European Master in Global Studies

GESI Students visit Dresden!

Enrico Behne — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:40:23 +0000

As part of our semester activities, GESI students visited Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Albertinum Modern Art Museum: The first excursion took our MA students to the Albertinum Modern Art Museum. Students from the seminar “Global East – Global South: Transregional Connections from the Endings of Empires to Cold War Encounters” explored the Revolutionary Romances […]

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Sylff Fellowships for Doctoral research on „Intellectual and Cultural Change in Central and Eastern Europe“

Enrico Behne — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:30:11 +0000

The Sylff programme at Leipzig University supports projects related to the overarching subject of “Intellectual and Cultural Change in Central and Eastern Europe”. Sylff fellowships are intended to train doctoral candidates who have great potential for future leadership roles in international affairs, in public life and in the private sector. Sylff fellowships are awarded to […]

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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans 1941-2024: An EMGS Student Appreciation

Enrico Behne — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:02:13 +0000

The passing of Emeritus Prof. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans is profoundly sad news for the hundreds of his former students at Erasmus Mundus Global Studies. EMGS students will have taken Prof. Elsenhans courses at the University of Leipzig from the programme’s inception in 2006 until his untimely passing this year. He taught global political economy, world […]

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Interview with Jr. Prof. Dr. Megan Maruschke

Enrico Behne — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:04:01 +0000

Learn more about Jr. Prof. Dr. Megan Maruschke, lecturer at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI). Jr. Prof. Dr. Maruschke’s research interests include global history, border studies since the 18th century, free ports and special economic zones, French and American imperial history, the age of revolutions, and migration and refugee history. She has been […]

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Interview with Jr. Prof. Daniela Russ: „Nature is also a socially constructed concept“

Enrico Behne — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:58:11 +0000

Since October 2022, Daniela Russ is a junior professor for Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), at Leipzig University. Read more about her academic journey, research focus, publications and teaching plans in our interview with her here.

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EMGS @Ghent University: Info session on 30 January

kaschner — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:15:05 +0000

The Ghent Centre for Global Studies organises an info session about the European Erasmus Mundus Master in Global Studies (EMGS). The application round for the Master’s course will start at the beginning of 2024 If you want to get more information about the programme, come and join us. After the presentation, there will be a […]

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Global Launch of the Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

Anzhela Vagner — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:03:15 +0000

The University of Vienna invites to the global (hybrid) book launch of The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide which will be hosted by the University of Vienna, Austria, on November 6, 2023, from 18:30-20:00 (CET). The book is co-edited by Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega, an alumna of the EMGS programme and now PhD candidate […]

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Save the date: University of Wrocław invites to hybrid lectures by Prof. Jan Nederveen Pieterse from UCSB

Anzhela Vagner — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:55:20 +0000

In November, the University of Wrocław hosts two lectures held by Prof. Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Duncan Mellichamp Chair and Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and global political economy. He is author or co/editor of 30 books. Schedule and topics: 09 November […]

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