Events

Akzeptanzbedingungen einer Vermögenssozialpolitik

21/08/2026, Essen

Unter welchen Bedingungen kann eine Vermögenssozialpolitik gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz finden? Der Workshop bildet den Auftakt eines neuen interdisziplinären Projekts, das soziologische und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven zusammenbringt.

Intergenerational Social Protection and Governance for Healthy Ageing in Africa: Policy Innovations for Inclusive and Resilient Societies

23/07/2026, CEST | digital

Africa’s social protection architecture is currently not well equipped to compensate for complex effects of population ageing, climate shocks, and gender inequality. At the same time, some African states are generating innovative policy responses. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together researchers and representatives from international organisations and African Union institutions to…

Neo-Emotions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Feelings and Change

16/07/2026, Essen

The concept of ‘neo-emotions’ is based on the idea that our emotional range changes over time and in context. Not only have the meanings of classic terms such as anger, happiness, or embarrassment been transformed, but new kinds of emotions have also emerged. This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines to examine how feelings become established emotions, which conditions…

Working across the Borderlands: Epistemic Recognition for Interdisciplinary Research

09/07/2026, Essen

Workshop for researchers working in interdisciplinary spaces

Why is some knowledge easily heard – and other knowledge easily overlooked – in interdisciplinary work? In this participatory development workshop, the team of the Borderlands project introduces epistemic recognition – and invites participants to help build it.

Women as Victims or Perpetrators of Violence: An International Perspective

09/07/2026 - 10/07/2026, Essen | hybrid

This workshop aims to gain a better understanding of how women experience or shape the nature of violence and victims in different cultural, social and economic contexts. Researchers and practitioners from both the Global South and the Global North will examine the intersections of gender, culture and violence; agency, context and legal issues; and aspects of resistance, resilience, coping and…

Sustaining Academic Freedom: Ilia State University and its Academic Partnerships with Germany

07/07/2026 - 08/07/2026, Essen

Organisers: University Alliance Ruhr & Ilia State University (Georgia)

The conference brings together representatives from academia, university management, funding organisations and civil society from Germany and Georgia. The focus will be on current developments in the Georgian higher education sector, the importance of academic freedom, and prospects for future cooperation and support measures.

Children Who Work: Child Labour from Multidisciplinary Perspectives

03/07/2026, Essen | hybrid

Child labour is still prevalent, particularly in the Global South. This workshop aims to deepen the understanding of child labour from an interdisciplinary and international comparative perspective. The focus is on socio-economic structures, legal frameworks, and historical aspects.

Heat and Health: Bodies, Environments, and Unequal Thermal Worlds

26/06/2026, Essen | hybrid

Extreme heat is linked to illness and increased mortality. Both harmful and therapeutic uses and effects of heat are unevenly distributed across societies. This workshop examines heat as an embodied and sensorial experience that shapes health and illness, exhaustion, recovery, and care. A second focus lies on the approach to heat in health governance: how do different conceptions of heat – as…

Rechtsextremismus als Hype? Zur Radikalisierung junger Menschen in den Sozialen Medien

23/06/2026, Essen | Event in German | Essener Wissenschaftssommer

Die Bildungswissenschaftlerinnen Nicolle Pfaff und Wivian Weller zeigen anhand von ausgewählten Social-Media-Inhalten auf, wie länderübergreifende ideologische Vorstellungen des Nationalismus und der sozialen Abwertung von Gruppen zum Bezugspunkt jugendkultureller Praktiken werden.

Die Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets bis 1914. Buchvorstellung & Gespräch

22/06/2026, Essen | Event in German | Essener Wissenschaftssommer

Wie ist das heutige Ruhrgebiet entstanden? Der erste Band der Buchreihe 'Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets' zeichnet die Entstehungsgeschichte der Region von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs 1914 nach. Die Herausgeber*innen Nicolai Hannig und Ute Schneider und Historikerin Anne Friedrichs beleuchten bei der Veranstaltung unter anderem, wie die Lebenswelten der damaligen Bevölkerung…