14.04.2021 Psychology
Miriam Schilbach
Does work make us stronger? - How work may contribute to employee resilience
When experiencing adverse and highly stressful events psychological, resilience helps us to recover and maintain health as well as performance levels. Mirjam Schillbach will provide an insight on how experiences at work facilitate (or inhibit) the development of individual resilience.
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21.04.2021 Sports Science
Fabio Wagner
Boring Bundesliga (?) bothered by Bayern Munich
It is increasingly questioned whether the dominance of FC Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga (especially in the last decade) has had a negative impact on the attractiveness of the football league. Fabio Wagner attempts to get to the bottom of this question and presents a novel model of measuring competitive intensity in sports leagues.
28.04.2021 Communication Science
Simon Kruschinski
Hacking the Electorate?! Mapping the use and effects of data-driven campaigning in Germany
Political parties increasingly use data-based decision making in electoral campaigning since the turn of the 21st century. This data-driven campaigning (DDC) draws on digital technology, data, and analytics to identify persuadable and mobilizable voters and target them with tailor-made messages via direct online (e.g. via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Ads) or offline channels (e.g. via direct mailing, door-to-door canvassing). Especially in Europe, political campaigns´ use of data sparks controversial public and scholarly debates. In his talk, Simon Kruschinski takes this debate further and discusss DDC´s reasons, modes and power, the surveillance of the electorate by political actors or digital companies in Germany, its implications for democracy and approaches for regulation. In this manner, students will learn and exchange ideas how political actors use technology, data and algorithms to inform, mobilize or persuade citizens by drawing on a variety of studies about DDC in German federal and state elections and by reflecting on their own experiences.
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05.05.2021 Political Science
Elia Scaramuzza
Identity as Problem or Solution? Gender-Reflexive Approaches to Civic Education
As gender identities have become increasingly diverse over the past few years, Civic Education is challenged to develop educational resources and formats that address the pluralization of gender. Yet the question is: how? Oftentimes, issues of gender identity are discussed in a binary matter: identity is either solution or problem, seldomly both, leading to oversimplified answers to complex problems. In contrast to this, Elia Scaramuzza introduces a different, non-binary approach on how to deal with gender identity in Civic Education that is characterized as so-called gender reflexivity.
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12.05.2021 Sociology
Robert Mitchell
Moving Sociology. An Autoethnography of Ballet and Taijiquan Practice
Is it possible to utilise one's own biography of moving in the fields of ballet and taiji for the purposes of sociological research? Is such incorporated proximity a resource, as, e.g., ethnomethodology or autoethnography would predict, or more of an obstacle, as critics of the above approaches would suppose? In his talk, Robert Mitchell will tell the 'story of his study,' detailing its background, its methods and findings, ultimately reaching a conclusion on areas where this study was successful and where less so. Also, the talk will offer insight into ballet and taiji practice.
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19.05.2021 Sports Science
Barlo Hillen
The Dawning of Exercise Radiomics
Infrared thermography is an upcoming technology in sport science due to recent advancements in camera lenses, detector technique and data processing capabilities. Barlo Hillen presents his innovative exercise radiomics approach, which fundamentally is defined as the combination of infrared thermography during physical exercise, automatic pattern recognition, and exercise physiology. In this lecture, you get to see the observed temperature patterns and learn more about what is happening in the body’s core and shell when you perform your workout.
26.05.2021 Education Science
Shmuel Porat
Did you ever feel sorry for a hero?
DisAbled: Shmuel Porat presents his research on the situation in institutions for people with disabilities and its influence on their self-perception. Is there anybody at all who is not disabled? Shmuel invites the audience to a discussion on the meaning of disabled and what being disabled means.
02.06.2021 Communication Science
Dr. Michael Sülflow
Media and COVID-19: Prevalence and Effects of the “Infodemic”
The COVID-19 pandemic does not only come with negative effects for the physical health of a society but also poses challenges for the availability and use of information. The WHO coined the term “infodemic” which refers to the overabundance of information and the increase of disinformation during the current crisis. In his presentation, Michael Sülflow outlines the characteristics of the information landscape in times of the pandemic and discusses effects, for instance for false beliefs, attitudes or trust in politics and media.
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09.06.2021 Psychology
Dr. Alexander Schmidt
Stigmatization of Sexual Interests in Children
It is a common misperception that sexual interests in children (i.e., pedophilia) are necessarily linked to committing child sexual abuse. Nevertheless, lay people show substantially negative attitudes towards individuals with these sexual inclinations. Research shows that pedophilia is among the most stigmatized psychological disorders. Alexander Schmidt introduces research findings on the nascent topic of stigmatization of pedophilic interests and how this is experienced from the perspectives of lay people, psychotherapists, and individuals with pedophilic sexual interests (or minor-attracted persons [MAPs] as they frequently label themselves). How willing are professionals to work therapeutically with treatment–seeking MAPs and what are therapists’ perceptions of MAPs’ therapeutic needs as compared to the reasons why MAPs are seeking therapeutic help? It will be discussed how stigmatization of MAPs is linked to risk factors for committing child sexual abuse and how it might be possible to decrease the risk of victimization for children.
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16.06.2021 Political Science
René Selbach
Unpopular Populism: Negative Orientations towards Populist Radical Right Parties
Previous electoral research on populist radical right parties has dealt with the question of who votes for these parties. The electorate of these parties is relatively homogeneous, at least in terms of their political attitudes. A completely different picture emerges, however, when taking a closer look at reasons for not supporting these parties. René Selbach analyses the factors which lead to a negative orientation towards populist radical right parties. In his talk, he further examines to what extent the strength of the factors varies among different subgroups of the electorate.
23.06.2021 Sociology
Nico Sonntag
The Truth is Out There: Explaining Regional Differences in UFO Sightings, 1997-2014
UFO sightings have been a pervasive cultural phenomenon for the last decades. Which factors drive people to perceive and report UFOs? Using data from the National UFO Reporting Center on US UFO-sightings, Nico Sonntag and and his colleague Stella Marčeta tested a diverse set of hypotheses pertaining to drug abuse, psychological illness, economic interests, and religious attitudes to explain regional differences in UFO reporting.
30.06.2021 Education Studies
Joshua Hausen
Schools in times of change - a 40 year journey
Schools in times of change (SchiWa) is a preliminary study for a larger-scale mixed-method study of the systematic, historical assessment of changes in the German school system. How have schools, teaching practices, and the attitude and education of teachers changed over the last forty years? What useful information can we gather from this comparison? Joshua Hausen describes and illustrates the research process from the initial starting point and first conceptualization of the project to the pre-study and up to the submission of the application for the main study.
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07.07.2021 Education Studies
Nadine Baston
"Teachers are also only human" How prospective teachers think about school
Everyone knows how school works. After all, we have all attended school for many years. But what do prospective teachers think about pupils, their own role as future teachers and how education works in general? And what does this have to do with authority, discipline, rules and rituals in the classroom? Nadine Baston provides insights into recent findings from group discussion-based research that illuminates the structure of prospective teachers' beliefs about classroom management and their relevance to their future professional behaviour.
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14.07.2021 Education Science
Dr. Petra Bauer
Design Thinking: How students (re)design their life
In life, there are moments when you have to reorient yourself, especially during the transition to work when you finished your studies at university. Against this background, the course concept "Life and Vision" was developed and implemented in multiple courses at university. The seminars help students rethinking their perspective on life, possibly creating new patterns of thought and designing an idea for their individual (professional) future. In her CRiSS lecture, Petra Bauer introduces the idea and methods of the course and invites the audience to test some of the methods themselves. In addition, she shares the results of a course-related study and shows how the course has improved based on student evaluations.