50 Years of Bielefeld University, 1969–2019

Wed., May 15th: Globalising World: Chancen und Herausforderungen globaler Welten (G)

With contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Priska Daphi (Faculty of Sociology): Conflict and Participation in a Globalized World
• Assistant Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology; Department of History): The Transformation of Human Beings and the Environment in a Globalized World
• Prof. Dr. Julia Roth (Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies): Gender and Global Inequalities
• Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim (Faculty of Sociology): Expertise and Politics in a Globalized World
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Herbert Dawid (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics)

Wed., June 12th: The Material World: From Nanostructures to Biological Systems

With contributions from:

• Assistant Prof. Dr. Luana Caron (Faculty of Physics): Functional Magnetic Materials
• Assistant Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Grünberger (Faculty of Technology): Microfluidic Single-Cell Cultivation: Learning from Single Cells
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Krüger (Faculty of Biology): Towards an Integrative Organismal Biology
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Kühnle (Faculty of Chemistry): Functional Molecular Nanostructures
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Dominik Schwarz (Faculty of Physics)

Wed., July 10th: Medizinische Forschung: Welche Medizinforschung passt zur Universität Bielefeld?

With contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski (Center for Biotechnology – CeBiTec): We’re Not Alone: The Human as Holobiont
• Prof. Dr. Johanna Kißler (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science): Are We in Our Right Minds? The Challenge of Neuro-Psychiatric Illnesses in the 21st Century
• Prof. Dr. Thorsten Meyer (School of Public Health): Medicine for a Society in Flux: Participation and Successful Conditional Health
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Stoecker (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology): Eye-to-Eye Medicine: Bielefeld’s Opportunity for Integrated Ethics in Medicine.
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Claudia Hornberg (Founding Dean of the Medical School/School of Public Health)

Mi., 23.10.: Socio-Technical World: Social Life in Technical and Digital Environments

With contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Tobias Heed (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science): Brain, Mind, Information, Communication: Understanding
  Individuals‘ Abilities and Transcending their Limitations
• Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Chicca (Faculty of Technology): Developing Bio-Inspired Technology to Understand and Exploit
  the Principles of Neuronal Computation
• Prof. Dr. Nicola Bilstein (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics): Understanding Customers in a Socio-technical
  World
• Prof. Dr. Anja Abendroth (Faculty of Sociology): Digitalized Working Worlds: Understanding Opportunities
  and Risks for Employees
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Carsten Reinhardt (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology)

Wed., November 6th: Schulbezogene Forschung: Welche Schule(n) haben wir? Welchen Unterricht brauchen wir?

With contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Lars Deile (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Department of History): Futures in the Teaching of History
• Prof. Dr. Udo Hagedorn (Faculty of Sociology): Creating Social-Science Expertise in Teaching 
• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Tiedemann (Faculty of Mathematics): What Language Can We Count on?
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Voit (Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Art and Music Education): “School Music” or “Student Music”? Making Music in the Classroom as Convergence of Social Practices
• Prof. Dr. Beate Wischer (Faculty of Educational Science): What Conceptions of School Do We Have?
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Elke Wild (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science)

December 18th: Mathematical World: Wie kann Mathematik die Welt erkären? - Wie kann man Mathematik erklären?

With contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Benjamin Gess (Faculty of Mathematics): Taming Uncertainty and Profiting from Randomness:  Two Examples from Theory and the Real World
• Prof. Dr. Miriam Lüken (Faculty of Mathematics): Math as Access to the World: How Mathematical Thinking Develops in Young Children  
• Prof. Dr. Yves Breitmoser (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics): Calculating Behavior? Mathematical Models in Behavioral Economics
• Assistant Prof. Dr. Meike Wittmann (Faculty of Biology): Caribou and Quick Wolves: Mathematical Models in Nature Conservation
• Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Günter Reiss (Faculty of Physics)

More information on Bielefeld University’s research profile and its “worlds of research” can be found at www.uni-bielefeld.de/forschung/profil/.