23 January 2024 | Angelika Siehr (Bielefeld): “The human right to water”, organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
05 December 2023 | Octavio Luis Motta Ferray (London): “The right to health and the Amazon forest: Brazil, the Americas and the world”, organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
30 Nov.-01. Dec. 2023 | Annual retreat of the Institute for World Society (Bielefeld University), Bad Salzuflen, Germany | Annual retreat |
27 November 2023 | Stephen Wenham (BUP): "Workshop on publishing", organised by RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
11 November 2023 | Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam): “Coerced and free labour in global perspective”, organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
31 October 2023 |
Markus Ciesieslki (Gießen/Hildesheim): “Claiming in Columbia: A regional approach to social rights insights”, organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
11 July 2023 | Larissa Buchholz (Northwestern): “The global rules of art”, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
04 July 2023 | Tobias Berger (Berlin): “Worldmaking from the margins: How southern actors shape global order”, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
13 June 2023 | Andrea Muehlebach (Bremen): "Can Waves Have Rights? From Rights of Nature to Earth Law" held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
06 June 2023 | Roundtable "Global Cooperation and Global Challenges" (with Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Mathias Albert, Alina Isakova, Malte Neuwinger), organized by Research Training Group RTG 2225 "World Politics", Bielefeld University | Roundtable |
23 May 2023 | Stephen Curtis visited the RTG and gave a talk on: “How to turn a doctoral thesis into a book” | Guest Lecture |
02 May 2023 |
Benedikt Stuchtey (Marburg): "Writing the history of the British Empire", held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Guest Lecture |
25 April 2023 |
Roundtable "The Evolution of Orders: Uncertain Futures and the (Im)possibilities of Progress" (with Emanuel Adler, Mathias Albert, Silke Schwandt and Stephan Stetter), organized by members of the SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparison", the Institute for World Society Studies, the Research Training Group RTG 2225 "World Politics" and the Centre for Uncertainty Studies. | Roundtable |
18-19 April 2023 |
Emanuel Adler (Toronto): "Epistemic Communities of Practice" paper discussion and lecture in the Collaborative Research Centre 1288. |
Guest Lecture |
24 January 2023 | Raewyn Connell (Sydney): “Resources for Change in World Society Research” held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Guest Lecture |
10 January 2023 | Bernd Bucher (St. Gallen): ”Football’s contribution to international order: the ludic and festive reproduction of international society by world societal actors” |
Guest Lecture |
13 December | Manuela Boatcă (Freiburg): “Most Common, Most Deceptive: Society as a Unit of Analysis”, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Guest Lecture |
12 Deecember 2022 | Peter Lenco (Antigonish): “The Other Social Science; Three Centuries of Common Heterodoxy” | Guest Lecture |
21-29 November 2022 | Katja Freistein (Duisburg-Essen): “Visualität, Affekt und Narrative im Kontext rechtspopulistischer Strategien” | Guest Lecture |
10-11 November 2022 |
Annual retreat of the Institute for World Society (Bielefeld University), Bad Salzulfen, Germany, |
Annual Retreat |
6-10 November 2022 | Carlos Ballestreos (Mexico City): “How things stand? Global society and the geopolitical turn” | Guest Lecture |
5 October 2022 | Gurminder Bhambra (Sussex): “How Eurocentric is Sociological Globalization & World Society Research and What Can We Do About It?”, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Guest Lecture |
06-07 September 2022 | ‘Global Challenges in World Politics: Discourses, Actors and Outcomes’ organized by O. Uraiqat, J. Fritzler and A. Isakova, Bielefeld University | RTG Workshop |
12 July 2022 |
Eva Gerharz (Fulda): ‘Youth Movements and the Changing Political in Bangladesh and Beyond’, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics |
Guest Lecture |
14 June 2022 | Vineeta Sinha (Singapore): ‘Contesting the Hegemony of the “neo-liberal, Corporate University”: Implications for academic Freedom and critical intellectual Scholarship’, held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics |
Guest Lecture |
19-20 May 2022 | 'Wie geht ́s eigentlich der Weltgesellschaft?', conference held as part of the 20th anniversary of the Institute for World Society. | Conference at the ZiF |
10-11 May 2022 | Guest researcher Ole Jacob Sending (Oslo); |
Guest Researcher |
10-11 May 2022 | Guest researcher Jens Bartelsson (Lund); |
Guest Researcher |
02-03 May 2022 | ‘The Malmö-Bielefeld Workshop on Global and World Politics’, jointly organised by Bielefeld University’s RTG World Politics & Malmö University’s Global Politics PhD Programme. | Workshop in Malmö, Sweden |
27 April 2022 | Felix Schürmann (Erfurt): 'From the Head of the Snake to a Unity of the World: Mapping Blurred Transitions at the CongoEstuary, 1859-1887', held as part of the public lecture series ‘Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft’ organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Guest Lecture |
12 April 2022 | Ieva Birka (Riga): ‘Harnessing the Potential of the Diasporas’, held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Guest Lecture |
13-15 December 2021 |
'Global Challenges in World Politics: Discourses, Actors and Outcomes', organised by Cansu Erdoğan, Oday Uraiqat and Robin Schulze Waltrup, Bielefeld University. |
Virtual RTG Workshop |
07 December 2021 | Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld): 'What is new? The Corona-Pandemic compared to earlier (20th- and 21st-century) pandemics', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics | Virtual Guest Lecture |
08 November 2021 |
Approval date of a second funding period for the RTG "World Politics". We are delighted to announce that the DFG has approved our Research Training Group's application for an additional 4.5 year funding period. | Event |
19 October 2021 | Holger Straßheim and Tobias Werron: 'Questions, Problems, Challenges', with Holly Case (author of 'The Age of Questions') and Carsten Reinhardt (Chair). | Virtual Roundtable |
06 July 2021 | Lothar Brock & Hedrick Simon (Frankfurt a.M.): 'The Intervention of Marxism. How an idea conquered the world', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
22 June 2021 | Christian Reus-Smit (Brisbane): Presentation of Current Research Activities and Discussion. | Virtual Guest Presentation |
17-18 June 2021 | Roland Bluhm: ‘Good Scientifics Practice’. | Virtual Workshop |
15 June 2021 | Hedwig Richter (Munich): 'How much democracy is good for democracy? Historical and comparative perspectives on the USA', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
01 June 2021 | Julian Go (Chicago): 'Doing Global Historical Sociology’. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
27 April 2021 | Christina Morina (Bielefeld): 'The Intervention of Marxism. How an idea conquered the world', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' organised by Institute for World Society Studies & RTG World Politics. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
23 April 2021 | Guido Molina (Bielefeld): 'Storytelling Techniques for Female Scientists', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students Cansu Erdoğan, Alina Isakova, Tatiana Saraseko and Katerina Volkov as part of the RTG's gender equality measures. |
Virtual Workshop |
26 January 2021 | Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron (Bielefeld): 'What in the World? Understanding Global Social Change'. | Virtual Book Launch |
15 December 2020 | Rudolf Stichweh (Bonn): 'The COVID-19 Pandemic in the system of World Society'. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
27 November 2020 | Lisa Steinhauser: 'Networking Strategies for Women in Academia', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students Cansu Erdoğan, Alina Isakova, Tatiana Saraseko and Katerina Volkov as part of the RTG's gender equality measures. | Virtual Workshop |
20 November 2020 | Anne Schreiter: 'How to Build your Career Strategy and find your Strengths and Goals as a Female Researcher', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students Cansu Erdoğan, Alina Isakova, Tatiana Saraseko and Katerina Volkov as part of the RTG's gender equality measures. | Virtual Workshop |
30 June 2020 |
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld): 'Der Fall Tönnies und das Produktionsmodell der deutschen Fleischindustrie'. | Virtual Guest Lecture |
27 January 2020 |
Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti (Teheran): 'From a "World" to a "Global" Society: Normative Globalization', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. |
Guest Lecture |
21-22 November 2019 | Aziz Elmuradov, Sandra Holtgreve, Marc Jacobsen, Karlson Preuß, Yasin Sunca and Gladys Vásquez (Bielefeld): 'Envisioning the Global, Engendering Agency: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students. | Workshop |
19 November 2019 | Hannah Bennani (Tübingen): 'Globalizing Categories. The Case of "Indigenious Peoples"', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
28 October 2019 | Eva Hausteiner (Bonn): 'In the Conceptual Twilight Zone: Federation, Empire, and the Description of Large Polities', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft', jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
24-25 October 2019 | Anatoly Boyashov, Madeleine Myatt, Johannes Nagel, Daniela Russ and James Stafford (Bielefeld): 'Organising Competition & Contestation in World Politics', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students. | Workshop |
08 October 2019 | Boris Holzer (Konstanz): 'Social Structure and Semantics in the Sociology of World Society', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
05 June 2019 | Anja Jakobi (Braunschweig): 'Governing Global Illegal Markets - Countering Crime or Regulating Economic Flows', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
21 May 2019 | Lene Hansen (Copenhagen): 'Images and International Security: How Visual Representations Impact World Politics', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
14 May 2019 | Jennifer Mitzen (Columbus): 'Symphony or Schism? The Concert of Europe in History and Theory', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
07 May 2019 | Andrew Zimmerman (Washington): 'A Global History of the American Civil War', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
15 January 2019 | Kamran Matin (Sussex): 'The International Constructions of Nationalism: Societal Multiplicity and Nation-Formation', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
08 January 2019 | Anja Weiß (Duisburg-Essen): 'Sociology of Global Inequalities', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
13-14 December 2018 |
Anatoly Boyashov, Aziz Elmuradov, Marc Jacobsen, Madeleine Myatt, Johannes Nagel, Karlson Preuß, Daniela Russ, James Stafford, Yasin Sunca and Gladys Vasquez (Bad Salzuflen): 'Klausurtagung 2018', jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. |
Workshop |
18 December 2018 | Theresa Koloma Beck (Munich): 'Globalisation and the Everyday. How sociologies of everyday life can contribute to globalisation research', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
09-10 November 2018 | Anatoly Boyashov, Madeleine Myatt, Johannes Nagel, Daniela Russ and James Stafford (Bielefeld): 'Balance and Competition in World Politics', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students. | Workshop |
24 October 2018 | Benjamin Tallis (Institute of International Relations, Prague): 'Identities, Borderscapes, (dis)orders: Understanding the EU's Migration and Neighbourhood Crisis', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
01-02 October 2018 | Aziz Elmuradov, Sandra Holtgreve, Marc Jacobsen, Karlson Preuß, Yasin Sunca and Gladys Vásquez (Bielefeld): Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, practices and struggles', organised by RTG World Politics doctoral students. | Workshop |
13 September 2018 | Deborah Ruggieri (Bielefeld): 'Attention please & the power of persuasion', organised for female PhD students as part of the RTG's gender equality measures. | Workshop |
12 July 2018 | Georgios Varouxakis (London): 'Towards a genealogy of the concept of the West'. | Guest Lecture |
19 June 2018 |
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld): 'Observing transnational labor markets through the lens of economic sociology - on the production of a transnational labor market in the meat industry', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. |
Guest Lecture |
07 June 2018 | Jennifer Pitts (Chicago): 'Boundaries of the International', organised by the RTG & the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. | Workshop |
05 June 2018 |
Shih-Jiunn Shi (Bielefeld): 'Cultural Convergence or Political-economic Divergence: A Comparative Perspective on the Welfare Development in Greater China', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. |
Guest Lecture |
08 May 2018 | Or Rosenboim (London): 'Globalism: Historical Perspectives on a Contested Concept', held as part of the public lecture series 'Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft' jointly organised by the RTG World Politics & the Institute of World Society. | Guest Lecture |
01 March 2018 | New doctoral researcher Karlson Preuß joined the RTG. In his doctoral dissertation, he focuses on 'Sociological Jurisprudence and Western legal thought'. | Event |
14-15 December 2017 | 'A touch of world politics in Bad Salzuflen'. The RTG participated in the Annual Retreat of the Institute for World Society Studies. | Retreat |
28 November 2017 | George Lawson (London): 'Global Historical Sociology'. | Guest Lecture |
27 October 2017 | The official launch of the RTG "World Politics". Ten international young scientists and eleven principal investigators will investigate the emergence of world politics as a specific type of politics from an interdisciplinary perspective. | Event |
24 October 201 | Heidi Tworek (Vancouver): '"Lies are the Law of the World!" News and Global Media Networks in the Twentieth Century'. | Opening Lecture |
01 October 2017 | Start date of the Research Training Group 'World politics: The emergence of political arenas and modes of observation in world society'. Nine doctoral researchers and one post-doctoral researcher took up their positions. | Event |