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Workshop: How we describe our present and what triggers it
Interested parties can register for workshop
Oldenburg. Immigration society, technology society, creative society, risk society and many more - depending on your perspective, the present can be labelled with very different terms. A workshop at the University of Oldenburg from 8 to 10 October is dedicated to the question of which attempts at description exist and how these in turn influence our perception and shaping of social reality.
Twelve top-class speakers from the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and cultural studies will be guests at the workshop "Diagnoses of the present - modelling society from an interdisciplinary perspective" at the Schlaues Haus (Schlossplatz 16). These include Oldenburg political scientist and philosopher Prof. Dr em. Antonia Grunenberg, sociologist Prof. Dr Frank Hillebrand (Open University Hagen), retired educational scientist Prof. Dr Käte Meyer-Drawe (University of Bochum), retired Hildesheim philosopher Prof. Dr Tilman Borsche and Prof. Dr Hans-Jörg Rheinberger from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. The aim of the organisers from the Wissenschaftliches Zentrum Genealogie der Gegenwart (WiZeGG): Innovative questions and research approaches are to be discussed in an interdisciplinary exchange in order to approach this field of research, which has so far hardly been dealt with or only by individual disciplines. Interested parties can register for the three-day workshop at wizegg@uni-oldenburg.de.
The WiZeGG at the University of Oldenburg was founded in summer 2013 under the leadership of Prof Dr Thomas Alkemeyer. Its members from the humanities and social sciences, linguistics and cultural studies as well as education and social sciences analyse the cultural forms of social self-problematisation on an interdisciplinary basis.
Contact: Rea Kodalle, WiZeGG, Tel.: 0441/798-4849, Email:
Link to the press release on uni-oldenburg.de