Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Dr. Iris Seidemann

Lehrveranstaltungen

PoE: Entrepreneurship in Refugee Contexts: Between Empowerment and Constraint - Seidemann (Seminar)

Inhalt: Mass displacement, refugee crises, and the establishment of refugee camps have become defining features of the contemporary global landscape. These contexts highlight pressing challenges of inequality, marginalization, and limited access to resources, while also serving as spaces of creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurial agency. Refugees and displaced communities engage in diverse forms of entrepreneurship, ranging from survival- and necessity-based ventures to transformative social and cultural initiatives. At the same time, refugee entrepreneurs navigate tensions between dependency and self-determination, exclusion and inclusion, and inequality and empowerment. This seminar explores these dynamics through the lens of entrepreneurship research. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, we examine how entrepreneurial activities unfold under conditions of crisis and constraint, and how they reshape our understanding of agency, innovation, and value creation in fragile and crisis contexts.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Perspectives on Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary Crisis Research (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Iris Seidemann

Inhalt: Across multiple disciplines, scholars increasingly describe the present as a condition of polycrisis: a situation in which multiple crises unfold simultaneously, interact across systems, and generate cascading and non-linear effects (Henig & Knight, 2023; Tooze, 2022). Climate change, geopolitical conflict, democratic erosion, technological disruption, economic volatility, and public health emergencies are analyzed not as isolated phenomena but as interdependent and mutually reinforcing dynamics. This perspective challenges traditional understandings of crisis as a temporally bounded disruption that can be clearly identified and managed (Bundy et al., 2017), and instead foregrounds questions of structural vulnerability, governance capacity, leadership, and legitimacy. This doctoral seminar examines contemporary crisis research across disciplines. Moving from disruption to polycrisis and persistent instability, the course explores how crises are conceptualized, how they become visible and actionable, and how organizing and governance respond under sustained uncertainty (Boin, 2024). Particular attention is given to critically examining taken-for-granted concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, crisis leadership, and crisis communication from multiple theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives (Vogus & Sutcliffe, 2007). The aim is to develop a shared conceptual foundation and to enable participants to situate their own research projects within current debates on organizing in times of crisis, including questions of coordination, power, legitimacy, and collective response.