This past year, the Global and European Studies Institute has joined the rest of the world in taking our lectures, seminars, and events online. Having recently organized several large-scale virtual events and sessions, such as our EMGS Winter School and Alumni Conference, we thought we’d share some reflections on

EMGS Students’ Working Group on Intersectionality The increased visibility of feminist struggles within and in relation to social movements all over the world has resulted in the resurgence of specific forms of feminist internationalisms. Since 2016, feminist movements in different locations have called for a general women*’s[1] strike on the 8th

In this EMGS Blog, Global Studies student Clau Tatangelo reflects on the use of images and emphatic regimes emerging from media reports, which constitute political subject „The Refugee“ as instances of broader discourses around war, democracy, human rights, and humanitarianism on national, regional and global scales. Departing from recent

Last week, the Global and European Studies Institute hosted a virtual workshop on global citizenship and careers in European Union institutions. With over 100 students and alumni in attendance, the session was lively, informative, and inspiring!  In January 2021, the Global and European Studies Institute offered a virtual workshop

The European Union currently faces a myriad of challenges. Europe is hardest struck  by a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a high probability that one of the economically most important member states will leave the union without a trade agreement by the end of this year,