Summer School 2015
"Competing Models for World Order:
The Nature of Security and Diplomacy in the 21st Century"
Saturday, September 12:
Arrivals
Sunday, September 13:
Arrivals, Registration, Introductions and Social Ice-Breaker
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
03:30 — 05:00:
Registration
05:00 — 06:30:
Round of Introductions
Going Over All Organizational Matters
(Scholarship, Travel, Accommodations, Other Details)
07:00:
Get-Together at Beyerhaus
Monday, September 14:
Leipzig Seminar I:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Themes, Theories, and Case-Studies for the Summer School
12:00 — 01:00:
Overview of Themes, Theories, and Case-Studies for Summer
School
01:00 — 02:30:
Group Lunch
02:30 — 04:00:
Theme Development
04:00 — 04:30:
(Discuss More Deeply Relationship between Presented Themes, Theories,
and Proposed Case-Studies)
Coffee Break
04:30 — 06:00:
Task Workshop
(Discuss in Break-Out Groups the Content of Earlier Sessions, and
Develop Questions for the Summer School)
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Social Evening:
Pizza Evening at Professor Garrett’s House
Tuesday, September 15:
Leipzig Seminar II:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Cultures of Security
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture: Prof. Crister S. Garrett
12:00 — 01:30:
Group Lunch
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Social Evening:
Restaurant Dinner "Bayerischer Bahnhof"
Wednesday, September 16:
Leipzig Seminar III:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
The Evolution of American Foreign Policy and Diplomacy after the
Cold War – Implications for Transatlantic Relations and Global Politics
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture with Prof. Crister S. Garrett
12:00 — 01:30:
Group Lunch
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Social Evening:
Food and Drinks at Moritzbastei, Leipzig's famous Student Club in
the Catacombs of the old City Fortifications
Optional:
Thursday, September 17:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
10:00 — 12:00:
Dance Party at Moritzbastei
The Colditz Seminar:
The Role of International Law in Shaping Approaches to Security
12:00 — 01:00:
Lecture with Prof. Dr. Paul S. Rundquist
(Institute for Political Science and Japanese Studies, University of Halle)
Group Lunch
01:00 — 02:30:
Theme Development
03:15 — 05:00:
Guided Tour of "Runde Ecke", Museum on the GDR's Ministry of
State Security in Leipzig
05:30:
Clara-Zetkin-Park Beergarden “Glashaus”
Friday, September 18:
Leipzig Seminar IV:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Economic Foundations of Security
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture with Dr. Antje Nötzold
(Institute for Political Science, TU Chemnitz)
12:00 — 01:30:
Lunch
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Saturday, September 19:
Leipzig Seminar V:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
The Sociology of Security
11:00 — 01:00:
Lecture with Prof. Dr. Helena Flam
(Institute for Sociology, Leipzig University)
01:00 — 02:30:
Lunch
02:30 — 04:00:
Theme Development
04:00 — 04:30:
Coffee Break
04:30 — 06:00:
City of Leipzig Tour Window
Sunday, September 20:
08:45:
09:00 — 11:00:
Leipzig and International History
Meeting at GWZ (Beethovenstraße 15)
Walking Tour of Leipzig: Cold War and Peaceful Revolution
11:30 — 01:00:
Brunch at Restaurant “Hundertwasser”
01:30 — 03:00:
Guided Tour of Permanent Exhibit at the Zeitgeschichtliche Forum
Leipzig
Afterwards:
Monday, September 21:
09:30:
11:30 — 01:00:
01:00 — 03:00:
Individual Time to Explore Leipzig
The Dresden Seminar:
War, Society, and Rethinking Security
Meeting at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (Track 21) for Departure to Dresden
Group Lunch
Lecture with Dipl.-Pol. Stefan Robel
(Center for International Studies, TU Dresden)
04:00 — 06:00:
Guided Tour of National Military Museum (Militärhistorisches
Museum)
Afterwards:
Individual Time to Explore Dresden and Return to Leipzig
Tuesday, September 22:
Weimar Seminar:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Domestic Sources of International Policy
11:00 — 01:00:
Lecture with Prof. Nukhet Sandal
01:00 — 02:30:
Group Lunch
02:30 — 04:00:
Theme Development
04:00 — 04:30:
Coffee Break
(Department of Political Science at Ohio University)
04:30 — 06:00:
Task Workshop
06:00 — 06:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
06:30 — 07:00:
Complete Task
07:00 — 08:00:
Plenary Session
Wednesday, September 23:
Torgau Seminar:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Geopolitics and Emerging World Order
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture with Prof. Nukhet Sandal
(Department of Political Science at Ohio University)
12:00 — 01:30:
Group Lunch
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Thursday, September 24:
Leipzig Seminar VI:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Diplomacy and Cooperative Security
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture with Dr. Annamarie Bindenagel-Šehović
(The Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt)
12:00 — 01:30:
Lunch
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Social Evening:
Informal Walking Tour & Barhopping on Karl-Heine-Straße
Friday, September 25:
Leipzig Seminar VII:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Liberalism, International Organizations, and Concepts of Stable
Security
10:00 — 12:00:
Lecture with Prof. Nukhet Sandal and Prof. Crister Garrett
12:00 — 01:30:
Group Lunch at "Augustusplatz" Dining Hall
01:30 — 03:00:
Theme Development
03:00 — 03:30:
Coffee Break
03:30 — 05:00:
Task Workshop
05:00 — 05:30:
Coffee Break and Mid-Task-Evaluation
05:30 — 06:00:
Complete Task
06:00 — 07:00:
Plenary Session
Evening:
Saturday, September 26:
Student Social
Integrative Workshops:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
10:00 — 11:00:
Gather and Build Workshop Teams
11:00 — 01:00:
First Working Session
01:00 — 01:45:
Brown Bag Lunch
01:45 — 04:00:
Second Working Session
04:00 — 04:30:
Coffee Break
04:30 — 06:00:
Present and Discuss Finding
Social Event:
Chilli Cookout at Professor Garrett’s House
Sunday, September 27:
Plenum:
Room: GWZ 5.3.16
Theorizing Results, and Wrap-Up
12:00 — 01:30:
Summer School Plenum: Cultures of Security in a Global
Context
01:30 — 02:30:
Lunch
02:30 — 03:30:
Summer School Evaluation
03:30 — 04:00:
Coffee Break
04:00 — 06:00:
Conclusions and Presentation of Summer School Certificates
Monday, September 28:
Departures