On June 02 and 03, 2021, the digital conference "New Perspectives on a German Didactics Oriented to Cultural and Human Sciences - Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives on Racism-Sensitive Teaching and Training at Schools and Universities" will take place. The conference will explore the question of how this void in the training of teachers can be filled and what tasks school teaching can take on with regard to the education of learners. Which competences have to be acquired in order to be sensitized against discrimination and racism? For more information on the program and registration, please click on the link below.

Dr. Hannah Fitsch (HU Berlin/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M) - 01.12.2021 | 2 p.m.

There has been a desire to formalize the complex structure of the brain and its neuronal processes for some centuries. This talk traces the history of the new approaches by using the concept of the mathematization of perception to show how methods and models from computer science and mathematics have found their way into brain research.

Contact: | Dr. Sarah Czerney

Dr. Mercedes Küffner (Universität Freiburg) - 29.09.2021 | 3 p.m.

Does the historic sex bias in neuroscience and biomedical research still exist? How can we integrate Sex and Gender to improve Human Health? The sexually dimorphic brain, similar to most sex differences, does not fall into a hard binary readout—but rather is on a continuum or spectrum with each cell and each brain region comprised of varying degrees of ‘male' and ‘female' (Hines, 2005; Joel and McCarthy, 2016). Sex and gender are therefore important variables to consider when designing studies and assessing results within biomedical research.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm (HU Berlin) - 17.06.2021 | 2 p.m.

Gender studies is primarily characterized by a plethora of studies in the humanities and social sciences on Gender relations. Less well known is the critical sex/gender research within biology that has been taking place since the 1970s, which has been researching the biological foundations of sex/gender, sexuality and sex/gender difference. The lecture presents this biological research on gender with examples and explains the theoretical self-understanding of this research.

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