👏 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer zum Bundesverdienstkreuz! Im Dezember 2024 durften wir Heitmeyer auch als Gast im ZiF begrüßen. 🧵

📢 New Appointments to the Academic Board of Directors We look forward to working with the newly appointed and continuing members of the Academic Board of Directors. We would also like to thank Jens Stoye for his dedication and contributions during his eight-year tenure on the Board.

🗓️ Next month at ZiF – Art, Literature and three interdisciplinary workshops For more information about any of the events, visit our event calendar: www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

🗓️ Next week at ZiF Lesung: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Aus Anlass seines 150. Geburtstages. Rezitation, Musik, Kommentare 📆 02.10.25 | 18:15 📌 ZiF Bielefeld (Methoden 1, 33615 Bielefeld) 🎟️ Eintritt frei. Wir bitten um Anmeldung über unsere Website. 🔗 www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

🤖 Since the release of ChatGPT, AI appears to have taken the world of higher education by storm. In order to develop sustainable visions and frameworks that can be put into practice, interdisciplinary research and collaboration is sorely needed. 🧵

Open Models statt OpenAI KI aus der Hochschule, nicht aus dem Silicon Valley: Wie Hochschulen in einem Jahr eigene Chat-Interfaces und offene Sprachmodelle etabliert haben – und jetzt den nächsten Schritt gehen müssen. Gastbeitrag von Benjamin Paaßen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

⚖️ What is “safe AI”? This and many more questions surrounding the topic of AI are the focus of the workshop “AI Risk and Safety Landscape” taking place this week at ZiF. For more information about the workshop, visit the link below ⬇️

🔈Neue Podcast-Folge! Wozu eigentlich Stereotype? Dieser Frage widmet sich die neueste 'InterSpaces'-Episode. Wie entstehen Stereotype, warum halten sich manche davon besonders hartnäckig, und wie kann man das Thema aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven betrachten?

Eine Landkarte für die KI-Sicherheit Chatbots, medizinische Diagnosen, intelligente Stromnetze: Algorithmen aus dem Werkzeugkasten Künstlicher Intelligenz werden in immer mehr Bereichen eingesetzt. Klar ist, dass die Systeme zuverlässig und s... weiterlesen

📃 There is a new post in our blog! 👁️ Read the full article about an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Romanov Imperial Thematic Cartography‘ and find more ZiF related posts via the following link: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/zif/

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📰Heute in der SZ und online über SZPlus: "Gute Laune macht die Lektüre des Wissenschaftsbands zur „Destabilisierung von Institutionen durch die AfD“ nicht. Dafür versteht man besser, wie die anhaltenden Angriffe der Rechtspopulisten funktionieren." ⬇️Weitere Infos im 🧵

The 5th ZiF Summer School on Randomness in Physics and Mathematics has concluded, but the next workshop in context of the research group “The Lush World of Random Matrices” already started. 🧵

In her artistic practice Lyoudmila Milanova, the current artist in residence at ZiF, explores the relationship between nature and its technical representations. One example of this, based on marine biology, is currently on display at the gallery Goethe45 in Bremerhaven. 🧵

📊 The 5th ZiF Summer School on Randomness in Physics and Mathematics, the starting event of the four-month research group “The Lush World of Random Matrices”, started last week and will conclude this Saturday.

We are happy to welcome the new research group The Lush World of Random Matrices which will be working at ZiF until Dec. 2025. ⬇️ Visit the links below for an overview of the group's goals and schedule and watch this space, where we will share more about the different workshops as they take place.

Mit dem Workshop ‚A Case for Empathy? Facing the Perpetrator in Literature, Culture, and History’ endet mein Fellowship @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social 2026 werden die Beiträge des Workshops in einem von mir herausgegebenen Special Issue in der @redaktion-kwz.bsky.social erscheinen.

Kommt! Am 16. Oktober, 18.15h, werden Nora Bossong und Marcel Beyer im @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social zu Gast sein! Im Rahmen meines Workshops ‚A Case for Empathy?‘ sprechen sie mit @sebschoenbeck.bsky.social über Täter:innen in der Literatur. Der Eintritt ist frei!

🗓️ For the moment summer is still in full swing here in Bielefeld, but autumn is right around the corner. This September is packed with four exciting events at ZiF.

🖋️ Applications for some of our Research in Groups formats are still open, but we are also excited to share an example of the output of one of our past research groups. The group "Internalizing Borders" met at ZiF for multiple workshops and conferences from October 2023 to July 2024. ...🧵

👀 Have you spotted this new addition to our logo yet? If you haven't been to ZiF recently, maybe our summer concert next week would be a great occasion to visit and admire not just the amazing music of DuoFludeon, but also these adorable googly eyes. More information below ⬇️

📰 Check out the two new posts in our news blog! You can find the full posts and more articles about past events at ZiF here: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/zif/

🎶 What does summer sound like? Join us on 27 August and find out how "DuoFludeon", Heti Schmidt-Wissing (flute) and Till Mannes (accordion), interpret this season. 📆 27.08.25 | 18:00 📌 ZiF Bielefeld 🎟️ free admission 🔗Details & registration: www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

⏰ Applications for our Research Groups are open until 30 October.    Visit our website for more information about the various group formats and to read the full call for proposals. www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

☀️ It's time for a little summer vacation. While the ZiF is keeping normal opening hours, our podcast InterSpaces will take a break in August and return with a new episode in September. 🎧 In the meantime, you can listen to our past 17 episodes: interspaces.letscast.fm/index#episodes

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☀️We are ready for summer! This August at ZiF starts off with the last chance to see the current art exhibition by Clemens Krauss in our foyer. Later in the month, we are excited for our annual summer concert and the summer school "Randomness in Physics and Mathematics."

⏰ Last Chance! Have you already explored the art exhibition in our foyer?⁣ If not, you have until 15 August 2025. Come by any day, during our regular opening hours.

📨 Have you already seen the latest post in our news blog? In it Rima-Maria Rahal, the convenor of the workshop "More than Luck: Rethinking Research Funding", describes the problems with research funding in its current state and what alternatives were discussed by the participants of the workshop.

📽️ Yesterday a small delegation from ZiF went to watch the world premiere of "Volcano Voices" by Clive Oppenheimer at Klosterforum Maria Laach. 🧵 Find out more about the film and watch a little sneak peak in this thread!

🎙️New Podcast Episode

⏯️ New Video! In seinem Vortrag betrachtete Masaki Taguchi zwei historische Phänomene vergleichend: einerseits die Fehdeführung im deutschen Spätmittelalter und ihr Verbot durch den Ewigen Landfrieden (1495) ...🧵

👋 Welcome to the participants of the International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities. We hope you have a great first day at ZiF today.

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⏯️ Have you already seen the latest video on our ZiF YouTube channel? 🧵More info below 👇

📖 Morgen Abend im ZiF: "Erinnern & Engagement" Lesung und Gespräch mit Asal Dardan, moderiert von Saskia Fischer 📅 04.07.2025 19:00 Uhr 📍 ZiF Bielefeld 🎟️ Eintritt frei Wir bitten um Anmeldung über unsere Website: www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge... 🔽 Weitere Infos im Thread 🧵

📖 Am Freitag im ZiF

☀️ Summer has arrived in full swing here in Bielefeld! But before it's time for summer vacation, we have a colourful collection of workshops and events planned for this month. 🔽 For more details, visit the links in the thread 🧵

📆 It's a busy week here at ZiF Bielefeld. We are happy to welcome the participants of two Workshops, starting today and tomorrow, as well as a meeting of our postdoc network "Das Junge ZiF" later this week. 🧵Links for more information about the workshops and "Das Junge ZiF" in the thread below.

🎙️ Have you already listened to the latest episode of our podcast? ⁣ In episode 16 our guests Holger Schmidt and Bernd Dollinger talk about narratives of/in criminology. ⁣ ⁣ 🔍 The episode is in German and available on most podcasting platforms and via the link below. 👇

🌱 Welcome to the participants of the Workshop "Mobility – Transformation – Narrative. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Sustainability." We hope you have a great time at ZiF and many productive discussions.

🌱 Welcome to the participants of the Workshop "Mobility – Transformation – Narrative. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Sustainability." We hope you have a great time at ZiF and many productive discussions.

💭 Don't have any plans for September yet? If you are interested in Random Matrix Theory, check out our upcoming workshop in the context of the research group "The Lush World of Random Matrices." 🧵More information below👇

Join us next week, Thursday 26. June, for another exciting open lecture: "Auf der Suche nach Frieden im Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit – Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Japan" [Lecture in German]⁣ 🗓️ 26.06.2025, 18:15⁣ 📍ZiF Bielefeld & Online⁣

⚖️ Welcome to the participants of the workshop "Punishment Beyond Bentham & Kant – On the Plurality of Punishment Motives & their Relevance for Theories of Punishment in Criminal Law" led by Valerij Zisman. We hope you had a great start yesterday and continue to have a productive time at ZiF.

Komm ins Team! Wir suchen studentische Verstärkung für die Pflege unseres Webauftritts. 🔍 Alle Infos findet ihr im Karriereportal der Uni Bielefeld: uni-bielefeld.jobteaser.com/de/job-offer...

🗓️ 10.06.2025, 18:15⁣ 📍ZiF Bielefeld⁣, Plenary Hall⁣⁣ & online via Zoom Join us on Tuesday for a roundtable with Timothy Brook, Marion Eggert, Achim Mittag and Jörg Quenzer in the context of the research group "Momentum of Their Own. Analogue Structures of Change in Pre-Modern East Asia and Europe."

🎙️New podcast episode!⁣ ⁣ For the second part of this little series on the topic of "Normalizing the Far Right," our guests are Ruth Wodak, Brigitte Bargetz, Katrine Fangen, Jan-Werner Müller, Luciana Villas, and Dieter Rucht.⁣

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🗓️ June is just around the corner and we are excited for three workshops, a panel discussion and an open lecture – all of which are covering a wide array of topics and academic fields.