Conference “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.

Programme

17 November, 11am–7:30pm

18 November, 9:30am–1:30pm

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