OPEN SPACE | Peer Talks

Climate change has become a global emergency, and mental health effects are increasingly being described and understood. Vulnerable groups, especially those in low-income countries and minority communities, are particularly experiencing the worst impacts of climate change. This talk will be presented the work of early career mental health clinicians and researchers in culturally and socioeconomically different countries across the continents. According to research, there is a dire need for more specific psychiatric education and for advancing global and local efforts in this direction. The three main domains of the mental health impact of climate change will also be presented: direct, indirect, and physical conditions, based on our research results. This talk offers an up-to-date overview of the consequences of climate change on mental health.

Interested?
Please register via Zoom (link).
Talk & FAQ in English

About the speaker
Ruta Karaliuniene is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. She is completing her doctoral thesis at the Center for Early Prevention of Mental Disorders (Universitäts-klinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden).  She will share her recent publication on climate change and the mental health of children and adolescents in this lecture.

01.03.23 | 4 pm | ReproducibiliTea Journal Club & Open Science

Sustainability in research does not only mean not flying to conferences or avoiding laboratory waste. Open Science also contributes to achieving sustainability. Some measures include Registered Reports and making data sets available for further use to ensure that research results are as meaningful and long-lasting as possible.

In this Talk, the organizers introduce the concept of ReproducibiliTea Journal Clubs and tools of the Open Science movement. The Journal Club is part of the global ReproducibiliTea movement.

Interested?
Please register via Zoom (link).
Talk & FAQ in English

About the speaker
Verena Krall
She studied physics in Tübingen and Oulu (Finland) and is currently doing her Ph.D. at cfaed. Her current research interests include the impact of network topologies on mobility dynamics.

Judith Herbers
She is a psychologist and currently doing her Ph.D. at the Chair of Methods in Psychology, TU Dresden. She participates in the Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology and is co-organizer of the Dresdner ReproducibiliTea Journal Club with Verena Krall.

Who is the talk directed at?
To all doctoral candidates and postdocs who want to address what good science should look like in the future.

There is the world and there is language, and if we so wish, we can disentangle them entirely, set them apart and prevent the “things of the world” and the “things of language” to mingle disorderly. Right? Well, consider Wittgenstein’s proclamation that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world”.

What are we to make of it? Perhaps that insofar as people do not share the same vocabulary, they also do not share the same world? Shall we take Wittgenstein’s words at face value and accept the proposition that concepts create worlds? 

What if we turn this proclamation on its head? What if we propose that “the limits of my world are the limits of my language”? Does that sound more reasonable? Perhaps, but then we must accept that talking about imperceptible things is impossible. But then, what happens to religion if we could not talk about God or souls? What happens to science then? Aren’t its theories built around imperceptible entities like quarks and spins? Can’t science talk about the world?

How do we begin to think clearly about these matters? A good first step should be to set the relationships between concepts, language, and the world straight. That is precisely the massive challenge we will be facing in this talk.

Interested?
Please register via Zoom (link).
Talk & FAQ in English

About the speaker
Dr. Ignacio Gonzalez Martinez is a physicist, and researcher working at the IFW-Dresden on developing methods to synthesize nanostructures inside a transmission electron microscope. In his spare time, he tries to study various areas of philosophy, putting special emphasis on the philosophy of language and epistemology.

Who is the talk directed at?
Anyone interested in what makes language an effective but limited means for communication and for understanding.

Cynefin (pronounced kun-ev’in) is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English. It refers to a framework invented by Dave Snowden, a Welsh management consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge management, during his carrier at IBM.

The Cynefin Framework was developed to help leaders understand their challenges and make context-based decisions. By participating in this Talk, you will learn how the Cynefin Framework works and how you could apply it in your research.

Interested?
Please register via Zoom (link).
Talk & FAQ in English

About the speaker
Aydin Homay is a senior software architect at Siemens Healthineers in the project cancer treatment with Proton Therapy. He is also doing a Ph.D. at the TU Dresden, looking at developing Flexible Industrial Automation Systems.

Who is the talk directed at?
Doctoral candidates and Postdocs in Computer Science, Knowledge Management, Social Science, System Engineering, and related fields.