British and Anglophone Literature and Culture
"Science Day": Studienstiftung celebrates 100th anniversary
In 2025, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes – German Academic Scholarship Foundation – celebrates its 100th anniversary. On May 23, UDE scholarship holders organized a "Science Day" with lab tours, presentations, panel discussions and more. Guests included NRW Minister of Culture and Science, Ina Brandes, the President of the Studienstiftung and Rector of the University of Bonn, Professor Michael Hoch, and UDE Rector Prof. Barbara Albert. At the end of the event, for long-standing service as liason professor for the Studienstiftung, Prof. Jens Martin Gurr was awarded the Daidalos-Münze by Studienstiftung President Prof. Hoch and representative Dr. Insa Braun.
Prof. William Collins Donahue
The Department of Anglophone Studies welcomes Prof. William Collins Donahue, who will be a Senior Fellow at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Research Alliance Ruhr and will be collaborating with Prof. Jens Martin Gurr as his tandem partner.
https://www.college-uaruhr.de/fellowship/senior-fellows
Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond
8–9 May 2025 | College for Social Sciences and Humanities, Essen
Does "memory culture" promote a healthy democracy? Can the USA – and other countries – learn from Germany’s decades-long experience of "working off" the Nazi past? This conference takes a comparative perspective on the practices of commemorating historical injustice in Germany, the USA and beyond.
Falling Walls Science Summit (7-9 November 2024 in Berlin)
J.M. Gurr presenting at 'Regulating Conflicts in Institutions' panel at 'Falling Walls Science Summit'
Panel participants Sabine Lehmann, Jens Gurr, Simone Schwanitz, Metin Sitti, Patrick Cramer
Discussion during 'Regulating Conflicts in Institutions' panel, Jens Gurr, Simone Schwanitz
Graphic Recording from 'Regulating Conflicts in Institutions' panel at 'Falling Walls Science Summit'
At the "Falling Walls Science Summit" in Berlin (November 7-9, 2024), Prof. Jens Martin Gurr participated in a panel on "Regulating Conflicts in Institutions: Migration, Climate Change, Identity Politics ...". Moderated by BMZ communication expert Sabine Lehmann, the panel included Prof. Patrick Cramer (President of Max Planck Society), Dr. Simone Schwanitz (Secretary General of Max Planck Society) and Prof. Metin Sitti (President of Koç University, Istanbul). The panel discussed ways in which institutions can handle the key present-day conflicts arising in present-day plural societies in ways compatible with democracy and so as to safeguard the continued functioning of these institutions. Prof. Gurr, who had been asked to provide the opening input, here introduced key concepts from the two collaborative projects "Cultures of Compromise" and "Agonistic Plurality".
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