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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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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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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Postcolonial English Contexts (DVPEC)

06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025

English varieties spoken in African, Asian, and Caribbean multilingual societies are influenced by ethnic languages and cultures of the respective regions, leading to variation in the use of discourse-pragmatic features. This workshop brings together international linguistics scholars to discuss different theoretical approaches and methodologies in the field.

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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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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

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Postcolonial English Contexts (DVPEC)

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