Events in English

02.09.21 – 04.09.21

ANGST+ | FEAR+Events in English

Ecologies of Fear: Spatial Politics and Imaginaries of Crisis and Danger

A "Narcotic City" conference in the FEAR+ series

hybrid format:
ZOOM & Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

14.07.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Literary Populism

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Bécquer Seguín, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

13.07.21

Carte Blanche IIIEvents in English

Di / 18:00 – 19:00

On Call: The labour of African American nurses during the 1918 Flu

Lecture in the Series "Carte Blanche III"

Edna Bonhomme, LMU München

Virtual Lecture

01.07.21 – 02.07.21

Events in English

Reemerging Iconoclasms. On the contemporariness of image controversies

Online-Workshop

Virtual Workshop

30.06.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 16:00 – 17:30

Statelessness: A Modern History

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Mira Siegelberg, University of Cambridge

Virtual Meeting

16.06.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Environmental aesthetics and landscape photographic practices. From natural to urban, technological and post-industrial sublimes

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Chiara Salari, Thyssen@KWI Fellow

Virtual Meeting

09.06.21

ANGST+ | FEAR+Events in English

Mi / 18:00 – 20:00

Exile: Fear, Creativity, New Dissidence?

FEAR+ Seminar

Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi, Christina von Braun, Volker Heins, Yevgeniy Fiks, Kader Konuk, Pawel Leszkowicz, Tomasz Kitlinski

Virtual Seminar

02.06.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Building the Theme Park of Your Imagination: Virtualising the Theme Park Experience in Digital Games

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Péter Kristóf Makai, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

17.05.21

Events in English

Mo / 14:30 – 20:30

Drugs in Party Spaces & Gender

Third conference of the “Drugs, Genders, Cities" cycle

Roxane Scavo (CNRS Passages), Gemma Blok (Open University of the Netherlands), Jenny Künkel (CNRS Passages), Emily Nicholls (University of Portsmouth)

online

21.04.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

On Some Proceedings for Rationally Forming Characters. US Utopian Communities 1825-45 and the Advent of Social Engineering

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Dr. Jacob Birken, Universität zu Köln / Hochschule Düsseldorf

Virtual Meeting

09.03.21

Events in English

Di / 11:00

Virtual Lecture: Hanging out at the Riviera. Drug Consumption in Zurich, c. 1965-1975

Narcotic City Public Lecture Series

Peter-Paul Bänziger, University of Basel

Virtual Lecture

09.03.21

Events in English

Di / 18:00 – 19:30

Virtual Lecture: „Dismantling a World Culture Museum“?

Dealing with the collection area "Archaeology, World Art, Applied Arts" at the Museum Folkwang

Nadine Engel, Museum Folkwang

Virtual Lecture

10.02.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Two cheers for snowflakes: Free speech in fractured societies

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Volker Heins, KWI

Virtual Meeting

03.02.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Impressive Miniature Scenes Full of Life and Humour: The Changing Interpretation of Netsuke at the Museum Folkwang 2010-2021

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Ryan Nutting, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

25.01.21

Events in English

Mo / 16:00

Fiction’s Functions: Three Data-Driven Hypotheses

Andrew Piper, McGill University

Virtual Talk

20.01.21

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

The Promise of Technocracy in Interwar Europe

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Danilo Scholz, Thyssen@KWI-Fellow

Virtual Meeting

16.12.20

Events in EnglishKWI Sachbuch-Diskussion

Mi / 16:00 – 17:30

Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazu gehört. Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen

KWI Book discussion with Jan Plamper

Jan Plamper, Autor

Virtual Meeting

09.12.20

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

A historical approach to the discovery of black holes

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Carla R. Almeida, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

25.11.20

ColloKWIumEvents in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Making science the star in Africa: beyond a simple passion, an imperative need

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Stéphane Kenmoe, University of Duisburg-Essen

Virtual Meeting

12.11.20

Events in English

Do / 14:00

The Turkishness Contract and the Formation of Turkishness

Barış Ünlü

Virtual Lecture

09.11.20

Events in English

Mo / 09:00 – 18:00

Workshop: Gender Studies in Exile

Academy in Exile

Virtual Workshop, Closed Event

15.10.20

Events in English

Do / 18:00

Disciplining (Homo-) Sexuality in State-Socialist Hungary

Judit Takács

Virtual Lecture

07.07.20

Events in EnglishKWI on Tour

Di / 18:00 – 20:00

KWI on Tour: Repression and Solidarity in Global Academia

Panel Discussion on ZOOM

Olga Selin Hünler (Fellow at AiE, Berlin) Egemen Özbek (AiE, KWI), Judit Takács (Fellow at AiE, KWI)

Virtual Meeting, University of Bremen