How do Social Media, Big Data and digital tracking change the definition of privacy? The Research Training Group 1681 "Privacy" of the University of Passau - funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - financed early career researchers working on fields related to privacy and digitalisation.
At the invitation of the Chair of Romance Literatures and Cultures (Prof. Dr Susanne Hartwig), a conference on "Ethics in Literature" took place at the University of Passau from 9 to 11 October. Under the title "Ser y deber ser", 20 academics from Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA gathered to discuss the role of literature, theatre and film in dealing with moral dilemmas of the 20th century.
From 12 to 14 October 2012, the congress "Culto del mal, cultura del mal" took place at the University of Passau with international participants. The significance of 'Culto del mal' in the fields of literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts was compared under the aspects of "reality" and "fiction".
In March 2011, Prof. Dr Susanne Hartwig's Chair of Romance Literatures and Cultures organised the bi-annual German Hispanic Studies Conference in collaboration with the University of Passau. This was the largest specialist conference in the German-speaking world to focus on Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
On 22 November 2008, the gala ship Regina Danubia set sail at 1 p.m. as the "Letters and Numbers Ship". The day, which brought together literature and maths in Passau, was part of a prize-winning project in the "Heads and Tails" ideas competition.
Flanking the production of the Valkyrie from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung planned by the State Theatre of Lower Bavaria in the spring of 2020, and in cooperation with the Chair of Modern German Literature, the Professorship of Medieval German Literature will be organising a public reading of the Ring from April / May to July 2021, with the aim of presenting Wagner's opera tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung" in its entirety.
Flight, expulsion and upheavals on account of two world wars: How did the "age of extremes" change the Silesian aristocracy? A German-Polish-Czech research project devoted itself to this question and produced a documentary in the process.
The Research Training Group will reconstruct the concept of privacy with the overall aim of developing a comprehensive theory of privacy and describing its parameters and interaction with other concepts.
The Passau Centre for eHumanities (PACE) investigates new computer-based approaches to determine the needs of the humanities and cultural studies fields for research and teaching. The Centre The Passau Centre for eHumanities (German) is an important component of the eHumanities field at the University of Passau.
Do German butterflies fold lemons? One of the things Professor Rüdiger Harnisch examines in this project is why utterances are loaded with additional meaning. The German Research Foundation is funding the project ‘Typology and theory of remotivation’ of the Chair of German Language, which is held by Professor Rüdiger Harnisch.
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