Working groups

The Graduate School is home to a range of small, self-organized working groups that meet regularly to discuss a topic of their choice. These groups promote collaboration between fellows, who work together with colleagues both from within their field and from other subjects.

Europa Lab

Europa Lab is an internal working group at the Saarbrücken Graduate School for European Research. When the main teaching period is in session, fellows meet every two weeks to discuss current topics in European research and to discuss their own research progress.

Graduate School postdocs alternate leading Europa Lab.

Europa Lab topics:

  • Summer semester 2026: Expressionen – Ausdruck, Transformation und Vision in der Europaforschung (organization: Dr. Cornelia Baciu)
  • Winter semester 2025/26: Agency – Ressource, Privileg, Perspektive in der Europaforschung (organization: Dr. Alexander Stoeger) 

New Perspectives in European Studies reading group

This reading group provides doctoral students and postdocs at Saarland University who focus on Europe with an interdisciplinary platform for exchange, discussion and examining new perspectives in European studies. By discussing their shared readings, participants confront current theories, approaches, questions and trends in European research. Members also have the opportunity to suggest central texts from their field of study to the reading group.

The reading group was founded by postdoctoral researchers Dr. Ulla Connor and Dr. Agnieszka Hudzik and met regularly from summer semester 2023 through winter semester 2024/25, focusing on postcolonial theories and critical approaches in European research.

The group is not currently meeting.

Reading group programme

Winter semester 2024/25
  • Patel, Kiran Klaus: „Europa.“ Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen. Berlin: Schwabe, 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.31267/Grundbegriffe_19539752.
  • El-Tayeb, Fatima: „Introduction.“ European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. NED-New edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
  • Masterclass mit Prof. Dr. Andrea Allerkamp, Prof. Dr. Judith Kasper und Prof. Dr. Mona Körte
Summer semester 2024
  • Brianson, Alex: “Europa and Gaia: Towards an Ecofeminist Perspective in Integration Theory.” Journal of Common Market Studies 54.1 (2016): 121–135.
  • Almond, Ian: “Five ways of deconstructing Europe.” Journal of European Studies 44.1 (2014): 50-63. DOI: 10.1177/0047244113508361
  • Diskussion über das Thema “Europa nach dem Eurozentrismus.”
Winter semester 2023/2024
  • Römhild, Regina und Michi Knecht. “Die doppelte Lücke: Postkoloniale ethnologische Prespektiven auf die Gegenwart Europas.” In Europa dezentrieren. Globale Verflechtungen neu denken, hg. von Jens Adam, Regina Römhild, Manuela Bojadžijev u.a., 67–79. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2019.
  • Hall, Stuart. “Wann gab es »das Postkoloniale«?: Denken an der Grenze.” In  Jenseits des Eurozentrismus: postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, hg. von Sebastian Conrad, Shalini Randeria, Regina Römhild, 197–223. Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2013.
  • Brodowski, Dominik, Jonas Nesselhauf, Christiane Solte-Gresser, Florian Weber und Romana Weiershausen. “Kopräsenz denken! Ein Ansatz für die interdisziplinäre Fluchtforschung.” Kulturpoetik 22, 2 (2022): 258–292.
  • Eine Collage von Texten zu Édouard Glissants Begriff der Opazität, u.a. Auszüge aus “Poetik der Beziehung.” Übers. von Beate Thill. In Lateinamerikanische Kulturtheorien, hg. von Isabel Exner, Gudrun Rath. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2015.
Summer semester 2023
  • Adam, Jens, Manuela Bojadžijev, Michi Knecht u.a. “Europa dezentrieren: Programm und Perspektiven einer Anthropologie reflexiver Europäisierung.” In Europa dezentrieren. Globale Verflechtungen neu denken, hg. von Jens Adam, Regina Römhild, Manuela Bojadžijev u.a., 7–33. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2019.
  • Beck, Ulrich. “Die Krise Europas im Kontext der Kosmopolitisierung.” In Europa dezentrieren. Globale Verflechtungen neu denken, hg. von Jens Adam, Regina Römhild, Manuela Bojadžijev u.a., 223–238. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2019.
  • Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Unterwegs zu dekolonialen Zukünften: Vom westlichen Uni-versalismus zu dekolonialen Pluri-versalismen.” In Europa dezentrieren. Globale Verflechtungen neu denken, hg. von Jens Adam, Regina Römhild, Manuela Bojadžijev u.a., 119–142. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2019.