Below you find the events that have been organized within the framework of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.

2024

5 December, 3:00 p.m. GLOBAL HORIZONS CONVERSATION
Grounding Global Governance: Spaces, Scales, and Implications of Asymmetry
Seyram Avle, Christiaan De Beukelaer, Emrah Yıldız
This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.
By invitation only.

ABSTRACT:
Global governance is often predicated on the applicability of universal ideals, rules and regulations. The production, implementation and contestation of specific policies and technologies that engender the ‘global order,’ however, remain unevenly distributed and spatially bound–emblematized in the taken for granted spatial division between a Global North and a Global South. To explore these
asymmetries and ground global governance, we offer a provocation: 'does global governance exist'? We present some of the inevitable tensions that arise once we interrogate the promise of universal ideals in global governance against their asymmetrical implementations across three areas of policy design and social praxis: economic sanctions, maritime trade, and digital connectivity. Please join the 2024-2025 Global Horizons Fellows as they use these problem spaces to explore the tensions inherent to the spatial and scalar asymmetries of global governance, and draw out the implications of such thinking for our contemporary political predicament.

2 May, 10:15 a.m. PANEL DISCUSSION
Contested Temporalities of Governance: A Panel Discussion
Desiree Fields, Christina Garsten, Ulrik Jennische, Jennifer Mack, Dieter Plehwe, Michael J Watts
This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.

ABSTRACT:
The politics of global governance, regulation, and norm-setting are historical in two senses. First, they emerge, are embedded and operate at particular historical moments or eras. Over the last several decades this historical frame has been characterized variously as neoliberal and/or populist-authoritarian. The questions of development theory and practice in the Global South, the ‘good governance’ agenda that emerged in the 1990s and 2000s has been shaped by these historical forces. The same can be said of urban governance, green transitions, climate change, or immigration across the North Atlantic economies. Temporality is an important dimension of attempts at governing. Second, governance regimes, modalities and instruments speak to different time horizons or temporalities: the electoral cycle, human lifetimes, inter-generational, long-term sustainability or survival. These temporalities are often simply expressed in terms of short, middle or long-term futures. However, the intricacies of time and temporality in gover-
nance processes are too often taken for granted. Despite the apparent constancy and rigidity of time, the pliability of time and temporality is integral to the politics of global norm-making, implementation and resistance. To bring time and temporality more integrally into the understanding of contemporary forms of governance, attention to perspectives on time amongst different agents, actors and constituencies: the temporal thinking and practices of social categories of people and professionals – and to how these may clash, collide, or complement each other – represents interesting and important avenues for research. What temporalities may be observed amongst policy-makers, climate scientists, corporate leaders, investors, architects, and local populations, and other groups of people that influence or are influence by governance initiatives? What can attention to time and temporalities bring to the study of governance? What sorts of temporalities are at work among various forms of actually existing neoliberalism? How have the so-called crises of democracy associated with deepening authoritarianism and the weakening of democratic guard-rails, shape and be shaped by, these different temporal logics? In this panel, we invite discussions around these topics based on ongoing research.

2021

27 May, 2:15 p.m. WORKSHOP - WEB EVENT
Considering Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Karin Bäckstrand, David Ciepley, Karsten Paerregaard, and Gyanendra Pandey
This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.

ABSTRACT:
In this workshop, scholars from a range of different disciplines provide insights from their research, with a special focus on issues related to governance. The notion of governance is open and suggestive, encompassing the various ways rules, norms and actions are structured, sustained, regulated, and how actors are held accountable. Oftentimes, it suggests the emergence and usage of novel forms of influence and control beyond government: direct and indirect, open and opaque, national and transnational. It speaks as well to changing perspectives on citizenship, transformations of the social contract, of the relation of public to private authorities, and of the relation of nature to human being. The contributions will provide an opening into a discussion of the problem of governance from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Lecture by Gyanendra Pandey.
Presentations by Karin Bäckstrand, David Ciepley, and Karsten Paerregaard.

6 October, 1:30 p.m. WORKSHOP – HYBRID EVENT
Governance as Ideal and Practice: Metrics, Mobility, and Modes of Knowledge
Afshin Mehrpouya, Franke N. Pieke, Francesca Rosignoli, Cris Shore, Michael J. Watts, Linda Wedlin
This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.

2020

24 September. WEB EVENT
Launch of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme
This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.
By invitation only.