Past Alexander von Humboldt Lectures in Human Geography:
| Prof. Sarah Whatmore (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK) | |
| 28.11.11 |
Practicing more-than-Human Geographies: Thinking with/through materials |
| 29.11.11 | (Master Class with Prof. Sarah Whatmore about “The methodological implications of ‘doing’ more-than-human styles of research”, focusing on the example of environmental knowledge controversies as a critical nexus between geographical practice and Isabelle Stengers’ notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ + Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘dingpolitik’) |
| 30.11.11 | (Workshop with Prof. Sarah Whatmore) |
| Prof. Jean Hillier (School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University Melbourne, AU) | |
| 07.11.11 |
Strategic Navigation across Multiple Plan(e)s: towards a Deleuzean-inspired
methodology for strategic spatial planning |
| 08.11.11 | (Master Class with Prof. Jean Hillier about “Deleuzian Spatial Practices”) |
| 09.11.11 | (Workshop with Prof. Joris van Wezemael about ‘Re-conceptualising Spatial Planning Practices’, with commentaries by Prof. Jean Hillier) |
| Prof. Stephan Günzel (BTK Academy of Design, Berlin, D) | |
| 28.09.11 | Image – Space – Action: Mediated Spatial Practices |
| 29.09.11 | (Master Class with Prof. Stephan Günzel about “Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Spatial Practice”) |
| 30.09.11 | (Workshop with Prof. Maarten Coolen about “Pactices of Space and Place” with commentaries by Prof. Stephan Günzel) |
| Prof. Ted Schatzki (Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky Lexington, USA) | |
| 12.09.11 |
The Spaces of Practices and Large Social Phenomena |
| 13.09.11 | (Master Class with Prof. Ted Schatzki about “Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space”) |
| 14.09.11 | (Workshop with contributions by: Prof. Mathis Stock about “Doing with Space: Towards a pragmatics of space” and Dr. Michael Jonas about “The Social Site Approach versus the Approach of Discourse/Practice Formations”) |
| Prof. Claudio Minca (Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, NL) | |
| 08.09.11 | Opening Lecture of the 2011/12 Masterprogramme in Human Geography: “Travels, bodies, modernities: notes on presentation, representation and practice” |
| Prof. Rudolf Stichweh (Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, CH) | |
| 10.01.11 |
European Spaces: The inclusion and exclusion of strangers |
| 11.01.11 | (research seminar with Prof. Kristof Van Assche and Prof. Rudolf Stichweh) |
| 12.01.11 | (research seminar) |
| Prof. Michael Wintle (Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, NL) | |
| 13.12.10 |
The Image of Europe: Visualising a continent |
| 14.12.10 | (research seminar) |
| Prof. Simin Davoudi (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK) | |
| 06.12.10 |
Spatial Planning and European Identity Building |
| 07.12.10 | (research seminar) |
| Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University, UK) (Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Economic Research, Torino, Italy) | |
| 29.11.10 |
Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the
Management of Borders |
| 30.11.10 | (research seminar) |
| 01.12.10 | Guest lecture "Borders and Identities in Europe" |
| Prof. Stuart Elden (Department of Geography, Durham University, UK) | |
| 09.09.10 |
The Emergence of Territory |
| 10.09.10 | (research seminar) |
| Prof. Tim Cresswell (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, UK) | |
| 24.03.10 |
On Turbulence |
| 25.03.10 | (research seminar) |
| 26.03.10 | (research workshop) |
| Prof. Guy Baeten (Department of Geography, Lund University, Sweden) | |
| 10.03.10 |
Contradictions of Mobility and Degenerate Utopias in Post-Political
Times |
| 11.03.10 | (research seminar) |
| 12.03.10 | (research workshop) |
| Prof. Vincent Kaufmann (Department of Sociology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH) | |
| 10.02.10 |
Re-thinking mobility |
| 11.02.10 | (research seminar) |
| 12.02.10 | (research workshop) |
| Prof. Peter Peters (Department of Philosophy, University of Maastricht, NL) | |
| 03.02.10 |
Travel Time in Technological Cultures |
| Prof. Benno Werlen (Jena University, Germany) | |
| 10.09.09 |
Places of Geography: from the
social-theoretical and from the socio-political perspective (opening
address of the master-programme 2009-2010) |
| Prof. Jacob Torfing (Roskilde University, DK) | |
| 17.03.09 |
How to measure and improve the
democratic anchorage of governance networks |
| 18.03.09 | Doing Discourse Analysis (PhD workshop) |
| 19.03.09 | Poststructuralist discourse theory: argument, relevance and methodological challenges (research seminar) |
| Prof. John Forester (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) | |
| 18.02.09 |
A critical naturalistic discourse
analysis: Exploring democratic subject formation and the enactment of
democratic inter-subjectivity |
| 18.02.09 | Crafting a good academic writing strategy (PhD workshop) |
| Prof. Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam, NL) | |
| 05.02.09 | What methods do. Evocative questions and difficult audiences |
| 05.02.09 | Doing research relationally...making sense of traces, flows and edges (research seminar) |
| 06.02.09 | (PhD workshop) |
| Dr. Michael Crang (Durham University, UK) | |
| 26.11.08 | Ethnographic Vision: Objectification, Subjection and Reflection
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| 27.11.08 | Doing Ethnographies (guest lecture) |
| 28.11.08 | Worlding words: debates on materiality, relevance and representation (PhD workshop) |
| Prof. Andrew Sayer (Lancaster University, UK) | |
| 12.11.08 | Who is afraid of critical social science? A critique of the decline of
critique
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| 13.11.08 | Why Things Matter: Social Science and Value (research seminar) |
| 14.11.08 | (PhD workshop) |
| Prof. Thomas Faist (University of Bielefeld, Germany) | |
| 10.12.07 | The Rocky Expansion of Multiple Membership: Multicultural and Dual
Citizenship
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| 11.12.07 | Migration and Development: Towards a Transnational North-South View (research seminar) |
| 12.12.07 | The Transnational Social Question: Social Rights and Citizenship in a Global Context (guest lecture) |
| 12.12.07 | Diversity as New Paradigm for Integration (guest lecture) |
| Prof. Franck Düvell (University of Oxford, UK) | |
| 26.11.07 | Illegal/Irregular Immigration in Europe
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| 27.11.07 | Crossing the Fringes of Europe: Transit migration in the EU’s neighbourhood (research seminar) |
| 28.11.07 | The borders and challenges of the multicultural society (guest lecture) |
| 28.11.07 | The EU border and migration policy (guest lecture) |
| Prof. Joseph Carens (University of Toronto, Canada) | |
| 15.10.07 | Immigration and Democratic Principles
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| 16.10.07 | Open Borders: Why are Borders not Open and Should They Be?
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seminar) Introduction by Prof dr Joseph Carens Comments by: Prof Veit Bader (IMES, University of Amsterdam), dr Roland Pierik (Faculty of Management, University of Nijmegen) dr Ronald Tinnevelt (Faculty of Law, University of Nijmegen) After each lecture: Plenary discussion |
| 17.10.07 | Open Borders (guest lecture) |
| Prof. Alejandro Portes (Princeton University, USA) | |
| 14.05.07 | From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Politics of Immigration
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| 14.05.07 | Research Seminar with Prof. Alejandro Portes |
| Prof. Tim Richardson (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.; University of Aalborg, Denmark) | |
| 25.01.07 | Seminar on methods |
| 24.01.07 | PhD Seminar: Policy and Planning |
| 23.01.07 | A Governmentality Perspective on the Relation Between Policy and Everyday Life: Making (auto)mobilities |
| 23.01.07 | Student course “Economics of management sciences” - The dominance of economic thinking in transport policy and planning, with examples from UK, EU and South Africa. |
| Prof. Geoff Hodgson (University of Herfordshire, U.K.) | |
| 14.12.06 | Seminar: The Evolution of Institutions: the Functions and Implications of Habit |
| 13.12.06 | Guest lecture in the course Institutional Dynamics: “What are institutions?” |
| 12.12.06 | Institutional Economics and the Individual Actor |
| Prof. Frank Fischer (State University, New Jersey, USA) | |
| 15.11.06 | PhD Seminar with Prof. Frank Fischer |
| 14.11.06 | Citizens and Experts in Public Deliberation: Knowledge in Social Context |
| Prof. Joe Painter (University of Durham, Durham, U.K.) | |
| 11.10.06 | PhD Seminar with Prof. Joe Painter |
| 10.10.06 | Bio-Politics and regional Governance |
| Prof. József Böröcz (Rutgers University, USA, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) | |
| 7.3.2006 | Coloniality and the EU: Speaking Through the Switch and the Broadband-Strategies of Inferiorization When It is Not OK to Inferiorize |
| Prof. Jane Jacobs jr (University of Edinburgh, Scottland) | |
| 13.02.06 | Postcolonial Materialities: Or, the Politics of Making Big Things Small, and Small Things Big |
| Prof. Kristin Ross (New York University, USA) | |
| 19.11.05 | Mediterranean Noir: The Postcolonial Geography of European Crime Fiction |
| Prof. Harry Harootunian (New York University, USA) | |
| 19.11.05 | Modernisation Redux |
| Prof. Frances Gouda (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) | |
| 24.10.05 | Here and There, Now and Then: Place, Gender, and Race in Oriental and Occidental Landscapes |
| Prof. Patsy Healey (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.) | |
| 10-10-05 | Spatial Planning and Imagining Cities |
| 11.10.05 until 14.10.05 |
Tuesday:
Post-Grad Day (PhD seminar with Patsy Healy)
Wednesday: Strategy Day (Patsy Healy shedding light on strategy of GaP-Research-Plan) Thursday: Round table discussion with planning experts on issues of (new) planning cultures (organised in collaboration with the Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia - (Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) ILS, Dortmund) Friday: Patsy Healy giving guest lecture in regular student course |
| Prof. Benedict Anderson (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) | |
| 19.9.2005 | Early Globalization, Anticolonialism, and Anarchism Networks of Resistance in the Time of the Telegraaf |
| Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Oxford University, Oxford, UK) | |
| 07.12.04 | Let the People Govern? Civil Society, Governmentality and Governance-Beyond-the-State |
| 08.12.04 until10.12.04 |
Additional Seminars with Prof. Erik Swyngedouw. Click here for further details |
| Prof. Etienne Balibar (University of California, Irvine, USA; University of Paris X - Nanterre, France) | |
| 10.11.04 | Europe as Borderland Models of Transnational Citizenship ![]() |
| 11.11.04 | An open conversation with Balibar (moderated by Olivier Kramsch, Barbara Hooper and Henk van Houtum) |
| Prof. Peter Meusburger (University of Heidelberg, Germany) | |
| 14.06.04 | Knowledge and Power: Geographical aspects of the relation between knowledge and power
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| 15.06.04 | Culture Without Knowledge: Some question to the New Cultural Geography
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| Prof. Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago, USA) | |
| 11.03.04 | Multiplying and Repositioning Borders in a Global Digital Age If you want to read more about Saskia Sassen see also here |
| 12.03.04 | Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy: Crossborder Issues of Immigration, Labour, and Networked Resistance |
| Prof. Bob Jessop (Lancaster University, U.K.) | |
| 10.02.04 | The Political Economy of Scale |
| 11.02.04 | Research Seminar on Prof. Jessop's Latest Research |
| 12.02.04 | Research Seminar with Prof. Jessop on YOUR own research |
| Prof. Ulrike Meinhof (University of Southampton, U.K.) | |
| 22.05.03 | Qualitative Methods Workshop: Interview techniques and discourse analysis |
| 22.05.03 | Changing borders changing nations changing identities: Discourses of identification at the EU's eastern borders |
| 23.05.03 | Seminar on Meinhof's latest work: Living with Borders Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe |
| Prof. Edward Soja (University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, USA) | |
| 09.10.02 | Metropolis Unbound: Rethinking the Relations Between Borders, Cities, and Regions |
| 08.10.02 | Remapping the governance of urban space; the case of L.A. |
| Prof. David Newman (Ben Gurion University, Israel) | |
| 30.09.02 | Geo-political and territorial dimensions of the Israel / Palestine conflict |
| Prof. Huib Ernste (University of Nijmegen) | |
| 27.06.02 | Transgressing Borders with Human Geography (inaugural speech)
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| Prof. Geraldine Pratt (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) | |
| 16.05.02 Cancelled |
Spatialising Universalism |
| 14.05.02 Cancelled |
Working at the Borders of Liberalism: Domestic workers and hierarchies of rights in Canada (seminar) |
| Prof. Wolfgang Natter (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) | |
| 05.03.02 | Civic Identity, Professionalism and Global Regionalism |
| 04.03.02 | Film and the New Cultural Geography' |
| Prof. Doreen Massey (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) | |
| 25.01.02 until27.01.02 |
Globalisation, Anti-Globalisation and Against Globalisation (Reading-Weekend) |
| 24.01.02 | Rethinking space: feminist reflections |
| Prof. Dan Hiebert (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) | |
| 26.11.01 | Towards an intellectual political economy: The strategy and reception of academic research on Canadian immigration policy
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| Prof. Manuel Castells (University of California, Berkeley, USA) | |
| 08.10.01 | Local and Global: Cities in the network society (KNAG Lecture) commentary in magazine for management science org |
| Prof. Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) | |
| 06.06.01 | Producing and Performing Space: Rumours from Cairo |
| Prof. David Ley (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) | |
| 08.05.01 | From Humanistic Geography to Social Constructivism in the context of action theory, behavioural theory, post-structuraism... |
| 02.05.01 | Action Theory and Public Policy: The case of government intentions, migrant subversions, and transnational outcomes |
| 12.04.01 until 04.05.01 |
'Regional Development 2' and 'urban and rural development' (course) |
| Prof. Trevor Barnes (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) | |
| 24.04.01 | Re-Theorising Economic Geography (workshop) |
| 04.04.01 | Location, Location, Location: Studying locational decisions of economic agents in the space economy. From the old locational school to Paul Krugman's 'New economic geography' |
| 09.04.01 until 26.04.01 |
'Advanced Economic Geography' (course) |
| Prof. John Paul Jones III (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) | |
| 13.12.00 | Methodology in Geographical Sciences (workshop)
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| 06.12.00 | Theorising Organisations
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| Prof. Anssi Paasi (University of Oulu, Finland) | |
| 09.11.00 | The Re-Construction of Borders: social and the spatial
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| 07.11.00 | Reconstructing Regions and Regional Identity (workshop Discussant: Peter Taylor)
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| Prof. Peter Weichhart (University of Salzburg, Austria) | |
| 23.09.99 | Social Geography and Spatial Planning - on people and life-world rationality in the planning process
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| 16.09.99 until 17.09.99 |
Spatial Identity (two-day intensive course)
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| Dr. Wolfgang Zierhofer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| 29.07.99 | Human Geography and Environmental Social Science in the Aftermath of Modernity?
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| 22.07.99 | Human Geography a Social Science?
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| Prof. Edward Soja (University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, USA) | |
| 08.03.99 | The New Cosmopolis Globalization and Postfordist Industrial Restructuring |
| 05.03.99 | Space, Space, Space.The Thirdspace: Expanding the Scope of the Geographical Imagination |








