Pre-Conference Workshops
On Monday September 16, between 14:00 and 17:30, we will host four pre-conference workshops.
Participation is free of charge but a pre-registration by September 11, 2024 through this link is required.
Communicating science despite Elon Musk
Instructor: Dr. Bartosz Bartkowski
From 14:00 to 15:30h
Venue: Paulinerkirche, Room 1.501.1
The workshop offers an interactive, hands-on introduction to science communication on social media. It will address issues such as choice of suitable channels, identifying audiences, communicator types/strategies and some more practical aspects. The focus will be on Twitter/X and related text-based media. Participants are invited to contribute their specific interests and experiences.
Turn your research into a visual summary and make your publications stand out!
Instructors: Lina Buitrago and Beatriz Herrera from Visuals in Science Lab
From 14:00 to 15:30h
Repetition from 16:00 to 17:30h
Venue: Paulinerkirche, Room 1.207
Learn the process of creating a visual abstract, together with the key principles of design that will make your research stand out. Through a practical exercise, the assistants will follow the steps to visualize a concept and learn several important aspects they need to consider during the process.
During the workshop, we will go through the steps of creating a visual abstract and explain some basic principles of design. During the exercise, the assistants will work in groups and put into practice the explained concepts to brainstorm a visual abstract.
Decolonizing research
Instructor: Dr. Sebastian Garbe
First session from 14:00 to 15:30h
Second session from 16:00 to 17:30h
Participation in both sessions is highly recommended but not required.
Venue: Paulinerkirche, Room 1.201
Scholars and activists from the Global South, particularly People of Color and Indigenous Peoples, have presented significant critiques regarding how knowledge production, especially within Western academic institutions, is intertwined with colonial hierarchies and power asymmetries. This workshop uses these critiques, often summarized as post- and decolonial perspectives, as a starting point to critically reflect on our own positionality within academic institutions and the power dynamics inherent in knowledge production. After providing a brief overview of the (im)possibilities of decolonizing research, the workshop will offer a series of tools designed to help expose the colonial implications within our own research—an essential precondition for any transformation toward more egalitarian knowledge production.
The Science-Policy-Plate Nexus: Sustainable Diets and Food Futures
Instructor: Dr. Rachel Mazac
From 16:00 to 17:30h
Venue: Paulinerkirche, Room 1.501.1
What will we eat in the future? Will diets be strikingly similar to today or radically different? How can we create and enact policies to help guide people and populations towards sustainable diets? Workshop participants will engage with future food systems thinking in a hands-on, real-world example. The workshop will allow participants to reflect upon the process, needs, and challenges of designing and implementing policies for food systems change. A focus will be a diets and dietary change, with an emphasis on thinking through systemic barriers, enabling conditions and real-world outcomes.