Events
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In this lecture Catherine Malabou will explore educational and aesthetic questions around the possibility of representation based on the discussion between Lyotard and Rancière. Her reflections start with her very recent book Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy (2023).
Welcome to this seminar where you will be able to discuss educational questions around intelligence, IQ and AI with French philosopher Catherine Malabou.
This lecture revisits experiences with digital education during the Corona crisis and beyond. Claudia Schumann explores the ideas of absent bodies and the politics of touch.
The ideals of economic and personal progress and growth are slowly destroying the planet we inhabit and its inhabitants along with it. At the same time education – often seen as the solution to this problem - is slowly being suffocated by the very same ideals. How could we think differently about education?
In today's school, much of the emphasis is on competitiveness, confidence and equality. But what about humility, asks Liz Jackson?
Welcome to an open lecture with Professor Emeritus Harvey Siegel, University of Miami, USA. The lecture explores the ideal of critical thinking and the latent effects of anti-critical thinking in the world of today.
In an age that focuses on function, goal management and instrumental utility, education easily falls into the background. Why is it like that?
Putting the World in the Centre of Education
“The idea of world-centred education is first of all meant to highlight that educational questions are fundamentally existential questions, that is questions about our existence ‘in’ and ‘with’ the world, natural and social, and not just our existence with ourselves” (Biesta, 2021, pp. 90-91)
Intercultural communication, pedagogy, and the question of time: An exploration
In this seminar, we will have the pleasure to discuss Gert Biesta's latest article "Becoming Contemporaneous: Intercultural Communication Pedagogy beyond Culture and without Ethics". A version of this article will be sent to everyone attending the seminar.
Our school systems and pedagogical practices need to radically reflect on how they have contributed to the fact that life on Earth is on the edge of disaster, claims Birgit Schaffar-Kronqvist from the University of Helsinki.
Guest lecture by prof. Hartmut Rosa about the role of Bildung in the accelerated society.