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[2024] ECPR General Conference 2024 | Panel “Agri-Food Policy Responding to Crisis: Charting New Approaches”, University College Dublin

Prof. Dr. Colette Vogeler and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer co-chair the panel P030 “Agri-Food Policy Responding to Crisis: Charting New Approaches” at the ECPR General Conference 2024, University College Dublin, 12-15 August 2024.

Panel Abstract: This panel examines the transformation of agri-food policies in response to global crises such as climate change, geopolitical conflicts, and resource scarcity. It explores how established and novel governance approaches affect the resilience and sustainability of agri-food systems responding to crises, especially when they interact with established farm income support, other policy areas (water, energy, land, climate), and increasing political polarization. Discussions focus on adapting and transforming policy objectives, strategies, and instruments in the current crisis landscape confronting agri-food systems.

Further information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/14879

[2024] "Understanding European Farmer Protests and Interest Groups" | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar, 30 April 2024, 15:00-16:30

Further Information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2024] Talk on Agriculture and Land Use in Sustainability Policy, 1 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

The talk “Navigating the Dual Quality of Agriculture and Land Use in Sustainability Policy” held on 1 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 (CET) is part of the online-workshop “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Research of Food Systems”, co-organized by SDG^nexus Network, the section “Norms and Change in World Politics” of the Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business, Economics, and Law at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, and UNAL’s Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota.

[2023] Panel Discussion Participant | GGS-Nachhaltigkeitswerkstatt, 1 December 2023, 9:00-10:30

The panel discussion "How Can Interdisciplinary (Research) Projects on Sustainability Succeed?" (in English, hybrid) by PhD Jakob Lundgren, Prof. Dr. Stefan Wahlen and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer, moderated by Dr. Benjamin Bunk, takes place as part of the GGS-Nachhaltigkeitswerkstatt at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gustav-Krüger-Saal, Ludwigstraße 23, 35390 Gießen, 9:00-10:30

Further program information here:
https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/zentren/ggs/veranstaltungen/weitereva/ggs-nachhaltigkeitswerkstatt

[2023] TV Interview KlimaZeit/Tagesschau24 (in German) | 24 November 2024

In the interview with Thomas Ranft for KlimaZeit, the discussion focuses on challenges of implementing climate policy and societal participation.

Available for viewing ARD-Mediathek:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tagesschau24/klimazeit-ist-klimaneutraler-flugverkehr-ueberhaupt-moeglich/tagesschau24/Y3JpZDovL3RhZ2Vzc2NoYXUuZGUvOGFiZjg3MzctZmFkMy00MDI4LTgzMzYtNGQ3NzhjMjNjMDRl

[2023] "Removing Pesticides. Competing Alternatives for Changing Agriculture” (Special Issue Launch) | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar | 31 October 2023, 15:00-16:30

https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2023] Radio Interview WDR 5 Neugier genügt - das Feature (in German) | 21 September 2023

https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/neugier-genuegt/feature-hightech-nahrungsproduktion-100.html 

[2023] Research Topic in Frontiers in Political Science

The Guest Editors of the Research Topic "(De)Politicizing Climate and Environmental Politics in Times of Crises: Contexts, Strategies and Effects" in  Frontiers in Political Science, PD. Dr. Basil Bornemann, Prof. Dr. Antonia Graf, Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer, Dr. Jens Marquardt, Dr. Sabine Weiland and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer, are inviting Abstracts until 17 September 2023. For further information, please visit:

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/57731/depoliticizing-climate-and-environmental-politics-in-times-of-crises-contexts-strategies-and-effects

[2023] ECPR General Conference 2023 | Host of Conference Section S63

Dr. Gerry Kamp-Alons and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer are going to host section S63 "Understanding Post-Exceptionalism in Agri-Food Policy-Making: Sustainable Transformation and Policy Reform" at ECPR General Conference 2023, Charles University, Prague, 4-8 September 2023. Call for panels and papers open until 28 February 2023, further information:

https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1287

[2023] Radio Interview at Umweltmarkt Duisburg 2023 with Anna Hofmann (in German) | 3 June 2023

Umweltmarkt 2023 – 07 – Anna Hofmann & Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer – SUSKULT – Umweltmarkt 2023 | Podcast on Spotify

[2023] Food System Transformation in the City?" | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar | 15 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2023] Talk on regulatory conditions and challenges of nutrient recycling | Agrobusiness Niederrhein e.V (in German) | 14 June 2023



https://www.agrobusiness-niederrhein.de/aktuelles/presse/naerstoffrecycling-aus-abwassern

[2023] Interactive information stand "Your wastewater as a source for urban food production" | Environmental market Duisburg 2023, 3 June 2023




https://suskult.de/index.php/aktuelles/

https://www.duisburg.de/vv/produkte/pro_du/dez_vi/31/102010100000057434.php

[2023] Open Conference "Environmental and Climate Policy in Motion: Politicization, Mobilization and Transformation in Times of Crisis“ organized by the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association| Münster, 22-24 February 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS (in German) and further information here:

http://www.ak-umwelt.de/

[2023] Virtual Lecture and Dialogue on Agricultural Systems of the Future at the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen| 11 January 2023

Virtual discussion and talk given with Denise Gonglach on "The Joint Transdisciplinary Research Project SUSKULT: Sustainability Transformation and Agri-Food Technology Change” in the context of the virtual lecture series of the Institute of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen (12:00-14:00 CET).

[2022] “Food Security Policy and Governance: Insights from International Organizations and the Global South” | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar | 6 December 2022

The virtual seminar (15:30 - 17:00 CET) is organized by ECPR Food Policy and Governance Research Network with the speakers Prof. Matias E. Margulis (The University of British Columbia) and Dr. Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor (Ensign Global College), further information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2022] Interview with Agricultural Systems of the Future (AdZ) in the Context of #COP27 | 18 November 2022

Volkmar Keuter and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer talk about the SUSKULT-vision and climate resilient transformation (in German): Von einer Vision zur klimaresilienten Transformation

[2022] Speaker at the Bioeconomy Forum 2022 | 21 September 2022

Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer gives a talk on political regulation and agri-food technology innovation for alternative nutrient and protein sources at the Bioeconomy-Forum 2022, 21-22 September 2022, in the workshop "Sustainable food production in times of climate and energy crisis".

[2022] Inauguration of the SUSKULT demonstration plant | 13 September 2022

Press release (in German) here: https://suskult.de/index.php/aktuelles/

[2022] ECPR General Conference 2022 | Panel "Governing sustainability and technological change in food systems“

Prof. Dr. Colette Vogeler and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer co-chair the panel "Governing sustainability and technological change in food systems" at ECPR General Conference 2022, 22-26 August 2022, University Insbruck.

Panel Abstract: Agriculture and food systems are under constant pressure to adapt to changing environmental conditions, in particular related to the consequences of climate change, as well as to changing societal and consumers demands. The adaptation to both challenges requires the design of more sustainable agricultural practices and food systems. One pathway towards more sustainable food systems is the integration of new technologies and the exploitation of digitalization opportunities. Especially the latter are, however, not undisputed. The panel aims at deepening the understanding of how policymakers in different countries and under different conditions govern these transformation processes at the intersection of sustainability and technological change. Further information:

https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/11784

[2022] SUSKULT Young Talents Camp 2022 | 14 - 15 July 2022, Osnabrück

On 14 and 15 July 2022, Hochschule Osnabrück and Justus Liebig University Giessen co-hosted the first SUSKULT Young Talents Camp 2022 “E²c – exchange – enhance – create” which offered a platform for the inter- and transdisciplinary exchange of future research and development issues in the context of the joint SUSKULT project. Workshop report (in German) here:

https://suskult.de/index.php/aktuelles/

[2022] Speaker at the DGfP Annual Conference 2022 | 9 July 2022

Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer gives a talk on technology innovation and global sustainability politics at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Political Science (DGfP), 8-9 July 2022.

[2022] Speaker at re:publica 22 | 8-10 June 2022, Berlin

Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer speaks in the panel “Nutrient Cycle - The Food Loop” (in German) at re:publica 2022 “Any Way the Wind Blows” on 9 June 2022, Arena Berlin.



YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTtCn6sW5o

[2022] Interview with magazine natur 04/2022

Interview with Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer (in German), title „Es fehlt eine offene Diskussion“ [„An open discussion is lacking“], on democracy related aspects of open-air-testing of genetically modified mosquitoes in the US, magazine Natur 04/2022, p. 40.

[2022] Online-Lecture | 6 April 2022, 17:00-18:30 | Hochschule Augsburg

Denise Gonglach and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer give the online lecture on "Technology innovations and sustainable agricultural systems of the future" (in German) at Hochschule Augsburg on 6 April 2022 in the context of the lecture series "Aspects of sustainability and technology" (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rommel).

[2022] ECPR General Conference 2022 | Host of Conference Section S53

Prof. Dr. Carsten Daugbjerg and Sandra Schwindenhammer are going to host section S53 "The politics of sustainable transformation in agri-food policy: reform dynamics, resilience and post-exceptionalist modes of governance" at ECPR General Conference 2022, University of Innsbruck, 22-26 August 2022. Call for panels and papers open until 16 February 2022, further information:

https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1202

[2022] Special Issue Launch "Issue Politicization and Policy Change: Lesson Drawing from the Case of Agriculture-food Policy Process", Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA) | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar | 8 March 2022, 15:00-16:30 (CET)

The virtual launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA), Volume 23, Issue 5-6 (2021), https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcpa20/23/5-6 guest edited by Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun, Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt und Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer will comprise the following talks: "Politicization, Depoliticization and Policy Change: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective on Agri-food Policy" (Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun, Heidelberg University), "Politicization and Coalition Magnets in Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Reform in Nepal and Ecuador" (Puspa Sharma, Freelance Researcher, PhD, Nepal) and "Populism, Politicization and Policy Change in US and UK Agro-food Policies" (Prof. Dr. Adam Sheingate, Johns Hopkins University and Prof. Dr. Alan Greer, University of the West of England), further information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2022] Virtual Lecture at the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen| 9 February 2022

Virtual talk given with Denise Gonglach about "Agricultural systems of the future as a research field in Political Science" in the context of the virtual lecture series of the Institute of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen (12:00-14:00 CET).

[2021] Virtual Lecture on "Digital Sustainability Teaching" | 24 November 2021

Virtual talk given with Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier and Kartin Strobehn in the context of the initiative Gießener Offensive Lehrerbildung (GOL).

[2021] “Safe food and welfare for animals: EU food safety and animal welfare” | ECPR Virtual Food Governance Seminar | 16 November 2021

The virtual seminar (15:00 - 16:30 CET) is organized by ECPR Food Policy and Governance Research Network with the speakers Prof. Dr. Colette Vogeler (University of Speyer) und Dr. Giulia Bazzan (University of Copenhagen), further information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/162

[2021] Virtual Guest Lecture at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences on "Urban Agriculture and the Global Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development" | 12 November 2021

https://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/kontaktstudientage/#c12639378

[2021] Sandra Schwindenhammer re-elected Speaker of the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) | 13 September 2021

http://www.ak-umwelt.de/bericht-zu-den-ak-umwelt-aktivitaeten-auf-dem-28-dvpw-kongress-online/

[2021] DVPW Congress 2021 - Virtual Table  | 13 September 2021

Virtual table „It's a Match: Interdisciplinarity“ with Dr. Bastian Loges (TU Braunschweig)

[2021] Panel Chair | ECPR General Conference 2021| 31 August - 3 September 2021 

Panel P397 "Technology Change and New Modes of Agri-Food Governance" (with Dr. Colette Vogeler)

https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/10663

[2021] Newspaper Interview with Frankfurter Rundschau | 20 August 2021

Newspaper Interview with Stefan Guggenberger "Wege aus der Wasserkrise: Das Gemüsebeet neben der Kläranlage?" [Ways out of the Water Crisis: Cultivating Vegetables next to a Treatment Plant"] (in German):

https://www.fr.de/zukunft/storys/ernaehrung/wege-aus-der-wasserkrise-das-gemuesebeet-neben-der-klaeranlage-hypowave-90933882.html

[2021] Panel Chair | 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5) | 5 - 9 Juli 2021

Panel T02P05 "Post-Exceptionalism and Nexus Governance in Food and Agricultural Policy" (with Gerry Alons und Prof. Dr. Carsten Daugbjerg)

https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp5-barcelona-2021/panel-list/13/panel/post-exceptionalism-and-nexus-governance-in-food-and-agricultural-policy/1039

[2020] ECPR General Conference 2020 (24-28 August 2020) | Section and Panel Chair

At ECPR General Conference 2020 (virtual event) Sandra Schwindenhammer chairs section S45 "Nexus Governance and Policy Inter-Linkages in Food and Agricultural Governance" with Gerard Breemann and panel P246 "New Approaches to Inter-Institutional Agri-Food Policymaking: Assessing Policy Integration and Policy Design Through Innovative Research Methods" on 27 August 2020, see also academic programme:

https://ecpr.eu/Events/AcademicProgramme/SectionList/156

[2020] Article published on Website of the Science Year 2020|2021 – Bioeconomy

https://www.wissenschaftsjahr.de/2020-21/aktuelles-aus-der-biooekonomie/koepfe-des-wandels/demokratieprojekt-biooekonomie

[2020] Nomination for Makeathon for German Sustainability Award 2020

Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer, co-principal investigator for the project SUSKULT, is nominated for participation in the Makeathon for the 9^th German Sustainability Award 2020. On 18 and 19 June 2020, several interdisciplinary teams of experts will accelerate innovative ideas on the urban bioeconomy in a digital Makeathon. Three outstanding ideas will be presented to the public in September 2020. The winner idea is selected in a public voting and will be awarded on the German Sustainability Day (3 and 4 December 2020).

Further Information:

Press release (in German):
https://www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-medien/pressemitteilungen/2020/deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis-suskult.html

German Sustainability Award 2020: https://www.nachhaltigkeitspreis.de/forschung/

Project SUSKULT: https://suskult.de/

[2020] Poster Presentation | 3rd Faculty Research Day

On 22 January 2020, Denise Gonglach and Sandra Schwindenhammer give a poster presentation about SUSKULT Subproject F at the 3rd Faculty 03 Research Day at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

[2020] Open Conference "The Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Concept, Development and Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals“ organized by the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association, Schader-Forum, Darmstadt,  5-6 May 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS (in German): http://www.ak-umwelt.de/offene-tagung-des-ak-umwelt-zum-thema-die-nachhaltigkeitsagenda-der-vereinten-nationen-konzept-entstehung-und-wirkung-der-sustainable-development-goals-call-for-papers/

[2019] Workshop "Sustainablity and Politics in Academic Teaching", organized by the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association and Prof. Dr. Michael Böcher, University Magdeburg, 14-15 November 2019

CALL (in German): http://www.ak-umwelt.de/workshop-nachhaltigkeit-und-politik-in-der-lehre/

[2019] Kick-Off-Conference BMBF Collaborative Research Project SUSKULT, 10.5.2019, Oberhausen

Press release, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, 14.5.2019 (in German):

https://www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-medien/pressemitteilungen/2019/suskult.html

[2019] Funding for Collaborative Research Project SUSKULT (Subproject F) by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Duration: 2019-2022, Funding Amount: 623.380,80 €)

The project will be conducted at the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, led by Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer.

[2019] ICPA-Forum and JCPA Workshop "Issue Politicization and Policy Change: Lesson Drawing from the Case of Agriculture-Food Policy Process", Heidelberg University, 7-9 March 2019

[2019] Panel | Trilateral Conference 2019 "THE END OF THE WEST? LIBERAL ORDERS UNDER PRESSURE" DVPW, ÖGPW, SVPW
Klaus Dingwerth and I are co-organizing the panel "Whose Future Do We Want and How? Norm and Standard Development, Contestation, and Implementation in Global Sustainability Politics" at the Trilateral Conference 2019 of the DVPW, ÖGPW und SVPW, 14 - 16 Februar 2019, ETH Zurich. (Congress Program here)

[2018] Speaker of the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
At the 27^th Congress „Frontiers of Democracy“ of the German Political Science Association in Frankfurt, 25 - 28 September 2018, Sandra Schwindenhammer has been elected as new Speaker of the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" togehter with Thomas Hickmann, Markus Lederer, Jens Marquardt and Sabine Weiland. 

[2018] Panel “Normative Divides in Post-Exceptionalist Agri-Food Governance“ | ECPR General Conference 2018
Peter Feindt and I are co-organizing the panel "Normative Divides in Post-Exceptionalist Agri-Food Governance (P 295)" at ECPR General Conference 2018, Hamburg, 22 - 25 August 2018.

[2018] Panel "Food Democracy" | 27th Congress of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) 
Peter Feindt, Jale Tosun and I are co-organizing the panel „Food Democracy. Die Repolitisierung eines Politikfelds“ at the 27^th Congress „Frontiers of Democracy“ of the German Political Science Association (GPSA), 25 - 28 September 2018, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (Congress Program here).

[2017] Wolfgang-Mittermaier-Prize 2017 for Outstanding Performance in Academic Teaching | Price Money: 1.000 €

On 24 November 2017 I was awarded with the Wolfgang-Mittermaier-Prize for outstanding performance in academic teaching at the official Academic Ceremony of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. The Wolfgang-Mittermaier-Prize is sponsored by the Erwin-Stein-Foundation.


I am grateful to the president of Justus-Liebig-University, the members of the advisory board, the Erwin-Stein-Foundation, and my students for this very special recognition of my academic teaching.

[2017] Funding for Research Project by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Duration: Spring 2017-2020, Funding Amount: 632.626,80 €)
The research project “The Transformation Potential of Inter-institutional Arrangements and the Norm of Sustainability in the Global Regime Complex for Food” (TANNRE) analyses the normative foundations of the global regime complex for food. It focusses on the conditions and regulatory mechanisms for solving fundamental norm conflicts between the norms of food security, food sovereignty, and especially sustainability. The project will be conducted at the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, led by Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier and Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer together with three Research Assistants.

[2017] Public Lecture at the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Sandra Schwindenhammer talks about "How to Feed the World? World Food Politics Between Food Security and Sustainability", 11/01/2017, 12 pm, Philosophicum II, Room B 30

[2016] Public Lecture at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge
Sandra Schwindenhammer talks about "Why Germany Chooses Organic Agriculture?", 01/12/2016, 6 pm, room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge

[2016] Discussion about the Future of the European Union, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin
Sandra Schwindenhammer comments on Dr. Neil McGarvey "Scotland, the UK and the EU Ever Looser Unions?", Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde,  06/29/2016, 6 pm, Mohrenstraße 60, Berlin, Poster

[2016] Public Lecture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin
Sandra Schwindenhammer talks about "Sustainability in Global Agriculture Governance – Contrasting Organic Agriculture and GMO", 05/12/2016, 4 pm, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Main Building, Room 10/72, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin

[2016] Online-Newspaper Article about Individualization and the Privatization of Security, The Huffington Post Germany, 03/22/2016, „Wir finden uns im permanenten Zustand der Selbstverteidigung“

[2016] Poster Exhibition of the Project Seminar "Foreign Policy Analysis I+II", Humboldt-University of Berlin, 02/08/2016

[2015] Public Lecture at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge Sandra Schwindenhammer talks about "Global Organic Agriculture Governance", 10/26/2015, 6 pm, room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge

[2015] Public Lecture at the Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
Sandra Schindenhammer talks about "Transnational Corporations - From Problem Causers to Problem Solvers?", 06/17/2017, 4 pm, Wuppertal

[2015] Interview with Zeitjung.de on World Politics and Sustainable Consumption (in German), Berlin, 05/28/2015, "Phänomen Lohas: Hipster der Nachhaltigkeit", http://zeitjung.de/lohas-lifestyle-nachhaltigkeit/

[2014] Poster Exhibition about Case Studies in Global Environmental Politics, Initiative in the Context of the Germany Sustainability Action Days 2014


Homepage German Sustainability Action Days 2014

[2013] Newspaper Interview (in German) on World Food Politics, FernUni Perspektive, No. 43, Spring 2013, p. 8, FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Article here 

[2012] Radio Interview (in German) with Deutschlandradio Wissen (DRadio Wissen) on the Limits to Growth Revisited, 12/03/2012, Cologne, (Podcast here)

[2012] Research Grant by the Volkswagen Foundation for the Winter School "Limits to Growth Revisited", Visselhövede and Hanover, 11/24/2012-12/01/2012

[2012] Lecture (in German) on Online Teaching Tools and Methods at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, 10/26/2012, mp3 here

[2012] Radio Interview (in German) with 107.7 Radio Hagen on World Food Politics and Fair Trade, Hagen, 04/20/2012