In the course of the BMBF funded project „FutureWork“, a public conference dedicates itself with work in the future at ZKM Karlsruhe as well as at IHK Karlsruhe on 17/18 September 2021.
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At the final weekend (9/10 October 2021) of the first KIT Science Week, the ZAK Talks will focus on 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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The application phase for the seminar "En route!" Become a global citizen through cross-border Service-Learning starts on Monday, 20 September 2021, 5 pm.
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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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ZAK is launching a new online series, the ZAK I Occasional Papers. The first issues of Leo Hollis (No. 1) and Mirjam van Reisen et al. (No. 2) are now available online!
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Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha, who was honored to be on the short list of two in the last round of the application process: "It was a great honour to be presented to the Board of Governors set ex-aequo by the selection panel with Josep Ferré.”
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In the summer term 2021 the course of lectures Colloquium Fundamentale dedicated itself with literary, artistic and cultural aspects of the ecological debate in the anthropocene.
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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.
Tasks and Goals:
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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