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Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie

Global and European Studies Institute

Kommentiertes VorlesungsVerzeichnis

mA „global studies – A european Perspective“mA „european studies“

Wintersemester 2009/10

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» 1939 – hitler, stalin und das östliche europa

16. – 20.09.2009Geschichtswerkstatt Europa Internationales Forum 2009; Wroc�aw

» Fernand Braudel. „civilisation matérielle, economie et capitalisme“ - 30 ans après

02.10.2009, WorkshopVeranstalter: GESI, Universität Leipzig, RAL, Mission Historique Française en Allemagne, Ort: GESI, Raum 3.15Informationen: www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi

» Walter markov tagung: history from below – Walter markovs Beitrag zur vergleichenden Kolonial- und revolutionsgeschichte

05.10.2009, tagungVeranstalter: GESI, Universität Leipzig, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig Informationen: www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi

» 1989 in a global perspective

14. – 16.10.2009, internationale KonferenzVeranstalter: GESI, Universität Leipzig Ort: Hörsaalgebäude, Seminargebäude, Zeitgeschichtliches ForumInformationen: www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi

» studying globalisation at a world-wide scale. Jahrestreffen des Global Studies Consortium

17. – 18. oktober 2009

» herrschaft und repräsentationen in metropolen, Peripherien und Kolonien. Vom sinn und unsinn der Kategorie ‚kolonial‘

6. – 8.11.2009; Workshop Veranstalter: „geschichte.postkolonial“/ GESI, RALKontakt: Kerstin Lange, eMail: [email protected]

» Die universität leipzig als deutsch-französische Ausbildungsstätte

11. – 13. Dezember 2009Veranstalter: GESI, Universität Leipzig

Global and European Studies InstituteEmil-Fuchs-Straße 1 | 04105 Leipzig

www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi

tablE oF contEntS

Addresses and contact persons 4Timeline – Winter term 2009/2010 5

GLObAL STUdIES

Welcome ................................................................................................................ 6

Preliminary remarks ................................................................................................. 7

Outline of the courses ............................................................................................... 8

Modul GS 710 Introduction to Global History ............................................................. 10

Modul GS 720 Introduction to Social Sciences Theories of Globalization Research .......... 13

Modul GS 730 Introduction to Social Sciences Methods of Globalization Research ......... 17

Modul GS 810 Regions in Globalization: Africa ......................................................... 18

Modul GS 820 Regions in Globalization: The Americas ............................................... 20

Modul GS 830 Regions in Globalization: Asia ............................................................ 23

Modul GS 840 Regions in Globalization: Europe ........................................................ 26

Modul GS 850 Regions in Globalization: Middle East ................................................. 29

Modul GS 860 Summer School follow up ................................................................... 32

Modul GS 870 Research Internship ............................................................................ 33

German Classes ...................................................................................................... 34

Sports ..................................................................................................................... 35

EUROPEAn STUdIES

Zur Einführung ......................................................................................................... 36

Vorbemerkungen ..................................................................................................... 37

Übersicht der Veranstaltungen ................................................................................... 38

Modul 16 – MA ES 0110 Europäische Geschichte der neuzeit I ................................... 39

Modul 16 – MA ES 0120 Wirtschaft in Europa I ......................................................... 41

Modul 16 – MA ES 0130 Recht in Europa I................................................................. 42

Modul 16 – MA ES 0140 Europäische Institutionen und politische Systeme I ................... 43

Modul 16 – MA ES 0310 Europäisierung in Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa I .............. 45

Modul 16 – MA ES 0320 Westeuropa in der Europäisierung des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts I 47

Modul 16 – MA ES 0330 Europäische Kulturgeschichte der Juden ................................ 49

Modul 16 – MA ES 0340 Christentum in Europa ......................................................... 52

Veranstaltungen Global Studies ................................................................................. 54

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addresses and contact persons

address universität leipzigGlobal and European Studies InstituteEmil-Fuchs-Straße 1 | 04105 Leipzig

Programme directors

Prof. dr. Matthias Middell Head of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium E-Mail: [email protected]

Prof. dr. ulf EngelProgramme director ‚Global Studies – A European Perspective’E-Mail: [email protected]

Prof. dr. Stefan troebst Programme director‚European Studies’E-Mail: [email protected]

Programme co-ordinators

dipl. - kffr. konstanze loeke Global Studies – A European PerspectiveTel. +49 341 97 30 230 | Fax +49 341 96 05 261 E-Mail: [email protected]

dr. Victoria reinhardt Global Studies – A European PerspectiveTel. +49 341 97 30 290 | Fax +49 341 96 05 261E-Mail: [email protected]

Johanna Wolf, Ma European StudiesTel. +49 341 97 30263E-Mail: [email protected]

dr. Martina keilbachPHd working groups Tel. +49 341 97 30 286E-Mail: [email protected].

It co-ordinator

Internet

Martin WeiseE-Mail: [email protected]

www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi

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timeline – Winter term 2009/2010

Timeframe 01.10.2009 – 31.03.2010

Introductory:

Introductory – European Studies

Introductory – Global Studies

01.10.2009 -08.10.2009

01.10.2009 – 09.10.2009

course time: 12.10.2009- 06.02.2010

Holidays:

Reformationstag

buß- und bettag

dies academicus

Winter break

31.10.2009

18.11.2009

02.12.2009

21.12.2009-02.01.2010

Examinations:

Examination period – European Studies

Submission Essays – Global Studies

Submission Essays – European Studies

21.12.2009-02.01.2010

by 28.02.2010

by 31.03.2010

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erAsmus munDus euroPeAn mAster „gloBAl stuDies – A euroPeAn PersPectiVe“

a Word of Welcome

Welcome to all joining us for the academic year 2009/10 at the University of Leipzig studying the Master’s courses “Global Studies – A European Perspective” and “European Studies”.The Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University and its partner institu-tions both inside and outside Europe will host you for your next academic steps towards graduation. The Institute will be also the framework for the students’ representatives from both programmes to meet regularly with the academic staff and to contribute to the pro-grammes’ future.We are proud to be selected with our MA Global Studies for a second 5-years-term of funding by the European Commission starting in 2010 and to prepare this new edition of the programme which will then include also partner universities in China and India. The Master’s course in Global Studies was awarded last year the label “one of the ten best international Master’s Programmes” in Germany by the German Academic Exchange Service and we take this prize both as a recognition of the efforts over the last four years and as a stimulus to further improve the quality of our programme offered altogether with partners in the UK, Poland and Austria as well as in the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa.Leipzig University celebrates this year its 600th anniversary and at the same time we remember the historical caesura of 1989 when Leipzig became famous for its demonstra-tions being decisive for the breakdown of the old regime and making the city a symbolic place for the power people can exercise over long lasting structures. The Institute devotes an international conference in October to the topic of “1989 in a global perspective” and invites all students to discover that not so often mentioned world-wide dimension of 1989. This will be one important opportunity among others to meet with leading scholars both in the field of Global Studies and European Studies. You will find in this brochure an overview of all the seminars and lectures offered during the winter term here in Leipzig, but please have also a look at our website for more infor-mation on courses offered by our partners.Coping with longer chronologies, wider spaces and cultural heterogeneities is a serious challenge both to common sense narratives on national and world affairs and to method-ologies you have heard about during your previous studies. Therefore the first term of our Master’s course is organised in a way that professors from various disciplines introduce you to approaches both from history, social sciences and cultural studies, while in the following semesters you will have more choices to specialize in various fields and direc-tions.

I wish all of you an excellent start into this winter term and hope you will discover both the city of Leipzig and its University as convenient places for your study time.

Prof. dr. Matthias MiddellHead of the Erasmus MundusGlobal Studies Consortium

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Syllabus

Erasmus Mundus European Master

„Global Studies – a European Perspective“

Preliminary remarks

dear Global Studies students,

the Master’s course “Global Studies – A European Perspective” consists of courses offered at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, the University of Leipzig, the University of Vienna and the University of Wroclaw. The following information refers to the Global Studies syllabus of the University of Leipzig. The description is presented in the language of the respective course.Only the courses listed for the respective modules can be chosen. It is not possible to replace the listed courses with courses from other modules or with courses offered within other programmes of the university. The last ones can be attended as additional courses as long as the teachers concerned accept your participation.Please, notice that after you have electronically registered (via e-mail to [email protected]) for courses no changes are possible. basic readings for some of the courses are available on the learning platform of the University of Leipzig moodle: https://elearnsrv02.uni-leipzig.de/login/index_en.html. Registration for moodle is possible only after the enrolment at the University of Leipzig. The main examination form within the Master’s course “Global Studies – A European Perspective” is the essay. All the essays have to be sent electronically in a PdF format both to the respective lecturers and at the address [email protected] until the end of February 2009. A style sheet on essays will be sent out to all the students at the beginning of the semester.

The first year students have to attend in their first semester in Leipzig the following modules:Modul GS 710 „Introduction to Global History”Modul GS 720 „Introduction to Social Sciences Theories of Globalization“Modul GS 730 “Introduction to Methods of Globalization Research”

The second year students have to choose two of the following five regional modules:Modul GS 810: Regions in Globalization: AfricaModul GS 820: Regions in Globalization: The AmericasModul GS 830: Regions in Globalization: AsiaModul GS 840: Regions in Globalization: EuropeModul GS 850: Regions in Globalization: Middle East

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In each of the chosen regional module they have to attend two seminars. All the second year students are allowed to replace one seminar within a chosen regional module by lecture+tutorium of the module GS 710 or GS 720.

Furthermore they have to attend two workshops within the modules:

Modul GS 860: Summer School follow upModul GS 870: Research Internship

dr. Victoria Reinhardt Programme Co-ordinator

GS outline of the courses:

First year students

GS 710 Introduction to Global History L Middell: Introduction to Global HistoryTu Marung: Introduction to Global HistoryS dykmann: International Organizations as Civilisers of the World? An Historical AccountS Mesenhöller: Migration. Past and Present

GS 720 Introduction to Social Sciences theories of GlobalizationLe Engel: Social Sciences Globalization Theories: Africa in Global ContextsTu Rubio: Social Sciences Globalization Theories: Africa in Global Contexts S Elsenhans: The Rise and demise of CapitalismS Kuhlmann: Theories and Aspects of International MigrationS Mann: Subaltern Studies and Globalization

GS 730 Introduction to Methods of Globalization researchLe Middell/Engel: Introduction to Methods of Globalization ResearchS Reinhardt/Lorenz: Introduction to Methods of Globalization Research

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Second year students

GS 810 regions in Globalization: africaS Jones: Mentalities and Missions: Mission and Transculturation in AfricaS Asche/brücher: Economic Reforms & Private Sector development S diallo: Social History of Africa: Slavery S Engel/Gouws: State in Africa: Gender, Citizenship and more

GS 820 regions in Globalization: the americasS Gärtner: Indigenous Movements in Latin AmericaS Garrett: Contesting the Transatlantic SpaceS boles: Slavery and the American SouthS boles: Race and Religion in the American South

GS 830 regions in Globalization: asiaS Richter: Ansätze moderner Gesellschafts- und Kulturtheorien für Ostasien S Elsenhans: new Social Movements in Asia and northern AfricaS Mann: Subaltern Studies and Globalization

GS 840 regions in Globalization: EuropeS Troebst: Einführung in die Kulturstudien Ost(mittel)europasS Reinhardt: Introduction to the EU neighbourhood PolicyS Sammler: Introduction to Europeanisation

GS 850 regions in Globalization: Middle EastS Elsenhans: new Social Movements in Asia and northern AfricaS Piart: Pushing for the ‘Global City’: Constantinople ~ 1900, Istanbul ~ 2000 S braune/Hecker: Youth and Youth Cultures in Muslim Societies

GS 860 Summer School follow upbS Lorenz: Thesis writing

GS 870 research Internship bS boeglin: Academic Writing

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First study year

Modul GS 710 Introduction to Global History You have to attend: 1 lecture + 1 tutorial + 1 seminar

Introduction to Global HistoryLecture Lecturer: Prof. dr. Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute)Time: Fr, 9am – 11am (weekly), first lecture on the 9th of october Place: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz, S 102Participation: compulsoryExamination form: to be communicated by the lecture

The lecture introduces into the wide field of global studies by focussing on approaches to rewrite world history in a global age. The first major aim is to explore how historians of different times and places have answered questions like:

• Why should we write, study or read global history?• How have understandings of global or world history changed across time?• What is global history good for?• What is the relation between globalization and global history?• What are the difficulties of studying and writing global histories?• does world history writing influence our common future?• What are Euro- and Americano-centrism? Are non-centric world histories possible?• How has the professional and public reception of world history changed?

The second aim of the course is to explore the relationship between an historical approach and other perspectives on globalization. Globalization, understood as a political project, pursued by specific actors with conflicting interests and characterized by dynamic power relations across time will be analysed on a variety of key areas such as economic and social inequalities, global governance and world orders, the role of technology, world-wide migration systems or the history of war and political competition over the 19th and 20th century.

Introductory literature:For this course, a good general reference work like Patrick Manning’s navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (University Library of Leipzig: nb 5100 M265), the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Thinking (nb 5100 b789-1), The berkshire Encyclopedia of World History or the little volume Fifty Key Thinkers on History of Marnie Hughes-Warrington (nb 5650 H894) can be useful. Recent issues of the Journal of World History are also available via the University Library website (go to electronic journals). For those of you interested in world history education, the Leipzig based journal in world and global history “Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesells-chaftsforschung“ provides thematic issues on topics in the field. The online journal World History Connected is also worth a look (http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/).

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Introduction to Global HistoryTutorialLecturer: Steffi Marung, MA (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Osteuropa)Time: Wed, 9am – 11am - first group; 11am – 1pm – second group (weekly), first class on the 14th of october Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str.1, Room 3.15Participation: compulsoryExamination form: to be communicated by the lecture

The tutorial will provide for the information about required readings, methods and techniques in order to introduce students into the study of global history.

International organizations as civilisers of the World? an Historical accountSeminarLecturer: dr. Klaas dykmann (Global and European Studies Institute)Time: Wed, 3 – 5pm, weeklyPlace: Emil-Fuchs-Str.1, Room 3.16Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

Corresponding to the increasing intertwining of global trade, economic but also politi-cal relations, particularly since the late 19th century, many policy areas and problems emerged for which institutions above the level of nation states have been regarded as the necessary and possibly only facilitators. In accordance, mostly since the second half of the 20th century, the number of international organisations (IO), both intergovernmental and nongovernmental, has considerably augmented.While political scientists and international relations scholars have mostly focused on theo-retical frameworks or distinctive policy areas of IOs, historians provided histories of institu-tions at best – or largely ignored IO as a phenomenon of (global) history altogether. The seminar shall provide a global history view on IOs, which aspires to complement existing approaches by focusing on the very conception and structure of international organisa-tions, the role of the respective secretariats and the civil servants (sessions 1-5) as well as the development of policy areas (sessions 6-13) throughout the 20th century in particular. The seminar will also analyse the critical narrative arguing that international organisations were installed to perpetuate colonial civilising missions and to maintain a European world order, when the temporal and spatial limitations of the colonial system loomed.

requirements for creditsThe reading of the lecturer’s article on the subject and Akira Iriye’s book „Global Commu-nity. The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World“ is compulsory. Students are required to give an oral presentation or moderation of a ses-sion and to write an essay (10-12 pages) and to pass a multiple-choice test. before the preparation of a presentation/moderation, as well as before the elaboration of the written essay, it is obligatory to turn to the lecturer.

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Grade Structure:

20 percent Active participation (plus multiple choice test result, if applicable)35 per cent Presentation or moderation performance45 per cent Written essay

Migration in Historical PerspectiveSeminarLecturer: dr. Mathias Mesenhöller (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Osteuropa) Time: Tue, 3pm – 5pm (weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, Room 2.17Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

Migration is one of those phenomena constituting Our Times. – Or isn’t it? before the Jumbo Jet there was Leonardo diCaprio on the Titanic’s lower deck, ten million Africans cramped into slavers, Russian mushiki clearing the Siberian taiga, Chinese students contemplating revolution in Europe or America – as well as ancient exiles, medieval journeymen, whole tribes resettling. Mobility is a thoroughly historical phenomenon. The seminar considers migration from a Global History perspective: What, exactly, is “migration”? Is it new, has it changed? Who leaves, why, and wherefore? What happens to those left behind? What conflicts arise between those “getting there” and the “there-already”? How are diasporas formed, by whom, and for what purpose? These are some of the questions we will venture into along examples from antiquity to the present.

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Modul GS 720 Introduction to Social Scientific theories on Globalization

You have to attend: 1 lecture+1 tutorial + 1 seminar

Social Sciences Globalization theories: africa in Global contextsLectureLecturer: Prof. dr. Ulf Engel (Institut für Afrikanistik, Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Thu, 9am – 11am (weekly), first lecture on the 8th of october, starting with 10.15am Place: bethovenstr. 15, Hörsaal 12 Participation: compulsory Examination form: to be communicated by the lecturer

This lecture is designed as an introduction to social science theories on globalisation, with an emphasis on Africa and its place in these debates. Obviously ‘social sciences’ refers to a wide range of disciplines and their specific approaches to globalisation. There is no supreme discipline, and there are no privileged approaches towards the understanding of processes of globalisation. A quick look at any disciplinary debate on globalisation shows that the assumptions on what exactly constitutes ‘globalisation’ and propositions on when exactly this phenomenon started historically are highly contentious. Against this background, this lecture will offer an introduction into different social science approaches and debates that deal with ‘globalisation’ and come from such disciplines as political science, sociology, history, and geography. The lecture will also include three guest lectures by Prof. dr. Helmut Asche (Institute of African Studies), Steffi Marung (research associate, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas) and Prof. dr. Jörg Gertel (Institute of oriental Studies).

Social Sciences Globalization theories Tutorial Lecturer: Felipe Rubio, MA (Research Academy Leipzig) Time: Tue, 9am – 11am (group a), 11am – 1 pm (group b), weekly, first class on the 13th of octoberPlace: Emil-Fuchs Str. 1, Room 3.15Participation: compulsory Examination form: to be communicated by the lecturer

The tutorial will provide for the information about required readings, methods and techniques in order to introduce students into the social sciences globalization theories.

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the rise and demise of capitalism SeminarLecturer: Prof. em. dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Wed, 1pm – 3pm (weekly) Place: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz S 310Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

Capitalism is a decentralised system of economic coordination where the distribution and allocation of surplus is regulated by the profit rate. Profit is a special form of surplus. It depends, to the difference of tax and rent neither of political power nor on market imperfections. It depends on spending on profitable investment. Profit implies and requires the disempowerment of the privileged and the empowerment of „abstract“ labour, ultimately the scarcity of labour and therefore social and political structures favourable to labour. Such social structures have emerged only under special conditions, are permanently threatened, and are not the result of an automatic process of civilisation, collective learning or technical development. Today, the emergence of middle class dominance in the West, individualism, and globalisation threatens the foundations of capitalism, although they are the result of development of capitalism. There is the danger of globalisation of rent. This turn to the rent is not checked by what some call the emergence of a world wide civil society.

Proposed topics:

1. The economic basis of rent in investment spending.2. Accumulation and growth of consumption: the neoclassical argument, Lenin, Luxemburg, Keynes.3. The natural tendency of the dissolution of communitarian modes of production into rent based hierarchical structures.4. Patterns or technical progress, the rise of culture, and the development of tributary modes of production, and their ultrastability and resistance against the transition to capitalism.5. The capitalists‘ longing for rent and the cul-de-sac of commercial capital.6. The imposition of capitalism by rising mass incomes and expanding internal markets.7. Imperialism, unequal specialisation, and capital exports: Capitalism is expansionist but not contagious.8. Crisis blocks expansion: The 1930s and the 2010s as underconsumptionist crises.9. Underdevelopment, raw materials, terms-of-trade: Exploitation versus dutch disease and obstacles to transformation.10. The golden three post-world-war II decades: Growth by checks on the powerful in the West.11. The rise and demise of real socialism12. Export-led industrialisation of the periphery on the basis of exploitation, devaluation and social transformation.13. The globalisation of financial markets and a new rentier class.14. The ideology of a growing world civil society.15. The trends of the actual crisis

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Introductory literature:

Elsenhans, Hartmut: The Rise and the demise of the Capitalist World System. Vortrag auf dem II. European Congress of World and Global History, European network in Uni-versal and Global History (EnIUGH) am 05.07.2008 in dresden (dresden, 2008).Elsenhans, Hartmut: Geschichte und Ökonomie der europäischen Welteroberung. Vom Zeitalter der Entdeckungen zum 1. Weltkrieg. Herausgegeben mit einem Vorwort von Matthias Middell (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007).Elsenhans, Hartmut: Kapitalismus kontrovers. Zerklüftung im nicht so sehr kapitalistischen Weltsystem. WeltTrends Papiere 9 (Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009).Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Foundation of development of the Capitalist World Economy”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut: Equality and developmentes (dhaka: Center for Social Studies, 1992); pp. 21-79.Elsenhans, Hartmut: “On the development of World-System Studies”, in: Review (Fernand braudel Center), 27, 1 (2004); pp. 1-35.Elsenhans, Hartmut: “The Empowerment of Labor and the Transition to Capitalism”, in: Comparativ. Leipziger beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschafts-forschung, 15, 5/6 (2005); pp. 50-79.Elsenhans, Hartmut: „The Rise and Fall of Really Existing Socialism“, in: Journal of Social Studies, 87 (January – March 2000); pp. 1-16.Elsenhans, Hartmut: Globalization between A Convoy Model and An Underconsumptionist Threat (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2006).Elsenhans, Hartmut: “English Poor Law and Egalitarian Agrarian Reform in the Third World”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut: Equality and development (dhaka: Center for Social Studies, 1992); pp. 130-162.Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Rent and the Transition to Capitalism”, in: Asien-Afrika-Lateinamerika, 25, 6 (1997); pp. 651-686.Frank, André Gunder: ReOrient. Global Economy in the Asian Age (berkeley, Cal. et al.: University of California Press, 1998).Amin, Samir: Le développement inégal. Essai sur les formations sociales du capitalisme périphérique (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1973)denemark, Robert A.; Friedman, Jonathan; Gills, barry K.; Modelski, George: World System History. The Social Science of Long-Term Change (London; new York: Routledge, 2000)Frank, André Gunder; Gills, barry K.: The World System. Five Hundred Years or Five Thousend? (London: Routledge, 1993)

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theories and aspects of International Migration SeminarLecturer: Jennifer Kuhlmann, MA (Research Academy Leipzig)Time: first 4 weeks: Mo, 9am – 11am (weekly), starting with the fifth week: Mo, 9am – 1pm (two-weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs. Str.1, Room 3.16 (9am – 11am) and Room 3.15 (11am-1pm)Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

Course description:Research within the broad field of human migration and in particular international migration has generated a range of scholarly debates and theories across a variety of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, demography, history, political science and economics. These disciplines focus on various (sometimes different yet interrelated) aspects of migration and approach the field of research from a multitude of angles and perspectives. In fact, the nature of international migration is multidimensional and there is no single explanatory theory on migration. The course provides an introduction to the topic of international migration and an overview of the central debates and key theories of migration from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course aims at making students familiar with the main theories and key issues in the research field of international migration which try to provide descriptions, explanation and analyses for contemporary migration processes, their causes, nature and consequences.

Subaltern Studies and Globalization LectureLecturer: Prof. dr. Michael Mann (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Thu, 5pm – 7pm (weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs. Str.1, Room 4.16Participation: choiceExamination form: essay

Subaltern Studies” is a series of books published between 1978 and the beginning of the 21st century. The series is part (and also marks the beginning) of a historiography as well as historical research which, in the meantime, is termed “post-colonial studies”. basically the “Subaltern Studies” project dealt with Indian history from a different ankle, that is a non-imperialist and non-nationalist view. The founder of the “Subaltern School”, Ranajit Guha, claimed a distinct counsciousness of the Indian subaltern classes which surfaced in form of various resistance actions and movements against the british colonial regime. The “Subaltern Studies” were deeply influenced by the French “Annales School” and the German bielefelder project “Geschichte von unten”, elsewhere known as “history from below”. The idea of the “Subaltern School” was adapted by social scientists in various African and South American countries. From a theoretical background the “Subaltern School” offers a new approach towards history and historiography as it opens the space for trans-national, inter-continental and inter-cultural studies on a global scale. One section of the course will deal with the theoretical and practical issues of the “Subaltern Studies”

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projet, the other part will concentrate on its global implications.

Modul GS 730 Introduction to Methods of Globalization research

You have to attend: 1 lecture and 1 seminar

Methods of Globalization researchLectureLecturers: Prof. dr. Matthias Middell/ Prof. dr. Ulf Engel (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Fr. 1pm – 3pm (two-weekly, every first week), first lecture on the 9th of October Place: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz, S 402Participation: compulsoryMain examination form: essay

This seminar introduces into the post disciplinary methodology of globalization research including quantitative and qualitative approaches from the social sciences, comparison and various methods to analyze interactions, interpretation of historical source material and the visualization of results in maps. This seminar doesn’t replace any systematic study of these methods well anchored in the various disciplinary contexts, but discusses their combination with respect to key issues in globalization research.

Methods of Globalization researchSeminarLecturers: dr. Victoria Reinhardt/Ulrike Lorenz, MA (Global and European Studies Institute, Research Academy Leipzig) Time: Fr. 1pm – 3pm (two-weekly, every second week), first class on the 23rd of octoberPlace: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz, Group A (S 210), Group b (S 212 )Participation: compulsoryMain examination form: essay

This seminar introduces into the post disciplinary methodology of globalization research including quantitative and qualitative approaches from the social sciences, comparison and various methods to analyze interactions, interpretation of historical source material and the visualization of results in maps. This seminar doesn’t replace any systematic study of these methods well anchored in the various disciplinary contexts, but discusses their combination with respect to key issues in globalization research.

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Second study year

Modul GS 810: regions in Globalization: africaYou have to attend: 2 seminars

Mentalities and Missions in africa: History of mentalitiesSeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. Adam Jones (Institute for African Studies) Time: Fr 9am – 11am (weekly) Place: beethovenstr. 15, Room 2.216Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

do Africans think differently from us? What historical factors have influenced the ways in which Africans interpret reality and attribute value or meaning? Can we generalise about ‘African’ modes of thought? The seminar will look at selected case studies within this vast field. The topics covered will include examples of apparently ‘irrational’ behaviour drawn from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as witchcraft / anti-witchcraft, ‘human sacrifice’, millenarianism and prophecy. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of colonial rule, missionary work and literacy.

A reader will be available.

Economic reforms & Private Sector developmentSeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. Helmut Asche (Institute for African Studies) Time: Wed, 3pm – 5pm (weekly) Place: beethovenstr. 15, Room 2.216Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

In dem Seminar werden Gesamtstrategien und einzelne Methoden/Sektoren der Privatwirt-schaft-Entwicklung behandelt und an afrikanischen beispielen illustriert (Politiküberblick; Transport & Kommunikation; banken & Mikrofinanzen, Wasserversorgung; Förderung des Investitionsklimas; neue Ansätze zu Global Value Chains) (Course may be held in Eng-lish, depending on demand.)

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Social History of africa: Slavery SeminarLecturer: dr. Youssouf diallo (Institute for African Studies) Time: Mo, 3am – 5.15pm (weekly, three academic hours until the 31st of december 2009) Place: beethovenstr. 15, Room 2.215Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

The seminar offers an introduction to the theoretical debates concerning nationalism and its relevance for African societies in the past and today. Topics covered include a) nationalism and decolonisation, b) nation building, c) nationalism and ethnicity, d) neo-nationalism and ethno-nationalism, e) reasons for the success or failure of national integration in comparative perspective.

State in africa: Gender, citizenship and MoreSeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. Amanda Gouws (Guest lecturer from the University of Stellenbosch) and Prof. dr. Ulf Engel (Institute for African Sutudies) Time: Part 1 (Prof. Gouws): Tuesday and Thursday, 11 – 13 hrs (13 to 29 October 2009) Part 2 (Prof. Engel): Wednesdays, 9 – 11am (november 2009 to January 2010)Place: Part 1: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz, Tue: S 222; Thu: S 415 Part 2: to be communicated via e-mail

Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

This term, the AFR 701 “State in Africa” course will be offered in a slightly different way. The reason is that we managed to get Prof dr Amanda Gouws, University of Stellenbosch, as a guest lecturer to Leipzig. Prof Gouws collaboration is facilitated under the researcher exchange programme of the Erasmus Mundus European Master Global Studies in which Stellenbosch is one of the participating universities.In the first part of the course Prof Gouws will introduce into “Gender Perspectives on Citizenship in Africa”. This part of the course aims to familiarize students with gender politics in Africa by first looking at feminisms theorized by African feminists themselves. An African gender perspective will include issues of resistance to Western feminism, citizenship as framed by nationalism and motherhood; the tension between universal human rights and traditional cultures as well as an exploration of sexuality including issues of HIV/Aids, gender based violence and the construction of masculinity in the African contexts.In the second part of the course Prof Engel will contextualise this debate in the academic discourse on the African state as it has unfolded since the 1960s, with an emphasis on the nature of the state, the historicity of statehood, neopatrimonialism, state reconfiguration and transnationalism.

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Modul GS 820: regions in Globalization: the americasYou have to attend: 2 seminars

Indigenous Movements in latin americaSeminarLecturer: dr. Peter Gärtner (Global and European Studies Institute)Time: Mo, 5pm – 7pm (weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 3.16Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

This seminar will examine indigenous peoples’ social movements in Latin America. Indigenous peoples form a sizable and well-organized minority in many Latin American countries, such as Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile, and represent a majority of the population in bolivia and Guatemala. Their political and cultural movements have gained international visibility in recent years – most notably though the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the democratic election of Evo Morales as first indigenous president in the history of bolivia. Indigenous survival, resistance and mobilization have deep historical roots in the experience of conquest, colonization and state formation. We will evaluate these topics in the first part of our course. In the second part we will study four of the most significant movements in Latin America. Empirically, the seminar focuses on those regions with the highest concentrations of indigenous population: Mesoamerica (Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas), and the Central Andes (Ecuador and bolivia). The last part of this seminar considers themes that cut across indigenous movements throughout Latin America, such as relations with the state, constructions of ethnic and national identities, organizational strategies and their impact to the development of democracy. All themes we analyze and discuss in a global perspective. Thus, in the last session we summarize these global aspects of the Latin American indigenous movements.

I. the Indian Question: From conquest to the present1. Ancient American cultures and their legacies2. Ethnic-demographic dynamics and nation-building3. The Indian policy after independence4. Indigenous peoples of Latin America in global perspective

II. Indigenous Movements as a new political challenge (case studies)5. The Rise of indigenous movements: A theoretical – comparative overview6. Ecuador: COnAIE – a failing pioneer?7. bolivia: Compañero Evo - A cocalero as president8. Mexico: From Zapata to Marcos9. Guatemala: The Maya Movement and their critics

III Indigenous movements, nation and the state 10. The Latin American paradox11. Indigenous movements and democracy12. Indigenous movements and neoliberalism

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13. Indigenous movements and the Re-foundation of the state14. Résumé: Indigenous movements and globalisation

Introductory literature:Assies, Willem et al. (eds.): The Challenge of diversity. Indigenous peoples and reform of the State in Latin America. Amsterdam 2001Iturralde, d./ Krotz, E. (eds.): Indigenous development: Poverty, democracy and Sustainability. Washington d.C., dec. 1996 (pdf)Kohl, benjamin/ Farthing, Linda: Impasse in bolivia. neoliberal hegemony and popular resist-ance. London/ new York 2006Langer, Erick d. (ed. with Elena Muñoz): Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America. Wilmington (delaware) 2003Lauderdale, Pat: Indigenous Peoples in the Face of Globalization, in: American behavioral Scien-tist, 51 (2008) 12, pp. 1836-1843 (pdf)Madrid, Raúl: The rise of ethnopopulism in Latin America, in: World Politics, 60 (April 2008) 3, S. 475-508Maybury-Lewis, david (ed.): The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Cambridge (Mass.)/ London 2002Postero, nancy: now we are citizens. Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural bolivia. Stanford 2007Postero, nancy/ Zamosc, León: Indigenous Movements and the Indian Question in Latin America, in: Postero, nancy/ Zamosc, León (Hrsg.): The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America, brighton/ Portland 2004, S. 1-31Radcliffe, Sarah/ Westwood, Sallie: Remaking the nation. Place, identity and politics in Latin America. London/ new York 1996Radcliffe, Sarah/ Laurie, nina/ Andolina, Robert: Indigenous people and political transnational: Globalization from below meets Globalization from above? Paper, Oxford, Feb. 2002 (pdf)Sawyer, Suzana: Crude Chronicles. Indigenous Politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador. durham 2004Sieder, Rachel (ed.): Multiculturalism in Latin America. Indigenous Rights, diversità and democ-racy. basingstoke/ new York 2002Urban, Greg/ Sherzer, Joel (eds.): nation-States and Indians in Latin America. Austin 1991Van Cott, donna Lee (ed.): Indigenous Peoples and democracy in Latin America. new York 1994Van Cott, donna Lee: From Movements to parties in Latin America. The Evolution of Ethnic Politics. Cambridge et al. 2005Warren, Kay b.: Indigenous Movements and their Critics. Pan-Maya activism in Guatemala. Princeton 1998Warren, Kay b./ Jackson, Jean E. (eds.): Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America. Austin 2002Washbrook, Sarah (ed.): Rural Chiapas Ten Years after the Zapatista Uprisising. London/ new York 2007Wilmer, Franke: The Indigenous Voice in World Politics. Since Time Immemorial. newbury Park/ London/ new dehli 1993Yashar, deborah: democracy, Indigenous Movements, and the Postliberal Challenge in Latin America, in: World Politics 52 (1999), S. 76-104Yashar, deborah: Contesting Citizenship in Latin America. The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Cambridge 2005

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contesting the transantlantic Space SeminarLecturer: dr. Crister Garrett (Institute for American Studies)Time: Thu, 3pm – 5pmPlace: bethovenstr. 15, R. 2.5.16Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay10 slots for Global Studies students

The United States and Europe are of fundamental importance to each other in terms of interests, influences, and their coinciding cooperation and competition in shaping global politics. The transatlantic space ? or institutions, norms, and issues around which and with which the U.S. and Europe interact ? is undergoing a dynamic phase of recalibration, or more pointedly, contestation. One overarching theme that underlines the challenges to the transatlantic space is security in its fullest sense. With the end of the cold war and in the context of 9-11 the United States and Europe are engaged in a fundamental discussion about what societies mean by security, and what priorities citizens and governments want to set for pursuing security. In this seminar we will focus on three types of security to explore the ongoing contesting of the transatlantic space: economic security, environmental security, and military security.

Slavery and the american South SeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. John boles (Leibniz Professor)Time: Wed, 11am – 1pmPlace: bethovenstr. 15, R. 2.5.16Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay3 slots for Global Studies students

Through readings and discussion, this class will analyze the origins of chattel slavery in the U.S. South and the subsequent development of a slave society in the region. Topics will include the economics of slavery, the evolution of slave culture (naming practices, folktales, music, religion, aesthetic choices, etc.), slave living standards and work routines, and slave rebellion. The course will emphasize the variety in slavery - urban slaves, industrial slaves, skilled slaves - and include a discussion of free blacks, a seemingly anomalous population in the pre-Civil War South. Students will be expected to write a paper of approximately 15 typed pages based on the WPA Slave narratives (interviews with former slaves), which are available on-line (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html). The papers will be discussed and critiqued by class participants during the final class meetings.*Enrollment will be limited to twenty students (3 slots for Global studies students). Students wanting to take the course must submit a written application to the Secretariat of the Institute for American Studies ([email protected]) by Friday, 2 October. The written application should include (a) name (b) email address (c) hauptfach, and (d) reason for wanting to take the course, around fifty words.

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race and religion in the american South SeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. John boles (Leibniz Professor)Time: Thu, 11am – 1pmPlace: bethovenstr. 15, R. 2.5.16 Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay3 slots for Global Studies students

Race (and racism) along with religion have played a major role in shaping the history and culture of the region and the nation. This course, utilizing readings and class discussion, will examine particular historical episodes to determine the rise of racism, the development of a certain style of religion that came to dominate the South, and the subsequent intertwined relationship of race and religion in such events as the defense of slavery, the beginning of the Civil War, Confederate nationalism and soldiers’ morale, the rise of the myth of the Lost Cause, the development of segregation and the rise of the ‘Solid South’, the history of the Civil Rights movement and white opposition to it, and the rise of fundamentalism and its role in politics. The course will conclude with consideration of the meaning of the election of barack Obama. The workload for this seminar will include class readings, discussion, and a paper of approximately 15 typed pages, which will be discussed and critiqued by class participants during the final class meetings. Enrollment will be limited to twenty students (3 slots for Global Studies students). Students wanting to take the course must submit a written application to the Secretariat of the Institute for American Studies ([email protected]) by Friday, 2 October. The written application should include (a) name (b) email address (c) hauptfach, and (d) reason for wanting to take the course, around fifty words.

Modul GS 830: regions in Globalization: asiaYou have to attend: 2 seminars

ansätze moderner Gesellschafts- und kulturtheorien für ostasienSeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. Steffi Richter (Institute for East Asian Studies)Time: Wed, 1pm – 3pmPlace: Schillerstr., M 104Participation: choice

„Ganz asien ist eins“Über die Lektüre historischer und neuerer Texte über „Japan und/in Ostasien“ werden in diesem Seminar Grundlagen vor allem diskurstheoretischer, aber auch transnationaler und postkolonialer Ansätze in den Regionalwissenschaften vermittelt. beginnend mit klassischen Texten wie Okakura Tenshin’s „die Ideale des Ostens“ (aus dem der Seminartitel stammt), über visuelles Material (z.b. von nationalen oder Weltausstellungen) bis hin zu aktuellen diskussionen über „Japan und/in Ostasien“ sollen folgende Fragen untersucht werden: Welche

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Akteure (Wissenschaftler/Künstler u.a. Intellektuelle, Politiker, Journalisten, etc.) haben in 6 welchen konkreten Kontexten wie an der Konstruktion welcher Vorstellungen/“bilder“ über diese Region mitgewirkt.

new Social Movements in asia and north africa SeminarLecturer: Prof. em. dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Tue, 1pm – 3pm (weekly) Place: Seminargebäuge Augustusplatz, S 320Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

The International System of the 21st Century will be multipolar with major powers and other important states in Asia and north Africa being governed or strongly influenced by new cultural identitarian movements. These movements have an ambivalent relation with Western type modernity and are based on large class coalitions. They have deep roots in the relations of their societies with the West and their contenders, Western oriented secularist movements. In a multipolar world system, they have to find solutions for the international cooperation. Facing internal contradictions, they have to develop visions about the management of complex economies despite their insistence on non-economic issues. Here they have to face on the one hand the claims of rising middle classes for economic freedom and limited competition, one the other hand the persistence of marginality of large masses. A number of subjects is suggested which exceeds the number of sessions. Only those subjects will be treated for which presenters among the students are found. Students can chose topics, which only partially cover one of the blocks, one aspect or one case or any other reasonable limitation.Proposed topics:

block 1: Tendencies in the anti-colonial resistance movements of the late 19th century in Asia and the Islamic world: The islamist reform movement in the Arab world, the Arya Samaj and the Hindu reform movements, the Iranian Revolution of 1906, the reform movements in the tributary modes of production, Mass resistance movements (Taiping, boxer)block 2: The rise of the occidentalised resistance movements especially in the interwar period, including the Indian national Congress, the Algerian „bourgeois“ nationalists, kemalism, but also others.block 3: The October revolution in Asia and north Africa: The relative isolation of the Komintern in most of Asia and the specific orientation of Chinese and Vietnamese Communism.block 4: The lack of receptivity to anti Anglo-Saxon ideologies of the fascist powers: The national liberation movements during the Second World War.block 5: The coming of independence and the preference of the retreating colonial powers for secularist nationalistsblock 6: The link between the new middle strata and the masses and the combination between nationalism and social and economic reforms: Typologies, nasserism, Maoism in different phases of the Chinese revolution, shifts in the Indian national Congress, the Indonesian case, changes in the Algerian FLnblock 7: The (relative) failure of Import-substituting industrialisation and the new opening to the

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world market. Possible cases: India, China, Turkey, and Algeriablock 8: The rise of new cultural identitarian movements: The Muslim brothers, the Algerian FIS, the Indian bJPblock 9: The social bases of new cultural identitarian movements: the committed intellectual. Focus on who are the leaders of the new cultural identitarian movements. Possible cases: Iran, Algeria, and the Indian RSS.block 10: The deception of the middle classes with state-led industrialisation: Small and medium entrepreneurs, the traders, the new school leaving classes without employment perspective, the bazaar, and moral economy. Cleavages in business community. desirable cases: India, Iran, Algeria, and Turkey.block 11: Social Utopia and the marginalised in comparative perspective. Cases: the Hittites in Algeria, the relative resistance of the dalits in India.block 12: On the limits of identitarian politics: What is the content of identity?block 13: new cultural identitarian movements in Action: the social and economic policies of the Iranian revolution, the bJP, the Algerian Islamistsblock 14: Globalisation and the new cultural identitarian movements: between using the opportunities of the world market and protection.block 15: The view of the outside world: Fascination and rejection of the West.block 16: between moderation and radicalism: shifts of issue areas, constraints alliance building, and strains in the social basis.

Introductory literature:Elsenhans, Hartmut: “The WTO, Globalisation and new Political Movements of the South”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut; Jain, Rajendra K. (eds.): India, the European Union and the WTO (new delhi: Radiant Publishers, 2006); pp. 51-98.Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Good Governance, Moral Economy, and the Shift from Secular State Classes to Identitarian Political Movements with Reference to developing Countries”, in: Indian Journal of Political Science, 65, 4 (October-december 2004); pp. 469-498.Ouaissa, Rachid: “Aufstieg und Mäßigung des politischen Islam in Algerien”, in: (2008); pp. 143-164.


“Subaltern Studies” is a series of books published between 1978 and the beginning of the 21st century. The series is part (and also marks the beginning) of a historiography as well as historical research which, in the meantime, is termed “post-colonial studies”. basically the “Subaltern Studies” project dealt with Indian history from a different ankle, that is a non-imperialist and non-nationalist view. The founder of the “Subaltern School”, Ranajit

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Guha, claimed a distinct counsciousness of the Indian subaltern classes which surfaced in form of various resistance actions and movements against the british colonial regime. The “Subaltern Studies” were deeply influenced by the French “Annales School” and the German bielefelder project “Geschichte von unten”, elsewhere known as “history from below”. The idea of the “Subaltern School” was adapted by social scientists in various African and South American countries. From a theoretical background the “Subaltern School” offers a new approach towards history and historiography as it opens the space for trans-national, inter-continental and inter-cultural studies on a global scale. One section of the course will deal with the theoretical and practical issues of the “Subaltern Studies” projet, the other part will concentrate on its global implications.

Modul GS 840: regions in Globalization: EuropeYou have to attend: 2 seminars

Einführung in die kulturstudien ost(mittel)europasSeminarLecturer: Prof. dr. Stefan Troebst (Global and European Studies Institute, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Osteuropa) Time: Wed, 9am – 11am (weekly) Place: Seminargebäude Augsutusplatz, S 302Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

Kulturstudien haben zum Ziel, eine spezifische Kultur verstehen zu lernen und dabei zu erfahren, wie das Verstehen fremder Kulturen generell vor sich geht. Zugleich kann das Verstehen einer anderen Kultur zu einem besseren Verständnis der eigenen führen. Wer dergestalt zwischen zwei Kulturen agiert und vermittelt, erwirbt neben Sprach- und Regionalkenntnissen interkulturelle wie interpersonelle Kompetenz, die in einer Vielzahl von berufsfeldern nachgefragt wird. den überwiegend slavischsprachigen Gesellschaften Ost(mittel)europas gemeinsam ist, daß sie derzeit Schauplatz der Rückgängigmachung des Experiments “Sozialismus” sind. Überdies lassen sich etliche großregionale historische Strukturfaktoren ermitteln, welche ihre Kulturen langfristig prägen.

Literatur: Troebst, Stefan: Kulturstudien Ostmitteleuropas. Aufsätze und Essays. Frankfurt/M. 2006; Magocsi, Paul Robert: Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle, WA, 2002; Franz, norbert: Einführung in die slavische Philologie. Geschichte, Inhalte, Methoden. darmstadt 1994; Franz, norbert: Lexikon der russischen Kultur. darmstadt 2002; Stokes, Gale (ed.): From Stalinism to Pluralism. A documentary History of Eastern Europe since 1945. new York, nY, Oxford, 2. Aufl 1996; Peter, Stefanie (Hrsg.): Alphabet der polnischen Wunder. Ein Wörterbuch. Frankfurt/M. 2007; Cilauro, Santo, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch: Molwanîen – Land des schadhaften Lächelns.

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München 2005; Samerski, Stefan: die Renaissance der nationalpatrone. Erinnerungskul-turen in Ostmitteleuropas im 20./21. Jahrhundert. Köln, Weimar, Wien 2007; Hann, Chris: Postsozialismus. Transformationsprozesse in Europa und Asien aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Frankfurt/M., new York, nY, 2002; Hann, Chris: „not the Horse We Wanted!” Postsocialism, neoliberalism, and Eurasia. Münster 2006; Ismayr, Wolfgang (Hrsg.): die politischen Systeme Osteuropas. Opladen 2002; Roth, Harald (Hrsg.): Geschichte Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa. Köln, Weimar, Wien 1999 (= Studienhandbuch Östliches Europa, 1); digitales Handbuch zur Geschichte und Kultur Russlands und Osteuropas, Themen und Methoden. In: ViFaOst – virtuelle fachbibliothek osteuropa (URL http://www.vifaost.de)

Introduction to the Eu neighbourhood PolicySeminarLecturer: dr. Victoria Reinhardt (Global and European Studies Institute) Time: Mo, 1pm – 3pm (weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs Str. 1, Room 3.16Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

The relations between the enlarged European Union and its neighbour states are primarily marked by the need of the EU to secure its borders in the East and in the South as well as to pursue its welfare policies through a common strategy of enhanced Europeanization called the European neighbourhood Policy (EnP). Many scholars and politicians strongly support this policy and regard the EU as the only international actor able and willing to support and to some extent even to induce political, economic and social transformation of its neighbours on its model as it was the case with all the post-socialist European countries which joined the EU 15. Many scholars share the optimism of local politicians from the EU neighbour countries and argue that the Union has the potential to settle frozen conflicts in its neighbourhood just through the same “Europeanization” even if these are regions where security interests of other important international actors as for example the Russian Federation (in the cases of Georgia and Moldova) determined so far their evolutions. Some local elites and many political scientists even believe that the “Europeanization” represents the solution for identity crisis in those regions where the nation building processes are not completed yet, which consequently blocks their economic, social and general environmental development. This strong belief in the EU transformation potential on the one side and in the readiness of the elites of these societies to shorten the nation building process through becoming “European” on the other side reminds of the prophecy belonging to the renowned French historian Ernest Renan who said in 1883 that all big and small states, nations and ethnic groups will one day build the big European Confederation. but what does actually Europeanization of the neighbourhood mean? What are the tools the EU can employ for this purpose? What are the interests of the neighbouring countries and to which extent do they actually meet the political, economic and social security needs of the EU? How willing and how capable are societies from

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the European neighbour states in the East and South to become “European” in brussels’ understanding? This seminar addresses all theses questions and aims at explaining the relations between the European Union and its neighbour states both in the East and in the South using the most recent research in this field as well as the insights of scholars that are currently working on Europeanization theories. As an introduction to the EnP, the seminar will first of all enable students to become familiar with the key facts and factors determining the relations between the enlarged EU and its neighbour states.

basic texts for each session of the seminar, a list of recommended books and research papers as well as guidelines for presentations and synopsis are available on the learning platform of the University of Leipzig moodle.

Introduction to Europeanisation Seminar Lecturer: dr. Steffen Sammler Time: Fr, 1pm – 3pmPlace: Emil-Fuchs Str.1, R. 3.15Participation: choiceMain examination form: Essay

This seminar focuses on processes of Europeanization and its main actors. Therefore it doesn’t deal with Europe as an entity that is already given but it looks into the fabrication of Europeaness. While the first part of the seminar will deal with recently popularised historical narratives, the second part will more focus on institutions where Europe negotiates with its neighbours and other regions in the world on issues like economic cooperation, developmental policy and international regimes facing the challenges of current globalisation.

The requirements will be communicated in the first sessions of the seminar.

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Modul GS 850: regions in Globalization: Middle EastYou have to attend: 2 seminars

new Social Movements in asia and north africa SeminarLecturer: Prof. em. dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Tue, 1pm – 3pm (weekly) Place: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz, S 320 Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

The International System of the 21st Century will be multipolar with major powers and other important states in Asia and north Africa being governed or strongly influenced by new cultural identitarian movements. These movements have an ambivalent relation with Western type modernity and are based on large class coalitions. They have deep roots in the relations of their societies with the West and their contenders, Western oriented secularist movements. In a multipolar world system, they have to find solutions for the international cooperation. Facing internal contradictions, they have to develop visions about the management of complex economies despite their insistence on non-economic issues. Here they have to face on the one hand the claims of rising middle classes for economic freedom and limited competition, one the other hand the persistence of marginality of large masses. A number of subjects is suggested which exceeds the number of sessions. Only those subjects will be treated for which presenters among the students are found. Students can chose topics, which only partially cover one of the blocks, one aspect or one case or any other reasonable limitation.

Proposed topics:block 1: Tendencies in the anti-colonial resistance movements of the late 19th century in Asia and the Islamic world: The islamist reform movement in the Arab world, the Arya Samaj and the Hindu reform movements, the Iranian Revolution of 1906, the reform movements in the tributary modes of production, Mass resistance movements (Taiping, boxer)block 2: The rise of the occidentalised resistance movements especially in the interwar pe-riod, including the Indian national Congress, the Algerian „bourgeois“ nationalists, kemal-ism, but also othersblock 3: The October revolution in Asia and north Africa: The relative isolation of the Komintern in most of Asia and the specific orientation of Chinese and Vietnamese Com-munism.block 4: The lack of receptivity to anti Anglo-Saxon ideologies of the fascist powers: The national liberation movements during the Second World War.block 5: The coming of independence and the preference of the retreating colonial powers for secularist nationalistsblock 6: The link between the new middle strata and the masses and the combination between nationalism and social and economic reforms: Typologies, nasserism, Maoism in different phases of the Chinese revolution, shifts in the Indian national Congress, the Indo-nesian case, changes in the Algerian FLn

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block 7: The (relative) failure of Import-substituting industrialisation and the new opening to the world market. Possible cases: India, China, Turkey, and Algeriablock 8: The rise of new cultural identitarian movements: The Muslim brothers, the Algerian FIS, the Indian bJPblock 9: The social bases of new cultural identitarian movements: the committed intellec-tual.Focus on who are the leaders of the new cultural identitarian movements. Possible cases: Iran, Algeria, and the Indian RSS.block 10: The deception of the middle classes with state-led industrialisation: Small and medium entrepreneurs, the traders, the new school leaving classes without employment perspective, the bazaar, and moral economy. Cleavages in business community. desirable cases: India, Iran, Algeria, and Turkey.block 11: Social Utopia and the marginalised in comparative perspective. Cases: the Hit-tites in Algeria, the relative resistance of the dalits in India.block 12: On the limits of identitarian politics: What is the content of identity?block 13: new cultural identitarian movements in Action: the social and economic policies of the Iranian revolution, the bJP, the Algerian Islamistsblock 14: Globalisation and the new cultural identitarian movements: between using the opportunities of the world market and protection.block 15: The view of the outside world: Fascination and rejection of the West.block 16: between moderation and radicalism: shifts of issue areas, constraints alliance building, and strains in the social basis.

Introductory literature:Elsenhans, Hartmut: “The WTO, Globalisation and new Political Movements of the South”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut; Jain, Rajendra K. (eds.): India, the European Union and the WTO (new delhi: Radiant Publishers, 2006); pp. 51-98.Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Good Governance, Moral Economy, and the Shift from Secular State Classes to Identitarian Political Movements with Reference to developing Countries”, in: Indian Journal of Political Science, 65, 4 (October-december 2004); pp. 469-498.Ouaissa, Rachid: “Aufstieg und Mäßigung des politischen Islam in Algerien”, in: (2008); pp. 143-164.

Pushing for the ‘Global city’: constantinople ~ 1900, Istanbul ~ 2000.SeminarLecturer: Luisa Piart (Research Academy Leipzig)Time: Mo, 9am – 11am and Thu 9am-11am (starting with the 3rd of december)Place: Seminargebäude Augustusplatz S 950 Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

With the onset of Prime Minister Turgut Özal’s liberal political reforms in the early 1980s, Turkey has taken major steps towards globalization. The biggest city of the country, Istanbul, is a showcase of these developments (industrial infrastructure, direct foreign

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investments, migration). Thus, Istanbul grew into a city with global significance. How did this come about? The seminar will scrutinize recent developments by comparing it to the cities’ history around the turn of the twentieth century when Constantinople was capital of the declining Ottoman Empire. The seminar will cover topics as imperial and republican history, urban development, and economic (inter-)dependence.

Introductory literature:

Eldem Edhem / Goffman Daniel / Masters Bruce A. (1��). The Ottoman City Between East and West. Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul. Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Esen Orhan / Lanz Stephen, Eds. (200�). Self Service City: Istanbul. Berlin : b_books Verlag. [in German]Kandiyoti Deniz / Saktanber Ayşe, Eds. (2002). Fragments of Culture. The Everyday of Modern Turkey. London – New York: I.B. Tauris.Kasaba Reşat, Ed. (2008). The Cambridge History of Turkey. Turkey in the Modern World. (Vol .�) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Keyder Çağlar, Ed. (1999). Istanbul. Between the Global and the Local. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Orga Irfan (1st published in 1950). Portrait Of A Turkish Family. London: Eland.Pamuk Orhan (1st published in 2003). Istanbul: Memories of a City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Youth and Youth cultures in Muslim Societies SeminarLecturer: Ines braune (Institute for Oriental Studies)Time: Wed, 1pm – 3pmPlace: Schillerstr. 6, S 102Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

In contemporary social and cultural studies, the young tend to be either stigmatized as a source of radicalism and revolt or hailed as the bringers of a better, prosperous future. no matter from which perspective the subject is being approached, the young are always depicted as agents of change. In a post 9/11 era, the emerging attention to Muslim youth is guided by geopolitical interests and derives from the current demographic shift in Muslim societies around the world. The rapid rise in proportion of young people is generally considered a major threat to political stability. The seminar aims to draw attention to the concerns of young people and the different situations they face in contemporary Muslim societies. This includes the impact of cultural globalization processes on their everyday lives as well as questions of identity formation. Within the course we will also discuss concepts of youth in different cultural and academic contexts.

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Modul GS 860: Summer School follow up

Master’s thesis writingSeminarLecturer: Ulrike Lorenz, MA (Institute for African Studies) Time: 14 – 15november 2009Place: Emil-Fuchs Str.1, Room 3.16 Participation: compulsoryExamination form: to be communicated by the lecturer

“How to write my Master Thesis?” will be the major question for second year GS students. To this, the workshop will provide guidance in structuring the research process and help you to improve the management of your thesis project: based on your suggested thesis topics, we will continue to work on the following issues:

• Finding a Research Question• Handling Literature• Finding Theory• Applying Methods • Structuring the Proposal• Structuring the Thesis• Contact with Supervisor

The workshop will be divided into two parts: The first part will be a joint working session, whereas the second part will be conducted on an individual basis.A reader will be available at the beginning of the term.

Introductory Literature:

bolker, J. 1998. Writing your dissertation in fifteen Minutes a day. A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing your doctoral Thesis. H. Holt: new York.Glatthorn, A. and R. Joyner 2005. Writing the Winning Thesis or dissertation. A Step-by-Step Guide. Corwin Press: Thousand OaksRobson, C. 2007. How to do a Research Project. blackwell: Malden/ Oxford/ Carlton

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Modul GS 870: research Internship

academic writingSeminarLecturer: dr. Martha boeglin (Guest lecturer) Time: 28 – 29 november 2009Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str.1, R. 3.16Participation: compulsoryExamination form: to be communicated by the lecturer

Writing research is one of the most difficult - and unavoidable - requirement of graduate study . When it comes time to write it, however, many students feel left to their own devices. but experience shows that most of the writing problems are technical in nature. In this workshop you will learn to apply simple and clearly structured methods step by step, to reach your goal serenely and without losing time. Concrete exercises support structuring of ideas and formulating the main questions. Revision techniques help to create clarity and precision. The feedback on the written texts generates cooperation between you as a writers and your readers: you’ll become aware of your progress and, by taking distance from your text you’ll notice your stong and weak points and take the expectations of your audience into account.

Learning Objectives:

Learning and practicing an appropriate strategy for an efficient execution of a research paper.

Treated topics:Avoiding writer’s blocks;Methodical preparation of a research paper;Segmentation of a research paper into manageable parts;Formulation of research goals;Strategies for quickly composing the first draft;Revision tools. Improvement of self-organisation. Time-management

In this workshop you will prepare your own master project. Therefore it is recommended that the topic of your project is choosen before the workshop.

Recommended reading: How to write a master thesis? http://www.sparrowpapers.com/resources/What is an “academic style”? http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/matchingformalphrasal.htmHow to improve your style? The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.: http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk1.html

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GErMan claSSES (First and second year students)

beginners

Time: Wed, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (weekly)

Place: Emilienstr. 17, Language Institute – Caecilia Thiessen

Intermediate

Time: Tu, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (weekly)


advanced

Time: Fr, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (weekly)


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SPortS (First and second year students)

The Programme for the winter semester 2009/2010 is published on http://www.hochschulsport-leipzig.de/. Inscription starts (see http://www.hochschulsport-leipzig.de/index.php?action=news)

How to book a sports course at the University of Leipzig:

1. Click “Programm und buchung”, there you’ll find different options, click “buchen” and you will see this term’s programme. You’ll find all the courses that are offered in an alphabetic order.

2. by clicking the denomination, e. g. “Renaissance-Tanz”, you will enter the page which contains the details about the course of your choice. There you will be able to see date, time, place and price of the course and if you can still apply for it. This is indicated by the button at the end of the scheme (“buchung”). If it is green and says “buchen” there are still some places available in the course, if it is orange there are two possibilities: or you can inscribe yourself on a waiting list or it is already fully booked. Clicking the abbreviation of the place (see “Ort”) you will see the exact location of it on a map of Leipzig.

3. If you want to book the course, click the green button saying “buchen” or enter the waiting list by clicking on the orange one.

4. After that you will have to fill in a form with your particulars and then click the button “verbindliche Anmeldung” at the end of the page.

5. Then the bank account will appear on which you will have to transfer the attendence fee to. Unfortunately, there is no other way to pay for the courses.

6. You will receive a confirmation of your course registration, print it and keep it. They will ask for it the first time you go to attend your course.

Unfortunately you can only apply for two courses. but after the start of the sports classes there will be the possibility to apply for still available places => “Restplätze” (the procedure is like described before)

If you have got any questions, you will have by clicking on “Über ZFH” - “Mitarbeiter/Zuständigkeiten” the possibility to contact the person being in charge.

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Master European Studies

Zur Einführung

die diskussion um bologna und bA/MA schwillt weiter an. Aus inneruniversitärer Perspektive lassen sich, bei aller berechtigten Kritik, mindestens zwei positive Entwicklungen festhalten:

(1) das Phänomen des „Parkstudiums“ ist in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften nahezu gänzlich verschwunden – zur Erleichterung von Mitstudierenden, Lehrenden und Verwaltung und wohl auch der vormals betroffenen. Untermotivierte und orientierungslose Post-Abiturienten sind kaum noch anzutreffen. Zu vermuten steht, dass die eng getakteten bA-Studiengänge hier als energizer fungieren oder andere Wege der berufsausbildung zeitnah zum Abitur beschritten werden.

(2) Was speziell das Master’s Programme „European Studies“ betrifft, so ist nach drei Jahren erkennbar, dass unsere Absolventen ausgezeichnete Chancen auf dem deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Arbeitsmarkt haben – und diese gezielt wahrnehmen. das breite Leipziger Profil, das Geschichte, Kultur, Religion, Sprache u. a. miteinschließt (und damit unseren Master von „klassischen“, auf Staat, Recht und Wirtschaft beschränkten Europastudiengängen unterscheidet), erweist sich dabei als großer Vorteil.

In der Perspektive des Wissenschaftlers enthält der zügige berufseinstieg allerdings einen Wermutstropfen: die Option des Promovierens erscheint den „European Studies“-Studierenden wenig attraktiv: von den Absolventen hat sie bislang keiner gewählt – trotz der ausgezeichneten bedingungen, welche die Research Academy Leipzig der UL bietet.

Vom WS 2009/10 an wird es eine Lehrveranstaltung zur Geschichte der Europäisierung geben, gekoppelt an eine Einführung in die European Studies, die bandbreite, Gegenstände, disziplinen, Methoden und Theorien des Faches behandelt. Ein Reader mit Schlüsseltexten ist in bearbeitung.

bleibt also nur noch zu hoffen, dass die Leipziger Feierlichkeiten zu 20 Jahren 1989 und 600 Jahren 1409 in diesem Herbst ausreichend Zeit zu Lehre und Studium lassen!

Prof. dr. Stefan Troebst Leiter des Masterprogramms „European Studies“

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Vorbemerkungen

Liebe Studierende,

die Pflichtveranstaltungen für die jeweiligen Semester sind in den Veranstaltungshinweisen gekennzeichnet. diese müssen besucht und mit einer Prüfung abgeschlossen werden. darüber hinaus besteht die Möglichkeit, die weitere im Vorlesungsverzeichnis aufgeführte Veranstaltungen zu besuchen. Möchten Sie in diesen Lehrveranstaltungen Prüfungen ablegen, sprechen Sie dies bitte mit mir und dem dozenten ab.

die Essays schicken Sie bitte bis zum 31. März 2010 als PdF-Format per E-Mail an: [email protected].

1. Semester

übersicht der lehrveranstaltungen für das 1. Semester:

Im 1. Semester müssen Sie die Module ES 0110, ES 0120, ES 0130 und ES 0140 besuchen.

ES 0110 Europäische Geschichte der neuzeit I

S Sammler: Introduction to the EuropeanisationS Reinhardt: Introduction to the EU neighbourhood PolicyS Siegrist: Institutionalisierung und Organisation der Kunst im internationalen Vergleich

ES 0120 Wirtschaft in Europa I

V Lenk: Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre

ES 0130 recht in Europa IV Kotzur: Europarecht I

ES 0140 Europäische Institutionen und politische Systeme I S Vobruba: Probleme und Perspektiven der EUS Eigmüller: Ansätze der EuropasoziologieS Preunkert: Sozialordnungen in Europa

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3. Semester

übersicht der lehrveranstaltungen für das 3. Semester:

Im 3. Semester müssen Sie drei von vier Modulen auswählen.

ES 0310 Europäisierung in ost-, ostmittel- und Südosteuropa IS Troebst: Einführung in die Kulturstudien Ost(mittel)europasS Hoepken: Religion und nation in Ost- und Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. JahrhundertS bethke: der „europäische Islam“ - Erfahrungen aus Südosteuropa

ES 0320 Westeuropa in der Europäisierung des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts IS Siegrist: Geschichte des Autors und der geistigen Eigentumsrechte in Europa (18. – 20.Jh.)

S Siegrist: Institutionalisierung und Organisation der Kunst im internationalen Vergleich

ES 0330 Europäische kulturgeschichte der Juden

S diner: Kolonialgewalt – Geschichte, Konzepte, KonstellationenS Terpitz: Vom Reisen und Übersetzen. Reflexionen in europäisch- jüdischer Literatur FK diner/Zepp: Konstellationen. Über literarisierte Geschichte nach 1945

ES 0340 christentum in EuropaV Pickel: Religion in der Gesellschaft – debatten über Kirche

und Religion in der GegenwartsgesellschaftS Pickel: Aktuelle befunde zur Stellung von Kirche und

Religion in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft – der bertelsmann Religionsmonitor und seine Ergebnisse

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detaillierte beschreibung der lehrveranstaltungenEuropean Studies WS 2009/2010

1. Semester

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0110: Europäische Geschichte der neuzeit I

In diesem Modul muss eine lehrveranstaltung besucht und mit einer Prüfung absolviert werden. Introduction to Europeanisation ist obligatorisch.

Introduction to the EuropeanisationSeminardozenten: dr. Steffen Sammler (Global and European Studies Institute)Termin: freitags, 13.00 – 15.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, Raum 3.15beginn: 16. Oktober 2009belegung: PflichtPrüfung: In Absprache mit dem Lehrenden

This seminar focuses on processes of Europeanisation and its main actors. Therefore it doesn‘t deals with Europe as an entity that is already given but it looks into the fabrication of Europeaness. While the first part of the seminar will deal with recently popularised historical narratives, the second part will more focus on institutions where Europe negotiates with its neighbours and other regions in the world on issues like economic cooperation, developmental policy and international regimes facing the challenges of current globalisation.


Introduction to the Eu neighbourhood PolicySeminardozent: dr. Victoria Reinhardt (Global and European Studies Institute) Termin: montags, 13.00 – 15.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: GESI, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, Raum 3.16beginn: 12. Oktober 2009belegung: Wahl

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This seminar aims at explaining the relations between the enlarged European Union and its neighbour states through the dichotomy between the calculus approach and the cultural approach. As an introduction to the EnP the seminar will first of all enable students to get familiar with key facts and factors which determine these relations. Its final goal is to explain each particular case and to identify on this way the strengths and the weaknesses of the two approaches.

I. block: IntroductionWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Overview of EU policy projects for (future) neighbours: Euro Mediterranean Partnership, Eastern dimension, Wider Europe Project, European neighbourhood Policy (EnP), EnP plus initiativesWeek 3: Theoretical framework: Calculus approach vs cultural approach

II. block: „East“, „South“, special casesWeek 4: EU and Russia: ‘strategic partnership’ (?)Week 5: Ukraine, Moldova, belarus: politics and desideratesWeek 6: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan: politics and desiderates Week 7: EU and Maghreb: EMP, EnP, and Mediterranean Union (?)Week 8: The broader Middle East: Security ManagementIII. block: General Challenges Week 9: Energy securityWeek 10: border management: migration, trafficking, trans-border crimeWeek 11: Conflict resolution IV. block: Perspectives on and Prospective of the EnPWeek 12: Perspectives of the ‘East’ on the European neighbourhood PolicyWeek 13: Perspectives of the ‘South’ on the European neighbourhood PolicyWeek 14: Prospective of the EnP: Views of the member statesWeek 15: Final conclusions and evaluation of the seminar

Requirements: Presentation: 10 min (facts only, report style) Synopsis of the readings: 10 min (comparative analyse of the readings)Mediation of the discussion Essay: 10 pagesAssessment:Essay: 50 %Presentation and mediation: 20 %Synopsis: 20 %Active participation: 10 %


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Institutionalisierung und organisation der kunst im internationalen Vergleich (18. – 20. Jh.)Seminar dozent: Prof. dr. Hannes SiegristTermin: dienstags, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich) Ort: Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (GWZ), beethovenstr. 15, Raum 5.116beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: Wahl

das Seminar behandelt die Geschichte der Institutionalisierung und Organisation von Prozessen der Produktion, Vermittlung und Rezeption von Kunst. „Institutionalisierung“ verweist dabei auf soziale, kulturelle, ästhetische und rechtliche Institutionen (Regeln), die den Umgang mit kulturellen Artefakten und die beziehungen des künstlerischen Feldes normieren und berechenbar machen. „Organisation“ verweist darauf, dass das moderne Kunstleben ganz wesentlich durch „Organisationen“ bestimmt ist. behandelt werden Organisationen wie Kunstverein, Kunstakademie, Künstlerverband, privates Kultur- und Medienunternehmen, Kulturverwaltung, Kulturstaat, Stiftung, Museum, Galerie, Publikumsverbände; sowie vereinsförmige, clubförmige, berufliche, marktförmige, politikförmige und mäzenatische Formen der Regulierung kulturellen Handelns.

Ziel des Seminars ist es, anhand der neueren historischen Forschungsliteratur die wichtigsten Institutionen und ausgewählte Typen der Organisation im jeweiligen historischen Kontext zu begreifen und Kriterien für die historische, vergleichende und systematische bewertung kultureller Prozesse und Strukturen zu entwickeln.

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0120: Wirtschaft in Europa I

In diesem Modul müssen zwei lehrveranstaltungen besucht und mit jeweils einer Prüfung absolviert werden. die zweite folgt im SS 2010.

Einführung in die VolkswirtschaftslehreVorlesungdozent: Prof. dr. Thomas Lenk (Wirtschaftswissenschaften)Termin: mittwochs, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: Jahnallee 59, Großer Hörsaalbeginn: 14. Oktober 2009belegung: PflichtPrüfung: Klausur


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1. Grundfragen des Wirtschaftens2. Wirtschaftssysteme3. Konsum-, Produktions- und Preistheorie4. Einkommen und beschäftigung5. Güter- und Geldmarkt6. Konjunkturschwankungen und Strukturwandel7. Grundfragen der Geldtheorie

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0130: recht in Europa I

In diesem Modul muss eine lehrveranstaltung besucht und mit einer Prüfung absolviert werden.

Grundzüge des EuroparechtsVorlesungdozent: Prof. dr. Markus Kotzur (Juristenfakultät)Termin: dienstags, 17.00 – 18.00 Uhr, donnerstags, 15.00 – 17.00 Uhr (wöchentlich) Ort: dienstags Hörsaalgebäude (HSG), Universitätsstr. 7, Hörsaal (HS) 3, donnerstags HSG HS 2beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: PflichtPrüfung: Klausur

Vorgestellt werden soll in Grundzügen das Recht der Europäischen Union, das in immer stärkerem Maße die mitgliedstaatlichen Rechtsordnungen beeinflusst. behandelt werden nach einem kurzen Abriss zur historischen Entwicklung der EU insbesondere die Rechtsquellen des Unionsrechts, die Organe der EU, die Verteilung der Zuständigkeiten zwischen der EU und den Mitgliedstaaten, die rechtlichen Wirkungen des EU-Rechts, das Verhältnis von EU-Recht und mitgliedstaatlichem Recht, die allgemeinen Rechtsgrundsätze des EU-Rechts und die europäischen Grundrechte. Ebenfalls besprochen werden Grundzüge des binnenmarktrechts.

Literatur: P. Craig/G. de Búrca, EU Law, 4. Auflage, Oxford 2008. Weitere Literaturhinweisewerden in der Veranstaltung bekanntgegeben.


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Modul 16 – Ma ES 0140: Europäische Institutionen und politische Systeme I

In diesem Modul müssen zwei lehrveranstaltungen mit jeweils einer Prüfung absolviert werden.

Probleme und Perspektiven der EuSeminardozent: Prof. dr. Georg Vobruba (Institut für Soziologie)Termin: dienstags, 13.00 – 15.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: GWZ, beethovenstr. 15, Raum 5.015beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

Literatur: Wird zu beginn der Lehrveranstaltung bekannt gegeben.

ansätze der Europasoziologieblockseminar dozent: dr. Monika Eigmüller (Institut für Soziologie)Termin: 1. Sitzung: 27.10.09, 15.15 – 16.45 Uhr, blockveranstaltung: 15./16.1., jeweils 11.15 – 17.15 UhrOrt: dresdner bank, dittrichring, Erdgeschoss Raum 13belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

Europa war in den vergangenen Jahren vor allem Gegenstand politik- und rechtswissenschaftlicher Analysen. In der jüngsten Vergangenheit scheint nun auch die Soziologie Europa als Gegenstand ihres wissenschaftlichen Interesses erschlossen zu haben.

das Seminar will auf der Grundlage eines intensiven Lektürestudiums den aktuellen Forschungsstand aufarbeiten und überlegen, was eine explizit soziologische betrachtung ausmacht, welche empirischen und theoretischen Forschungsfragen an den Gegenstand anschließen und welche Erträge von einer solchen soziologischen Europaforschung zu erwarten sind. die Veranstaltung wird im block stattfinden. Eine erste Sitzung im Oktober wird in das Thema einführen. Zudem werden hier die Referatsthemen für die Sitzung im Januar vergeben.

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Einführende Literatur:

Eigmüller, Monika. Steffen Mau (2009), Gesellschaftstheorie und Europapolitik. Sozialwissenschaftliche Ansätze zur Europaforschung. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.

Sozialordnungen in EuropaSeminardozent: dr. Jenny PreunkertTermin: dienstags, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: dresdner bank, dittrichring, Raum 1-01beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

, Ein zentrales Merkmal der europäischen Gesellschaftsmodelle ist ein (relativ) hohes niveau sozialer Sicherheit und eine politische Regulierung des Verhältnisses von Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Angesichts neuer demografischer, wirtschaftlicher und soziokultureller Herausforderungen gelingt die Gratwanderung zwischen Effizienz- und Gerechtigkeitszielen jedoch vielfach nicht mehr oder nur unzureichend.

In der hier angekündigten Veranstaltung soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, mit Hilfe welcher Strategien heute in den europäischen Sozialstaaten versucht wird, den nationalen, europäischen und globalen Herausforderungen zu begegnen. Hierzu soll zuerst der Frage nachgegangen werden, wo die Gemeinsamkeiten und die Unterschiede der europäischen Sozialordnungen liegen. darauf aufbauend wird diskutiert, vor welchen Herausforderungen sie im Einzelnen stehen und wie sie diesen begegnen. Abschließend soll herausgearbeitet werden, welche Rolle die Europäische Union bei der bewältigung der sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen spielen kann.

Literatur: Wird zur beginn der Lehrveranstaltung bekannt gegeben.

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3. Semester

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0310: Europäisierung in ost-, ostmittel- und Südosteuropa I

In diesem Modul müssen drei lehrveranstaltungen besucht und in jeweils zwei Veranstaltungen muss eine Prüfung absolviert werden. die dritte muss durch einen teilnahmeschein bestätigt werden.

Einführung in die kulturstudien ost(mittel)europasSeminar/ Vorlesungdozent: Prof. dr. Stefan Troebst (Institut für Slavistik, Professur für Kulturstudien Ostmitteleuropas, Global and European Studies Institute)Termin: mittwochs, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: neues Seminargebäude (nSG), Universitätsstr. 7, Raum S 302beginn: 14. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

Kulturstudien haben zum Ziel, eine spezifische Kultur verstehen zu lernen und dabei zu erfahren, wie das Verstehen fremder Kulturen generell vor sich geht. Zugleich kann das Verstehen einer anderen Kultur zu einem besseren Verständnis der eigenen führen. Wer dergestalt zwischen zwei Kulturen agiert und vermittelt, erwirbt neben Sprach- und Regionalkenntnissen interkulturelle wie interpersonelle Kompetenz, die in einer Vielzahl von berufsfeldern nachgefragt wird. den überwiegend slavischsprachigen Gesellschaften Ost(mittel)europas gemeinsam ist, daß sie derzeit Schauplatz der Rückgängigmachung des Experiments “Sozialismus” sind. Überdies lassen sich etliche großregionale historische Strukturfaktoren ermitteln, welche ihre Kulturen langfristig prägen.

Literatur: Troebst, Stefan: Kulturstudien Ostmitteleuropas. Aufsätze und Essays. Frankfurt/M. 2006; Magocsi, Paul Robert: Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle, WA, 2002; Franz, norbert: Einführung in die slavische Philologie. Geschichte, Inhalte, Methoden. darmstadt 1994; Franz, norbert: Lexikon der russischen Kultur. darmstadt 2002; Stokes, Gale (ed.): From Stalinism to Pluralism. A documentary History of Eastern Europe since 1945. new York, nY, Oxford, 2. Aufl 1996; Peter, Stefanie (Hrsg.): Alphabet der polnischen Wunder. Ein Wörterbuch. Frankfurt/M. 2007; Cilauro, Santo, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch: Molwanîen – Land des schadhaften Lächelns. München 2005; Samerski, Stefan: die Renaissance der nationalpatrone. Erinnerungskulturen in Ostmitteleuropas im 20./21. Jahrhundert. Köln, Weimar, Wien 2007; Hann, Chris: Postsozialismus. Transformationsprozesse in Europa


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und Asien aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Frankfurt/M., new York, nY, 2002; Hann, Chris: „not the Horse We Wanted!” Postsocialism, neoliberalism, and Eurasia. Münster 2006; Ismayr, Wolfgang (Hrsg.): die politischen Systeme Osteuropas. Opladen 2002; Roth, Harald (Hrsg.): Geschichte Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa. Köln, Weimar, Wien 1999 (= Studienhandbuch Östliches Europa, 1); digitales Handbuch zur Geschichte und Kultur Russlands und Osteuropas, Themen und Methoden. In: ViFaOst – virtuelle fachbibliothek osteuropa (URL http://www.vifaost.de).

religion und nation in ost- und Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. JahrhundertVorlesung/Kolloquiumdozent: Prof. dr. Wolfgang Höpken (Historisches Seminar)Termin: mittwochs, 15.00 – 17.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: HSG, Universitätsstr. 7, HS 11beginn: 14. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

Religion und nation sind zwei, sich bisweilen überlappende, gelegentlich aber auch in Konkurrenz zueinander stehende Formen der Vergemeinschaftung und Identitätsbildung. die Veranstaltung möchte beide für die unterschiedlichen konfessionellen Milieus des katholischen Christentums, des orthodoxen und des islamischen Kulturraums in ihrem wechselseitigen Verhältnis theoretisch diskutieren und an ausgewählten Fallbeispielen aus dem bereich der ost- und südosteuropäischen Geschichte des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts diskutieren. An einen einführenden Vorlesungsteil soll sich dabei eine gemeinsame Textdiskussion im Plenum anschließen.Ein Programmvorschlag sowie eine Literaturliste zum Seminar findet sich ab Anfang September auf derWebsite der Abteilung Ost- und Südosteuropäische Geschichte.

der „europäische Islam“ - Erfahrungen aus SüdosteuropaSeminardozent: dr. Carl bethke (Historisches Seminar)Termin: freitags, 7.30 – 9.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: GWZ, beethovenstr. 15, Raum 4.216beginn: 16. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay


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bereits seit dem Mittelalter haben Muslime in Europa (Spanien, Litauen etc. ) gelebt, besonders nachhaltig aber prägten sie den Südosten des Kontinents. dies gilt zumal für die Türkei, Albanien, das Kosovo und bosnien, letztlich aber für alle Länder des balkanraums. Im Seminar werden zunächst Grundlagen der osmanischen Geschichte und Gesellschaftsordnung gemeinsam erarbeitet und die unterschiedlichen Pfade der postosmanischen Transformation in einzelnen Ländern verglichen werden. In einem zweiten Schritt gilt es dann die Position muslimischer bevölkerungsgruppen in einzelnen südosteuropäischen Staaten des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart hinein anhand der ausgewählten historischen Stationen und Fallstudien näher zu beschreiben und zu analysieren. der Schwerpunkt wird dabei auf Identitätsdiskursen und seinen politischen Artikulationsformen liegen. Am Schluss soll die diskussion der Frage stehen, inwieweit von der Herausbildung eines spezifisch europäischen Islam gesprochen werden kann oder nicht.

Literatur: nathalie Clayer: der balkan, Europa und der Islam. http://wwwg.uniklu.ac.at/eeo/Clayer_balkan; Muslim Identity and the balkan state. Ed Hugh Pulton. London 1997; Le nouvel islam balkanique : les musulmans, acteurs du post-communisme, 1990 – 2000. Sous la direction de Xavier bougarel, nathalie Clayer. Préf. de Martin van bruinessen. Paris 2001; Fikret Karcic, The bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity. Sarajevo 1999.Einschreibemodalitäten: bitte informieren Sie sich auf der Webseite des Historischen Seminars

www.uni-leipzig.de/~historik/ und beachten Sie die Aushänge der Geschäftsführung (rechts neben Raum 3.211 im GWZ)

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0320: Westeuropa in der Europäisierung des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts I


Geschichte des autors und der geistigen Eigentumsrechte in Europa (18.-20.Jh.)Seminardozent: Prof. dr. Hannes Siegrist (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften) Termin: mittwochs, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)

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das Seminar verknüpft die Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des modernen Autors und Künstlers mit der Geschichte der Urheber- und geistigen Eigentumsrechte. „Autor“ verweist dabei auf einen begriff, eine soziale Rolle, eine natürliche Person oder ein Rechtssubjekt. die Zuweisung exklusiver Vervielfältigung-, Verwertung- und Vermögensrechte in der Form eigentumsartiger Rechte wird seit zweihundert Jahren im Wesentlichen durch die Annahme begründet, dass der Autor ein „individuelles geistiges Werk“ geschaffen hat; d.h. eine unterscheidbare Ausdrucksform oder symbolische darstellung, die zum Objekt kulturellen, kommunikativen, sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Handelns wird. die Formalisierung geistiger Eigentumsrechte und deren Rückbindung an den Autor erfolgt in Westeuropa und Teilen Mitteleuropas erstmalig in den großen politischen und institutionellen Revolutionen um 1800 und in den liberalen Reformen des 19.Jahrhunderts. Mithilfe neuer Prinzipien und Regeln, die sich in den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Eliten und Gegeneliten herausbildeten, sollten die beziehungen in der Kultur, Medienindustrie und bürgerlichen Öffentlichkeit in allgemein verbindlicher Form standardisiert und berechenbar gemacht werden. die neuen Institutionen wurden zu einem zentralen Element des modernen kulturstaatlich, rechtstaatlich, marktwirtschaftlich und zivilgesellschaftlich verfassten Urheberrechts- und Kulturregimes. Sie waren einen durch die Liberalisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bestimmt, zum anderen durch die Kultur-, bildungs- und Rechtspolitik moderner Staaten und Imperien. Einmal etabliert, gewinnt das Autoren- und geistige Eigentumsrecht eine gewisse Autonomie und Eigendynamik. Im weiteren Verlauf des 19. Jahrhunderts und im 20.Jahrhundert bestimmt es die Wahrnehmung, deutung und Regulierung kultureller Funktionen, Werke, beziehungen und Prozesse maßgeblich mit. Es wird aber auch ständig an den Wandel kultureller Werte, Funktionen, Rollen, Werke und Waren angepasst. Private Produzenten und Kulturstaaten benutzen und entwickeln das geistige Eigentumsrecht weiter, um ihre Interessen zu sichern. Indem sich geistige Eigentumsrechte verbreiten, differenzieren und gegen alternative, nicht-proprietäre Regulierungsformen durchsetzen, geraten sie indessen von Anfang an ins Visier der bürgerlichen wie der anti-bürgerlichen Eigentumskritik. diese weitet sich zyklisch von einer engeren Rechtskritik zu einer grundsätzlichen Kultur-, Kunst- und Gesellschaftskritik aus. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei jeweils die Problematik des Ausgleichs zwischen individuellen geistigen Eigentumsrechten und kulturellen Gemeinrechten; und die Frage nach dem Sinn und nutzen proprietärer Institutionen in der Kultur, Wissenschaft und bildung überhaupt. Geistige Eigentumsrechte sind so seit zweihundert Jahren ein ständiges Thema in den periodisch aufflammenden Auseinandersetzungen über die Institutionalisierung und Organisation der modernen Kultur und Kulturwirtschaft. die Auseinandersetzungen darüber kulminieren jeweils in Zeiten beschleunigten und radikalen kulturellen, sozialen, politischen, wirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen, technischen oder medialen Wandels. Um derartige historische Umbruchzeiten handelt es sich bei den Jahrzehnten vor und nach 1800, 1900 und 2000.

Literatur: Hannes Siegrist, Geschichte des geistigen Eigentums und der Urheberrechte. Kulturelle Handlungsrechte in der Moderne, in: Jeanette Hofmann (Hg.), Wissen und Eigentum. Geschichte, Recht und Ökonomie stoffloser Güter, bonn, bundeszentrale für politische bildung 2006, S. 64-80. Kann heruntergeladen werden unter http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/TRRZ2E,0,Wissen_und_Eigentum.html


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Institutionalisierung und organisation der kunst im internationalen Vergleich (18. – 20. Jh.) Seminar dozent: Prof. dr. Hannes SiegristTermin: dienstags, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich) Ort: GWZ, beethovenstr. 15, Raum 5.116beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

das Seminar behandelt die Geschichte der Institutionalisierung und Organisation von Prozessen der Produktion, Vermittlung und Rezeption von Kunst. „Institutionalisierung“ verweist dabei auf soziale, kulturelle, ästhetische und rechtliche Institutionen (Regeln), die den Umgang mit kulturellen Artefakten und die beziehungen des künstlerischen Feldes normieren und berechenbar machen. „Organisation“ verweist darauf, dass das moderne Kunstleben ganz wesentlich durch „Organisationen“ bestimmt ist. behandelt werden Organisationen wie Kunstverein, Kunstakademie, Künstlerverband, privates Kultur- und Medienunternehmen, Kulturverwaltung, Kulturstaat, Stiftung, Museum, Galerie, Publikumsverbände; sowie vereinsförmige, clubförmige, berufliche, marktförmige, politikförmige und mäzenatische Formen der Regulierung kulturellen Handelns.

Ziel des Seminars ist es, anhand der neueren historischen Forschungsliteratur die wichtigsten Institutionen und ausgewählte Typen der Organisation im jeweiligen historischen Kontext zu begreifen und Kriterien für die historische, vergleichende und systematische bewertung kultureller Prozesse und Strukturen zu entwickeln.

Modul 16 – Ma ES 0330: Europäische kulturgeschichte der Juden


kolonialgewalt – Geschichte, konzepte, konstellationen Seminardozent: Prof. dr. dan diner, Tutorium: Lutz Fiedler M.A., Sebastian Voigt, M.A. (Simon-dubnow-Institut)Termin: freitags, 11.00 – 13.00 Uhr (blockseminar)Ort: Simon-dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr. 28, Seminarraumbeginn: 16. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay


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das Seminar befasst sich mit Kolonialgewalt als einem historischen wie einem kulturanthropologischen Phänomen. Historisch wird wesentlich auf die Zeit des 20. Jahrhunderts abgehoben, ohne dabei Vorläufer und Voraussetzungen, wie sie sich im 19. Jahrhundert abgespielt haben, zu ignorieren. die Konzentration auf die Moderne begründet sich darin, dass erst von dieser Zeitschwelle an Gleichheitsvorstellungen und damit Anerkennungsfolgen greifen – Sozialbeziehungen, die im kolonialen Raum von vornherein, gleichsam definitionshalber ausgeschlossen werden. Kulturanthropologisch stellen sich dabei Fragen spezifischer militärischer Vorgehensweise und des ihr eigenen Tötens und der damit verbundenen Tötungsmittel. Vergleiche mit anderen Todes- und Sterbensarten in europäischen Zusammenhängen – wurden diese intentional exekutiert oder auch moralisch in Kauf genommen, werden beständig mit herangezogen.

Literatur: Einführende Texte werden zu beginn des Semesters in einem Reader bereitgestellt, der in der bibliothek des dI für die Studierenden zugänglich ist.

Einschreibemodalitäten: Anmeldung bis zum 18.09.2009 unter: [email protected].

Vom reisen und übersetzen. reflexionen in europäisch-jüdischer literatur Seminardozent: dr. Olaf Terpitz (Simon-dubnow-Institut)Termin: donnerstags, 11.00 – 13.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: Simon-dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr. 28, Seminarraumbeginn: 15. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Essay

der lateinische begriff trans-latio birgt eine vielschichtige Semantik und zielt auf das Überwinden räumlicher, sprachlicher und kultureller Grenzen. Mobilität, Transnationalität und Mehrsprachigkeit zeigen sich als zentrale Momente jüdischer Lebenswelten unabhängig von ihrer regionalen Herkunft.

das Seminar geht diesen Phänomenen exemplarisch an den Topoi Reisen und Übersetzen in ihren sprachlichen, historischen, kulturellen dimensionen vorrangig im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert nach und problematisiert Prozesse des Kulturkontaktes, des Kulturtransfers, der Vermittlung, identifikatorische Prozesse der Inklusion und Exklusion, kurzum Transformationsprozessen seit der Haskala und Emanzipation. Eine Vielzahl an literarischen Genres – Reisebericht, Tagebuch, Autobiografie, Essay, Roman – dient als Materialbasis. die Texte von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern unterschiedlicher nationaler und zeitlicher Kontexte wie Alfred döblin, Ilja Ehrenburg, Mary Antin, Lev Lunc, Lev nussimbaum ermöglichen einen komparativen blick auf kulturelle Verschränkungen.


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Literatur: Karl E. Grözinger (Hg.), Sprache und Identität im Judentum, Wiesbaden 1998; david G. Roskies, The Task of the Jewish Translator. A valedictory address, in: Prooftexts 24.3 (2004, S. 263 – 272; desanka Schwara, Unterwegs. Reiseerfahrung zwischen Heimat und Fremde in der neuzeit, Göttingen 2007.

Einschreibemodalitäten: Anmeldung bis zum 18.09.2009 unter: [email protected].

konstellationen. über literarisierte Geschichte nach 1945Forschungskolloquiumdozent: Prof. dr. dan diner/dr. Susanne Zepp (Simon-dubnow-Institut)Termin: donnerstags, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr (vierzehntäglich)Ort: Simon-dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr. 28, Seminarraumbeginn: 15. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Teilnahme

das Forschungskolloquium im Wintersemester 2009/2010 will zweierlei: Zum einen gilt es die narrative Form literarischer Texte und deren historischer Topoi der Zeit nach 1945 zu thematisieren; zum anderen sollen literarische Texte als Erkenntnisinstanz für die Präsentation historischer Konstellationen verstanden werden. Solche Sichten auf das Wortkunstwerk als „geschichtsphilosophische Sonnenuhr“ (Adorno) sollen als Ausgangspunkt einer diskussion von Repräsentationen jüdischer Geschichtserfahrung in verschiedenen sprachlichen und räumlichen Zusammenhängen einer späten Moderne ebenso dienen, wie das Verhältnis von fiktionalem Text und realen historischen Kontext in den blick genommen wird. Auf diese Weise fokussiert das Kolloquium emblematische Fragen ikonischer Gedächtnisbildung nach 1945.

bitte informieren Sie sich über die Referenten und die Termine auf der Internetseite des Simon-dubnow-Instituts: http://www.dubnow.de.


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Modul 16 – Ma ES 0340: christentum in Europa


religion in der Gesellschaft – debatten über kirche und religion in der GegenwartsgesellschaftSeminardozent: Prof. dr. Gert Pickel (Theologische Fakultät)Termin: mittwochs, 9.00 – 11.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: Otto-Schill-Str. 2beginn: 14. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: Klausur

Über die Stellung von Religion in modernen Gesellschaften wird in vielfältiger Weise diskutiert. dabei sind es auf der einen Seite die beziehungen zwischen Religion und Politik, welche immer wieder in den Fokus der debatten rücken, auf der anderen Seite wird die Position und die bedeutung der Religion in Gesellschaft und für das Individuum diskutiert. In der Vorlesung sollen zentrale Fragestellungen beider beziehungen vorgestellt werden. diese werden unter Zusammenführung sowohl theoretischer Prämissen als auch empirischer befunde zur diskussion gestellt. dies umfasst u.a. die Überlegungen zur bedeutung von Religion als Generator von Sozialkapital (Putnam), Religion als Konfliktherd oder Sicherheitsrisiko (Huntington, Fox, Juergensmeyer) oder aber auch dem Verhältnis zwischen Religion und demokratie (norris/Inglehart).

Grundliteratur: Literaturangaben werden zu beginn der Veranstaltung bekanntgegeben.


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aktuelle befunde zur Stellung von kirche und religion in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft – der bertelsmann religionsmonitor und seine Ergebnisse

Seminardozent: Prof. dr. Gert Pickel (Theologische Fakultät)Termin: dienstags, 11.00 – 13.00 Uhr (wöchentlich)Ort: Otto-Schill-Str. 2beginn: 13. Oktober 2009belegung: WahlpflichtPrüfung: EssayÜber die Entwicklungsrichtung der sozialen bedeutung von Religion herrscht in der Religionssoziologie nicht unbedingt Einigkeit. Gehen die Anhänger der Säkularisierungstheorie von einem weiteren sozialen bedeutungsverlust von Religion in der Moderne aus, so verweisen andere Wissenschaftler auf eine Wiederkehr der Religionen oder des Religiösen, wenn nicht sogar auf einen „Megatrend Religion“. Eine Entscheidung über die Stichhaltigkeit dieser konträr zueinander stehenden Interpretationen der Gegenwartsentwicklung kann nur anhand der betrachtung von empirischen Untersuchungen getroffen werden. Einen wichtigen Fortschritt soll diesbezüglich der bertelsmann Religionsmonitor erbringen. Im Seminar sollen die Erhebungsweise sowie die erzielten Ergebnisse näher betrachtet und kritisch diskutiert werden. dabei wird die Verbindung zu den zentralen Erklärungsansätzen der Religionssoziologie hergestellt.

Grundliteratur:bertelsmann Stiftung (2009): Woran glaubt die Welt. Analysen und Kommentare zum Religionsmonitor 2008. Gütersloh


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Veranstaltungen Global Studies

diese Veranstaltungen können von den Studierenden des 1. und 3. Semesters European Studies besucht werden. Prüfungen können nach Absprache mit der Koordinatorin und des Lehrenden absolviert werden.

International organizations as civilisers of the World? an Historical accountSeminarLecturer: dr. Klaas dykmann (Global and European Studies Institute)Time: Wed, 3 – 5pm (weekly)Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str.1, Room 3.16Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

Corresponding to the increasing intertwining of global trade, economic but also political relations, particularly since the late 19th century, many policy areas and problems emerged for which institutions above the level of nation states have been regarded as the necessary and possibly only facilitators. In accordance, mostly since the second half of the 20th century, the number of international organisations (IO), both intergovernmental and nongovernmental, has considerably augmented.

While political scientists and international relations scholars have mostly focused on theoretical frameworks or distinctive policy areas of IOs, historians provided histories of institutions at best – or largely ignored IO as a phenomenon of (global) history altogether. The seminar shall provide a global history view on IOs, which aspires to complement existing approaches by focusing on the very conception and structure of international organisations, the role of the respective secretariats and the civil servants (sessions 1-5) as well as the development of policy areas (sessions 6-13) throughout the 20th century in particular. The seminar will also analyse the critical narrative arguing that international organisations were installed to perpetuate colonial civilising missions and to maintain a European world order, when the temporal and spatial limitations of the colonial system loomed.

Requirements for credits:The reading of the lecturer’s article on the subject and Akira Iriye’s book „Global Community. The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World“ is compulsory. Students are required to give an oral presentation or moderation of a session and to write an essay (10-12 pages) and to pass a multiple-choice test. before the preparation of a presentation/moderation, as well as before the elaboration of the written essay, it is obligatory to turn to the lecturer.


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Grade Structure:20 percent Active participation (plus multiple choice test result, if applicable)35 per cent Presentation or moderation performance45 per cent Written essay

Migration in Historical PerspectiveSeminarLecturer: Mathias Mesenhöller, MA (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Osteuropa) Time: Tue, 3pm – 5pm (weekly) Place: Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, Room 3.15Participation: choiceMain examination form: essay

Migration is one of those phenomena constituting Our Times. – Or isn’t it? before the Jumbo Jet there was Leonardo diCaprio on the Titanic’s lower deck, ten million Africans cramped into slavers, Russian mushiki clearing the Siberian taiga, Chinese students contemplating revolution in Europe or America – as well as ancient exiles, medieval journeymen, whole tribes resettling. Mobility is a thoroughly historical phenomenon. The seminar considers migration from a Global History perspective: What, exactly, is “migration”? Is it new, has it changed? Who leaves, why, and wherefore? What happens to those left behind? What conflicts arise between those “getting there” and the “there-already”? How are diasporas formed, by whom, and for what purpose? These are some of the questions we will venture into along examples from antiquity to the present.

the rise and demise of capitalism SeminarLecturer: Prof. em. dr. Hartmut Elsenhans (Institute for Political Sciences) Time: Wed, 1pm – 3pm (weekly) Place: nSG, Universitätsstr. 7, Room S 310Participation: choiceMain Examination form: essay

Capitalism is a decentralised system of economic coordination where the distribution and allocation of surplus is regulated by the profit rate. Profit is a special form of surplus. It depends, to the difference of tax and rent neither of political power nor on market imperfections. It depends on spending on profitable investment. Profit implies and requires the disempowerment of the privileged and the empowerment of „abstract“ labour, ultimately the scarcity of labour and therefore social and political structures favourable to labour. Such social structures have emerged only under special conditions, are permanently threatened, and are not the result of an automatic process of civilisation, collective learning


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or technical development. Today, the emergence of middle class dominance in the West, individualism, and globalisation threatens the foundations of capitalism, although they are the result of development of capitalism. There is the danger of globalisation of rent. This turn to the rent is not checked by what some call the emergence of a world wide civil society.Perspective“Proposed topics:1. The economic basis of rent in investment spending.2. Accumulation and growth of consumption: the neoclassical argument, Lenin, Luxemburg, Keynes.3. The natural tendency of the dissolution of communitarian modes of production into rent based hierarchical structures.4. Patterns or technical progress, the rise of culture, and the development of tributary modes of production, and their ultrastability and resistance against the transition to capitalism.

5. The capitalists‘ longing for rent and the cul-de-sac of commercial capital.6. The imposition of capitalism by rising mass incomes and expanding internal markets.7.Imperialism, unequal specialisation, and capital exports: Capitalism is expansionist but not contagious.8. Crisis blocks expansion: The 1930s and the 2010s as underconsumptionist crises.9. Underdevelopment, raw materials, terms-of-trade: Exploitation versus dutch disease and obstacles to transformation.10. The golden three post-world-war II decades: Growth by checks on the powerful in the West.11. The rise and demise of real socialism12. Export-led industrialisation of the periphery on the basis of exploitation, devaluation and social transformation.13. The globalisation of financial markets and a new rentier class.14. The ideology of a growing world civil society.15. The trends of the actual crisis

Introductory readingsElsenhans, Hartmut: The Rise and the Demise of the Capitalist World System. Vortrag auf dem II. European Congress of World and Global History, European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) am 05.07.2008 in Dresden (dresden, 2008); Elsenhans, Hartmut: Geschichte und Ökonomie der europäischen Welteroberung. Vom Zeitalter der Entdeckungen zum 1. Weltkrieg. Herausgegeben mit einem Vorwort von Matthias Middell (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007); Elsenhans, Hartmut: Kapitalismus kontrovers. Zerklüftung im nicht so sehr kapitalistischen Weltsystem. WeltTrends Papiere 9 (Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009); Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Foundation of development of the Capitalist World Economy”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut: Equality and Development (dhaka: Center for Social Studies, 1992); pp. 21-79.; Elsenhans, Hartmut:


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“On the development of World-System Studies”, in: Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 27, 1 (2004); pp. 1-35.; Elsenhans, Hartmut: “The Empowerment of Labor and the Transition to Capitalism”, in: Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, 15, 5/6 (2005); pp. 50-79.; Elsenhans, Hartmut: „The Rise and Fall of Really Existing Socialism“, in: Journal of Social Studies, 87 (January-March 2000); pp. 1-16.; Elsenhans, Hartmut: Globalization between A Convoy Model and An Underconsumptionist Threat (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2006); Elsenhans, Hartmut: “English Poor Law and Egalitarian Agrarian Reform in the Third World”, in: Elsenhans, Hartmut: Equality and Development (dhaka: Center for Social Studies, 1992); pp. 130-162.; Elsenhans, Hartmut: “Rent and the Transition to Capitalism”, in: Asien-Afrika-Lateinamerika, 25, 6 (1997); pp. 651-686.; Frank, André Gunder: ReOrient. Global Economy in the Asian Age (berkeley, Cal. et al.: University of California Press, 1998); Amin, Samir: Le développement inégal. Essai sur les formations sociales du capitalisme périphérique (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1973); denemark, Robert A.; Friedman, Jonathan; Gills, barry K.; Modelski, George: World System History. The Social Science of Long-Term Change (London; new York: Routledge, 2000); Frank, André Gunder; Gills, barry K.: The World System. Five Hundred Years or Five Thousend? (London: Routledge, 1993)


“Subaltern Studies” is a series of books published between 1978 and the beginning of the 21st century. The series is part (and also marks the beginning) of a historiography as well as historical research which, in the meantime, is termed “post-colonial studies”. basically the “Subaltern Studies” project dealt with Indian history from a different ankle, that is a non-imperialist and non-nationalist view. The founder of the “Subaltern School”, Ranajit Guha, claimed a distinct counsciousness of the Indian subaltern classes which surfaced in form of various resistance actions and movements against the british colonial regime. The “Subaltern Studies” were deeply influenced by the French “Annales School” and the German bielefelder project “Geschichte von unten”, elsewhere known as “history from below”. The idea of the “Subaltern School” was adapted by social scientists in various African and South American countries. From a theoretical background the “Subaltern School” offers a new approach towards history and historiography as it opens the space for trans-national, inter-continental and inter-cultural studies on a global scale. One section of the course will deal with the theoretical and practical issues of the “Subaltern Studies” projet, the other part will concentrate on its global implications.

comPArAtiVZeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung

Herausgeber: Matthias Middell und Hannes Siegrist

Redaktion:Gerald diesener, Andreas Eckert, Hartmut Elsenhans, Ulf Engel, Wolfgang Fach,

Eckhardt Fuchs, Frank Hadler, Katharina Middell, Matthias Middell, Katja naumann (Redaktionssekretärin), Hannes Siegrist, Stefan Troebst, Michael Zeuske

COMPARATIV erscheint sechsmal jährlich mit einem Umfang von 140 Seiten.

Einzelheft: € 12,00 | Jahresabonnement: € 50,00ermäßigtes Jahresabonnement für Studierende: € 25,00.

Abonnement für Mitglieder des European Network in Universal and Global History: € 25,00.

Themenhefte unter anderem:

• Ordering the Colonial World around the 20th Century. Global and Comparative Perspectives Hrsg. von Sebastian Conrad, Nadin Heé und Ulrike Schaper

• Asianismen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Harald Fischer-Tiné und Nicola Spakowski

• Transkulturelle Komparatistik. Beiträge zu einer Globalgeschichte der Vormoderne. Hrsg. von Wolfram Drews und Jenny Rahel Oesterle

• Social and Political Aspects of Contemporary Latin America. Hrsg. von Klaas Dykmann

• Ostmitteleuropa transnational. Hrsg. von Peter Haslinger

• Entgrenzung des Eigentum in modernen Gesellschaften und Rechtskulturen. Hrsg. von Hannes Siegrist

• Transatlantischer Kulturtransfer im „Kalten Krieg“. Hrsg. von Helke Rausch

• Transfer lokalisiert: Konzepte, Akteure, Kontexte. Hrsg. von Barbara Schulte

• Teaching World History. Hrsg. von Eckhardt Fuchs und Matthias Middell

• Bruchzonen der Globalisierung. Hrsg. von Ulf Engel und Matthias Middell

• Verschweigen – Erinnern – Bewältigen. Vergangenheitspolitik in globaler Perspektive. Hrsg. von Jürgen Zimmerer

• Border Research in a Global Perspective. Hrsg. von Steffi Franke und James W. Scott

• Probleme und Perspektiven der Europa-Historiographie. Hrsg. Rolf Petri und Hannes Siegrist

• Menschenhandel und Zwangsarbeit. Hrsg. von Michael Mann

• Hafenstädte: Mobilität, Migration, Gobalisierung. Hrsg. von Lars Amenda und Malte Fuhrmann

• Ernährung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Hrsg. von Maren Möhring und Alexander Nützenadel

• Konsum und Region im 20. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Hannes Siegrist.

die Inhaltsverzeichnisse aller bisher erschienenen Hefte finden Sie auf der Homepage der Redaktion:http://www.comparativ.net/

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14 October 2009, 6 pm Key nOte lecture (Oskar-Halecki-lecture of the GWZO) “Auf dem Wege zum und im epochenjahr 1989” by Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of GermanyVenue: Lecture Hall, HS 9, Universitätsstraße 3, 04109 Leipzig

15 – 16 October 2009

Venues: Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Lecture Hall and Seminar Building

» IntrOductIOnsIvan Berend (Los Angeles); Ulf Engel, Frank Hadler, Matthias Middell (Leipzig)

» sectIOn 1 1989 – events, plAces, cOmpArIsOnswith contributions by: Klaas Dykmann (Leipzig); Gero Erdmann (Hamburg); John French (Durham); Konrad H. Jarausch (Chapel Hill); Chris Saunders (Cape Town); Alexandr Shubin (Moscow); Oldřich Tůma (Prague); Heidrun Zinecker (Leipzig)

» sectIOn 2 tOWArds An entAnGled HIstOry Of 1989with contributions by: Doug Bond (Cambridge/Mass.); Christoph Boyer (Salzburg); Pradipta Chaudhury (Delhi); Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch); Hartmut Elsenhans (Leipzig); Mark Juergensmeyer (Santa Barbara); Rüdiger Steinmetz (Leipzig); Stefan Troebst (Leipzig)

»�sectIOn 3 1989 In prOcesses Of remembrAnce And re-cOnceptuAlIsAtiOn Of tHe WOrldwith contributions by: Bernhard H. Bayerlein (Mannheim); László Borhi (Budapest); Michael Geyer (Chicago); Jie-Hyun Lim (Seoul); Mihai Manea (Bucharest); Claudia Kraft (Erfurt); Michael Zeuske (Cologne)

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1989 in a global perspective

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