Programme HERSS Summer School
Programme of the whole week
| Justus-Liebig University, Seminarbuilding, Rathenaustraße 10, 35394 Gießen Few steps away from bus-stopps Siemensstraße or Philosophikum
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| Mo - 28.09.2026 |
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10:00 |
Opening - Arrivals |
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10:30 |
Welcome Julia Volz (Head of International Office JLU) |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Keynote Teresa Cavalho (CIPES, Aveiro, Portugal): Higher Education and Gender |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break - Mensa |
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13:00 – 13:30 |
Toru Yoshida (Doshisha University, Japan): Education and populism: On the japanese paradox |
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13:30 – 14:00 |
Huda Alazmi & Ahoud Al-Asfour (University of Kuwait/PAAET, Kuwait): Understanding Global Citizenship in Context: Comparative Perspectives from Kuwait and Germany |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Ana Melo & Maria Joao Rosa (CIPES, Aveiro, Portugal): Mapping the Metrics: How Digitalisation, Social Equity, and Sustainability Shape Quality in Higher Education |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Pedoir Leihy (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile): From manual to digital to ungual work: learning for precarity |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Yutaro Tsuji (Doshisha University, Japan): Shrinking Private, Stratifying Public: Japanese Higher Education Policy under Demographic Change |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
Foyer – Social Event |
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Tu - 29.09.2026 |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
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Round table: AI and Digital Higher Education (Chair: Erum Afzal) Daniel Remai: Data Visualization as a Core Component of Data Literacy: A Pilot Framework for Higher Education; Minyue Wu: Durchdringung und Grenzziehung: Eine vergleichende Dispositivanalyse der KI-Governance in der deutschen und chinesischen Hochschulbildung; Shabina Shaikh: Campus in the Cloud: Integrating Virtual Pedagogies, Digital Knowledge Management, and Policy Frameworks in Higher Education Academic Services |
Round table: Inclusion, Equity and Knowledge Visibility (chair: NN) Abhinya Gulasingam: Understanding of Women’s (In)Visibility in the Making of Medical Knowledge; Deepak: Public Spaces and Caste in Higher Education Institutions; Emine Baysoy: A Comparative Analysis of Educational Integration for Refugee Children in Türkiye |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Sanda Carancentev (American University of Moldowa): Speaking science, making policy: Comparative perspectives on the science-policy nexus in Moldova, Japan, and France |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Dorina Rosca (IEED, France): Crossing systems, connecting learners: International dynamics in teaching |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
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Round table: AI and Digital Higher Education (Chair: Erum Afzal) |
Round table: Inclusion, Equity and Knowledge Visibility (chair: NN) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break - Mensa |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
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Round table: Governance, Quality, and Research Assessment in Higher Education (Chair: Katharina Lohberger) Lika Zaalishvili: Quality of Higher Education in Small Post-Soviet States - Experience of Estonia, Georgia, and Moldova; Ruben Silva: Towards Responsible Research Metrics Implementation: Mapping Scientific and Policy Uptake; Tornike Bakakuri: The governance of transnational higher education within EHEA-aligned systems |
Round table: Student Mobility, Global Citizenship, and Intercultural Learning (Chair: Dominica Schepp) Rashmi Pal: Educational Experiences of Tibetan Students in Higher Education in India: An Exploratory Study; Tan Vu Nguyen: How Global Citizenship Education (GCE) can help explain and illustrate the boundary-spanning practices of international scientific organisations, using the case of the International Astronomical Union (IAU); Zexi Wang: Growth without Positional Gain: A detailed insight into the Sino-German Student Mobility Corridor through Stock and Flow, 2000–2024; Zhouer Li: Perceptions of Intercultural Communication and Sense of Belonging: Chinese International Students’ Experiences in German Higher Education |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
Tesfaye Kukem (University of Hawassa, Äthiopien): Civic education in Ethiopia |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Genevieve Gauthier (University of Ottawa, Kanada): From Vision to Reality: Understanding Governance Mechanisms in Curriculum-Making |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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15:30 – 16:30 |
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Round table: Governance, Quality, and Research Assessment in Higher Education (Chair: Katharina Lohberger) |
Round table: Teacher Education and Academic Agency (Chair: Wiebke Nierste)
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17:00 |
Social Event – Main Building University, Ludwigstraße |
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We - 30.09.2026 |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
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Round table: Higher Education and Social Change (Chair: Charlotte Kitzinger) Bethel Ugochukwu: Reimagining Higher Education, Research, and Innovation Systems in Nigeria: A Regional Cluster Approach to Knowledge Production and Development; Guillermo Zazueta: The repercussions of the commodification of education in contexts of violence. Higher education students in Sinaloa; Idris Olabode: University Education, Youth Expectation and the Shifting Landscape of Employment in Post-Colonial Nigeria, 1970-2007 |
Round table: Teacher Education and Academic Agency (Chair: Wiebke Nierste) Xiaoying Zhu: Postmodern Art Education Revisited in Chinese Art Education: A Dialogue with German Art Education; Xuewei Wang: Mentoring Competence as Transformative Knowledge Transfer: Finnish Teacher Educators Supporting Student Teachers’ Learning to Teach during Teaching Practicum; Yanfen Chen: Beyond Instrumental Qualification: A Sino-German Configurational Analysis of Teacher AI Agency through the Lens of Subjectification |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
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Round table: Higher Education and Social Change (Chair: Charlotte Kitzinger) |
Round table: Student Mobility, Global Citizenship, and Intercultural Learning (Chair: Dominica Schepp) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Nicoleta Popa (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Rumänien): Digital Citizenship in Higher Education |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Najoua Mohib (University of Strasbourg), Mamoru Ishida (Okayama University), Maddalena Cannito & Manuela Naldini (University of Torino): Rethinking Higher Education for Inclusive Transformation: Internationalization Challenges and Gender Equity in Comparative Perspective |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break - Mensa |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Keynote Hongjie Chen (Peking University/Ningbo University): Perspektivenwechsel: Chinas Blick auf deutsche Hochschulen |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
Christina Philipps (DAAD, Deutschland): Akademische Kooperationen mit China: aktuelle Entwicklungen und DAAD-Perspektiven |
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14:30 - 14:45 |
Foto Session, everyone is meeting in the Foyer |
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14:45 – 15:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
Policy meeting [on invitation] |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Feng Li (Normal University Shanghai, China): Different approaches and challenges in data-driven studies of PhD graduates' career trajectories |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Ji'an Liu & Yanru XU (University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China): Graduate education in the era of artificial intelligence: challenges and opportunities |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Shen Wenqin (Peking University, China) International Academic Mobility and the Rise of Chinese Universities: A History Since 1978 |
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19:00 |
Social Event - Dinner Restaurant Au Lac Gießen |
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Th - 01.10.2026 |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Guangcai Yan (East China Normal University): Exploration on the Strategy and Path for the Integrated Advancement of China's Higher Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Cultivation |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Edith Braun & Katharina Lohberger (Justus-Liebig University/GfHf): What contribution does higher education make to today’s society? - Benefits and risks of the discussion on ‘employability‘ and possible implications for university teaching |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Jianhua Wang (Nanjing Normal University): The dilemma and transformation of industrialized higher education system |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Uwe Wilkesmann (TU Dortmund/GfHf): Student expectations of on-campus and distance-learning programmes at private higher education institutions in Germany |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Tingzhu Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China): On the Construction of China’s Independent Knowledge System: Insights from Kweichow Moutai |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Eva Cendon (Fernuniversität Hagen) |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break - Mensa |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
Wei Bao (Xiaman University, China): Return Intentions of Chinese Researchers under Deglobalisation: Institutional Exclusion and Dual Institutional Embeddedness |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Michael Hölscher (University Speyer/GfHf): |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Hantian Wu (Zhejian University, China): Rethinking the voluntariness of academic return migration in times of crisis: the case of Chinese early career scientists |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Wen Wen (Tsinghua University, China): Knowledge Integration Mechanism of University‑Enterprise Collaborative Education — Practical Paths Based on the CORE Model |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Wenjuan Gao (Beihang University, China): Early Academic Careers in Transition: Tenure, Evaluation, and Scholar Development |
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Fr - 02.10.2026 |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Le Zhang (Tsinghua University, China): China-Germany and Germany-China Higher Education Collaboration in Geopolitical Perspective |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Daniel Höft (Marburg University): China-Competence Service-point (Central Hesse) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Charlotte Kitzinger (Justus-Liebig University): The Liberal-Arts and Sciences Study program at the JLU |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Erum Afzal (Justus-Liebig-University): The use of AI to develop a system that interacts with students in accordance with communication theory |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break – Mensa - Farewell |
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