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Prof. Roswitha Böhm

Vice-Rector University Culture

To send a strong signal for the value of democracy and liberal-democratic coexistence, a democracy festival was celebrated on Dresden's Altmarkt on May 25, 2024. More than 60 Dresden institutions from science, art and culture, including the TUD, were invited. This issue of the newsletter contains the speech given by Prof. Roswitha Böhm on this occasion.

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Kino im Kasten summer film nights on the lawn at the Auditorium Center

What could be more fitting for a cinema in summer than freeing itself from the confines of its four walls and heading outdoors! Thanks to financial support from the TU Dresden Student Council, the Kino im Kasten university cinema will once again be able to present a series of open-air events on campus this year. Starting on June 7, they will be showing a summer film every Friday at 9:30 pm on the lawn directly behind the Auditorium Center. Come in time and grab one of the coveted comfortable StuRa loungers to enjoy a wonderful evening with friends, fellow students or colleagues.

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Technische Hochschule Dresden under National Socialism

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of its founding, TU Dresden is researching its history during the National Socialism under the auspices of the Vice-Rectorate University Culture. How did our university change during this period? What transformations of knowledge and science took place in the 20th century? Speakers from the research project and the research training group, as well as Prof. Ellerbrock and Prof. Böhm, want to engage in dialog with all interested parties at an information event on July 2 at 6:30 pm in the Auditorium Center (HSZ/E01/U).

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Exhibition "Upheavals and Consistency" in the gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections

The renowned S+T+ARTS (Science, Technology and Arts) program is an initiative launched by the European Commission in 2021, which aims to bring art, science and technology into a productive dialog. The Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections has been committed to the interfaces of these fields for around ten years.
The S+T+ARTS initiative is now expanding these transdisciplinary formats in collaboration with international partners and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), and implementing them in close cooperation with Prof. Matthew McGinity's Immersive Experience Lab and the Interactive Science Lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS).

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The Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections opens its doors at lunchtime "Collection over lunch" continues

As our world undergoes far-ranging transformation processes, academic cultural heritage is also facing profound changes. To discuss these processes, the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections is inviting experts from all over the globe to Dresden from September 24 to 29, 2024.
For the first time, ICOM-UMAC and UNIVERSEUM will come together and meet in person for a joint annual conference. Under the title “Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World,” participants can expect a multifaceted conference program.

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Summer party in the Wundtstraße student city

Join our celebrations on Wednesday, June 19 from 3 pm at the Wundtstraße student halls of residence. From 4 pm, there will be some fantastic bands on our summer party stage and from 6 pm, the UEFA Euro 2024 soccer match between Germany and Hungary will be on show. The festivities will be rounded off by services from Rad i. O., AG DSN, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), our wood-turning workshop, and the Student Union’s daycare center “Miniforscher.” The Wu 5 student club awaits you with its barbecue and drinks.

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UNI AIR 2024 band and DJ contest

As part of the 2024 Dresden Student Days, Studentenwerk Dresden and the Dresden student clubs are organizing the UNI AIR student music competition. Six bands and four DJs will take to the stage behind TU Dresden's Auditorium Center on June 12 to compete for the appealing prizes of up to EUR 1,300 sponsored by the Dresden Student Union.

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Not all heroes wear capes - some heroes water plants

This spring, a 1,000-liter water tank was installed next to the Student Council barracks and connected to the roof drainage system as part of a joint project between Stadtentwässerung Dresden (urban drainage) and the Dresden gießt initiative. The stored rainwater is now available for watering the campus greenery, especially the trees on the meadow at the Auditorium Center.

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DO it NOW – Sustainability Week from June 15 – 21, 2024

During the “DO it NOW” action week between June 15 and 21, 2024, the diverse activities and stakeholders of the university and urban society in the field of sustainability will be presented. There will be numerous opportunities to get involved and network. For example, you can get in touch with actors in the fields of education, nutrition or sustainability at TU Dresden and in the city at the free “Sustainability breakfast - educational snacks and future fun” on June 20, 2024 You can attend events and workshops or get to know numerous sustainability initiatives at the Sustainable Coffee Hour on June 17, 2024. Exhibitions, film evenings, clothes swap parties and the presentation of research projects will complete the program.

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Equality and Diversity Incentive Fund applications

As an inclusive institution of higher education, it comes natural for TU Dresden to recognize and promote diversity. With the Equality and Diversity Incentive Fund, financial resources have again been earmarked for 2025. This funding is meant to support innovative ideas for new measures as well as existing examples of best practice at the centralized and decentralized levels at TU Dresden. Apply by September 13, 2024!

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Gender and diversity aspects for teaching and research at excellence level

Since September 2022, Dr. Sandra Buchmüller has been expanding teaching and research in the engineering sciences to include perspectives and approaches from gender and diversity studies as well as feminist science and technology studies. This semester, she shared her expertise with the GenderConceptGoup to organize the lecture series “(Un)Healthy Relationships in the Antropocene” in cooperation with the School of Engineering Sciences, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and School of Medicine. In addition, she supports the existing and new Clusters of Excellence when it comes to the incorporation of gender and diversity aspects in the current application phase in order to make research both more scientifically reliable and more socially inclusive.

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Application for childcare during the 2024 summer vacation

As a family-friendly university, TU Dresden recognizes the importance of balancing work and family life and seeks to support its staff and students in this endeavor. Childcare will be available at TUD for children in grades 5–8 in the fifth week of the summer vacation (July 22 to 26). In the mornings, the children will visit laboratories and institutes of TU Dresden and will even be able to conduct their own experiments. The afternoons are for sports and games organized by the Dresden University Sports Center.

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Women@DDc network summer film nights

On June 17, the Women@DDc Network will show the Hollywood film “Bombshell”. Drinks and snacks will be offered by the Club 11 on the terrace of the Fritz Foerster Building from 5 pm. The film will start at 6 pm in seminar room 101 of the Fritz Foerster Building. The film will be shown in English with German subtitles. Admission is free. Networking before and after the film while enjoying a cool drink in summer atmosphere is highly encouraged!

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Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is starting its second funding phase

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is a lively forum for forward-looking discourse between science, art and society. It is composed of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden and brings (young) researchers together with international artists. From May to October, artist Lena von Goedeke will be researching remote sensing technologies and the interplay of data and images in the context of the climate crisis and the situation in the Arctic.

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Call for applications for the Saxon Prize for Democracy

The Saxon Prize for Democracy honors civil society initiatives or projects and municipalities that are committed to a democratic culture and against discrimination or anti-human and anti-democratic thinking. The aim is to make different forms of commitment visible and to honor them publicly. The application deadline is July 15, 2024.

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bits, bonding, bassline - the first music festival for electronics

bits, bonding, bassline is the first German business festival for electronics and computer science, and certainly one of the biggest and most unique music events between the two worlds of young professionals and industry. This platform brings together students from different semesters as well as experts and executives from science, research and industry from all over Germany to share their interest in music and careers.

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Special remote concert experience at Sound & Science 2024

This year, Sound & Science visitors were treated to an extraordinary concert experience: cellist and music festival director Jan Vogler performed together with pianist Tiffany Poon at two different venues. Jan Vogler played his cello in the Dresden Hygiene Museum. At the same time, Tiffany Poon was playing in London and could be seen in the museum via a digital feed. Her piano playing was transmitted to Dresden via a Disklavier so that the audience could experience a quasi-remote concert.
The Dresden Music Festival will continue until June 9, 2024.

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Addiction prevention training as part of the Alcohol Action Week

The German Center for Addiction Issues (Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen e.V.) is organizing the Alcohol Action Week in June with the aim of promoting the responsible use of alcohol and drawing attention to consumption risks. On June 14, 2024, there will be a special half-day training course “Addiction prevention and help in the workplace” offered by the specialist team for addiction prevention of the Diakonie Dresden in cooperation with the TUD Occupational Health Services. You will find details and how to register on the websites of the Center for Continuing Education.

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Occupational health provisions

Occupational health provisions and consultation are available to all TUD staff. Employees can book individual consultation on work-related health risks in keeping with medical confidentiality. In addition, you may request a holistic examination and physical or technical measures (e.g. laboratory, ECG, lung function, vision and hearing tests, vaccinations) if required for work-related tasks.

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Healthy campus - First aid

Acute illnesses or accidents can occur anywhere at any time – even in TUD’s study and work spaces. TUD has 849 volunteer first aiders who are on hand to provide “first aid”. All TUD buildings are equipped with first aid kits and first aid posters giving important information. There are now 69 defibrillators (AEDs) that can be used by laypersons at all central locations on campus. Important information on action-taking capacity in an emergency and the exact location of the defibrillators can be found both on the posters and on the TUD Health Services homepage.

Theater

SCHWEIN
In light but acerbic language, this existential tragicomedy tells the story of an animal owner trapped in his daily routine, two polite radical animal rights activists and a pig with dreams, who will definitely be slaughtered at the end of the play.

 DIE BÜHNE

Summer film nights

Summer cinema
Summer cinema experience outside and in the middle of the campus, organized by Kino im Kasten.

 Lawn by the Auditorium Center of TU Dresden

Presentation on care

Home care
For the majority of people in need of care, home care is provided by close relatives, friends or acquaintances with the support of a care service. The presentation is intended to provide a rough overview about the questions What makes home care possible? What options are there? Aids, services, forms of care.

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Band and DJ contest

UNI AIR 2024
On June 12, six bands and four DJs will take to the stage behind TU Dresden’s Auditorium Center. Also appearing: Jacobi, Infrapop, Home Office, Six Good Years, Jamalura and Blan Fleur (bands) as well as DJs Franzl, Sonza, Omar and harzbeats.

 Lawn by the Auditorium Center of TU Dresden

Mastering my studies event series

Lost in your studies - dealing with doubts and more
Studying sometimes feels different from what you have imagined, and there are challenges that lead you to question your choice of degree program, university location, etc. We want to show you how to deal with doubts that may arise and point out which counseling services are available.

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Dresden Science Night

Science Slam
Clear the stage for our women of science, who - with their entertaining presentations - want to win the audience’s approval and create enthusiasm for their research topic in just 10 minutes. The topics are wide-ranging and, of course, excellent. Be there!

 Lawn by the Auditorium Center of TU Dresden

Festival

Together for everyone – Hands-on festival
Together with Zuhause in Prohlis e. V., TUD invites you to a summer festival. The hands-on festival will be a place of dialog on social issues and encounters with science.

 Prohlis Centre

Theater

A – echoes of kindness
This production explores contemporary questions of care work and skillfully associates these with images of what seems commonplace.

 DIE BÜHNE

Symphony concert

Summer concert of the University Orchestra Dresden
The Dresden University Orchestra will perform its summer concert “Überzeugung.” The program includes works by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.

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Networking events

Sustainable Coffee Hour
Strike up a conversation over a coffee. All stakeholders and those interested in sustainability are welcome at the Sustainable Coffee Hour. Here you can find out what is happening in the area of sustainability and who is involved, where and how. Some of the stakeholders introduce themselves in short pitches.

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Presentation

Cradle to Cradle in Construction
Do you know what “Cradle to cradle” means? In this presentation by Sophie Hilpert, Head of “Baubündnis” C2C NGO, you will discover how this visionary model enables a sustainable future by considering products from start to finish as valuable resources in a circular economy.

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TUD Lectures: Interactive event

Climate change as challenge and opportunity for social cohesion
Climate change has long been scientifically proven and yet there are still skeptics. What can we do to stop climate change? How does it affect my own life? In what way are far-right actors increasingly mobilizing against climate policy? As part of Sustainability Week, we will be exploring these and other questions with Prof. Mauder, Dr. Weisskircher and Dr. Freiberg. Moderator: Prof. Ingwersen

 Courtyard of Fritz Foerster Building

Concert, public viewing

Summer festival Wundtstraße
Celebrate with us from 3:00 pm at Wundtstraße student city. Get to know your neighbors from Wundtstraße in person - in front of the stage, at the public viewing, at the barbecue or over a beer. On the summer festival stage, you can listen to great bands starting from 4:00 in the afternoon.

 Wundtstraße

Clothes swap

Children’s clothes swap
As part of TUD’s Sustainability Week, the Campus Office “Uni mit Kind” is hosting a children’s clothes swap. Children’s clothes and toys in good condition can be brought along and swapped. Those who do not yet have anything to swap are also very welcome. The children’s clothes swap is free of charge and you do not have to register.

 Campus Office “Uni mit Kind”

Interactive event

Educational tidbits and talks about the future - sustainability breakfast
If you want to start the morning with a relaxing breakfast and talk to stakeholders in the fields of education, nutrition or sustainability at TUD, the free sustainability breakfast is the place for you. What should education of the future look like? The teaching kitchen will provide for your culinary well-being, and with the help of the smoothie wheel, you can make your own smoothie by using the power of your legs.

 Mommsenplatz

Workshop

Fit for all occasions – stock up on regional and sustainable foods & store them properly
Every household has different shopping habits, with some people going grocery shopping every day and others doing a weekly shop. But how useful is it, actually, to stock up on food? In what ways can food be preserved? What does sustainability actually have to do with food supply? These and other questions will be answered in the interactive workshop.

 HSZ 301

TUD Lectures: Interactive event

Climate change as challenge and opportunity for social cohesion
In this super election year, TUD is very keen to fulfill its responsibility as a social actor, and for this reason, some TUD lectures are also taking place throughout Saxony. Dr. Weisskircher, Prof. Mauder, Dr. Freiberg and Prof. Ingwersen will once again be taking part.

 Bautzen

Theater

My dad was Jim Morrison’s grave
Alois is dead. How did Alois die? What is going to happen to his family? And who is this guy who breaks into the cemetery every night to ask Jim Morrison for his advice? If he is buried there.

 DIE BÜHNE

TUD Lectures: Interactive event

Gendering and social cohesion
With Dr. Sandra Buchmüller, visiting researcher for Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Prof. Alexander Lasch and Prof. Nicole Vögele from Dresden University of Fine Arts.

 Neustädter Markt

TUD Lectures: Interactive event

Uncertain global political situation
With Prof. Marianne Kneuer, Chair of Political Systems and Comparative Politics, and others.

 Pirna

TUD Lectures: Interactive event

Identity, home and culture
With Dr. Johannes Schütz Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Banda Comunale and others

 Neustädter Markt

Family festival

Family festival
SAVE THE DATE! The TUD invites young and old to a family festival in the courtyard of the Fritz Foerster Building. There will be a great family afternoon with music, hands-on circus, treats and much more.

 Courtyard of Fritz Foerster Building