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Julius Heise

Doctoral Candidate: Subproject B05 - International trusteeship administrations
(Second funding period, 2018-2021)

  • Contact

    Philipps-Universität Marburg
    ☎ 06421 28-24971

  • Vita

    Since 03/2018
    Research associate at the CRC 138 "Dynamics of Security", subproject B05 - Trustee Transitional Administrations

    09/2017 - 02/2018
    Internship, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Program Office of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the BMUB

    04/2015 - 08/2017
    MA "Social Sciences" ("Global Studies Program")
    1st semester: Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
    2nd semester: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
    3rd semester: New Delhi, India, study internship: DAAD Mexico City, Mexico
    4th semester: Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
    Master's thesis: "Coloniality and Conflict: A decolonial interpretation of race, religion and violence in Lebanon and Colombia"

    02/2014 - 02/2015
    Voluntary service (kulturweit), DAAD Bogotá, Colombia

    10/2010 - 02/2014
    B.A.: major subject "Intercultural European and Latin American Studies" and the minor subject "Political Science" at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Saale with a stay abroad at the Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia
    Bachelor's thesis: "Land in pieces. Colombia: The fragmented nation and Cultura Ciudadana"

    09/2009 - 09/2010
    Voluntary service (weltwaerts), Kpodzi secondary school, Kpalimé, Togo

  • PhD project

    Security in UN Trusteeship Statebuilding: The Ewe and Togoland Unification Problem under French und British UN Trusteeship (1947-1960) 

  • Research interests

    Dynamics of securitization and de-securitization and critical security studies
    Global studies approaches, post- and decolonial theories and processes of decolonization 
    Statebuilding and conflict research

  • Teaching

    Summer Term 2020
    Seminar "Dimension of Violence in Decolonization", Zentrum für
    Konfliktforschung, Uni Marburg.

    Winter Term 2016/17
    Tutorium zur Vorlesung "Globaler und Regionaler Wandel" (Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă)

  • Publications

    2014
    Die Cultura Ciudadana in Kolumbien. Eine Lösung für die fragmentierte Nation? München: GRIN Verlag. IBAN: 9783668157729 

    2013
    Visuelle Darstellung der Panamakanalzone durch die Vereinigten Staaten. Der Bau des Panamakanals anhand imperialer Fotografie. München: GRIN Verlag. IBAN: 9783656537274 

  • Scholarships

    2016: Global Studies Scholarship, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
    2014: PROMOS-Stipendium (DAAD), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  • Talks

    BISA 2019
    Paper: Heise; Security Dynamics in Trusteeship Statebuilding in a Postcolonial Reading

    ISA Accra 2019
    Paper: Heise & Ketzmerick; Point of Division: The Role of Agency, Security and Shrinking Spaces in the UN Trusteeship State Building of Togoland and Cameroon.

    Paper: Heise; Securitizing “the Future of Togoland”: Silence and Agency in the United Nations Trusteeship System.

    ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, 2019
    Paper: Ketzmerick & Heise; ‘Same Same But Different’? How Constructions of Security Ruled the UN Trusteeship State-Building in Togo and Cameroon.

    Paper: Distler & Heise; Recurring Dynamics of International Statebuilding: How International Discourse and Practice of Protection Shape the State.

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