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Institute for European Global Studies at the "16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations"
Four researchers of the Institute for European Global Studies participated at the "16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations". The conference on the topic "Envisioning a New Normal" took place from 5-9 September at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The annual event was organized by the European International Studies Association (EISA).
Ralph Weber, Shrey Kapoor, Noureddine Wenger and Ansgar Taschinski took part in the conference program. Ralph Weber was chair of the panel "Violence, Power and Infrastructures" and gave a talk “On Positionality and Global Knowledge Production: The Example of Djibouti and the Belt-and-Road-Initiative" at the panel "Knowledge Circulation and Financial Infrastructures". Shrey Kapoor co-organised the entire Standing Section ST19 "Infrastructures and Global Order" together with Prof. Jutta Bakonyi, Durham University. He was also chair of the panel "Infrastructure and Global Order" and discussant at the panels "Knowledge Circulation and Financial Infrastructures" and "Energy, Extractivism and Infrastructures". Noureddine Wenger presented a paper on “Appropriating Postmodernism in the Arab World: On the Circulation and Transformation of Ideas in Times of Crisis”. Ansgar Taschinski gave a talk on “Power On, Power Off: The Global Entanglements of Companies, Cities, and States in the ‘Smart City’” as part of the panel "Digitalizing Infrastructures".
Ralph Weber is Associate Professor of European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies. He specializes in Political Theory, Chinese Politics, and modern Confucianism. Currently, he is the President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy and the Chair of the Section on Political Theory in the Swiss Political Science Association.
Shrey Kapoor is Research Assistant at the Institute for European Global Studies. His research focus is on urban dispossession and resettlement in India, theories of violence and hegemony, neoliberal nationalism and authoritarian populism in a postcolonial world and interdisciplinary research designs.
Noureddine Wenger has been Assistant for European Global Studies at the Europainstitut since 2019. His research interests include intellectual lines of interconnection between Europe and the Arab world and modern Arab intellectual history.
Ansgar Taschinski is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Global Studies. His thesis focuses on “Big Data between Democracy and Authoritarianism”.