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April
16
Dienstag
16.04. 2019 16:15 - 18:00  |  Vortrag

Modelling Futures? Future imaginaries in the world of energy systems

Prof. Simone Abram (Durham U)

Abstract: The current moment is often described as a global energy crisis, as conflicting needs and desires, resources and degradations emerge. Among the professions concerned with seeking a resolution for the crisis are a cadre of engineers and mathematicians who seek to tame multidimensional uncertainties over time. By ‘building’ elaborate and integrated models of energy … Continued

Januar
15
Dienstag
15.01. 2019 16:15 - 18:00  |  Vortrag

Trade, Mobility and Biological Exchange in the Ancient Indian Ocean

Nicole Boivin (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

Early Indian Ocean exchange is often characterized as a straightforward precursor to the colonial and post-colonial trade of the modern era. In particular, it is perceived as dominated by urbanized and state-level societies, supporting standard core-periphery models for the emergence of early long-distance trade. This view is a natural outcome of the tendency to privilege … Continued

Dezember
11
Dienstag
11.12. 2018 16:15 - 18:00  |  Vortrag

Joint Lecture: Where the Cloud Hits the Ground. Anthropology of / in Data-saturated Worlds

Prof. Dr. Asta Vonderau (MLU Halle)

In the metaphoric imagery commonly used to describe the Internet, the world wide web has been pictured as being immaterial and fluid, like an ocean to be navigated. The complex infrastructure securing the functionality of web services ‚backstage‘ as well as the diverse forms of knowledge and industrial work behind the digital cloud are seldomly … Continued

Dezember
3
Montag
03.12. 2018 16:15 - 18:00  |  Vortrag

Joint Lecture: The Sociality of the Platform

Prof. Annelise Riles (U Evanston)

The emergence of digital political citizenship, once heralded as the engine of democratization, has paradoxically precipitated an inward-looking turn in human sociality. Rather than an escape from the Iron Cage, online communications between citizens and civic institutions mediated by new technologies often seem to become all the more dehumanized. How might we rethink the architecture … Continued

November
27
Dienstag
27.11. 2018 18:00 - 20:00  |  Vortrag

Der Einfluss von NGOs auf Menschenrechtsnormen und deren Durchsetzung auf UN-Ebene

Markus N. Beeko (Amnesty International)

Seit Verabschiedung der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte 1948 haben Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) entscheidend zur Annahme und Weiterentwicklung internationaler Menschenrechts-normen beigetragen. Die UN-Antifolterkonvention, den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof oder den Internationalen Waffenhandelsvertrag würde es ohne die weltweiten Kampagnen von Amnesty International und vielen anderen gut vernetzten NGOs vermutlich nicht geben. Wie nutzen Amnesty International und andere NGOs ihre Einflussmöglichkeiten? … Continued

November
21
Mittwoch
21.11. 2018 18:15 - 20:00  |  Vortrag

The End of Identity Politics: Humanity and the Making of Global Citizens

Prof. Amal Hassan Fadlalla (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

There is no doubt that the Islamists’ rise to power in the 1980s has put Sudan at the center of transnational media attention. Consequently, the worldwide resurgence of conservatism and right wing politics reanimated a politics of fear and reproduced new clashing discourses over identity and citizenship. Within these contexts, Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how … Continued

November
5
Montag
05.11. 2018 16:15 - 18:00  |  Vortrag

Inferring Processes of Social Learning from Cultural Frequency Data

Anne Kandler (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Speaker’s Abstract Humans show extraordinary demographic success to occupy virtually every terrestrial habitat and a huge diversity of behavioural adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species, it seems certain that the same basic genetic make-up produces arctic foraging, tropical horticulture, and desert pastoralism. The behavioural adaptations that explain the success … Continued

Oktober
17
Mittwoch
17.10. 2018 18:00 - 19:30  |  Vortrag

Economic Growth: Recent Insights on its Roots, Rhythm, and Future

Inaugural Lecture of Leibniz-Professor Prof. Dr. Sjak Smulders (Tilburg U)

Over the past 200 years or so, each next generation in Europe/Germany is substantially richer than the previous one – with higher income, more to spend, more leisure time and holidays, better health. We might forget about this amazing and robust phenomenon of economic growth when it is hidden by the irregular rhythm of big … Continued

Juli
27
Freitag
27.07. 2018 10:00 - 11:30  |  Vortrag

Hugo Grotius and the English Enlightenment

Dr. Marco Barducci (Perugia)

Vortrag und Gespräch im Rahmen des “Stipendiums für Aufklärungsforschung”. Dr. Marco Barducci (Perugia) wird bei einem Round-table-Gespräch sein aktuelles Projekt “Grotius and the English Enlightenment. Questions and Perspectives“ vorstellen. Das Gespräch wird vom IZEA in Kooperation mit der Forschungsstelle für “Frühneuzeitliches Naturrecht” des Max-Weber-Kollegs der Universität Erfurt veranstaltet und findet unter Mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. … Continued

September
3
Montag
03.09. 2018 18:00 - 20:00  |  Vortrag

Zeitschichten des Prager Frühlings. Über die Wiederkehr der Vergangenheit beim Entwerfen der Zukunft

Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Die jährliche Oskar-Halecki-Vorlesung des GWZO verfolgt das Ziel, Spitzenwissenschaftler aus den östlichen Nachbarländern Deutschlands zu einem in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion umstrittenen Thema einzuladen. Die vor prominenter Öffentlichkeit gehaltenen Vorlesungen werden anschließend zum Druck gegeben, um ihre breite Rezeption und fortdauernde Diskussion anzustoßen. Oskar Halecki (1891–1973): Der in Wien gebürtige Pole war einer der führenden Mittelalter- … Continued