Call for Posters

The Politics of Supply Chains: Between Regulation, Resistance, and Resilience 17–18 November 2025 | HWR Campus Lichtenberg, Berlin

Academic conference organised by the HWR-Competence Centre on Challenges and Resilience of Global Supply and Value Chains

Global supply and value chains are a key arena of societal contestation. They connect production and consumption across borders, generate wealth, yet at the same time raise pressing questions of sustainability, responsibility, and power. Policymakers, businesses, and scholars are engaged in vivid debates about how supply chains should be regulated, governed, and transformed. The conference aims to bring together diverse perspectives on value chains – ranging from legal and economic approaches to sociological, political science, and cultural perspectives.

The poster session offers an opportunity especially for PhD candidates, but also for Master’s students and postdocs, to present their research ideas and projects. Posters will be introduced in short lightning talks (1 minute) and remain on display throughout the conference to encourage discussion and networking. All posters must be prepared in English, as the conference language is English.

We welcome poster contributions on a broad range of topics, for example:

• Governance, regulation, and the political economy of global supply and value chains
• Sustainability, transparency, human rights due diligence, and compliance
• Discourses, narratives, and normative conflicts around supply chains
• Business perspectives: supply chain management, risk and crisis management, innovation strategies
• Economic perspectives: trade, development, competition dynamics, international division of labor
• Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of supply chains

Submission

Please submit an abstract of max. 300 words that briefly outlines your research topic and methodology, including your name, institution, and contact details, by 12 October 2025: gsvc@hwr-berlin.de

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Mid October. The selected posters are due on 07 November and will be printed by the Research Competence Centre.