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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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Creative Writing Workshop with Sule Emmanuel Egya

20/06/2024, Essen

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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Decolonial Ecology: Literary and Cultural Representations in the Global South

From Manuscript to Masterpiece: Getting Published in the Social Sciences

Getting Funding in the Social Sciences: What I Wish I Knew

Bureaucracy Old or New? A Comparative Perspective on the Administrative Burdens Placed on Academic Staff in National University Systems

Ambitious Goals, Sober Reality? Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Put to the Test

Reading Session and Book Chat with Sule Emmanuel Egya (E. E. Sule)

Creative Writing Workshop with Sule Emmanuel Egya

German Influence on Turkish Economic Thought and Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977)

Forgotten by Design. Foundational Limits and Dysfunctionalities in Computational Cognitive-Behavioral Environments

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