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Past events

  • 2022-10-25T11:00:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-25T18:00:00+02:00
October 25 Tuesday

Oct 25, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 06:00 PM

International experts discuss possible and probable futures, and the challenges we face in making these futures desirable. Participants will speak across disciplines to consider ethics, artificial intelligence and resilience among other topics. At each session, a succinct lead presentation will be followed by several specialist commentaries, setting the scene for a substantial, free and open discussion. This is a rare opportunity to engage with globally leading thinkers in the field of futures. The event will be held in English. Participate in-person or online - please enter your preferred mode in the registration form.

  • 2022-10-24T16:30:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-24T23:59:59+02:00
October 24 Monday

Oct 24, 2022 from 04:30 PM

On October 24, 2022, the Center for Life Ethics founded by Professor Christiane Woopen, Hertz Chair TRA 4, and the House for Young Thinking will be officially opened with a ceremony. We are pleased to welcome Mr. Hendrik Wüst, Minister President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Ms. Katja Dörner, Lord Mayor, to discuss the question "How do we look at life?" with all faculty. The streaming link to the event can be found on the event page (link below ) or here: https://youtu.be/ugKF793LcrI.

  • 2022-10-19T16:00:00+02:00
  • 2023-02-01T18:00:00+01:00
October 19 Wednesday

Oct 19, 2022 04:00 PM to Feb 01, 2023 06:00 PM

The " DenkReise" invites students and young scientists to set out for new shores and to develop new ideas for an ethically founded shaping of the future in different areas of society. At the Center for Life Ethics' House for Young Thought, renowned experts from various disciplines will present their research and ideas for discussion. Finally, we will travel to the Futurium in Berlin. All interested people can take part in the DenkReise; financial support for train travel and accommodation to the Futurium in Berlin is available from TRA 4 for 25 participants. You want to join the Futurium? Write us why this DenkReise is particularly exciting for you and your scientific career (max. 1500 characters, pdf format), by 31.10.2022 to lifeethics@uni-bonn.de

  • 2022-10-19T16:00:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-19T18:00:00+02:00
October 19 Wednesday

Oct 19, 2022 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM

(Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen, Center for Life Ethics/Hertz Chair TRA 4, University Bonn) Off to new shores! Together with experts, we will embark on a journey of thought towards an ethically based design of desirable futures in different areas of society. In the House for Young Thinking of the Center for Life Ethics, experts from science and society will present their research and ideas for discussion. The DenkReise is open to all interested parties.

  • 2022-10-13T15:30:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-15T13:45:00+02:00
October 13 Thursday

Oct 13, 2022 03:30 PM to Oct 15, 2022 01:45 PM

Full title: 'Arts - Agonism - Conviviality: Analyses following Marcel Mauss'. Registration by email is not required! The Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques (The gift. Form and function of exchange in archaic societies) by French ethnologist and sociologist Marcel Mauss synthesizes a wealth of diverse research. The 1923/24 text is dense, highly complex, and contradictory. Not least, it combines two perspectives that are not easy to reconcile: one of the study, in the broadest sense, of 'pre-modern' societies and one of the analysis of contemporary conditions.

  • 2022-10-13T14:00:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-14T13:45:00+02:00
October 13 Thursday

Oct 13, 2022 02:00 PM to Oct 14, 2022 01:45 PM

Remembrance policy is work on the past for the sake of a common future. It is open to development and controversial, it is contested and sometimes fought for. However, if it wants to contribute to the critical confrontation with ideologies, with past and present crimes against humanity and diverse constructions of identity, then it must be reflexive. Such reflexivity "lives" on the capacity for reciprocity of perspectives. We ask for prior registration. The number of places is limited. Registration for participation (on site): vforum@uni-bonn.de Please include the subject line "Politics of Memory" with your registration. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

  • 2022-10-07T09:30:00+02:00
  • 2022-10-07T16:30:00+02:00
October 7 Friday

Oct 07, 2022 from 09:30 AM to 04:30 PM

Full Title: "Undocumented Migrants in Europe and Their Access to COVID-19 Vaccination" The existing Corona pandemic is a challenge on several levels, not only for the European states, but for each and every one of its citizens. For example, most states provide both Corona tests and vaccines free of charge to their populations in order to contain the pandemic. Many citizens, however, who have easy access to these measures, refuse them, believing, for example, in a global pharmaceutical industry conspiracy. Undocumented migrants, on the other hand, are partially or completely excluded from these measures for various reasons. While it is not clear how many undocumented migrants live in Europe, it should also be in the interest of states to let them participate in the protective measures to fight the pandemic more efficiently. However, besides a potential mistrust of these measures, the fear of deportation seems to prevail in the case of undocumented migrants.

  • 2022-09-26T00:00:00+02:00
  • 2022-09-30T23:59:59+02:00
September 26 Monday

Sep 26, 2022 to Sep 30, 2022

Practices of interpretation are central to both the humanities and social sciences, whose typical objects of interpretive activity range from artworks, texts and musical scores to rituals, economic behaviour and all manner of “data”. Yet the phenomenon of interpretation is no less puzzling than it is familiar and raises a host of fundamental questions: Can there be a science as well as an art of interpretation? Is interpretation an essentially human activity? Is there a difference between interpretive activity and programmable forms of data processing? Is interpretation by its nature a creative enterprise? Is it possible to develop something like an algorithm for interpretation? Do practices of interpretation as practiced by different disciplines share an essential common core? These and a host of related questions will occupy us at this year’s event. The seminars will be led by Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel (Bonn), Prof. Dr. Zed Adams (New School) and Prof. Dr. Paul Kottmann (New School)

  • 2022-09-15T14:00:00+02:00
  • 2022-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
September 15 Thursday

Sep 15, 2022 02:00 PM to Sep 16, 2022 02:00 PM

At this conference we will undertake an interdisciplinary reconsideration of privacy, asking how we do want our society to look like based on what we saw, experienced and hopefully learned from the current present and recent past. The concerned disciplines range from different cultural and language studies, law, media studies, philosophy, political theory, psychology, sociology and surveillance studies to computer science and beyond. Contributions from bioethics, health sciences, medicine, etc. or the humanitarian sector are also welcome. The idea is to suggest a Manifesto for the Future of Privacy that can be signed by the participants. The symposium is part of a project funded by a special grant program for research into societal/social, legal and cultural impacts around the Covid-19 pandemic and related liberal arts research of the transdisciplinary research area ’Individuals, Institutions and Societies’ as part of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.