Le séminaire "Enseignement supérieur et recherche" accueille le jeudi 1er février 2024, Alexander Meyer, University of the Bundeswehr (PI of a DFG research project on 'A cultural history of meritocracy and social mobility, 1850-1975'). Le titre de son intervention :

Globalisation, Competition, and the Transformation of German Universities since the 1970s

Résumé :

Starting in 2005, the ‚Exzellenzinitiative‘, a government programme that aimed at creating a few globally competitive elite universities, marked a radical shift in the history of German universities. This presentation will analyse the causes of this shift, which can be traced back to the 1970s, and show how German universities have responded to new forms of competition by transforming themselves - not without conflict - into organisational actors.

Le séminaire prend la forme d'un webinaire de 12h30 à 14h.

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Contacts : Jérôme Aust ; Christine Musselin.

Online event

A webinar organised jointly by CORRIREF, AURA, Diaspora at War et BIELEXIL

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Conditions for LGBTQ+ people in Russia have deteriorated sharply since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, leading many queer Russians to flee to Georgia. While it might be expected that Russian LGBTQ+ people would feel safer having emigrated, this is not necessarily the case. This presentation outlines the ways in which national identity, local homophobia, and the spectre of Russian state repression have shaped perceptions of safety for Russian LGBTQ+ people in Tbilisi.

Speaker:
Talia Kollek is currently completing her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Her research on Russian LGBTQ+ civil society and activism is based on her time spent living and working in Saint Petersburg, where she completed her master’s degree at the Higher School of Economics in 2018. Talia specializes in ethnographic research in high-risk environments, and was the co-organizer of the LGBTQ+ Studies at Risk conference at UCL in 2023.

Scientific coordinator : Thomas Lacroix, Olga Bronnikova, Karine Gatelier et Agnieszka Fihel

The seminar will be online via the Zoom platform. 

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