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 Konferenz, HWR Berlin Campus Schöneberg
Fotos: Kathrin Heller
Die globalen Liefer- und Wertschöpfungsketten stehen heute vor beispiellosen Herausforderungen. Das neue HWR Berlin Forschungskompetenzzentrum wird in den kommenden Jahren hierzu forschen. Mit der Kick-off Konferenz startete Ende November ein breiter Dialog mit interessiertem Fachpublikum über das Thema „Herausforderungen und Resilienz globaler Liefer- und Wertschöpfungsketten“
Fachpublikum aus Wissenschaft, NGOs und Ministerien
Kontrovers diskutierten die Wissenschaftler*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen von Stiftungen und Bundesministerien drängende Fragen zu Liefer- und Wertschöpfungsketten. Fokus am Dienstag waren die Auswirkungen auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage, das Wirtschaftswachstum und wie diese polit-ökonomisch erklärt werden können und die wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozesse seit der Covid19-Pandemie. Neben forschungsstarken Wissenschaftler*innen der HWR präsentierten Bruno De Conti von der Landesuniversität von Campinas (Brasilien), Gale Raj-Reichert vom Bard College Berlin und Joonkoo Lee von der Hanyang Universität (Südkorea) ihre Forschungsarbeiten.
Rohstoffe, Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung
Und auch am zweiten Tage wurd lebhaft diskutiert über die Themen Nachhaltigkeit von Wertschöpfungskette, kritische Rohstoffe, Digitalisierung und illegale Lieferketten. Zur außer- und inneruniversitären Konversation trugen Morgane Fritz von der Excelia Business School in La Rochelle (Frankreich), Nele Kampffmeyer vom Öko-Institut Berlin, Johanna Sydow von der Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Finn Schufft von der NGO Germanwatch, Florian Butollo vom Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin und Inga Carry von der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik bei.