Workshop at ICI Berlin with a contribution by Teresa Koloma Beck on the situation in Germany, 14 October 2024.

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Keynote von Teresa Koloma Beck auf der Tagung “Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts. Current Research Perspectives” des SFB 1265 Re-figuration of Spaces an der TU Berlin am 10. Oktober 2024.

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Panel discussion with Susan Neiman, Mithu Sanyal and Teresa Koloma Beck at Humboldt Forum, Berlin, as part of the international conference Enlightenment in the World of Einstein Forum Potsdam, 30 August 2024

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Katharina Wuropulos is organising a panel at the 6 Nordic STS conference in Oslo, Norway, June 7, 2023 –June 9, 2023. Democracy is a spatial-material setting where problems are imagined to be taken care of and solved in participatory-sensitive ways. In this setting, building (good) public infrastructures, inclusivity, diversity, and public participation are more and more imagined to provide democratic solutions for contemporary problems. What happens when future making is practiced in democratic ways of life?

For further information: https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html

At Leipzig University, Teresa Koloma Beck is presenting a journal forum on postcolonial peace and conflict research which she edited with Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg): Decolonize! Critical inquiries into peace and conflict research.

For further information: https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-politikwissenschaft/arbeitsbereiche/internationale-beziehungen-und-transnationale-politik/veranstaltungen

At the conference „Drones in Civilian Airspaces: Security, Regulation, and Imagination” at Peace Research Institute Oslo, Katharina Wuropulos (HSU, Hamburg) will chair the panel „Drone imagination” and discussed the contributions of Dr. Anna Jackman (University of Reading, UK) and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Maurer (Center for Technology and Culture, University of Southern Denmark).

Over the last years, the use of drones in the civilian airspace has increased dramatically, opening up some opportunities and leading to a wide range of new security challenges, as illustrated by the numerous incidents observed in Norway in recent weeks.
In response to this proliferation, significant international, regional, and national efforts have been undertaken to develop regulations to integrate drones safely into civilian airspace.
What security problems arise from drone proliferation in the airspace, and how will this problem-set change as automation and artificial intelligence become more widespread?
What are the frames, scope and boundaries of the discourse regarding the promises and risks of civil-drone integration? How can authorities adapt regulatory frameworks to integrate drones into the civilian airspace while maintaining high safety, security and privacy standards?

For more information: https://www.prio.org/events/8990

Syria under Assad, Afghanistan under the Taliban, Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine and many others parts of the world are settings of atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity that can never be atoned for.

They represent a raw challenge to those who seek to advocate for the victims and their cause in the most impactful and widespread manner possible. How to visualize the sufferings? How to show the assaults? Is it even possible and permissible to do so?

Teresa Koloma Beck, together with displaced students and alumni/ae from Bard College Berlin, will discuss the complexities of showing such material and shaking the complacency of audiences that are co-responsible for the acts of torture, murder and rape committed by criminal regimes.

More Information: https://berlin.bard.edu/news/events/real-talk-showing-what-cannot-should-not-be-shown-a-panel-discussion