European Master in Global Studies - EMGS

Our EMGS Graduation Conference 2025 starts! You can follow up the presentations via our YouTube channel! See link in bio 🎓

🎓✨ The countdown has begun!

We are getting ready to celebrate the Graduation Ceremony of the EMGS Class of 2023–2025 — a journey that took us across continents, cultures, and countless unforgettable moments. 🌍💫 On 15 November, beginning 5:00 pm, we will gather in Leipzig University’s Paulinum.

This year, it is an extra special: we’re not only honoring our graduates but also marking 20 years of the European Master in Global Studies! 🥂🎉
Two decades of curiosity, courage, and connection — and a global community that keeps growing with every cohort. 💙

On the day before, we are excited to start with our Graduate conference, showcasing EMGS graduates’ Master Thesis research.

For both events, you can join us online for the Livestream at the GESI YouTube channel. Link in bio!

Here’s to the memories we’ve made, the friendships we’ve built, and the futures we’re about to create. 💫

We are excited to welcome at GESI our wonderful new Master students in Global and European Studies.

The introductory weeks in Leipzig and Addis Ababa were exciting moments for our first encounters.

‼️6700 students began their studies at Leipzig university this winter term. Guess which Master program attracted most applicants per study place - out of all at LU? The answer you find through the link in bio!

In light of the increasingly perilous relationship between energy production and fossil fuels, a re-evaluation of energy histories is imperative within the context of this novel energy-historical reality.

Our colleague Daniela Russ together with Thomas Turnbull have published an exciting volume presenting a series of compelling arguments regarding the potential for alternative forms of development that do not align with the Western capitalist model. In addition, it provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the influence of energy histories on past events and their contemporary implications.

This Wednesday we look forward to the booklaunch ! Join us at 6pm in Leipzig or online.

This exciting outcome of a cooperation between , the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and GESI is a must read for students and scholars in European and Global Studies interested in the interactions between Eastern Europe and the world. Published by the book brings together specialist on politics, culture and economy of the region from the 18th to the 21st century. Global politics and international law, migration and agriculture, literature and film are just some of the fields covered in the chapters to challenge views in the region as either peripheral or dis-connected, without ignoring tensions, ruptures and inequalities.

The public book launch takes place 29 September, 5:00 pm at or online. Register here https://www.leibniz-eega.de/book-launch-globalizing-eastern-europe-29-september-2025/

Organized yearly by the city of Leipzig’s international department, the week provides an exciting program from 22 to 28 August with music, streetfood, games, book presentations and roundtable discussions. A special focus this year: the German-Vietnamese partnership’s 50th anniversary. Leipzig’s partner city Ho-Chi-Minh-City will therefore be specifically present, with artists and other guests joining the party. An exhibition on the history of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR will give an insight into the GDR’s global connections. You don’t have to leave Leipzig to travel the world in September!

Join the opening event on Friday, 22 August 2025 on the Burgplatz.

Stefan Troebst has had a profound influence on GESI and GSGAS for more than two decades. He has been instrumental in creating outstanding Master’s programmes and played a pivotal role in advancing international PhD training at . As deputy director of the , he was also an important bridge builder between the university and the .

GESI and GSGAS therefore expressed their deep gratitude to Prof. Troebst on 6 August at the institute’s and school’s premises with a delightful ceremony. Former GESI director, Prof. Matthias Middell, its current director Dr. Steffi Marung as well as representative of former PhD and postdoctoral students complemented Prof. Troebst’s final lecture. The GESI summerparty band came back on stage to brighten up the beautiful summer night in the garden.

From 3 to 8 July 2025 the joint of our master in , the in and the in global studies with a special emphasis on and security in will take place in the very center of Germany, in Bad Hersfeld. We are excited to meet students from all study places for a few intensive summer days of learning and celebrating.

For the first time ever we celebrated our summer party with live music. Gifted students from all our programs - Erasmus Mundus Global Studies, Global Studies with a special emphasis on peace and security in Africa, Global Studies and Economic History and Arqus European Studies - appeared on stage for the first time. A wonderful start into an amazing night.

Founded in 1912 the Museum is home to the famous Transparent Men and Transparent Woman. Over the course of the 20th century it became a hub for global health expertise. During the Cold. War the museum sought actively to expand its netwoks to the Global South. In addition to exploring the general exhibition our group was excited to discover the holdings in the museum‘s archive.

We begin our Opening Semester Keynote Lecture with Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell 📝

Live now: Graduation ceremony 2024 🎓🎉🎊!!!

GESI UniLeipzig Live Stream