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Forgeries are mimetic practices of unique cultural, economic and political relevance. They alter reality, make history and perform cultural work. The conference aims to engage an interdisciplinary dialogue on the potential impacts of fakes, involving literature, performance and media studies as well as art history, with their diverging media and multiple concepts of the original. The debate will focus on faking as process, fakes in intercultural contexts and the forgery of traditions. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 29.10.2015 | Speaker: Henry Keazor | Moderation: Christopher Balme, Simone Niehoff
Reasoning and inference are not the same, argues Paul Thagard. Reasoning is slow, deliberate, and social, where as inference is fast, automatic, and individual. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 06.07.2016 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Thagard, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Clark Chinn, Ph.D.
Reasoning and inference are not the same, argues Paul Thagard. Reasoning is slow, deliberate, and social, where as inference is fast, automatic, and individual. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 06.07.2016 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Thagard, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Clark Chinn, Ph.D.
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Representing Migration (LMU) - SD
Die aktuelle Situation von Menschen, die noch auf der Flucht sind, in Europa gerade ankommen, oder schon seit einiger Zeit versuchen, hier Fuß zu fassen, stellt kulturelle Institutionen vor besondere Herausforderungen. Welche Möglichkeiten, Impulse zu setzen, gibt es überhaupt? Müssen Theater und Museen Position beziehen und sich auch selbst verändern? | Die Podiumsdiskussion ist Teil des in Vorbereitung befindlichen CAS-Schwerpunktes "Repräsentationen von Migration", der im Wintersemester unter Federführung von Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Kunstgeschichte) und PD Dr. Ursula Prutsch (Amerikanistik) und Beteiligung von Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme (Theaterwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Christoph Neumann (Turkologie) und Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel (Osteuropäische Geschichte) starten wird. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 23.06.2016 | Sprecherinnen: Dr. Marion Ackermann, Maxi Obexer, Anne Schulz, Christine Umpfenbach | Moderation: Tunay Önder
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Representing Migration (LMU) - HD
Die aktuelle Situation von Menschen, die noch auf der Flucht sind, in Europa gerade ankommen, oder schon seit einiger Zeit versuchen, hier Fuß zu fassen, stellt kulturelle Institutionen vor besondere Herausforderungen. Welche Möglichkeiten, Impulse zu setzen, gibt es überhaupt? Müssen Theater und Museen Position beziehen und sich auch selbst verändern? | Die Podiumsdiskussion ist Teil des in Vorbereitung befindlichen CAS-Schwerpunktes "Repräsentationen von Migration", der im Wintersemester unter Federführung von Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Kunstgeschichte) und PD Dr. Ursula Prutsch (Amerikanistik) und Beteiligung von Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme (Theaterwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Christoph Neumann (Turkologie) und Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel (Osteuropäische Geschichte) starten wird. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 23.06.2016 | Sprecherinnen: Dr. Marion Ackermann, Maxi Obexer, Anne Schulz, Christine Umpfenbach | Moderation: Tunay Önder
The rubric "Miscellanea" constitutes a collection of lectures held by visiting fellows in various different contexts at the Center for Advanced Studies LMU. | Center for Advanced Studies: 09.06.2016 | Speaker: Prof. em. Roland W. Scholz | Moderation: Dr. Caroline Gutjahr
The rubric "Miscellanea" constitutes a collection of lectures held by visiting fellows in various different contexts at the Center for Advanced Studies LMU. | Center for Advanced Studies: 09.06.2016 | Speaker: Prof. em. Roland W. Scholz | Moderation: Dr. Caroline Gutjahr
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Evidence Based Practice (LMU) - SD
This talk will begin by examining what passes for any education in the sciences across most of the globe, and the justifications that are offered for its place at the curriculum high table. The dominant argument for science education is economic seeing it as essential to providing an educated workforce to meet the technological and scientific needs of contemporary society. An additional but distinct case is the argument that there is a need to develop the scientific and technical knowledge that students will need to deal with the political and moral dilemmas posed by the 5 major challenges facing humanity – the supply of energy, growing sufficient food, providing clean water, sustaining health and dealing with climate change. In this talk, it will be argued that both arguments are flawed. The first, for instance, does not justify teaching the sciences to all students, and the second would demand a very different practice and curriculum than that which is commonly offered. Rather, the case will be developed that the only valid argument for teaching the sciences to all students is one based on their cultural significance – essentially a body of knowledge and understanding that represents one of the major intellectual achievement of humanity and part of the best that is worth knowing. Moreover, this achievement has led to the development of 6 distinct styles of reasoning which are a defining feature of the sciences. Each of these styles of reasoning or argument has required the invention of a set of domain-specific, ontological entities to think with, a body of procedural knowledge to use for the practice of the sciences, and a set of epistemic values and commitments that justify the products of scientific reasoning. It will be shown how styles of reasoning provide a sound basis of an argument for the cultural contribution that the sciences have made and one which would justify the value of an education in the sciences for all students. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 07.03.2016 | Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Osborne, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Evidence Based Practice (LMU) - HD
This talk will begin by examining what passes for any education in the sciences across most of the globe, and the justifications that are offered for its place at the curriculum high table. The dominant argument for science education is economic seeing it as essential to providing an educated workforce to meet the technological and scientific needs of contemporary society. An additional but distinct case is the argument that there is a need to develop the scientific and technical knowledge that students will need to deal with the political and moral dilemmas posed by the 5 major challenges facing humanity – the supply of energy, growing sufficient food, providing clean water, sustaining health and dealing with climate change. In this talk, it will be argued that both arguments are flawed. The first, for instance, does not justify teaching the sciences to all students, and the second would demand a very different practice and curriculum than that which is commonly offered. Rather, the case will be developed that the only valid argument for teaching the sciences to all students is one based on their cultural significance – essentially a body of knowledge and understanding that represents one of the major intellectual achievement of humanity and part of the best that is worth knowing. Moreover, this achievement has led to the development of 6 distinct styles of reasoning which are a defining feature of the sciences. Each of these styles of reasoning or argument has required the invention of a set of domain-specific, ontological entities to think with, a body of procedural knowledge to use for the practice of the sciences, and a set of epistemic values and commitments that justify the products of scientific reasoning. It will be shown how styles of reasoning provide a sound basis of an argument for the cultural contribution that the sciences have made and one which would justify the value of an education in the sciences for all students. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 07.03.2016 | Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Osborne, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - SD
Capitalism is an expansive system: if it is to remain stable, it must continually incorporate new milieus and spheres of life, new social and natural spaces of economic exploitation. But what happens with this “external” element when it becomes an “internal” one? How does it change? And how does it change capitalism in return? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 20.01.2016 | Speakers: Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă, Prof. Nivedita Menon, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - HD
Capitalism is an expansive system: if it is to remain stable, it must continually incorporate new milieus and spheres of life, new social and natural spaces of economic exploitation. But what happens with this “external” element when it becomes an “internal” one? How does it change? And how does it change capitalism in return? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 20.01.2016 | Speakers: Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă, Prof. Nivedita Menon, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Quantitative Network Science (LMU) - HD
Brains are highly interconnected networks of millions to billions of neurons. How they work and how they process and store information − these questions are addressed differently by both speakers. Alexander Borst is interested in the processing of neuronal information at the level of individual neurons or small neuronal circuits. As an example he will present the structure of the neural circuit and its key elements responsible for performing the computations of photoreceptor signals in the visual system of the fly whereas Moritz Helmstädter develops and applies methods to map neuronal networks at a larger scale. In his talk, he gives insights into the new field of connectomics, the measurement of communication maps of neuronal circuits. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 14.01.2016 | Speakers: Prof. Dr. Alexander Borst, Dr. Moritz Helmstädter | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Martin Wirsing
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Quantitative Network Science (LMU) - SD
Brains are highly interconnected networks of millions to billions of neurons. How they work and how they process and store information − these questions are addressed differently by both speakers. Alexander Borst is interested in the processing of neuronal information at the level of individual neurons or small neuronal circuits. As an example he will present the structure of the neural circuit and its key elements responsible for performing the computations of photoreceptor signals in the visual system of the fly whereas Moritz Helmstädter develops and applies methods to map neuronal networks at a larger scale. In his talk, he gives insights into the new field of connectomics, the measurement of communication maps of neuronal circuits. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 14.01.2016 | Speakers: Prof. Dr. Alexander Borst, Dr. Moritz Helmstädter | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Martin Wirsing
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - SD
Der moderne Kapitalismus gilt als Effizienzmaschine, als Inbegriff ökonomischer Rationalität. Aber ist diese Rationalität nicht zutiefst irrational? Warum sind wir immer noch geneigt, an hergebrachte Vorstellungen ökonomischer Vernunft zu glauben? Und welcher Subjekte bedarf der Gegenwartskapitalismus eigentlich, um sich am Leben zu erhalten? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 13.01.2016 | Referenten: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl | Moderation: Andreas Zielcke (SZ)
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - HD
Der moderne Kapitalismus gilt als Effizienzmaschine, als Inbegriff ökonomischer Rationalität. Aber ist diese Rationalität nicht zutiefst irrational? Warum sind wir immer noch geneigt, an hergebrachte Vorstellungen ökonomischer Vernunft zu glauben? Und welcher Subjekte bedarf der Gegenwartskapitalismus eigentlich, um sich am Leben zu erhalten? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 13.01.2016 | Referenten: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl | Moderation: Andreas Zielcke (SZ)
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - SD
The advanced capitalist economies have seen sinking growth rates for decades, while at the same time, the income and wealth gap has been increasing to a remarkable extent. Is it possible to initiate a new growth cycle on this basis? And can this lead to greater equality? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 08.12.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Collier, Prof. Éric Pineault | Moderation: Prof. Uwe Sunde
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Global Capitalism (LMU) - HD
The advanced capitalist economies have seen sinking growth rates for decades, while at the same time, the income and wealth gap has been increasing to a remarkable extent. Is it possible to initiate a new growth cycle on this basis? And can this lead to greater equality? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 08.12.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Collier, Prof. Éric Pineault | Moderation: Prof. Uwe Sunde
Forgeries are mimetic practices of unique cultural, economic and political relevance. They alter reality, make history and perform cultural work. The conference aims to engage an interdisciplinary dialogue on the potential impacts of fakes, involving literature, performance and media studies as well as art history, with their diverging media and multiple concepts of the original. The debate will focus on faking as process, fakes in intercultural contexts and the forgery of traditions. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 29.10.2015 | Speaker: Henry Keazor | Moderation: Christopher Balme, Simone Niehoff
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Peter O. Mülbert, Edward B. Rock | Moderation: Mathias Habersack
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Jennifer Payne, Andreas Engert | Moderation: Horst Eidenmüller
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 03.07.2015 | Speakers: Luca Enriques, Klaus Ulrich Schmolke | Moderation: Mathias Habersack
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Redis Zaliauskas | Moderation: Horst Eidenmüller
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: John Armour, Horst Eidenmüller | Moderation: Lars Klöhn
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Hanno Merkt, Pierre-Henri Conac | Moderation: Lars Klöhn
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Thomas Ackermann, Gerhard Wagner | Moderation: Horst Eidenmüller
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speaker: Frank Partnoy | Moderation: Lars Klöhn
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - HD
[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big picture", the fundamental questions and the overall challenges of financial markets regulation: Who should regulate capital markets? Who should enforce regulation? How much deceleration do financial markets need? How intensely should we regulate the distribution of financial products? What is the proper reach of disclosure duties? | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 02.07.2015 | Speakers: Jens C. Dammann, Jill E. Fisch | Moderation: Lars Klöhn
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Language: Birth and Decay (LMU) - HD
The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 01.07. 2015 | Speaker: Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler, Ph.D | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Language: Birth and Decay (LMU) - HD
The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 01.07.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Evans, Ph.D
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Language: Birth and Decay (LMU) - HD
The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 25.06.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Dr. Josef Rauschecker | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Adrian Danek
Obesity has increased overwhelmingly over the last years. Especially in Mexico the amount of people being overweight or adipose has grown more than in any other countries: Seventy percent of all Mexicans are fat or adipose. Especially for children the situation is alarming. Obesity in childhood will lead to severe consequences like diabetes, hypertrigliceridemia and hypertension later in life. | Salvador Villalpando ist Direktor am Zentrum für Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsforschung am Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Cuernavaca, Mexiko. Im Sommersemester 2015 hält er sich als Visiting Fellow am CAS auf. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 09.06.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Salvador Villalpando, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko
Obesity has increased overwhelmingly over the last years. Especially in Mexico the amount of people being overweight or adipose has grown more than in any other countries: Seventy percent of all Mexicans are fat or adipose. Especially for children the situation is alarming. Obesity in childhood will lead to severe consequences like diabetes, hypertrigliceridemia and hypertension later in life. | Salvador Villalpando ist Direktor am Zentrum für Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsforschung am Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Cuernavaca, Mexiko. Im Sommersemester 2015 hält er sich als Visiting Fellow am CAS auf. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 09.06.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Salvador Villalpando, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko
Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der offiziellen Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und dem Staat Israel widmet sich der Workshop der Geschichte des deutsch-israelischen Verhältnisses aus einer besonderen Perspektive: In den Blick rückt die wechselseitige Beeinflussung auf kulturellem und wissenschaftlichem Gebiet. Beleuchtet werden also nicht die in politischen Verträgen verhandelten Beziehungen, sondern die vielfältigen Transferprozesse in den Bereichen Literatur, Kunst und Film, aber auch Medizin, Psychoanalyse, Philosophie, Chemie und Rechtswissenschaften. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 28.05.2015 | Prof. Dr. Shlomo Ben-Ami (Allianz-Gastprofessor für Israel Studien, LMU/Toledo International Center for Peace), Dr. Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa), Dr. Gerhard Wahlers (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Representing Migration (LMU) - SD
Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der offiziellen Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und dem Staat Israel widmet sich der Workshop der Geschichte des deutsch-israelischen Verhältnisses aus einer besonderen Perspektive: In den Blick rückt die wechselseitige Beeinflussung auf kulturellem und wissenschaftlichem Gebiet. Beleuchtet werden also nicht die in politischen Verträgen verhandelten Beziehungen, sondern die vielfältigen Transferprozesse in den Bereichen Literatur, Kunst und Film, aber auch Medizin, Psychoanalyse, Philosophie, Chemie und Rechtswissenschaften. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 28.05.2015 | Prof. Dr. Shlomo Ben-Ami (Allianz-Gastprofessor für Israel Studien, LMU/Toledo International Center for Peace), Dr. Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa), Dr. Gerhard Wahlers (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Representing Migration (LMU) - HD
Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der offiziellen Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und dem Staat Israel widmet sich der Workshop der Geschichte des deutsch-israelischen Verhältnisses aus einer besonderen Perspektive: In den Blick rückt die wechselseitige Beeinflussung auf kulturellem und wissenschaftlichem Gebiet. Beleuchtet werden also nicht die in politischen Verträgen verhandelten Beziehungen, sondern die vielfältigen Transferprozesse in den Bereichen Literatur, Kunst und Film, aber auch Medizin, Psychoanalyse, Philosophie, Chemie und Rechtswissenschaften. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 28.05.2015 | Prof. Dr. Shlomo Ben-Ami (Allianz-Gastprofessor für Israel Studien, LMU/Toledo International Center for Peace), Dr. Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa), Dr. Gerhard Wahlers (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner
Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der offiziellen Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und dem Staat Israel widmet sich der Workshop der Geschichte des deutsch-israelischen Verhältnisses aus einer besonderen Perspektive: In den Blick rückt die wechselseitige Beeinflussung auf kulturellem und wissenschaftlichem Gebiet. Beleuchtet werden also nicht die in politischen Verträgen verhandelten Beziehungen, sondern die vielfältigen Transferprozesse in den Bereichen Literatur, Kunst und Film, aber auch Medizin, Psychoanalyse, Philosophie, Chemie und Rechtswissenschaften. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 28.05.2015 | Prof. Dr. Shlomo Ben-Ami (Allianz-Gastprofessor für Israel Studien, LMU/Toledo International Center for Peace), Dr. Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa), Dr. Gerhard Wahlers (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Language: Birth and Decay (LMU) - HD
The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 20.05.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Marilyn Vihman, Ph.D. | Moderation: Dr. Felicitas Kleber
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Language: Birth and Decay (LMU) - HD
The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 22.04.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ziegler
Die Entwicklungsländer leiden unter ganz erheblichen illegalen Kapitalabflüssen, die meistenteils auf Steuerflucht zurückzuführen sind: Multinationale Konzerne verschieben ihre Gewinne in Steueroasen, und reiche Inländer verbergen ihr Vermögen auf Geheimkonten im Ausland. Solche Abflüsse werden auf eine Billion Dollar pro Jahr geschätzt – mehr als ausländische Direktinvestitionen, Heimatüberweisungen und Entwicklungshilfe zusammengenommen. Eine Analyse illegaler Kapitalabflüsse unter dem Gesichtspunkt globaler Gerechtigkeit kann helfen, gebotene Reformen und die Verantwortung für deren Umsetzung genauer zu bestimmen. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 14.04.2015 | Referent: Prof. Thomas Pogge, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich
Die Entwicklungsländer leiden unter ganz erheblichen illegalen Kapitalabflüssen, die meistenteils auf Steuerflucht zurückzuführen sind: Multinationale Konzerne verschieben ihre Gewinne in Steueroasen, und reiche Inländer verbergen ihr Vermögen auf Geheimkonten im Ausland. Solche Abflüsse werden auf eine Billion Dollar pro Jahr geschätzt – mehr als ausländische Direktinvestitionen, Heimatüberweisungen und Entwicklungshilfe zusammengenommen. Eine Analyse illegaler Kapitalabflüsse unter dem Gesichtspunkt globaler Gerechtigkeit kann helfen, gebotene Reformen und die Verantwortung für deren Umsetzung genauer zu bestimmen. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 14.04.2015 | Referent: Prof. Thomas Pogge, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich