Winter Semester 2025/2026
GlobeColloquium
The GlobeColloquium is a central forum for academic discussion at the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe). It brings together researchers at all career levels – from doctoral students to postdocs and Senior scholars – as well as external guests and interested students to discuss current research.
The sessions usually take place on Wednesdays from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. and are open to all interested parties. All events are hybrid and can also be accessed via Zoom.
All subevents
Unruly Labor – A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
"Unruly Labor" considers the working conditions, hiring practices, and, most important, worker actions and strikes at these oil projects. It illuminates the multiple ways workers built transnational solidarities to agitate for better working conditions, and how worker actions informed shifting…
Colonial Residues and the Urgency for Transformative Conservation in Southern Africa
Mathew Bukhi Mabele teaches and researches on the governance (access, use and justice) of human-environment interactions in tropical ecosystems. He applies critical lenses such as political ecology and decolonial thinking in his teaching and research to understand underlying systemic structures and…
Hermeneutic Challenges. Thinking Trees and Networks as a Literary Scholar
Solvejg Nitzke has published on material and imaginary catastrophes, climate change, ecological story-telling in 19th-century Austria and nature writing.
(Post)colonial cattle frontiers. Capitalism, science and empire in Southern and Central Africa
Samuël Coghe uses the history of cattle farming between 1890 and 1970 to show how colonial intervention, capitalist exploitation strategies, and scientific practices changed traditional livestock farming, gave rise to new conflicts, and shaped global economic interdependencies.
What is Transimperial History?
Roundtable with Satoshi Mizutani, Nadine Heé, Daniel Hedinger, Comments by Tomoki Yamada
Whaat!? Ihr vibe-coded eure Forschungstools nicht? Neue Wege und neue Probleme als DH-Entwickler:in
In seinem Vortrag wird Christopher Pollin das Konzept des Promptotyping vorstellen – eine methodische Weiterentwicklung des Vibe Coding, die systematisch LLM-gestützte Softwareentwicklung für die Digital Humanities ermöglicht. Dabei geht es nicht nur um technische Lösungen, sondern auch um die sich…
Mainstreaming African Voices in Global Governance
GlobeColloquium with Thomas Tieku
Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region
The editors Ninja Bumann, Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Rohdewald and Stefan Troebst present and discuss the new anthology "Handbook on the History of the Black Sea Region". In light of current developments, the Black Sea region is once again coming into the focus of historical analysis. This…
The Kuroshio Frontier: Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to economic, intellectual, and geopolitical reinventions of Japan over the past four centuries.