WIPCAD-Lecture Series 2015
Invitation and Program
University of Potsdam, Summer 2015
The Research Colloquium of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Current Research on "Wicked (Policy) Problems"
Time: Wednesday 12:00 - 14:00 c.t., hosted every (second) week
Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Potsdam Griebnitzsee, House 6, Room S 21 (Room S12 on 03.06., 24.06., 08.07., 15.07.)
Organizers: Prof. Sabine Kuhlmann, Bastian Jantz, Katja Lass-Lennecke, Abraham Rugo Muriu, Eva Schindler, Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg
Program:
| No. | Date | Guest | Topic | Video |
| 1. | 14.04. | Prof. Dr. Peter Hupe Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands | Beyond reductionism in the study of government-in-action | Flash-Video |
| 2. | 15.04. | Prof. Dr. Didier Georgakakis Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France | From the sociology of eurocrats to the field of eurocracy, or why Bourdieu’s concept of bureaucratic field match with EU institutions and governance | Flash-Video |
| 3. | 22.04. | Prof. Dr. Jon Hovi University of Oslo, Norway | Why the United States supports international enforcement for some treaties but not for others | Flash-Video |
| 4. | 20.05. | Prof. Dr. Thomas Hale Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Great Britain | Designing the emerging climate regime | Flash-Video |
| 5. | 27.05. | Dr. Kerstin Leitner United Nations service (retired) | In cooperation with the PCPM: The UN post-2015: Is the UN still relevant in today’s world? | Flash-Video |
| 6. | 03.06. (room: S12) | Prof. Dr. Robert Wade London School of Economics, Great Britain | Climate change and global finance: no solution for one without transformation of the other | Flash-Video |
| 7. | 03.06. (room: S13) | Prof. Peter J. Katzenstein Cornell University, Ithaca/NY, USA | Civilizations in World Politics: Beyond East and West | Flash-Video |
| 8. | 10.06. | Dr. Stephan Hensell University of Hamburg, Germany | Organizing Babylon: The coordination of international intervention between ritual and decoupling | Flash-Video |
| 9. | 24.06. (room: S12) | Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager University of Bern, Switzerland | Can we blame it all on wicked problems? A comprehensive model of Blame Avoidance Behavior | Flash-Video |
| 10. | 08.07. (room: S12) | Prof. Michael Howlett, PhD Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University, Canada | Preparing for Surprise: Policy agility and improvisation in policy-making and policy design | |
| 11. | 15.07. (room: S12) | Prof. Dr. Søren C. Winter Danish National Centre for Social Research, Denmark | Contested Administration: Managerial responses to a Danish public school reform | |
| 12. | 22.07. | Prof. Detlef F. Sprinz, PhD Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) & University of Potsdam, Germany | Credible commitment to future generations? The Alaska Permanent Fund |