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10/10/2024 | Pressemitteilung

Building culture, biodiversity, extremism - wide range of public lecture series

The start of the new semester marks the beginning of events at the University of Kassel, and not just for students. A large number of public lecture series are aimed at interested parties from the city's society. Admission to all events is of course free.

Cranes in flight. The migratory behavior of birds is the topic of the series Forum Naturschutz and Biological Diversity series.

Series "Right extreme!"

A series on right-wing extremism supported by the Presidential Board has been held annually since 2012; this year's series is entitled "Landnahmen - Widerstände - Deutungskämpfe". Speakers from various disciplines will take a look at battles of interpretation, attempts at right-wing appropriation in (civil) society and the resistance that is forming against them.

Start: October 21
Dates: Every Monday, 6 pm.
Location: Campus Center, Lecture Hall 2
Further information: https://portal.uni-kassel.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=245858&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung

Urban development projects in Kassel

The Faculty of Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning has also been organizing the Fusion series for many semesters; this semester it is focusing on Kassel's building culture. The lectures deal with highly relevant local political topics such as vacancies in the city center, the plans for the Henschelareal in Rothenditmold and the conversion of Kassel's Brüder-Grimm-Platz.

Start: October 16
Dates: Wednesdays, 7 p.m.
Location: ASL building Universitätsplatz 9, 1, ground floor, room 106
Further information: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/oeffentliche-veranstaltungen/fusion

Biodiversity in northern Hesse

Together with the Natural History Museum and the North Hesse Society for Natural History and Natural Sciences, the university is hosting a series of events on biodiversity in the region. The speakers will discuss topics such as the renaturation of the Diemel, biodiversity in the Kellerwald National Park and changes in annual bird migration.

Start: October 21
Dates: Fortnightly on Mondays, 7 p.m.
Location: Natural History Museum in the Ottoneum
Further information: https://www.naturschutz-hessen.de/ForumNaBiv_2024-25.pdf

Digital business lessons

The "Around the World" project focuses on the design of digitization-related teacher training and further training for economics lessons. In the associated lecture series, projects from 14 university locations across Germany present their latest digital and/or hybrid training courses and teaching concepts. The series is aimed at teachers, among others.

Start: October 30
Dates: fortnightly on Wednesdays from 5 p.m.
Location: via Zoom
Further information: https://nx55486.your-storageshare.de/s/giMmg5qYc8BBfW8

The Digital Society

"20 years of socio-technical methods: Hybrid intelligence and its embedding in the social system" is the title of the online lecture series on the diverse design dimensions of the digital society. Renowned representatives from various disciplines will present their research and findings with an explicitly socio-technical focus. The series is organized by the Wissenschaftliche Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung (ITeG) in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Start: October 30
Dates: selected dates on Wednesdays, 5 p.m.
Location: via Zoom
Information: https://www.uni-kassel.de/forschung/iteg/veranstaltungen/iteg-ringvorlesung

Information on all lectures can also be found in the university calendar: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles-aus-der-universitaet/oeffentliche-veranstaltungen/ringvorlesungen