02.-03.11.2023

UNFASSBARE EINGRIFFE in der KONTAKTZONE: Workshop on inclusion in educational institutions

The term contact zones - "places where geographically and historically separated people come into contact with each other and forge relationships that usually involve coercive conditions, radical inequality and irresolvable conflicts" (Pratt 1991) was used to describe both universities and museums in the 1990s. Since the 2010s, the term has also been applied to inclusive initiatives. The workshop organized by Dr. Sarah Neelson, TU Dresden Fellow, will focus on inclusive projects that are designed jointly by people with and without disabilities. It will examine the ways in which they intervene in what has hitherto constituted educational institutions - including (ornate) buildings, (technical) language, (professional) expertise - and how they valorize what were considered unscientific sensualities, emotions and life experiences.

The full program of the workshop can be found here.

15.-19.08.2023

Between the endless expanses of the GDR and the utopias of tomorrow: Fantasy and science fiction experts meet at TU Dresden

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From Lord of the Rings, Terminator and Dune to a slew of new series from the Star Trek and Star Wars universes – fantasy and science fiction have not only delighted avid readers and moviegoers for decades, but have also fascinated researchers around the globe. After all, fantasy and science fiction invariably involve a critical exploration of existing world views. From August 15 to 19, 2023, these researchers will meet at TU Dresden and provide an insight into the latest developments in science fiction and fantasy research. Dr. Alison Sperling, TU Dresden Fellow, participated in the conference. She is one of the internationally most renowned cultural scholars in the field of Speculative Fiction Studies and offered workshops on the topics such as Science Fiction & Fantasy in Art and Design and Vegetal Weirdings.

You can find more information on the event here.

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• June 28, 2022, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
   

  Public introduction of the series Digitaler Lebenswelten "Political and Technological Roots of Democratic Disruption" by Lance Bennett. Location: HSZ 401 (4th floor), Bergstraße 64.

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June 20, 2022

Summer get-together with Prof. Tetzlaff (CTIO) in the ballroom of the TUD Rector's Office

It is above all that personal exchange among scientists had suffered in the years of the pandemic. Even if this insight now seems like a truism, the euphoric days of instant video networking via click are not all that long ago. But whether it's symposia, events, network meetings or long-awaited trips - they're all currently shooting up in numbers similar to the summer temperatures. And that is in deed a good thing!

The reasons for this could be experienced live - and not on YouTube - on Monday, June 20, when 16 international scientists and their hosts met for the first time in the ballroom of the Rectorate. (Individual mask responsibility, an air filter and the routine handling of the manifold greeting gestures were by now already part of the new norm of encounters).

Invited by Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff, CTIO, in close cooperation with the program coordinators of the Dresden Fellowship, the Eleonore Trefftz Program, and the Philipp Schwarz Initiative, everyone found themselves in a circle of chairs. Two minutes of warm-up were enough to break the ice and the exchange about international collaborations and research projects bubbled up refreshingly and naturally.

And if everyone hadn't been grounded back in the analog world at this point, they were at the latest during the subsequent tour of the "Down to Earth" exhibition in the Custody. Curator Gwendolin Kremer's focus on the roots of plants, their soil as a prerequisite for growth, and the perspective on trees as living beings at eye level could not have rounded off the event better. And so it can be summed up: Further networking meetings with our international guests will certainly follow soon.

Fellow Lunch 2022

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• June 23, 2022, 12:15 pm - 1 pm
   
  Dr. Luxmi Rajanayagam:  Finding a position on position marks: An examination of EU trade mark law in legal protection of fashion and functional clothing
   

  Location: Von-Gerber-Bau, Bergstraße 53 Dresden, room 013 (ground foor)

• July 25, 2019

  Summer lunch for the Dresden Fellows and Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Women Professors with the Rector at Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP)
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• July 5, 2019, 5-7 pm
  Final presentation - Seminar in Design with Dresden Fellow Henning Haupt
  (Faculty of Architecture)
  Location: Zentralwerk Dresden Riesaer Str. 32, 01127 Dresden
• June 29, 2017
  Summer lunch for the Dresden Fellows and Trefftz Professors at TUD's ALTANA-Gallery
• July 22, 2015
  Summer lunch at TUD's Graduate Academy for the Dresden Fellows and Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professors including a visit to TUD's historic dye collection
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• December 11, 2014
  Christmas lunch for the Dresden Fellows and Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professors at TUD's ALTANA-Gallery
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• June 23, 2014
  Welcome reception for the Dresden Fellows at TUD's ALTANA-Gallery including a guided exhibition tour
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