Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
Auf welche Zukunft haben wir Lust?
Veröffentlicht am 24. April 2024
Die ZiF-Konferenz 2024, die große öffentliche Jahrestagung
des ZiF, stand unter dem Titel „Zukunft jetzt! Klima, Demokratie, Geschichte“. Ziel
war, den Untergangsszenarien positive Beispiele, Projekte und Denkformen entgegenzustellen.
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ZiF Podcast Launch: InterSpaces
Veröffentlicht am 18. April 2024
Launch of the ZiF Podcast InterSpaces
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"fristgebunden" - Deadline-bound
Veröffentlicht am 15. April 2024
Vom 8. bis 10. April fand am ZiF der Workshop "fristgebunden" statt, bei dem es um die Theorie, Wirkung und Materialität von Fristen ging.
From April 8 to 10, the workshop "fristgebunden" ('deadline-bound') took place at ZiF, which dealt with the topic of theory, effect and materiality of deadlines.
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From April 8 to 10, the workshop "fristgebunden" ('deadline-bound') took place at ZiF, which dealt with the topic of theory, effect and materiality of deadlines.
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New Resident Group: Understanding the Transformations of World Politics
Veröffentlicht am 3. April 2024
New Resident Group "Understanding the Transformations of World Politics: Ordering Principles and Infrastructures of Communication"
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The Sounds of Science
Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2024
In March 2024, Musicians and researchers from the fields of mathematics, computer science, biology, aesthetics, data and systems science and complexity research came together at ZiF for the workshop "Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification". They discussed how an intuitively understandable sonification of (research) data could be achieved and enriched the workshop with public music and sonification performances.
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Farewell of the Cooperation Group "Normalizing the Far Right"
Veröffentlicht am 11. März 2024
The cooperation group "Normalizing the Far Right" met for their last retreat after two years of regular meetings, joint research and lively discussions at ZiF.
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Tagebücher im Horizont sozialer Praktiken
Veröffentlicht am 6. März 2024
Im Februar 2024 fand im ZiF ein Workshop zu den sozialen Praktiken rund um das Tagebuchschreiben statt. Wer schreibt zu welchem Zweck und in welcher Situation? Und wie unterschiedlich blicken wissenschaftliche Disziplinen auf diesen Forschungsgegenstand?
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Exhibition Opening "Curiosity Unbound - Volcanoes, Climate and History"
Veröffentlicht am 23. Februar 2024
We often encounter art and science as two distinct and clearly separate spheres. How much sense does this separation make? And does it really exist at all?
The exhibition "Curiosity Unbound" explores the spheres of art and science, curated by an artist and 8 researchers from the ZiF cooperation group "Volcanoes, Climate and History"
Evidence is Good. More Evidence is Not Always Better
Veröffentlicht am 13. Februar 2024
Evidence is good. More evidence is better. This seems self-evident and yet it could be wrong or at least too simple. This is how Liam Mannix summarizes a result of the ZiF research group "The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy: How Philosophy Can Facilitate the Science-Policy Interface" in his newsletter Examine. From February to June 2023, the interdisciplinary group with fellows from philosophy, law, ecosystem research, epidemiology and biology at ZiF researched how politicians deal with scientific findings - and why it is sometimes so difficult for science to get its evidence heard. The group's final conference took place at the ZiF in December.
[Weiterlesen]Rationality, Objectivity, and Autonomy in the Legal Sphere
Veröffentlicht am 6. Februar 2024
In
November, Professor Åsa Wettergren and Associate Professor Sara Uhnoo from the
Department of Sociology and Work Science, and Moa Bladini, Associate Professor
from the Law Department at Gothenburg University, Sweden, worked at ZiF as the Visiting Group “Consent-Based Rape Legislation in Practice: Challenging
Judicial Core Values”. In an interview on the ZiF’s Blog they talk about the progress
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Nachruf: Franz-Xaver Kaufmann - Vordenker interdisziplinärer Forschung
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2024
Am 7. Januar 2024 ist der langjährige ZiF-Direktor Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann im Alter von 91
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The Forum on the Future of Evidence-Based Policy
Veröffentlicht am 2. Januar 2024
Climate change, biological
invasions, the destruction of ecosystems, pandemics and unequal access to
public health services by huge parts of the global population increase the
interest in evidence-based policymaking. Therefore, the Research Group “The
Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy”, convened by Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher
(Murdoch University, Australia) Dr Remco Heesen (London School of Economics
and Political Science) and Prof Chad Hewitt (Lincoln University New
Zealand), organized the "Forum on the Future of Evidence-Based Policy" at ZiF in December 2023. [Weiterlesen]
Better Understanding Human-Environment Interactions
Veröffentlicht am 23. November 2023
The ZiF cooperation group "Volcanoes, Climate and History" is calling for a strengthened commitment to transdisciplinary
collaboration to study past and present human-environmental
interactions, which they say will advance our understanding of these
complex, entangled histories. Their recommendations were just published in the journal Science Advances.
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AI and Art - Exhibition "Latent Space Agency" by Moritz Wehrmann
Veröffentlicht am 23. November 2023
The "latent space" is a space of possibilities and voids that leads into a
dimension beyond our everyday understanding of logic and world contexts.
ZiF Artist in Residence 2022 Moritz Wehrmann questions the nature of spaces and dimensions, be it in
the mathematical representation of a high-dimensional space in AI
models, in the relations of the media used and thematized or in the
physical, sensually perceptible space. In latent spaces, as in Moritz
Wehrmann's works, the incoherent is connected and opens up new
perspectives.The exhibition was opened in October 2023.
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Exhibition "Rauschen" - Art on the ZiF walls
Veröffentlicht am 19. Oktober 2023
The temporary mural "Rauschen" by Sebastian Freytag accompanies ZiF visitors on the walls alongside their way to the main entrance.
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