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Wissen wirkt! Good Practices für Transfer aus den Geistes-, Gesellschafts- und Bildungswissenschaften

28/05/2026, Essen

Veranstaltung des Prorektorats für Transfer, Innovation und Digitalisierung der Universität Duisburg-Essen

Unter dem Motto „Wissen wirkt!“ lädt das Prorektorat zu einem Austausch zu Transfer in den Geistes-, Gesellschafts- und Bildungswissenschaften ein. Die Veranstaltung zeigt gelungene Beispiele aus den Fakultäten und bietet Raum für Vernetzung.

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Prevention and Youth Mental Health: Evidence-Based Policymaking

02/06/2026, Essen

Across many countries, youth mental health is a growing societal challenge. This symposium explores innovative community-based prevention strategies to improve youth mental health. It offers evidence and practical insights that can inform investments in community prevention programmes and guide future policy and programme development.

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Ungleichheit als Gewalt ─ Wie Scham politisch wirksam wird

08/06/2026, Essen | Event in German

Wann wird Ungleichheit zu Gewalt? Die Autorin Daniela Dröscher und der Philosoph Christian Neuhäuser betrachten soziale Ungleichheit aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Im Gespräch mit Julika Griem diskutieren sie unter anderem darüber, welche Rolle Erfahrungen von Abwertung und Kontrollverlust für den politischen „Rechtsruck“ spielen. Die Veranstaltung spannt einen Bogen von der philosophischen…

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Right-Wing Radicalisation and Youth Activism as a Transnational Phenomenon

09/06/2026 - 10/06/2026, Essen | hybrid

In many democratic countries, the political climate is shifting to the right. This two-day workshop will examine right-wing radicalisation and youth activism in their transnational dimensions. It brings together specialists from different domains conducting research on right-wing extremism among young people, either in specific regional or transnational settings or in an international comparative…

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Sensorische Re-Situierungen: Die Sinne in techno-ökologischer Veränderung

11/06/2026 - 12/06/2026, Essen | Event in German

Wie riecht und schmeckt Klimawandel? Die Tagung befasst sich damit, wie sich technologischer und ökologischer Wandel auf die Sinne auswirken und welche Neukonzeptionen von Körpern und Sozialität dies notwendig macht. Die Beiträge beleuchten aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auch die Frage, wie sich Sinneskonstellationen in Interaktion mit digitalen Technologien verändern.

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German Jewish Thought, Critical Theory, and the Global South

17/06/2026 - 18/06/2026, Essen | hybrid

What is missing in the histories of German Jewish thought and of Critical Theory is a sustained account of their relations to European imperialism and colonialism. This workshop asks how apparently non-systematic references irritate established meanings, allowing the Global South to penetrate into European philosophical modernity.

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Editorial Politics: Transmission and Reception of Religious and Confessional Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire

18/06/2026, Essen | hybrid

The workshop explores how religious knowledge is transmitted through texts and images as they move between manuscripts and printed forms, and how these processes shape meaning and interpretation. The focus is on authority, authorship, and inter-communal relations in the multi-confessional Ottoman Empire in the 18th century.

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Die Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets bis 1914. Buchvorstellung & Gespräch

22/06/2026, Essen | Event in German

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…

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

23/06/2026, Essen | Event in German

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.

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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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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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Wissen wirkt! Good Practices für Transfer aus den Geistes-, Gesellschafts- und Bildungswissenschaften

Wissen wirkt! Good Practices für Transfer aus den Geistes-, Gesellschafts- und Bildungswissenschaften

Prevention and Youth Mental Health: Evidence-Based Policymaking

Ungleichheit als Gewalt ─ Wie Scham politisch wirksam wird

Right-Wing Radicalisation and Youth Activism as a Transnational Phenomenon

Sensorische Re-Situierungen: Die Sinne in techno-ökologischer Veränderung

German Jewish Thought, Critical Theory, and the Global South

Editorial Politics: Transmission and Reception of Religious and Confessional Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire

Die Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets bis 1914. Buchvorstellung & Gespräch

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

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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

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

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