Differentiating globalization: knowledge is power!
Day 1 | 27.05.2024
14.00 – 14.05 CEST | Welcoming Address
Roland Psenner, President of Eurac Research
14.05 – 14.20 CEST | What could differentiated globalization mean?
Harald Pechlaner, Head, Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
Roland Benedikter, Co-Head, Center for Advanced Studies and UNESCO Chair in Interdisciplinary Anticipation and Global-Local Transformation, Eurac Research
14.20 – 16.00 CEST | Is Globalization coming to an end? A differentiated perspective
Manfred Steger, Professor of Transnational Sociology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
15.00 – 15.45 CEST | Panel 2×15 minutes short presentations & discussion
- Global circuits of knowledge production in Modern China
Jennifer Altehenger, Professor at the Faculty of History, Oxford University - How to know the future of globalization? Credible scenarios
James H. Mittelman, Professor at the School of International Service, American University
15.45 – 16.15 CEST | Coffee break
16.15 – 17.00 CEST | Knowledge production in the global condition: new possibilities, old inequalities?
Kathleen Schlütter, Research Fellow at the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University
17.00 – 18.00 CEST | Book presentation: “Globalization – Past, Present, Future”
Manfred Steger, Professor of Transnational Sociology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Ingrid Kofler, Sociologist at the Faculty of Design and Art, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Tommaso Durante, Teaching Associate at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Moderation: Zoe Krueger Weisel
Moderation: Katharina Crepaz
Knowledge, imaginaries, narratives
Day 2 | 28.05.2024
09.00 – 09.30 CEST | Waves, paradigms, and narratives of globalization
Henning Vöpel, Chairman of the Center for European Policy and Professor of Economics at the BSP Business and Law School
09.30 – 10.00 CEST | At the intersection of epistemic and climate justice: notes from the field
Manisha Desai, Professor and Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power, Stony Brook University
10.00 – 10.30 CEST | Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00 CEST | Theories of globalization: a philosophical interpretation
Sebastiano Maffettone, Professor at the Free International University of Social Studies “Guido Carli”, LUISS
11.00 – 11.45 CEST | Joint Discussion
- Henning Vöpel, Chairman of the Center for European Policy and Professor of Economics at the BSP Business and Law School
- Manisha Desai, Professor and Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power, Stony Brook University
- Sebastiano Maffettone, Professor at the Free International University of Social Studies “Guido Carli”, LUISS
11.45 – 12.00 CEST | Presentation Journal New Global Studies (NGS)
- Christoph Kircher, Sociologist at the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
- Roland Benedikter, Co-Head, Center for Advanced Studies and UNESCO Chair in Interdisciplinary Anticipation and Global-Local Transformation, Eurac Research
Moderation: Mirjam Gruber