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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 4h

Can science diplomacy be used to maintain int. coops?
A panel with:
@uschroeder.bsky.social, @mrentetzi.bsky.social, Anke Reiffenstuel @diplo.de, Jan Marco Müller @ec.europa.eu and Marcelo Knobel
Details: bit.ly/4mYw8Sj
In Coop with @uni-hamburg.de, @buceriuslaw.bsky.social & ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS

Panel Discussion: The Role of International Science Cooperation in Disruptive Times
14 October, 2025, 5p.m. at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 8d

Water, our essential resource- Ecology, climate change, geopolitical distribution struggles and economic aspects examined in 39 events. Start: 13 Oct, 2025. Details and registration: bit.ly/46wG7co

This annual series of events is organised in coop with @koerber-ip.bsky.social and @uni-hamburg.de

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 10

Every situation has an atmosphere. While researchers have made significant progress theorizing what atmospheres are, what remains to be shown is, what they do. Michael Schnegg @uni-hamburg.de & Thiemo Breyer @unicologne.bsky.social @dfg.de invite to follow up these questions: bit.ly/4kAsoVQ

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 7

This year’s HIAS Summer School has just started and welcomes all speakers. HIAS alumnus Frédéric Vandenberghe & Frank Adloff @uni-hamburg.de have put together an inter-disciplinary menu to explore the ethics, ecologies and politics of food, conviviality and commensality. Details: bit.ly/40HPvXd

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 4

Final spurt of her stay! Martina Lassalle, sociologist from Buenos Aires spent six months in Germany (four in Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de and two in Bielefeld) as a HIAS-CALAS fellow. HIAS greatly appreciates the cooperation with CALAS and looks forward to expanding it.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 1

In today’s workshop “Asylum Law & Literature” Karolin Machtans @uconn.bsky.social, Markus Kotzur and Doerte Bischoff @uni-hamburg.de, invite scholars from different disciplines to discuss the interrelations between law and literature for a possible re-thinking of asylum laws. bit.ly/3Ibn1yJ

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 30

With our summer finissage, we did not only bid farewell to the 2024-2025 fellows but also celebrated a small anniversary: five years of HIAS! Over the past five years, HIAS has been supporting academic freedom as one of its non-negotiable values and will do so in the future. To the next five years!

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 26

“We want to take different knowledge cultures seriously” – Christian Suhm in an interview today with Oskar Piegsa from @zeitonline.bsky.social online academic freedom and the role of HIAS and other Institutes for Advanced Study as places where this freedom is preserved. ➡https://bit.ly/3TbcqX2

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 25

When you hear "One last time..." all over the house, with boxes being packed and one last glass of wine being enjoyed in the HIAS garden, it's a sign that another fellow year is coming to an end. We say goodbye to our Fellows 2024-2025 and look forward to welcoming them back as HIAS Alumni!

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 23

The workshop, organized by Kirsten Schmalenbach @jherzstiftung.bsky.social Fellow 2024-25, explores the creation and application of law outside the framework of State recognition. In particular, the participants engage with the impact of non State-entities, such as indigenous peoples. bit.ly/4liwR02

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 17

In today´s #TuesdaySpotlight Christian Suhm discusses the idea of inference to the best explanation (IBE) and its role in interdisciplinary work. While IBE is conceived as a general pattern of non-deductive reasoning in research, it proves also flexible enough to comprise diverging disciplines.

Photo: Christian Suhm (c) Claudia Höhne, HIAS Hamburg

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 16

Tonight @uni-hamburg.de 6-8pm, Wulan Dirgantoro presents a lecture about her research on "Art after Conflict: Perspective from Timor-Leste". Her project is part of the exhibition “Art of Peace: Art After War” at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. bit.ly/4mZyTUB

Image: Artwork by Maria Madeira, "Well…No" (2024), tais, betel nut juice, textile and foam, site-specific installation. Exhibited at "Art of Peace: Art After War", the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 01 February – 25 June 2025, Perth, Australia. Photo by Henry Whitehead, Lucida Studio, cropped. Image courtesy of AGWA. © the artist.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 13

At their #ThursdayColloquium Eva Maria Merz from @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and Elaine Leong from @ucl.ac.uk opened the conversation about knowledge exchange and reflected via a series of informal interactions on communication forms and processes in science and research. @uni-hamburg.de

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today #HamburgSustainabilityWeek and #JoachimHerzStiftung invite to a roundtrip with the solar boat Alstersonne during “Science & Sundowner” at #HSC2025. Kirsten Schmalenbach, Professor of Law @unisalzburg.bsky.social will provide insights into how the law can help us on the path to sustainability.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · Jun 3

What do we mean by Artistic Research if we really mean it? – HIAS cordially invites to explore the dimensions between Arts & Sciences together with six fellows from five different Institutes for Advanced Study all over Europe. If you want to participate online, follow the details here bit.ly/4jAv8lz

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Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · Apr 10

Mitglieder der Jungen Akademie veröffentlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der #Wissenschaftsfreiheit.
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Autor*innen:
@andreabinder.bsky.social, Radin Dardashti, Racha Kirakosian, Kornelia Kończal, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Doris Segets

Hier lesen: rb.gy/4hy0kc
#AcademicFreedom #StandUpForScience

In die Luft gestreckte, mit einem Seil gefesselte Hand. Sie hält einen Bleistift in der Faust. Schwarzer Hintergrund. credits: spukkato @ iStock.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 27

“Make your own food, Jacob” - As part of the series on commensality Grzegorz Ochała, @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2024-25, invites to share a meal with medieval Nubians at today’s #TuesdaySpotlight. He gives a brief look at the Nubian diet and eating habits.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 26

"Money and Payments: Evolution or Revolution?" - Jörg Bibow, @jherzstiftung.bsky.social Fellow 2025-26, has invited international experts to explore the current state of play in money and payments and related questions of public policy relevance. For more details see: bit.ly/4juXttC

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 21

"Metamorphoses of Law(s)?" - HIAS is very pleased to once again host outstanding young scholars as part of the NetIAS call for proposals of the CAT program. From 19-23 May the group explores the concept of planetary boundaries and their meaning for the social science and law: bit.ly/4doLQCN

An illustration from Jules Verne’s novel “Around the Moon” drawn by Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville. 16 September 1872. Engraving by Henri Théophile Hildibrand.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 20

In today's #TuesdaySpotlight art historian Anna-Selina Lakotta discusses the St. Luke Altarpiece of Late Medieval Lübeck as a key object that reflects the changes of the artistic self-image of the painters’ guild - a transitional moment within the Northern European context. bit.ly/4j8nizr

Image: St. Luke Altarpiece, Hermen Rode and Johann Stenrat, 1484, at St. Annen-Museum, Lübeck, photographed by Anna-Selina Lakotta

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 15

“Masses, crowds, capitalism and democracy : A sociological tale from Argentina” - At today's #ThursdayColloquium Pablo de Marinis, @uni-hamburg.de fellow, talks about the transformations of the concept of masses and multitudes and reflects on “mass neoliberalism”. bit.ly/3GRqvpp

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 13

At today’s #TuesdaySpotlight Hamburg based philosopher Harald Lempke talks about „Using the Philosophy of ‚Good Life‘: From Gastroethics to Superhuman Eutopia of Convivial Society“. For further details please visit: bit.ly/3S1XppN

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 9

For today’s workshop Pablo de Marinis @uni-hamburg.de fellow 2024-25 has invited social science researchers from Latin America and Germany to debate the production of knowledge in the social science facing the challenges of new civilizational horizons. Find out more: bit.ly/3Z7V948

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 8

"Illegalized drugs and criminalization: Rethinking the drug-problem in Latin America" - In today’s #ThursdayColloquium Martina Lassalle @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2024-25 shares her reflections on the “war of drugs” and the general framework for a sociological understanding of the issue. bit.ly/3GIKMO5

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · May 5

Melbourne-based curator and art historian Wulan Diragontoro, @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2024-25, will present her new research project on post-conflict art in Timor-Leste in her seminar "Art after Conflict" at the University of Gothenburg on May 6. For more details about the event see: bit.ly/4lKubsZ

Wulan Diragontoro (c) Claudia Höhne, HIAS Hamburg

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