Events

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.

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?

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.