International Research Collaboration between the Global North and Global South
12/12/2024, Essen
How do European and African researchers understand science and academic knowledge production? This series of dialogue events focuses on the role of culture and interculturality in international research collaborations between the Global North and Global South.
The primary goal of this workshop is to facilitate the sustainable networking of international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers focusing on topics related to Gender, Diversity and Queer Studies, and their intersections. The workshop offers a platform for early-career scholars to discuss their current research projects, present (interim) results, and explore potential synergies.
This international conference sheds light on literary and cultural representations of queer intimacies and inclinations in German-language literature and culture. How do we theorise the complex relationships between desire, eros, power, and representation in Männerfreundschaften and Frauenfreundschaften? By looking to periods preceding the mid-19th-century solidification of terms purporting to…
Scripting Urban Resilience: Navigating Disaster and Sustainable Futures
15/10/2024, Essen | hybrid
Organiser: Institute for Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
The workshop brings together interdisciplinary and global perspectives on how cities are confronting disasters and planning for sustainable urban futures.
LGBTQI+ People and the "Triple Nexus" of Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding
22/08/2024 - 23/08/2024, online
The workshop will bring together international scholars and practitioners who work on the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding activities. Together, they will consider how integrating LGBTQI+ concerns contributes to the latest thinking about how those areas are intrinsically connected.
Decolonial Ecology: Literary and Cultural Representations in the Global South
25/07/2024 - 26/07/2024, Essen | hybrid
To think ecology from the perspective of colonially repressed ideas and practices is to deconstruct the epistemological hierarchy of environmental humanities. The workshop seeks to deepen the dialogue between ecology and decoloniality in the context of indigenous knowledges and practices of the Global South, examining how literary and cultural artists represent, interpret, and foreground their…
From Manuscript to Masterpiece: Getting Published in the Social Sciences
18/07/2024, Essen
Writing for publication and securing research funding are crucial skills for academics and researchers. In this two-part seminar with a focus on the areas of education and the sociology of work, senior and junior academics, journal editors, and grant application panel members provide insights and advice on how to successfully plan for and navigate publication and grant application.
Getting Funding in the Social Sciences: What I Wish I Knew
18/07/2024, Essen
Writing for publication and securing research funding are crucial skills for academics and researchers. In this two-part seminar with a focus on the areas of education and the sociology of work, senior and junior academics, journal editors, and grant application panel members provide insights and advice on how to successfully plan for and navigate publication and grant application.
Bureaucracy Old or New? A Comparative Perspective on the Administrative Burdens Placed on Academic Staff in National University Systems
11/07/2024, Essen
The administrative workload placed on academic staff varies internationally. This workshop compares key findings from recent studies about the three university systems of Germany, Czech Republic, and Australia, which represent different traditions and approaches to the organisation and governance of academic work. Increasing administrative burden is a critical policy and governance issue because…
Ambitious Goals, Sober Reality? Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Put to the Test
25/06/2024, Essen
In recent years, numerous governments have adopted a "feminist foreign policy", a contested effort to bring about a paradigm shift in how their country engages with the rest of the world. In this public panel discussion, experts from government and academia will address various facets of feminist foreign and development policy, drawing on the experiences of Germany and other countries.
Reading Session and Book Chat with Sule Emmanuel Egya (E. E. Sule)
20/06/2024, Essen
The renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya, publishing under the pen-name E. E. Sule, will read from his first novel “Sterile Sky”, for which he received the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region in 2013, and from his unpublished poetry collection.
Students have the unique opportunity to hone their skills in writing poetry and fiction in this workshop with renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya (pen-name E. E. Sule), followed by a reading session and book chat.
German Influence on Turkish Economic Thought and Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries
20/06/2024 - 21/06/2024, Essen | hybrid
The workshop retraces German influence on Turkish economic thought and policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the one-way flow of economic knowledge from Germany to Turkey, before Anglo-American mainstream economics almost entirely dominated economics as a social science after the Second World War.
Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977)
12/06/2024 - 13/06/2024, Essen
The recently rediscovered work of theatre photographer Elli Marcus serves as the starting point for a broader discussion of fashion and theatre photography in this two-day workshop, co-organised by Senior Fellow Mila Ganeva and Gudrun M. König (TU Dortmund University). Its specific focus is on the fate of fashion and theatre photography in exile and the challenges associated with curating…
Forgotten by Design. Foundational Limits and Dysfunctionalities in Computational Cognitive-Behavioral Environments
04/06/2024 - 05/06/2024, Essen
What is made technologically impossible through the cognitive-behavioural design of computational environments, thus becoming invisible, excluded, disposed, forgotten, or foreclosed? This workshop assumes a critical media studies perspective to tackle the history and theory of computational environments that are designed to study, model, or shape cognitive behaviour and decision-making, bringing…
Towards Social Innovation Digital Ecosystems (SIDEs): Challenges and Opportunities
21/05/2024, Essen | hybrid
How can digital ecosystems support social innovation? The workshop, co-organised by Douglas Wegner, Senior Fellow at the College, and his tandem partner Jürgen Howaldt (TU Dortmund University), assembles different perspectives of invited experts in the field of social innovation. Examining cases in Latin America and Europe, the workshop addresses success factors, challenges, and opportunities.
New Maps and Rubbish. Dynamic Forms of Nature - Artist Talk with Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek
15/05/2024, Essen
From mind-mapping to the final result, artist-collector Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek reflects upon her search for artistic methods and field practices gathering rubbish at Żabie Doły, a nature and landscape protected area. The talk is chaired by Mateusz Chaberski, assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
Waste as a By-Product of Modernity: New Approaches to the Old Problem
14/05/2024, Essen
The old dream that plastic would improve the world is one of many failed projects of modernity. The panel discussion, which is co-organised and chaired by College Senior Fellow Małgorzata Sugiera and Dorota Sajewska (Ruhr University Bochum), will focus on how artistic and discursive/speculative projects and practices could help us unmake waste by looking for an alternative modernity to counter the…
25/04/2024 - 27/04/2024, Essen, College for Social Sciences and Humanities
This workshop will catalogue and study existing and remembered imageries of ancient pasts in the city of Essen. Co-organised by Senior Fellow Marta García Morcillo and her tandem partner Florian Freitag, this experimental project will unite researchers from different fields to investigate cultural artifacts and signs on site, including advertising, branding, photographs, and street art as well as…
Discourses and Practices of Development and Humanitarian Assistance
12/04/2024, Essen, College for Social Sciences and Humanities | hybrid
Prof. Stephen Brown from the University of Ottawa (Canada), current Senior Fellow at the College, and his tandem partner Prof. Dennis Dijkzeul (Ruhr University Bochum) are holding a half-day workshop for graduate students under the theme of “Discourses and practices of development and humanitarian assistance”.
