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Aurora Staff BIP Expanding Scholarly Horizons & Aurora Student BIP Rising Voices: Emerging Scholar's Forum

05/10/2026 - 09/10/2026, Essen

The one-week joined retreat for students and researchers synchronises two Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) for scholars and students respectively in the two fields of (a) sustainability and climate change research and (b) culture: diversities and identities research.

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Bildung für KI – KI für Bildung: Forschungseinblicke zwischen KI-Führerschein und agentischen Trainingssystemen

12/10/2026, digital

Vortrag von Sabine Seufert, Universität St. Gallen (Schweiz)

Organisation: School Development and AI Agency Research Lab (SD-AI)

Der Vortrag beleuchtet die doppelte Bildungsfrage der KI: Was müssen Menschen lernen, um KI kompetent und verantwortlich zu nutzen – und wie kann KI selbst Lernprozesse unterstützen?

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From Human Agency to Responsible AI in School Development: Designing Human-Centred AI for K-12 Education

12/10/2026, digital

Lecture by Olga Viberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Organiser: School Development and AI Agency Research Lab (SD-AI)

This lecture examines how human-centred AI can strengthen, rather than diminish, human agency in K-12 education. It discusses key challenges, including trust, transparency, privacy, autonomy, and cognitive offloading, and considers their implications for…

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Präludo – Wissenschaft im Vorfeld der Spiele-Tage: Brettspiele zum Kompetenzerwerb

21/10/2026, Essen

Organisation: Copenhagen Business School & Netzwerk "Schule und Spiel"

Die Fachkonferenz ermöglicht fachlichen Austausch zu Forschung, Kompetenzmessung und pädagogischer Praxis für Wissenschaft, Hochschullehre und Bildungspraxis.

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Research Day 2026 | Strategic Research Area 'Transformation of Contemporary Societies'

27/10/2026, Essen

Organiser: Strategic Research Area 'Transformation of Contemporary Societies', University of Duisburg-Essen

The Research Area's focus is on analysing phenomena related to the formation of social order in a borderless world, i.e. social, political, and economic dynamics that lead to the dissolution, shifting, or redefinition of national borders.

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Alles in Ordnung im Archiv? Gespräche über Zugang und Widerständigkeit

29/10/2026, Essen

Wie Materialien in Archiven geordnet, beschrieben und kategorisiert werden und wer Zugang dazu hat, hängt auch mit gesellschaftlichen Normen und historischen Machtverhältnissen zusammen. Die Abendveranstaltung befasst sich aus künstlerischer, gesellschaftspolitischer und wissenschaftlicher Perspektive und anhand konkreter Archivmaterialien mit Widerständigkeiten im Archiv, mit einem Fokus auf…

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Global Sustainability Governance Workshop 2026: Towards Transnational Planning in the Age of Ecological Crisis

02/11/2026 - 03/11/2026, Essen

This two-day workshop explores the potential of different forms of transnational planning for leveraging transformative change. It fosters interdisciplinary dialogue on aspects such as transnational dynamics, the interaction of states, or the role of international organisations.

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East Asian Statecraft under Pressure: Resilience and Adaptation

11/11/2026 - 12/11/2026, Essen

Organiser: Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen

This conference seeks to shed light on the rapidly evolving dynamics of destabilisation, strategic adjustments, and resilience in China, Japan, Korea, and beyond by bringing together diverse perspectives and disciplines.

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Economic Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The State, Democratic Economic Planning and Security

23/11/2026 - 24/11/2026, Essen

Organisers: Matthias Kranke (College for Social Sciences and Humanities) & Halliki Kreinin (University of Tallinn, Estonia), DKN Working Group 'Rethinking Sustainable Development through Post-Growth'

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars to reflect on the future possibilities of post-growth transformations, focusing thematically on the state, democratic economic planning and…

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Sweat as Method. Explorations of the 'Lower Senses'

26/11/2026 - 27/11/2026, Essen | hybrid

What forms of knowledge emerge when sweat is not only an object but an epistemic operator? What can sweat reveal about bodies, atmospheres, and relations that remains inaccessible to distanced observation? This workshop explores sweat as a paradigmatic phenomenon through which the 'lower senses', particularly smell and touch, come into focus.

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Norms Adherence and United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs): The Case of Bangladesh

03/02/2026, Essen

Participation in peacekeeping operations implies engagement with peacekeeping norms including respect for democratic rule, balanced civil-military relations, and gender mainstreaming. At the example of Bangladesh’s involvement over the past five decades, Rashed Uz Zaman discusses to what extent such norms have shaped the country’s armed forces and what this means for the foreign policy of…

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Collaboration between Universities and Industry in the Global North and the Global South: Similarities and Differences

28/01/2026, Essen | hybrid

One of the dimensions of the ‘Third Mission’ of academic institutions is collaboration between universities and companies. Based on the examples of Germany and Mozambique, this workshop reflects on and discusses patterns of collaboration in the Global North and the Global South, exploring similarities and differences.

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Africa in Great Power Competition: China, the USA, and Global Governance

16/01/2026, Essen

In this lecture, Qingxiu Bu examines Africa’s pivotal role in the evolving great power competition between the USA and China, exploring various aspects such as trade, investment, governance, and technological dynamics. The event is open to policymakers, academics from different disciplines, and practitioners to foster dialogue.

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International Cooperation, Inclusion and Democracy in Higher Education in Brazil and Latin America

15/01/2026, Essen

Organiser: UA Ruhr Liaison Office Latin America

What significance does higher education have in Latin America, and Brazil in particular? What challenges does it face? In this lecture, Professor Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida, President of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) and a renowned expert in Brazil’s higher education landscape, will discuss the influence of international…

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The Politics of Limits: Sustainability and Democracy in Times of Changing Climates

08/12/2025 - 09/12/2025, Essen

Could freedom and equality in democratic societies be at odds with restricting economic growth for the sake of sustainability? This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between republican restrictions of individual freedom and possible economic limitations, and the relationship between democratic justice and economic growth (at the level of both ideas and practices).

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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

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Aurora Staff BIP Expanding Scholarly Horizons & Aurora Student BIP Rising Voices: Emerging Scholar's Forum

Aurora Staff BIP Expanding Scholarly Horizons & Aurora Student BIP Rising Voices: Emerging Scholar's Forum

Bildung für KI – KI für Bildung: Forschungseinblicke zwischen KI-Führerschein und agentischen Trainingssystemen

From Human Agency to Responsible AI in School Development: Designing Human-Centred AI for K-12 Education

Präludo – Wissenschaft im Vorfeld der Spiele-Tage: Brettspiele zum Kompetenzerwerb

Research Day 2026 | Strategic Research Area 'Transformation of Contemporary Societies'

Alles in Ordnung im Archiv? Gespräche über Zugang und Widerständigkeit

Global Sustainability Governance Workshop 2026: Towards Transnational Planning in the Age of Ecological Crisis

East Asian Statecraft under Pressure: Resilience and Adaptation

Economic Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The State, Democratic Economic Planning and Security

Sweat as Method. Explorations of the 'Lower Senses'

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Norms Adherence and United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs): The Case of Bangladesh

Collaboration between Universities and Industry in the Global North and the Global South: Similarities and Differences

Africa in Great Power Competition: China, the USA, and Global Governance

International Cooperation, Inclusion and Democracy in Higher Education in Brazil and Latin America

The Politics of Limits: Sustainability and Democracy in Times of Changing Climates

Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture

Ceremonial Opening | College for Social Sciences and Humanities

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

Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide

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

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