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Monday, 9 May 2016
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WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Matthew Desmond, Harvard University
Short description
For many poor Americans eviction has become a way of life. Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, has followed tenants and landlords swept up in the process of eviction.
Monday, 9 May 2016
Start: 5:00 pm

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Manuela Ludwig
manuela.ludwig [at] wzb.eu
Thursday, 24 March 2016
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WZB Big Data Brown Bag Seminar with Sebastian Schelter
Description

The first part of my talk will provide a brief history of the development of 'big data' technology from the perspective of the database systems research community. After that I will give an example of how large web companies successfully use scientific experiments and big data technology in product development. In the second part, I will present ideas on how the sciences can build upon these findings and start to leverage big data technology. I will illustrate the ideas using a side project of mine that studies country-specific differences in the surveillance of web browsing.

Thursday, 24 March 2016
Start: 11:30 am

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Martina Franzen
martina.franzen [at] wzb.eu
Thursday, 19 May 2016
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WZB Big Data Brown Bag Seminar with Christoph Marty
Description

Welche Informationen verraten Telefonverbindungsdaten über unsere Lebensgewohnheiten? Wie ist die Lage des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses an Universitäten und anderen Forschungseinrichtungen? Und was war vielleicht faul an der letzten Volkszählung? Datenjournalisten hinterfragen Aussagen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft ebenso wie die amtliche Statistik. Auf der Suche nach relevanten Informationen durchstöbern sie Daten, von denen viele über das Internet frei verfügbar sind – oder sie generieren diese Daten sogar selbst.

Thursday, 19 May 2016
Start: 11:30 am

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Martina Franzen
martina.franzen [at] wzb.eu
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
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Einladung zur Fortsetzung der Diskussionsreihe „Fokus Neukölln“.
Aktuelle Forschung zu Integration, Kultur und Wohnen in Neukölln
Description

Die Veranstaltung findet am 19. April 2016 in der Villa Neukölln statt, Hermannstraße 233, 12049 Berlin. Beginn ist 19 Uhr.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Start: 7:00 pm

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Claudia Nentwich
claudia.nentwich [at] wzb.eu
7 - 8 April 2016
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Zur Geschichte der Karlsruher Republik
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Die Tagung von Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Konstanz und des WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism ist den Problemen, Fragestellungen und Perspektiven der Geschichte der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in der Bundesrepublik gewidmet. Die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ist eine bedeutende Quelle der Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, aber auch der politischen sowie der Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der Bundesrepublik.

7 - 8 April 2016
Start: 10:00 am

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Florian Meinel
florian.meinel [at] rewi.hu-berlin.de
Monday, 22 February 2016
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Lecture by Antony Loewenstein
Description

Europe and Germany are struggling to cope with an influx of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Fences and walls, to keep asylum seekers out, are replacing sustainable solutions. The EU is both unwilling and incapable of formulating a sensible response to the crisis. Antony Loewenstein has investigated how governments around the world are increasingly privatizing and warehousing refugees, outsourcing responsibility to companies running detention centres, health care and surveillance drones for profit.

Monday, 22 February 2016
Start: 5:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Thursday, 12 May 2016
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International Conference
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2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the German Co-determination Act of 1976. This law, which mandates the parity representation of workers in the supervisory boards of companies with more than 2000 employees in Germany, constitutes one of the key pillars of the ‘German model’ of corporate governance and industrial relations. This occasion offers an opportunity for researchers to assess the contribution of co-determination to economic democracy and the social market economy in the context of internationalization, liberalization and digitalization.

Thursday, 12 May 2016
Start: 9:00 am

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Marion Obermaier/Stefanie Roth
buero.usp [at] wzb.eu