The Sustainability Spring Days at KIT will be held from 28th to 31st of March 2022. The Spring Days include workshops, excursions, fair of opportunities and keynote speech. The registration is now open.
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On 28 October 2021 the Colloquium Fundamentale “Science in Politics. On the potentials and problems of a complex relationship” starts with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Senja Post on the subject of "Politicized debates about the environment, technology and science".
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Female students with subjects in STEM can apply online for the Femtec.Career-Building Programme until 7th November 2021. An online information event on Wednesday, 27th October 2021 will provide further details of the programme as well as personal insights of the scholarship holders.
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At the final weekend (9/10 October 2021) of the first KIT Science Week, the ZAK Talks adressed the topic AI with a public symposium and a matinee at IHK Karlsruhe, an ARTE Film Night at ZKM Karlsruhe as well as a reading at Staatstheater Karlsruhe.
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In the publication "Future Work - The work of the day after tomorrow. 15 short stories from the future", which was produced as part of the BMBF research project FutureWork, science fiction authors write about the working environment at the beginning of the 22nd century. The anthology is available now.
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Registration for the ZAK courses of the winter semester 2021/22 is possible from Monday, October 4 2022, 12 p.m. on the ZAK Course Registration page.
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The application for the seminar "En route!" Become a global citizen through cross-border Service-Learning is still possible until Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 12:00 CET!
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In the new article in ZAK’s ongoing online publication, the writer and scholar Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, provides a brief overview of political life in the US in 2021, highlighting major tensions, paradoxes, and developments, and speculating on what might lie ahead, in the light of Trumpism and its ongoing aftershocks.
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The ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies aims at interdisciplinarity. It contributes to communicate between the sciences and the humanities and mediates between science and society by means of specific projects on the basis of the university’s concept of structure and development.
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You can find an overview of the past activities in our timeline.
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ZAK is a central academic unit at KIT based on three pillars: research, studies and public science.
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