Science at Risk - Scholars at Work

12.07.2018, 16:00  –  Neues Palais, House 12, Room 0.39
Öffentlicher Vortrag

Refugee academics present their scientific work and research in a multidisciplinary lecture series.

19 April: Opening: Screening of the documentary "Science in Exile" by Nicole Leghissa (The World Academy of Sciences/TWAS)
Introductory notes by Jürgen Mackert (UP chair of Sociology), Florian J. Schweigert (UP Vice President for International Affairs) and Claudia Rößling (UP Welcome Center)

3 May: Özge Kaya (Universität Jena): A Feminist-Phenomenology of Women's Activism against Hydropower Plants in Turkey's Black Sea Region

17 May: Zafer Yilmaz (Universität Potsdam): The Sources of New "Apocalyptic" Populism: Resentment, Nationalist Political Imagination, and Reactionary Opinion Formation

31 May: Zeynep Kivilcim (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin): EU-Turkey Refugee Deal and the Changing Paradigms of Refugee Law

14 June: Tuba Inal Cekic (HafenCity University Hamburg): Urban struggles against the hegemony of the government and the state in Istanbul-Turkey.

28 June: Youssef Kanjou (Universität Tübingen): The Syrian Cultural Heritage Situation During the Current Conflict

12 July: Ghanya Al-Naqeb (Universität Würzburg): The Role of Some Selected Yemeni Herbal Plants for Disease Prevention

This lecture series is organised by the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at the University of Potsdam.