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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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Therapeutic Encounters with Chatbots: The Social and Ethical Implications of Artificial Therapeutic Agents

01/07/2025, Essen | hybrid

This symposium will focus on chatbots in talk therapy. Developers, sociologists and philosophers will discuss the sociotechnical imaginaries, design assumptions and challenges that guide the creation of these chatbots. How can communication between humans and chatbots be designed to promote mental health and well-being?

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The EU-Central-Asia Relations: Dynamics and Perspectives

25/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

This workshop will critically and comparatively examine the European Union’s and Central Asia’s bilateral and multilateral relations. Contributors will discuss regional and cross-regional challenges, interregional interdependence and connectivity, as well as soft and smart power issues.

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Queer AΦ Europe | Queer Analytic Philosophy: Social Concepts and Categories

16/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

Analytic philosophy is able, at its best, to untangle large and seemingly ineffable questions. Social ontology and conceptual engineering aim to analyse ordinary concepts and categories, such as gender, race, sexual orientation, identity, as well as social emotions. This conference presents work in analytic philosophy that focuses on the nature and properties of the social world.

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Heritage Language Education and Policy

05/06/2025 - 06/06/2025, Essen

This workshop aims to compare US and German approaches to bilingual education and heritage language teaching. It explores similarities and differences in order to identify common research areas and potential solutions for future generations’ language maintenance within the context of schooling and policies.

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Multisensory Approaches to Egyptian, Near Eastern and Aegean Bronze and Iron Age Palaces

02/06/2025 - 03/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

Multisensory archaeology focuses on sensory dimensions of archaeological sites, artifacts, and landscapes to reconstruct past human experiences. This workshop explores the potential of this approach for the study of palaces from the Bronze and Iron Age.

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Meeting of the Working Group 'Multipliers' | Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital

13/05/2025 - 14/05/2025, Essen

Organiser: Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital | University of Duisburg-Essen

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Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond

08/05/2025 - 09/05/2025, Essen

Does "memory culture" promote a healthy democracy? Can the USA – and other countries – learn from Germany’s decades-long experience of "working off" the Nazi past? This conference takes a comparative perspective on the practices of commemorating historical injustice in Germany, the USA and beyond.

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Artificial Intelligence and Educational Policies: Reconstructing Academic Frameworks

06/05/2025, Essen | hybrid

This lecture gives insights into the influence of emerging new technologies such as artificial intelligence on educational policies, learning processes and teaching settings. The speaker Muzaffer Özdemir, Professor of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey), argues that a human-centered approach to integrating AI is needed, where technology…

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Practices in the Archive of a Life / Lives

24/04/2025 - 25/04/2025, Bochum & Essen

How can artists’ lives, including their political engagement, be preserved through archiving? This workshop in cooperation with the queer-feminist archive LIESELLE brings together artists, archivists, curators, digital information networkers and others to share their practices and experiences.

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Civic Education Forum: Perspectives and Challenges in a Changing World

09/04/2025, Essen

How do individual dispositions, educational institutions, and social environments shape civic learning, participation, and attitudes? Two keynote lectures present findings on civic education from psychological and sociological research.

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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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Therapeutic Encounters with Chatbots: The Social and Ethical Implications of Artificial Therapeutic Agents

The EU-Central-Asia Relations: Dynamics and Perspectives

Queer AΦ Europe | Queer Analytic Philosophy: Social Concepts and Categories

Heritage Language Education and Policy

Multisensory Approaches to Egyptian, Near Eastern and Aegean Bronze and Iron Age Palaces

Meeting of the Working Group 'Multipliers' | Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital

Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond

Artificial Intelligence and Educational Policies: Reconstructing Academic Frameworks

Practices in the Archive of a Life / Lives

Civic Education Forum: Perspectives and Challenges in a Changing World

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