On December 10-11, members of the Cosmo-Climate ERC project group led by the late Professor Ulrich Beck gathered at Munich for the final Cosmo-Climate workshop. This included a presentation about EARN and future prospects for research cooperation between Asia and Europe through the network.
AGENDA
Cosmo-Climate
Workshop, 10-11 December 2015, Munich
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Thursday, 10 December 2015
9:15-9:45:
Welcome and Introduction/Discussion
– Stephan Lessenich
9:45-13:00: Session 1: Work Package 1/Empirical Research and
Work Package 2/Cosmopolitan Theory Development
Case Study: ‘Communicating Global Risks – Climate
Change Communication and New Roles of Journalists as Cosmopolitan Actors’ – Ingrid Volkmer, Zhifei Mao, Kasim
Sharif, Sun-Jin Yun and Kuei Tien Chou
Case Study: ‘Ulrich Beck’s Cosmopolitan Sociology’ – Svetla Marinova and Albert Gröber
11:15-11:30 Coffee
Break
Case Study: ‘Security in the 'Cosmopolitised' World: Reading Obama's
National Security Strategy with Beck’ – Sabine Selchow
PhD study: ‘Calculating Solidarity’ – Ian Gray
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:15: Session 2: Methodological Cosmopolitanism
Sub-project 1: ‘“Google Baby”: Reproductive Technology and Cosmopolitanized Descent’
– Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Sub-project 2: ‘Cosmopolitized Nations’ – Daniel Levy
Sub-project 3: ‘Politics of Certification’ – Julia S.
Guivant
Sub-project 4: ‘South America and Cosmopolitization’ – Ana María
Vara
16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Reflections on the Day
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9:00-11:00: Session 3: Europe-Asia Research Network (EARN)
Sang-Jin Han, Young-Hee Shim, Sae-Seul Park
‘Emancipatory Catastrophism and
Cosmopolitan Solidarity in East Asia’ – Young-Hee Shim
‘Who are Cosmopolitan Actors in East Asia? A Look at
the Fukushima Disaster and the Issue of Nuclear Power Plant’ – Sang-Jin Han
§ Discussion
§ What are
the concrete steps to strengthen the Asia-Europe-Network beyond the
ERC-project?
§ What possibilities
are there? Who has which extra resources?
§ Who is
interested in linking up with whom?
11:00-11:15 Coffee
Break
11:15-13:00: Session 4: ‘Cosmopolitan Research, Cosmopolitan
Data and Cosmopolitan Organisation’ – Legacy Building
Organisation and Institutionalization of ‘Methodological
Cosmopolitanism’
§ ERC-deadlines, deliverables etc.
§ Who is responsible for what?
§ Internal communication
§ External communication
§ Website
§ Future Research
13:00-14:30 Lunch and
Coffee
The workshop will end after lunch
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