Events-Collection

This talk examines the phenomena of non-Indigenous people taking on Indigenous identities to advance their own aims, from establishing settler national identity (Deloria) to consolidating cultural power (Huhndorf) to race shifting (Leroux) and to Pretendianism (Kolopenuk).

On January 20, 2026, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, called for “a new form of European consciousness” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, highlighting energy, defense, and access to raw materials as areas of particular concern. While the goal of more European self-reliance and autonomy sounds desirable in theory, several fundamental questions arise about how it can be put into practice: How independent can Europe truly be in an era of unprecedented global integration? What does “European independence” mean in the context of the intensifying U.S.–China rivalry that is (re)shaping world politics in the 21st century? What political, economic, financial, and social costs might a more independent Europe entail? To explore these and other pressing questions and think about the role Europe should play in the emerging new world order, distinguished experts on Europe’s relations with both the United States and China will join us for a panel discussion.

This talk provides evidence that the earliest state income tax adoptions in the U.S. generated substantial migration responses. Exploiting the staggered introduction of personal and corporate income taxes across states between 1900 and 1930, Dr. Wandschneider links individuals across full-count census records to construct bilateral migration flows between all state pairs. Building on a structural migration gravity model with multilateral resistance, she estimates that personal income tax adoptions increased interstate migration flows, with corporate tax adoptions generating an 11.3% increase. These effects are concentrated among young, high-income individuals and peak approximately six years after adoption, while homeowners, farmers, and licensed professionals show no significant mobility response. These findings demonstrate that foot voting operated from the very beginning of state income taxation, with implications for understanding fiscal federalism and contemporary tax competition.

How can we read and interpret diverse Indigenous literatures in ways that better reflect the global reality of Indigenous life? This talk offers one possible answer by presenting a framework for reading relationally across Indigenous novels and short stories from North America, Oceania, and South Asia. The literary constellations that structure these readings offer stories of resurgence that connect seemingly disparate Indigenous nations so we might imagine our worlds otherwise. Specific to this talk is a constellation focused on how queer and Two Spirit Indigenous kinships hold multiple relations at once, reminding readers of our varied and overlapping responsibilities to one another as members of a shared planet.

Honoring Juneteenth through the powerful voices of Black poets amd composers, celebrating a legacy of liberation that continues to sing today.

Emancipatory Gains, Illiberal Potential – The Legacy of the American Revolution (United States Semiquincentennial Lecture)

Producing Race in the University: Asian Racialization, Whiteness, and the Pedagogical Politics of Cultural Studies

From Survivor Testimony to Treaty Conversations: Researching Canadian Indigenous Histories in a Good Way

Forum Beruf is a panel discussion during which three of our alumni report on their experiences after graduating, hosted in cooperation with the University's Alumni-Netzwerk.

‘The Mamdani Moment’ points to a shift in U.S. politics: a new generation of leaders is emerging and redefining political priorities, communication styles, and representation in an extremely polarized landscape. As the U.S. grapples with mistrust towards democratic institutions and deep dissatisfaction with politics in general, questions about the future of public leadership are becoming more pressing. Who are the rising stars within both the Democratic and Republican parties? Which issues do they focus on and which strategies do they employ? And how are candidate selection, factional competition, and political communication evolving? Taking the book Zohran Mamdani – Our Time is Now, authored by Luzia Geier, as a point of departure, this discussion brings together two complementary perspectives: Geier’s work tracing the rise of a new political figure, and Dr. Mike Cowburn’s research as a political scientist on intra-party factions, partisan polarization, and political communication.