WIPCAD-Lecture Series 2013/2014
Invitation and Program
University of Potsdam, Winter 2013/14
The Research Colloquium of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences:
Current Research on “Wicked (Policy) Problems”
Time: Wednesday 12 – 14 c.t., hosted every second week
Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Potsdam Griebnitzsee, House 6, Room S 21
Organizers:Bastian Jantz, Robert Gäde, Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg, Katja Lass-Lennecke
The Program:
| No. | Date | Guest | Topic | Download |
| 1. | 16.10. | Dr. Jesko Hentschel (The World Bank, Washington, D.C.) | Wicked Problems in international development: Job creation and poverty alleviation. An overview of the World Development Report 2013 | Flash-Video |
| 2. | 23.10. | Prof. Robert O. Keohane PhD (Princeton University) | Climate as a „wicked world problem“ | Flash-Video |
| 3. | 30.10. | Prof. Dr. Friedbert W. Rüb (Humboldt University Berlin) | Von „wicked“ zu „super wicked problems“: Was ist das verzwickte an verzwickten Problemen und wie kann man sie politisch bearbeiten? | Flash-Video |
| 4. | 06.11. | Prof. Dr. Per Laegreid (University of Bergen) | The challenges of coordination in national security management. The case of the terrorist attack in Norway | Flash-Video |
| 5. | 13.11. | Prof. Dr. Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba) | “Climate Breakfast” in cooperation with PROGRESS / Master of Public Management: China and energy / low carbon transition | |
| 6. | 27.11. | Dr. Marc Helbling (WZB Berlin) | Do integration policies and state-church regimes matter for individual attitudes towards immigrants? | Flash-Video |
| 7. | 04.12. | Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuhlmann, Christian Schwab M.A. (University of Potsdam) | Contested local administrations in Europe? The COST-Action ‘LocRef’ | Flash-Video |
| 8. | 11.12. | Prof. Dr. Harald Baldersheim (University of Oslo) | The Norwegian fiscal policy rule | Flash-Video |
| 9. | 15.01. | Prof. Dr. Valeska Korff (University of Potsdam) | Between contestation and convergence. The proto-institutionalization of nonprofit performance metrics | Flash-Video |
| 10. | 29.01. | Dr. Emmanuel Didier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) | Benchmarking: Quantification and public administration in the neo-liberal state | Flash-Video |
| 11. | 05.02. | Prof. Allan Rosenbaum (Florida International University) | How Governments Respond to Wicked Challenges – Political, Administrative and Economic Reforms in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and the US | Flash-Video |