Alumni In Focus
December 2024
HTO: Inner Development Goals in Times of Political Turmoil: From Inner Growth to Outer Change?
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, December 13, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Inner Development Goals in Times of Political Turmoil: From Inner Growth to Outer Change? The speaker will be DAAD alumna Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda from Tajikistan, a PhD candidate at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science and International Development Studies from universities in Germany (Heidelberg, Marburg) and South Korea (Seoul) and is a facilitator for global citizenship education within the German UNESCO Commission's kulturweit program.
November 2024
International students as guests at Christmas
The Department of International Relations at Heidelberg University would like to give students from abroad an insight into German Christmas and New Year's Eve traditions. The foreign student spends part of the holidays in a host household and can thus get to know German culture. In addition to traditional families, single households, couples, single parents or flat-sharing communities from Heidelberg and the surrounding area can also be host households - from students to senior citizens. The only decisive factors are curiosity, openness to the world and the willingness to accept the guest as a temporary family member. The program is aimed at sociable foreign students who are enrolled at Heidelberg University and would like to experience German culture. The period of time can be determined individually. Regardless of whether it is just for a festive meal or for the entire holiday period - the family stay of a foreign guest is always an intercultural enrichment for everyone involved. The department arranges contact between the host household and the students. The guests bring their own pocket money. The host families offer the students accommodation, meals and participation in everyday family life, depending on individual arrangements.
HTO: Conflict resolution and cooperation - what to learn from great apes
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, November 22, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET. The topic will be: Conflict resolution and cooperation - what to learn from great apes. The speaker will be Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Amaro, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling/Scotland. He received a Bachelor´s in Biology from the University Autònoma of Barcelona (his hometown) and a Master´s in Primatology from the University of Barcelona before getting his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPIEA) in Leipzig, supported by the DAAD. Dr. Sánchez Amaro then held postdoctoral positions at the MPIEA (Comparative Cultural Psychology Department) and the University of California in San Diego (Cognitive Science Department) before moving to the UK.
October 2024
HTO: International economic relations in times of crises – the German government´s approach.
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, October 11, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be:
International economic relations in times of crises – the German government´s approach. The speaker will be Dr. Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag). Ms. Brantner studied Political Sciences at the Sciences Po in Paris and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York City, before receiving a PhD degree from the University of Mannheim (Thesis: “The reformability of the United Nations”). She has also served as a Member of the European Parliament.
September 2024
HTO: Political prisoners and forced labor in the East German dictatorship (GDR) – an eyewitness account by a political historian
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, September 20, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be: Political prisoners and forced labor in the East German dictatorship (GDR) – an eyewitness account by a political historian. The speaker will be Peter Keup, PhD student of Political History at Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn and former political prisoner of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic. After his expatriation and being sold to West Germany – as one of almost 34,000 political prisoners -, he moved to Essen, where he owned a dance school before receiving a BA degree in Cultural Studies from FernUniversität Hagen and an MA degree in Political-Historical Studies from Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn.
July 2024
HTO: Feminist Ecological Economics Lens: Understanding Unpaid Care Work and Decision Making Agency of Rural Women of Bangladesh
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Feminist Ecological Economics Lens: Understanding Unpaid Care Work and Decision Making Agency of Rural Women of Bangladesh. The speaker will be DAAD scholarship holder Jasia Tahzeeda from Bangladesh, PhD student of experimental economics at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. She received a Bachelor ́s Degree in Economics from the International Islamic University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, a Master ́s in Development Studies from BRAC University and a Master ́s in Environmental Science and Management from North South University, both located in Dhaka/Bangladesh.
HTO: Nailing Jelly to the Wall - or a Democratic Alternative?
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, July 12, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Civil Society: Nailing Jelly to the Wall - or a Democratic Alternative? The speaker will be Wolfgang Goede, international science journalist, knowledge facilitator, author, lecturer and radio host based in Munich, Germany, and Medellín, Colombia. He received an M.A. degree in Communication Science and Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and his main research focus lies on the latest academic and technological developments of our time. As a fellow of the Maecenata Think Tank in Berlin, he regularly publishes his research and best-practice highlights on this platform.
June 2024
HTO: Workshop – Inner Development Goals: from inner growth to outer change?
Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) cordially invites you to attend a 1,5-day workshop on Saturday, June 29, 10 am – 5 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2), and Sunday, June 30, 10 am – 1 pm CEST. The topic will be
Inner Development Goals: from inner growth to outer change? The facilitator will be DAAD alumna Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda from Tajikistan, a PhD candidate at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science and International Development Studies from universities in Germany (Heidelberg, Marburg) and South Korea (Seoul) and is currently finishing her training as a facilitator for global citizenship education within the German UNESCO Commission's kulturweit program.
HTO: Renewable H2 production from biogas – a decentralized approach for the local community
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, June 7, 2024, 7–8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Renewable H2 production from biogas – a decentralized approach for the local community. The speaker will Dr. Gianluca Pauletto, project leader at Technical University Munich, CEO of SYPOX and chair of the steering committee of the ReTech/Horizon project. He received a Bachelor ́s degree in Chemical and Material Engineering and a Master ́s degree in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Padova/Italy and a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.
May 2024
HTO: Corona-Kommunikation: Eine Krise in Wissenschaft, Politik und Medien
Die nächste Ausgabe von “Heidelberg Talks Online” (HTO) findet am Dienstag, 14. Mai 2024, 19- 20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2), statt. Das Thema lautet: Corona-Kommunikation: Eine Krise in Wissenschaft, Politik und Medien. Referent ist Dr. Marc-Denis Weitze, Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftskommunikation der Technischen Universität München (TUM) und Leiter des Bereichs „Kommunikation/Gesellschaft“ bei acatech, der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften. Weitze promovierte in Chemie an der TUM und absolvierte zudem an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ein Magister-Studium der Philosophie. Er war lange wissenschaftlicher Leiter der Wissenschaftstage Tegernsee und ist bis heute auch als Wissenschaftsjournalist und –kabarettist sowie als Organisator von Science-Slams aktiv.
HTO: Wissenschaft in Krisenzeiten: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Chancen internationaler Forschungskooperation
Die nächste Ausgabe von “Heidelberg Talks Online” (HTO) findet am Freitag, 3. Mai 2024, 19-20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2), statt. Das Thema lautet: Wissenschaft in Krisenzeiten: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Chancen internationaler Forschungskooperation. Referent ist Alexander Föhr MdB, Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestages für den Wahlkreis Heidelberg und Berichterstatter der CDU/CSU-Fraktion im Bundestagsausschuss für Bildung, Forschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung. Herr Föhr studierte Politikwissenschaft, Öffentliches Recht und Geschichte an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und war nach seinem M.A.-Abschluss mehrere Jahre lang im Referat des Oberbürgermeisters von Heidelberg sowie als Leiter des Bereichs Kommunikation und Politik der AOK Baden-Württemberg tätig.
April 2024
HTO: Lust auf Leistung – Wie wir Arbeit (wieder) lieben lernen
Die 142. Ausgabe von “Heidelberg Talks Online” (HTO) findet am Freitag, 26. April 2024, 19-20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2), statt. Das Thema lautet: Lust auf Leistung – Wie wir Arbeit (wieder) lieben lernen. Referent ist Dr. Ingo Hamm, Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie an der Hochschule Darmstadt. Nach Studium und Promotion an der Universität Mannheim gründete er ein Markt- und Trendforschungsinstitut, ehe er als Berater bei McKinsey anheuerte, wo er im Anschluss auf Konzernseite im Bereich Human Resources und Kommunikation arbeitete. Danach folgte er seiner Leidenschaft für angewandte Forschung und berät bis heute Menschen und Organisationen bei den Herausforderungen der neuen Arbeitswelt. Als promovierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Diplom-Psychologe ist Ingo Hamm Autor erfolgreicher Sachbücher wie „Sinnlos glücklich“ oder „Wettbewerbsfaktor Mensch". Er leitet das Darmstädter Institut für Wirtschaftspsychologie.
HTO: Super election year 2024 – the global contest between democracy and autocracy
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, April 19, 2024, 7– 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Super election year 2024 – the global contest between democracy and autocracy. The speaker will be Dr. Stefan Wurster, professor of policy analysis at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Wurster studied Political Science, History and Public Law in Heidelberg and Barcelona and received his PhD in 2010 with distinction (summa cum laude). From 2009 to 2015 he was a research associate in Heidelberg, and from 2015 to 2016 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Trier. Since 2016 he has been professor of policy analysis at TUM’s Bavarian School of Public Policy.
March 2024
HTO: The fascination of exploding stars
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, March 15, 2024, 7– 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be “The fascination of exploding stars”. The speaker will be Dr. Robert Fisher, full professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth. Prior to his arrival in Massachusetts, Prof. Fisher was a research scientist and group leader at the University of Chicago and a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He earned his PhD in physics at the University of California at Berkeley with the support of a NASA Graduate Student Fellowship, and his B.S. in Physics with Honors from Caltech. He has also held visiting faculty positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard-Smithsonian, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. As a DAAD scholarship holder, Prof. Fisher is currently a visiting faculty member at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS).
Bonn excursion to the Kant exhibition
This April marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. The Bundeskunsthalle in the former German capital Bonn is dedicating an exhibition entitled “Kant and the unanswered questions” to this great thinker and Enlightenment philosopher until mid-March. The Heidelberg University Foundation therefore cordially invites you to a full-day excursion to Bonn on Thursday, March 14, 2024 (departure 9 a.m. in Heidelberg-Altstadt, return 6 p.m. in Bonn). Enclosed you will find a PDF form for your participation registration, information on the program schedule and the conditions of participation. Participation is subsidized and does not involve any costs for the participants. The trip to Bonn and back to Heidelberg will be by coach. If you are interested, please register by March 1!
HTO: “Lessons (not) learned from the Bosnian War: The Ahmići massacre as an example”
The speaker will be Thomas Obruča, from 2002 to 2007 special investigator for war crimes at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In 2007, Mr. Obruča joined the International Anti-Corruption Academy based in Austria, and since 2014 he has served as Deputy Head of Department at the Federal Office for Immigration & Asylum, Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. Between 1999 and 2002 he was sent on two UN missions to Bosnia & Hercegovina. His book “Ahmići - The Eight Days of 13-year-old Adnan", an autobiographical novel portraying the horrific experiences of a teenager in the Bosnian War, has been published in German, English and Bosnian.
February 2024
HTO: “Colonial Crimes and Reparations: The Case of Namibia and Germany”
The speaker will be Karina Theurer, international law expert and lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin. She received a State Exam degree in Law from Humboldt and an M.A. degree in Latin American Studies from Freie University Berlin. Ms. Theurer has also led the Institute for Legal Intervention at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and the Law Clinic for Human Rights at Humboldt and has worked as a lecturer and research associate at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. She currently works as an advisor for the Namibian law firm Dr. Weder, Kauta & Hoveka, focusing on the lawsuit against the joint declaration and for reparations.
HTO: 10 years after Mandela´s death – Whither South Africa?
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be "10 years after Mandela´s death – Whither South Africa?". The speaker will be Professor Verne Harris, Acting CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Mandela’s archivist from 2004 until his death in 2013.
January 2024
HTO: Can Science be Witty? How to make academic communication more joyful, thrilling, engaging
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Can Science be Witty? How to make academic communication more joyful, thrilling, engaging. The speaker will be Wolfgang Goede, international science journalist, knowledge facilitator, author, lecturer and radio host based in Munich, Germany, and Medellín, Colombia. He received an M.A. degree in Communication Science and Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and his main research focus lies on the latest academic and technological developments of our time.
HTO: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland 2024 – ein Gespräch mit Ehrenamtlichen des Projektes „Meet a Jew“
Das nächste “Heidelberg Talks Online” (HTO)-Treffen findet am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2024, 19-20.30 Uhr CET (GMT/UTC +1), statt. Das Thema lautet: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland 2024 – ein Gespräch mit Ehrenamtlichen des Projektes „Meet a Jew“. „Meet a Jew“ ist ein von der Bundesregierung unterstütztes Projekt des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, das nicht-jüdische Menschen mit Jüdinnen und Juden, dem Judentum sowie ihrem Leben in Deutschland vertraut machen und dadurch Unwissenheit, Vorurteile und Antisemitismus überwinden möchte – und das nicht erst seit dem Terrorangriff der Hamas am 7.10.2023. Rund 500 Freiwillige suchen u.a. an Universitäten das Gespräch und beantworten Fragen. Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Projektkoordinatorin Mascha Schmerling.
December 2023
Winter break in the HAI office
A year full of many wonderful encounters and activities in the HAI network lies behind us. Now the HAI team says goodbye for the winter break. We will not be available from 22 December 2023 to 2 January 2024 and then only to a very limited extent until 8 January 2023. We kindly ask for your understanding. In urgent cases please send us an e-mail to service@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de Thank you very much.
Amirana Scholarship Holder receives DAAD Prize 2023
HAI congratulates the award winner Binh Duong Thai and is delighted with this well-deserved honour. Thai is no stranger to us – after all, we were able to accompany his development to some extent: During his studies in Heidelberg, he was supported several times with the Amirana Scholarship, which is 100% funded by donations from alumni. The scholarship is aimed at medical students from the Global South. It was established by Dr Mahomed T. Amirana and Dr Annelene J. Amirana, who both studied Medicine in Heidelberg in the 1950s and have lived in the USA for decades. We would like to thank all donors who support Thai and other students on their way to a successful graduation and career start.
HTO: Ecological Trauma and a Foreshortened Future in the Oscar-winning movie “Tenet”
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Tuesday (!), December 5, 2023, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Ecological Trauma and a Foreshortened Future in the Oscar-winning movie “Tenet”. The speaker will be Dr. Amar Singh, Assistant Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He is currently pursuing post-doctoral research at Bergische Universität Wuppertal/Germany.
HTO: Rewind, Forward, Skip: Tabs of Memory to play with the Narrative Tempo
The 134th Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Tuesday (!), December 19, 2023, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be Rewind, Forward, Skip: Tabs of Memory to play with the Narrative Tempo. The speaker will be DAAD alumnus Shipra Tholia, Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, who has just completed her PhD in German Studies at Bergische University, Wuppertal/Germany. Her talk will be based on three novels that focus on the transmission of a transgenerational memory of World War II.
November 2023
HTO: Zeiten der Auflehnung – eine Geschichte des indigenen Widerstandes in den USA
Das nächste “Heidelberg Talks Online”-Treffen findet am Freitag, 17. November, 19-20.30 Uhr CET (GMT/UTC +1), statt. Das Thema lautet: Zeiten der Auflehnung – eine Geschichte des indigenen Widerstandes in den USA. Referent ist Dr. Aram Mattioli, Professor für europäische und nordamerikanische Geschichte an der Universität Luzern/Schweiz.
HTO: Enabling the green transition – Critical raw materials in northern Sweden
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, November 10, 2023, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Enabling the green transition – Critical raw materials in northern Sweden. The speaker will be Dr. Tobias Bauer, associate professor of ore geology at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
October 2023
HTO: Russland hinter Gittern - vom Gulag zu europäischen Strafvollzugsgrundsätzen?
Das nächste “Heidelberg Talks Online”-Treffen findet am Freitag, 20. Oktober, 19-20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2) statt. Das Thema lautet: Russland hinter Gittern - vom Gulag zu europäischen Strafvollzugsgrundsätzen? Referent ist Yury Borovskikh, Vorsitzender des Vereins „Russland hinter Gittern e.V.“ in Berlin.
HTO: SOCIAL INCLUSION - The Role of Accessible Housing within the Context of Dhaka
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, October 13, 2023, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be SOCIAL INCLUSION - The Role of Accessible Housing within the Context of Dhaka. The speaker will be DAAD scholarship holder Jinia Sharmeen from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Doctoral Candidate in European Urban Studies at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany.
September 2023
HTO: Fighting hunger in Africa - an assessment of food loss and waste in Nigeria
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, September 15, 7-8.30 pm
CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Fighting hunger in Africa - an assessment of food loss and waste in Nigeria. The speaker will be Ifeoluwa Abulude from Nigeria, PhD student in the International PhD Program for Agricultural Economics, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Food Systems (IPPAE) at Justus Liebig University Giessen/Germany. In Nigeria, he acquired both his bachelor's degree (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) and his master's degree (Landmark University, Omu-Aran) in Agricultural Extension & Rural Development.
HTO: Hybris - Die Reise der Menschheit - Zwischen Aufbruch und Scheitern
Das nächste “Heidelberg Talks Online”-Treffen findet am Freitag, 8. September, 19-20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2) statt. Das Thema lautet: „Hybris - Die Reise der Menschheit - Zwischen Aufbruch und Scheitern" Referent ist Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, internationaler Bestsellerautor und Leiter der Abteilung Archäogenetik am Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig. Herr Krause absolvierte ein Diplomstudium in Biochemie in Cork/Irland und Leipzig, wo er unter Nobelpreisträger Svante Pääbo mit genetischen Untersuchungen am Neandertaler und an Höhlenbären auch promovierte.
July 2023
HTO: Falling Walls - What Global North may learn from Global SouthUsing AI to Decipher Historical Documents
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, July 14, 8 pm - 9.30pm. The topic will be Falling Walls - What Global North may learn from Global South. The speaker will be Wolfgang Goede, international science journalist, knowledge facilitator, author, lecturer and radio host, his main research focus lies on the latest academic and technological developments of our time.
June 2023
HTO: Using AI to Decipher Historical Documents
The 125th Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, June 23, 7pm-8.30pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Using AI to Decipher Historical Documents. The speaker will be Walker Thompson from Connecticut/USA, a PhD student at the Slavic Institute of Heidelberg University.
May 2023
HTO: Coping with the past – the Armenian Genocide and the 3rd Reich
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, May 5, 7-8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be „Coping with the past – the Armenian Genocide and the 3rd Reich” The speaker will be Dr. Eugene Richard Sensenig, Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLPS) at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. He is Austrian-American and has an MA degree in German literature and PhD in International Relations (US occupation studies) from the University of Salzburg/Austria. He is also cofounder of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) and director of the Gender, Communications and Global Mobility studies unit at Notre Dame University.
HTO: Taiwan's Journey towards Democracy and Human Rights
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on SUNDAY, May 21, 11am-12.30pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Taiwan's Journey towards Democracy and Human Rights. The speaker will be Dr. Chen-Chang Lai, member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Taiwan.
April 2023
HTO: “Climate Diplomacy in Kashmir Conflict: The World’s Highest Battlefield and its Environmental Cost”
The 121st HTO session takes place on Friday, April 21, 7-8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be „Climate Diplomacy in Kashmir Conflict: The World’s Highest Battlefield and its Environmental Cost“. The speaker will be Pakistani filmmaker and researcher Mehmood Ali Khan, member of the Central Asian Faculty Development Program at the University of Central Asia (UCA) in Naryn/Kyrgyzstan and UCA-DAAD scholar working on his PhD project on Islamisation of cinema in Iran and Pakistan.
HTO: Deutsche Kolonialbeute aus Togo und ihre Geschichte(n)
Das nächste “Heidelberg Talks Online”-Treffen findet am Freitag, 28. April, 19-20.30 Uhr CEST (GMT/UTC +2) statt. Das Thema lautet: "Deutsche Kolonialbeute aus Togo und ihre Geschichte(n)“. Referent ist Dr. Ohiniko M. Toffa, Kulturwissenschaftler an der Universität Bremen. Nach dem Studium der Germanistik und Kulturwissenschaft in Lomé, der Hauptstadt seines Heimatlandes Togo, promovierte er an der Uni Bremen 2019 mit einem Stipendium des DAAD. Bis März 2023 war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an den Völkerkundemuseen von Leipzig und Dresden und beschäftigte sich dort im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts mit der Provenienz von Sammlungen aus der früheren deutschen „Musterkolonie“ Togo (1884-1919).
March 2023
HTO: The Enlightenment – a European invention or a gift from indigenous cultures?
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session of 2023 takes place on Friday, March 3, 7-8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be “The Enlightenment – a European invention or a gift from indigenous cultures?” The speaker will be Wolfgang Goede, international science journalist, science facilitator, author, lecturer and radio host based in Munich/Germany and Medellín/Colombia. He received an M.A. degree in Communication Science and Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and his main research focus lies on the latest academic and technological developments of our time.
HTO: “Sensitivität hochalpiner Geosysteme auf den Klimawandel seit 1850 – Einblicke in die Arbeit der DFG-Forschungsgruppe SEHAG”
The next “Heidelberg Talks Online” meeting will take place on Friday, 17 March, 7-8:30pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: “Sensitivität hochalpiner Geosysteme auf den Klimawandel seit 1850 – Einblicke in die Arbeit der DFG-Forschungsgruppe SEHAG”. The speaker will be Dr Florian Haas, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography at the Catholic University Eichstädt-Ingolstadt and project manager at SEHAG.
February 2023
HTO: The war on Ukraine – lessons for the Belarusian democracy movement
The third Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session of 2023 takes place on Friday, February 3, 7-8.30pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The speaker will be DAAD alumnus Dr. Alaksiej Kačanovič, post doctoral researcher at Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb/Croatia. He obtained his PhD degree in 2020 in theoretical particle physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Having been expelled from Belarusian State University for his political engagement in the democracy movement in Belarus as a member of
the social democratic party “Hramada”, he received a Licentitate and a Master´s degree from Wroclaw University/Poland. In 2006, he obtained the Konstanty Kalinowski scholarship.
HTO: Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System, 1970-2020
The fourth Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session of 2023 takes place on Friday, February 10, 7-8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The speaker will be Prof. Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam/The Netherlands and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His main area of interest is the history and sociology of mass violence, with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary Middle East. He has won several academic awards and held visiting positions in Dublin, Vancouver, Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles and Edinburgh. He has published various books and articles, is an editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research and coordinated the Tadamon Massacre project.
January 2023
HTO: Is it an exodus? – Making sense of the Hong Kong migration wave from the perspective of young adults
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) takes place on Friday, January 27, 2023. The speaker will be Eunice Chiu, PhD student in Educational Science at the Faculty of Cultural and Behavioural Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. She holds a BA degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include green policy and the environment, migrational studies and educational justice.
HTO: Psychology of the Last Generation - With peaceful civil resistance against the climate catastrophe
The next “Heidelberg Talks Online” meeting will take place on Friday, 20 Jan 2023. The speaker is Jana Mestmäcker, psychologist (M. Sc.) and activist of the climate protection alliance "Last Generation". After a year abroad as a student in Buenos Aires, she studied psychology at the universities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Örebro (Sweden), graduating with a Master's degree in 2017. Afterwards, Ms Mestmäcker gained professional experience in a specialised psychological publishing house before working as a psychology lecturer in Göttingen from 2019. She gave up this work last year in order to devote all her energy to the goals of the "Last Generation".
December 2022
HTO: “Russia's war on Ukraine and its impact on post-Soviet countries in Central Asia”
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) takes place on Friday, December 16, 2022. The speaker will be Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda, DAAD alumna from Tajikistan and a doctoral researcher at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde/Germany.
HTO: “Why international relations need science – science diplomacy in its historical perspective”
The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) takes place on Friday, December 2, 2022.
The speaker will be Dr Maria Rentetzi, Professor and chair of Science, Technology and Gender studies at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
November 2022
Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO): “A Cinematic approach to understanding Artificial Intelligence / Consciousness”
This week's Heidelberg Talk Online will be about cinematic approaches to understanding artificial intelligence/artificial consciousness.
The speaker will be Dr Amar Singh, Assistant Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He is currently pursuing post-doctoral research at Bergische Universität Wuppertal/Germany, where he is working with the AI in Humanity Project Group.
HTO: “Humanity in Times of War – the Work of the Welthungerhilfe”
The next Heidelberg Talk Online (HTO) will take place on 25 Nov 2022. Speakers will be Laura Plöger, regional scientist with a focus on Latin America and active for 15 years at Welthungerhilfe in Germany and abroad, and Patrick Nathaus, Asian scientist with a focus on Central and East Asia, team leader at Welthungerhilfe since this year and previously manager in the private sector, most recently at Audi China.
October 2022
Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO): „Ukrainian power plants under attack – decision support for nuclear emergencies“
Speaker of the next HTO session will be Wolfgang Raskob, Deputy Head of the Institute for Thermal Energy Technology and Safety (ITES) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), elected member of the Crisis Team of the German Radiation Protection Commission and Member of the Management Board of the European NERIS Platform on Emergency management.
The Heidelberg Talks Online are organised by Henning Belle, DAAD-Freundeskreis Bonn, Regionalgruppe Rhein-Neckar, Heidelberg
HAInews 01/2022
Ausbau der „Karriere-Aktivitäten“ mit neuem Team-Mitglied
In welches berufliche Umfeld soll mich mein Studium führen, wie gelingt der Berufseinstieg und welche Karrieremöglichkeiten bieten sich? Fragen dieser Art spielen künftig in der Alumni-Arbeit eine wichtigere Rolle, so dass wir dazu ein neues Team-Mitglied begrüßen.
