Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21) is one of the youngest of 10 international Centres for Humanities Research, which are funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) since 2007. Collaborating institutes are the German Institute for Development (DIE) in Bonn, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) in Duisburg and the Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen. The central research institute of the University Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is situated in the Inner Habour of Duisburg. The focus of the centre lies in the consistant and steady exchange of international research fellows from around the world. Regular colloquia, workshops, summer schools and conferences provide plattforms for scientific communication and exchange. Beyond that the Käte Hamburger Lectures and Käte Hamburger Dialogues including their exceptional representatives of current research discourses address a wide audience. Publications of the centre are obliged to the open access- idea and can be found on the website of the centre and as downloads on the publications server of the University Duisburg-Essen.
Every fellow at the centre carries out his/her research autonomously to a predefined research topic which is developed at the centre and is presented in future publications in different formats. The research findings profit from the centre's high standard and the interdisciplinary spectrum of the collaborating research approaches, and of course from a lively atmosphere at the centre in Duisburg.
International Research Fellows
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Postdoc Fellow Perceptions of Conflict and Cooperation |
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Senior Fellow China's Legal Culture and Its Participation in Global Governance |
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Postdoc Fellow Shaming and Claiming: Ethnic Minority Social Movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador |
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Postdoc Fellow Culture as Resource and Diplomacy: Between Geopolitics and Issues-Based Policy |
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Fellow Developing Africa in Colonial and Postcolonial Imaginations |
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Postdoc Fellow Scalar Revolutions in the History of Democracy: Transforming Global Governance |
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Postdoc Fellow Securing Consent in Global Environmental Governance: The Legitimation of EU Standards via Expert Networks |
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Postdoc Fellow Iranian Jews and Bahais in Europe: Islam, Secularization and the Formation of Religious Identity |
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Senior Fellow Public Policies, Startegies and Development; Cultural Policies and Mangement; State Reform in Latin America; Global Governance |
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Postdoc Fellow The Amazigh Diaspora in Europe: Mapping its Role in Promoting Cultural Distinctiveness and Transnational Cooperation
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Senior Expert Fellow "The Golden Rice Project and the Global Governance of Food" |
Research Unit 1 - "The (Im)Possibility of Cooperation
The unit examines the chances of global cooperation by incorporating insights from the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The research will concentrate on conditions and facilitating factors for successful cooperation. Research unit 1 asks whether it is possible and how to scale up human abilities for cooperation to the global level.
Team
Dr. Silke Weinlich (Head of Research)
Dennis Michels, M.A. (Research Associate)
Prof. Dr Enrique Saravia (Senior Fellow)
Dr Stefan Groth (Postdoc Fellow)
Margret Thalwitz (Senior Expert Fellow)
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Research Unit 2 - "Global Cultural Conflicts and Transcultural Cooperation"
From the interdisciplinary perspective, the research unit strives to understand how differences in culture and religion may facilitate or obstruct global cooperation. The conducted research will be oriented towards the model of gift exchanging.
Team
Dr. habil. Volker Heins (Head of Research)
Christine Unrau, Dipl. Reg. Wiss. LA(Research Associate)
Mag. Dr. Martina Kopf (Fellow)
Mag. Dr Ariane Sadjed (Postdoc Fellow)
Dr. Angela Suarez-Collado (Postdoc Fellow)
Read moreResearch Unit 3 - "Global Governance Revisited"
The research in the unit is stimulated by the question: How is the world being governed in the absence of a world government? The unit sets out to adjust and to deepen our knowledge in Global Governance. The research attempts to answer which impact a growing heterogeneity of political and professional cultures has on global governance.
Team
Dr. Rainer Baumann (Head of Research)
Gisela Wohlfahrt, M.A. (Research Associate)
Dr. des. Felix Bethke (Postedoc Fellow)
Prof. Hongming Cheng (Senior Fellow)
Prof. Dr Manjiao Chi (Senior Fellow)
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Research Unit 4 - Paradoxes and Perspectives of Democratization"
The research unit focuses on the mutual relationship between democracy and global cooperation under the conditions of current challenges of democratization in world politics. The unit attempts to identify the ambivalences and possibilities of global cooperation in a post-national democratic order.
Team
Dr. Frank Gadinger(Head of Research)
Pol Bargues Pedreny, M.A. (Research Associate)
Christopher Schmith, M.A. (Research Associate)
Mneesha Gellman, Ph.D. (Postdoc Fellow)
Aysem Mert, Ph.D. (Postdoc Fellow)
Dr Mathieu Rousselin (Postdoc Fellow)
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Events
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22.-26. September 2014
Masterclass: Gifts of Cooperation
Embedded in the Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts, the second Masterclass of the Centre will take place at the Unesco World Heritage site "Zeche Zollverein" in September 2014. Five scholars will discuss the topic of "Gifts of Cooperation" with doctoral students and postdocs: Alain Caillé (University of Paris-Nanterre, France), Frank Adloff (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Elena Pulcini (University of Florence, Italy), Anne Warfield Rawls (Bentley University, USA), and Ilana Silber (Bar Ilan University, Israel).
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Tuesday 23. Septmeber 2014, 14:00 - 17:00 h, Meeting Point: Gebläsehalle at the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Emscherstraße 71, Duisburg
Symposium: The Gift: A Form of Cooperation
An invitation to a meal is a widespread form of gift with which not only you give, but invest something and oblige the recipient to return the favor. At the same time, a joint meal provides something else, a sense of community, as if one partook of others with the food consumed. Today, the exchange of gifts has often been reduced to the economic exchange of goods. This symposium of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) will seek to examine the potential of the gift today, especially in light of global cooperation in world society.
More Information concerning the event and registration can be found here
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Tuesdays 13.00 - 15.00 h, Meeting Room SH111, H2Office, Schifferstr. 196, Duisburg
Research Colloquium
The Research Colloquium is an interlectual exchange plattform for Fellows and colleagues of the Centre which has been taking place on a regular basis since October 2012. It offeres a productive and cross-disciplinary environment in which research projects and research findings can be discussed.
The Programme of the Colloquium can be found here
More Information on Events here