Vom Schwarzen Tod und lebenden Toten. Historische Figurationen von Pest und Lepra.

Presentation (2018, March 13)

Pest und Lepra gehören zu den schrecklichsten Krankheiten der Geschichte. Die Erfahrung mit diesen Seuchen hat sich tief ins kollektive Gedächtnis eingegraben und wirkt bis heute nach. Und das, obwohl ... [more ▼]

Pest und Lepra gehören zu den schrecklichsten Krankheiten der Geschichte. Die Erfahrung mit diesen Seuchen hat sich tief ins kollektive Gedächtnis eingegraben und wirkt bis heute nach. Und das, obwohl beide Krankheiten schon lange aus Europa verschwunden sind. Die Lepra seit ca. 300 Jahren und die Pest seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dennoch üben Pest und Lepra in unserer Gesellschaft bis heute eine starke Faszination von Schauer, Grusel und Schrecken aus. Gerne und häufig werden Pest- und Lepramotive deshalb in der Literatur verwendet, aber auch ungleich plakativer in Romanen, in Film und Fernsehen sowie auch in Computerspielen. Der Vortrag widmet sich den historischen Figurationen von Lepra und Pest, ihren historischen Wurzeln und Ausprägungen. Wie reagierten die Gesellschaften auf die Bedrohung durch die Seuchen? Mit welchen Methoden wurde versucht, die schicksalhaften und unerklärlichen Krankheitserfahrungen verständlich zu machen und zu kategorisieren? Welche Bilder und Metaphern lassen sich greifen? Eine besondere Rolle spielen dabei ästhetische Dimensionen von Krankheitsdarstellungen, wie an vielen Beispielen gezeigt wird. [less ▲]

Understanding and conceptualizing youth mobility. A perspective of young people at the threshold to employment

Presentation (2018, March 08)

This presentation presents results of the H2020 project MOVE on employment mobility of youth in the EU.

“Où est mon prince? Wo ist mein Prinz? Wou ass mäi Prënz?” – A multilingual theatre in education project in a primary school class in Luxembourg City explored through video ethnography

Presentation (2018, March 07)

Free boundary problems: numerical methods and data-driven simulations

Presentation (2018, March 05)

Hey Siri, what can I tell about Sancho Panza: Investigating the conversational interface Siri as a potential learning assistant

Presentation (2018, March)

Next Generation Computing and Storage at Scale: Overview and Implementation within the European HPC strategy

Presentation (2018, March)

Technologiegestütztes Bildungsmonitoring in Luxemburg: Genese, Aufbau, Ausbau und wissenschaftliche Opportunitäten

Presentation (2018, February 27)

Early education, literacy and multilingualism

Presentation (2018, February 08)

Presentation of three studies, one meta-analysis, introduction of the project HOMELY and video from the project MuLiPEC (Claudine Kirsch).

Early childhood education in Luxembourg and Switzerland

Presentation (2018, February 08)

Who Decides What? Judicial Deference in International Economic Adjudication

Presentation (2018, February 01)

Dalimilova kronika ve francouzském překladu a v evropských souvislostech

Presentation (2018, January 29)

Blasmusikforschung, was ist das? Blasmusik, eine Disziplin zwischen Wissenschaft, Pädagogik und künstlerischer Praxis

Presentation (2018, January 20)

Als die Gründerväter um Wolfgang Suppan im Jahre 1974 die IGEB ins Leben ruften, war es ihnen ein Bedürfnis, neben Erforschung auch noch den Begriff Förderung im Titel zu verankern. In meinem Vortrag ... [more ▼]

Als die Gründerväter um Wolfgang Suppan im Jahre 1974 die IGEB ins Leben ruften, war es ihnen ein Bedürfnis, neben Erforschung auch noch den Begriff Förderung im Titel zu verankern. In meinem Vortrag werde ich aufzeigen, was die Blasmusikforschung nach mittlerweile vierzig Jahren aufzuweisen hat und wie sie in Zukunft im Dienste der Blasmusikpraxis und zur sog. "community music" weiter zur Förderung des Blasmusikwesens beitragen kann. Dabei werden u.a. Verbindungen zur Musikpädagogik, zur Musiksoziologie, zur Militärmusikpraxis, zur, Repertoirekunde und zur Instrumentenkunde zu suchen sein. [less ▲]

In, mit und um Luxemburg - Formen der Herrschaftsgestaltung im Herzogtum des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts

Presentation (2018, January 16)

Historiker und die Konstruktion von Zeitgenossenschaft. Eine Projektskizze am Beispiel der Militärverwaltung Belgien-Nordfrankreich im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Presentation (2018, January 09)

Gegenstand des Projekts ist die Konstruktion des Zeitzeugendiskurses mehrerer führender Mitglieder der deutschen Militärverwaltung in Brüssel. Arbeitshypothese ist, dass die Konstruktion in drei Phasen ... [more ▼]

Gegenstand des Projekts ist die Konstruktion des Zeitzeugendiskurses mehrerer führender Mitglieder der deutschen Militärverwaltung in Brüssel. Arbeitshypothese ist, dass die Konstruktion in drei Phasen verlief: Der „Generalprozess“ (1950-1951) gegen Alexander von Falkenhausen und Eggert Reeder (gefolgt von einer Reihe anderer Prozesse bis in die 1980er Jahre hinein). Die Legitimierungs- und Verteidigungsdiskurse einiger Akteure gegenüber Anschuldigungen, die ihre Tätigkeiten während des Krieges betrafen. Ihre Tätigkeit als Zeitzeuge für belgische und deutsche Historiker und Journalisten seit den 1970er Jahren. [less ▲]

Sozialpsychologie und die AfD – Wieviel Psychologie steckt im Wahlprogramm?

Presentation (2018, January)

Mental health and wellbeing in adopted adolescents and adolescents with divorced parents: Preliminary results of ATTACH

Presentation (2018)

Motifs en transhumance, Michaux, Ben Jelloun et autres

Presentation (2018)

Tactilectures et re-marques (en collaboration Emmanuelle Pelard)

Presentation (2018)

My research in seven minutes

Presentation (2018)

The role of critical reflexivity in the professional development of professional developers: A co-authethnotaphic exploration

Presentation (2018)

Im Feld der Praxistheorien. Zwischen Ontologie und Methodologie

Presentation (2018)

Crimes au féminin. Pour une réflexion sur les meurtrières dans les Arts

Presentation (2018)

La coopération comme « formation transfrontalière de pratiques ». Une perspective d’analyse praxéologique

Presentation (2018)

Les développements sociétaux récents ont remis la question de la frontière sur l'agenda scientifique. Dans un contexte de montée du populisme, de BREXIT ou de mouvements migratoires, différentes ... [more ▼]

Les développements sociétaux récents ont remis la question de la frontière sur l'agenda scientifique. Dans un contexte de montée du populisme, de BREXIT ou de mouvements migratoires, différentes disciplines activent des concepts nouveaux ou déjà éprouvés pour saisir les réalités contemporaines et pour repenser le projet européen, respectivement les frontières nationales. A cet effet, de plus en plus d’approches constructivistes prévalent, décentralisant le regard analytique de la frontière nationale en tant qu'objet ontologique aux processus de démarcation et de différenciation. Le décentrement méthodologique de la frontière en faveur des réalités sociétales de frontiérisation (bordering) a été reçu de manière productive au sein des border studies et s’est établi comme tournant praxéologique (practice turn). Ce développement n’a pas encore trouvé d’écho significatif au sein de la recherche sur la coopération transfrontalière. C’est pourquoi la présente communication propose d’analyser la coopération transfrontalière dans une perspective praxéologique. Celle-ci ne se limite pas à des systèmes ou structures, des frontières territoriales ou des normativités d’action en tant que facteurs explicatifs des dynamiques de la coopération transfrontalière ; au contraire, elle est centrée sur les réalités immédiates et contingentes de la coopération. La coopération sera donc conçue comme une « formation transfrontalière de pratiques », c.-à-d. comme un ensemble complexe de pratiques politiques et administratives interdépendantes dépassant une frontière nationale. De telles formations ne représentent pas des entités uniquement formées ; elles sont plutôt dynamiques et à caractère relationnel puisqu’elles sont constamment actualisées et en conséquence re/produites. Ces processus sociaux de mise à jour constituent les réalités de la coopération sur lesquelles porte l'intérêt d’une analyse praxéologique. Cette dernière ne construit donc pas la coopération transfrontalière comme un « objet entre-deux » situé entre différents systèmes politiques et administratifs. Il s’agit plutôt de développer une approche centrée sur les pratiques qui attribue à la coopération une identité propre. Pour ce faire, la présente communication, axée sur des questions théoriques, (1) donne un aperçu des hypothèses praxéologiques ; (2) présente ensuite la notion de « formation transfrontalière de pratiques » et (3) développe sur base de l'exemple des défis de coopération une perspective praxéologique sur la coopération transfrontalière. Enfin, (4) cette communication présentera quelques-unes des particularités méthodologiques liées à la perspective d’analyse proposée. La présente communication propose de sensibiliser à de nouvelles modalités d’analyse et de questionner les prémisses implicites de la recherche traditionnelle sur la coopération. En outre, la présente communication veut soumettre au débat une approche de connexions multidisciplinaires qui s’inscrit dans les développements récents au sein des border studies. [less ▲]

Il doppio volto del re

Presentation (2018)

- Tasks, Workers, and Machines - Factor-Augmenting Automation in an Aging Economy

Presentation (2018)

Multimodal interaction analysis of student science notebook use in a multilingual classroom

Presentation (2018)

Neurosciences et lecture

Presentation (2018)

A dialectic view of student science notebook use: the dance of the individual | collective

Presentation (2018)

Science notebooks can support students in working in active, inquiry-based ways of learning. When students use notebooks to document science investigations in rich and meaningful ways, notebooks can ... [more ▼]

Science notebooks can support students in working in active, inquiry-based ways of learning. When students use notebooks to document science investigations in rich and meaningful ways, notebooks can support not only the development of students’ content understandings, but also understandings about and engagement in science practices (Weibe et al., 2009). All too often though, student productions in science classrooms, such as entries in notebooks, are viewed as solely representative of individual understandings. This view serves to undercut the both individual and collective processes that constituted their construction, thus, inaccurately situating student representations as merely individual productions. In this presentation we show how an analysis of science notebook use in a primary classroom using the dialectic perspective of individual|collective revealed how aspects of students’ interactions with each other and with their notebooks are intertwined and co-constitute one another. This work emphasizes how viewing notebook use as individual |collective can reveal the dance of these inseparable aspects of interaction. [less ▲]

Technological Progress, the Supply ofHours Worked, and the Consumption-Leisure Complementarity

Presentation (2018)

The reconstruction of the plural identity of Europe through the migration crisis

Presentation (2018)

The situation of housing co-ops in Toronto and Luxembourg

Presentation (2018)

The socio-spatial production of non-market housing in urban regions under growth pressure: Thinking comparatively and relationally

Presentation (2018)

This paper explores non-market housing in urban regions under growth pressure, and aims to open up a conversation about how modes of housing and related policies might be conceptualized in urban ... [more ▼]

This paper explores non-market housing in urban regions under growth pressure, and aims to open up a conversation about how modes of housing and related policies might be conceptualized in urban geographical scholarship, in order to broaden the possible range of housing policy measures beyond the rather narrow imperative of market solutions, that prevail here and elsewhere. The project is extension of a larger project that I have been working on for many years together with Markus Hesse examining spatial planning problems in urban regions under growth pressure. We began with exploring sustainable spatial development in Luxembourg, then we studied of regional governance in Switzerland for comparison, and now we are moving on towards one component that is central to the topic: housing and housing in non-market contexts. But how might one effectively conceptualize housing, given what we know about recent scholarship in urban studies? I'd like to argue that (1) there is much to be learned with urban comparison; (2) following the policy mobility literature, simply importing ready-made templates would be, at best (!), risky; (3) Storper's (2014) application of bricolage is useful inspiration for understanding urban transformation processes that are forever changing and in flux. [less ▲]

Die Pädagogisierung des Konsums.

Presentation (2018)

Bypassing (a lack of) archives: a prosopography approach of the history of the European Court of Justice, 1950s-1970s

Presentation (2018)

Ever since its landmark decisions Van Gend en Loos and Costa v. ENEL, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has played a key role in the so-called ‘constitutionalization’ of the European legal order. The ... [more ▼]

Ever since its landmark decisions Van Gend en Loos and Costa v. ENEL, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has played a key role in the so-called ‘constitutionalization’ of the European legal order. The fact that its jurisprudence has given EU law a proto-federal framework has been demonstrated, analyzed and commented in countless publications by legal scholars and social scientists, who have tried to grasp how the ECJ could consistently pursue its active prointegration path without provoking a rebellion by the Member States. In the historiography of the EU, however, the ECJ was for many decades largely absent. The main reason for this absence is the Court’s long-standing lack of willingness to give researchers access to its archives. It was only in 2016, that the first archival documents from the ECJ were made available to the public at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence. Long awaited, they reveal little about the functioning of the Court. This paper presents how I have in my research used a prosopographical approach to raise the following challenge: if the ECJ does not (really) let us inside via its archives, can we get inside by studying those who worked at the Court, and above all, the main protagonists behind its case law, the judges? Could an investigation of their social and professional backgrounds, a study of their networks and convictions towards European integration, the analysis of their academic writings and personal papers, give us an unprecedented peak behind the curtains of European judicial decision-making? This presentation shows that (and how) knowing more about the judges reveals a lot about the functioning of the ECJ in the period in which it laid the foundations of the constitutionalization (1950s to 1970s). By providing key insights on the visions that the first generations of judges had on Europe and their role in the European constructions process, it reveals the dynamics that prevailed inside the Court and explains why the bench of judges became outright provocative in the 1970s. The prosopographical approach also brings to the surface new knowledge on the Court’s relationship with the Member States of the European communities. By laying bare why the first and highly decisive European judicial decision-makers were chosen by the governments, the collective biographies give new insights into the Member States’ expectations with regard to the institution and their reaction towards its provocative case law. Finally, the prosopographical approach reveals that the ECJ had a very active political network, which it used to pursue its strategic legal and political interests, and make sure that it would in its jurisprudence not go to a point where it risked being overthrown by the governments. [less ▲]

Presentation of work in social network analysis

Presentation (2018)

Homotopical Geometry over Differential Operators and Batalin-Vilkovisky Complex

Presentation (2017, December 18)

expert meeting Digital Source Criticism

Presentation (2017, December 18)

this expert meeting was meant to bring scholars together who conduct research on the topic of digital hermeneutics and digital source criticism, to exchange their views on the interpretation of this ... [more ▼]

this expert meeting was meant to bring scholars together who conduct research on the topic of digital hermeneutics and digital source criticism, to exchange their views on the interpretation of this concept. [less ▲]

Higher Supergeometry Revisited

Presentation (2017, December 14)

The Qatar Embargo at the WTO: Finally a Case on Article XXI?

Presentation (2017, December 13)

A multi-omic view of phage-host dynamics within a mixed microbial community

Presentation (2017, December 07)

Doing interdisciplinary research with an impact: the power of case studies

Presentation (2017, December 05)

In this CALIDIE Colloquium, I will present ‘Nexus Analysis’ an interdisciplinary approach I have been using in different projects over the years. I will show how this approach is particularly useful for ... [more ▼]

In this CALIDIE Colloquium, I will present ‘Nexus Analysis’ an interdisciplinary approach I have been using in different projects over the years. I will show how this approach is particularly useful for doing research seeking to impact the situation one studies and often implies working in partnership with researchers and practitioners from different horizons. I will discuss two examples applying this framework. The first case study will concentrate on the study of reconversion of professionals to new lines of work. The second case study will investigate reflections towards making a multilingual Higher Education programme more inclusive. Both case study presentations will be an opportunity to reflect about the conditions under which case studies might be useful from a practical and a theoretical standpoint. In closing the presentation, I hope to engage the participants in a more interactive dialogue around issues linked with inter-disciplinarity and mixed-methods approaches, theorizing, and axiomatic stances regarding values in doing science [less ▲]

NATO, the EU and the Arab Refugees Crisis in Europe

Presentation (2017, December)

Risk Aversion, Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Presentation (2017, November 29)

WWI and WWII Reparations and their Impact on European (Dis)Integration

Presentation (2017, November 28)

Due to the separation between the historical and legal fields which have examined the issue of WWII reparations, no generally accepted definition of their current status exists either in the historical ... [more ▼]

Due to the separation between the historical and legal fields which have examined the issue of WWII reparations, no generally accepted definition of their current status exists either in the historical, legal or political spheres. This lack of clarity has greatly contributed to this issue remaining unresolved until the present. In his talk, Spero Paravantes looks at the way the issue was used by the Big Three in their dealings with each other after WWII. In light of the Greek government’s continued pursuit of WWI and WWII debts it claims are owed by Germany, and the recent claims made by the Polish government, this talk summarizes the historical, legal and political scholarship on the issue and also comments on its effect on relations between members of the Eurozone and the way in which responses to the issue of WWII reparations, and indeed the legacy of the war itself, have brought political and cultural divisions within the Eurozone again to forefront. Link: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ies/?event_ID=113412 [less ▲]

The discrete Pompeiu problem on the plane

Presentation (2017, November 27)

The discrete Pompeiu problem is stemmed from an integral-geometric question on the plane. The problem is whether we can reconstruct a function if we know the average values of the function on every ... [more ▼]

The discrete Pompeiu problem is stemmed from an integral-geometric question on the plane. The problem is whether we can reconstruct a function if we know the average values of the function on every congruent copy of a given pattern. After introducing the theory of spectral analysis on discrete Abelian groups, I show some results for the discrete version of the problem. One of the arguments is connected to a coloring problem of the plane. One of them is a geometric construction and some others based on some geometric and combinatoric properties of the plane. I also mention some unsolved questions of the topic. My talk is based on a joint work with M. Laczkovich and Cs. Vincze. [less ▲]

Goethe Institute für Wissenschaft und Innovation?

Presentation (2017, November 23)

Lecture accompanying the screening of Bart Verstockt’s documentary Sylwester: Polish Soldiers and Ex-Combatants in Belgium. A Short History.

Presentation (2017, November 23)

Values and valuing at work

Presentation (2017, November 20)

Science & Cultural Diplomacy

Presentation (2017, November 14)

Risk Aversion, Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Presentation (2017, November 14)