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an der Professur für Internationale Beziehungen

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Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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Im Wintersemester 2019/2020 vertritt Janne Mende die Professur für Transnationales Regieren an der TU Darmstadt.
In the winter term 2019/2020, Janne Mende is the deputy professor for Transnational Governance at TU Darmstadt.

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Marcel Frentzel

Leonie Kothe

Profile

Profile

Janne Mende is a senior researcher at the University of Giessen, where she leads her DFG-funded research project about “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime”. Prior to that, she was holding a visiting fellowship at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, and she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Globalization & Politics at the University of Kassel. In the winter term 2019/20, she has been holding the deputy professorship for Transnational Governance at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Besides business responsibility for human rights and its meaning for authority, power, legitimacy, and notions of public and private, her current research focuses on methods of qualitative data analysis in the United Nations and other international institutions.

Her habilitation thesis was dedicated to the transformations resulting from the challenging constellation between global governance and human rights. In her PhD thesis, she analyzed liberal and communitarian approaches to collective rights, discussing the chances and challenges of indigenous human rights to culture and identity in the United Nations. A previous study on universalism, cultural relativism and female genital mutilation/cutting was published in 2011.

Over the past years, Janne Mende has held visiting positions at the MPIL – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2019), the School of Global Studies in Gothenburg (2019), the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen (2018), the WZB – Berlin Social Science Center, Research Unit Global Governance (2018), the Research Centre Human Rights at the University of Vienna (2015), the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham (2014) and the New School for Social Research in New York (2012).

She is spokesperson of the GGS section “Norms and Changes in Global Politics”, member of the Research Group Migration and Human Rights, and the DVPW section International Relations, among others.

Research Areas

Human Rights

Global Governance and Transnationalization

International Institutions

United Nations

Business and Human Rights

Corporate Social Responsibility

Non-State Actors

Authority, Legitimacy and Power

Qualitative Research in International Organizations

Transnational Democracy

International Political Theory

Theories of International Relations

Culture, Identity and Cultural Rights

Current Memberships

Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW

Sektion Internationale Beziehungen

Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte

Arbeitskreis Soziologie der Internationalen Beziehungen

Arbeitskreis Menschenrechte

Forschungskreis Vereinte Nationen, Menschenrechtszentrum der Universität Potsdam

Arbeitskreis „UN-Reform“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen (DGVN)

GGS-Sektion „Normen und Wandel in der Weltpolitik“, Universität Gießen (Sprecherin)

Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association (BR2R)

ECPR-Standing „Group International Political Theory“, European Consortium for Social Research (ECPR)

Forschungsgruppe Migration und Menschenrechte, Universität Gießen

Working Group „International Relations as a Social Science“, British International Studies Association (BISA)

Project

Project: Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime

Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 398306144.

Project summary:
The rise of private actors, their relevance, power and legitimacy in global governance challenges the human rights regime and the relations between public and private spheres alike.
The study uses the United Nations human rights regime in order to discuss the role of business actors in global governance from an International Political Theory perspective. It develops an interdependent triad between a) responsibility for human rights, b) legitimacy, and c) power. On this basis, first, the study develops the role of business as societal actors that can neither be defined as merely private nor public, thereby transcending the classic two-pole constellation between public and private. Second, the study introduces the concept of complementary responsibility and discusses how it can strengthen the human rights regime, preventing its transformation into a privatized regime.
The Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIWG) in the United Nations Human Rights Council aims at the development of a legally binding human rights treaty for business companies. Thus, it provides a state-of-the-art case for an empirical contribution to the conceptual discussion. First, it challenges the mainly soft law frame of private governance and the private role of business. Second, it transforms the classic dichotomy between public and private in international law. Third, it contributes to the expansion of power and legitimacy of business actors in global governance – its controversial status and its open outcome notwithstanding.
With an explanatory qualitative content analysis of the discussions in the OEIWG, the project will provide insights into a highly politicized and relevant process in the United Nations. The study aims to provide conceptual as well as normative criteria for determining the changing scope, content and interdependence of power, legitimacy and human rights responsibility of business actors, their societal role in global governance and their impact on the human rights regime.

Unternehmen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit: Autorität, Legitimität und Verantwortung im Menschenrechtsregime der Vereinten Nationen

Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 398306144.

Projektbeschreibung:
Die wachsende Bedeutung privater Akteure, ihre Relevanz, Macht und Legitimität in der Global Governance fordern das Menschenrechtsregime und die ihm zugrunde liegende Konstellation zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre heraus. Das vorliegende Projekt rekurriert auf das Menschenrechtsregime der Vereinten Nationen, um die Rolle von Wirtschaftsunternehmen in der Global Governance aus der Perspektive internationaler politischer Theorie zu diskutieren. Das Projekt entwickelt dafür das Konzept einer interdependenten Triade zwischen a) Menschenrechtsverantwortung, b) Legitimität und c) Macht. Auf dieser Grundlage wird, erstens, die These von Unternehmen als gesellschaftlichen Akteuren diskutierbar, da sie sich weder als rein private noch als öffentliche Akteure definieren lassen und somit die zwei-polige Konstellation zwischen privat und öffentlich überschreiten. Zweitens wird das Konzept einer komplementären Menschenrechtsverantwortung entwickelt und analysiert, inwiefern es einer möglichen Privatisierung des Menschenrechtsregimes vorbeugen kann.Eine empirische Fallstudie, die die skizzierten konzeptuellen Diskussionen prüfen und weiterentwickeln kann, bieten die aktuellen Kontroversen in der Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIWG) des UN-Menschenrechtsrats, die das Ziel eines völkerrechtlich verbindlichen Menschenrechtsvertrags für Unternehmen verfolgt. Erstens fordert sie den weitestgehend weichen und auf Freiwilligkeit beruhenden Charakter privater Governance und der privaten Rolle von Unternehmen heraus. Zweitens verändert sie die für das Völkerrecht charakteristische Dichotomie zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit. Drittens trägt sie zu einer Ausweitung und gleichzeitigen Regulierung unternehmerischer Macht und Legitimität in der Global Governance bei.Das vorliegende Projekt wird mit einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse der Prozesse innerhalb der OEIWG die erste systematische Analyse dieses vielschichtigen, hoch politisierten und relevanten Vorhabens in den Vereinten Nationen bereitstellen. Ziel ist es, sowohl die divergierenden Konzepte als auch ihre normative Kriterien zu erarbeiten, um die sich wandelnden Formen und Interdependenzen zwischen Macht, Legitimität und Menschenrechtsverantwortung zu erfassen, die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Unternehmen in der Global Governance zu charakterisieren und deren Einfluss auf das Menschenrechtsregime zu bestimmen.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae: Academic Degrees

07/2018: Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Political Science, University of Kassel

05/2014: Dr. rer. soc. in Political Science, University of Giessen

05/2010: Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology, Free University Berlin

Academic Work Experience and Positions

10/2019-03/2020

Deputy Professor for Transnational Governance, Technical University of Darmstadt

08-09/2019

Visiting Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Goteborg

04-06/2019

Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

08-09/2018

Visiting Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen

Since 06/2018

Project Leader of the Research Project: “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 398306144, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

03-05/2018

Visiting Researcher at the WZB, Research Unit Global Governance

09/2017-03/2018

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bamberg

09-10/2015

Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre Human Rights, University of Vienna

2014-2017

Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Center for Development and Decent Work and the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel

09-10/2014

Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

2013-2014

Lecturer in the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel

05/2012

Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research

2010-2013

PhD candidate in Political Science at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. PhD thesis: “A Human Right to Culture and Identity. The Ambivalence of Group Rights”

2006-2010

Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology at Free University Berlin

Publications

Publications: PDF versions of selected articles are available upon request (janne.mende@sowi.uni-giessen.de).

Blogs and Media

Blog post: Mende, Janne (2019): Plagiate – die frühe Rolle der Universitäten, Theorieblog, April 2019, Full Text

Blog post: Mende, Janne (2018): Which Business? Controversies about the Scope of Application of a Future Treaty on Business and Human Rights, Völkerrechtsblog, Juli 2018, doi: 10.17176/20180730-093114-0, Full Text

Blog post: Mende, Janne (2018): A New Responsibility in the Making: Business Companies and Human Rights. WZB blog: Orders beyond Borders, May 2018, Full Text

Interviews on the topic of female genital mutilation/cutting for:
Radio: Leonardo, WDR 5 (11.03.2016)
Print: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (31.05.2013)
Blog: www.antropologi.info (25.09.2011)

Articles and Book Chapters

Mende, Janne (2020): Public, Private and Societal: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Human Rights Responsibility, in: Michael Stohl/Alison Brysk (Hrsg.): Research Agendas for Human Rights, Northampton/Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub. (forthcoming in 2020)

Mende, Janne (2020): Business Enterprises and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Hybrid Approach, in: Philani Mthembu/Miguelángel Verde Garrido/Adam S. Wilkins (ed.): The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (forthcoming)

Mende, Janne (2020): Unternehmen als gesellschaftliche Akteure: Die unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre, in: Nikolaus Goldbach/Franziska Paulmann/Julia Druschel/Carolina Alves Vestena (ed.): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Soziale Menschenrechte, Baden-Baden: Nomos (Reprint, forthcoming)

Mende, Janne (2020): Global Governance, in: Scott N. Romaniuk/Manish Thapa (ed.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-319-74319-6. Details

Mende, Janne (2020): From Exploration to Explanation. Researching the United Nations and other International Institutions, in: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law Research Paper Series, no. 2020-02. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3526756. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2019): Are Human Rights Western – And Why Does it Matter? A Perspective from International Political Theory, in: Journal of International Political Theory, online first (peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1177/1755088219832992. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2019): Accountability for Supply Chains in the Frame of Human Rights, Paper for the Workshop: “Responsibility and Accountability of Supply Chains”, University of Kassel, 14.-15.3.2019

Mende, Janne (2019): The Concept of Modern Slavery: Definition, Critique, and the Human Rights Frame, in: Human Rights Review 20(2), pp. 229-248 (peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1007/s12142-018-0538-y. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2018): Indigene Menschenrechte: Universalismus oder Indigenität?, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/indigene-menschenrechte-universalismus-oder-indigenitaet

Mende, Janne (2018): The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in: Arbeitskreis Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert der Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung (ed.): Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte, https://www.geschichte-menschenrechte.de/business-human-rights/

Mende, Janne (2018): Normative and Contextual Feminism: Lessons from the Debate around Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, in: Gender Forum, An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 17(68), pp. 47-69. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2017): Unternehmen als gesellschaftliche Akteure: Die unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre, in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 22(1), pp. 5-17. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2017): Privatisierung oder Diffusion von Verantwortung? Die Entwicklung wirtschaftlicher Verantwortung für Menschenrechte, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Special Issue 52: Politik und Verantwortung, ed. by Christopher Daase/Valentin Rauer/Stefan Kroll/Julian Junk, pp. 409-435 (peer-reviewed). ISBN 978-3-8487-3083-4. Details

Mende, Janne (2016): Die Bedeutung und Legitimität nichtstaatlicher Akteure im Menschenrecht, in: Kritische Justiz, Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 49(4), pp. 2-9. DOI 10.5771/0023-4834-2016-4-431. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2016): Global Governance und libertärer Paternalismus: Akteure, Normativität und Legitimität, in: Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie 3(1), pp. 557-596 (peer reviewed). DOI 10.22613/zfpp/3.1.16. Full Text

Mende, Janne (2016): Öffentlicher Menschenrechtsschutz, privater Menschenrechtsbruch. Alte und neue Antagonismen in Zeiten der Globalisierung und Global Governance, in: Korte, Karl-Rudolf (ed.): Politik in unsicheren Zeiten: Kriege, Krisen und neue Antagonismen. Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (DGfP), Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 278-292, ISBN 978-3-848-73300-2. Details

Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (2016): Weder getrennt noch eins. Identität, Differenz und die Frage der Freiheit, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.) (2016): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa , pp. 7-28. ISBN 978-3-7799-3413-4. Details

Menke, Christoph with Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (2016): Vom Glücken der Freiheit. Ein Gespräch über Kritik und Versöhnung, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 29-63. Details

Sonderegger, Ruth with Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (2016): Beweglichkeitsanalysen. Ein Gespräch über Übungen und Entübungen von Identität und Differenz, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 221-243. Details

Mende, Janne (2016): Moderne Sklaverei. Unschärfen eines Begriffs, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 61(9), pp. 33-36. Details

Mende, Janne (2016): Collective Identity, in: Tiedemann, Paul (ed.): Right to Identity. Beiheft des Archivs für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 129-150, ISBN 978-3-515-11244-4. Details

Mende, Janne (2016): Kulturelle Identität und Politik, in: De La Rosa, Sybille/Schubert, Sophia/Zapf, Holger (ed.): Transkulturelle Politische Theorie. Eine Einführung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 43-62. ISBN 978-3-658-05009-2. Details

Mende, Janne (2015): Privatheit und Global Governance in der Internationalen Politischen Theorie, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 6(2), pp. 207-222 (peer-reviewed). Full Text

Mende, Janne (2015): The Imperative of Indigeneity: Indigenous Human Rights and their Limits, in: Human Rights Review 16(3), pp. 221-238 (peer-reviewed). DOI 10.1007/s12142-015-0371-5. Details

Mende, Janne (2014): Die Privatheit der Privatsphäre, in: Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie 20(38/39), pp. 230-234

Mende, Janne (2013): Die Ordnung der Moral, in: Erwägen Wissen Ethik, Forum für Erwägungskultur 24(2), pp. 271-274. Details

Mende, Janne (2013): Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny, in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 389-392. ISBN 978-3-658-03474-0. Details

Mende, Janne (2013): Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture, in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 116-120. ISBN 978-3-658-03474-0. Details

Mende, Janne (2013): Der Doppelcharakter von Kritik. Zur Konstellation immanenter und transzendenter Kritik, in: Müller, Stefan (ed.): Jenseits der Dichotomie. Elemente einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorie des Widerspruchs, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 157-179. ISBN 978-3-658-02270-9. Details

Mende, Janne (2012): Normativität und Relationen im transkulturellen Vergleich, in: Zapf, Holger (ed.): Nichtwestliches politisches Denken. Zwischen kultureller Differenz und Hybridisierung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 47-63. ISBN 978-3-658-00555-9. Details

Mende, Janne (2011): Kultur, Volk und „Rasse“. Die deutsche Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung, in: Anthropos, International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics, 106(2), pp. 529-545 (peer reviewed). Details

Mende, Janne (2009): Let's change the World? Bedingungen für eine kritisch-emanzipatorische politische Bildung, in: Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 112-134. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details

Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (2009): Einleitung, in: Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 5-17. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details

Books

Mende, Janne: Der Universalismus der Menschenrechte, Lehrbuch, Stuttgart: utb (scheduled for spring 2021)

Mende, Janne: Global Governance und Menschenrechte: Konstellationen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit (series: Internationale Politische Theorie, ed. by Christian Volk, Thorsten Thiel), Baden-Baden: Nomos (scheduled for winter 2020)

Mende, Janne (2016): A Human Right to Culture and Identity? The Ambivalence of Group Rights, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 9781783486786. Details

Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Mende, Janne (2015): Kultur als Menschenrecht? Ambivalenzen kollektiver Rechtsforderungen, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-50315-8. Details

Reviewed in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, Kult Online

Mende, Janne (2011): Begründungsmuster weiblicher Genitalverstümmelung. Zur Vermittlung von Kulturrelativismus und Universalismus, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-837-61911-9. Details

Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, querelles-net, socialnet, Literaturkritik.de among others.

Edited Volumes

Finzsch, Norbert/Hulverscheidt, Marion/Mende, Janne/Oeming, Madita/Frederikson, Bodil (2018): Special Issue: On Clitoridectomy, in: Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 17 (68). Full Text

Special Issue (2016): Menschenrechte, nichtstaatliche Akteure und Legitimität, in: Kritische Justiz, Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 49(4). Details

Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.) (2016): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. ISBN 978-3-7799-3413-4. Details

Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.) (2009): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details

Reviews

Mende, Janne (2018): Review of: Kathryn Sikkink: Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21^st Century, Princeton 2017, in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 12(1), 160-163

Mende, Janne (2013): Review of: Leah Bassel: Refugee Woman. Beyond Gender versus Culture, London/New York 2012, in: St Antony’s International Review 9(1), 195-196

Mende, Janne (2010): Der Blick der Emanzipation. Review of: Bernhard Heininger (ed.): Ehrenmord und Emanzipation. Die Geschlechterfrage in Ritualen von Parallelgesellschaften, Hamburg et al. 2009, in: querelles-net, 11(3). Online

Mende, Janne (2009): Von Kritik und Vernunft. Review of: Brigitte Geißel, Alexandra Manske (ed.): Kritische Vernunft für demokratische Transformationen. Festschrift für Christine Kulke, Opladen 2008, in: querelles-net, 10(3). Online

Mende, Janne (2009): Der lange Kampf um Frauen- und Menschenrechte in Kenia. Review of: Sonja Wölte: International national lokal. FrauenMenschenrechte und Frauenbewegung in Kenia, Königstein im Taunus 2008, in: querelles-net, 10(1). Online

Talks

Talks: Selected Talks (in English and German):

Business Responsibilities for Human Rights. Transcending Dichotomies, ISA/ECPR/APSA Joint Conference: Human Rights and Foreign Policy, London, 22.-24.6.2020

Contestations and Authorities in the UN Treaty Process, International Workshop: The UN Guiding Principles and the Future of Business and Human Rights Regulation, Forum for the Study of the Global Condition, University of Halle, 13.2.2020

Simply Complex? The Social Facilitation of Political Sciences, DVPW Thematic Conference: How Relevant are the Political Sciences?, University of Frankfurt, 12.-14.12.2019 (together with Stefan Müller)

Contestation, Crisis, and Resilience in Business and Human Rights, Workshop: The End of International Public Authority? Contestation, Crisis, and Resilience in International Institutions, organized by Armin von Bogdandy, Matthias Goldmann, Silvia Steininger, MPI Heidelberg, 28.-29.11.2019

Responsibility for Supply Chains in the Global Frame of Human Rights, Research Workshop on Business and Human Rights, University of Geneva, 23.-24.11.2019

Expert Interviews in International Organizations, Workshop: Ethics and Empirical Methods: Current Challenges in IR Research, DVPW Section International Relations, organized by Anja Jakobi and Katharina Mann, TU Braunschweig, 9.-10.10.2019

Authority in Global Governance and Business Actors: Power, Legitimacy and Common Interests, Peace and Development Lecture Series, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, 26.9.2019

Private Authority and Business Responsibility for Human Rights: The Triad between Responsibility, Power, and Legitimacy, lecture series MPIL Agora, MPIL Heidelberg, 22.5.2019

Business Companies: Challenge or Chance for Social Human Rights?, Conference of the Graduate School Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 11.-12.4.2019

Accountability for Supply Chains in the Frame of Human Rights, Workshop „Responsibility and Accountability of Supply Chains“, University of Kassel, 14.-15.3.2019

Public, Private and Societal: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Human Rights Responsibility, Workshop: Research Agendas for Human Rights, organized by Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl, University of California Santa Barbara, 18.-19.1.2019

Cultural identity as Human Right? Indigeneity as Imperative, conference: Human Rights and Culture, Schader Foundation and DVPW working group Human Rights, Darmstadt, 14.12.2018

Human Rights in the 21st Century. Challenges and Chances, lecture series, Institute for Political Science, University of Giessen, 5.12.2018

Explanation and Interpretation: Researching International Organizations with an Explanatory Qualitative Content Analysis, Workshop: Researching International Organizations Empirically, GGS-Section Norms and Change in World Politics, University of Giessen, 15.11.2018

From Exploration to Interpretation and One Step Further: Qualitative Content Analysis in International Institutions, Workshop: Sociology in International Relations, DVPW-Working Group Sociologies in International Relations, PRIF Frankfurt, 26.10.2018

Is the Institutionalization of Human Rights ‘Western’?, DVPW general conference, University of Frankfurt, 25.-28.9.2018

Legitimacy, Power, and Responsibility: Business and Human Rights, DVPW general conference, University of Frankfurt, 25.-28.9.2018

Researching the UN Qualitatively: From Exploration to Explanation, Workshop “Researching the United Nations and Other International Organizations: Rethinking Methods of Investigation”, University of Geneva, 18.-20.6.2018

Companies as Societal Actors and the Reconfiguration between Public and Private, workshop: Companies as Political Actors, TU Dortmund, 12.-13.1.2018

Indigenous Human Rights: Promise and Perils, lecture at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 14.10.12.2018

Business Responsibility for Human Rights. Developments and Challenges, lecture series, Graduate School for Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 30.11.2017

Normative and Contextual Feminism: Insights from the Debate around FGM/FGC, annual conference DVPW working group Politics and Gender, University of Duisburg-Essen, 10.11.2017

Global Governance, Legitimacy and Human Rights Responsibility of Non-State Actors, conference DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017

Individual or Cultural Human Rights? Indigeneity as Imperative, conference DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017

Political Human Rights between Public and Private, workshop: The Diversity of Human Rights: Political Human Rights under Pressure, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, 3.-8.9.2017

Corporate Social Responsibility for Social Human Rights?, workshop: Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 29.6.-1.7.2017

Are Human Rights Western?, workshop: Human Rights as Political-Historical Topos, DVPW working group Human Rights, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt, 16.12.2016

Human Rights: Challenges in the 21^st Century, lecture series: Conflicts in Present and Future, Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg, 21.11.2016

Being Normal – Being Different? Challenges for Gender and Diversity Awareness in Integration Policies, lecture series: Gendered Perspectives on Asylum and Refuge, Centre for Gender and Women Studies, University of Leipzig, 18.11.2016

Business and Human Rights: Chances and Challenges, Programme for the Study of International Governance’s Public Seminar Series, Graduate Institute Geneva, 27.10.2016, chaired by Thomas Biersteker

Limits and Contradictions in the Privatization of Responsibility: Human Rights and Transnational Companies, conference: Politics and Responsibility. Analyzing the Transformations of Decision-Making and Reasoning, Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, University of Frankfurt, 10.-12.2.2016

Migration or Trafficking? Global Perspectives, DVPW general conference, University of Duisburg-Essen, 21.-25.9.2015

Public Protection and Private Violations of Human Rights: New Antagonisms, DGfP annual conference, Akademie Wolfsburg, 13.-14.7.2015

Modern Slavery and Freedom, lecture series, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 8.7.2015

Indigenous Rights in the United Nations, conference: The UN at 70: Guaranteeing Security and Justice, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the International Institute for Social Studies, Den Haag, 11.-13.6.2015

The Meaning of Private Authority for Human Rights, conference: Authorities in Conflict, Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg, 29.-31.10.2014

Indigenous Rights as Human Rights?, lecture series, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, 29.9.201

Indigeneity in Global Rights Language, World International Studies Committee (WISC) conference, University of Frankfurt, 6.-9.8.2014

Human Rights Violations and the Doubling of the Private Sphere, conference: Human Rights in Conflict, DVPW working group Human Rights, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt, 18.7.2014

Ambivalences of Identity, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux, 4.-7.9.2013

Universal and Local Human Rights, conference: Human Rights Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association, London School of Economics, 24.11.2012

Female Empowerment in the Democratization of Indigenous Minorities, DVPW conference, University of Tübingen, 24.-28.9.2012

How Relative is Cultural Relativism? How Universal is Universalism? Mediated Perspectives on FGM/FGC, lecture series: Philosophical Colloquium, University of Oldenburg, 7.11.2011

Are Ideas Relative? The Question of Relativism and Relations, founding conference of the DVPW thematic group Transcultural Comparative Political Theory, University of Göttingen, 16.-17.9.2011

Rationals of FGM/FGC between Cultural Relativism and Universalism, conference: Norms in Conflict, Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, University of Frankfurt, 3.-5.12.2010

Teaching

Teaching: Master’s-level courses:

Die Legitimität internationaler Organisationen

Die Europäische Union: Institutionen, Demokratie und Souveränität

Demokratie in der Global Governance

Business Responsibilities for Human Rights

Business and human rights: Opportunities and challenges

UN and ILO: Governance and human rights

Power, rule and authority in times of globalization

Introduction to globalization

Agency in inter- and transnational institutions - Issues of global governance

Transnational non-state actors and human rights: Theories and evidence

Internationale Organisationen: Politikfelder und Entscheidungsprozesse

Indigenous rights and wrongs

Gender und Ethnizität in der Transitional Justice

Indigenität in lokaler und globaler Perspektive

Bachelor’s-level courses:

Die Entstehung transnationaler Normen

Internationale politische Theorie

Global Governance: Ordnung oder Fairness?

Transnationale Rechte: Schutz, Verletzung und Verantwortung

Individuum, Gesellschaft und Gruppe als politikwissenschaftliche Konzepte

Einführung in die Transitional Justice

Menschenrechte: International, transnational, lokal

Internationale Menschenrechte: Dimensionen, Kritiken und Begründungen

Menschenrechte: Universell und unteilbar?

Propädeutikum: Einführung in politikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Politische Erwachsenenbildung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

PhD-level courses:

Collaborative Work on Edited Volumes (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Universiy of Giessen)

Core Course and Advanced Course for PhD Students in the Social Sciences (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen)

Perspektiven auf unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte: Freiwilligkeit oder Gesetz? (Kolleg Soziale Menschenrechte, University of Kassel)

How to Write a Research Paper (Graduate School of Socio-Ecological Research for Development, University of Kassel)

Conferences

Conferences: Selected Organized Conferences and Panels

Workshops and Conferences:

“Beyond Western Liberalism: Mapping Blind Spots in IR Norm Research”, GGS annual conference, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 2.-3.12.2019 (in cooperation with DVPW thematic group “IR Norms Research”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Political Science University of Duisburg-Essen, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Keynote: Jeffrey T. Checkel

“Mediation in the Sociology of International Relations”, annual conference of the DVPW working group “Sociologies in International Relations”, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 14.-15.11.2019 (with Frank Gadinger and Nele Kortendiek)

“Researching International Organizations Empirically”, workshop of the section “Norms and Changes in World Politics”, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 15.11.2018, Keynote: Cecilia Cannon

“Research Network Decent Work in Global Agricultural Production Systems. Inaugural Workshop”, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 14.-15.9.2015 (with Christoph Scherrer)

Panel Chairs:

“Human Rights in Crisis?”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Freiburg, 7.-9.10.2019, chaired with Monika Heupel, panel with Başak Çalı, Andreas von Staden, discussant: Anita Gohdes*

“Democracy in the United Nations”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Freiburg, 7.-9.10.2019, panel with Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Nina Reiners, Leonie Holthaus, Marina Martinez Mateo, Marianne Beisheim, discussant: Anna Holzscheiter

“The Legitimacy and Authority of Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Regime”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017, panel with Andreas Kruck, Jana Hönke, Christian Scheper, and Helmut Breitmeier as discussant

“Human Rights and Private Responsibility”, general conference, European Consortium for Social Research (ECPR), Charles University Prague, 7.-10.09.2016, panel with Brigitte Hamm, Julia Planitzer, Christian Scheper, Andreas von Staden

“Alternative or Complementary Spaces? Indigenous Knowledge in International Politics”, annual conference International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, 26.-29.3.2014, chaired with Linda Wallbott