Review on Past Events

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Sidney Carls-Diamante on 17 November 2020.

Filmvorstellung: Der zweite Anschlag: Rassistische Gewalt in Deutschland. Eine Anklage der Betroffenen

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Jacob Bloomfield on 10 November 2020.

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 5 November 2020 Chrissy Kolaya shared excerpts from her novel Charmed Particles and discussed the research she conducted in preparation for writing it.

• Welcome to the winter semester 2020/21
• Short introduction of Writer in Residence Hari Sridhar
• Short introduction of ZUKOnnect Fellows
• Short introduction of “Antiracism” event series
• Safety instructions
• Funding programmes presentation (esp. Senior Fellowship Programme – new call, deadline: 15.12.)
• EC elections

As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 22 October 2020 Merja Polvinen talked about: How do readers imagine the places and spaces of fiction?

The multifaceted online festival took place as part of the international postcolonialism project "Everything passes except the past".

Besides a lecture by Bénédicte Savoy, activists, artists, experts, curators and scholars from Africa, Latin America and Europe discussed the sensitive field of (neo-)colonial entanglements from a discursive and artistic perspective. The contributions illuminated the challenge of decolonizing ethnological museum collections, public space and film archives and…

Prof. Dr Kirsten Mahlke und Doktorandin Hannah Beck stellten ihre Forschungsergebnisse vor und luden zu einer anschließenden Diskussion ein. In der ersten Phase der Kolonisierung (ca. 1505-1537) nahmen einflussreiche Konstanzer Handelsfamilien eine Vorreiterrolle in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung hin zu Spekulation und der Etablierung internationaler Kapitalmärkte ein. Durch die Versklavung der indigenen Bevölkerung und die Einführung massenhaften Sklavenhandels in Venezuela, dem heutigen…

Neoliberalism has permeated the bodies and subjectivities of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach across national borders, aided by the global expansion of technologies such as satellite television. At the same time, the national economies of the Global South have collapsed under pressure from global capital. A career in sport has become the object of desires that can only be fulfilled by crossing increasingly impenetrable national borders. Athletes’…

Introductory meeting for 2020 ZUKOnnect Fellows starting their digital fellowship. At this meeting, the fellows received information about the Zukunftskolleg and their digital fellowships. It also gave the ZUKOnnect Fellows the opportunity to get to know each other and had further questions answered.

Freedom of humor and satire is an essential component of democratic life; but at the same time, some forms of humor can be a vehicle for hateful or anti-democratic messages. How can we draw a line between free speech and hate speech, when it comes to humor? Answering these questions is particularly difficult in the case of highly condensed (and often ambiguous) forms of visual humor, such as cartoons or memes.

On 21 September, the members of the Constructive Advanced Thinking team ‘Cartoons in…

The Zukunftskolleg has been a role model for the successful promotion of early career researchers at the University of Konstanz since its foundation. As an Institute for Advanced Study, it encourages research collaboration across departmental and national boundaries as well as career stages and status groups. With its Fellowship Programmes, the Zukunftskolleg has established a new career path for early career researchers across all disciplines represented at the University of Konstanz. The…

The Zukunftskolleg informed about the new Henriette Herz Programme of the Humboldt Foundation (including a Scouting programme and the Award).

Thomas Böttcher (Research Group Leader, Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, Konstanz, Germany) gave an online European Netias lecture.

Assembly of Members: Election of two new members to the Executive Committee

Laszlo Muntean (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and American Studies at Radbout University, Nijmegen, Fellow at the IAS CEU, Budapest, Hungary) gave an online European Netias lecture.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Violeta Ivanova Rohling on 7 July 2020

Andreas Teske (Professor of Marine Microbiology, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Germany) gave an online European Netias lecture.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Cristina Ruiz Agudo on 30 June 2020

Lisa M. Wu (Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark) gave an online European Netias lecture.

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Morgane Nouvian on 23 June 2020

Digital Jour fixe event on 16 June 2020 organized by Jacob Bloomfield and Cornelia Klocker

Digital Jour fixe talk on 9 June 2020 given by Ariane Bertogg

Digital Jour fixe talk on 2 June 2020 organized by Svetlana Boycheva Woltering

Digital Jour fixe presentation by Yury Shevchenko on 26 May 2020

Virtual Jour fixe talk on 19 May 2020

Digital Jour fixe event on 12 May 2020

Digital Jour fixe discussion on 5 May 2020

Digital Jour fixe meeting on 28 April 2020