Discourses in and of Disruption

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Ulrike Pfeifer

Ulrike Pfeifer studied Linguistics, Literature, and Cultural Studies, with a focus on Applied Linguistics. Since the beginning of this year, she has been a research assistant in the DiaDisk project, which is part of the TUDiSC research network. Her research focuses on political linguistics and critical discourse linguistics. Currently, she is working on communicative strategies and linguistic positioning acts in science policy discourses in the context of the large-scale digital transformation of science and society.
 

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Reminder | 4th TUDiSC Conference | Registration Now Open

As announced in last month’s newsletter, registration for the 4th TUDiSC conference is now open. With only around 5 weeks to go, we encourage you all to register as soon as possible. This way your place is secured, and we can have all necessary and related organizational planning in place well in advance.
We have an exciting and diverse program of presentations and workshops exploring the multifaceted nature of the conference theme "Myths of Disruption". Please see the program here.
We are especially looking forward to Adrian Daub's talk "Selective Disruption" on December 7th.

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Thinkshop | Dark Patterns & Generational Divides | December 11, 2023

We are pleased to announce that the TUDiSC project Designate is set to host another exciting event on the highly topical issue of the so-called dark patterns humans are exposed to through technological devices and interfaces. This particular "Thinkshop" looks to analyze the subject specifically from the perspective of the participation and protection of younger and older people, and therefore understand any resulting or associated generational divides.

As a thinkshop, the event is conceived not only as an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, but also for the development of transdisciplinary approaches to dark patterns and generational divides. Following inputs from several disciplines, participants will be asked to discuss the ideas presented amongst themselves on the basis of guiding questions. Hence, the thinkshop requires active involvement of all participants.
Full event program to follow shortly...

When: December 11th, 2023, all-day Thinkshop

Where: GER 013, von-Gerber-Bau, Bergstr. 53, 01069 Dresden
 

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Conference | Reallabore – ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft | April 11-12, 2024

The conference "Reallabore - ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft" aims to continue the discourse on living laboratory research and practice. The conference is dedicated to conceptual, methodological and practical questions of research and design in living labs. It serves the dialogue between researchers and practitioners, transformers and urban and regional developers and enables an exchange of perspectives and experiences from research and practice. The conference creates a space for dialogue to address in particular the location and spatial references of living laboratories, their systematic documentation and knowledge transfer, and the anchoring of living labs as a research and governance approach. The aim is to bring together findings on how such practices and formats can be used to establish new partnerships and promote the transformation to a culture of sustainability.

The two-day conference is a collaboration between the TUDiSC project DOUbT and The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
More information to follow shortly!

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Online Lecture | Partizipative Forschung: Chancen und Grenzen eines ambitionierten Forschungsstils | November 07, 2023, 18:15-20:00

In the coming semester, the Department of Social Pedagogy at the University of Hamburg will deal with questions of participatory research in a number of events. The following event will take place online and the interested public is warmly invited to participate:
 
Hella von Unger (LMU Munich).
Participatory Research: Chances and Limits of an Ambitious Research Style.
 

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Reminder | Registration Open for Smart Borders Conference | November 15-17, 2023

With the date fast approaching we would like to take this opportunity to remind you to register your attendance for the Smart Borders conference. As the program – which are pleased to be able to share here - is testament to, the event promises to be exciting and intellectually stimulating, with input from a number of perspectives.

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Event Series | Societal Change Forum Winter Semester 2023/24

The Societal Change Forum (SCF) is dedicated to relevant research topics in the humanities and social sciences that contribute to the understanding of societal transformation processes. Whether it is the climate crisis, migration, technological progress, populism or pandemic dangers - in recent years, particular attention has been paid to the conflictual nature of social confrontation. In this context, it is true for the present that social change must not only be understood as a phenomenon of dissolution. Rather, it is important to ask how future challenges will be dealt with in the area of tension between polarization and stabilization.

The humanities and social sciences in particular are developing common conceptual and comparative heuristics in the wake of those areas of tension, but also in interdisciplinary connection with the numerous disciplines at the TU Dresden.

The Societal Change Forum of the winter semester 2023/24 therefore gathers lectures from the fields of philosophy, psychology and sociology. Covering questions on migration, pacifism, generational justice or the role of algorithms, this year's forum is intended to be a discussion format for presenting and establishing diverse approaches within the participating disciplines at TU Dresden.

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Workshop | Epistemic Networks and Bad Believing | November 16-17, 2023

We live in the age of strange conspiracy theories, fake news and “alternative truths”: from Pizza-gate and 5G conspiracies, to denying the results of properly organized elections and climate skepticism, many people seem to accept as true claims that are in no way substantiated by evidence. Following Neil Levy, we could call these bad beliefs.
 
Why do people hold bad beliefs? While it is customary, in traditional analytic epistemology, to study the individual features of people (their reliability, their epistemic virtues or vices etc.) in order to understand how they arrive at knowledge or end up with bad beliefs, recent work in social epistemology has pointed to the importance of epistemic networks in elucidating this matter. People’s beliefs, especially when it comes to social and political matters that pertain to their identity, are often shaped by the social networks the individuals are embedded in.
 
The objective of the workshop is to discuss the way bad believing (i.e., believing in scientifically unsubstantiated claims that concern vaccines, climate change, migration etc.) is shaped by the epistemic networks of the believers.

Where:
Open Science Lab, room OSL 3, Zellescher Weg 25, 01217 Dresden.
As a hybrid event all talks will also be streamed on Zoom.

Workshop

Digitale Technologien und Vertrauen
DiaDisk

  Open Science Lab

PI Meeting

PI Meeting

  online

Workshop

Dark Patterns - Manipulative Design on the Internet!?
Collaboration between TUDiSC project "Designate" and the State Center for Political Education

  SLUB Makerspace (14.11.) &
COSMO Science Forum (17.11.)

Conference

Smart Borders
A collaboration between TU Dresden and LSE

  riesa efau Kultur Forum Dresden

Conference

Discourses in/of Disruption

  Open Science Lab

PhD Meeting

Meeting of the PhD students of all projects

  Hybrid

Conference

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

  August-Bebel-Straße 20 and COSMO Science Foum

Thinkshop

Thinkshop | Dark Patterns & Generational Divides

  GER 013, von-Gerber-Bau, Bergstr. 53, 01069 Dresden

Workshop

Conceptualizing Disruption

  Open Science Lab

Conference

Leakage
Inaugural Conference of stsing e.V.

  TU Dresden

Conference

Reallabore – ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft

  Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

           

Disruption and Societal Change Center
TUDiSC

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