Workshops
Workshops are devoted to the discussion of innovative research topics, proposed by the convenors. They bring together a group of researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds at ZiF for a couple of days.
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| 28 - 30 January | Momentum of Its Own - Inherent Dynamism in Pre-Modern Societies Franz-Josef Arlinghaus (Bielefeld, GER), Andreas Rüther (Bielefeld, GER), Jörg Quenzer (Hamburg, GER) |
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| 11 February | Crimmigration. On the Merger of Crime Control and Migration Control Martina Althoff (Groningen, NED), Christine Graebsch (Dortmund, GER), Bettina Paul (Aachen, GER), Birgit Menzel (Hamburg, GER), Dorothea Rzepka (Darmstadt, GER), Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 17 - 19 February | Peace and Fear – A Multidisciplinary Approach Yaatsil Guevara González (Bielefeld, GER), Sebastián Martínez Fernández (Bielefeld, GER), Joachim Michael (Bielefeld, GER), Andreas Zick (Bielefeld, GER), Roberto Briceno-León (Caracas, VEN) |
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| 11 - 13 March | Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and Its Political Spaces Merle Tönnies (Paderborn, GER), Eckart Voigts (Braunschweig, GER) |
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| 11 - 13 March | Theorizing African Diaspora(s) Anew Gigi Adair (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 10 - 12 May | Video conference: Animal (Pre)History, Agency & Legacy Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel, GER), Shumon T. Hussain (Aarhus, DEN) |
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| 17 - 18 May | Video conference: Competing Socialisms: The Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Africa During the Cold War Kirsten Bönker (Bielefeld, GER), Thoralf Klein (Loughborough, GBR) |
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| 7 - 11 June | Human-Robot Interaction in Real-world Settings - Towards a Methodology that Allows for Comparative HRI Research 'in the Wild' Florian Muhle (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 10 - 11 June | Paradise or Purgatory? The Challenges of Accommodating Refugees Oliver Razum (Bielefeld, GER), Lisa Eckenwiler (Fairfax, USA), Verina Wild (München, GER), Angus Dawson (Sydney, AUS) |
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| 22 - 23 June | Video conference: Scenarios – Techniques and Practices for Doubling Reality Matthias Schaffrick (Siegen, GER) |
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| 23 - 24 June | Video conference: Opium Wars – Opium Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 29 - 30 June | Postponed to 29 - 30 June 2022 Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions: International Manifestations, Interdisciplinary Interventions Lisa Spanierman (Tempe, USA), Andreas Zick (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 8 - 9 July | Toxic Commons. Disciplinary Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Conversations Simone M. Müller (München, GER), Angeliki Balayannis (Exeter, GBR) |
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| 2 - 3 August | Self-Destruction in Distributed Systems: Autoimmunity, Inflation, Noisy Signaling Kay Junge (Bielefeld, GER), Kirill Postoutenko (Bielefeld, GER), Fernao Vistulo de Abreu (Aveiro, POR) |
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| 4 - 7 August | Mathematics of Machine Learning Benjamin Gess (Bielefeld, GER), Guido Montufar (Leipzig, GER), Nihat Ay (Leipzig, GER) |
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| 23 - 25 August | Postponed to July 2022 History & Memory. Towards a New Interdisciplinary Dialogue Christina Morina (Bielefeld, GER), Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus, GER) |
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| 27 - 28 August | Participation as a Condition for Humanizing Epistemology? Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives Oliver Böhm-Kasper (Bielefeld, GER), Saana Jukola (Bielefeld, GER), Anna Kirova (Edmonton, CAN) |
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| 8 - 10 September | Drivers and Paths of Authoritarian Developments in the 21st Century Günter Frankenberg (Frankfurt am Main, GER), Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 27 - 29 September | Video Conference: Animal (Pre)History, Agency & Legacy Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel, GER), Shumon T. Hussain (Aarhus, DEN) |
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| 12 October | Video Conference: Crimmigration. On the Merger of Crime Control and Migration Control Martina Althoff (Groningen, NED), Christine Graebsch (Dortmund, GER), Bettina Paul (Aachen, GER), Birgit Menzel (Hamburg, GER), Dorothea Rzepka (Darmstadt, GER), Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 14 - 15 October | Video Conference: Stylistics Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Transformations of a Method in the Humanities Elisa Ronzheimer (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 21 October | Video-Conference: Conceptualising Intercultural Contact in the Early British Empire Marcus Hartner (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 16 - 18 November | Postponed to 21 - 23 March 2022 The 1st International Workshop on Data Storage in Molecular Media (DSMM) Georges Hattab (Marburg, GER), Dominik Heider (Marburg, GER), Anke Becker (Marburg, GER) |
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| 7 - 8 December | Reconfiguring Labour and Welfare in Emerging Economies of the Global South Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld, GER), Jake Lin (Bielefeld, GER), Ngoc Minh Luong (Bielefeld, GER), Yueran Tian (Bielefeld, GER) |
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| 17 - 18 December | XVII Brunel – Bielefeld Workshop on Random Matrix Theory Gernot Akemann (Bielefeld, GER), Igor Krasovsky (London, GBR), Dmitry Savin (London, GBR), Igor Smolyarenko (London, GBR) |
