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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.

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Causal Inference with Spatial Data: Intersection of Labour and Housing Markets

10/09/2026 - 11/09/2026, Essen

Organiser: FDZ Ruhr at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, University of Duisburg-Essen

The workshop brings together researchers to discuss how labour markets, housing affordability, residential choices, and regional change interact, with a focus on empirical evidence and policy-relevant research.

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Canal Dreams. Towards a Critical History of Inland Waterways

01/10/2026 - 02/10/2026, Essen

Since late medieval times, shipping canals have been essential for inland waterway transportation. A considerable number of canal projects were proposed, discussed, and even partially constructed but failed to provide usable waterways. Recent scholarship has explored how canals were a preliminary form of geo-engineering. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together researchers who have worked…

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Envisioning a Human-Centred AI in Education Ecosystem: Connecting Teacher Preparation, Schools, and Key Stakeholders

05/10/2026, digital

Lecture by Evrim Baran, Iowa State University (USA)

Organiser: School Development and AI Agency Research Lab (SD-AI)

This talk presents a vision for building a strategic Human-Centred AI in Education ecosystem that goes beyond individual tools or isolated initiatives.

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Schulentwicklung in der Digitalität – KI verstehen, erfahren und aktiv gestalten

05/10/2026, digital

Vortrag von Sigrid Hartong, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg

Organisation: School Development and AI Agency Research Lab (SD-AI)

Der Impulsvortrag skizziert das aktuelle Forschungsfeld und zeigt anhand unterschiedlicher Projekteinblicke, welche KI-Risiken im Kontext von Schulentwicklungsfragen nach wie vor stark unterschätzt werden und wie diese Risiken adressiert werden können.

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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 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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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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Black. Queer. Trans. Desires

23/01/2025 - 24/01/2025, Essen | hybrid

This workshop explores the plurality of Black queer sexualities and desires from different perspectives – particularly through examining their political, social and cultural manifestation within structures of systemic racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia.

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Making Sense of German-African International Research Collaborations

15/01/2025, Essen

How do European and African researchers understand science and academic knowledge production? This series of dialogue events focuses on the role of culture and interculturality in international research collaborations between the Global North and Global South.

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Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

13/01/2025 - 14/01/2025, Essen | hybrid

Albert the Great’s (Albertus Magnus) natural philosophy and observations of nature in the thirteenth century paved the way for modern science. This mini-conference focuses on Albert’s understanding of health, disease, and disability.

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Akzeptanzbedingungen einer Vermögenssozialpolitik

Akzeptanzbedingungen einer Vermögenssozialpolitik

Causal Inference with Spatial Data: Intersection of Labour and Housing Markets

Canal Dreams. Towards a Critical History of Inland Waterways

Envisioning a Human-Centred AI in Education Ecosystem: Connecting Teacher Preparation, Schools, and Key Stakeholders

Schulentwicklung in der Digitalität – KI verstehen, erfahren und aktiv gestalten

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

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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)

Black. Queer. Trans. Desires

Making Sense of German-African International Research Collaborations

Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

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