KKC-PROGRAMM SOMMERSEMESTER 2024

Wir freuen uns auf ein spannendes Semester mit Ihnen!
Eine Übersicht des Programms finden Sie hier!

Announcement: IPU-KKC Postdoctoral Fellowship | Ausschreibung: IPU-KKC Post Doc Fellowship

The Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler-Center (KKC) for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) invites applications for a

"Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social and Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis"
Duration: 12 months.

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 30, 2024.

To be eligible for the fellowship, the candidate must have completed his/her PhD in the past three years with an outstanding dissertation in a relevant field; possess strong research skills and interest in the fields of depth psychological social research and cultural analysis and/or interpretive cultural psychology; possess solid knowledge of qualitative research methods and of subject, social, and cultural theory; and have an ability and willingness to think interdisciplinarily.

We would kindly ask you to promote the fellowship within your academic and institutional network.
For further information about the fellowship and how to apply, please see the English announcement here.

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Das Hans Kilian und Lotte Köhler-Centrum (KKC) für sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Psychologie und Historische Anthropologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und die International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin schreiben gemeinsam aus:

"Postdoc Fellowship für Sozialpsychologie, Kulturpsychologie und Psychoanalyse"
Die Dauer des Fellowships beträgt 12 Monate.

Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an exzellente Wissenschaftler:innen, die ihre Promotion in den vergangenen drei Jahren mit einer herausragenden Dissertation im genannten Feld abgeschlossen haben. Besonders willkommen sind Bewerbungen von forschungsstarken Kandidat:innen, deren Kompetenzen und aktuelle Interessen im Feld der psychoanalytischen/ tiefenhermeneutischen Sozialforschung und Kulturanalyse und/oder der interpretativen Kulturpsychologie liegen.
Ausgeprägte Kenntnisse in qualitativen Forschungsmethoden sowie im Bereich der Subjekt-, Sozial- und Kulturtheorie werden ebenso vorausgesetzt wie die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zum interdisziplinären Denken und Arbeiten.

DIE BEWERBUNGSFRIST ENDET AM 30. JUNI 2024.

Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie in Ihrem akademischen und institutionellen Umfeld auf das Fellowship hinweisen würden.
Weitere Informationen zum Fellowship sowie Einzelheiten zur Bewerbung finden Sie hier.

Call for participation: Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

The Summer School in Social Sciences is offering the event "Life-chances in the Digitalized Society: structural transformations and socio-cultural adjustments" from June 17 -21 2024, at Villa del Grumello in Como:

    "The planetary diffusion of digital telecommunication over the last two decades has become an integral component of global markets, nation states, corporations, and the individual lives of billions of people. It consists of three layers, each of which are unevenly distributed between East and West, North and South (Ali, 2021; Duarte, 2017; Randell-Moon and Hynes, 2022). First is the infrastructural layer consisting of submarine fiber optics, low-orbit satellites, and data centers that sustains the production, circulation and valorization of data. Second is the layer of interfaces such as mobile devices, smartphones, drones, automated cars, robots, and computers, upon which a third layer of software applications and digital platforms plays a key intermediating role in work, leisure and social cooperation, functioning as an automated system for the extraction, accumulation and elaboration of personal information.

    These three socio-technical layers make up the “digital society” and are having a profound impact on social dynamics in politics, law, healthcare, welfare, culture, religion, and education. But their socio-political effects are uneven, reflecting extant power relationships. This is particularly so concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms, evident in cases like “The Gospel”, an AI platform used by the Israeli Defense Force to bomb the Gaza Strip, and the European Union’s pledge to develop the world’s first AI legislation that could exclude migrants from legal protection of experimental surveillance, data extraction, etc.

    The winners and losers of the digital revolution are an important topic of discussion. The social sciences can offer crucial insights into understanding how the “digital society” intersects with power, authority, and human rights beyond moral assumptions or technological determinism. The focus of this school is on life chances in the context of an advanced digitalized capitalism. Are we witnessing structural transformations that affect social inequalities and impact social mobility? What kind of socio-cultural adjustments counteract or balance these major issues? When addressing these questions, it is important to keep in mind three caveats. Firstly, healthcare, science, justice, war, or education – all these areas of human life were always been mediated by technology (Hui, 2021) long before the first internet network. Secondly, it is useful to be aware that since the political and cultural debate is being increasingly driven by technological and digital solutionism, one of the challenges for the social sciences is to avoid the trap of "digital exceptionalism”. And thirdly, while tech giants try to hide their political responsibility and economic exploitation by pushing public opinion to moral and deterministic assumptions over AI and automated technology, the social sciences must go beyond the commercialization of socio-technical imaginaries based on the digital and technological sublime (Mosco, 2014; Kim & Jasanoff, 2015), enabling urgent investigations on the genealogy and geography of unnoticed new powers, injustices, forms of exploitation, and social responsibilities."

Click here for the announcement posters.
Detailed information about the course and application can be found here.

New Publication by Sudhir Kakar

In 2022, the KKC and the Sigmund Freud Institute (SFI) in Frankfurt awarded the "Lotte Köhler Prize for Psychoanalytic Developmental, Cultural and Social Psychology" for the first time. The first prize winner is the prominent Indian psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar who visited the KKC twice in 2023. The book he wrote on the occasion of the prize has just been published: "The Indian jungle - Psychoanalysis and non-Western civilizations".