We are happy to announce the GIGA Training Programme for this winter term. Check below a list of all the courses available.

An Introduction to Critical Discourse Studies: Texts, Contexts and Power
Date and time: 23-24 October 2024, 9: 00 – 17:00 (23.10) and 9:00 – 14:00 (24.10)
Place: GIGA, in person
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Performing Basic Analyses using R
Date and time: 28-29 October 2024, 10:00 – 17:00
Place: GIGA, in person
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Introduction to Process Tracing Methods
Date and time: 16-17 December 2024, 10:00 – 17:00
Place: GIGA, in person
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The registration deadline is Friday, 4 October. Please note that you will be informed only afterwards about successful registrations. If you have any related questions, you can contact Maren Wagner at maren.wagner@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

We are happy to announce the GIGA Training programme for this summer term. Check below a list of all the courses available.

Academic Publishing
Date and time: 25 April, 10 am – 3 pm
Place: GIGA, in person
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Field Research Methods
Date and time: 22 – 24 May, 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Place: GIGA, online
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Analysing Qualitative Data Using MAXQDA
Date and time: 6 – 7 June, 10 am – 5 pm
Place: online
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Machine Learning
Date and time: 10 – 11 June, 10 am – 5 pm
Place: GIGA, in person
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The registration deadline is Friday, 5 April. Please note that you will be informed only afterwards about successful registrations. If you have any related questions, you can contact Alejandra Calderon at alejandra.calderon@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

Date and time: 1 Nov, 10 am – 5 pm and 2 Nov, 10 am – 4 pm
Place: GIGA, in person
Target group: Doctoral Researchers
Language: English

Description: This course will introduce the students to the main steps of research design in social sciences, from the formulation of the research question to case selection and choice of methods. It explores how to identify the empirical phenomenon of interest, how to do a systematic literature review, what makes for a good research question, how to elaborate testable hypotheses and advance theory, and ways to justify the choice of cases and methods. The course will draw on relevant literature, provide concrete examples, and offer room for discussion throughout its various sessions. On the second day, there will be time reserved for students to present and discuss their own research.

About the lecturer: Edalina Rodrigues Sanches is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests comprise democratization, popular protest, constituency service, political institutions, elections, political parties and party systems, with a focus on Africa.

*Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on our website.
Registration deadline: Thursday, 17 October 2023
Confirmations of successful registration will only be sent after the deadline has passed.
For questions, please contact Alejandra Calderon at alejandra.calderon@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

Due to the coronavirus situation all courses will be offered online!

The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.

26 May 2020
Research Data Management
Catharina Wasner, GIGA

4 – 5 June 2020
Case Studies, Process Tracing, and Comparative Analysis
Eleanor Knott, London School of Economics

11 June 2020
Global Approach to CAS Series I: Economic Statecraft in the Middle East: Conceptualization and Case Studies
Eckart Woertz, GIGA

17 June 2020
Global Approach to CAS Series II: Choosing case studies in comparative research
Merike Blofield, GIGA

22 – 23 June 2020
Qualitative Interviews
Alenka Jelen-Sanchez, University of Stirling

29 – 30 June 2020
Regression Analysis
Michael Dorsch, Central European University

Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event.
Registration deadline: Thursday, 14 May 2020
Confirmations of successful registration will only be sent after the deadline has passed.

Target audience
Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions

About the course
Compared to its share of the world’s population the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) accounts for percentages of global combat deaths, terrorist attacks, and refugees five to 11 times over. The underlying conflicts have economic aspects, too. The region has seen a large array of international and intra-regional sanctions and blockades. State funds and geo-economic strategies have been used to strengthen the resilience of authoritarian states. The MENA’s endowment with oil rents and strategic location along trade routes has engendered particular development models. The region’s states have seen their autonomy in economic decision-making challenged by compromised sovereignty in areas of limited statehood, where (violent) non-state actors command extractive capacities in a certain territory or economic sector. The respective states, in turn, integrate economic strategies in counterinsurgencies and efforts to re-assert control. Economic warfare is rampant in the MENA yet contextual knowledge of how it affects the political economies of its states, their international relations, and the socio-political coalitions that carry them is often missing, not based on local sources and perceptions, and insufficiently theorized.

This 2-hour lecture uses the UN embargo against Iraq (1990-2003) as a case study and discusses how Comparative Area Studies (CAS) can provide necessary correctives to the narratives of large n-studies that focus on sending countries and their sanction instruments.

This course will be offered online.

About the lecturer
Eckart Woertz is the Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies.

Please note that other external participants than the one mentioned in the target group above are asked to pay a small course fee.

Registration closes 14 May 2020.

Further information and registration

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Target audience
Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions

About the course
Case studies are the backbone of social science. At the same time, we need a stronger and more rigorous methodological backbone to case study research to maintain the leverage that knowledge from this within-case and cross-case methods can generate. In this two day workshop, we begin by looking at the case as a unit of analysis asking “of what is this a case?” (Lund 2014) before addressing specific methodologies of process tracing and comparative approaches. In particular, we will address different approaches to comparison, both variable-oriented and messier case-oriented comparisons, as well as area-based and across-area comparisons, to address the logic and value of comparing in the political and international analysis.

The workshop will, for the most part, consist of a mixture of lectures and practical interactive exercises. We will also make space for students to present briefly their projects in development as they pertain to the methods of the workshop.

This course will be offered online.

About the lecturer
Eleanor Knott is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methodology in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics.

Please note that other external participants than the one mentioned in the target group above are asked to pay a small course fee.

Registration closes 14 May 2020.

Further information and registration

Target audience
Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions

About the course
2-hours introductory course aims at helping doctoral students to develop their knowledge and skills regarding research data management. The topics that will be introduced in this course are organized along the research cycle starting from proposal planning and writing as well as project start-up over the data life cycle (including data collection, data analysis and data sharing) to the end of a research project, data archiving and data discovery.

This course will be offered online.

About the lecturer
Catharina Wasner is a Research Data Manager at the GIGA Information Centre.

Please note that other external participants than the one mentioned in the target group above are asked to pay a small course fee.

Registration closes 14 May 2020.

Registration and further information