Friday, 29 September 2017
1:00 pm: Registration
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Opening and Welcome
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Infrastructures (of) Making Space
Chair: Uwe Müller (Leipzig)
Ursula Rao (Leipzig), Biometric technology and the re-spatializing of the Indian welfare state
Arne Harms (Leipzig), Situating offsets: On spatializations of climate finance in the Indian Himalayas
Amina Nolte (Gießen), Infrastructural spaces – an ethnography of mobility, fear and contested sovereignty in Jerusalem
Judith Miggelbrink/ Frank Meyer/ Tom Schwarzenberg (Leipzig), Sites of organ donation
comment: Dirk van Laak (Leipzig)
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Keynote
Setha Low (New York), Spatializing culture: The ethnography of space and place
7:00 pm: Reception
Saturday, 30 September 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am: Changing (Post)Colonial Geographies
Chair: Steffi Marung (Leipzig)
Matthew David Unangst (Washington), Appropriating the hinterland: The Indian Ocean world and German colonial geographies
Bogdan Iacob (Bucharest), Guinea as Romanian Dreamworld: Socialist production of decolonized space in Africa (1959-1969)
Wolfgang Zimmermann (Leipzig), Spatial arrangements of nomadic actors and their variation under global conditions. Results of empirical research in Musandam/Sultanate of Oman in the mid 1970s and today
comment: Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig)
Coffee Break
11:30 am – 2:00 pm: Evading the State, Challenging Territorial Orders
Chair: Ulf Engel (Leipzig)
Samuel Iwilade (Oxford), Fluid militants of the oil delta: Mutations of post-conflict youth gangs in transnational space
Baptiste Colin (Paris), Spatial justice: How squatters deal with it. An historical review of squatting movements in France
Tine Hanrieder (Berlin), Global health in the United States: The making of a de-territorialized medical South
Marlon Edgardo Carranza Zelaya (Leipzig), Gang injunctions: A legal cartography for gang affiliation
comment: Nils Zurawski (Hamburg)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Lunch Break
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Reorganizing Transnational and International Spaces
Chair: Katharina Döring (Leipzig)
Jan Botha (Stellenbosch), Higher education leaders grappling with the notion of “World Class Universities” in the context of global forces in higher education
Pascal Goeke/ Evelyn Moser (Bochum/ Bonn), Global philanthropy and the organization of legitimacy
Courtney Cole (Weston MA), Building justice: Practices and processes of post-conflict space-making by International Criminal Tribunals
comment: Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig)
Coffee Break
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Narrating Space
Chair: Antje Dietze (Leipzig)
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig), Space-making in literature: Defining and redefining spatial orders in texts about the Florida Frontier
Konstanze Loeke (Leipzig), How is ‘the world’ narrated in motivation letters? – A case study of the EMGS Master in Global Studies
comment: Maren Möhring (Leipzig)
7:30pm: Conference Dinner
Sunday, 1 October 2017
9:00 am – 11:30 am: Creating Economic Spaces
Chair: Julia Oheim (Leipzig)
Antje Dietze (Leipzig), Producing popular entertainment: business models and transnational strategies, 1880-1930
Stephan Rindlisbacher (Bern/ Moscow), Territorialising Soviet space 1918-1929: National forms with economic content
Diana Ayeh (Leipzig), The role of CSR agents in shaping dominant notions of multinational corporations in Burkina Faso
Hannes Warnecke-Berger (Leipzig), From revolutionaries to economic development agents? The making of a transnational economic space in El Salvador, the US, and West Germany
comment: Martin Müller (Zürich)
Coffee Break
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Concluding Roundtable
chair: Ursula Rao (Leipzig)
Maren Möhring (Leipzig), Geert Castryck (Leipzig), Sarah Sippel (Leipzig), Matthias Middell (Leipzig)
1:30 pm: Farewell Lunch