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Tuesday, 06. April 2021

Hosting the first-ever TEDxKonstanz

Students from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior overcame the difficulties of a pandemic year to host the first-ever TEDxKonstanz event.

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Thursday, 09. July 2020

The University of Konstanz in the European Universities…

An interview with Professor Silvia Mergenthal, Vice Rector for International Affairs and Equal Opportunities at the University of Konstanz, about the university’s participation in the European Universities Initiative (EUI).
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Tuesday, 05. May 2020

"To remember the past is to work on the future"

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8 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – In an interview, Aleida Assmann, Konstanz professor for cultural studies, explains how the way this day was perceived shaped the culture of remembrance in post-war Germany.
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Tuesday, 28. April 2020

“There’s no such thing as the ‘one’ Africa’”

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Africa is at the focus of the latest report by the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration. As members of the Expert Council, Konstanz sociologist Professor Claudia Diehl and Konstanz jurist Professor Daniel Thym are co-authors.
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Wednesday, 22. April 2020

What about educational equity?

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We run the risk of regressing in terms of educational and gender equity, says Professor Axinja Hachfeld, educational researcher in Konstanz.
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Tuesday, 14. April 2020

Inequality and the coronavirus

Doesn’t the coronavirus pandemic make us all equal? Where will society stand after the crisis? What can the welfare state do, and will the population’s trust remain unchanged? Professor Marius R. Busemeyer, equality researcher at the University of Konstanz, answers these questions in an interview.
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Thursday, 09. April 2020

Judging disinformation and misinformation on Covid-19

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What role do disinformation and misinformation play in our dealings with the virus? How dangerous are they and how do they spread via social media? What can science, what can legislation do to counter fake news in times of COVID-19?
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Tuesday, 07. April 2020

Coronavirus and the EU

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What role has the European Union (EU) played so far in the coronavirus crisis? What role can it play? And how does the spread of the coronavirus affect the EU's intra-European and international relations?
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Thursday, 12. March 2020

“I couldn’t imagine the scale until I saw it with my own…

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Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz has just returned from the locust outbreak in Kenya, where her team of researchers is doing something rarely done with natural plagues: basic scientific research.
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Wednesday, 04. March 2020

“Equal Pay Day”: Inequality in the Labour Market – …

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17 March is ‘Equal Pay Day’: By that date, 21 percent of the year is over, exactly the 21 percent that women in Germany on average earn less than men.
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