The Alexander von Humboldt Lectures:
Making European Space(s)
Series 2010/11
The Alexander von Humboldt lectures are an initiative of Prof. dr. Huib Ernste
Series organisers: dr. Krisztina Varró, MSc. Joren Jacobs, Prof. dr. Huib Ernste
Programme
The Department of Human Geography at the Radboud University of Nijmegen
cordially invites you to our Lecture and Seminar Series on the theme of
‘Making European Space(s)’.
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description of this programme.
Lectures and Seminars
The following Alexander von Humboldt Guests take part in our programme: (clicking on a name will bring you to their personal homepage)
| Prof. Stuart Elden | (Department of Geography, Durham University, UK) | >> |
| Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz | (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University, UK) | >> |
| Prof. Simin Davoudi | (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK) | >> |
| Prof. Michael Wintle | (Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, NL) | >> |
| Prof. Rudolf Stichweh | (Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, CH) | >> |
| Prof. Stuart Elden | (Department of Geography, Durham University, UK) |
| Thursday Sept. 9, 2010 15:30-18:00 Aula building Comeniuslaan 2 6525 HP Nijmegen Room: Senate Hall Map of campus Detail Chair: Prof. Huib Ernste Free entry |
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture
and Opening Lecture of the 2010/11 Masterprogramme: “The Emergence of
Territory” Abstract: This paper is part of a longer project on the history of the concept of territory. The first part suggests that territory needs to be related to, yet not reduced to, ‘land’ and ‘terrain’, which are political-economic and political-strategic relations. Territory needs to be additionally understood in terms of its relation to space, a calculative category that is dependent on the existence of a range of techniques, and political-legal questions. Territory then can be understood as a political technology: it comprises techniques for measuring land and controlling terrain, and we must therefore think measure and control—the technical and the legal—alongside the economic and strategic. The second part offers an account of a particular moment in the emergence of this concept; focusing on the bringing together of Greek political theory, Roman law, and German political practice, especially around the notion of Landeshoheit. |
| Friday Sept. 10, 2010 10:45-12:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 4 Room 4.00.05 Chair: dr. Henk van Houtum Free entry |
Research
Seminar with Prof. Stuart Elden Together with Prof. Stuart Elden we discuss his current research programme and ideas for future research. As kick-off for this discussion Prof. Stuart Elden will (briefly) present his current research and topical issues in the academic debate as also exhibited in his latest book: ‘Terror and Territory: The spatial extent of sovereignty’. |
| Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz | (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University, UK) |
| Monday Nov. 29, 2010 17:45-19:15 Aula building Comeniuslaan 2 6525 HP Nijmegen Room: Senate Hall Map of campus Detail Chair: Prof. Huib Ernste Free entry |
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: “Europe
in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Management of Borders” Abstract: The past years have witnessed growing public attention to EUrope’s increasingly important role as an international actor. EU politicians have begun to speak quite openly of a ‘European geopolitics’ or, at least, of the need for a distinct geopolitical vision for the Union. The creation of the new EU diplomatic service is also an important step in this direction. In my talk, I will attempt to trace some of the contours of the emergent EU geopolitical vision, focusing on the ways in which the spaces of EU power and ‘actor-ness’ are narrated and created. In particular, I will highlight the role of ‘border-work’ in creating new spaces of influence for EUrope, for it is increasingly through the creative deployment of border regimes that the EU extends its spaces of action: EUrope’s borders are no longer (only) where you would expect them to be. Indeed, the EU’s greatest ‘geopolitical innovation’ is the fluidity and ambiguity of its spaces of action and its selective management of (spatial) inclusion and exclusion. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its management of borders. As Zaki Laidi suggested some time ago, it is precisely by looking at EUrope’s borders that we can best discern what he terms ‘the distinct aesthetics of European power’; that we can best perceive that which Peter Sloterdijk described already over a decade ago as a unique process of European ‘translatio Imperii’. |
| Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010 15:45-17:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Olivier Kramsch Free entry |
Research
Seminar with Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz Together with Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz we discuss her current research programme and ideas for future research. As kick-off for this discussion Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz will (briefly) present her current research and topical issues in the academic debate. |
| Wednesday Dec. 1, 2010 13:45-15:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Martin van der Velde Free entry |
PhD./Researchers Workshop
with Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz Researchers present their own research work (in progress) and discuss this with Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz and with the audience. Internal and external researchers and PhD-students are cordially invited to participate. Especially also PhD-students or Researchers from the inter-university networks NETHUR are kindly invited. To present and discuss your research please register in advance with Prof. Huib Ernste (h.ernste@fm.ru.nl) |
| Prof. Simin Davoudi | (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK) |
| Monday Dec. 6, 2010 17:45-19:15 Aula building Comeniuslaan 2 6525 HP Nijmegen Room: Senate Hall Map of campus Detail Chair: Prof. Huib Ernste Free entry |
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: “Spatial
Planning and European Identity Building” Abstract: The latter part of the 20th century is considered as a time when place and territory regained prominence due to a series of remarkable social, economic and environmental changes. At the European level, the growing recognition of the significance of place was reflected in the emergence of the ‘European spatial planning’ and its promotion of spatial, rather than sectoral, approach to policy making. A hallmark of this spatial turn was the publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). In this presentation I will focus on three interrelated areas: firstly, the conceptions of space in European spatial planning and particularly the ESDP; secondly, their cartographical visualization and representation; and thirdly, the interface between the articulation of spatiality and the wider process of European identity building and the EU integration project. |
| Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 15:45-17:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: Prof. dr. Andreas Faludi Free entry |
Research
Seminar with Prof. Simin Davoudi Together with Prof. Simin Davoudi we discuss her current research programme and ideas for future research. As kick-off for this discussion Prof. Simin Davoudi will (briefly) present her current research and topical issues in the academic debate. |
| Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010 13:45-15:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Stefanie Dühr |
PhD./Researchers Workshop
with Prof. Simin Davoudi Researchers present their own research work (in progress) and discuss this with Prof. Simin Davoudi and with the audience. Internal and external researchers and PhD-students are cordially invited to participate. Especially also PhD-students or Researchers from the inter-university networks NETHUR are kindly invited. To present and discuss your research please register in advance with Prof. Huib Ernste (h.ernste@fm.ru.nl) |
| Prof. Michael Wintle | (Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, NL) |
| Monday Dec. 13, 2010 17:45-19:15 Aula building Comeniuslaan 2 6525 HP Nijmegen Room: Senate Hall Map of campus Detail Chair: Prof. Huib Ernste Free entry |
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: “The
Image of Europe: Visualising a continent” Abstract: Michael Wintle’s lecture is based on a study of the concept of Europe from the earliest times to the present day, but with a difference: it examines the visual representation, the graphic image of Europe. Maps of Europe and the world are the most important sources, but drawings, engravings, paintings, sculptures, the applied arts, flags, buildings, coins, stamps and banknotes are also extensively examined. The continent of Europe has been variously represented as the demi-goddess Europa, a bull, a horse, a son of Noah, a Magus, a queen, and as the Empress of the World. Michael Wintle will chart the way in which these visualisations of the continent have altered over time, and how they relate to and indeed affect changing ideas of the extent and nature of Europe in relation to the other continents. He will explore what effects these images have had on the ‘reality’ of Europe, and vice-versa. Special attention will be paid to the issues surrounding the use of visual sources in the practice of history. Reaching from the Ancient Greeks to the European Union, this lecture covers the history over three millennia of Europe, with its self-images and identities. |
| Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010 15:45-17:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Martin van der Velde Free entry |
Research
Seminar with Prof. Michael Wintle Together with Prof. Michael Wintle we discuss his current research programme and ideas for future research. As kick-off for this discussion Prof. Michael Wintle will (briefly) present his current research and topical issues in the academic debate around European Citizenship and Identity. |
| Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010 13:45-15:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Arnoud Lagendijk |
PhD./Researchers Workshop
with Prof. Michael Wintle Researchers present their own research work (in progress) and discuss this with Prof. Michael Wintle and with the audience. Internal and external researchers and PhD-students are cordially invited to participate. Especially also PhD-students or Researchers from the inter-university networks NETHUR are kindly invited. To present and discuss your research please register in advance with Prof. Huib Ernste (h.ernste@fm.ru.nl) |
| Prof. Rudolf Stichweh | (Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, CH) |
| Monday Jan. 10, 2011 17:45-19:15 Aula building Comeniuslaan 2 6525 HP Nijmegen Room: Senate Hall Map of campus Detail Chair: Prof. Huib Ernste Free entry |
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: “European
Spaces: The inclusion and exclusion of strangers” Abstract: The lecture will look in a historical and contemporary perspective at the constitution of Europe as a geographical and as a socio-cultural space. From its beginnings in the late medieval period Europe was based on migration movements and on terms such as hospitalitas which formulated the integration of migrants and strangers. Europe is then constituted as a socio-cultural space in which you are only confronted with a reduced social and cultural contingency, an understanding which is very prominent in the self-understanding of the European enlightenment (e.g. in Edmund Burke). The lecture will look at some of these formulations characteristic of Enlightenment Europe, for example the idea that in Europe the right of access and visit will never be denied to any stranger (Kant, Suarez). The lecture then asks if this historical self-understanding of European socio-cultural identity is still to be identified in the inclusion and exclusion policies to be observed in present-day Europe. |
| Tuesday Jan. 11, 2011 15:45-17:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: MSc. Joren Jacobs Free entry |
Research
Seminar with Prof. Rudolf Stichweh Together with Prof. Rudolf Stichweh we discuss his current research programme and ideas for future research. As kick-off for this discussion Prof. Rudolf Stichweh will (briefly) present his current research and topical issues in the academic debate. |
| Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011 13:45-15:30 Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 Room 3.00.27 Chair: dr. Olivier Kramsch |
PhD./Researchers Workshop
with Prof. Rudolf Stichweh Researchers present their own research work (in progress) and discuss this with Prof. Rudolf Stichweh and with the audience. Internal and external researchers and PhD-students are cordially invited to participate. Especially also PhD-students or Researchers from the inter-university networks NETHUR are kindly invited. To present and discuss your research please register in advance with Prof. Huib Ernste (h.ernste@fm.ru.nl) |