Critical Reflection on Relevant Global Challenges

Ingeborg Reichle
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
2018S, Vorlesung und Diskussion (VOD), 1.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S02237

Beschreibung

This lecture series offers a critical perspective on relevant global challenges our societies are facing today. In our rapidly changing world we are currently challenged by unprecedented dynamic processes on a global scale such as climate change, demographic change, mass migration, and a number of global catastrophic risks: The Global Catastrophic Risks 2017 report of the Global Challenges Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden) is addressing the following current systemic risks: Catastrophic climate change, Weapons of Mass Destruction (nuclear warfare and biological and chemical warfare), Ecological collapse, Pandemics, Asteroid impact, Supervolcanic eruption, Geoengineering, and Artificial intelligence. The lecture series will focus on catastrophic climate change and nuclear warfare and will offer expertise from leading academics in the fields of climate change and visual culture (picturing nuclear disasters as global challenge). It will also addresses the sources, mechanisms, and social structures that give rise to today's higher education challenges, and reflect how to propose reform policies for higher education.

The lecture on education will address the sources, mechanisms, and social structures that give rise to today’s higher education challenges, and reflect on how to propose reform policies for the transformation of higher education. Understanding cultures will focus on some of the principal consequences of globalisation for cultural identities. Understanding culture in the age of globalisation is shaped today by a deep concern about how profoundly current trends change the world we live in, for example, a more integrated transnational economic system, the rise of global communications networks, increasing levels of population mobility, the advent of international consumer brands and the rise of prosumer culture, and the increase of social inequality, which are challenging national, regional, and individual cultural practices.

Prüfungsmodalitäten

Requirements: Attendance at all lectures is mandatory. Attendance will be registered on a sign-in sheet at the beginning of class. To participate effectively in class it is expected that students have read the works on the required reading list. The written assignment is to submit three 1200-word essays in English on given topics that have been addressed in the lectures. The deadline for all three essays is July 6, 2018. Further details about the requirements will be discussed and presented in class. Students are required to use concepts and themes from the reading assignments in their essays and in the final exam. All students will take a final viva voce exam (20 minutes) at the end of the semester (June 21 and 22, 2018).

On March 21, 2018, topics for the lectures will be assigned to students and information provided on topics and issues that will be covered during the course of the term. Documents and materials will be available online at Base Angewandte as of March 21, 2018. Please be prepared to give your full attention to the course each time we meet. Students from other faculties or universities will be given a place on the course subject to room capacity.

Termine

21. März 2018, 13:45–15:15 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room (Vorbesprechung)
11. April 2018, 13:45–15:15 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
25. April 2018, 13:45–15:15 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
16. Mai 2018, 13:45–15:15 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
13. Juni 2018, 13:45–15:15 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
20. Juni 2018, 13:45–17:00 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room (Gastvortrag: Daniel Bürkner)
21. Juni 2018, 10:30–16:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room (Prüfung)
22. Juni 2018, 10:30–17:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room (Prüfung)

LV-Anmeldung

Bis 15. April 2018, 12:00
Per Online Anmeldung

Mitbelegung: möglich

Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: möglich