Events

Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture

04/12/2025 - 05/12/2025

How do Spanish literature, film, and culture represent perpetrators in the context of the Civil War and Franco Dictatorship? Building on the ‘Ordinary Men’ thesis, the conference explores the concepts of complicity, bystanding, and perpetration in Spanish cultural memory.

Ceremonial Opening | College for Social Sciences and Humanities

01/12/2025, Essen

Closed event – invited guests only

Founded in 2021 as part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities has taken shape as an Institute for Advanced Study, with a design that is unique in Germany: it brings together outstanding international visiting scholars, permanent research professors, and mid-career researchers ‘under one roof’. By the end of 2025, most of…

Deep Dive into ICCS 2022 – Advanced Data Analysis of Large-Scale Assessment Data in R

28/11/2025, Essen

This workshop offers (early-career) researchers the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the methodological foundations and the analysis of large-scale assessment data (in particular ICCS). It is organised by the Civic Education Research Lab, a PostdocLab working group.

Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide

25/11/2025 - 26/11/2025, Essen

This transdisciplinary workshop challenges different approaches to social memories and collective identities in the context of genocidal social practices. It seeks to develop a nuanced understanding of memory and identity that goes beyond essentialised conceptions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.

Treffen des CHANCEN-Verbunds: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung und Forschung für das Startchancen-Programm

18/11/2025 - 19/11/2025, Essen

Organiser: Kompetenzzentrum Multiprofessionelle Schulentwicklung im Sozialraum, University of Duisburg-Essen

Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken

13/11/2025, Essen | hybrid

Sweat has varying, partly contradictory cultural connotations. This workshop explores sweating in the context of cooling technologies, the media, and feminist infrastructures. The focus is on methodological, material and political questions: about skin, climate, affect, technology and textiles.

Global Sustainability Governance Workshop 2025: Growth (In)Dependencies

03/11/2025 - 04/11/2025, Essen

The concept of 'growth (in)dependence' asks how institutions should be designed to work with less or even without growth. This workshop addresses multi-level dimensions of growth (in)dependencies on the local, the national and the global level. It is organised by the research group 'Global Sustainability Governance'.

Was heißt Schwarze Archivpraxis? Von Leben und Lebendigkeit in Archiven

21/10/2025 - 22/10/2025, Essen

Based on the archival traces of the life and work of the Afro-German musician and peace activist Fasia Jansen, the event explores questions of archival authority, intimate attachments and institutional politics in the context of caring for Black histories. The evening event on 21 October encompasses insights from the archival process and a screening of a short film by Ali*ne B*enecke, calling to…

'House of Memory' – Raum für Forschung und Praxis im Kontext postmigrantischer und postkolonialer Erinnerungsarbeit

10/10/2025, Essen

The workshop explores different forms of archiving and documentation, aiming to connect initiatives and stories of transnational post-migrant and postcolonial cultural memory. The working group seeks to build structures in which new, digital perspectives on collecting, remembering and curatorial work can emerge.

Closed workshop in German

Editing Journal Literature: Possible Approaches and Aporias | Journalliteratur edieren

23/09/2025 - 24/09/2025, Essen

Literary texts published in journals are embedded in a medial continuum. They are often serialised and participate in a pluralistic form of authorship characteristic of journalistic practices. This workshop initiates a discussion between journal literature research and editorial philology – with a focus on 19th-century literature, for which first publication in newspapers or magazines was almost…