Lecture: Borders, Youth, Neoliberalism - How Global Sport Undermines and Strengthens National Borders

Neoliberalism has permeated the bodies and subjectivities of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach across national borders, aided by the global expansion of technologies such as satellite television. At the same time, the national economies of the Global South have collapsed under pressure from global capital. A career in sport has become the object of desires that can only be fulfilled by crossing increasingly impenetrable national borders. Athletes’…

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Digital introduction for 2020 ZUKOnnect Fellows

Introductory meeting for 2020 ZUKOnnect Fellows starting their digital fellowship. At this meeting, the fellows received information about the Zukunftskolleg and their digital fellowships. It also gave the ZUKOnnect Fellows the opportunity to get to know each other and had further questions answered.

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Online CAT project presentation: "Drawing Lines: Humor, Free Speech and Hate Speech"

Freedom of humor and satire is an essential component of democratic life; but at the same time, some forms of humor can be a vehicle for hateful or anti-democratic messages. How can we draw a line between free speech and hate speech, when it comes to humor? Answering these questions is particularly difficult in the case of highly condensed (and often ambiguous) forms of visual humor, such as cartoons or memes.

On 21 September, the members of the Constructive Advanced Thinking team ‘Cartoons in…

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Online event: "Zukunftskolleg Fellowships - An alternative academic career path for early career researchers"

The Zukunftskolleg has been a role model for the successful promotion of early career researchers at the University of Konstanz since its foundation. As an Institute for Advanced Study, it encourages research collaboration across departmental and national boundaries as well as career stages and status groups. With its Fellowship Programmes, the Zukunftskolleg has established a new career path for early career researchers across all disciplines represented at the University of Konstanz. The…

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