Within the Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) 4, researchers investigate the complex relationships between individuals, institutions and societies. From there, they develop a new perspective on micro-phenomena (e.g. development of personality, competences and individualization) as well as macro-phenomena (e.g. world society, globalization). The aim is for example, to identify key factors that influence social cohesion, equal opportunities, efficiency, resource protection and the development of individual skills in the context of all these factors.
Further information on the structure of the TRA ‘Individuals & Societies’.
In order to ascertain the wide spectrum of research questions in the context of the TRA ‘Individuals & Societies’, many different perspectives need to be taken into account. Economical questions crossover with legal, political, sociological and religious questions etc.
The TRA currently focusses on developing three profile areas, which bundle the research interests of our members in an outstanding way:
Ethics
The profile area 'Ethics' represents a core area of our TRA and at the same time, with its high relevance for various already existing projects, such as 'Autonomy and Autonomous Systems', 'Digitalization, Law and Economy', it is an important cross-cutting topic of our other profile areas. The projects in the profile area 'Ethics' address questions concerning e.g. public health or the social consequences of the Corona pandemic. This cross-cutting theme aims to bridge the gap between the life sciences (medicine, philosophy, theology, ethics, law, etc.) and societal contexts (e.g. education, culture, market, politics).
At the heart of this profile area, the Hertz Professorship for 'Life Ethics' was filled in 2021 with Prof. Christiane Woopen, MD. With her research on ethically and legally relevant aspects of societal problems and challenges, which can only be answered by involving various disciplines from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences, Christiane Woopen establishes a link between the different research areas represented in the TRA. For this purpose, the 'Center for Life Ethics' was founded, whose research focuses on four systemically interacting dynamics that particularly characterize changes in our time: mechanization, economization, ecologization and globalization of our lives.
The expertise of the profile area 'Ethics' is furthermore complemented by Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe within the framework of an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for 'Applied Ethics of Artificial intelligence' since December 2020. Both scientists work closely with each other and with many other members of our TRA on the development and expansion of this profile area.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich
Prof. Dr. Daniela Pirazzini
PD Dr. Simone Knewitz
Information about the project
The overarching question of the research project aims at a better understanding of changing power structures and hierarchies in contemporary societies, taking into account both the individual (e.g. regarding self-determination, freedom of the individual) and society (e.g. regarding questions of social participation) as well as the role of institutions (e.g. regarding discrimination). Democratization in this sense is understood as an increase in the participation of all social groups as well as a (supposed) flattening of hierarchies.
- Interdisciplinary Workshop (12.09.2023): "Democratisation, roles, and discourse"
- You can find more information here.
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): Language and Power
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): Die Sprache der Demokratie in Geschichte und Gegenwart
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): Perspektiven der Lexikographie: Gender – Sprache – Stereotype (Fr./It)
- WiSe 2023/24 (seminar): La lingua della discriminazione
- WiSe 2023/24 (seminar): Riots, Strikes, Mobs: Crowds in the American Literary Imagination
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Lichterfeld, I.: "Visualising Injustice - Shakespeare and Racism in the EFL Classroom.” Daniel Schönbauer (ed.): 'All the world's a stage' - Shakespeare in English Language Education. Topics - Tasks - Selected Texts. Baden Baden: Tectum, 2021, 12-37.
- Blasius, Jörg. (mit Alice Barth) Quantitative Raum- und Quartiersbeobachtung. In: Nina Baur und Jörg Blasius (Hrsg.), Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, dritte Auflage (neues Kapitel) 2022, S. 1653-1668.
- Brandt, Carmen 2022. „Vom goldenen zum geteilten Bengalen: Eine kurze Geschichte der Bengalen und ihrer Heimatregion“, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 30/31: 20–27.
- Bruns, H., & Kranich, S. (2022). Terms of address: A contrastive investigation of ongoing changes in British, American and Indian English and in German. Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics, 3(1), 112-143.
- Dietrich-Grappin, Sarah. Anders Üben in der Tertiärsprache Spanisch: Ein Mehr an echter Lernzeit durch herkunfts- und fremdsprachliches Vorwissen. In: Hispanorama (2022; 178), 79-84.
- Meyer, S.N. (2022): Native Removal Writing: Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 290 pp.
- Meyer, Sabine N. "COVID-19 as a Magnifying Glass: Native America between Vulnerability and (Self-)Empowerment." In the Realm of Corona Normativities II – The Permanence of the Exception. Ed. Werner Gephart. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2022. 223-50.
- Pirazzini, Daniela (2022): Il genere testuale dialogico-polilogico nella cultura digitale. Firenze: Franco Cesati editore
- Pirazzini, Daniela (2022): Prima inter pares. Il lato nascosto della discriminazione. Frankfurt: Peter Lang
- Dietrich-Grappin, Sarah. Tertiary language didactics 2.0. A review of a multilingual didactics approach and its remodeling in the light of empirical research, translanguaging and compétence plurilingue. In: Sebestyén, K., Jagielska, K. & Comes, N. (Eds.): Multilingualism in Europe. Hungarian Educational Research Journal (2023; 13.2) [zusammen mit Britta Hufeisen]
- Meyer, S. N. (2023): "'I was nothing but a bare skeleton walking the path': Biopolitics and Life in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear." In: Biopolitics – Geopolitics – Life: Settler Colonialisms and Indigenous Presences, Eds. René Dietrich, Kerstin Knopf. Durham: Duke UP, 177-96.
- Ahlers, Anna L./Rudolf Stichweh, Die Bipolarität von Demokratie und Autoritarismus und ihre gesellschaftlichen Ursprünge, in: Soziale Systeme 25 (2), 2020, 377-417 (erschienen Dezember 2022)
- Barth, Alice/Jörg Blasius (2023). Assessing Rental Price Dynamics in two Gentrified Neighbourhoods by Means of a Dwelling Panel. In: Survey Research Methods, 17, 2023, 395-410.
- Blasius, Jörg/Lukas Sausen (2023). Detecting Fabricated Interviews Using the Hamming Distance. In: Survey Research Methods, 17, 2023, 131-145 (plus Online-Appendix).
- Brandt, Carmen & Anna Fiedler (Hrsg.) 2023: Politics of Belonging and Exclusion – Nation-building in Contemporary Asia (Referierter Themenschwerpunkt), in: ASIEN 164/165.
- Brandt, Carmen & Anna Fiedler 2023: „Editorial: Politics of Belonging and Exclusion – Nation-building in Contemporary Asia“, in: ASIEN 164/165: 7–21.
- Brandt, Carmen 2023: „Die Macht der Buchstaben: Schrift und Identität im modernen Südasien“, in: Belfiore, Valentina; Dupraz, Emmanuel; Roth, Theresa (Hrsg.). Schriftkonventionen in pragmatischer Perspektive. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (Brüssel, 13.-14. September 2018). (Letters Orientales et Classiques 22.) Leuven: Peeters: 350–392.
- Bruns, H. (2023). “That’s all it takes to be trans”: Counter-strategies to hetero- and transnormative discourse on YouTube. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 283, 53-76.
- Dietrich-Grappin, Sarah: Interlingualer Produktionstransfer als Schlüssel zur Förderung von Sprechkompetenz auf Anfangsniveau. In: Französisch heute (2023; 54,4), 18-25.
- Dietrich-Grappin,Sarah & Hufeisen, Britta: Tertiary language didactics 2.0. A review of a multilingual didactics approach and its remodeling in the light of empirical research, translanguaging and compétence plurilingue. In: Sebestyén, K., Jagielska, K. & Comes, N. (Eds.): Multilingualism in Europe. Hungarian Educational Research Journal (2023; 13.2) [online first]
- Duile, Timo; Großmann, Kristina; Haug, Michaela; Sprenger, Guido (2023) (Hrsg.) Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence. London & New York: Routledge
- Großmann, Kristina. (2023) Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia. In: Society & Natural Resources.
- Großmann, Kristina. (2023) Patronage Networks and the Hope for a Better Future: Coal Mining in Indonesia. In: The Political Economy of Extractivism. Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent. H. Warnecke-Berger and J. Ickler (eds.), 123-136.
- Kießling, Friedrich/Christoph Safferling: Der lange Weg zum demokratischen Staatsschutz. Die Bundesanwaltschaft zwischen Kommunistenprozessen, Rechtsradikalismus und Spiegel-Affäre. In: Kritische Justiz. Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 56 (2023), S. 189-200.
- Pirazzini, Daniela. (2023). “Il genere testuale dialogico-polilogico nella cultura digitale”. In: Anna-Maria De Cesare, Angela Ferrari, Letizia Lala, Filippo Pecorari (a cura di): Forme della scrittura italiana contemporanea in prospettiva contrastive, Firenze: Franco Cesati editore.
- Reber, Elisabeth und Andreas A. Jucker, hg. 2023a . Virtueller Sonderband ‚Diachronic Pragmatics: Perspectives on spoken English.’ Journal of Pragmatics.
- Reber, Elisabeth und Andreas H. Jucker. 2023b . „Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English.” Virtueller Sonderband ‚Diachronic Pragmatics: Perspectives on spoken English‘ (Elisabeth Reber und Andreas H. Jucker, hg.). Journal of Pragmatics 216: 67-74.
- Reber, Elisabeth. 2023. „On the ritualization of commemorative practices: Paying tribute in British Prime Minister’s Questions.” Virtueller Sonderband ‚Diachronic Pragmatics: Perspectives on spoken English‘ (Elisabeth Reber und Andreas H. Jucker, hg.). Journal of Pragmatics 224: 92-106.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. Como surgem sociedades divididas? In: PLURAL, Revista do Programa de Pos-graduacao em Sociologia da USP, Sao Paulo, 30, 1, Jan/Jun 2023, 196-212.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. Interdisziplinarität. Pp. 221-222 in: Rolf Arnold/Ekkehard Nuissl/Josef Schrader (Hg.), Wörterbuch Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung (3. Aufl.). Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2023.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. Lernfähigkeit (Zum 25. Todestag von Niklas Luhmann). Die Welt, 6. November 2023, S. 14.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. Migration und Internationalisierung im Welthochschulsystem und im globalen Wissenschaftssystem. S. 30-43 in: Internationalisierung im Fokus: Innenansichten aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftssystem. Die Junge Akademie (BBAW/Leopoldina) 2023.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. Moral im Grand Hotel Imperial. Dubrovnik, April 1976. Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 17, 3, 2023, 35-43.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. On Comparison and the Use of Theory (zusammen mit Christoph Antweiler, Stephan Conermann und anderen). Discussion Paper 23/02, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies.
- Stichweh, Rudolf. The University as a World Organization. Pp. 424-442 in: Paola Mattei et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization. Oxford U.P. 2023.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Richter
Information about the project
Further information will follow
- Cornelia Richter (Hrsg.): The Illusion of the Obvious. On Truth and Reliability in Times of Crisis. Special Issue in: JRAT, Brill: Wien, 2022 (zit. als JRAT 8, 2022/1).
- Cornelia Richter: Als-ob-nicht: ὡς μὴ – Fiktion mit performativem Wirklichkeitswert, in: Markus Firchow/Michael Moxter (Hgg.): Vernunft – Fiktion – Glaube, (MThSt 134) EVA: Leipzig, 2020, 95-109.
- Cornelia Richter: Wahrheit, die sich einstellt. Skizzierung einer Hermeneutik der Performanz, in: Daniel Tobias Bauer/Thomas Klie/Martina Kumlehn/Andreas Obermann (Hgg.): Von semiotischen Bühnen und religiöser Vergewisserung. Religiöse Kommunikation und ihre Wahrheitsbedingungen. FS für Michael Meyer-Blanck, de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, 2020, 27-41.
- Cornelia Richter: Wahrheit und Relevanz in Religionswissenschaft und Theologie, in: Christian Albrecht/Peter Gemeinhardt (Hgg.): Themen und Probleme Theologischer Enzyklopädie. Perspektiven von außen und von innen, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2021, 199-203.
- Cornelia Richter: Missverstehen und „nicht verstehen“. Mehr als eine kognitive Unterscheidung, in: Michael Nathan Goldberg/Andreas Mauz/Christiane Tietz (Hgg.): Missverstehen. Zu einer Urszene der Hermeneutik, (Hermeneutik und Interpretationstheorie 4) Brill Schöningh: Paderborn, 2023, 167-181.
- Cornelia Richter: Der Mensch als sinnsuchendes Wesen. Schleiermachers Anthropologie und Cassirers Essay on Man in aktuellen interdisziplinären Diskursen, in: Holden Kelm/Dorothea Meier (Hgg.): Der Mensch und die Kunst bei Friedrich Schleiermacher. Beiträge zur Anthropologie und Ästhetik, de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, 2023, 79-96.
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Call for Papers (Deadline: 31.07.2020)
- 1st place: Dr. Martin Breuel (Köln): „Lüge, Bullshit, Propaganda? ‚Postfaktische Politik‘ und das Rationalitätspotential der Demokratie‘“
- 2nd place: Florian Buchmayer (Bremen): „Das Gerede vom Postfaktischen als diskursive Wende“
- 3rd place: Eytan Celik (Bayreuth): „Fake News als Bedrohung für die moderne Gesellschaft – eine kantische Perspektive“
- Prize Question 2020-2022 (Deadline: 31.12.2021): What is truth under the conditions of digitalization? An epistemological question in conversation with hermeneutics, philosophy
of religion and sociocultural phenomenology- Award winner: Dr. Matteo Belgrano (Philosophie, UCA/CONICET)
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Mathias Schmoeckel
Prof. Dr. Martin Keßler
Ji Chen (SHK)
Sophie von Depka-Prondzuynski (SHK)
Information about the project
In the Age of Enlightenment, natural and human rights were not only called for programmatically, but also proclaimed politically - as in Virginia in 1776. Civil rights do become parts of institutions. As universal as the legal claims as such are, the circumstances that led to their very implementation are just as diverse. The project investigates decisive moments and developments that added in various counties and ages to the political establishment of fundamental rights.
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Systematik auf der Insel: Immanuel Kants „Zum ewigen Frieden“ und „Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht“
- WiSe 2023/24 (Hauptseminar): Christentum und Toleranz
Project leader
Dr. Andreas Odenthal
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Richter
Rasmus Wittekind (WMA)
David Renz (SHK)
Information about the project
The project examines the possibilities of an appropriate perception, description and interpretation of the (crisis-like) experience of world-societal transformation processes (such as the regional and global effects of climate change, increased mobility and migration, digitalization and artificial intelligence, biotechnology, democracy and governmentality) from a theological and religious studies perspective. Already the semantizations of such complexes of phenomena operate with concepts, categories, linguistic images and value patterns that have implications for the imaginary and real space of action for dealing with, shaping and norming such challenges. The project investigates which notions of salvation, agency and integrity are associated with certain semantizations and thus meaning-making processes in future scenarios.
- Workshop (10.03.2021): ‚Semantisierung in Zukunftsdiskursen‘
- Workshop (30.11.2021): ‚Zur Agency von Objekten und Personen. Semantisierung(en) und ihre Wirkung(en)‘
- Workshop (01.07.2022): ‚Ist es schon 5 nach 12? Krisen der Zukunftserwartung als Herausforderung für Agency und Integrität‘
- Tagung (18.11.2022): ‚The Future is Now. Eine bildungstheoretisch-anthropologische Hermeneutik von Zukunftserwartungen‘
- Workshop (09.12.2022): ‚Was hält die Demokratie zusammen? Konzeptionen des (Vor-)Politischen als Antworten auf die motivationalen Herausforderungen demokratischer Ordnungen‘
- Jahrestagung (15./16.12.2022)
- Workshop (28.-30.06.2023): ‘Political Hope: Technology & Digital Transformation’
- Workshop (12.10.2023): ‘Political Hope and Collective Action’
- Workshop (02./03.11.2023): ‚Handelnd hoffen oder hoffend handeln? Zum Verhältnis von Ethik und Eschatologie aus exegetisch-neutestamentlicher und systematische Perspektive‘. Further information here.
- Workshop (17.11.2023): 'Gemeinschaft - Gemeinwohl - Gemeinsinn'. Further information here.
- Workshop (24.-25.11.2023): ‚Ambivalenz, Leistung oder ...? Suchbewegungen und Nachdenken über gesellschaftlich tragfähige Semantisierungen‘
- Oberseminar (30.11.2023): 'Die Macht der Sprache. Zur performativen Bedeutung von Semantisierungsen in Sinnbildungsprozessen'
- WiSe 2021/22 (practice): Emotionales Lernen und Empathie-Lernen aus theologisch-ethischer Perspektive
- SoSe 2022 (practice): Theorie und Praxis von Trauerbegleitung im Kontext religiöser Diversität am Arbeitsplatz
- WiSe 2022/23 (practice): Pacem in Terris – Frieden und Konflikt in globalisierter Gegenwart
- WiSe 2022/23 (practice): Willkommen im Anthropozän. Aktuelle Herausforderungen Theologischer Ethik
- WiSe 2022/23 (seminar): Europa. Eine Herausforderung und Aufgabe für die politische Ethik
- WiSe 2022/23 (seminar): Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Debatten der Bio- und Medizinethik
- SoSe 2023 (Seminar): Das Politische der Theologie – das Theologische der Politik?
- SoSe 2023 (seminar) From Digital Religion to Digital Theology: Understanding Religion in a Technological Society
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): Ethik des Klimawandels
- SoSe 2023 (seminar/practice): Fundamentalismus und Fundamentaltheologie. Über Ambiguität, Identität und Toleranz im Glauben
- SoSe 2023 (practice): Das Politische der Theologie - das Theologische der Politik?
- WiSe 2023/24 (seminar): Klima und Wirtschaft. Das Klima als Herausforderung für eine Ethik des Wirtschaftens
- WiSe 2023/24 (lecture/seminar): Aktuelle Herausforderungen des ökumenischen und interreligiösen Dialogs
- WiSe 2023/24 (lecture): Identitätstheoretische, entwicklungspsychologische und bildungstheoretische Voraussetzungen des Religionsunterrichts – religionsdidaktisch-konzeptionelle Konsequenzen
- WiSe 2023/24 (seminar): Wirtschaftsethik unter dem Anspruch ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit
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Daniel Bauer: Impulse von Habermas' Genealogie für die Selbstverortung des christlichen Glaubens in der nachmetaphysischen Moderne. Eine praktisch-theologische Perspektive. In: ThGl 112 (2022), S. 166-181.
- Andreas Krebs: Erdverbundenheit. Zur Kritik der gnostischen Struktur in Christentum und Moderne, in: Simone Horstmann, Gregor Taxacher (Hg.), Animate Theologies. Ein (un)mögliches Projekt?, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2022, 73–95.
- Cornelia Richter (Hrsg.): The Illusion of the Obvious. On Truth and Reliability in Times of Crisis. Special Issue. JRAT 8, 2022/1, Brill: 2022.
- Stefan Walser: Identitätsfindung und Glaubensdynamik. Implikationen für die systematische Theologie, in: Klaus von Stosch / Stefan Walser / Anne Weber (Hg.): Theologie im Übergang. Identität – Digitalisierung – Dialog (Kirche in Zeiten der Veränderung 12) Freiburg i. Br. 2022, 89–113.
- Heidrun Mader: Hagar, die beschnittene Sklavin, und Sara, die unbeschnittene Freie: Eine Neuinterpretation der Allegorie in Gal 4,21-31 im Kontext des galatischen Konfliktes, in Korinna Zamfir/Uta Poplutz (ed.), Neutestamentliche Briefliteratur (Die Bibel und die Frauen: Eine exegetisch kulturgeschichtliche Enzyklopädie 2.2), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2022
Andreas Odenthal/Cornelia Richter (Hrsg.): Semantisierung in Zukunftsdiskursen. Theologische Analysen krisenbezogener Sprachbilder. Herder: 2023.
Project leader
Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson
Miriam Dorlaß (SHK)
Jan Thelen (SHK)
Information about the project
The ‘What Does Theology Do, Actually?’-project aims not to do theology, but to observe what theologies do, in and for the communities in which theologies circulate and hold meaning. How is theology understood and practiced as a semantics of global society? What kinds of problems do theologies solve and how? These questions are pursued, moreover, with specific attention given to the “transcultural”.
- Conference (07.-09. July, 2022): 'What Does Theology Do, Actually? Part III - The Unity of the Church and ist Histories'
- Conference (May 31 - June 1, 2024): 'What Does Theology Do, Actually? Part IV - On loci and Locations ins Systematic Theology'. Further information here.
Project leader
Dr. Charlotte Gauvry
Events
- U. Peters. 2023. « Unjustified Sample Sizes and Generalizations in Explainable AI Research: Principles for More Inclusive User Studies. IEEE Intelligent Systems (main author; co-authored with Mary Carman)
- C. Gauvry, T. Rüber. 2024. « Extrapolating Consciousness in Isolated Hemispheres. Hemispherotomy as a new challenge », Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Numéro Special issue : « New research on consciousness », forthcoming in 2024.
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Click here to go to the project homepage.
- Call for Abstracts (Frist: 30.06.2023)
Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen
Mitarbeiter*innen:
Johanne Stümpel
Silke Gaertzen
Information about the project
For the Think Journey, leading experts from different disciplines have been invited to present their respective views on the future. Students, young scientists and interested members of the public have the opportunity to meet the experts and discuss how new ideas for an ethically based design of the future can emerge.
Events
- WiSe 2022/23 (lecture series): ‚DenkReise 22/23: Wohin wollen wir leben?‘ Further information here.
- WiSe 2022/23 (excursion): ‚DenkReise 22/23: Wohin wollen wir leben?‘ Further information here.
- SoSe 2023 (Vorlesung/Seminar): DenkReise 2023: Wohin wollen wir leben?.
- WiSe 2023/24 (Vorlesung/Seminar): ‚DenkReise 22/23: Wohin wollen wir leben?‘ Further information here.
The Project is supported by Bonn Research Alliance (BORA)
- Round Table on Forced Displacement and Migration related Research (17.05.2023). Here you can find the results of the first roundtable.
- 2. Roundtable Forced Migration Studies on “Research-policy Relations in the Context of (Forced) Migration” (07.12.2023)
- 3. Roundtable Forced Migration Studies on "What moves Bonn? Exploring our City in the Concept of (Forced) Migration" (14.03.2024)
Digitalization/AI
More information to follow.
Prof. Dr. Huw Price, who was Bertrand Russel Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge until 2020, supports our profile area 'Digitization/ AI' as one of our Distinguished Emeritus Professors. He is considered one of the leading philosophers of science today.
The expertise of this profile area is also supplemented by Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, who has already started at the University of Bonn in December 2020 as an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for ‘Applied Ethics of Artificial intelligence’.
Project leader
Dr. Charlotte Gauvry
Information about the project
A cycle of interdisciplinary conferences to study the philosophical, political and medical (neurological and psychiatric) effects of the use of AI systems on mental health.
- Announcement: Workshop 08.11.2021 & 13.12.2021
- Workshop (08.11.2021): The Politics of Digital Health
- Workshop (13.12.2021): Psychological effects of interactions between minds and AI
- Session KI-Postdocs (20.06.2022): ‘Virtual reality and induces symptoms of depersonalization and derealization’ (Dr. Niclas Brauns)
- Session KI-Postdocs (04.07.2022): ‘Multi-modal evaluation of epilepsy patients using computational methods’ (Dr. Theodor Rüber)
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Friedrich
PD Dr. Christoph Ernst
Staff
Fiona Torke (WHF)
Information about the project
The starting point of the planned Research Group is the reflection of the current understanding of 'digitalization' along a critical reexamination of the analog/digital distinction. For this purpose, historical-systematic and cross-cultural reappraisals of the concepts of analog and digital operations in paradigmatic fields of knowledge and practice are conducted. On the basis of the conceptual pair continuation/discretization we can arrive at an understanding of digitization processes that is historically grounded and sensitive to cultural differences. This culminates in a program of comparative digitization research which allows for a systematic and culturally specific assessment of contemporary discourses and practices of 'digitization' and their (dis)continuities to past digitization phases.
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Ernst, Christoph/Schröter, Jens/Warnke, Martin (2020): »Der Quantencomputer – Ein zukünftiger Gegenstand der Medienwissenschaft?«, in: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen 02 (Rubrik »Perspektiven«), S. 130-150.
- Schröter, Jens/Ernst, Christoph/Warnke, Martin (2021): »Quantum Computing and the Analog/Digital Distinction«, forthcoming in Grey Room (in print). Classical Digital Machines, New Analog Computers, or Future Post-Digital Media? Quantum Computing and the History of the Analog/Digital Distinction, Vortrag an der Univ. Luxemburg (Februar 2022)
Prof. Dr. Caja Thimm
Jun.- Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen)
Prof. Dr. Frank T. Piller (RWTH Aachen)
Phillip Engelhardt (WHK)
Vincent Rastfeld (SHK)
Information about the project
In times of digitisation, datafication and the increasing use of artificial intelligence in many areas of society, the idea of autonomy has gained new attention. The researcher are investigating the possibilities of extending, simulating and replacing human agency through technology and promotes interdisciplinary cooperation at the project level. In particular, they explore the attribution of autonomy to technical artefacts such as robots, voice assistants, drones or vehicles. The common research goal is to answer ethical, regulatory, political and cultural questions that autonomous technologies pose for the digital society.
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Presentation at the 4th Research Conference of the Faculty of Arts (04.02.2022). Further information here.
- Guest lecture (10.03.2022): ‘Jenseits der Autonomie. Die De/Problematisierung des Subjekts in Zeiten der Digitalisierung‘ (Prof. Dr. Katharina Block, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
- Workshop (20.-22.11.2022): 'Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society'. Further information here.
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Maximilian Mayer (2022). Autonomous Technologies, edited by Tim Rühling, Berlin DGAP, pp.74-90.
- Maximilian Mayer, “Autonomie und Polarisierung. Machttheoretische Perspektiven auf globale digitale Plattformen”, in: Hendrik W. Ohnesorge, ed. Macht und Machtverschiebung Schlüsselphänomene internationaler Politik – Festschrift für Xuewu Gu zum 65. Geburtstag. De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022, pp. 127–145.
- Ying Huang and Maximilian Mayer (2022). “Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power”, Chinese Journal of Political Science.
- Ying Huang and Maximilian Mayer (2022). “Digital Currencies, Monetary Sovereignty, and U.S.-China Power Competition", Policy & Internet vol 14, no 2 (2022) pp. 324-347.
- Thimm, C. (2023b). Herausforderungen digitaler Bildung. Technologiesouveränität in Zeiten von ChatGPT. In Bröckling, G., Fries, R. & Narr, K. (eds.), Mit Medienbildung die Welt retten?! Medienpädagogik in einer Kultur der Digitalität. (pp. 3-14) Kopaed.
- Thimm, C. (2023). Digitale Souveränität und personale Autonomie: Herausforderungen für eine Digitalpädagogik. Mediendiskurs, 104(2), 84-87.
- Thimm, C. & Thimm-Braun, L. (2023). Künstliche Intelligenz und personale Autonomie: Diskriminierende Algorithmen als ethische und rechtliche Herausforderung für die Polizeiarbeit. In Susanne Gössl (Hrsg), Diskriminierungsfreie Algorithmen. Neue juristische Wochenschrift (S . 37-50). C. H. Beck.
- Thimm, C. (2024). Technology Sovereignty in Times of ChatGPT: New Challenges for Digital Literacy, in Bonacho, F. (ed.) "Atas do VI Congresso Literacia, Media e Cidadania. Transição Digital e Políticas Públlicas”. GILM, Coleção Estudos e Reflexões do Politécnico de Lisboa (e-book in print).
- Thimm, C. & Thimm-Braun, L. (2024/i.pr.). Policies, regulation and legal perspectives on social robots. In Autumn Edwards & Leopoldina Fortunati (Hrsg.), DE Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture. De Gruyter.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann
Petra Tillessen
Staff
Yasmina Burezah (WMA)
Leonie Geiger (WHK)
Information about the project
Collaboration in research and teaching in the humanities consists primarily in creating sustained moments of intellectual intensity in the interaction between participants. In exploring the media constellations and the intellectual potential of collaborative online cultures, the project reflects on digital and analog tools for creating such intensity in the context of building a "Collaborative Humanities Research and Teaching Lab”.
- SoSe 2021 seminar: Einführung in die Game Studies A
- SoSe 2021 seminar: Einführung in die Game Studies B
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Hermann, Adrian (Hg.) (2021): Experimente in der digitalen Lehre: Überlegungen und Modelle jenseits einer Defizitperspektive (Publiziert über bonndoc).
- Klenk, Moritz; Lokshina, Yulia; Hermann, Adrian (Hrsg.): Setzung – Wendung – Mitschrift : Dokumentation einer Arbeitsform. Bonn: Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, 2022.
- Interview (29.03.2022): ‘In the Spotlight: Adrian Hermann’, Universität Heidelberg
- (Post-)Apokalyptischer Spieletag (23.07.2022): ‚Brettspiele & Tablettop-Rollenspiele, Universität Heidelberg. For more information on this please click here.
- Lecture (23.07.2022): ‚Playing the End of the World As We know It’ (Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann), Universität Heidelberg.
Project leader
Dr. Ying Huang
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
Luisa Schmöckel
Information about the project
The initiative addresses the interactions and implications of the idea of digital sovereignty on the one hand, and the increasing fragmentation of cyberspace and Internet governance on the other (further Information).
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- The event is held in collaboration with CASSIS.
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- WiSe 2021/22 (seminar): Digitale Fragmentierung und Digitale Souveränität
- WiSe 2021/22 (seminar): Datenmacht, digitale Dependenz und Cyber-Infrastrukturen in der neuen internationalen politischen Ökonomie
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Maximilian Mayer, “Autonomie und Polarisierung. Machttheoretische Perspektiven auf globale digitale Plattformen”, in: Hendrik W. Ohnesorge, ed. Macht und Machtverschiebung Schlüsselphänomene internationaler Politik – Festschrift für Xuewu Gu zum 65. Geburtstag. De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022, 127–145.
- Ying Huang and Maximilian Mayer, “Digital Currencies, Monetary Sovereignty, and U.S.-China Power Competition”, Policy & Internet, Vol.14, Issue 2, 2022, pp.324-347.
- Ying Huang, Nicolas Huppenbauer and Maximilian Mayer, “Infrastructuring Cyberspace. Exploring China’s Imaginary and Practices of Selective Connectivity”, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol.53, No.3, 2022, pp.413-439.
- Ying Huang, Cyberspace Fragmentation from the Perspective of Technology Trends), The Journal of International Studies),2022, 95-119.
- Nicolas Huppenbauer mit J.-F. Vögele, "Vulnerabilities Disclosure mit chinesischer Prägung: Nutzen und Gefahren", Inside IT, 01.02.2022.
- Ying Huang and Maximilian Mayer,“Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol.28, Issue 1, 2023, pp.25-49.
- Nicolas Huppenbauer, “Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies”, Global Media and China, 8(3), 2023, S. 414-430.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. iur. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider
Prof. Dr. iur. Daniel Zimmer
The transdisciplinary Research Grouping analyzes legal and regulatory issues in the area of digitalization. These include the regulation of the use of algorithms by public institutions and companies, legal standard setting in the field of artificial intelligence, building ethical foundations for programming, e.g. in the field of autonomous driving, limits set by the need for sufficient competition etc.
- WiSe 2021/22 (Seminar): Das neue digitale Schuldrecht
- SoSe 2022 (Vorlesung): Daten- und Datenschutzrecht
- SoSe 2022 (Schwerpunktseminar): DAS, DMA, Data Act, Data Governance Act – auf dem Weg zu einem europäischen Datenrecht
- WiSe 2022/23 (Vorlesung): Daten- und Datenschutzrecht
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Europäisches Datenschutz- und Datenwirtschaftsrecht
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Zimmer, Daniel (Hg.), Regulierung für Algorithmen und Künstliche Intelligenz. Tagung an der Universität Bonn am 7. und 8. September 2020, Baden-Baden 2021 (Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht; 5).
PD Dr. Felix Selgert
Information about the project
Handwritten and printed tables contain a rich treasure trove of data for economic and social history. Using neural networks, we recognize the layout of handwritten and printed sources, extract en masse the data contained in the tables, and make them useful for economic history. From the computer science side, segmentation problems and their solution by means of so-called neural networks are an important field of research. So-called U-nets dominate in this respect, and we are continuing to research and improve their application in historical science in this project.
Events
Further Information will come soon.
- WiSe 2023/24 (Course as part of BNTrAinee): 'Projektgruppe Computergraphik'. Click here for the 'BNTrAinee' program.
- WiSe 2023/24 (Course as part of BNTrAinee): 'Lehrveranstaltung im Rahmen von BNTrAinee: Praktikum Computer Graphics'. Click here for the 'BNTrAinee' program.
- WiSe 2023/24 (Course as part of BNTrAinee): 'Seminar Computer Graphics'. Click here for the 'BNTrAinee' program.
Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
Prof. Dr. Zed Adams, NSSR
Prof. Dr. Paul Kottman, NSSR
Alex Englander (WMA)
Jan Voosholz (WMA)
Information about the project
The Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities convenes graduate students and distinguished scholars from The New School and the University of Bonn for intensive five-day seminars on pressing questions in contemporary philosophy and the humanities.
- Fall Institute (19.-23. October 2020): ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human(ities)’
- Fall Institute (25.-29. October 2021): ‘Objectivity and the Humanities’
- Fall Institute (26.-30- September 2022): 'A.I. - The Art of Interpretation'
- Fall Institute (11.-15. September 2023): ‘Mind-Dependent Artifacts and Artifact-Dependent Minds – AI and the Human’
- Fall Institute (30. September - 4. October 2024): 'Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value'
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human(ities)’ (Deadline: 02.06.2020)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Objectivity in the Humanities’ (Deadline: 30.06.2021)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘A.I. – The Art of Interpretation’ (Deadline: 15.06.2022)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Mind-Dependent Artifacts and Artifact-Dependent Minds – AI and the Human’ (Deadline: 28.02.2023)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowship/Fall Institute: 'Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value' (Deadline: 29.02.2024)
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
Jan Voosholz
Prof. Dr. Huw Price (Cambridge, Dist. Em. Prof. Universität Bonn)
Dr. Stephen Cave (Cambridge)
Kanta Dihal (Cambridge)
Information about the project
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn currently employ various postdocs, who spend half of their time in Bonn and the other half in Cambridge, and who are working on joint research projects. The focus here lies mainly on programmes such as 'Kinds of Intelligence' (researching the concept of intelligence from a multidisciplinary perspective) and 'Philosophy and Ethics of AI' (connecting ethics of AI with meta-etchics, ontology and philosophy of science).
- Announcement: AI Research Group
- SoSe 2021: AI Research Group (together with the CST)
- WiSe 2021/22: AI Research Group (together with the CST)
- SoSe 2022: AI Research Group (together with the CST)
- Workshop (23.06.-24.06.2023): ‚The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Historical, Comparative, and Critical Perspectives’ (Academy of International Affairs NRW, Bonn, Org. A. Taillandier)
- WiSe 2021/22 (Seminar): Mindreading and Mindshaping
- WiSe 2021/22 (Seminar): Writing the history of political thought
- SoSe 2022 (Seminar): Artificial intelligence and natural stupidity: Epistemological and ethical perspectives on comparative research
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Feminist political theories
- Wise 2022/23 (Seminar): International politics and technology
- Uwe Peters, Explainable AI Lacks Regulative Reasons: Why AI and Human Decision-making are not Equally Opaque. AI Ethics 3, 963–974, 2023.
- Uwe Peters, Algorithmic Political Bias Can Reduce Political Polarization. Philosophy and Technology 35 (3), 1-7, 2022.
- Uwe Peters, Alexander Krauss, Oliver Braganza, Generalization Bias in Science. Cognitive Science 46(9), 1-26, 2022.
- Uwe Peters, "Algorithmic Political Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems". Philosophy and Technology 35(25), 2022.
- Uwe Peters, "Extended Implicit Bias: When the Metaphysics and Ethics of Implicit Bias Collide". Erkenntnis 88, 3457–3478, 2023.
- Uwe Peters, "Reclaiming Control: Extended Mindreading and the Tracking of Digital Footprints". Social Epistemology 36(3), 267-282, 2022.
- Apolline Taillandier, Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Thomasz Hollanek, Hirofumi Katsuno, Yang Liu, Daniel White, "The Meanings of AI." In Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal (eds.), Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023), 16-36.
- Apolline Taillandier:"AI in a Different Voice: Rethinking Computers, Learning and Gender Difference at MIT in the 1980s," In Jude Browne, Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage, and Kerry McInerney (eds.), Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Blogbeitrag von Uwe Peters: ‘Extended confirmation bias: When the mind leaks into algorithms.’ Open for Debate Blog, Cardiff University, invited contribution, June 2022.
- Blogbeitrag von Uwe Peters: ‘Von Grübelei zum gesellschaftlichen Nutzen’, FirstGen Philosopers Blog (FU Berlin), invited contribution, August 2022.
- Newsletterbeitrag von Uwe Peters: ‘Generalization bias: An overlooked cause of overgeneralizations in psychology.’ The Brunswik Society Newsletter, invited contribution, November 2022.
- Interview (Uwe Peters) with ‘Psychologie Heute’ on generalization bias (in German), invited contribution, December 2022.
Project leader
Dr. Sergio Genovesi
Dr. Scott Robbins
ehem.: Dr. Katharina Kaesling
Staff
Marie Bente John (SHK)
Luis Nussbauer (SHK)
Information about the project
The project attempts to define ethical and legal foundations for the development and regulation of so called Recommender Systems. Recommender Systems, e.g. Facebook News Feed Algorithm or Youtube Video Recommendation Algorithm, are software systems that quantify the interests of users for a given content in order to recommend precisely those items to the user that she is most likely to be interested in.
Information about the project
In the framework of the competence platform KI.NRW, the CST is developing a certificate for artificial intelligence together with the Fraunhofer IAIS, the BSI, the University of Cologne, RWTH Aachen University, DIN e.V. as well as numerous DAX-30 and other companies from different industries. The project is one of the KI.NRW flagships financed by the state ministry MWIDE.
The aim of the project is to develop procedures to examine generally accepted standards for AI systems and their verification, as well as to explore business models for an AI certification. To this end, we will write interlinked catalogs of requirements with technical, legal and ethical-philosophical criteria. Our research investigates the certification of ethical aspects. The theoretical basis for this is provided by a social ontology of AI, which is also being developed in the project. In accordance with the research interest of the CST, both the double autonomy of AI and the applied concept of intelligence constitute a special research focus.
In order to make this philosophical basis operationalizable in the certification's context, use cases of AI applications are - in close exchange with our partners from law - analyzed and categorized according to ethically relevant parameters. Ethical minimal requirements for a certification will be defined.
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Onlineworkshop (21.10.2022): ‚AI Fairness‘ (further informations)
- International Conference (22.-23. Juni 2023): ‘AI Human, Values and Meaningful Human Control’ (further information)
You can find more information here.
- Vortrag (17.06.2021): ‘Certifying Sustainable AI in the framework of the AI.NRW flagship project’ (Sustainable AI Conference)
- Vortrag (27.10.2021): ‚KI-Zertifizierung und KI-Verordnungsentwurf: die Rolle der Ethik" bei der Online-Tagung „Zertifizierung und der KI-Verordnungsentwurf der Europäischen Kommission – Chancen, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven‘
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
Prof. Dr. Zed Adams, NSSR
Prof. Dr. Paul Kottman, NSSR
Staff
Alex Englander (WMA)
Jan Voosholz (WMA)
Information about the project
The Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities convenes graduate students and distinguished scholars from The New School and the University of Bonn for intensive five-day seminars on pressing questions in contemporary philosophy and the humanities.
Events
- Fall Institute (19.-23. October 2020): ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human(ities)’
- Fall Institute (25.-29. October 2021): ‘Objectivity and the Humanities’
- Fall Institute (26.-30- September 2022): 'A.I. - The Art of Interpretation'
- Fall Institute (11.-15. September 2023): ‘Mind-Dependent Artifacts and Artifact-Dependent Minds – AI and the Human’
Further information
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human(ities)’ (Deadline: 02.06.2020)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Objectivity in the Humanities’ (Deadline: 30.06.2021)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘A.I. – The Art of Interpretation’ (Deadline: 15.06.2022)
- Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘Mind-Dependent Artifacts and Artifact-Dependent Minds – AI and the Human’ (Deadline: 28.02.2023)
Reconciliation
More information to follow.
This profile area is strengthened with another Distinguished Emeritus Professorship: Moshe Zimmermann, Professor of Modern History at Hebrew University and Director of the Richard Kobener Center for German History, is closely associated with German historical scholarship and was recruited to support the profile area 'Reconciliation' in April 2022.
The TRA is additionally supported by Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner as a Senior Professor, who sustainably advances this profile area, e.g. supporting the ‘Forum for Reconciliation Research’, which will summaries all activities around the topic.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Sabine Mainberger
Prof. Dr. Christian Moser
Information about the project
Currently, the highly political question of social cohesion is being raised time and again: What ties us together beyond economic and legal relations? For attempts to think of sociality without utilitarian or normativist reductions, the French sociologist and ethnologist Marcel Mauss’s theorem of the gift is - so our hypothesis - still productive. For in the gift, economic, political, religious, moral and aesthetic dimensions come together. It thus stands at odds with the currently predominating view of society as a complex composed of fully differentiated and autonomous systems. With recourse to the gift it is possible 1) to make visible hidden crossconnections between the autonomous realms, 2) to conceptualize alliances as well as agonisms, to condcut 3) historical studies and 4) analyses of contemporary issues. Charis, Gift and Grace form a dynamic, historically versatile constellation of terms.
- SoSe 2021 (Seminar): Kunst und Gabe
- WiSe 2021/22 (lecture series): Mauss Revisited. Aktuelle Überlegungen zu (Gaben-)Tausch und Sozialität
Further information here.
- Sabine Mainberger: Grazie‘, charis, Gabe. Winckelmann gelesen mit Marcel Mauss, in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 95.3 (2021), 255-312.
- Sabine Mainberger: Grazia, Gabe und Salz. Tischszenen mit François Ier und Benvenuto Cellini, in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (2022) 96.1:1–34.
- Christian Moser: “I have sworn an oath, that I will have my bond”: Money, Law, and Pre-Legal Liability in Shakespeare and Kleist. In: Cultures of Currencies. Literature and the Symbolic Value of Money. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. New York and London: Routledge, 2022. S. 165-178.
- Sabine Mainberger: Kunst, Gabe, Macht – Zu zwei antiken Erzählungen, ersch. in Michael Hutter / Birger P. Priddat (Hg.): Geben, Nehmen, Teilen. Gabenwirtschaft im Horizont der Digitalisierung, Frankfurt . M./New York: Campus, 2023. S. 197-222.
- Sabine Mainberger: Kunst, Macht, Agonismus. Auf der Suche nach einer Gabentheorie der Kunst bei Plinius dem Älteren, in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, OA, 6. Nov. 2023 (Printversion 2024).
Project leader
Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson
Miriam Dorlaß (SHK)
Julia Wesser (SHK)
Information about the project
Religious communities can affect social cohesion in powerful ways, but this influence is highly ambivalent. The project explores the concepts of the Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, and Friend in religious peacemaking to observe how how the semantics of otherness are deployed and reinterpretated.
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Intercultural Training (04.10.-01.11.2021)
- Anaya, Lani and Matthew Ryan Robinson. “Youth Agency in Peace Building: The Contribution of Interreligious Co-Operations to Social Cohesion and Resilience.” The Ecumenical Review: Current Dialogue, 74, no. 5 (2023): 760-781
- DeCort, Andrew D./ Anaya Jiménez, Lani Mireya/ Okpaleke, Ikenna Paschal/ Robinson, Matthew Ryan (ed.): Enemy, Stranger, Neighbour and Friend. A Rough Guide On Religion and Othering, 2023
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Christoph Zuschlag
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, Mag. rer. publ.
Für Tel Aviv: Prof. Dr. Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University
Staff
Antonetta Stephany (WMA)
Joëlle Corinne Warmbrunn (SHK)Arthur Abs (SHK)
Information about the project
The restitution of Nazi looted art constitutes an unaccomplished desideratum of reconciliation occupying our as well as Israeli society. Meanwhile, this also affects Israeli museums, which increasingly aim at facing these challenges. To achieve this, research on the object histories (provenance research) is as vital as reaching agreements on just and fair solutions for the individual case at hand. For this purpose, certain rules have been developed. The process of formulating these rules, their application as well as their critical reception are supposed to be developed in dialogue form by Israeli and German students within a joint online lecture to be held by the faculties of law of the Hebrew University of Tel Aviv and the University of Bonn during the winter term 2021/22 as part of the respective general curricula. Corresponding formats of provenance research are expected to be devised subsequently.
- WiSe 2021/22 (lecture): Kunsthandel- und Kulturgutschutz (Vorlesung gemeinsam mit der Universität Tel Aviv)
- SoSe 2022 (Schwerpunktseminar): Die Restitution nationalsozialistischer Raubkunst
- SoSe 2022: NS-Raubkunst und Restitutionspraxis
- WiSe 2022/23 (lecture): Kunsthandel- und Kulturgutschutz (Vorlesung gemeinsam mit der Universität Tel Aviv)
- SoSe 2023 (Seminar): Die Restitution nationalsozialistischer Raubkunst
- SoSe 2023 (Seminar): Raubkunst in der Restitutionspraxis
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Panel: (27.-29. Juni 2022): ‘Controversies in The Holocaust Restitution Movement’ (38th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies; Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Interview (16.02.2022): Restatement of Restitution Rules for Nazi-Confiscated Art. Das Forschungsprojekt der Universität Bonn (Antonetta Stephany, , Matthias Weller), Alethea Magazine
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Clemens Albrecht
Staff
Christoph Nienhaus (WHK)
Information about the project
The aim of the project is to develop a theoretical concept of reconciliation that is suitable as a basis for empirical research. The starting point of the consideration is the understanding that practices of reconciliation are an indispensable component of define the concept of reconciliation and to outline it in an interdisciplinary way. To realise this, the project draws on sociological, theological, philosophical, legal, political and educational approaches.
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Presentation at the 4th Research Conference of the Faculty of Arts (04 Feb. 2022); Further information here.
- Ceremonial opening of the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Research (13 Jun. 2022); Here you can watch the opening ceremony again.
- Click here to listen to the podcast of the project.
- Conference (13-14 Oct. 2022): 'Erinnerungspolitik im Zeichen von Ambiguitätstoleranz‘; Click here for the conference program.
- Book presentation and audience discussion (07.12.2023): ‚Erinnerungspolitik im Zeichen von Ambiguitätstoleranz'. Further information here.
- Further information here.
- SoSe 2021 (block seminar): Versöhnung in interdisziplinärere und interkultureller Perspektive
- WiSe 2021/22 (lecture series): Versöhnung in interdisziplinärere und interkultureller Perspektive
Further information here. - WiSe 2021/22 (block seminar): Versöhnung in interdisziplinärere und interkultureller Perspektive
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Soziologie der Schuld
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Empirische Exilforschung – Objekte, Zeitschriften, Fotos
- WiSe 2023/24 (Ringseminar): Corpora Delicti – Verbrechen, Schuld und Versöhnung; For further information please click here.
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Straßenberger, Grit: Menschenbilder in Politischen Theorien, in: Handbuch Menschenbilder, hg. von Michael Zichy. 2022, S. 1-24 (zus. mit Malte Miram)
- Straßenberger, Grit: Konfliktaustragung und Konfliktbegrenzung. Zum Verhältnis von Demokratie und Recht in agonalen Politiktheorien, in: Politik im Rechtsstaat, hg. von Benno Zabel und Christian Schmidt, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, 43-59.
- Gardei, Esther/ Soeffner, Hans-Georg/ Schulz, Michael (Hrsg.): Versöhnung. Theorie und Empirie, V&R, Göttingen 2023.
- Gardei, Esther/ Soeffner, Hans-Georg/ Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.): Vergangenheitskonstruktionen. Erinnerungspolitiken im Zeichen von Ambiguitätstoleranz, Wallstein 2023
- Click here for the project's podcast.
- Subproject „Memory Politics under the sign of the tolerance for ambiguity“ (closed)
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie
Staff
Philip Pauen (WHK)
Neele Windelen (SHK)
Further information will follow.
The coronavirus pandemic has posed tremendous challenges extending beyond impact on health and our healthcare system to affect the law and political life in questions of freedom and democracy, but also culture, the media, the economy, education, family policy and employment – throwing open a trove of questions to be addressed through research.
A special program has been allocated to drive forward research into societal/social, legal and cultural impacts around the Covid-19 pandemic and related liberal arts research.
Further information on the special funding line.
The application form for the special funding line .
Project leader
Jun.- Prof Carmen Brandt
Staff
Eshita Binte Shirin Nazrul (WHK)
Information about the projectIn
This study investigated the situation of undocumented Bangladeshis during the Corona pandemic in different German cities. Besides contextualising the legal and socio-economic status of this group, the main objective of the study was to elicit their access to health care and, in particular, COVID-19 vaccination, as well as their individual attitudes towards the latter and institutions that provide it. In addition, it was determined which networks exist for undocumented Bangladeshis and what role these played in their lives in Germany during the Corona pandemic. The results of the study thus not only provide insights into a group that has so far been ignored in German research, but also a basis for the development of guidelines for action in the field of (preventive) medical care for people who have so far been excluded from it.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin v. Gaudecker
Moritz Mendel
Information about the project
Experiences and memories shape macroeconomic expectations, which have a measurable impact on economic growth. We combine individual expectation data from the years 2020 and 2022, the latter of which were collected in this project. The two periods exhibit completely different patterns - there was hardly a reaction of inflation expectations in 2020, whereas there were large jumps in expectations regarding unemployment and GDP growth. The pattern is reversed in 2022. An analysis of individual patterns allows us to gain a deeper understanding of expectations formation and how it can be influenced.
Project leader
Dr. Thomas Grosse-Wilde
Dr. Laurence O`Hara
Ellen Hofmann (SHK)
Gregor-Rafael Görgen (WHF)
From bank insolvency to viral infection to climate change - everywhere today one can ask: Why didn't the state prevent the disaster? For which adverse consequences should the state be responsible and which must it actively prevent?
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Conference (10./11.11.2022): ‚Zurechnung bei staatlichem Unterlassen‘
Project leader
Dr. Johanna Hartung
At the end of the pandemic, work concepts have become more diverse. This project investigates whether workers' well-being differs between home-office and office days while considering a number of potential factors (e.g., social interaction, commuting, type of tasks, age). The results can inform employers as well as employees about an optimal configuration of home-office regulations.
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Lecture with discussion (07.12.2022): 'Wohlbefinden zwischen Arbeitsplatz und Home-Office' (Dies Academicus)
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Hartung, J. & Hülür, G. (2022, September). Well-being in the third year of the pandemic: a daily diary study of home and office days among working people in Germany. In: Hartung, J. & Hülür, G. (Chair), Evidence from diverse German speaking samples on experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Symposium at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), Hildesheim, Germany.
- Stahlhofen, L., Hartung, J., Schilling, O., Wahl, H. W., & Hülür, G. (2022). The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife. Journal of Personality.
- Hartung, J., Stahlhofen, L., Zacher, H., & Hülür, G. (2023). The role of work and retirement in adult development and aging. Acta Psychologica, 104076-104076.
Project leader
Prof. Dr. David Kaldewey
Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann
Staff
Caitlin Blome (SHK)
Daria Denkov (WHF)
Milena Fuchs (WHF)
Paula Kuhn (WHK)
Nicole Meck (SHK)
Lea Weigel (SHK)
Information about the project
The project is dedicated to the debates about school closures during the Corona pandemic from the discplinary perspectives of sociology of science and media studies. These debates are understood as expressions of a politics of knowledge that does not simply clarify scientific consensus, but navigates the tensions between multiple facts and plural social values.
- Workshop (05.05.2022): ‚Wissenspolitik und Schulschließungen'
- Projektvorstellung im FIW-Kolloquium (26.04.2022)
- Projektvorstellung im FIW-Kolloquium (08.11.2022)
Project leader
Dr. Julia Maria Mönig
Staff
Luis Nussbauer (WHF)
Evangelia Siopi (WHF)
Information about the project
The ways societies handled the COVID-19 pandemic from early 2020 on has shed light onto a topic that concerns us all: privacy. Having to use online meeting, learning and teaching software to be able to take part in social, school and work life, gave the providers of these services and products an even greater market power alongside with increased spying and surveillance opportunities into peoples’ daily lives. Opting-out of using these tools became impossible. Using smartphones that are ubiquitous listening devices anyhow for governmental Corona tracing did raise many data protection concerns, leading in several countries to trying to build “privacy by design”- applications and take ethical issues into consideration. The project undertakes 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.
- ‘Participation in the poster exhibition of the ‚Diversity Days 2022‘
- Call for Abstracts (Deadline: 01.04.2022): ‘Rethinking Privacy after the Pandemic. Interdisciplinary Symposium (September 2022)
Project leader
Dr. Matthew R. Robinson
Staff
Elorm Nick Ahialey-Mawusi (WHK)
Lani Mireya Jiménez (WHK)
Information about the project
Digital communication settings have become one of the most important sources of information for the public, and for semantic and symbolic expressions of actual and expected, societal developments. On the basis of this observation, it seems likely that digital communication is a significant factor for social resilience. The project focused this hypothesis on religious communities and their “digital religious communications“ during the pandemic, in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the significance of those communications for the resilience of religious communities during the pandemic.
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): From Digital Religion to Digital Theology: Understanding Religion in a Technological Society
- SoSe 2023 (seminar): Applied digital theology – A hands-on journey through key aspects of digital theology
- Johannes Fröh & Matthew Ryan Robinson (2023) Digital Religious Communication and the Facilitation of Social Resilience, Part 2: Empirical Test of the Theoretical Model. A Study of the Twitter Activity of Ecumenical and Social Justice-Oriented Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Religious & Theological Information.
- Johannes Fröh & Matthew Ryan Robinson (2023) Digital Religious Communication and the Facilitation of Social Resilience, Part 1: Theoretical Model and Proposal, Journal of Religious & Theological Information.
Project leader
Yvonne Scheit
Staff
Marcel Heinecke (WHF)
Lena Sevina Krzeminski (WHF)
Information about the project
Which digital technologies/media/formats do students at the University of Bonn use, how is this use perceived, and what difficulties are experienced? This involves taking a closer, systematic sociological look at what actually makes digital interaction so different, which makes it perceived as awkward by many students. In addition, what are the students' perspectives on the increasing digitization of the University of Bonn and, most importantly, how has all this changed as a result of Corona? The research project is a mixed methods study with panel design, based on three quantitative online surveys of students at the University of Bonn, interviews with students and expert interviews.
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Project leader
Dr. Lisa Schlielicke
May Meret Bohan (WHF)
Philipp Ertz (WHF)
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How does the Corona pandemic affect the locations of social gatherings and does the weather influence the decisions where to meet. Results of the project can be used to add guidances to weather forecasts with respect to meetings and activities. This can help to counter social self-isolation in case of crisis situations such as a pandemic without violating restrictions.
- Schielicke, L., Bohmann, M., and Ertz, P.: Changes of social contacts due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the dependence on weather parameters, EMS Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Germany, 5–9 Sep 2022, EMS2022-604.
- Bohmann, M., Ertz, P., Atakan, R., Esters, L. & Schielicke, L. (2023). Changes of social contacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and the dependence on weather parameters and air quality (submitted to Weather, Climate and Society)
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter
PD Christoph Ernst
Staff
Lea Klingberg (WHF)
Information about the project
The project describes and analyzes how information and data visualizations of the Corona pandemic work. The outcome of the project will be a better understanding of the modes by which information and data visualizations of the Corona pandemic are interpreted by the public. The goal is to produce a compact brochure that will inform interested members of the public about how such information and data visualizations work.
Project leader
Dominik Suri
Staff
Gremary Antonieta Aza Mengoa (WHF)
Karen Yessenia López García (WHF)
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It is proposed that the COVID-19 pandemic has had and still has a negative impact on biodiversity conservation in the Global South. However, the idea is that community-based natural resource management approaches are key in mitigating this negative impact due to an inherent endowment of principles, such as the existence of and adherence to social norms, which increases the resilience of such approaches to cope with external shocks.
Events
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Project leader
Prof. Dr. Caja Thimm
Yannik Peters
Patrick Nehls
Staff
Kathrin Simone Dupps (WHF)
Vimbai Cathrine Hühner (WHF)
Niklas Kärmer (SHK)
Lisa Melcher-Metzger (SHK)
Mariya Molodsha (SHK)
Joschua-Merlin Sachau (SHK)
Nicolas Wehner (SHK)
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Further information will follow.
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Workshop (19.07.2022): 'Forschen mit Instagram-Daten: Werkstattbericht zu Möglichkeiten & Schwierigkeiten von Ansätzen der Computational Social Sciences' (durchgeführt von Dr. Lisa Merten, Hanna Immler M.A. und Philipp Kessling M.A., Hans-Bredow-Institut)
- SoSe 2022 (Seminar): Plattformen, Algorithmen und Co.: Der digitale Strukturwandel von Öffentlichkeit
- WiSe 2022/23 (Seminar): Empirische Medienforschung I
- SoSe 2023 (Seminar): Die Plattformgesellschaft
- WiSe 2023/24 (Seminar): Empirische Medienforschung I
- WiSe 2023/24 (Seminar): Empirische Medienforschung II
- SoSe 2024 (Seminar): Gekränkte Freiheit, Triggerpunkte, digitaler Kapitalismus – Aktuelle soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnosen und die Rolle der Medien
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Thimm, Caja (2022): Herausforderung digitale Gesellschaft: Plädoyer für eine digitale Werteordnung. Digitale Diskurse zwischen Partizipation und Konfrontation. In: weiter bilden. Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung,4, S. 25-29.
- Thimm, Caja/Nehls, Patrick/Peters, Yannik (2022): Digitale Methoden im Überblick. In: Baur, Nina/Blasius, Jörg (Hrsg.), Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, 3. Auflage, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 1267-1280.
- Peters, Y., Nehls, P. & Thimm, C. (2023): Plattformforschung mit Instagram-Daten – Eine Übersicht über analytische Zugänge, digitale Erhebungsverfahren und forschungsethische Perspektiven in Zeiten der APIcalypse. Publizistik. Open Access.
- Peters, Yannik/Nehls, Patrick/Thimm, Caja (2023): Plattformforschung mit Instagram-Daten – Eine Übersicht über analytische Zugänge, digitale Erhebungsverfahren und forschungsethische Perspektiven in Zeiten der APIcalypse. Publizistik, 68(2-3).
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