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Call: Annemarie Schimmel Fellowship (Deadline: 15.08. of each year)1
Annemarie Schimmel’s life and work has built bridges between East and West, between Islam and Christianity and has inspired researchers of religion around the globe. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, the Annemarie Schimmel Fellowship was established to give international PhD students and young scholars the opportunity for a stay at the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) at Bonn University to pursue research in the field of Comparative Theology. The Fellowship will support the CTSI’s goal of providing a space for exchange and bridge-building between various religious traditions.
Jul 25, 2023 1
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Call for Abstracts: 'Detecting Unusual Consciousness: From Brain Organoids to AI Systems' (Deadline: 30.06.2023)2
DETECTING UNUSUAL CONSCIOUSNESS:FROM BRAIN ORGANOIDS TO AI SYSTEMS Bonn, 27–28 September 2023  Are some brain organoids, or sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) systems (e.g., ChatGPT 4) conscious? In some cases, it may seem so. But how can we tell? The Center for Science and Thought (CST) at the University of Bonn and the Epileptology Clinic of Bonn invite abstracts for talks at a two-day conference. The conference will focus on unusual candidates for consciousness such as isolated hemispheres after split brain or hemispherotomy surgery, and advanced AI systems (e.g., ChatGPT). The main aim of the conference is to explore cases and investigate what kind of (traditional or innovative) demarcation criteria could be used to detect whether an entity or its local states are conscious.  DATE: 27-28 September, 2023 VENUE: University of Bonn (Germany)Sept 27. IZPH philosophy building: Poppelsdorfer Allee 28Sept 28. Life & Brain Building (University Hospital): Venusberg-Campus 1 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:Tim BAYNE (Monash)Jonathan BIRCH (LSE)Marcello MASSIMINI (Milan)Elizabeth SCHECHTER (Maryland)
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Call for Applications (Deadline: 14.04.2023): "Valuing Plurality, Decolonising Socio-ecological Futures"3
The future is in question and there is an urgent need to act in the face of multiple crises. These socio-ecological emergencies, like the climate crisis or the corona pandemic, happen in a globalised, interconnected world. The questions now are: how do we respond? How do such decisions shape our futures? And in which way do we want these futures to be designed? How can we find shared answers despite a plurality of values around the world? We urgently need to discuss and reflect over the plurality of values and how to decolonise such futures.
Mar 26, 2023 3
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Call for Application: “Mind-Dependent Artifacts and Artifact- Dependent Minds — AI and the Human”4
In association with the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum, the TRA 4 – Individuals, Institutions and Societies (University of Bonn) is offering up to 10 Forum Humanum fellowships to qualified doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from any department in the social sciences or humanities at the University of Bonn to participate in an event to be held at the recently founded Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities at the New School for Social Research (NYC).
Feb 09, 2023 4
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Ausschreibung zur Entwicklung des Profilbereiches ‚Ethik‘5
Zur Schärfung und Weiterentwicklung ihres wissenschaftlichen Profils hat die Universität transdisziplinäre Forschungsbereiche/ Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) etabliert. Als neuartige, innovationsfördernde Organisationsstrukturen richten die TRAs die universitäre Forschung auf zentrale wissenschaftliche, technologische und gesellschaftliche Zukunftsthemen hin aus. Sie dienen als kreative und explorative Plattformen, auf denen sich Fächer und Fakultäten themenorientiert verbinden und ihre strategische Entwicklung koordinieren. Innerhalb der TRA 4 – Individuen, Institutionen und Gesellschaften untersuchen Wissenschaftler*innen, wie Institutionen (Markt, Recht, Kultur) komplexe Beziehungen zwischenIndividuen und Gesellschaften bedingen, und entwickeln daraus neue Sichtweisen auf Mikrophänomene (Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Handlungskompetenzen, Individualisierung) und Makrophänomene (Weltgesellschaft, Globalisierung). Ziel ist es beispielsweise, Schlüsselfaktoren zu identifizieren, die sozialen Zusammenhalt, Chancengleichheit, Effizienz, Ressourcenschutz und die Entwicklung individueller Fähigkeiten im Zusammenspiel all dieser Faktoren beeinflussen. In diesem Zusammenhang sollen der bereits identifizierte Profilbereich ‚Ethik‘ sowie seine Forschungsinfrastruktur weiter auf- und ausgebaut werden. Die TRA 4 schreibt daher für diesenProfilbereich gezielt Forschungsmittel mit einer Gesamtsumme von 50.000,- EUR aus, um weitere Vernetzungen innerhalb der TRA sowie Projekte zur interdisziplinären Bearbeitung von ethischen Forschungsfragen anzuregen.
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Call for Application: Forum Humanum Fellowships/Fall Institute ‘A.I. – The Art of Interpretation’6
In association with the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum, the TRA 4 – Individuals, Institutions and Societies (University of Bonn) is offering up to 10 Forum Humanum fellowships to qualified doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from any department in the social sciences or humanities at the University of Bonn to participate in an event to be held at the recently founded Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities at the New School for Social Research (NYC).
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Preisfrage 2020-2022 (Deadline: 31.12.2021)7
Preisgeld: Platz 1: € 1000,- und Plätze 2 und 3: je € 500,-Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen aller DisziplinenJury aus Theologie, Philosophie, Politische Wissenschaft: Kurt Appel, Martín Grassi,Volker Kronenberg, Cornelia Richter, Jochen Sautermeister
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Call for Abstracts: ‘Rethinking Privacy after the Pandemic. Interdisciplinary Symposium (Deadline: 01.04.2022)8
At this conference we will undertake an interdisciplinary reconsideration of privacy, asking how we do want our society to look like based on what we saw, experienced and hopefully learned from the current present and recent past. The concerned disciplines range from different cultural and language studies, law, media studies, philosophy, political theory, psychology, sociology and surveillance studies to computer science and beyond. Contributions from bioethics, health sciences, medicine, etc. or the humanitarian sector are also welcome. The idea is to suggest a Manifesto for the Future of Privacy that can be signed by the participants. An open access publication of the conference papers is planned.
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Links

  1. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/annemarie-schimmel-fellowship-1
  2. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/call-for-abstracts-detecting-unusual-consciousness-from-brain-organoids-to-ai-systems-deadline-30-06-2023
  3. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/call-for-applications-summer-school-valuing-plurality-decolonising-socio-ecological-futures-july-16-22-2023
  4. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/copy_of_call-for-application-forum-humanum-fellowships-fall-institute-mind-dependent-artifacts-and-artifact-dependent-minds-2014-ai-and-the-human201d-einsendeschluss-28-02-2023
  5. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/ausschreibung-zur-entwicklung-des-profilbereiches-ethik-1
  6. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/call-for-application-forum-humanum-fellowships-fall-institute-a-i-the-art-of-interpretation2019-einsendeschluss-15-06-2022
  7. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/preisfrage-2020-2022
  8. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls/call-for-abstracts-rethinking-privacy-after-the-pandemic-interdisciplinary-symposium-september-15-16-2022-deadline-01-04-2022
  9. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls?b_start:int=0
  10. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls?b_start:int=16
  11. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/fundinglines-calls?b_start:int=24