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Meeting format to promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation between young Israeli and German academics

In this workshop we want to try a little experiment “on our own” and compare scientific texts from different subjects to see how they use language to present scientific results. We are not concerned with an exact linguistic description of individual phenomena, but rather with our spontaneous impressions: How do texts from other disciplines affect us, which stylistic features surprise or irritate us, what seems familiar to us? What linguistic means do the articles use to present their problem/question? What is considered as 'fact' in each case? How is the argumentation made?

Die Junge Akademie is expecting visitors: representatives of the Young Academy of Sweden are travelling to Berlin for an exchange meeting.

Members from five German academies and colleges meet to network across academies and discuss tomorrow's science system.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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?

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?

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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.

Researchers from Die Junge Akademie are taking part in this year's SILBERSALZ science and media festival in Halle (Saale). The festival takes place from 15 - 19 September and, under the motto "Inequality", seeks answers to the question of how equity can be achieved.

In the event "Pull up a Chair # 1 - Ask your questions to researchers from Die Junge Akademie", visitors can talk to Viola Priesemann (physicist) and Timo de Wolff (mathematician). How do we research the spread and containment of a virus or the flow of information in neural networks? And what questions are currently being researched in the field of algebraic mathematics? These and other questions can be discussed with our members. As opposed to classical lectures, there will be enough space and time for individual discussions.