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One Health – Public Health – Environment: Regionale Forschungslandschaft Ruhrgebiet

16/04/2026 - 17/04/2026, Essen

Organisers: Universitätsklinikum Essen, Research Center One Health Ruhr (UA Ruhr), Zentrum für Wasser- und Umweltforschung (ZWU)

The workshop brings together selected experts from medicine, public health, environmental sciences and related disciplines to explore current challenges and future opportunities at the interface of environment and health.

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Gesellschaft als Roman. Steffen Martus im Gespräch über „Erzählte Welt”

29/04/2026, Essen | Event in German

Ein dickes Buch über eine kurze Epoche? Der Berliner Literaturwissenschaftler Steffen Martus versenkt sich in "Erzählte Welt" in literarische Erzählungen, die tiefgreifende Umbrüche der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1989 erfahrbar machen. Im Gespräch erforscht er gemeinsam mit Friedrich Balke und Julika Griem, wie sich eine gegenwartsbezogene Literaturgeschichte heute schreiben lässt, wo ihre…

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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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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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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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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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Gesellschaft als Roman. Steffen Martus im Gespräch über „Erzählte Welt”

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

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

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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)

Black. Queer. Trans. Desires

Making Sense of German-African International Research Collaborations

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