// Einstein-Zirkel „Exploring otherness on Earth and beyond: Integrating perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences and humanities“
The Einstein Circle "Exploring otherness on Earth and beyond: Integrating perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences and humanities" aims at understanding the "other" from natural science, social science and humanities perspectives. In its multidisciplinary approach, these different perspectives on “the Other” are to be integrated. The joint work is intended to lay the foundations for understanding and dealing with that otherness which we will encounter in the future in the form of natural disasters, the colonization of other planets, and extraterrestrial life. How will such events influence our lives and our self-image as human beings? What role does media communication play in this? The hope and well-founded expectation of Earth and planetary sciences to discover extraterrestrial life and habitats quite soon, as well as the variety of possible threats from natural disasters, pose great challenges to our human community. Long-standing research in the social sciences and humanities on the psychological, social, political, and religious challenges of encountering “the Other” offers insights for this that can help us prepare for these scenarios.
Contact:
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room KL 23/226
14195 Berlin
Tel: 030 838 62926
Email: steffi.pohl@fu-berlin.de
// Einstein Circle „Fashioning Education“
Fashioning Education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations. It brings together experts and creatives from different fields of fashion related education, research and practice into critical conversation and exploration of the transformative potential of fashion.
Contact:
Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen
Prof. Franziska Schreiber
Dr. Renate Stauss
Universität der Künste Berlin
Institut für experimentelles Bekleidungs- und Textildesign
Strasse des 17. Juni 118
10623 Berlin
E-Mail: fashioningeducation@udk-berlin.de
Website: https://fashioning.education/
// Einstein Circle „Global History“
With the Einstein Circle "Global History", the research team led by the historians Sebastian Conrad and Ulrike Freitag (both Freie Universität Berlin) and Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) wants to expand and consolidate already existing cooperations between the two universities. The aim is to address questions of the processes and effects of ongoing globalization from a global historical perspective with concentrated expertise.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad
Freie Universität Berlin
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Koserstr. 20
12195 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 838 53815
E-Mail: sebastian.conrad@fu-berlin.de
// Einstein Schering Circle "Life Imaging"
Advancing technological developments provide a wealth of applications and equipment in the field of imaging techniques, which can be used well beyond originally intended contexts - such as in the life sciences-medical field in robot-assisted surgery. "Life Imaging" examines the possibilities and challenges that arise from the use of modern imaging techniques in this area. The Einstein Schering Circle is a joint program of the Ernst Schering Foundation and the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Contact:
Claudia Blümle
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 209366208
E-Mail: claudia.bluemle@hu-berlin.de
Former Einstein Circles
// Einstein Circle „Pathophysiology and prevention of chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicity“
The Einstein Circle "Pathophysiology and prevention of chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicity" at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin investigates the neurotoxic side effects of various chemotherapies.
Contact:
PD Dr. med. Wolfgang Böhmerle
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klinik für Neurologie
Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 450560137
E-Mail: wolfgang.boehmerle@charite.de
// Einstein Circle Science & Culture
The Einstein Circle "Science & Culture" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is exploring how boundaries between humanities and natural sciences can be offset in order to establish new interdisciplinary research objects and methods.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of Cultural History and Theory
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 20938252
E-Mail: schaeffner@culture.hu-berlin.de
// Einstein Circle "bod-y-motion"
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Contact:
Prof. Nik Haffner
Universität der Künste
Postgraduales Forum
Einsteinufer 43
10587 Berlin
// Einstein Circle "Asynchronies"
How were non-contemporaneous, transient or anachronistic events reflected and conceived in the art of pre-modernity? This question is addressed to the Einstein Circle "Asynchronies" at the FU under the direction of Professor Jutta Eming. For the first time, the approaches to temporal theories and experiences that are very different in humanities disciplines are systematically investigated in medieval and early modern times.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jutta Eming
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 838 54213
E-Mail: j.eming@fu-berlin.de
// Einstein Circle „Glioblastoma Biology“
Contact:
Dr. Philipp Euskirchen
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klinik für Neurologie
Robert-Koch-Platz 4
10115 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 45560635
E-Mail: philipp.euskirchen@charite.de
// Einstein Circle „Large-Scale Organization“
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 2093 4324
E-Mail: talja.blokland@sowi.hu-berlin.de
// Einstein Circle „Digital Humanities“
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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Anne Baillot
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für deutsche Literatur
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
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