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Global Studies Students and the Black Lives Matter movement

What started in the US after the murder of George Floyd, has spread into a global movement against different forms of racism and racial violence in many cities across the world. Throughout multiple fields of society, a vast number of individuals and initiatives are working hard on implementing the

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Going virtual: Insights into a crash course in online teaching

For the virtual „Day of teaching and learning“ at Leipzig University (24 June 2020), the GESI team has produced a little video, bringing together voices from lecturers and staff as well as students. Have a look here: https://youtu.be/XbMUZkzcaqk

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Not starting from scratch: Online learning before the Corona pandemic

Shortly before the summer term started, universities across the world had to switch to online only teaching. Some could build on previous experiences. On the ReCentGlobe blog Katarina Ristic and Matthias Middell look at the online teaching strategies, which had been developed at GESI before the corona pandemic. See: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/zentrum/detailansicht/artikel/blog-15-online-learning-at-the-global-and-european-studies-institute-2020-06-04/ 18 June 2020

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Update on winter semester 2020/21

Dear students, as promised, we would like to inform you about the progressing plans for the forthcoming term. Some of the participating universities have already taken firm decisions that we as a consortium have to take into account, while others have just announced interim decisions because their governments and

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Update on the Coronavirus Crisis: Consequences for EMGS Mobility Tracks

Dear students, the current situation is still more than confusing, and we are very aware that this is causing great uncertainty when it comes to planning for the near and distant future. This, of course, affects transnational courses of study like ours in a special way, because regulations in

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Matthias Middell on Zoom fatigue

There is no new experience in society without immediate comment by experts on consequences – intended ones and unintended ones as well. After a few weeks of online teaching a new term has made already its career: zoom fatigue and there is a good explanation why we may feel

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Global History of Pandemics: EMGS students and scholars at the new Covid19 Research Forum

In early April, a team of EMGS students and scholars initiated the Global Studies Covid19 Research Forum, since a pandemic like this poses a particular challenge to the academic field of Global Studies. Expectations are high that the new field has something to offer on the topic. We shall

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Steffi Marung on the challenges of writing the history of a pandemic from a global perspective

(on Laura Spinney, 1918. Die Welt Im Fieber. Wie die Spanische Grippe die Gesellschaft veränderte, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 4. Auflage, 2020. / English original: Pale Rider. The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, London: Vintage Publishing 2017.) Laura Spinney has written a best-selling book,

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