On November 29 and 30, 2023, the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership, in collaboration with the Berlin Center for Global Engagement, hosted a symposium entitled "Rethinking Global Engagement" at St. Antony's College in Oxford.

The first day of the conference began with a panel on "The Challenges and Opportunities of Global Engagement" with Irene Tracey, Julia von Blumenthal, Adam Habib and Michael Harms, moderated by Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The panel discussed challenges and opportunities from the perspective of university leaders and the DAAD, as well as the need for different forms of cooperation, particularly with the Global South.

On November 29 and 30, 2023, the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership, in collaboration with the Berlin Center for Global Engagement, hosted a symposium entitled "Rethinking Global Engagement" at St. Antony's College in Oxford. 
The first day of the conference began with a panel on "The Challenges and Opportunities of Global Engagement" with Irene Tracey, Julia von Blumenthal, Adam Habib and Michael Harms, moderated by Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The panel discussed challenges and opportunities from the perspective of university leaders and the DAAD, as well as the need for different forms of cooperation, particularly with the Global South.

Following the welcoming address by the Academic Directors of the partnership, Çiğdem İşsever and Andrew Hurrell, as well as the warden of St Antony's, Nandini Gooptu, the second panel was dedicated to the topic of "Changing Patterns and Underlying Values". After the opening statements by Simon Marginson, Beate Kampmann, Tim Soutphommasane, Eloísa Martín and Kai Kresse, the participants discussed the development of universities and research in a global comparison and their growth, the pressure on the Anglophone region, university rankings and a pluralism of values under the moderation of Jo Beall.

The first day of the conference concluded with the keynote speech on "From the Global to the Planetary" by Dipesh Chakrabarty, who joined us from Chicago, followed by a reception.

The second day of the conference began with an opening statement by the Berlin State Secretary for Higher Education and Research, Henry Marx. The next panel, entitled "Experiences and Lessons of Global Engagement", was chaired by Andrew Hurrell and featured panelists discussing their own experiences and personal perspectives. Alan Bernstein reported on Oxford Global Health with a large number of researchers in a variety of different countries, and Mei-Ling Young, Ertuğ Tombuş and Mariana Motta Vivian spoke about researchers in the diaspora, transnational connections and their own academic and personal experiences.

In the final panel discussion, Faisal Devji, Todd H. Hall and Sigrun Abels, moderated by Elleke Boehmer, addressed the topic of "Politicization and the Intellectual and Academic Worlds Beyond Globalization". Critical and postcolonial theory has done much to challenge Eurocentrism and refute overly simplistic European assumptions about the cultural and intellectual centrality of the region. The panel addressed the question of what lies "beyond critique" and "beyond globalization" and how to look beyond Western models as a standard of assessment and prism for understanding the changing global order.

Pictures by Ian Wallman, with the exception of pictures no. 16 and 19 (private).