Events-Archive

Across wildlife ecology and livestock management, herds are increasingly managed through digital infrastructures. Sensor-based systems – ranging from GPS collars and RFID tags to drones and satellite tracking – are used to monitor, classify, and guide the movements of animals across diverse terrains. These technologies do not merely collect data; they actively intervene in animals’ spatial and behavioral patterns, reshaping the ecologies in which they operate.

This workshop examines how digital tools and infrastructures are mobilized to manage herds, both domesticated and wild. It investigates the sociomaterial regimes and infrastructures of tagging, tracking, fencing, and herding that underlie contemporary forms of animal management. The workshop further explores how these practices shape knowledge production, structure control, and reconfigure relationships between humans, animals, and environments.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you and kindly ask you to register by email at virtualfences@uni-potsdam.de by March 20. Please also indicate whether you will be taking part on site or online.
Unfortunately, we are not able to cover travel costs.

The workshop is organized as part of the subproject P04, “Precision Farming: Co-operative Practices of Virtual Fencing”, within the framework of the CRC Media of Cooperation (funded by the German Research Foundation) at the University of Siegen.

As part of an ongoing collaboration between the “War Sensing” project (European University Viadrina/CRC “Media of Cooperation”) , the Telegram Archive of the War (Center for Urban History, Lviv) and the School of Communications/Conflict Institute (Dublin City University), we are organising a 1,5 day conference and online data sprint, which is scheduled for 31 March (full day) and 1 April (evening).

The second collaborative data sprint builds on the hybrid conference and data sprint, “War Sensing through the Telegram Archive of the War”, that was organised by the “War Sensing” project (European University Viadrina/CRC “Media of Cooperation”) and the “Telegram Archive of the War” (Center for Urban History, Lviv) in 2025. You can find more information about the previous data sprint here.

At the upcoming conference and data sprint, “Witnessing and Justice in Data-Based Research”, we will reflect upon the practices and limits of war-related research based on digital, archived and other types of data. The urgent question here is how to address the ongoing tension between such data-based research of war and the injustices that persist. Despite the large volume of data and the variety of ways in which Russia’s war in Ukraine has been documented, represented and analysed in order to expose its unjust nature and practices, the destruction and attacks against Ukraine persist. Data-based investigations using “data for the good” (cf. Williams, 2022; Kazansky et al., 2019) form a small part of achieving transitional justice and maintain hope and demand accountability by using digitally derived evidence of war injustices and crimes. (How) do digital data archives and data-based investigations continue to counter war-related injustices, and what approaches have proved as successful? What are the various limitations of digital data-based witnessing of war in terms of experiential, juridical, political and other nature? How can the tension between the investigations and ongoing injustices tell us about the role and impact of contemporary war witnessing?

The event consists of two sessions that are open for the general public. The first open session takes place on the morning of 31 March and features a keynote talk by Oksana Avramenko, followed by a roundtable discussion with Jelnar Ahmad, Karina Buhaichenko, Yevheniia Drozdova, Oleksiy Radynski and Bohdan Shumylovych. The second session, which is also open to the public, will take place in the evening on 1 April and will consist of a roundtable discussion with Jenna Dolecek, Kaja Kowalczewska and Maryna Slobodyanuk. This will be followed by a screening of the film “A Home for Rita”, after which there will be a Q&A session with the director, Yulia Appen, and Sashko Protyah from the Freefilmers collective.

The event will also consist of a half-day closed data sprint on 31 March, during which participants from the previous data sprint will discuss their ongoing hands-on work with the Telegram Archive’s data. Due to the sensitive and ongoing nature of the research, this part will only be open to previous data sprint participants. How did these collaborations continue their work, and what are their future research plans? Which role did the Telegram Archive of the War play in their research projects? What results did the bottom-up research collaborations formed during the first data sprint produce? What are the main ethical and other challenges?

The detailed programme outline can be found below. The final programme, including the Zoom links, will be sent to registered participants.

To register, please send a short email to warsensing[ae]europa-uni.de by 29 March, expressing your interest to join the public programme.

On behalf of the CRC Media of Cooperation and the project teams “War Sensing” (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) with Prof. Dr. Miglė Bareikytė, Johanna Hiebl and Gregor Wörl, the Telegram Archive of the War (Center for Urban History, Lviv) with Oksana Avramenko and Maryana Mazurak and School of Communication (Dublin City University) with Prof. Dr. Tanya Lokot

Topics can be submitted to the board meetings via the status representatives two weeks before the meeting at the latest. Invitations go out two weeks before the meeting. Funding applications must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation, cost estimate, detailed cost overview, and programme.

Applications  must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation and additional documents. For further information, please refer to the following templates. Please note that the tempolates are only available in German. For english versions please contact Dominik Schrey:

• Application for association
• Application for funding of a publication
• Application for funding of an event

The board meetings include reports, public topics, and various which are open to all SFB members. Personal and financial matters won’t be public and will be discussed after the public part. Webex links for online participation will be sent out on the previous Friday. Attendance on-site is possible. 

Digital protocols will be provided via sciebo. 

Hostility in science communication?

How to deal specifically with hate speech and hostility towards science:

A workshop with the support and advice network Scicomm-Sup

Hostility towards science and hate speech against scientists, science communicators and scientific institutions has increased noticeably, not least due to the coronavirus pandemic. But how can science communicators respond to such attacks, prepare for them and find support? This workshop offers insights into the topic, presents the advice and support services of the national contact point Scicomm-Support, offers space for exchange and initial practical options for action.

About the series

The “Diversity Lunch” series is a cooperation between the CRCs “Media of Cooperation” and “Transformations of the Popular” and invites all members and interested people to discuss current topics and issues relating to diversity in science.

Participation is possible online as well as in presence in the Herren­garten. After the event, we invite you to a small snack/lunch in the Herren­garten (AH-A 208/209)!

Please register via e-mail by January 16 to Selina Seibt: selina.seibt[æt]student.uni-siegen.de

Please register via email to info[æt]sfb1187.uni-siegen.de

In the concluding session of our series on synthetic methods, we will explore and discuss Kate Crawford’s concept of “metabolic images,” asking what methods or method combinations we need to study them. To prepare for the session, please read Crawford’s short article “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop,” published in e-flux last September. The article is freely available online here.

Elena Pilipets will lead the session and discussion.

Topics can be submitted to the board meetings via the status representatives two weeks before the meeting at the latest. Invitations go out two weeks before the meeting. Funding applications must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation, cost estimate, detailed cost overview, and programme.

Applications  must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation and additional documents. For further information, please refer to the following templates. Please note that the tempolates are only available in German. For english versions please contact Dominik Schrey:

• Application for association
• Application for funding of a publication
• Application for funding of an event

The board meetings include reports, public topics, and various which are open to all SFB members. Personal and financial matters won’t be public and will be discussed after the public part. Webex links for online participation will be sent out on the previous Friday. Attendance on-site is possible. 

Digital protocols will be provided via sciebo. 

More info coming soon!

Please note that the event begins at 16:15 (not 14:15 like the other sessions)!

David Gauthier: Voice of Machine Theft

I will be reflecting on an experimental research project conducted with Dr. Anna Poletti where we engaged in the process of constructing a voice-based AI “from the ground up” with the intention of training it to speak in our own voices. The project has involved writing the machine learning code, selecting a corpora of sentences in English that capture the phonemes and cadences of the English language, and spending hours recording our own utterances to produce the sonic dataset the AI was trained on. The aim of my intervention for the forum is to share the process of writing and training our voice-based AI in order to occasion a conversation about how AI and machine learning—just like the performative arts—destabilise the association between voice, presence, authenticity, and identity.

Please register via email to info[æt]sfb1187.uni-siegen.de

Topics can be submitted to the board meetings via the status representatives two weeks before the meeting at the latest. Invitations go out two weeks before the meeting. Funding applications must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation, cost estimate, detailed cost overview, and programme.

Applications  must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation and additional documents. For further information, please refer to the following templates. Please note that the tempolates are only available in German. For english versions please contact Dominik Schrey:

• Application for association
• Application for funding of a publication
• Application for funding of an event

The board meetings include reports, public topics, and various which are open to all SFB members. Personal and financial matters won’t be public and will be discussed after the public part. Webex links for online participation will be sent out on the previous Friday. Attendance on-site is possible. 

Digital protocols will be provided via sciebo. 

Finanzielle Selbstbestimmung ist eine wesentliche Grundlage für wissenschaftliche Karrieren und die persönliche Lebensplanung. Für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen stellen befristete Beschäftigungen, unsichere Perspektiven und Fragen der Vereinbarkeit jedoch besondere Herausforderungen dar und erschweren eine kontinuierliche Finanzplanung.

Der Workshop vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse der Finanzplanung, des Vermögensaufbaus und der Absicherung. Neben der Vermittlung von Basiswissen wird ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf gesellschaftliche und strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen gelegt, die individuelle finanzielle Entscheidungen prägen. Diskutiert werden u. a. Geld- und Finanzkulturen, Stereotype im Finanzsektor sowie bestehende finanzielle Ungleichheiten.

Die Teilnehmenden setzen sich mit ihrer eigenen Geldsozialisation und Geldbiografie auseinander, reflektieren Rollenbilder und Prioritäten und entwickeln Strategien für eine langfristige finanzielle Selbstbestimmung. Ziel ist es, finanzielle Resilienz zu stärken, Bildungs- und Beratungsfallen zu erkennen und seriöse Quellen für fundierte Entscheidungen zu identifizieren.

Das Angebot richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen, die sich frühzeitig mit den Themen Finanzplanung, Altersvorsorge und finanzieller Eigenständigkeit auseinandersetzen möchten.

Der Workshop findet online und auf Deutsch statt. Es wird ein Glossar mit englischen Übersetzungen von Finanzvokabular geben. Er richtet sich an alle SFB Mitglieder.

Anmeldung bitte bis 1.12. an selina.seibt[æt]student.uni-siegen.de

About Dr. Birgit Happel

Sociologist and banker Dr. Birgit Happel is the owner of the financial platforms Geldbiografien® and Finanzbiografien. Her work focuses on the professionalization of financial education, financial equality, and financial social work. She has a doctorate in money management and is committed to the economic independence of women, including as a member of UN Women Germany and chair of the Financial Competence Prevention Network. As a financial education expert, she is involved in the German government’s “Financial Education Initiative.” Her book “Auf Kosten der Mütter” (At the Expense of Mothers) encourages women to live financially independent lives and reveals the opportunity costs of motherhood.

→ geldbiografien.de

Individuelle Affekte wachsen nicht im Stillen – sie entstehen im Gewebe kultureller Normen und sozialer Erwartungen. Doch nicht nur kulturelle Normen sind Mediatoren unserer Selbst: Ebenso fungieren Technologien, Artefakte und Werkzeuge als solche. Diese kooperieren und interagieren mit uns, sie erweitern und verlängern uns, verstärken oder dämpfen Affekte. Die Grenzen dessen, womit wir uns emotional identifizieren oder verbunden fühlen, reichen über das physische Selbst hinaus und umfassen externe Objekte, die dadurch Teil der eigenen emotionalen Landschaft werden. Dadurch wirken Angriffe auf diese Objekte wie persönliche Affronts – etwa im Kontext von Mobilität, wo das Auto als Erweiterung des privaten Raums wahrgenommen wird (siehe Katz, 1999). Das zeigt sich ebenso in Kampagnen gegen das Tempolimit („Tempolimit? NEIN Danke“), die liebgewonnene Praktiken trotz des Potenzials zur CO₂-Reduktion leidenschaftlich verteidigen.

Während Katz affektive Dynamiken als körper- und technikvermittelte Prozesse beschreibt, die nicht zwingend in neue politische Handlungsmöglichkeiten münden, möchten wir im Workshop ergänzende Perspektiven eröffnen. Anhand konkreter empirischer Beispiele wollen wir untersuchen, inwiefern affektive Prozesse durchaus als Ansatzpunkt für bislang wenig beachtete politische Potenziale verstanden werden können. Katz zeigt am Beispiel des Ausrastens beim Autofahren einen Vorgang der Normalisierung, der zwar emotionale Reflexivität freisetzt, aber sogleich wieder unterbindet. Diese stünde dann als politische Ressource nicht mehr zur Verfügung. Ließe sich Normalisierung nach diesem Schema generalisieren, wäre es um die Politisierbarkeit (hier: des Straßenverkehrs) schlecht bestellt. Wo Infrastrukturen des motorisierten Individualverkehrs (wie in Los Angeles) dominieren, nehmen technisch vermittelte Interaktionen einen Verlauf, der die Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung öffentlicher Räume unmöglich macht. Anderenorts ist das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Affekten, Artefakten und Mobilität – insbesondere im Hinblick auf deren mögliche Politisierung − noch empirischen Untersuchungen zu unterziehen.

In unseren alltäglichen Mobilitätspraktiken werden wir durch materielle und immaterielle Artefakte wie Fahrräder, Autos, Tempolimits, Flugzeuge und den notorisch verspäteten Zug vermittelt und affektiv tangiert. All diese Objekte rufen Affekte wie Widerstand, Wut, Zuneigung, Schuld, Gefühle der Zugehörigkeit oder Ablehnung hervor und können politisch konnotiert sein (zum Beispiel Fahrrad, siehe Bee et al. 2022). Die Bewegungspraktiken materieller und sensitiver Körper in sozial hochgradig determinierten Räumen erzeugen komplexe Affekte. Mobilität wird umgekehrt auch über Affekte reguliert, etwa durch halb- oder unbewusste Orientierungen und Vermeidungsstrategien. Affekte bestimmen etwa den Radius, die Qualität der Bewegungsform, kennzeichnen aber auch das Beharrungsvermögen von petrobasierten Verkehrsmitteln, die habitualisiert sind und infrastrukturell gestützt werden. Körper, die sich in Öffentlichkeiten bewegen, sind affektive Körper, sie teilen sich Räume und stellen Öffentlichkeiten her. Ihre unterschiedlichen Positionierungen, etwa durch Geschlecht, Rassifizierung und Be_hinderung machen sie unterschiedlich vulnerabel. Körper orientieren sich auch über Affekte, z. B. durch sensorische Erfahrungen, die in gefährlichen Verkehrsräumen wie dem motorisierten Straßenverkehr von Radfahrenden und Fußgänger:innen gemacht werden, aber auch in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Diese sind nicht immer einzelnen, klar trennbaren Emotionen zuzuordnen, sondern sprechen komplexe Affektlagen an, die verschiedene Sinne involvieren und verschiedene sensuelle Vermögen aktivieren.

Der Workshop erkundet den Zusammenhang von Mobilitätstransformationen und Affektdynamiken. Dafür bringt er verschiedene Ansätze zusammen, die sich sowohl mit (Makro-) Diskursen als auch mit (mikroskopischen) Beobachtungen zu Affekten auseinandersetzen. Es geht um Affekte, die durch die Diskurslage ausgelöst werden, und um mikroaffektive Situationen alltäglicher Navigation oder unfallvermeidender Manöver − insbesondere im Fall von Fahrrad- und Fußmobilität.

Der Workshop wird organisiert von den Projektteams A04, B09 und P05.

With interventions by Marcus Burkhardt and Hendrik Bender. 

Since OpenAI introduced GPT Builder at the end of 2023, users can create customized versions of ChatGPT. These task-specific GPTs can be exchanged and sold via the affiliated shop, with the underlying instructions and prompts becoming invisible. By now more than 1 million different GPTs exist on the ChatGPT, ranging from travel assistants to relationship advisors. 
The aim of the workshop is to ask what difference GPTs make? On the one hand, they are based on and operate with the same general purpose large language model. On the other hand, they differ largely in their capacities as more or less special purpose applications. This leads to the question of system prompts that are used to specify, modulate or “program” language models in practice. Drawing on a dataset of extracted system prompts we will engage with the anatomy of custom GPTs. We will engage in a collaborative close reading to inquire into the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the customized GPTs.

Please register via email to info[æt]sfb1187.uni-siegen.de

More info coming soon. 

Audiovisual media are an indispensable part of ethnographic research. Professional processing of audiovisual research material makes it possible to increase the reach of one’s own research and to establish more far-reaching connections—for example, in the context of public anthropology. In the master class “Structure, Dramaturgy, and Post-production of Non-Fictional Films,” Sebastian Eschenbach will teach practical skills in this area.

The master class is divided into two different focus areas. In the first part, Sebastian Eschenbach will first discuss the creation of film material, in particular the resolution of plots, the recording of interview sequences, and the selection of the appropriate technology. The focus will be on application-oriented answers to the questions: How do I proceed? What mistakes should I avoid?

The second part will then focus intensively on the topic of post-production. Here, the dramaturgy of a film will be a particular focus, also using film examples: How do I engage the audience in the film? What different non-fiction formats are there? What are my audience’s expectations? What are my expectations?

Based on these questions, the content-related and technical challenges of post-production will be discussed—and even tried out. Participants are welcome to bring their own footage for this purpose. In order to actually implement aspects of post-production such as editing, color correction, mixing, and playback, Sebastian Eschenbach asks all participants to download the free version of Davinci Resolve (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/products/davinciresolve).

Please send registrations and inquiries to: simon.holdermann[æt]uni-koeln.de

The master class will be in German.

Short biography:
Sebastian Eschenbach studied visual anthropology and has been working as a freelance documentary filmmaker for 25 years. His work ranges from experimental documentaries to conventional TV documentaries and artistic documentaries.

Die Autoren des Bestsellers “Wenn die letzte Frau den Raum verlässt. Was Männer wirklich über Frauen denken” Vincent-Immanuel Herr und Martin Speer sind häufig unterwegs in Männerrunden und bekommen dort mit – ob im Meetingraum oder abends beim Bier – wie vehement viele Männer gegen Gleichstellung argumentieren und welche patriarchalen Denk- und Argumentationsmuster dabei deutlich werden.

Sie berichten in ihrem Buch, erschienen in den Ullstein Buchverlagen, wie viele Männer über Themen rund um Gleichstellung, Sexismus, Gendern und Quoten sprechen. “Das Buch liefert eine ehrliche Analyse der männlichen Gedanken- und Sorgenwelt – und einen Plan, wie wir sie zu Verbündeten im Kampf um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit machen können.” (ullstein.de)

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen liest einer der beiden Autoren und HeForShe Botschafter für UN Women Deutschland – Vincent-Immanuel Herr – aus dem Buch und freut sich darauf, mit den Teilnehmenden ins Gespräch zu kommen. Die Veranstaltung ist offen für alle Interessierten.

Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert vom Gleichstellungsbüro der Universität Siegen, der Referentin für Diversity Policies, dem Women Career Service, dem Mentoringprogramm FraMeS – Frauenspezifisches Mentoring Siegen, dem Gestu_S, dem POLIS, dem SFB “Medien der Kooperation”, dem SFB “Transformationen des Populären” sowie dem Graduiertenkolleg “Folgen sozialer Hilfen”.

LINK zur Teilnahme über WebEx

Meeting-Kennnummer: 2741 344 8257 
Passwort: 2Ad7VsJYSAB3

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