Conferences, workshops and lectures

date

Organizer

Speakers

Title of the event

Dr. Naseef Naeem

Romina Elbracht

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dominik Steiger

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fastenrath (TU Dresden) Senior Public Prosecutor Klaus Hoffmann (Freiburg)

Moderation:

Dr. Jochen Kleinschmidt (TU Dresden)

Katja Meier, MdL
Member of the Saxon State Parliament and former Saxon State Minister of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality

Katharina Thote
Representative of the UNHCR in Germany

Dr. Anne Koch
Head of the "Strategic Refugee and Migration Policy" project, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

The abuse of refugees as a weapon: migration as a new instrument of hybrid warfare

The European Investment Fund (EIF) - Access to finance for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Gunter Fischer, Principal Advisor and Senior Knowledge and Impact Expert at the EIB

EIB Climate Bank Roadmap

Dr. Andreas Reinicke (Former Ambassador; German Orient Institute)

Dr. Bente Scheller (Heinrich Böll Foundation; Syria expert)

Dr. Bassem Arar (member of the Syrian diaspora in Germany)

Dr. Muriel Asseburg (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)

Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert (TU Dresden)

Johannes Hainzinger (BMVg, United Nations Division)

Dr. Annika Hansen (Partnerships & Innovation, ZIF)

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dominik Steiger

Panel discussion: Turning point in the United Nations: The forgotten institution of German security policy?

The European Investment Bank in Germany -
Boosting Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

Welcome address:
H.E. Stephen Mubiru (Embassy of the Republic of Uganda in Germany)
Barbara Meyer (Saxon State Ministry)

Panel discussion:
Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala (UNU)

H.R.H. Princess Dr. h.c. Abze Djigma
Burkina Faso (UNFCCC)

Dr. Gulnara Roll (GlobalABC; UNEP)

Lars Bergmann (VIADUCT Technologies GmbH)

Moderation: Sonja Hahn-Tomer (UNU)

Dresden International Forum 2025:
"From Conflicts to Cooperation - The Resource Nexus as a Pathway to Peace and Prosperity in Africa"

Johannes Hainzinger (BMVg, United Nations Division)

Dr. Kira Vinke (DGAP)

Karen Grajeda (IRENA Innovation and Technology Center)

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dominik Steiger

Panel discussion
United Nations' Green Peace-keeping: Energy Revolution amidst Safeguarding Global Peace and Security

Vanessa Vohs, LL.M. (LSE), doctoral student, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich

Benedikt Wiedenhofer, Attaché in the Senior Foreign Service, Federal Foreign Office

Prof. Panu Poutvaara, Ph. D. (Head of the ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics),

Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer (Director of the Center for Constitutional and Democratic Research and the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann

01.07.2024

Zhala Bayramova (human rights lawyer, Baku);

Marcel Thum (TU Dresden & ifo Dresden);

Kassem Taher Saleh (Member of the Bundestag, Alliance 90/The Greens);

Moderation: Katharina Schmitt (TU Dresden)

Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm;

Michael Kretschmer, MPr ;

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann

Panel discussion "To whom do human rights apply? On the reform of the Common European Asylum System"

01.09. 2023

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Prof. Dr. Dominik Steiger

"Power and powerlessness of the UN Security Council - Protection against crimes under international law by the United Nations?" *

13.06. 2023

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Boris Augurzky

Jochen Schmitt

(moderated by Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum)

Online discussion "60 minutes": The urgent transformation of the hospital landscape

11.05. 2023

Center for International Studies

Christa Karis, European Investment Bank

EIB: "The European Investment Fund"

09.05. 2023

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Prof. Daniel Geiger

Prof. Juliane Reinecke

Prof. Elke Schüssler

(moderated by Prof. Blagoy Blagoev)

Online discussion "60 minutes": Management in times of polycrisis

May 08, 2023

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Brian Chihera, LLB (UWC), LLM (MU) and PhD Candidate (UWC)

"Who Gets to Vote? Lessons from the EU on the Extension and Restriction of the Voting Franchise"

May 04, 2023

Center for International Studies

Dr. Goetz von Thadden, European Investment Bank

EIB: "EIB Climate Bank Roadmap and Green Finance"

April 27, 2023

Center for International Studies

Dr. Martin Humburg, European Investment Bank

EIB: "The Project Cycle"

April 20, 2023

Center for International Studies

Junona Bumelyte, EIB investment officer

Kick-off event European Investment Bank (EIB) (EIB lecture series annually since 2019)

April 04, 2023

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Christina Förster, B.A. IB, M.A. IB

"Diplomatic and consular law: international law in practice"

February 03, 2023

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Her Worship Nyanjura Doreen Doreen Nyanjura, human and women's rights activist and board member of "Forum for Democratic Change", the second largest opposition party in Uganda

Samuel Makokha, board member of the NGO "Voices for Labor"

"Core human rights issues in Uganda: national commitment to international norms" - event with two human rights activists and opposition politicians from Uganda

December 13, 2022

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Prof. Jörg Rocholl

Prof. Dr. Martin Werding

(moderated by Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann)

Online discussion "60 minutes": What's next for old-age provision?

21.11. 2022

Chair of Political Sciences with a focus on International Politics

Prof. Dr. Alexander Kemnitz

Dist. Prof. Sugata Marjit

Panel Discussion "Inequality and the Political Economy of Contemporary Crises"

15.11. 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Dr. Katharina Kaesling, Junior Professor of Civil Law, Intellectual Property (especially Patent Law), and Legal Issues of AI at TU Dresden, IRGET

Joschua Helmer, Georg August University of Göttingen, Institute for Democracy Research

"A threat to democracy? The EU and social media" *

10.11. 2022

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Cornelia Berns, Francisco Mari

Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun

(moderated by Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann)

Panel discussion in the Frauenkirche: World food in crisis - the consequences of the Ukraine war

04.10. 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan, President of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform

Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart, former member of the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Saxony

"If the euro fails, will Europe fail? The economic and monetary union at a crossroads" *

July 12, 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Ekardt, Head of the Research Centre for Sustainability and Climate Policy, Leipzig and Chairman of BUND Saxony

Christian Holzleitner, Head of Unit at the European Commission's DG Climate Action

"Help from Brussels against drought and bark beetles - EU climate policy between ambition and implementation" *

June 30, 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Dresden Forum for International Politics

"Covid-19 as a wake-up call? Perspectives for a Europe based on solidarity" *

June 14, 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Vladmir Spidla, former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Katharina Wolf, Chairwoman of the Europa-Union Saxony

Susanne Hyldelund, Danish Ambassador

"Is Europe blind in the social eye? A discussion on social justice in the EU" *

May 03, 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Maria Degtiarenko, Director of Bayerisches Haus in Odessa and Tim B. Peters, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's international office in Kiev

"Fear of Russia? On the EU accession applications of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova" *

April 05, 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Vasilios Skouris, former President of the European Court of Justice

"30 years of European citizenship - Are we all Europeans since Maastricht?" *

07.02. 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Günther H. Oettinger, former Vice-President and Member of the European Commission, former Prime Minister

"Diktat from Brussels - Does the EU have a democracy problem?" *

11.01. 2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Gerald Knaus

Erik Marquardt, Member of the European Parliament

"Chaos at the external borders - What has the EU learned?" *

14.12. 2021

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Lucio Sarno

Bundesbank Lecture

07.12. 2021

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of the European Parliament

"Europe in the world - global heavyweight or pawn of foreign powers?" *

16.11. 2021

Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research

Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher

Junior Prof. Susann Wagenknecht

Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian

(moderated by Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener)

Online discussion "60 minutes": Are algorithms the better managers?

04.11. 2021

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Séan Binder, M.Sc. International Relations Theory, London School of Economics

"Humanitarianism vs Securitization, Responses to the 'Migrant Crisis' - Facing 25 years imprisonment for helping" *

02.11. 2021

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

Dr. Theo Waigel, former Federal Minister of Finance

"Patient Europe? - The Maastricht Treaty and its place in the present" *

June 17, 2020

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Dr. Tilman Rodenhäuser, legal advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross

"International Humanitarian Law 'in action': The work of the

International Committee of the Red Cross"

May 19, 2020

Center for International Studies

Simon Ilse, Heinrich Böll Foundation Belgrade

"IB as a profession - From the CIS into the world"

December 19, 2019

UNESCO Chair

Christina Förster

"International law in practice"

December 16, 2019

Center for International Studies

Julia Hammelehle, Munich Security Conference

"IB as a profession - From the CIS into the world"

October 29, 2019

Chair for International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Prof. Dr. Klaus Hüfner, former president of the German Commission for UNESCO (DUK)

"Financing of international organizations as a prerequisite for integrity"

(Key Note speech at the 9th UN Scientific Colloquium)

June 05, 2019

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum, former judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

"The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - First-hand experience"

June 06, 2019

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Dr. Lilly Sucharipa, former president of the Austrian National Committee of UN Women

"UN Women and the fight against violence against women"

January 23, 2019

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Dr. Gunter Pleuger, Permanent Representative of Germany at the United Nations (2002-2006)

"First-hand experience. Germans in top positions at the United Nations"

16.05. 2018

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Prof. Dr. Klaus Hüfner, former president of the German Commission for UNESCO (DUK)

"UNESCO: Functions and activities in international relations"

18.04. 2018

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Christoph Flügge, permanent judge at the ICTY (2008-2017)

"The International

Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - First-hand experience"

13.12. 2017

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Prof. Dr. Marie-Theres Albert, former chairholder, Chair Intercultural Studies and UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies

"UNESCO World Heritage and Intangible Heritage - Ambivalent Developments?"

Workshop date

Organizer

Title of the event

23.-25.10.2025

Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem

Chair of Political Science and International Politics

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

International Summer School on Human Rights 2025: Young people from all over the world discussed the future of human rights in Dresden

01.12.2023

Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Relations

Macroeconomics and Business Cycles (every two years since 1997)

24.-25.11.2023

Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Relations

CESifo, the Center of Public and International Economics (CEPIE) at TU Dresden and the ifo Institute, Dresden Branch

Workshop on Political Economy (annual since 2017)

28.-29.09.2023

Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Relations

ifo Institute, Dresden branch

ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics (annually since 2011)

11.-12.05.2023

Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations

Labor Economics and Social Policy (annually since 2011)

05.-06.07.2022

Center for International Studies

Workshop on Household- and Market-Related Discrimination, Inequality and Violence (with Sugata Marjit and Liza Mügge)

16.-17. 09.2021

Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations

Christian Lessmann

Doctoral Workshop of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association

01.-02. 07.2021

Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations

GfR, Thünen-Institute, TU Braunschweig and TU Dresden

11th GfR Summer Conference in Regional Science 2021

2020

Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations

Performance Measurement in Higher Education

07.12.2019

Research Unit for International Law and State Theory at the Institute of International Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fastenrath

Interdisciplinary connectivity of (international) law: A workshop discussion

February 2019

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

"International workshop on UNESCO World Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals"

May 2018

Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

"Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Interdisciplinary Perspectives"

Date

Organizer

Topic

Title of the event

Speakers: Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter , Prof. Dr. Christian Prunitsch , Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm and Dave Panetti (Consul for Public Affairs, U.S. General Consulate Leipzig),

Speakers:

Panel 1 (Economic and Environmental Agenda, Water Scarcity and Salicification: How to Manage a Scarce Resource): Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Lessmann; Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Prof. Dr. Markus Ludwig, Dr. Ines Dombrowsk

Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Relations

11.07.2022

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

"Access to Vaccines and medical Care during Pandemics: Covid19 as Disruption"

Hybrid Conference, Dresden & Stellenbosch

05.-10.09.2021

Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law

"The European Convention on Human Rights in times of crisis"

International Summer School on Human Rights in Theory and Practice

2017

Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Relations

International Trade and Production

Date

Title

09.-11.11. 2023

25 years of "International Relations" at the TU Dresden

02.07.2022

Presentation of the Volker Heinsberg Prize with alumni reunion

24.-25.05.2019

20 years of "International Relations" at the TU Dresden

20.06.2015

Alumni meeting

01.06.2013

Alumni meeting

16.-17. 06.2012

Alumni meeting with two workshop rounds