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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. [more]

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. [more]

Lecture in German language. [more]

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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”. [more]

The event is in German language and takes place within the Excellence Strategy ConTrans (Constitution as Practice in Times of Transformation). [more]

The lecture is in German and takes place within the "Kriminologisch-kriminalpolitischer Arbeitskreis der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen". [more]

Norm individuation seems to be one of the most relevant topics in legal theory. It suffices to consider that without an individuation basis (individuators for the object «norm») legal science cannot, in a consistent way, classify norms or detect conflicts among them. It is of the utmost importance for legal science, then, to adopt criteria of individuation and, in such a way, to define which are the necessary conditions to have, within the legal materials expressed by normative authorities, a (complete) norm. As a task leading to establish the unit of a normative system, the selection of norm individuators is not exempt of consequences in our understanding of law. Accordingly, implications of individuation such as correl­a­tiv­ity between agents, generality of norms and their common pre­scrip­tiveness have also to be evaluated whenever legal science faces the problem of composing the unit «norm». [more]

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The theme for 2024 will explore economic, psychological, and biological perspectives on the ‘dark’ sides of behavior, such as exploitation, violence, discrimination, criminal and antisocial behavior, conflict and war. [more]