The members of the Junge Akademie gather thrice a year in alternating cities.

The 2022 Worldwide Meeting of Young Academies (WWMYA) will take place in hybrid format from 1-3 November 2022 in Arizona, USA, and online.

ALLEA, the Swiss Embassy in Berlin and Die Junge Akademie are partnering up to host the event "Towards Climate Sustainability – Taking the Academic System from Evidence to Action." The event will present some of the major findings from ALLEA’s report, and it will also feature representatives from key stakeholder groups within the academic system who will present the programmes and strategies they have developed to embed sustainable practices in their operations and reduce the levels of emissions within their sectors.

The TROIA members meet Sabine Steiner-Lange during a winter fireside evening. She is a programme coordinator at the Nationale Kontaktstelle Gesundheit, a project agency of the German Aerospace Center.

The members of the RG Transfer of Innovation in Academia will meet Jan Heerma during a winter fireside evening. Heerma is a lawyer and founding partner of the prestigious Berlin law firm Vogel Heerma Waitz. His work focuses on IP and technology transfer of all kinds, such as licensing, research and development or joint ventures.

The members of the research group TROIA will talk with Dorothée Döpfner during a fireside evening. Döpfner has been working on the topics of innovation and innovation transfer for decades and will share her experiences.

How can Israel-related anti-Semitism be recognised? What distinguishes it from legitimate criticism of Israeli policy? And how should comparisons and exaggerations be dealt with, especially in light of German history? Members of Die Junge Akademie would like to address these questions in a workshop. Speeches by experts from anti-Semitism research, linguistics, sociology and political science will serve as a basis.

Members of the RG Artificial Intelligence will meet for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the chances and limits of AI and its applications. Different disciplines bring different perspectives to the table and similar sounding concepts do not necessarily mean the same. Moreover, even if concepts are the same across disciplines, different fields might focus on distinct aspects. The workshop “Interdisciplinary Conversations on the Fairness, Explainability and Uncertainty of AI” tries to bridge these gaps and brings researchers from different disciplines in conversation about these three major concepts of current research on AI.

Valeska Huber, historian and member of Die Junge Akademie, and the team of her Emmy Noether Research Group “Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century” will organize a one-day workshop on “Global Publics and their Actors” on September 9, 2022.

The annual conference of the German Academic International Network (GAIN) will take place in Bonn from 2 to 4 September. For the first time, the conference is aimed at scholars from Germany who are currently conducting research mainly in other European countries and partly in Asia and Africa. Die Junge Akademie will have a booth at the Talent Fair.

Under the working title "Schräge Vormoderne Herrscher in (Post-)Moderner Rezeption" ("Weird rulers of the pre-modern era in (post-)modern reception"), Die Junge Akademie's Popular Culture(s) research group is looking at the fascinating figure of the Roman emperor Elagabal in correlation to contemporary actors. Among other things, it is planning a multimedia exhibition. A first internal workshop on the project will take place in Berlin from 19-20 August 2022.

In diesem Workshop möchten Mitglieder der AG Künstliche Intelligenz Biobanking und Künstliche Intelligenz stärker zusammendenken. Es sollen weitere Anwendungsfelder identifiziert werden, um mit Hilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz das Biobanking zu optimieren und in seinen weiterführenden Implikationen zu beleuchten. Dabei soll der Fokus sowohl auf Aspekte wie IT-Prozesse, organisatorische Arbeitsabläufe oder Qualitätsmanagementmaßnahmen, als auch auf übergeordnete Fragestellungen ethischer, rechtlicher und gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung gelegt werden.

In an interdisciplinary workshop, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, together with Die Junge Akademie, puts the practices of surveying as part of everyday life up for discussion. The event aims to challenge the title of the BBAW's current annual theme 2021|22, "Die Vermessung des Lebendigen", in that the workshop does not juxtapose the practices of surveying with the living, but puts them up for discussion as part of everyday life.

The European National Young Academies (ENYA) network meets for a discussion event. The aim is to bring together the various commitments of the national Young Academies to support refugee scientists.

Under the title "Good Working Conditions in Science - Towards a Reform of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act", the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is organising a discussion panel on 27 June 2022 to take a closer look at the results of the evaluation of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act and to discuss its further development with various science stakeholders. Doris Segets will represent Die Junge Akademie on the panel "Is there a need to reform the WissZeitVG?"

As part of the project "Lucid Dreaming, Now and Then", medievalist Racha Kirakosian (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study) is organising an internal workshop on "Mental Images in the Middle Ages and Neuroscience - New Perspectives".

The ability to see images before "the inner eye" was theoretically discussed in scholastic writings in the Middle Ages as well as critically presented in literary texts. Mental images such as visions, daydreams and sleep dreams played an important role in epistemological processes, religious experiences and artistic arguments for the question of finding and representing truth. Despite their importance for the historical understanding of the human brain, however, medieval concepts of "inner vision" remain under-researched. Can current findings from the neurosciences help to open up the medieval sources in a new way? And, conversely, can ideas from the Middle Ages inspire innovative experiments in the field of neuropsychology? The Hamburg workshop will address these questions by bringing together scientists from the relevant fields for an interdisciplinary discussion.

Members of Die Junge Akademie meet junior researchers from the fields of Data Science and Landscape Ecology. From their disciplinary perspectives, they discuss the challenge of proposing the most sustainable possible concepts for the use of landscapes.

Münster will host the official kick-off event of the series "The 7 Greatest Adventures in Mathematics" on 15 June 2022. The host is the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster - one of the seven locations dedicated to the Millennium Problems from June to November 2022. They are considered the central questions of mathematics. The mathematicians of Technische Universität Braunschweig Timo de Wolff (Speaker of the Board of Die Junge Akademie) and Sebastian Stiller will give a welcoming speech as initiators of the series.

Within the framework of a summer discussion evening, the members of AG TROIA meet Claudia Lehmann. She is the Managing Director of the Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation (CLIC) at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and will provide interesting insights into her decades of experience with the topics of innovation and innovation transfer.

Die Junge Akademie`s summer plenary session takes place in Berlin.

Scientific selection processes are essentially based on quality valuations about research. These quality valuations can be anonymous, as in peer review, or public, as in the case of the review. In any case, they are gatekeepers that determine which research contributions receive visibility and which do not. And: they are themselves places of scientific dispute. In the workshop "Review, Peer-Review, Tweet. Old and new quality valuations in science", members of the RG Cultures of Debate want to discuss which norms shape this form of debate and how they are changing. Three sessions with different guests are planned.

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities invites you to the Salon Sophie Charlotte 2022 - "still, LIFE IS LIFE". Hosting a special dinner party, Die Junge Akademie will contribute to the Salon.

During a tour of the CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg, members of the project group Augmented Smartness will look at the (potential) use of data in public organisations.

Martin Dresler (neuroscience) and Fabian Schmidt (astrophysics) are part of the interdisciplinary project "Mare Incognito". At the Cambridge Festival, the team will present the project in a series of talks and film clips.

The research group TROIA hosts a fireside evening with Clemens Waitz to talk to him about his experiences with scientific startups.

At the next fireside talk with the Artificial Intelligence research group, the guest will be Die Junge Akademie alumna Ulrike von Luxburg. Von Luxburg is a professor of computer science at the University of Tübingen and a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

The fifty members of Die Junge Akademie meet three times for their plenary session.

Members of Die Junge Akademie are organising the workshop ”Sehnsuchtsorte‟ (Places of Longing). The thematisation and staging of places of longing in various fields, such as literature, music, art, politics, philosophy, science and society, will be examined and discussed.

The 7th KlimaLecture of Die Junge Akademie will focus on the meaning and justification of climate protests. How far can protest actually go in a democracy? What is meant by the term civil disobedience? And under what conditions can even radical protest be considered legitimate? After a keynote speech by Robin Celikates, Professor of Social Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Deputy Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change, Eva Buddeberg and other members of Die Junge Akademie will discuss these questions with him and the participants of the event.

The ALLEA Working Group on Climate Sustainability in the Academic System invites to a virtual panel discussion. The event offers a preview of the report the working group is preparing on the topic, followed by a panel discussion. The challenges as well as opportunities that lie within academia’s transition to climate sustainability will be addressed, while also highlighting best-practise examples with an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

The research groups TROIA and AI host a fireside talk with the astrophysicist and Erium founder Theo Steininger.

Bettina M. Bock and Thorsten Merl are organising the colloquium "Doing Asymmetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Verbal Behaviour and Pedagogical Practice".

On four dates, researchers will talk about the concept of asymmetry from linguistic, educational and sociological perspectives. What theoretical foundations and what implicit semantics exist in the disciplines, and in what way are they compatible with each other?

The research group Internationalisation is organising a mini writing workshop as part of the project "Focus Group Discussions on Internationalisation".

Bettina M. Bock and Thorsten Merl are organising the colloquium "Doing Asymmetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Verbal Behaviour and Pedagogical Practice".

On four dates, researchers will talk about the concept of asymmetry from linguistic, educational and sociological perspectives. What theoretical foundations and what implicit semantics exist in the disciplines, and in what way are they compatible with each other?

The Board's discussion series "The unsaid in science - religion, emotions and values - the somewhat different fireside evening" continues. Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, is invited to the third virtual fireside evening.

Bettina M. Bock and Thorsten Merl are organising the colloquium "Doing Asymmetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Verbal Behaviour and Pedagogical Practice".

On four dates, researchers will talk about the concept of asymmetry from linguistic, educational and sociological perspectives. What theoretical foundations and what implicit semantics exist in the disciplines, and in what way are they compatible with each other?

In preparation for the workshop "Fairness, Explainability, Uncertainty & AI" in spring 2022, the members of the research group Artificial Intelligence meet via Zoom.

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The Middle East as a utopia?
Where could concrete starting points for new utopias in the region lie, beyond the realm of day-to-day politics? Simon W. Fuchs andCaspar Battegayof Die Junge Akademie will discuss these and other questions with other experts at the Theater Neumarkt Zurich.

The Board has launched a new series of talks entitled "Das Ungesagte in der Wissenschaft - Religion, Emotionen und Werte - Der etwas andere Kaminabend". Christoph Markschies, President of the BBAW and Chair of Ancient Christianity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is invited to the second virtual fireside evening.

The sound installation Ubiquity can be heard daily from 1-12 December 2021 at the KlanGalerie in Berlin. It was developed by the sound artist and musicologist Miriam Akkermann (alumna of Die Junge Akademie) in collaboration with the programmer and composer Andre Bartetzki and the psychologist Eva Alisic (alumna of the Global Young Academy) as well as the psychologist and neuroscientist Philipp Kanske (alumnus of Die Junge Akademie). The starting point for the artistic work is a study on trauma processing in children by the psychologist Eva Alisic from the University of Melbourne. Aspects of the study are brought to life sonically on 18 Plexiglas panels equipped with transducers.

Under the motto "Das Ungesagte in der Wissenschaft - Religion, Emotionen und Werte - Der etwas andere Kaminabend", the Board is launching a new series of talks. Cyrus Schayegh, Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva, is invited to the first virtual fireside evening.

To the roots. Why is there no decision on what is needed?

"We need a new radicalism in political action" - this is one of the central messages of Bernd Ulrich, deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT and co-author of "Noch haben wir die Wahl" (together with Luisa Neubauer, Fridays for Future). But why are decisions not being made on what would be necessary to solve the significant global challenges of our time, such as the climate crisis or the extinction

of species? And how can we achieve the required transformation of all areas of our lives and economies?

Representatives of Die Junge Akademie and the Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif) will discuss these and other theses with Bernd Ulrich at a joint event.

The kick-off meeting of the research group Transfer of Innovation in Academia (TROIA) will take place online.

The social brain

How we understand what others think and feel

Philipp Kanske, Speaker of Die Junge Akademie and psychologist and neuroscientist at the Technical University of Dresden, visits the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden as part of the event series diejungeakademie@.

How do we understand what other people think? How do we manage to empathise with others? Our ability to move in social communities depends on having access to these inner, unobservable states of others. The evening will highlight how social neuroscience explores our brain's ability to empathise and adopt perspective. Does the brain reflect what is going on in others? Or does it build abstract theories? People also differ greatly in how well they can think and feel and how problems contribute to the development of mental disorders. During the evening, we will briefly try out practical ways of practising these skills.

The members of the Junge Akademie gather thrice a year in alternating cities.

The Antiquity Slam is a science slam especially for and about the ancient sciences.

This year it is going into its 5th round. In a relaxed atmosphere, five scientists from disciplines such as classical archaeology, ancient history, prehistory and early history or numismatics present their current research topics to a curious audience. Among the presenters will be Christopher Degelmann, who joined Die Junge Akademie this year.

A cooperation event of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Members of Die Junge Akademie meet to attend a writing lab.