- Lehrende(r): Claudia Weis
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- Lehrende(r): Claudia Weis
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Camilla Patrizia Hrycak
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
- Lehrende(r): Andre Waschk
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Andrea Iannella
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
Abstract: This lecture is the introductory course to Computer Graphics. The course teaches the algorithms used to program a computer to generate images of a geometric model with associated appearance properties. Topics include:
- Geometric Models
- Color & perception
- Lighting
- Ray Tracing
- Texture mapping
- Graphics APIs
- Linear and affine Transformations
- Rasterization and Shading
- Clipping
- Visibility & shadows
- Curves & surfaces
- Lehrende(r): Andrea Iannella
- Lehrende(r): Jens Krüger
The students get to know concepts in the are of web engineering. In detail this is not about specific technologies, but about how these technologies interact and how to choose the correct technology.
- Lecturer: Jens Peter M. Schuler
Conflict and Climate Justice
Schedule:
19 October 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, synchronous)
26 October 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, synchronous)
2 November 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, asynchronous)
9 November 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, synchronous)
16 November 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, asynchronous)
20 November 2021, Saturday, 9-16, BLOCK (present/live physical session at UDE)
7 December 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, synchronous)
11 January 2021, Tuesday, 16-18 (digital, synchronous)
The purpose of this seminar is to focus on how climate change and the related policy measures are creating new conflict thresholds and precedents that require increased attention from both the academia and the policy world. The seminar aims to answer the following questions:
- How is climate change leading to new conflicts?
- Changing power relations (e.g., role of middle and rising powers)
- Migration and climate refugees
- How is climate change exacerbating existing global inequalities?
- Knowledge generation and distribution in Nord-South relations
- How is climate change creating new resources and leverages for developed and developing countries?
- China and South-South cooperation
- Multilateralism
- How is climate change highlighting new ideas and opportunities for conflict management?
- New notions of the global common as a guiding framework for human well-being
- Examples of notions of the global common: buen vivir (Latin America) and ubuntu (Africa)
To answer these questions, the seminar aims to look at concepts of justice and discuss what it means for mitigating/adapting to climate change. The different concepts of justice and fairness define how conflicts are developed and managed. In addition, the seminar will discuss the value driven concept of the global common good as a guiding framework for how we want to live a good life as society. In detail, two examples of country/culture specific value concepts/philosophies such as “buen vivir” (Latinamerica) and “Ubuntu” (Africa) will be introduced. As practical entry points, case studies of how climate justice is negotiated in each of the specific partner countries will be presented. Having discussed concrete case studies of climate change, especially regarding aspects of justice and fairness, the debate of overarching value frameworks will be linked with how conflict can be managed. Finally, the seminar will answer the guiding questions: how can we achieve global climate justice? Where are the entry points in each and everyone´s social and professional environment? And how does a discussion of values help initiate action and resolve conflicts?
Why is the topic so relevant as topic and as challenge?
Climate change is one of the most urgent, complex and demanding challenges global society has to deal with. We believe that a discussion on values, value frameworks and a focus on common values will allow the participants to better understand underlying values that drive action. Identifying joint values and focusing on the “good life” allows to envision positive utopias of our society. Only when we are able to picture a positive future, it is able to work towards this transformation.
Learning Outcomes:
This module will combine theory and practice as well as the global and the local level. We will discuss theoretical concepts of justice and value frameworks and apply this to challenges of climate change. Additionally, we will discuss theoretical ideas of culturally and country specific value frameworks and apply this on concrete case studies or best practices regarding climate change. Participants will gain knowledge on the global challenge climate change with a focus on questions of justice. With this knowledge they will look at their local context and analyse which values underlie specific best practices or case studies regarding climate change from their home countries. At the end participants will be able to identify what values underly certain discussions regarding mitigation/adaptation to climate change in their home countries. They will also have discussed how this inspires action.
At the end of this module, participants will have gained the following skills: They are able to:
- Distinguish different concepts of justice in the context of climate change
- have an overview of values relevant to discuss climate justice
- Awareness of different concepts of how values emerge
- Networks as a laboratory/ suitable space to negotiate values
- Networks as an instrument to negotiate and resolve conflicts
- Identify leverage points in own institution/social environment to trigger a discussion of values in order to create action
- Lehrende(r): Ariel Hernandez
The basic puzzle underlying this seminar is the question of how societies torn apart by years, often decades, of violent conflict and mass atrocities can be stabilized, and how they can be reconciled. Negative peace signifies merely the absence of overt conflict, while hostile attitudes and structural grievances that gave rise to the conflict in the first place may still exist. Positive peace, by contrast, requires more than justthe absence of hostile behavior – it implies that the conflict parties’ attitudes towards one another are transformed, and that structural inequalities and grievances are addressed in an appropriate fashion. Whereas peacekeeping seeks to achieve negative peace, conflict transformation and peacebuilding arefar more ambitious projects in that they aim at establishing positive peace. In this seminar, we will look at different approaches to building lasting peace in conflict-riddensocieties. Drawing on an interdisciplinary literature from the fields of Political Science, (Social) Psychology, and International Law, we will explore the explanatory factors that account for the successes and failures of these approaches, and discuss how macro- and micro level variables interact in transforming conflict into peace.
- Lehrende(r): Ramin Asadi
- Lehrende(r): Theresa Reinold
Course Description
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics and society in North Korea. It is designed to familiarize students of all social sciences with the historical background of North Korea, characteristics of North Korean political system comparing to other socialist states and current issues with nuclear programs and economic development strategy and social changes. The main questions through the course are: 1) How can be the North Korean system sustainable, even after the collapse of socialist system in the world? 2) Why North Korea developed the nuclear program and could not give up them? 3) What is the characteristics of North Korean development strategy? To search out the answers, the course explores the historical process of North Korean state building and succession of power, political system in the context of comparative socialism, nuclear program in the context of asymmetric strategy.
Grading
Attendance & Participation
1 short presentation (summary of one required article) & presentation for the term paper idea
Final term paper (6,500 words plus any graphs, tables, etc.)
- Lehrende(r): Hee Kyoung Chang
In this course we will treat Japan's economy as a laboratory that allows
us to to put modern economic theory to a rigorous empirical test. By
exploiting Japan's unique geography, history and institutions students
will learn how to use natural economic experiments -- like Japan's
almost complete transition from autarky to free trade at the end of the
19th century -- to test some of the most well-known economic concepts
such as the theory of comparative advantage. Students will learn about
several influential economic theories and how their implications can be
used to construct empirical tests that try to establish the causal
relationships predicted by these theories in the specific regional
context of Japan.
- Lehrende(r): Jens Wrona
In this course we will treat Japan's economy as a laboratory that allows
us to to put modern economic theory to a rigorous empirical test. By
exploiting Japan's unique geography, history and institutions students
will learn how to use natural economic experiments -- like Japan's
almost complete transition from autarky to free trade at the end of the
19th century -- to test some of the most well-known economic concepts
such as the theory of comparative advantage. Students will learn about
several influential economic theories and how their implications can be
used to construct empirical tests that try to establish the causal
relationships predicted by these theories in the specific regional
context of Japan.
- Lehrende(r): Anna Bäumken
- Lehrende(r): Jens Wrona
Contested Conjunctures of (Anti-)Racism
(Anti-)Racism features prominently on the political agenda. Initially coined as a slogan to protest the impunity of police officers killing black Americans in the US, Black Lives Matters became a transnational movement in 2020. Meanwhile students in Oxford, Amsterdam and other campuses campaign for the decolonisation of the curriculum in Anthropology, Sociology, Political Theory and other disciplines. At the same time, Germany’s minister of interior prevented an independent inquiry on racism within the police with the argument that racism was illegal and that the police, as it is tasked with enforcing the law, can by definition not be racist. This argumentation confirms the critique of multi-culturalism as the ideology of post-racial societies that, while celebrating cultural diversity, brackets questions of socio-economic equality and persistent racist discrimination. This raises the question how one can assemble evidence on racism in societies that officially define themselves as anti-racist? How can one account for racism with scientific methods if racist discrimination is primarily based on subjective experience? And what kind of ideals and conceptions of conviviality can we think of to overcome the intrinsically reactionary nature of anti-racism? Since their inception in the 1960s, antiracist struggles have featured at times heated debates on how to define, know and combat racism. To engage with the epistemic, theoretical and political challenges raised by contemporary conjunctions of (anti-)racism, this course will revisit and discuss key contributions to these debates.
- Lehrende(r): Stephan Scheel
To analyse
conversation, ultimately, means to analyse how people interact. In this seminar
we will explore how speakers manage the (apparently) simple task of social
interaction in everyday life. We will examine the micro-structures of human
conversation, as discovered by the founders of the discipline - Harvey Sacks,
Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson – in the late 1960s. We will learn about
the empirical methodology used to analyse real language data from multifarious
scenarios, ranging from casual phone calls to institutional talk. Students will
acquire the technical skills needed to compile and analyse their own data and
conduct their own analyses of the linguistic mechanisms used to establish,
organise and maintain social relationships. Preparatory
readings/Coursebook Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff
and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking
for conversation.” Language 50:
696–735. Liddicoat, Anthony. 2011. An
Introduction to Conversation Analysis. London: Continuum. TIP: purchase the book in paper back or Kindle format; individual chapters will be accessible temporarily in this course room
- Lehrende(r): Nuria Hernandez y Siebold
To analyse conversation, ultimately, means to analyse how people interact. In this seminar we will explore how speakers manage the (apparently) simple task of social interaction in everyday life. We will examine the micro-structures of human conversation, as discovered by the founders of the discipline - Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson – in the late 1960s. We will learn about the empirical methodology used to analyse real language data from multifarious scenarios, ranging from casual phone calls to institutional talk. Students will acquire the technical skills needed to compile and analyse their own data and conduct their own analyses of the linguistic mechanisms used to establish, organise and maintain social relationships.
Preparatory readings/Coursebook
Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation.” Language 50: 696–735.
Liddicoat, Anthony. 2011. An
Introduction to Conversation Analysis. London: Continuum. TIP: Purchase the book in paperback or Kindle format; individual chapters will be accessible temporarily in this course room.
- Lehrende(r): Nuria Hernandez y Siebold
To analyse conversation, ultimately, means to analyse how people interact. In this seminar we will explore how speakers manage the apparently simple task of social interaction in everyday life. We will examine the micro-structures of human conversation, as discovered by the founders of the discipline - Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson – in the late 1960s. We will learn about the empirical methodology used to analyse real language data from multifarious scenarios, ranging from casual phone calls to institutional talk. Students will acquire the technical skills needed to compile and analyse their own data and conduct their own analyses of the linguistic mechanisms used to establish, organise and maintain social relationships.
Preparatory readings/Coursebook
Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation.” Language 50: 696–735.
Liddicoat, Anthony. 2011. An
Introduction to Conversation Analysis. London: Continuum. TIP: Purchase the book in paperback or Kindle format; individual chapters will be accessible temporarily in this course room.
- Lehrende(r): Nuria Hernandez y Siebold
To analyse conversation, ultimately, means to analyse how people interact. In this seminar we will explore how speakers manage the apparently simple task of social interaction in everyday life. We will examine the micro-structures of human conversation, as discovered by the founders of the discipline - Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson – in the late 1960s. We will learn about the empirical methodology used to analyse real language data from multifarious scenarios, ranging from casual phone calls to institutional talk. Students will acquire the technical skills needed to compile and analyse their own data and conduct their own analyses of the linguistic mechanisms used to establish, organise and maintain social relationships.
Preparatory readings/Coursebook
Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation.” Language 50: 696–735.
Liddicoat, Anthony. 2011. An
Introduction to Conversation Analysis. London: Continuum. TIP: Purchase the book in paperback or Kindle format; individual chapters will be accessible temporarily in this course room.
- Lehrende(r): Nuria Hernandez y Siebold
To analyse conversation, ultimately, means to analyse how people interact. In this seminar we will explore how speakers manage the apparently simple task of social interaction in everyday life. We will examine the micro-structures of human conversation, as discovered by the founders of the discipline - Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson – in the late 1960s. We will learn about the empirical methodology used to analyse real language data from multifarious scenarios, ranging from casual phone calls to institutional talk. Students will acquire the technical skills needed to compile and analyse their own data and conduct their own analyses of the linguistic mechanisms used to establish, organise and maintain social relationships.
Coursebook and preparatory readings
Liddicoat, Anthony. 2011. An
Introduction to Conversation Analysis. London: Continuum. TIP: Purchase the book in paperback or Kindle format; in this Moodle space dividual chapters can only be accessible temporarily.
Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation.” Language 50: 696–735.
- Lehrende(r): Nuria Hernandez y Siebold