Social Change is Uncomfortable

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Daniel Peter

Daniel Peter studied mathematics, psychology and sociology in Bayreuth, Lüneburg and Leipzig with a focus on social networks, climate negotiations and activism. Since August 2022 he has been a research associate in the project DOUbT of the TUDiSC network and the IOER. Now his research interests are centering largely around issues of agency and power in the context of sustainability transformations.
 

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"Disruptive Imaginations" conference fast approaching!

Joint annual conference at the TU Dresden organised and hosted by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the German Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF).

We would like to bring to your attention that the Science Fiction Research Association and Society for Fantastic Research will be holding a joint conference on the theme of Disruptive Imaginations between August 15th and August 19th 2023 at the TU Dresden (co-organised by TUDiSC Member Moritz Ingwersen). The collaboration of the two organisations will encourage greater potential for dynamic exchange and stimulating discussions.

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Designate – A report on the experience of the interdisciplinary communication of research results

The challenge to explain research results to members of another discipline is one we face not only within our projects or the TUDiSC network but also externally, on conferences or events for the wider public. As members of the project DESIGNATE we, Deborah Löschner and Helena K. Jahromi, took up the challenge in both regards in June.
Psychologist Deborah accompanied Helena to the IP law conference “GRUR Junge Wissenschaft” in Potsdam, where she was warmly welcomed even as an “out-law”. Our presentation received great interest and was followed by discussions on the topic of fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration. Only a week later Helena joined the DESIGNATE presentation table at the Dresden Science Night located within various projects of engineering psychology. Besides interesting conversations with citizens who had not yet heard of the concept of online manipulation, the event also offered ample opportunities to explain the legal view to fellow colleagues from the psychology department, opening new perspectives and interesting approaches to the topic.
If you’d like to hear more about our experiences with communicating our research results to external audiences, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly.

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Future Editor Forum.
Attendance registration now open to all!

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Teaser "Myths of Disruption", December, 6, 2023: Adrian Daub

It is our intention, in the run up to the next TUDiSC conference, to reveal with each newsletter another part of the puzzle, giving you a clearer picture of how the 3-day event will unfold and what is to be expected in terms of content.

This month’s teaser spotlights Keynote Speaker Adrian Daub. Not only Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of German Studies; J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities; and Director, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Daub is also an avid writer and cultural critic. With articles published in Die Zeit, The Nation, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The Guardian, and multiple books published, he has managed to achieve that rare feat in science communication of bridging the gap between academia and the wider scientifically curious public. His most recent books include
„Was das Valley denken nennt“ (Edition Suhrkamp, 2020) und „Cancel Culture Transfer: Wie eine moralische Panik die Welt erobert“ (Edition Suhrkamp, 2022).

We look forward immensely to his cooperation with TUDiSC!

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Leakage | Inaugural Conference of stsing e.V. | March 19-22, 2024

This conference inaugurates stsing e.V., an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of research and activity interested in how science and technology are practically done and socially embedded. The association is informed by international discussions and brings together networks of senior and early career researchers. stsing e.V. currently has over 100 members from a broad range of disciplines in German-speaking countries, universities and research institutions, with working groups engaged in inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration.

The conference is open for submissions till October 15, 2023. Find more information about the event and details relating to the Call for Papers on the TUDiSC event page.

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Wanted: Student assistant

An opening for a student assistant allows you to get experience interdisciplinary work on disruptive and dynamic scientific communication. The project DESIGNATE (Disruption on the Internet: More Sovereignty vis-à-vis Deceptive Technologies) is searching for a student assistant starting on 01.09.2023 with 5h/week.

Call for Papers

The Junior Research Group Human Rights and Social Justice based at the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences invites emerging scholars across the political and social sciences to engage in critical analyses of concrete microscopic manifestations of crisis, protest, and transformation in order to explore their connections and contradictions across disciplines as well as micro- and macro-perspectives.
The conference Microscopic Research on Grand Social Concepts – Crisis,
Protest, and Transformation will take part on November 23rd & 24th.
Deadline for submissions is August, 18th.

Fulbright Scholarship

PhD scholars interested in a three- to nine-month teaching or research stay at a scientific institution in the USA can apply. Apply now and become part of the global Fulbright network!
The scholarship includes travel costs, a monthly flat-rate maintenance costs of 2.000 €, insurances and opportunities to connect.
Applications can be submitted at any time, but at least nine months before the planned start of the stay.
For inquiries regarding the Research and Teaching program, please contact germanscholars@fulbright.de.

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Exhibition "Voices" by Zorka Wollny

With “Voices / Stimmen“, Kunsthaus Dresden presents Zorka Wollny’s first solo exhibition in Germany and opens a view into an extraordinary oeuvre between performance and composition, collectivity and activism. How do we make our voices heard on the threshold of a shared future? And how do we listen in a radically new way, so that human and non-human forms of life become perceptible again in their interconnectedness? Zorka Wollny’s artistic and musical works give physical and performative form to feelings of anger and fear, resistance, community, and empathy. The exhibition is opened from June, 2nd to August, 27th at the Kunsthaus.

Conference

Disruptive Imaginations

  August-Bebel-Straße 20 and German Hygiene Museum Dresden

Exhibition

Michael Merkel + Pictoric (Ukraine): MAKE ART NOT WAR
WERKRaum Ausstellung
 

  GEH8

Exhibition

ZORKA WOLLNY: VOICES / STIMMEN
 

  Kunsthaus Dresden

Workshop

Future Editor Forum

  Open Science Lab

Exhibition

Von Genen und Menschen
Wer wir sind und werden könnten

  Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Conference

Discourses in/of Disruption

  Open Science Lab

Conference

4th TUDiSC Conference: "Myths of Disruptions. Programs, Narratives, and Utopias of Future Innovations"

  August-Bebel-Straße 20 and COSMO

           

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