Conferences

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Interdisciplinary perspectives from climate research and the social sciences on climate change and the question of social transformation

GEOMAR and Social Work in Dialogue

(3.12.2020 16-20 hrs. Online lecture!)

In this lecture, we want to look at climate change from two perspectives and raise the question of which demands can be formulated for society from those both perspectives. Dr. Sunke Schmidtko from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel will explain climate change from the view of oceanology, Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß from the Faculty of Social Work and Health of the UAS Kiel will explore the question of social transformation as a social perspective from the view of social sciences. After that, we want to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue together with the participants. 

Greetings by Nelly Waldeck from Fridays for Future

Our ocean is our future

Dr. Sunke Schmidtko (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

The people are closely connected to the ocean through their development history. The ocean is for example irreplaceable as a transport route and food resource but exposed to major changes due to climate change. The ocean as a score component of our climate system has absorbed approx. 93% of global warming. Aspects of the cohabitation of oceans and humans are examined and recent scientific findings on changes in the oceans explained. The final question will be: How can we shape our future with the ocean?

 

»Nobody is talking about revolution anymore!«
Future and transformation – Sociological perspectives on climate change

Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß (UAS Kiel, Faculty of Social Work and Health)

Climate change has not found wide consideration in sociological debates although it has been present for many years in social work in discourses like “Education for Sustainable Development” or with the keyword “Sustainability”. The urgency of the topic is today negotiated under the keyword of “transformation”, though some positions ask for radical cutbacks in the living environments of the privileged. In this presentation, you will learn about the debate and the question of how we can shape the future when we consider the fact that limitless economic growth is accompanied by a maximum exploitation of ecological and human resources.

InSZENiErungen in Szenen (stagings in scenes). Jubri – Final conference

On the 2nd and 3rd March 2017 the final conference of the joint project JuBri "InSZENiErungen in Szenen" is taking place in Berlin.

The event is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the funding line „Language of objects“.

Programme and information about the registration

Local added value in open children and youth work

Open children and youth work takes place in more than 200 large and small institutions in the state. Subsequently to the week of OKJA 2013 under the motto “Free-room-education”, the new regional network OKJA SH was founded. Education is one of the most common mentioned topics in politics while especially open children and youth work with its professional standard and wide-ranging educational offers contributes to reaching and accompaning young people, in addition to classic educational programmes. Accordingly, the new regional network OKJA-SH wants to draw the attention to this elementary and school-independent educational work.

We invite you to discuss the added value of open children and youth work for your municipality and develop perspectives with us.

Programme:

5 p.m.

Greeting
Greetings Prof. Dr. Udo Beer (President of the UAS Kiel)
Greetings Kristin Alheit (Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Family and Equality in Schleswig-Holstein)

5.25 p.m.

Presentations by Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß (UAS Kiel) and Prof. Dr. Peter-Ulrich Wendt (Magdeburg-Stendahl University of Applied Sciences)

6.30 p.m.

World-café with parents, youths, science, youth work, politics

from 8 p.m.

Conclusion and snacks

The participation is cost-free, students can apply via the IDA portal, other interests please contact: Anja Seelig (AWO-Räucherei Kiel) 0431-7757032 or s.bode(at)awo-kiel.de

Location is the main auditorium in the multi-purpose building of the UAS Kiel

Speed-Conference: Re:present! Youth cultures and their articulations

Youth cultures articulate their affiliations and political opinions through various artifacts and media. In the research project JuBri, we especially examine fanzines, flyers etc. and carry out field work at concerts and scene meetings. At this speed conference we want to give insights into our current knowledge in three presentations from various part projects:

Dr. Marc Dietrich (Magdeburg-Stendahl University of Applied Sciences):
"And we don’t want to lose this energy, even when we are getting older." On the staging of youth in punk magazines

Christian Schmidt (Archiv der Jugendkulturen, Berlin):
Fanzines - Historic-ethnographic consideration of media in youth cultural stagings

Dr. Christiane Wehr (UAS Kiel):
Stagings of gender, class, race and body on Fanzine-Covers of Punk/Hardcore

Location: UAS Kiel C18-102, 2.00-6.00 p.m.

The participation is cost-free, students and employees of the UAS Kiel can apply via the IDA portal:
https://ida.fh-kiel.de/idw/?p=WkJHPTw3JzMYEVsbDgYcRxpPCHkv

What is Good Teaching? Innovative Impulses for Gender- and Diversity-Sensible Teaching and Study Models

2nd International Conference on the quality of teaching at the UAS Kiel on the 16th and 17th May 2013

Are innovative study models or teaching and learning projects appropriate to improve teaching under perspectives of gender and diversity sensibility? Which teaching and learning formats are most suitable, to include the different competencies and experiences of students equally? What university-didactical concepts are enabling different learning accesses?  

These questions are the focus of the 2nd conference on quality of teaching at the UAS Kiel. The background of the conference is the challenge for universities, to develop didactical concepts that support gender differences, diversity and heterogenous learning needs of the student body productively and also reduce discrimination. International speakers introduce various strategies and their experience with innovative study models and teaching/ learning projects. 

Here: More information about the conference and registration modalities

Free Room Education – Final conference of the week on open children and youth work

26.04.2013, UAS Kiel, hall of the multi-purpose building, Sokratesplatz 18

2 p.m. Arrival

3 p.m. Opening and Greeting: Prof. Dr. Gaby Lenz, Dean of the UAS Kiel and Karsten Egge, Head of division youth policy at the Ministry for Social Affairs

The week of open children and youth work – short review

3.30 p.m. “The other education” challenges and developments of OKJA, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Deinet, Hochschule Düsseldorf – University of Applied Sciences

4.30 p.m. Break

5 p.m. “Youth work reloaded?” Perspectives on youth work in post-growth society, Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß, UAS Kiel

5.30 p.m. PRINCIPLES – PERSPECTIVES – CHALLENGES OF OKJA World Café with Snack and Drink

7.30 p.m. Ending with Prosecco

7 p.m. Conclusion of the discussion results with coffee and pastries

Organisers: AK Week of open children and youth work, Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Families and Equality of Schleswig-Holstein, UAS Kiel

Here: More information and registration modalities

What is Good Teaching? Conference on the quality of teaching 05./06. May 2011

The quality of teaching is a highly topical and central issue of university development: modularisation, competence orientation, the conversion of diploma to bachelor’s and master’s degrees, dealing with diversity are only a few cornerstones in which discourses are discussing what is good education and what especially is good university education. At the conference, we want to explore the question of which paths we as a university of applied sciences can take to implement a qualified further education of modularisation and competence orientation. To do so, we have invited scientists who will talk about their research and university development projects and discuss them with us.

Conference: Energy form resistance

26.10.2010, UAS Kiel, In cooperation with Hi.k.S (university initiative of critical students UAS Kiel)

10.00 a.m. Beginning/Greeting
10.15 a.m. Presentation: “Grit in the gears? Resistant action in times of de-collectivisation”, Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß – UAS Kiel
11.15 a.m. Break (15 minutes)
11.30 a.m. Presentation: “Resistance in the post-modern age”, Dr. Maximilian Schochow – University of Leipzig
12.30 p.m. Break (60 minutes)
01.30 p.m. Introduction: Medibüro Kiel, Sarah Trehern
02.15 p.m. Introduction: Citizens initiative environmental protection Lüchow- Dannenberg e.V., Gerhard Harder
03.00 p.m. Break (30 minutes)
03.30 p.m. Introduction: Resistance & Art/Example ‘Poetry Slam’ Moritz Neumeier
04.15 p.m. Introduction: Café Libertad Kollektiv eG, Stefan Paulus
05.00 p.m. Final discussion
following: film screening ‘Empire St. Pauli – Von Perlenketten und Platzverweisen’ Documentary by Irene Bude and Olaf Sobczak

Workshop Day: Gender and Work

Date: 28.04.2010

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß, Prof. Dr. Melanie Plößer, Kerstin Schoneboom

Within the workshop day on the topic “Gender & Work”, we want to enable insights into critical perspectives on paid and care work which are formulated in the context of feminist sociology and gender and migration research. For this, we will deal with two topics:

On the one hand we will ask what gender and work have to do with each other. To answer this question, we need to clarify the term work: What is work? Is work always meant as paid activity or shouldn’t we use a more precise term like employment? What about reproduction activities like care work? Can these activities only be called work if they are paid? Who is doing what work or “Who is cleaning up”?

On the other hand, we also want to question which action opportunities people have that are subjected to the demands of neoliberal societies, to market themselves in an optimal way and become creators of their own happiness. What role does the category gender play here?

Programme:

9.30 a.m.: Gender and Work – An introduction
Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß and Prof. Dr. Melanie Plößer (UAS Kiel)

10.15 a.m.: Masculinity and standard employment – a critical relationship? The biographic meaning of work at the example of socially excluded men
Dr. Anke Neuber (University Kassel)

BREAK

11.30 a.m.: The au-pair regime between cultural exchange and female work migration
Caterina Rohde (University Bielefeld)

12.30 p.m.: Sexuality is a business - "He buys a service, but not me"
Kathrin Schrader (Hamburg University of Technology, Feminist Institute Hamburg)

BREAK

02.45 p.m.: Active paternity as construction and function
Dr. des. Jan Wulf-Schnabel (Kiel)

03.45 p.m.: Care Revolution - a feminist future perspective
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Winker (Hamburg University of Technology, Feminist Institute Hamburg) 

04.45 p.m.: Summary and discussion

06.00 p.m.: End

Pop Culture, Capitalism Critique and Resistance - Feminist Perspectives

8th March 2010 – Cultural Forum Stadtgalerie 14.00 - 18.00 hrs.

More and more young women are organised in NGOs, alternative or autonomous centres or self-made cultural spaces instead of making the march through institutions. How it is possible to again enable a stronger exchange between various feminist and queer feminist approaches and politics? To have such dialogue, referents provide insights in various areas where feminists and queer feminists work socio-politically.

The goal of the event is to initiate a socio-politically dispute for which we do not have time (anymore) in our daily lives. We want to get feminist and queer feminist thinkers and activists from different generations, occupations, life situations and political directions into discourse.

We invite all people that are interested to join our discussion: all genders welcome!

Organisers

Annegret Bergmann (Women’s representative state capital Kiel), Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß (UAS Kiel), Brigitte Frodermann (Womens Alliance Kiel), Nicole Howe (Speaker for specialist institutions for women and girls, Jugendring S-H), Elisabeth Christa Markert (Ev. Frauenwerk Altholstein), Ursula Schele (Kiel Association for Feminist Institutions for Women and Girls), Kerstin Schoneboom (Equal Opportunities Officer UAS Kiel), Dr. Iris Werner (Equal Opportunities Officer CAU)

Programme

02.00 p.m. Greeting: Annegret Bergmann (Women’s representative state capital Kiel)

02.15 p.m. Greeting Cathy Kietzer (City President)

02.30 p.m. Impulse speech: Pop - Queer – Gender Trouble - Feminism in Action, Prof. Dr. Melanie Groß (UAS Kiel)

03.00 p.m. Presentation Missy Magazine: Pop culture for women, Stefanie Lohaus (Editor Missy Magazine)

03.30 p.m. Impulse speech: Provision instead of breaking up – Future perspectives from a womens view, Prof. Dr. Adelheid Biesecker (University of Bremen)

04.00 p.m. Plenary discussion, Moderation Sylvia Aust (NDR, Editorial regional politics)

The more detailed programme is available here.