Students Conference

22 June 2026, 9:45am – 4:30pm

Währingerstraße 29, Seminarraum 2

 9:45–10:00am: Check-In & Coffee 

10:00–11:00am: Team 01 – Subversive Methodologies and Ontological Disruptions

Chair: Julianne Tai 

Opening and Mapping Exercise

 Exhibition “Quiet Time” / “Time to Think”

·         Soundscapes (Julianne Tai)

·         Products and their ethics (Anneleen Debruyckere)

·         Pile of dirt (Paul Ihlenfeldt)

·         Knitting (Verónica Recalde)

·         Posters and Pocket watches (Paul Wellens)

Reflection

11:15am–12:15pm: Team 02 – Spaces of Power Dynamics. Gender, Labour and Technology

Chair: Ana Carolina Martinez 

Introduction: Approaching personally emotional, and sensitive topics

Crossing Boundaries: When Academia Becomes Personal (or not) – A Roundtable Discussion with

·         Ana Carolina Martinez

·         Rachele Campaner

·         Uma Xingrui

Plenary discussion: Why do we do research, and how does positionality impact our projects? 

12:15–1:00pm: Pizza Lunch   

1:00–2:00pm: Team 03 – Shifting Perspectives on Past and Future

Chair: Inti Ratto

Introduction: Definitions of scale and scaling, and an overview of the scholarly debate

Plenary discussion: Why do we scale? Discussion of De Vito’s text and its main arguments

Scale in Our Own Research: A Roundtable Discussion 

·         Priska Pecka & Noah Reinisch

·         Paula Kunz & Sonja Apfler

Reading: Christian De Vito, History Without Scale. The Microspatial Perspective, in: Past & Present (2019), Supplement 14, 348–372.

2:00–3:00pm: Team 04 – Bottoms Up

Chair: Paula Classen

Introduction: Setting the scene – How to turn messy, unexpected data into meaningful findings? (Paula Classen)

Making Sense of Data in Global Studies Research: Three Research Journeys

·         Transnational Data Collection in Repressed Contexts (Paula Classen)

·         Oral History & Movement’s Archives (Lambros Asvestas)

·         Methodology as Collaboration: Ethnographic Methods, Visual Analysis and Reflexivity (Đorđe Gajić)

Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks (Paula Classen, Lambros Asvestas, Đorđe Gajić)

3:00–3:30pm: Coffee Break

3:30–4:30pm: Team 05 - G5

Chair: Ghozaly Amna

Introduction: Norm Contestation Theory

Contested Norms in International Politics: Poster Presentations

·         Anton Beliakov: Neutrality after Bipolarity: Switzerland and the Reinterpretation of Neutral Foreign Policy, 1989–2002

·         Barbare Lomashvili: The Erosion of the Rule of Law: Germany's Asylum Policy Toward Georgia

·         Ghozaly Amna: Bandung to BRICS+: South-South Solidarity and the Dasa Sila in Summit Declarations, 2009–2025

·         Kiyana Pitre: EU Autonomous Security in the Transatlantic Alliance

·         Lisa Ong: Public Opinion and Support for the EU During Political Crises

Closing Remarks