Die Jury würdigte Sarah Hülsewigs Masterarbeit „Bildtitel im Surrealismus. Komik in der Titel-Bild-Beziehung“ (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Hans Körner). Ausgangspunkt war ihre Beobachtung, dass die meisten Besucher einer Ausstellung durch die Beschilderung der jeweiligen Werke eine Erklärung für das Betrachtete erwarten. Oft aber ist das Ergebnis eher Unverständnis oder Amüsement. Hülsewig hat surrealistische Arbeiten bekannter Künstler wie Man Ray, Max Ernst und René Magritte auf das „komische Spannungsverhältnis zum Titel“ untersucht.

Seis actividades, cuatro lanzamientos y la presencia de diversos académicos y estudiantes en la agenda cultural del encuentro, serán parte de la participación de la Casa de Bello en lo que queda de esta edición de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago, en la que la principal Casa de Estudios del país está celebrando sus 175 años de historia. Diversidad de temas y miradas sobre la realidad actual.

"Vegas de Turi" es el nombre de la Unidad Experimental y Demostrativa inaugurada por la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, dirigida a apoyar y potenciar la agricultura familiar campesina de ocho comunidades de la zona. Capacitación en veterinaria, ganadería, hilado y tejido, son parte de las actividades que está desarrollando el equipo liderado por Centro de Estudios Andinos de nuestro plantel.

El 7 de noviembre de 1917 se desarrolló el "Asalto al Palacio de Invierno" por parte de un grupo de guardias rojos, soldados, marineros y obreros del Soviet de Petrogrado. En el marco del centenario de estos hechos, que abrieron el camino a la constitución de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, los profesores Manfred Wilhelmy del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, y María Eugenia Horvitz de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, conversaron con Prensa U.

by Elizabeth Dominic Digitalisation has become an integral part of our life. Our increasing reliance on digital infrastructures is linked to the use of cyberspace as a new domain for disrupting international peace and security, with cyber operations becoming an increasingly prominent threat. However, the laws governing such cyber operations remain unclear. There have been […]

By Beth Noveck, Gabriella Capone and Victoria Alsina
Re-Imagining Lawmaking

Location

United States

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Location

United States

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United States

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Introduction
The public is beginning to demand — and governments are beginning to provide — new opportunities for the engagement of citizens on an ongoing basis as collaborators in public problem-solving rather than merely as voters. Nowhere is the explosion in citizen participation accelerating more than in the context of lawmaking, where legislators and regulators are turning to new technology to solicit both public opinion and know-how to improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of the legislative process.

Book by Éloi Laurent on “How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability…Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things—those that will help us solve the real social, economic, political, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century?

Kurzes Interview mit Nikolas Guggenberger zum Dark Net:

Danke an Radio Q und Reporterin Luisa Meng!

Subtitle

featuring author Ethan Katsh

Teaser

Our society is blessed with new technologies yet also burdened with numerous and novel disputes as they are used. In his new book Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes, Professor Katsh looks at many of these disputes, why they arise, how they may be resolved and, in some cases, even prevented.

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Event Date

Liveblog of Winter Mason's talk at MIT sponsored by the MIT Gov/Lab on 13 November 2017. All errors are mine.

Leslie Harris at the Future of Privacy Forum: “Data has become the currency of the modern economy. A recent study projects the global volume of data to grow from about 0.8 zettabytes (ZB) in 2009 to more than 35 ZB in 2020, most of it generated within the last two years and held by the corporate sector.

Have you ever noticed that it is really hard to get an overview of a research field that you know nothing about? Let’s assume for a minute that a family member or a loved one of yours has fallen ill and unfortunately, the standard treatment isn’t working. Like many other people, you now want to get into the research on the illness to better understand what’s going on.
You proceed to type the name of the disease into PubMed or Google Scholar – and you are confronted with thousands of results, more than you could ever read.

Mit rund 700 Teilnehmern ist die von Studierenden für Studierende organisierte NextGenerationCFO inzwischen die größte Campus-Konferenz Düsseldorfs. Sie findet einmal jährlich unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Prof. Dr. Barbara E. Weißenberger mit ihrem Lehrstuhl-Team zu jeweils aktuellen Themen aus dem Accounting statt. 

Calestous Juma in The Conversation: “Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers of innovation.

Yesterday, we launched in Washington DC our latest (open access) book on “Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How“.

Auf Einladung des Vereins zur Förderung der zivilrechtlichen Abteilung des Instituts für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht fand am 11.11.2017 die Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins und ein Ehemaligentreffen in den Räumlichkeiten des Instituts statt.