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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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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.

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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'.

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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…

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'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

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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…

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Pronouns and Action Formation / Ascription in Interaction: A Usage-Based Approach

11/09/2025 - 12/09/2025, Essen

Organisers: Jens Lanwer, Nathalie Bauer, Felix Bergmann, Karola Pitsch (University of Duisburg-Essen)

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International Workshop of Embodied Interaction & Embodied Intelligence [EI]^2

21/08/2025 - 22/08/2025, Essen

Organisers: Karola Pitsch (University of Duisburg-Essen), Akiko Yamazaki (Tokyo University of Technology), Keiichi Yamazaki (Saitama University)

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Methodological Complexities in Cross-Cultural Life-Course Research

14/07/2025, Essen | online

How do temporality, gender, class, and familial interdependencies shape life trajectories in Germany and Pakistan? In this workshop, scholars and students will discuss theoretical and empirical challenges in research on youth transitions, delayed adulthood, and evolving family forms from a cross-cultural perspective.

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Ageing Materialities: Perspectives, Praxis and Possibilities

04/07/2025, Essen | hybrid

This workshop explores ageing as an interactional process and discusses the material and discursive practices that shape mid-to-later life. How do new technologies and digitalisation affect cultural conceptions of life course, later life and agency? This and related questions will be illuminated from different perspectives at the intersection of ageing studies and science and technology studies.

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New Perspectives in Economics, Education and Social Sciences

03/07/2025, Essen | partly hybrid

This workshop will bring together renowned scholars to explore transformative ideas across economics, education, and interdisciplinary social sciences. Topics include the history of economic thought, socio-economic disparities in childcare enrolment, legal institutionalism, institutional reforms and gender, and the role of neoclassical economics in education.

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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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Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken

Global Sustainability Governance Workshop 2025: Growth (In)Dependencies

Was heißt Schwarze Archivpraxis? Von Leben und Lebendigkeit in Archiven

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

Editing Journal Literature: Possible Approaches and Aporias | Journalliteratur edieren

Pronouns and Action Formation / Ascription in Interaction: A Usage-Based Approach

International Workshop of Embodied Interaction & Embodied Intelligence [EI]^2

Methodological Complexities in Cross-Cultural Life-Course Research

Ageing Materialities: Perspectives, Praxis and Possibilities

New Perspectives in Economics, Education and Social Sciences

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