Opening of the Annual Conference of the ReCentGlobe

The weekly colloquium of the Collaborative Research Centre provides a forum for presentations by external guests as well as by members of the SFB 1199 within a tailored thematic framework. The format helps to create a common ground for discussion between guests, the Collaborative Research Centre, as well as the wider academic public. The complete program can be found here.

Abstract

A pandemic lasting more than two years, the urgency of climate change, a brutal war in Eastern Europe – crises are condensing and raise the question of whether the framework for social transformations is fundamentally shifting. Has globalisation, as it has become the focus of attention since the late 1980s, come to its end? Is there a retreat from the ambitious goal of ever denser global interdependencies? Or are the global challenges becoming even more urgent and calling even more strongly than in the past for answers that must be found together internationally? But how does this reconcile with a neo-imperialism that shifts attention from biodiversity and emissions reduction to the expansion of military capacities?