In the ‘ZeKK live’ event format organised by the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies (ZeKK) at Paderborn University, professorial ZeKK members interview guests from public life on issues relating to religion and society

Lecture by Prof. Dr Beate Flath from Paderborn University

More sustainable basic AI models

Lecture by Prof. Dr Sabine Schmitz and Yves Huybrechts from the Belgium Centre at Paderborn University

What do pop cultures have to do with the US election, democracies and the climate crisis? What do we learn about pop and media cultures by engaging with fakes, click populism or AI? How should popular cultures be categorised if they are particularly considerate and mindful or if they are hurtful in doses - is there a moral or ethic of pop?

Lecture by Julia Quast from the Paderborn University

Kirsten Dickhaut (Romance Studies, University of Stuttgart): ‘The Stuttgart way - possibilities and limits of generative AI for analysing historical texts using the example of Scudéry's Promenade de Versailles’

On Wednesday, 15 January, Prof. Dr Thomas Krettenauer from the Institute for Talent Research in Music (IBFM) will speak on the topic ‘From Gershwin to Hamilton: Representation of Bourgeois-Social (Power) Constellations in Contemporary U.S. Musical an Musical Theatre’

Contributions by Prof Dr Nicole Priesching, PD Dr Johannes Grössl and Prof Dr Johannes Süßmann

The event series ‘KW in dialogue - an incitement to transdisciplinary discussion’ invites different perspectives to challenge each other in scientific dialogue and thus contribute to the further development of those research perspectives.

The Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Cultural Studies cordially invites all those interested in a scholarship to a scholarship evening.

Slow Fashion – Fast Fashion. Sustainability in the field of fashion textile design

Lecture by Antonio Gómez Ramos from the Universidad Carlos III Madrid

Under the motto ‘KW writes (better) together’, the Graduate Centre KW organises an interdisciplinary writing group at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Writing.

The workshop is aimed at student teachers, trainee teachers and teachers and addresses key issues relating to child protection, child endangerment and child welfare. The event will take place on 20 and 24 January in the afternoon and has a limited number of participants.