This semester, the lecture series "Intertwined futures: Digitalisation and Sustainability" in lecture theatre O2.
The Sociology, History, Philosophy and Media Studies departments have joined forces to create the following programme:
- 28.04.2026 What does 'Alexa, play Music' cost? Sociological perspectives on digitalisation and sustainability - Dr. Sarah Lenz, Research Associate, General Sociology, Paderborn University
- 12.05.2026 Sustainability measurement and global digitalisation in the food and cotton industry - Dr. Alexander Ellebrecht, Source Intelligence, University of Bonn
- 02.06.2026 Where the Cloud hits the Ground: Anthropological Perspectives on Data Economies in Late Industrialism - Dr Asta Vonderau, Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Cultural Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 09.06.2026 Data centres in Germany: How our digital infrastructure is growing and what it needs - Dr. Ralph Hintemann, Partner & Senior Researcher, Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability
- 16.06.2026 Data extractivism / extractivism data - Dr. Gerko Egert, Institute for Theatre Studies, Ruhr University Bochum
- 30.06.2026 The raids of the AI crawlers: On the data hunger of LLMs and the consequences for the open Internet - Dr Oliver Leistert, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Institute for Media, Society and Communication
- 14.07.2026 The Cloud is a Factory: An Industrial History of the Information Economy - Prof. Nathan Ensmenger, Associate Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University
The revision phase for registration ends on 30.04.2026.
Further information on the event can be found here.
