Events
Here, we provide information on upcoming lectures and conferences related to our research. These events provide a platform for exchanging ideas, discussing the latest research findings, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. We invite you to attend, broaden your knowledge, and make valuable contacts. Past events are also documented here.
All events
2025
8. July 2025: Lecture “A multidimensional sustainability governance approach – The case of the German Supply Chain Act in the Brazilian Battery Value Chain”
Title: A multidimensional sustainability governance approach – The case of the German Supply Chain Act in the Brazilian Battery Value Chain
Speaker: Helena Gräf (HWR Berlin)
Date & Time: 08 July 2025, 18:00-20:00
Location: HWR Berlin, tba
17. June 2025: Lecture “Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: Some Reflections on the Prospects and Challenges with Reference to India”
Title: Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: Some Reflections on the
Prospects and Challenges with Reference to India
Speaker: Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)
Date & Time: 17 June 2025, 6-8pm
Location: HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, Room B 5.12
12. June 2025: Panel “Regulatory Challenges and Gaps for Global Supply and Value Chains”
Panel of the Research Competence Centre at the Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance
Speakers: Hartmut Aden, Tamara Dangelmaier, Christian Hilpert, Christina Teipen, Markus Schultze-Kraft
Date & Time: 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30
Location: Hertie School, Room 3.01
The panel presents interdisciplinary research perspectives on Global Supply and Value Chains (GSVC) and their emerging regulation. While the European Union seeks to influence human rights and sustainability standards in supply chains with the recently passed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD; Directive (EU) 2024/1760), a broader perspective on GSVCs shows a range of challenges that are only partly covered by the EU’s regulatory approach. GSVC regulation is closely related to evolving industrial policies and mostly ignores the impact of global crises on GSVCs, opaque GSVCs in the shadow economy as well as protest movements against GSVCs. These gaps and blind spots are likely to hamper the performance of the emerging regulatory regimes for GSVCs. The contributions to this panel look at these issues from an interdisciplinary political science, sociological and legal perspective. They are related to the Research Competence Centre: Challenges and Resilience of Global Supply and Value Chains funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; 2024-2029) as a research impulse and special research area based at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin).
Conference Papers:
- Asymmetric North-South State Capabilities: Industrial Policies in the Automotive Global Value Chains
- Political discourse and regulatory challenges of threats to supply chains in the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine
- Resilience, Regulation, and Resistance: A Sociological Perspective on Supply Chains and Amazonian Deforestation
- Establishing New Complaints Mechanisms for Supply Chain Due Diligence
- Beyond regulation? Opacity in global value chains
You can find more information on the panel and included papers on the conference website.
14. May 2025: Lecture “Demand and Growth Regimes and the Structure of International Trade in Selected Countries: a Macroeconomic Framework for the Analysis of Global Value Chains”
Title: Demand and Growth Regimes and the Structure of International Trade in Selected Countries: a Macroeconomic Framework for the Analysis of Global Value Chains
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Hein & Juan Manuel Campana (HWR Berlin)
Date & Time: 14 May 2025, 16:00-18:00
Location: HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, Room B 4.01
24. April 2025: Lecture “The Return of Labor Casualization in Ports”
Title: The Return of Labor Casualization in Ports
Speaker: Prof. (em.) Dr. Christoph Scherrer (University of Kassel)
Date & Time: 24 April 2025, 18:00-20:00
Location: HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, Room B 5.12
26. February 2025: Lecture “Brazil: The Current Economic and Geopolitical Scenario, and the Impacts on Its Positioning in the GVCs”
Title: Brazil: The Current Economic and Geopolitical Scenario, and the Impacts on Its Positioning in the GVCs
Speaker: Bruno De Conti (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Date & Time: 26 February 2025, 16:00-18:00
Location: HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, Room B 5.44
2024
26. - 27. November 2024: Kick-Off Conference, HWR Berlin Campus Schöneberg
Ort: HWR Berlin Campus Schöneberg, Haus A, Room A.2.04, Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin
Global supply and value chains are facing unprecedented challenges: Political and economic crises, environmental crises and social tensions – a dense sequence of “polycrises” – are putting pressure on these networks and challenging their stability and resilience. In the face of these developments, there is an urgent need to develop innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions to sustain global supply and value chains.
As part of the DFG research impulse, our new Competence Centre has been created to address precisely these challenges. With the Kick-off Conference, we want not only to present the scientific goals and approaches of our Centre, but also to start a dialogue with a broad community from academia, civil society, the public and business. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the research of our members in the field of resilient value chains, to establish initial networks and to jointly develop perspectives for future projects.
In addition to the members of the Competence Centre, we will discuss with Prof. Dr. Gale Raj-Reichert (Bard College Berlin), Prof. Dr. Florian Butollo (WZB, TU Berlin), Dr. Nele Kampffmeyer (Öko-Institut Berlin), Johanna Sydow (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), Finn Schufft (Germanwatch) and Inga Carry (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik).