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Learning Platform Supports Conversations About Vaccination

Why do some people hesitate to get vaccinated? What is the psychological reason behind this? And how can you refute arguments against vaccination in a personal conversation without jeopardising your relationship with this person? Answers to these…

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Welcome Back, Professor Ulf Sauerbrey!

Some people on campus will certainly remember him from his previous position as Academic Councillor in the Department of Primary Education and Childhood Research at the University of Erfurt. Ulf Sauerbrey is now back and took up the professorship for…

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From a Letter to an Oppressive Symbol – Notes on "Z"

Two years ago, on 24 February 2022, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Since then, pictures of Russian tanks with a white "Z" have gone around the world. There is much speculation about the origin and meaning of the Z symbol. Professor Claudine…

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"Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence": Erfurt Universities Invite Students to a Joint Lecture Series for the First Time

Under the title "Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence", Erfurt's universities, in cooperation with the City of Erfurt, are inviting all interested parties to a joint lecture series for the first time in the summer semester of 2024.…

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Insights and Outlooks: 20 Years of Gotha Research Centre

2024 will be a very special year for the Gotha Research Centre. The research institution of the University of Erfurt is celebrating its 20th anniversary and at the same time "20 years of the Herzog Ernst Scholarship Programme". Preparations are in…

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"With the the Gotha scholarship, my collections entered a new phase"

She spent a month researching at the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt: The exiled author Maryam Goudarzi, who lives in Hamburg, was at the Friedenstein in September 2023 and collected everything she could find for her current novel…

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HRK: "Science needs liberal democracy and the rule of law"

In a recent statement, the Executive Board of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK), the voluntary association of state and state-recognised universities in Germany, warns against anti-democratic efforts in our country and elsewhere and declares:…

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"Remigration": Between Voluntary Return and Racist Mass Deportation

It's the bad word of the year: "remigration". And what it means has brought hundreds of thousands of people in Germany onto the streets for demonstrations in recent days: namely the new edition of German mass deportations, which high-ranking AfD…

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