Topic of the Year
Each year UBIAS member institutes agree on a ‘Topic of the Year’ (ToY), a topic of global importance that is explored through different activities and formats.
The ToY events are managed and organized by the UBIAS member institutes themselves. In the list below, the past ToY events can be found. For UBIAS members to announce future ToY events, please send an email to Mylène Trouvé at mylene.trouve@rfiea.fr.
2020/2021: DIALOGUE
NO FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Read a description of the 2020/2021 ToY
2019: MIGRATIONS
Migration and Cultural Spaces
A workshop co-operated by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IAS), Nanjing University, the Institute for Advanced Research (IAR), Nagoya University, the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University, and the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Fudan University.
21 & 22 November, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IAS), Nanjing University, China
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Further information about the event (in Chinese)
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MIGRATION: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE, GOODS, AND IDEAS
This event is co-organized by Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University and Institute for Advanced Research (IAR), Nagoya University. Prof. Gracia Liu-Farrer, of Waseda University will give a keynote presentation Immigrant Japan and a New Era of International Migration followed by five panels from the viewpoints of Social Sciences and Humanities.
16 & 17 October, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University
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TOY-RELATED EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ
Humans migrate, animals migrate – “migration” is a central theme in both human societies and animal populations, deserving of observation and analysis from a variety of perspectives. Researchers at the Zukunftskolleg focus on aspects of migration different from those under scrutiny at the Cluster of Excellence “Politics of Inequality”, its counterpart “Collective Behavior”, and the Cultural Studies Research Center. How intriguing to investigate all these different aspects under the umbrella of a joint series of events!
A number of short research talks (“lightning talks”) and an exhibition of works by George Butler will form a central part of this joint effort. As an artist, George Butler includes human as well as animal migration in his take on “migration” as a concept, highlighting the interactive elements of both.
12 June - 12 July 2019
Exhibition “Anima Mundi” by Illustrator George Butler (London)
Foyer of the Library, University of Konstanz
25 June 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Lightning Talks & Discussion on “Migration” Midissage of the Exhibition “Anima Mundi” with George Butler
BibCafé of the Library, University of Konstanz
Official poster of the events
More information on Zukunftskolleg's website
EUROPE AND THE WORLD OF BORDERS
Thinking about the world of borders, and Europe's position and impact is one of the great scientific, cultural and political challenges of the present day. At the 2019 ZiF Conference, designated representatives of science, culture and politics will discuss political and state boundaries, cultural and artistic boundaries, as well as societal processes of delimitation and dissolution.
11 April 2019, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University
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TRANSDISCIPLINARY MEETING ON IMMIGRANT LITERATURE
Immigrant Literature is the theme of the Transdisciplinary Meeting that will put together Professor Cristina Cheveresan, from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, and Professor Elcio Loureiro Cornelsen, from UFMG's School of Letters, on March 25, from 2:00 pm.
Professor Cheveresan will bring experiences of two acknowledged American writers of Latino origin, Julia Alvarez (Dominican) and Cristina Garcia (Cuban), highlighting the nuanced ways in which they perceive and fictionalize the processes of transnational identity formation and cultural negotiation, triggered by the diasporic experience and dislocation caused by the notorious Trujillo and Castro regimes.
Professor Cornelsen’s presentation will focus on the novel "The Idiot of the 21st Century: a Divan" (original title: Der Idiot des 21. Jahrhunderts: Ein Divan) by German writer Michael Kleeberg, published in 2018. Special attention will be given to the chapter “Gottfried and Amir”, in which the title characters - a nineteenth-century German immigrant and a twenty-first-century Syrian refugee, in an unusual scene, talk about their traumatic experiences of immigration, escape and exile.
25 March 2019, UFMG's Institute of Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Official release on the event
More information on IEAT's website
2018: AGING - LIFE, CULTURE, CIVILIZATIONS
SPECIAL JOUR FIXE: AGEING – LIFE, CULTURES, CIVILIZATIONS
The Zukunftskolleg engages in the UBIAS’ Topic of the Year 2018. “Age”, can be addressed and analyzed in a broad context and from many disciplinary perspectives. The ways in which we view and interpret signs of aging as well as the age segmentation of the human life span (e.g. when are we considered old?) have changed through history and are subject to major cultural differences. These and many aspects of “Ageing” will be discussed in a Special Jour Fixe Series.
11 & 18 December 2018, 8 January 2019, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
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TECHNOLOGY, COGNITION AND DEMENTIA – LIESEL BECKMANN SYMPOSIUM 2018
Organization: TUM-IAS Focus Group Modern Technology to Support Cognitive and Mental Health.
12 December 2018, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Germany
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AGING – LIFE, CULTURE, CIVILIZATION
This event is co-organized by Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University and Institute for Advanced Research (IAR), Nagoya University. Prof. Glenda Roberts of Waseda University will give a keynote presentation “Challenges for Aging Societies in the 21st Century”followed by various presentations from the viewpoints of Natural and Social Sciences and Humanities.
12 October 2018, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS,) Tokyo, Japan
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IMAGES OF LIFE AND DEATH IS THEME OF TRANSDISCIPLINAR MEETING
A dialogue that will propose some matrices to develop: the drive of life and death; the here and now; childhood; anarchist drive; poetry; vitality and risk; the inheritance of time; Jungian archetypes and tarot images; unsustainable death; the figure of Antigone; profiles of dead and alive in social networks; the assembly.
11 June 2018, UFMG's Institute of Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Resilience in human ageing
Interdisciplinary think tank organised as part of the research theme “Health Systems Complexity”. In this event a diverse group of researchers will focus on dynamic multi-system resilience in human ageing looking at it through the lens of complex adaptive systems.
11 April 2018, UvA Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam
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Neuro-handwriting analysis: Where the medieval and the 21st Century Collide
This multi-disciplinary talk combines historical and digital approaches, investigating clues about age-related neurological diseases and disorders in medieval handwriting. Electronic engineers Professor Stephen Smith and Dr Márjory Da Costa-Abreu join palaeographer Dr Deborah Thorpe to digitally-excavate the lost dynamic features of writing in static samples of medieval writing.
18 January 2018, The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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2017: FEAR
Read about the 2017 ‘Fear’ Topic of the Year
"FEAR AND THE DIONYSIAC". AIAS FRIDAY TALK
Joint lecture by fellows Isabelle Torrance and Jessica Wiskus.
28 April 2017, AIAS, Denmark
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The economics of fear: applications from the literature on the economics of terror
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Günther G. Schulze (University of Freiburg, Economics)
4 May 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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FEAR IN A POST-FACTUAL WORLD: PANEL DISCUSSION
Panel organized by fellow Armin W. Geertz featuring brief talks by political scientists, philosophers, and media scholars who will explore fear in a post-factual world.
15 May 2017, AIAS, Denmark
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Pleasure and fear at the movies
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Barbara Mennel (University of Florida, Film Studies)
18 May 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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LANDSCAPE OF FEAR: A BRIDGE ACROSS DISCIPLINES?
Lunch lecture with Dr. Luca Corlatti (University of Freiburg, Wildlife Ecology) and Dr. Mario De Cristofaro
1 June, FRIAS, Germany
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: MAPPING APOCALYPTIC THOUGHT IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Immo Warntjes (Trinity College Dublin, History)
22 June 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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ANXIETY DISORDERS: FROM BASIC RESEARCH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Brunna Tuschen-Caffier (University of Freiburg, Psychology)
29 June 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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FEAR: THE HIDDEN DRIVER OF MODERN POLITICAL THINKING
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Martin Loughlin (London School of Economics, Law)
6 July 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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THE EPIGENETICS OF FEAR
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Dr. Katharina Domschke (University of Freiburg, Psychiatry)
13 July 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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GOVERNING FEAR: RESILIENCE AS ANTIDOTE TO A CATASTROPHIC FUTURE
Lunch lecture with Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaufmann (University of Freiburg, Sociology)
20 July 2017, FRIAS, Germany
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OVERCOMING FEAR OF FAILURE
Open Talk within Free Discussion Salon with Nobel Prize Laureate, Professor Ryoji Noyori.
30 October 2017, Nagoya Institute for Advanced Research, Japan
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CONFERENCE ON "FEAR: BRAIN, BEHAVIOUR, SOCIETY"
Two-day international multidisciplinary conference organized by the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. Leading international researchers from a variety of fields will present newest knowledge on fear at 5 multidisciplinary sessions, each incorporating contributions from several fields. Open to all by prior registration.
4-5 December 2017, AIAS, Denmark
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2016: MEDIA AND DATA CONTROL
"Die Skandalgesellschaft. Vom Ende der Kontrolle im digitalen Zeitalter"
Lecture by Bernhard Pörksen
12.01.2017, Freiburg
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"What’s new in networks? – Building bridges between computational, mathematical and statistical network analysis."
International Workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Francesca Biagini as part of the Research Focus “Quantitative Network Sciences”
05.10.2016 – 07.10.2016, Munich
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"Data Control in the 21st Century"
Lecture by Peter Schaar (former Federal Data Protection Commissioner)
05.07.2016, Freiburg
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