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Our panel will explore the impact of strategic lit­i­gation on the development of fundamental rights and public security. Ulf Buermeyer co-founded the Berlin-based NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) in 2015 and has since served as its Director and Board Member. The GFF aims to defend fundamental and human rights through strategic lit­i­gation. Having argued and won several landmark cases before various courts, including the German Constitutional Court, the GFF has grown into a vital institution of German civil society and has made significant contributions to the doctrinal development of fundamental rights and security law. [mehr]

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Virtual Reality (VR) technology has begun to make waves within the field of criminology, with researchers and practitioners exploring its potential to deepen our understanding of criminal decision-making processes, to enhance behavioral interventions, and to offer novel opportu­ni­ties for offender rehabilitation. This work­­shop brings together researchers working with VR in criminology and related domains in different countries in Europe. The goal of the workshop is to share research findings, exchange ideas, and discuss future opportunities for the appli­ca­tion of VR to study crime and related behavioral phenomena. [mehr]

Addressing pressing economic and social challenges – such as pandemics and other health crises, climate change, and energy scarcity – requires changes in behavior. In this talk, I will use case studies, primarily from my own research, to illustrate how human behavior and bounded rationality influences the design of institutions aimed at aligning incentives and actions with overarching goals. I will argue that economic design research and behavioral science are often complementary, rather than substitutes, in promoting effective behavioral change. [mehr]

This event will feature a short lecture by Professor Joanna Bourke, who will explore rape as a historical phe­nom­e­non, examining how its understanding has evolved over time and across different cultural and social envi­ron­ments. She will discuss how history can help us comprehend the roots of sexual violence today and reflect on broader societal constructions of will, consent, and agency. Her analysis critically examines the binary victim-perpetrator framework while addressing intersectional factors that shape experiences of sexual violence. [mehr]

Was passiert, wenn man ChatGPT mit einem spontanen Satz oder einem absurden Gedankenbild konfrontiert? „Wo kniet der ein­bei­ni­ge Hund?“ „Wie lange dauert der Ritt auf einem Elefanten von der Berliner Gedächtniskirche zum Alexanderplatz?“ „Kennst Du Gefühle?“ Wohl wissend, dass dieses Sprachprogramm nicht schweigen kann, sondern immer Antworten liefern muss. Und die überraschen: Mal sind sie plausibel, mal waghalsig, einige scheitern grandios. [mehr]

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My talk focuses on the emergence of contemporary biometric systems and the growing fear of a “surveillance society” (David Lyon, 2001). In the first part of the talk, I will analyze the history of biometric surveillance, grounded in a long history of physiognomic and racial taxonomy, on the one hand, and the potentiality of “universal suspicion,” on the other. In the second part of the talk, I examine the case of biometric legislation in Israel, aimed at making biometrics – nowadays combined with AI – an expression of technological superiority and what Deleuze and Guattari called the “control society” or the “man-machine assemblage.” Such universal assemblages are used, often as experimental weapons, against populations in the “global south”. [mehr]

Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen der Exzellenzclusterinitiative ConTrans (Constitution as Practice in Times of Transformation). [mehr]

Der Vortrag findet statt im Rahmen des Kriminologisch-kriminalpolitischen Arbeitskreises der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [mehr]