Lectures & Workshops

How does urban climate develop - and why is it becoming increasingly important in times of climate change? The lecture will provide an overview of the central relationships and show initial results from the new urban climate measurement network at the University of Kassel.

The Kassel Urban Climate Observation Network (KUCON) records the spatial variability of air temperature and other meteorological variables in Kassel with the help of a total of 21 weather stations.

Department of Environmental Meteorology (Department of Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning)

Are you interested in extracurricular places of learning, would you like to gain experience in aesthetic-cultural practice in schools, is sustainability your thing or do you find multilingual education in schools interesting? Then the information event on study profiles and certificates in the teaching profession is the right place for you!

Center for Teacher Education (ZLB)

Whether as a teaching method, artistic form of play or experiential space: dance and theater pedagogical tools enable teachers and students to explore a wide variety of topics in a creative and sustainable way and at the same time improve their own performance skills. In a half-hour practical session, the creative potential of dance and theater pedagogical forms of play will be tested and how it can be implemented in schools.

Professor Dr. Verena Freytag and project worker Luisa Mell will provide insights into teaching and research with practical offers for interested visitors at the Campus Festival.
Image and video material provide insights into current research projects, artistic projects and collaborations with schools.

Department of Aesthetic Education and Movement Education (Institute of Music, Faculty of Human Sciences)

AI companions are popular and are friends, partners and therapists to many people. However, comprehensive personality profiles of the users can be derived from the "conversations", as they are ultimately based on the collection, transmission and analysis of large and potentially highly sensitive data.

What does the law say about this? This article provides an insight into the German and European legal situation and explains regulatory gaps.

Dr. Maxi Nebel, Department of Public Law, IT Law and Environmental Law, Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG) (Department of Economics)

In view of rising apartment rents in the cities, living on the outskirts has once again become an important alternative. But what characterizes suburban living today? Based on our own studies, the lecture portrays suburban living between idyll and "slab".

Kilian Günsche, Jonas Jehnichen, Carsten Keller , Department of Urban and Regional Sociology (Institute for Urban Development, Department of Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning)

Whether as a teaching method, artistic form of play or space for experience: dance and theater pedagogical tools enable teachers and students to explore a wide variety of topics in a creative and sustainable way and at the same time improve their own performance skills. In a half-hour practical session, the creative potential of dance and theater pedagogical forms of play will be tested and how it can be implemented in schools.

Professor Dr. Verena Freytag and project worker Luisa Mell will provide insights into teaching and research with practical offers for interested visitors at the Campus Festival.
Image and video materials provide insights into current research projects, artistic projects and collaborations with schools.

Department of Aesthetic Education and Movement Education (Institute of Music, Faculty of Human Sciences)

German studies students present a film about contemporary author Judith Hermann. The film was made on the (audio) trail of Hermann's inaugural lecture as Kassel Grimm Professor of Poetics in 2025 as part of an exploratory trip to Radom in Poland, where the narrative was traced, original sounds were recorded, photographed and filmed.

"The lack of women in public office and their low participation in parliaments is simply a permanent breach of the constitution," said Dr. iur. Elisabeth Selbert, lawyer and SPD politician from Kassel in 1981. She had ensured that women's right to equal rights in all areas of law and life and the state's obligation to implement them were enshrined in the Basic Law (GG) in 1949: "Women and men have equal rights", Article 3 (2) sentence 1 GG.

In 1981, she criticized the inadequate democratic participation of women, combined with their insufficient influence on political decisions. Women were and still are in the minority in parliaments. Yet they make up 51% of the population, i.e. the majority. Parity election laws, which aim to achieve equal representation of women and men in parliaments, can change this situation. Are parity laws constitutionally possible or even necessary?

The lecture by Prof. Dr. Silke R. Laskowski, expert of the Electoral Law Reform Commission of the German Bundestag (2021-2023), with discussion.

Department of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, Environmental Law, Institute of Business Law (Department of Economics)