Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner, GIGA Hamburg
Date: November 4-5, 2014
Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
Language of instruction: English
Registration: Participants need to register until 15 October via e-mail with Adam Kephart. Please use the registration sheet to be found on the website of the GIGA Doctoral Programme.
International Workshop
Ontology and Methodology – challenges for theory and practice in International Relations and Comparative Area Studies
Speakers:
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS University of London, UK)
Georg Glasze (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Benjamin Herborth (Universiteit Groningen, NL)
Patrick T. Jackson (American University, Washington, D.C.)
Annika Mattissek (Universität Heidelberg)
Chris Methmann (Universität Hamburg)
Delf Rothe (Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hamburg)
Moderation: Sebastian Elischer, Maren Hoepfner, Nicola Nymalm, Stefanie Wodrig (GIGA)
Date: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 9am – 6.30pm
Location: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, Room 519
How can discussions on philosophy of science and ontology facilitate more plurality in the discipline, and how do we transmit these issues into concrete empirical research in order to open up new perspectives on global politics? With this initial question the international workshop, hosted by the Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers (HIGS) in cooperation with the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and the University of Hamburg, aims to discuss challenges of bridging theory and practice at the interplay of International Relations as well as Global and Comparative Area Studies, especially with regard to research on and in the ‘non-Western’ world.
The workshop will be divided into two main sections followed by a concluding roundtable. In the first section (9am-12.30), Patrick T. Jackson and Benjamin Herborth address questions related to ontology and philosophy of science such as: What do we actually mean when speaking of ‘ontology’ in relation to IR-theory? or Do we imply certain ‘scientific standards’ by advocating particular philosophical/theoretical viewpoints? Chris Methmann and Delf Rothe discuss the implementation of ‘scientific standards’ into research practice. In the second section (2pm-5.30pm), Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Georg Glasze and Annika Mattissek focus more explicitly on the relationship between theory and practice e.g. questions of methodology and methods. How do we account for coherence between theory and methods and how rigorously defined should methods be? or How to account for ‘scientific standards’ when confronted with limited access to information? The concluding roundtable (5.30pm-6.30pm) will serve to wrap up the sections coming back to the initial question of the workshop and connect it to GIGA’s research agenda.
The workshop is open to the public. Registrations until 23 Nov. at: labusga@giga-hamburg.de.
Contact person: Maren Hoepfner (GIGA), www.giga-hamburg.de, www.regionalpowers.org
Organization: Nadine Godehardt (GIGA), Maren Hoepfner (GIGA), Nicola Nymalm (GIGA), Stefanie Wodrig (GIGA)
The next GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place on
Thursday, 24th May 2012
at 1.30 p.m.
in room 465.
Dr Kate Meagher will give a talk about “Disempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in Nigeria”.
Kate Meagher is a researcher at The London School of Economics and Political Science at the Department of International Development. Kate Meagher has engaged in extensive empirical and theoretical research on the informal economy in rural and urban Africa, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Her current research interests include social networks and non-state governance in Africa, the politics of economic informality, enterprise clusters, vigilantism and organised crime, and new religious movements. (http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/k.meagher@lse.ac.uk)
The next GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place earlier on
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 1.30 p.m. in room 546.
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg
Prof. Marcela Ibanez (Ph.D.) will present her working paper on “Sorting Through Affirmative Action: Two Field Experiments in Colombia”.
Marcela Ibanez is the Leader of the Junior Research Group “Development Economics” at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her main research interests are in the economics of crime, technological change, attitudes towards risks as well as inequality.
This month’s GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place on
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 2.30 p.m. in room 550 (updated).
Prof. Holger Görg (Ph.D.) present his work-in-progress on “Foreign Ownership Structure, Technology Upgrading and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms” (see attached Abstract).
Holger Görg is Professor of International Economics at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His main research interests are in applied international trade issues, in particular related to foreign direct investment, international outsourcing, trade and labor markets. His research has led to numerous academic papers published in international journals (such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, etc.).
This month’s GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 2.30 p.m. in room 546 at the GIGA.
Dr. Johannes Meuer will talk about the topic “Does China’s (Central) Government Matter? The Effectiveness of the Chinese State in orchestrating Outward M&A”. Dr. Meuer is a post-doctoral researcher at the RSM Research Centre on China Business, Erasmus University, and a visiting fellow of the Cranfield School of Management. He finished his doctoral thesis on the “Configurations of Inter-Firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2011.