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First Digital EMGS Summer School (2-4 July 2020)

Today the EMGS programme welcomes over 100 participants to the first Digital Summer School. We would of course have preferred to meet in person at the shores of the Baltic Sea, however now we have to make the best out of it! After an opening with a key note

#evdəqal – Stay at Home in Baku

How is the Covid-19 crisis experienced around the world? Since 2018, EMGS Alumni Eva Lennartz works for the development policy foundation Sparkassenstiftung für internationale Kooperation in Baku/Azerbaijan and shares her experience in our blog. #evdəqal – the Azerbaijani equivalent for #stayhome – is the slogan which spread quickly on
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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

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

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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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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