September 28, 2024

The panel organized by Berlin Program Alumni & Fellows at this year’s GSA Conference September 26-29 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA will feature work and contributions by

Commentator: Professor Atina Grossmann (The Cooper Union)

Moderator: Duncan Lien, PhD (Penn State, current BP postdoc fellow)

Panelist 1: Nicholas Goodell (Vanderbilt, BP alumnus)

Panelist 2: Sarah Jacobson, PhD (Michigan State University, current BP postdoc fellow)

Panelist 3: Yanara Schmacks (CUNY, BP alumna)

Panelist 4: Professor Belinda Davis (Rutgers, BP alumna)

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October 28, 2024, 16-18 h 

Guest Lecture by Dr. Kerstin Leitner, Berlin

Machen Persönlichkeiten oder Institutionen Geschichte? Gibt es Unterschiede zwischen weiblicher und männlicher Führung? Das Beispiel der Vereinten Nationen aus der Sicht einer ehemaligen Mitarbeiterin.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 1975 from the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin for her research on Kenia’s postcolonial development, kerstin Leitner started her 30-year career at the United Nations which took her to Africa, China, New York, Geneva, as well as numerous other locations. After returning to Berlin in 2005, she regularly taught classes in international politics, on politics in China, and on the U.N. at both FU Berlin and Universität Potsdam. In her book, Als moderne Nomadin um die Welt / When Only the Sky is the Limit.

Kerstin Leitner reflects on her work spanning the Cold War, the revolutions of 1989, and the rise of new superpowers. Deeply shaped by experiences during her career she founded the Kerstin Leitner Berlin Fellowships in cooperation with the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V.