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"Peace and Conflict at the Global Level: Contemporary Issues"

Lectures of the seminar "Peace and Conflict at the Global Level" will be available on YouTube

If you are interested in the topic "Global challenges to development", you can watch the lectures on the Channel of Global Awareness Education after the live event. Presenters are:

Mohammed Hadi Abdul-Ganiy Bolaji :

(SDD-UBIDS, Ghana). Watch now.

Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues :

(Federal University of ABC, Brazil). Watch now.

Please look forward to the lectures soon to be available online:

Ahmed Badawi Mustapha (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Mallika Joseph (Senior Fellow, Women in Security, Conflict Management, and Peace -WISCOMP, India)
Steve Killelea (The Institute for Economics & Peace, Australia)
Patrícia Galvão Teles (United Nations International Law Commission / Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal)

This online seminar is a joint project with the Federal University of ABC (Brazil) in which students from both universities can participate. Registration for this seminar is via alma. Credit points earned in this seminar may count toward elective (d) Joint Projects of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Student Research Projects in summer semester 2023

A seminar in the Student Research Projects formatthis summer semester 2023 will explore a thamtic area of

"Global Markets".

The course will be offered by Glaucia Peres da Silva. Registration for these seminars is via alma. Credit points earned in these seminars may be applied toward elective (c) Student Research Projects of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Pilot project of a virtual world trip in the format of a serious game will be offered again in summer semester 2023

After the successful pilot project during the last year, the seminar "What is globalization?" is offered again in summer semester 23. This seminar is an E-Learning course in the format of a serious game. Students will explore the history of four cities in their global context, four academic institutions, and the biographies of the authors read.

This project is a partnership with the Master Profile Digital Humanities and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Together we have developed a virtual world trip in a serious game format to teach and discuss the basics of the globalization debate. This seminar will be credited in the compulsory area of the Global Awareness Certificate or the certificate Entrepreneurship & Business.

Seminars in partnership with the Doctoral Certificate Program in ‘Global South Studies‘ in summer semester 2023

In this summer semester 23, five seminars from the Doctoral Certificate Program in "Global South Studies" will be offered in the Global Awareness Education program:

"Strategies to combat hate speech" mit Nomagugu Nyathi, M. Phil (Law and Political Justice, University of Pretoria)
"(De/Re)Constructing identities and knowledge through decolonial lenses" mit M.A. Taiana Catharino (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/ IGCSS)
"Understanding migrants' resilience and resistance" mit Oncemore Mbeve, M.A. (University of the Witwatersrand/ IGCSS)
"Activisms in Brazil" mit M.A. Guilherme Eugênio Moreira (UFF/ IGCSS) und M.A. Pedro Barbabela (UFMG)
"Reconstitution of Global South Epistemologies: [Un]Telling of Difficult Stories" mit Ndumiso Ncube, Ph.D. Candidate (University of Pretoria/ IGCSS)

All five seminars are interdisciplinary courses on current issues discussed from the perspective of the Global South. Registration for these seminars is done via alma. The credit points earned in these seminars can be counted towards elective (a) Thematic Courses of the Global Awareness Certificate.

The Academic Writing in Global Contexts workshop is part of the regular program and is offered again in summer semester 2023

The experience of past semesters has reinforced the interest of many students in the workshop in partnership with the Diversity-Oriented Writing Center. As a result, it will be offered on a regular basis. In summer semester 2023. Registration is available via alma. The credit points earned in this workshop can be counted toward elective (b) Inter- unt Transcultural Fields of Action of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Further courses in summer semester 2023

Further courses in summer semester 2023, offered (among others) by Dr. Inka Koch (environmental scientist), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen:

Excursion: "Into the wild" with Angharad Dean (Artist in Residence), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
Offline seminar & online tutorial: "Climate crisis exit: understanding global climatic drivers and regulators".

These courses are creditable for the certificate Global Awareness and the certificate Studium Oecologicum.

Online & offline seminar: "Climate crisis solutions: start up your own global carbon sink business" with Dr. Johannes Martin (algaerithm.de).

This course is creditable for the certificate Global Awareness, the certificate Studium Oecologicum and the certificate Entrepreneurship & Business (elective: Develop and implement innovations).

Lectures of the seminar "Global Challenges to Development" (winter semester 22-23)

If you are interested in the topic "Global challenges to development", you can now watch the lectures on the YouTube-channel of Global Awareness Education. Presenters were:

Prof. Badar Alam Iqbal (Tshwane University of Technology, Südafrika)
Prof. Javier Ruiz-Tagle (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Prof. Gilberto Fraga (State University of Maringá, Brasilien)
Prof. Sally Matthews (Rhodes University, Südafrika)
Prof. Ronney Ncwadi (Nelson Mandela University, Südafrika)
Natalia Kryg, PhD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IMF)

Credit points earned in this seminar may count toward elective (d) Joint Projects of the Global Awareness Certificate.