IW
© Universität Bielefeld
Institute for World Society Studies
Lecture Series "Signatures of World Society"
Winter Term 2024/2025: "Migration in World Society Perspective"
- Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 6:15 p.m., Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Paris), "Migrations in the World: Between Realities and Politics"
- Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 6:15 p.m., Ronaldo Munck (Dublin), "Migration and Social Transformation: A Complexity Lens"
- Tuesday, 14 January 2025 at 6:15 p.m., Stefan Rother (Freiburg), "Global Migration and Refugee Governance from Below: A Comparative Perspective"
- Tuesday, 21 January 2025 at 6:15 p.m., Mirca Madianou (London), "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful", in cooperation with the AB Sociology of the Media
- Tuesday, 28 January 2025 at 6:15 p.m., Thomas Faist (Bielefeld), "The Socio-Ecological Question: Climate-Related Mobility as a Wicked Issue"
Room information will follow soon. All lectures will also be broadcast via Zoom (Passcode: 301974).
More information about the lectures can be found here.
Annual Retreat 2024
This year's annual retreat will take place in Horn-Bad Meinberg on 05.12. and 06.12.2024. More information can be found here.
Selected recent publications
- The Social Evolution of World Politics. Albert, Mathias, Hauke Brunkhorst, Iver B. Neumann and Stephan Stetter (2023), Bielefeld: transcript.
- Law and Social Policy in the Global South. Brazil, China, India, South Africa. Davy, Ulrike and Albert H.Y.Chen (eds.) (2023), London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242826
- Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order: Re-Pluralizing the Debate. Franke, Ulrich and Martin Koch (eds.) (2023), Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- The Price of Belonging: Perspectives from Asia, Social Sciences in Asia. Hölzle, Eva Rozalia and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (eds.) (2023), Vol. 43, Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. Wilcox, Phill, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen (eds.) (2023), Leiden: Brill.
Working report 2018 - 2021
The recent Working Report, collecting the Institute's activities from the years 2018 - 2021, is available as PDF for download here, and printed copies can be ordered from the Institute's Manager.