?’ will take place at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg. The recent debate on the difficulties that property and property relations pose for democracies will be analysed and perspectives for a different relationship between democracy and property will be discussed. In particular, the distribution of property between the Global North and Global South and its effects on democratic governance will be discussed. The conference is part of the Fellow Group ‘Owning Democracy’ under the direction of Andreas Niederberger.

On Thursday 26 June at 2:15 pm, Prof. Jonathan Warren (University of Washington/Seattle) will give a lecture on ‘Critical Theory and Race Evasiveness’ in the library hall on the Essen campus. He will explore the question of why racism was barely addressed in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and discuss the resulting perspectives for education and anti-racism. The lecture is part of the Fellow Group ‘Owning Democracy’ at the CGCR and will be commented on by Samira Fifowski and Nicolle Pfaff.

lecture given by Peggy Levitt

The edited volume A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition, edited by Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre and Sigrid Quack, has been published as an open access publication by Oxford University Press.

Fellow Lecture & Discussion by and with Urs Lindner on the topic: 'The Materiality of Memory: Inquiries and Prospects'.

Urs Lindner has been a Fellow at the CGCR since September and is pursuing the research project 'Memory materialism: affects, artefacts, assemblages'.

The Special Forum on “Word Ordering from the Margins”, one of the final projects of the Käte Hamburger/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, has been published by Global Studies Quarterly in Volume 3, Issue 4, 2024.

https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/issue/4/3

On January 10, the “Re.Wri.T” workshop invites PhD students, early career academics, and advanced MA students to a day of exchange. Organized with the support of CGCR, the event provides a space to discuss topics such as academic identity, writing a compelling bio, crafting your CV, navigating funding opportunities, using AI, and managing research questions. The day will conclude with a discussion on work-life balance, including challenges in academia and relationships within the academic community.

Contact: elena.furlanetto@uni-due.de

Michaela Bstieler will be researching at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research from January 2025.

Dr habil. Urs Lindner will be researching at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research from April 2024.

The Research Training Group GRK 2833 "East Asian Futures" (UDE/RUB) is organizing an internal summer workshop with Mercator scholar Prof. Dr. Kaori HAYASHI (University of Tokyo) on 8 August 2024 at the Centre for Gloabl Cooperation Research. In addition to Prof. HAYASHI, several doctoral students, postdocs and qualification fellows of the Research Training Group as well as members of the Faculty of East Asian Studies at RUB will give short introductions to their research areas and discuss with each other.

Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten aus Forschung und Politikberatung diskutieren diese kontroversen Themenkomplexe und greifen Fragen der Teilnehmenden auf.

-German Language Event-

Dr Patricia Rinck received the Christiane-Rajewsky-Award for her dissertation on peacebuilding in Sierra Leone.

On April 8, the newly established Research Training Group "Cross-Border Labour Markets: transnational market makers, infrastructures, institutions" RTG 2951 was officially inaugurated with a Launch Event at Bielefeld University.

Starting in April 2024, Elena Furlanetto and Hannes Krämer contribute to the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.

This volume shows a selection of the exhibited images at the exhibition Over/Looked. Visual Regimes of (Forced) Migration and brings together the accompanying texts.

Adressed at students from all disciplines and at all levels, the presentations in this lecture series illustrate how multi-faceted the concept of sustainability really is – touching issues from energy sources to literary prizes and from economic politics to climate activism.

Laura Gerken - Struggling for a Transnational Right to Land Norm

Moumita Mandal - The Role of Climate Change in Exacerbating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law: In Search of a Solution

Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Dr. Patricia Rinck

Geschlechtsspezifische Ausgrenzung, Krieg und Frieden in Sierra Leone: eine feministische Perspektive auf Gewalt und Ordnung

Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions

The RTG 2951 is jointly run by Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology and the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, and by the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Business Administration and Economics.