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Latent Space Agency
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Mit der Ausstellung "Latent Space Agency" des Artist in Residence 2022 Moritz Wehrmann tauchen die Besucher*innen tief in das Konzept des "latenten Raums" ein – ein Raum der Möglichkeiten und Leerstellen, der in eine Dimension jenseits unseres alltäglichen Verständnisses von Logik und Weltzusammenhängen führt. Moritz Wehrmann hinterfragt die Natur von Räumlichkeiten und Dimensionen, sei es […]
Elspeth Guild, London: State Violence and European Borders – The Performance of What Imaginary of State Sovereignty?
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Classic state theory defines the state as a territory with a population and a bureaucracy which makes a variety of claims about a monopoly over the legitimacy of violence. As EU states have transferred increasing competence for the designation and management of the borders of Europe (the EU), movement of persons across them has become […]
Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Frank Wolff (Osnabrück), Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg), Sabine Hess (Göttingen) Volker M. Heins (Essen) European borders are becoming both ubiquitous and openly violent. As border violence reportedly abounds, it becomes evident - in Europe particularly - that the new border policies conflict with liberal norms, international law and humanitarian values which constitute the historical and normative […]
Next-Level Energy-Climate Research to Support the Transition to Climate-Proof Net Zero Energy Systems
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Jan Wohland (Zürich), Hannah Bloomfield (Bristol) Energy systems worldwide are undergoing profound transformations to avoid greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately stop climate change. These transformations are often based on increased deployment of weather-dependent renewable generation technologies like wind turbines and solar photovoltaics, implying that weather and climate play key roles in designing and operating future […]
Ekkehard Coenen, Weimar: Knowledge and Violence – Sociological Perspectives
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)First talk in a series of public lectures, organized by the research group “Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime”. Dr. Ekkehard Coenen is a sociologist at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Among his research interests is violence analyzed from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge. How is knowledge about violence constituted […]
Lena Gorelik, München: Literatur und Engagement
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Ob als Journalistin, Essayistin oder Autorin von Romanen, Theaterstücken und Kurzgeschichten – in Lena Goreliks Schreiben spielen Fragen der Zugehörigkeit und Migration, aber auch ganz generell das Verhältnis von Literatur und gesellschaftspolitischem Engagement eine zentrale Rolle. Ihre Texte lenken nicht lediglich die Aufmerksamkeit auf eine plurale, postmigrantische Wirklichkeit in Deutschland, sondern zeigen diese auf ästhetisch […]
Why Muslims? Current Scientific Observations and Challenges on Anti-Muslim Attitudes and Racism
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Isabell Diekmann (Bielefeld), Riem Spielhaus (Braunschweig), Andreas Zick (Bielefeld) Anti-Muslim stereotypes, prejudices, and racist ideologies are enormously widespread phenomena across Europe and other continents. They are expressed in hostile attitudes, distancing behavioral intentions, discrimination, e. g. on the job market, hate speech and, last but not least, in acts of violence against people with actual […]
Riem Spielhaus / Heiner Bielefeldt: „Why Muslims?“
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Input 1: Anti-Muslim Attitudes and Racism Input 2: Tackling Islamophobia Public Lecture in the context of the ZiF-Workshop "Why Muslims? Current Scientific Observations and Challenges on Anti-Muslim Attitudes and Racism".
Knowledge Integrations
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Workshop of the Cooperation Group "Volcanoes, Climate and History". Convenor: Ulf Büntgen (Cambridge, UK)
Clive Oppenheimer, Cambridge: Listening to Volcanoes
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active volcano. Whether he is scaling majestic summits, listening to hissing lava at the crater’s edge, or hunting for the far-flung ashes from Earth’s greatest eruptions, Oppenheimer is an ideal guide, offering readers the chance to tag along on […]
Border Work and Authoritarian Transformation
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Workshop of the research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime". Convenors: Frank Wolff (Osnabrück), Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg), Sabine Hess (Göttingen), Volker M. Heins (Essen) State borders and their protection have resurfaced as highly controversial public and political issues in the past two decades. Hopes for a unified Europe […]
Abgesagt: Nicholas De Genova (Houston): From Border War to Civil War: Populism | Fascism | Authoritarianism
Online via ZoomDie Veranstaltung wurde abgesagt. Keynote in context of the Workshop „Border Work and Authoritarian Transformation“ organised by the Research Group "Internalizing Borders". Migration and borders - or more precisely, the spectacles of “border crisis” - have taken center stage in public debate and policy interventions in migrant-“receiving” countries, worldwide. Across the globe, alongside an […]
Forum on the Future of Evidence-Based Policy
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University), Remco Heesen (University of Western Australia), Chad Hewitt (Lincoln University, NZ) How well do masks protect in the pandemic? How do the side effects of vaccination compare with the consequences of the disease? What is the impact of school closures on students’ mental health? During the Covid 19 pandemic, it […]
Anna Guðjónsdóttir: Curiosity Unbound – Volcanoes, Climate and History
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Kunst und Wissenschaft begegnen uns häufig als zwei ausdifferenzierte und klar voneinander getrennte Sphären. Wie viel Sinn macht diese Trennung? Und existiert sie überhaupt wirklich? Mit der Renaissance wandelte sich das Weltbild hin zum Anthropozentrismus. Der Humanismus rückte in Anlehnung an die Antike den Menschen ins Zentrum - er wurde zum Maß aller Dinge. Diese Entwicklung beeinflusst uns […]
Maurice Stierl, Osnabrück / Martina Tazzioli, Bologna: Undoing the Decolonial Redux, Multiplying (Post-)Colonial Legacies
Online via ZoomOnline Lecture in context of the ZiF research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime". The recent ‘postcolonial turn’ in Migration Studies has prompted discussions concerning the possibility of decolonising this field of scholarship. Clearly, colonial histories shape our understanding of contemporary migrations and colonial legacies are inscribed in […]
Anna Guðjónsdóttir: Curiosity Unbound – Volcanoes, Climate and History
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Kunst und Wissenschaft begegnen uns häufig als zwei ausdifferenzierte und klar voneinander getrennte Sphären. Wie viel Sinn macht diese Trennung? Und existiert sie überhaupt wirklich? Mit der Renaissance wandelte sich das Weltbild hin zum Anthropozentrismus. Der Humanismus rückte in Anlehnung an die Antike den Menschen ins Zentrum - er wurde zum Maß aller Dinge. Diese Entwicklung beeinflusst uns […]
Annika Lindberg, Gothenburg: On Europe’s Attachment to Border Violence
Online via ZoomOnline Lecture in context of the ZiF research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime". Researchers, non-governmental organisations, and activists have produced ample evidence of how violence is systematically deployed by European states to regulate the mobility and settlement of people on the move racialized as undesired migrants. Europe's […]
Lucy Mayblin, Sheffield / Thom Davies, Nottingham: Eco-Coloniality and the Violent Environmentalism of the UK-France Border
Online via ZoomOnline Lecture in context of the ZiF research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime". We examines the eco-coloniality of the UK-France border by tracing the transformation of the notorious Calais “jungle” refugee camp into a nature reserve. We empirically investigate the ecological politics of the Calais borderzone, arguing […]
The Allocation of Responsibilities for Refugees
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Matthias Hoesch (Münster), Anna Lübbe (Fulda), Andreas Niederberger (Duisburg), Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg/Jena) n the European Union, responsibility sharing in refugee protection is organized through supranational regulations. This fact raises several important questions: What kind of regulations are necessary to ensure fairness for each of the states? What conditions are necessary to ensure that responsibility […]
Magdalena Kmak (Åbo Akademi University): Mobile Law: Law, Migration and Human Mobility
Online via ZoomMigration law is conventionally understood as a tool to regulate human movement across borders, and to define the rights and limits related to this movement. But drawing upon the emergence and development of the discipline of mobility studies, this book pushes the idea of migration law towards a more general concept of mobility that encompass […]
Hin zur rechtsschiefen Gesellschaft? Normalisierung und Abgrenzung
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Welche Effekte hat die Normalisierung von rechten und rechtsextremen Positionen auf Diskurse und Praktiken der Grenzziehung? Welche Rolle spielt gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit bei der Konstruktion von Grenzen – nach Innen und nach Außen? Und welche Auswirkungen haben diese Verschiebungen im politischen Diskurs auf etablierte Rechtsvorstellungen (etwa die Idee von Menschenrechten)? Diese Fragen und ihre gesellschaftspolitische Dimension […]
Dimensions of Border Internalization: Towards a Conceptual Framework
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Volker M. Heins (Essen), Sabine Hess (Göttingen), Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg), Frank Wolff (Osnabrück) Workshop of the research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime". Contact: Susanne Fizell, Group and Conference Support zif-researchsupport@uni-bielefeld.de
Nicholas De Genova (Houston): From Border War to Civil War: Populism | Fascism | Authoritarianism
Online via Zoom +1 weitereMigration and borders - or more precisely, the spectacles of “border crisis” - have taken center stage in public debate and policy interventions in migrant-“receiving” countries, worldwide. Across the globe, alongside an escalation in border violence, there has likewise proliferated a variety of reactionary right-wing (“populist”) political and social movements that can only be adequately […]
Experimenting in Open Systems
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Matthias Bergmann (Frankfurt/Main), Stephan Böschen (Aachen), Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen), Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld) The cooperation group aims at the epistemological analysis of a type of research that has recently become widespread under various names - living labs, urban labs, transformative scenario planning, experimental innovation policy. We have chosen the term 'living lab' ('Reallabore') as the […]
Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Thilo Gross (Oldenburg), Maximilian Schich (Tallinn), Cristián Huepe (Evanston, IL) Although hearing is in many ways superior to vision, data representation still relies largely on images. Today, the technical difficulties that limited the use of sonification for examining and communicating data have been largely removed by technological advances. However, despite its great success in […]
Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)An evening of performances exploring the connection between complexity, aesthetics, data, and music. Music at the interface between art and science in the context of the ZiF workshop “Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification”. The event will showcase five multimedia music performances, ranging from brain-controlled computer music to electrocardiogram-driven piano compositions and generative conceptual computer music, […]
Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)mit: Rodrigo Cádiz (Santiago, CHL), Elaine Chew (London, UK), Olivia Jack (Berlin, GER), Cristián Huepe (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA), Tim Perkis (Gothenburg, SWE) Unter allen Sinnen des Menschen halten wir den Sehsinn meist für den wichtigsten. Es scheint selbstverständlich, Forschungsergebnisse und andere Daten nur in Texten und Bildern darzustellen. Aber vielleicht wären Töne dafür […]
The Politics of Care under Market Socialism
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Convenors: Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld), Jingyu Mao (Edinburgh) This is the final conference of our ERC-funded research project "WelfareStruggles". With two ethnographic studies and a comparative social policy analysis implemented since 2019, this project seeks to understand the moral-political dynamics of welfare provision for workers in global factories of China and Vietnam. We enquire into how […]
Zukunft jetzt! Klima, Demokratie, Gesellschaft
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)Leitung: Gernot Akemann, Carsten Reinhardt, Véronique Zanetti (Bielefeld) Wir müssen nicht mehr darüber diskutieren, ob der Klimawandel real, der Verlust der Artenvielfalt eine Katastrophe oder die Radikalisierung von Teilen der Gesellschaft besorgniserregend ist. All dies ist ausreichend belegt. Die liberalen Gesellschaften in Europa (und nicht nur dort) stehen vor vielen Herausforderungen, vom nachhaltigen Umbau der […]