Katekisama-Program 2023-2024
The Katekisama program is a new model of academic collaboration between the Universities of Basel (Switzerland) , Bonn (Germany) and the University of Ghana. The program offers young scholars and senior researchers an original and dynamic platform of interdisciplinary, cooperative education and research that enables them to critically explore and analyze today’s global realities. The scholars and PhD students benefit from the excellence, experience and global expertise of all three institutions in the social sciences and humanities, and from their new and exclusive forms of academic mobility.
Katekisama Program 2023
Thematic priority: " Global Convergences: Cultures and Politics of AI in Globality Research"
Moving beyond notions such as “global village” and “network society”, we intervene in the current debate about digital authoritarianism with a comparative angle on globally diverse cultures and politics on artificial intelligence, surveillance, and digital geopolitics expanding the insights from science and technology studies (STS), (global) politics of technology and e-geography.
Events
Scholars from the Universities of Basel, Bonn and the University of Ghana participated in the 3rd Katekisama-Workshop that took place on 9 June 2023. The workshop was held as a hybrid event at the Institute for European Global Studies, with representatives of all three universities present in Basel.
Visit of team of scholars and administrative personnel of the University of Bonn and the University in Basel at the University of Ghana to institutionalize the cooperation between the Universities.
Second Katekisama-Work-Shop between the University of Basel and the University of Bonn. During our second Katekisama-Workshop researchers from various disciplines, including area studies, history, social sciences and law, continued the conceptual discussion on "globality", and planned collaborative teaching projects.
First Katekisama-Workshop: Kick-Off-Meeting between researchers of the University Bonn and the Institute for European Global Studies Basel.