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PhD Project Lab: New Research in European Global Studies
During a PhD project lab, doctoral students from the Institute for European Global Studies, the University of Ghana and the University of Ghent presented their research projects to an interdisciplinary audience of early-career and senior researchers from the Institute. The event took place on 17 November 2023 and was organized by Corey Ross and Ralph Weber, the leaders of the research areas "Global History of Europe" and "European Global Knowledge Production" in context of the Katekisama Program.
Yu-Zhou Wang (Ghent University) assessed how China’s ‘sharp power’ in China and Taiwan derives from pluralistically imagined ‘Chineseness’ and investigated how Taiwan responds to this ‘sharp power’ through recreated forms of ‘Chineseness’.
In her presentation on “The Regulation of Novel Foods in the EU and Switzerland: A Pursuit of Food Safety, Security and Sustainability”, Mpoi Hilpert (University of Basel) showed, firstly, how she seeks to establish the rationale for the regulation and the measures adopted to do so in the EU and Switzerland and, secondly, how, the legal framework for regulating novel foods facilitates the achievement of food safety, security and sustainability.
Nelson Quame (University of Ghana and Katekisama Fellow at the University of Bonn) analyzed “The Politics of Sino-Africa Energy Relations: Complex Interdependence in the Case of Ghana’s Bui Hydroelectric Dam and the Western Corridor Infrastructure Project.” By focusing on these two examples, he retraced how these investments have contributed to Chinese-Ghanaian bilateral resource relations in recent years.
Taniya Channa (University of Basel) presented her PhD Project with a poster entitled “A Systematic Re-Reading of Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation?’ (1944) for Today.” Thanushiyah Korn (University of Basel) presented a poster on her PhD project “A Global History of Rwanda’s Path to the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.”
The PhD Project Lab is a platform of the Graduate Program European Global Studies which enables exchange between early-career and senior researchers and enhances the interdisciplinary dialogue at the Institute. It specifically aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries and is designed to provide a stimulating environment for interdisciplinary research by adopting innovative forms of teaching.
It brings together doctoral and postdoctoral researchers as well as professors of the research areas Global History of Europe, European Global Knowledge Production and European Law at the Institute for European Global Studies, as well as PhD students from the University of Bonn and the University of Ghana who are attending the PhD Lab in the context of the Katekisama program.