Events

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

A lecture by Professor Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford) in the Series "Reason, Reflection & Responsibility: Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy"

About the Lecture
Sometimes the leaders of a corporation learn that a product they have been selling has been killing some of those who have purchased it. It could be a car that is discovered to have a defective part or a food that is determined to...

Anniversary Lecture: Celebrating 40 years of research exchange between Indiana University Bloomington and Universität Hamburg

Lecturer: Professor Lee J. Alston, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Lee J. Alston is the Director of the Ostrom Workshop and a Professor of Economics & Law at IU Bloomington. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Since modern...

A lecture by Prof. Leif Wenar (King's College London) in the Series "Reason, Reflection & Responsibility: Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy"

About the Lecture
The Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Al Qaeda, ISIS … for 40 years the West’s most serious foreign threats and crises have come from oil states. What drives the “oil curse” is an archaic law in global trade that empowers...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

In tradition with the previous conferences, the fourteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. The conference is organized by the Institute of Information Systems and is going to take place at the Geomatikum...

A lecture by Professor John Broome (University of Oxford) in the Series "Reason, Reflection & Responsibility: Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy"

About the Lecture
It is possible to respond to climate change in a way that requires no sacrifice from anyone. At least, that is the conclusion of the standard economic theory of externalities. In particular, the present generation need not make a...

This talk will be given in English.

We need to talk about our future

Fritz Gillerke (Bayreuth)

The 21st century is facing a global transformation of economic and political systems. By shaping the institutions of our future we need to rethink our concern for all those who will be affected by our actions – even if they are not yet born. This requires an unprecedented change in the understanding...

Existenzgründungsseminar für internationale Studierende, Absolventinnen und Absolventen – Founding a business: Seminar for students and graduates (Kurssprache dt/engl.)
Kurs 7003 - Workshop mit Anmeldung - in Kooperation mit der Abteilung Internationales, PIASTA – Interkulturelles Leben und Studieren, UHH

In einer interaktiven Lernsituation bietet der Workshop einen detaillierten Überblick über...

A lecture by Professor Mathias Risse (Harvard University) in the Series "Reason, Reflection & Responsibility: Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy"

About the Lecture
The notion of “Leitkultur” has come up for a fair amount of critical discussion in Germany in recent years. And indeed the critics are to some extent right. But those who support or accept ideas of a “Leitkultur” also have a point...

This event takes place in German.

This talk will be presented in English.

Class and African Literature in a Digital Age
Shola Adenekan (Bremen)

The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie articulates an under-theorization of African class and social formation in postcolonial studies. In an interview with the British journalist Stephen Moss (2007), she recounts a conversation she had with a professor, while she was a...

This talk will be presented in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

A lecture by Professor Gregory Wheeler (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) in the Series "Reason, Reflection & Responsibility: Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy"

About the Lecture
The sea-change in artificial intelligence over the last few years resulted from a bet, placed in a couple of university and industrial labs a decade ago, that a sleepy line of research could come to life with...

Kurs 2011 - Workshop mit Anmeldung -

Conflicts are an inevitable part of our professional and private lives, even if we often try to deny their existence trying to keep up harmony. Though rightly handled conflicts can be a useful tool to development and show us new ways of cooperation and unexpected solutions. Conflict management defines the process of enhancing the positive aspects of a conflict...

The 2018 General Conference will be held at Universität Hamburg in Germany.

The ECPR’s General Conference remains Europe's largest annual gathering of political scientists, often attracting c. 2,000 scholars from throughout the world and all stages of their career. With nearly 500 Panels taking place across 68 Sections, the academic programme covers the breadth of political science, creating the...