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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
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
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
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
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
16.10.07 Open Borders: Why are Borders not Open and Should They Be? (research 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
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
until
10.12.04
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 pdf
15.06.04 Culture Without Knowledge: Some question to the New Cultural Geography 
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)
- further reading
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
until
27.01.02
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
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)
06.12.00 Theorising Organisations
Prof. Anssi Paasi (University of Oulu, Finland)
09.11.00 The Re-Construction of Borders: social and the spatial
07.11.00 Reconstructing Regions and Regional Identity (workshop Discussant:  Peter Taylor)
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
16.09.99
until
17.09.99
Spatial Identity (two-day intensive course)
Dr. Wolfgang Zierhofer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)
29.07.99 Human Geography and Environmental Social Science in the Aftermath of Modernity?
22.07.99 Human Geography a Social Science?
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