Department Ethics of Digitalisation
(approx. 20h/month)

The Department of Ethics of Digitalisation at the University of Oldenburg (Head: Prof. Dr. Anna-Verena Nosthoff) is looking for a student assistant to start as soon as possible. The department analyses the social influence of large technology companies, the digital transformation of the public sphere, the ethics and politics of immersive technologies and forms of technological authoritarianism.

Tasks:

The assistant will support the department through literature research and procurement and organisational activities (e.g. help with the preparation of scientific events and teaching) as well as the Critical Data Lab (University of Oldenburg / Humboldt University of Berlin) in administrative and research-related matters.

Requirements:

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's programme in the social sciences or humanities at the University of Oldenburg
• Basic knowledge in the field of practical philosophy and / or social theories
• Very good knowledge and practical experience in literature research
• very good written and spoken German and English language skills

Also desirable:

• High degree of independence, communication and organisational skills
• Interest in interdisciplinary research, especially in critical digitalisation research
• Experience and expertise in dealing with social media

Please send your application with a short letter of motivation, (academic) CV and enrolment certificate in one PDF by 30 August 2025 to and to . Please address any questions to Prof Dr Anna-Verena Nosthoff: .

Contact:

Prof Dr Anna-Verena Nosthoff
School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
26129 Oldenburg
Email: .

Dear master's degree programme students,

From winter semester 2020/21, you will have the opportunity to take part in the seminars offered by the Kues Academy for European Intellectual History. The courses taken there can be credited to the master's degree programme in Philosophy. You can find more details in the following documents:

• Link to the philosophical seminar at the Kues Academy
• Heinrich Barth - Philosophy of Time (27-29 October 2023)
• Anna Tumarkin's Philosophical Psychology (05.-06.02.2024)
• Master's seminar programme of the Kues Academy in winter semester 2022/23
• Master's seminar programme of the Kues Academy in summer semester 2022
• Master's seminar programme of the Kues Academy in winter semester 2021/22
• Master's seminar programme of the Kues Academy in summer semester 2021
• Overview of the credit transfer options of the Kueser Akademie's courses in the master's degree programme in Philosophy

If you have any questions about the seminar content, the conditions of participation or organisational questions about the programme, please contact Prof. Dr. Harald Schwaetzer.

The new professionalisation programme "Transcultural Interreligious Studies" was launched at the start of the 2020/21 winter semester (scope: 12 or 18 CP), which is open to Bachelor's students from all disciplines.

The new programme is dedicated to transcultural and interreligious skills, which are becoming increasingly relevant in all areas of society. Teachers in particular are faced with the dual challenge of acting in a sensitive and differentiated manner in culturally and religiously heterogeneous learning groups and at the same time instructing transcultural and interreligious learning.

The interdisciplinary working group "Transcultural Interreligious Studies" formed in 2018 from the Institutes of Protestant Theology and Religious Education, History and Philosophy of Fac. IV (Prof. Dr Andrea Strübind, Prof. Dr Almut Höfert, Dr Sarah Neumann, Dr Carina Branković, Prof. Dr Dr Joachim Willems and PD Dr Tilman Hannemann) has set itself the goal of responding to this current social need and developing a study programme for students of all disciplines that enables graduates to act as mediators between religious and cultural traditions. The new professionalisation programme builds on the Jewish Studies programme, which has been running at our university for 25 years now and which is being expanded and conceptually repositioned by this offer.

On the one hand, the new programme provides basic knowledge of Jewish, Christian and/or Islamic religion and culture or interreligious education and enables students to specialise in the areas of "Jewish Studies", "Islamic Studies", "Christian Studies" and "Interreligious Education". This basic knowledge is also closely linked to the religious, historical and cultural studies-based study of the interrelationships between Jewish, Christian and Muslim ways of life and theologies.

The "foundation stone" of the new programme was laid on 19.10.2020 with the interdisciplinary seminar "Transcultural Interreligious Studies: Perspectives and Approaches" (lecturers: Andrea Strübind, Almut Höfert, Carina Branković, Joachim Willems, Tilman Hannemann, Kim Strübind) in the teaching programme. The hybrid compulsory seminar was very well received by students from a wide range of disciplines, so that the combination of the interdisciplinary nature of the working group resulted in an exciting seminar on transcultural interreligious topics, perspectives and approaches.

An optional certification programme "Transcultural Interreligious Studies" to be continued in the Master's degree course is currently being planned.

Special course offer: Prof programme "Transcultural Interreligious Studies" in winter semester 2023/24

Our society is characterised by an increasing diversity of religions and cultures, knowledge of which is becoming ever more important in schools and academia. The professionalisation programme "Transcultural Interreligious Studies" at School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences ties in with these current social issues and needs and offers students from all subject areas the opportunity to acquire basic knowledge of Jewish, Christian and/or Islamic religion and culture or interreligious education in two or three modules of 6 CP each and to develop transcultural and interreligious skills.

Module pb383 is the compulsory component of the programme this winter semester: you will take an interdisciplinary seminar that focuses on perspectives and approaches to transcultural interreligious studies (VA 4.07.184) and either an introduction to Judaism (VA 4.07.171) or an introduction to rabbinic Judaism (VA 4.02.180).

Website: uol.de/tis
Here you can find the flyer.

Contact: Dr Carina Branković (carina.brankovic@uol.de)