[Societal Change] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGMSgpoBydA&t; Reimagining Civic Learning Infrastructure: Lessons from Germany; 12:25;What lessons can the U.S. and other democracies learn from Germany’s infrastructure for civic education? Katja Greeson, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Chancellor Fellow with the Arbeitskreis Deutscher Bildungsstätten (AdB) reflects on the need for more intentional civic learning infrastructures to support comprehensive civics for people throughout their lives.
Katja Greeson has over nine years of experience working with political campaigns and youth political organizing at the local, state and national level. Her interest in civic education and engagement stems from her own experience as a politically active young person, and she is particularly interested in promoting meaningful youth political participation. Katja holds a dual Master’s degree in Political Science with a focus on Transatlantic Affairs and European Governance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z44yRdYenE; Holding a Stake: a Role of Cooperation in City-Making; 11:41; Cooperation is a way to cope with complex urban issues. As a guest researcher at TSPA (Berlin) Aleksandra Katasonova explores forms and effects of cooperation in urban development. Aleksandra is an urban planner from Russia. She focuses on bridging top-down and bottom-up approaches in city development. During the last 7 years, she has been working with public authorities and private companies as a project manager and project director. And in 2019 she co-founded a non-commercial organization aimed to facilitate the regeneration of public spaces in her region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBscoCaaOg; Decolonizing Musical Hierarchy; 11:47; Structures of colonialism live on today in the American musical landscape. Orchestral conductor Melissa Panlasigui explores how these musical hierarchies came to exist and what can be done to break free of them.Her current research addresses gender in the German orchestral world and is further supported by musica femina muenchen and the Archiv Frau und Musik.
Credits:
Video Clip - "Submission in Five Acts"
SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Contributors: Sarah Toshie Cargill, Indira Allegra, Amadeus Regucera, Melissa Panlasigui
Photo - "Group of Havard Students"
The Bettmann Archives, Getty Images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xej12uzu9pY; How Sport Can Help Fight Gender Inequality and Gender Violence; 11:08; Are women the weaker sex or is it just a perpetuated myth that needs to be debunked to promote gender equality and eradicate gender violence? Elena Lipilina, a sports enthusiast with a background in international relations from Russia believes that sport can be a powerful platform for societal change, especially for women. As she founded her start-up aimed at empowering women through sport in 2015, she has observed the exponential shift in the perceptions of the gender roles, reimagining women's body representation and physique that lie at the base of the gender inequality and gender-based violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtczOA8FD0; Come as You Are: Imagining a Deep ,,Willkommenskultur"; 14:21; What does an authentic welcome look like, and how does this compare to what vulnerable people are currently experiencing as they arrive in Germany? Minister Gabrielle Sclafani explores these questions with a foundation in the Christian theology of welcoming the stranger.
Gabrielle Sclafani is ordained pending call in the United Church of Christ, Rhode Island Conference, and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City and Brown University. Since November 2019 she has been conducting research and providing pastoral care among refugees and churches in Heidelberg. [The Future] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdPUo7BoQc; The Puzzle of Internationalization and Excellence; 11:26; Many roads lead to excellence and the avenue of internationalization may shorten the path, says Humboldtian and international education researcher Cyntia Sandes Oliveira. Drawing from her life experiences and her most recent research on internationalization and excellence in research, she outlines practices for internationalization at the research level, inviting us to rethink policies for internationalization and, ultimately, to challenge the idea of excellence in higher education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TAHoAomKQg; Data Privacy as a Human Right; 9:46; Anny Yiu is a Hong Kong lawyer based in Berlin, Germany. Currently, she acts as a guest Researcher to the legal department at a mobile bank, namely, N26 GmbH. Her interests revolve around General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), corporate governance strategies & policy formulation, as well as Blockchain technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzLwTX5vcuA; Job Skills: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives; 10:29; Marcos Galdino is a Brazilian engineer and currently works with research and development in the field of organizational development at RWTH-Aachen University. His field of expertise is people management in the context of industry 4.0. Before moving to Germany, Marcos has worked for firms such as thyssenkrupp, Vallourec, and ArcelorMittal with R&D, processes & people management, quality control, and projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmlPomzbw_k; Harmful Advice for the New Work; 6:05; Elena is a social entrepreneur from Russia. In her research, she explored how switching to new work happens in reality and identified common difficulties that organizations face during transition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-MqBHD3UJI; Libraries' Role in Making a Better World: Agenda 2030; 14:52; Nathalice Bezerra Cardoso is a Brazilian librarian/researcher with 12 years of work experience. Her research dives into the Social Responsibility of Library Science in Transforming Society to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aims to observe, analyze, and learn how German Library Science contributes to Sustainable Development, and evaluate possibilities for the practical application of their best practices in public libraries in Brazil.
She holds a Library Sciences Bachelor Degree, a Post-Graduate Degree in Environmental Management, and a Library Science Master Degree. She is also a member of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State’s Research Group "Public Libraries in Brazil: Reflection and Practice". [Climate Action] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=186pgLQRdKg; SUPicking: Paddle Against the Marine Litter; 8:05; Marlus Oliveira is a Brazilian qualified lawyer, working in the fields of environmental and public law. Holds a master's in urban and environmental engineering and is a doctoral candidate in geosciences. Currently works as Research Fellow at Technische Universität Braunschweig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4zbWPHtRXg; Can our Parks Make us More Resilient to Climate Change?; 11:00; Katherine Peinhardt's research bridges the gap between placemaking and climate adaptation, exploring the ways that communities can build both physical and social resilience to climate change through their public spaces. Through her work at nonprofits focused on the public realm and on urban sustainability, Katherine developed a paradigm around resilient public spaces — which she sees as an often-overlooked opportunity to build livelier, more climate-adapted cities. Her research project is hosted by the German Development Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwPdR4jGHw; The Traces We Leave: Waste Management in the 21st Century; 15:09; Rajat Rai Handa is an environmentalist, specializing in research, analysis, and communications. He is currently a Research Fellow at BlackForest Solutions, a waste management company, based in Berlin, where he is looking into issues at the intersection of waste and energy to help mitigate climate change and achieve a circular economy. Previously, he has also worked as a journalist, and as a policy and political consultant. He has a bachelor's degree in Physics and a master's degree in Public Policy.
Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rajatraihanda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48c06WDkdX4; Can I Park Here? Finding Space for Mobility Innovation; 16:01; Rachel Nadkarni, an American urban planner and urban designer, will introduce a strategic approach to parking policy that reflects the growing diversity of mobility options in cities today. From e-scooters and cargo-bikes to the concept cars and autonomous vehicles of tomorrow, every vehicle will need a place to park. Rachel is currently a visiting researcher with the Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (Difu). She holds a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[Building a Common Future] https://youtu.be/SGtnWyUv0mU; Citizen Science: Help It to Help You; 11:41; What is Citizen Science and why is it so important? Should citizens be more involved in the scientific process or is science still the domain of the select few?
Alexandra Borissova Saleh argues that citizen science as a bottoms-up process can in fact be the powerful democratic tool that helps to hold scientists accountable for their work.
Dr Borissova Saleh is an award-winning Russian journalist and science communicator. She has been a scientific supervisor of Master in Science Communication at the ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg) and the executive director Russian Association of Science Communication (AKSON), and her job is to help scientists and the public get together and find a common ground. https://youtu.be/5KbW0uFFFQ0; Keeping Public Memory Alive; 11:54; How do you keep the public memory alive? Is it even possible?
R. Stein Wexler will present a public art project she co-created in Krakow, Poland. Through this piece, she will explore how participatory memorials can shift our relationship to places with traumatic histories.Stein is an artist and urban planner currently working at Berlin's Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik. As a public art practitioner and policy consultant, her work focuses on amplifying silenced stories in public spaces to effect social change. R. Stein Wexler is an artist and urban planner currently working at Berlin's Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik. As a public art practitioner and policy consultant, her work focuses on amplifying silenced stories in public spaces to effect social change. https://youtu.be/EPA155rUzBU; Can Crowdinvesting Save Startups from Valley of Death?; 09:03; Creator of personalized content about investments, startups, innovation, digital currencies and blockchain, Tamara will deliver a deep-dive into crowdinvesting as an essential tool to give startups access to capital in the early-stage phase.The crowdinvesting market has a huge unexplored potential however, the lack of information and suitable policy instruments make the opportunities go untapped. This idea explores the areas of alternative financing, crowd power, startups and innovation. Tamara Ferreira Schmidt is a Brazilian physicist who specialises in Financial Engineering and Capital Markets and Derivatives. She has more than 14 years of experience in investments and product structuring at traditional and disruptive markets and now is a guest researcher at the German Crowdfunding Association. https://youtu.be/-5VoIBDa8pY; Climate Politics is Everyday Politics; 10:09; Did you know that all political debates in daily life have climate implications? Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas is elaborating on how changing the status quo is not only about demanding others to do things differently, but facing the challenge of making politics yourself.Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas is a lawyer, climate activist and German Chancellor Fellow. She holds a MSc in Political Economy of Late Development from LSE and is also E+ Energy Transition Board Chair. She is an experienced professional in climate politics in Brazil, currently residing in Germany. [Change of Perspective] https://youtu.be/-xHcKGlA8vw; Three Questions to Build a Purpose-Driven Career; 14:08; Astrid Schrader, the founder of The Arc, is sharing her insights on building a purpose-driven career. Astrid is an entrepreneur and coach who has worked 10+ years in management consulting and also co-founded her own consulting firm focusing on financial transfers in the social and youth welfare sector. https://youtu.be/vAP_CgHKyBU; Your Roof Can Fix Climate Change - Easier Than You Think; 9:56; Elizaveta Fakirova, an urbanist and green infrastructure researcher, will deliver a powerful talk on how greening our roofs can help mitigate the challenges of the climate change.Trained as an architect and city manager, Elizaveta believes that nature itself is a powerful force that can be unharnessed to provide the relief in the emergency that our cities and metropolitans are facing. https://youtu.be/6uePLUBvgpE; Tourism: Victim or Villain in the Climate Emergency; 09:50; Fabio Fornari's main question to us all is this - is tourism the perpetrator or also the victim of the climate crisis?
Originally from Brazil, Fabio is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Chancellor Fellowship and is based in Berlin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Tourism from the University Anhembi Morumbi, and is currently a master’s degree student in Tourism Development at the University of São Paulo. One of his main research interests is on sustainable tourism and how the industry interacts with the global climate agenda and goals. https://youtu.be/ItmlqKyrZrI; Are Gigs the Future of Work?; 9:40; Have your ever thought what the future of work holds? Vineet John Samuel will shed some light on how the gig economy shapes it and the challenges that might arise.
Vineet John Samuel is a policy researcher, educated at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the National Law School of India University. As a Fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he studies the gig economy, digital platform regulation and the future of work. Prior to his arrival at the Hertie School, Vineet was the Asia Democracy Network Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and has written extensively on issues of social policy, tech regulation and public finance. [Musical Performance] https://youtu.be/1J4FjYFW2V4; Carl Maria von Weber Gran Duo Concertant op.48; 17:55; The clarinet-piano duo of Ruzaliia Kasimova and Valentina Shvetcova is performing the piece by Carl Maria von Weber Gran Duo Concertant op.48 Ruzaliia Kasimova (clarinet) and Valentina Shvetcova (piano) both graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and won several international competitions. The ensemble’s repertoire consists of rarely performed works, including sonatas by Rhys, Drezeke, Adaevskaya, Grechaninov, Weinberg, Juon, Adagio for clarinet, violin and piano as well as sonatas, duets, trios and quintets with clarinet and piano by Weber, Brahms, Schumann, Reinecke, Mendelssohn, Reger, IStravinsky, Martin and other authors. Ruzaliia is currently researching the rare German chamber music for clarinet and piano. [(Un)Harnessing the Internet] https://youtu.be/dfL_ruSvJIM; Data for Governments 101; 10:21; Jessica Voigt is talking about the ways in which governments can enable civil society innovation by having the right data management strategy and how the citizens can use government data for better transparency accountability and ultimately, a better society.
Jessica Voigt is a data- and political scientist, expert in innovation on the public sector and data strategy. She leads data science projects to monitor public policy, works with information management and transition to a data-driven organizational culture. She is currently researching public innovation as a German Chancellor Fellow at WWU-Münster. https://youtu.be/-dLntrZts5Y; Why an Open Internet Matters; 11:49; What if Internet, as we know it, was no longer free, unrestricted and open? How that would impact the way the society functions? Is it already happening?
Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício will definitely give you food for thought in her talk on why an open Internet matters. Nathalia has spent many years as a technical advisor to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee and has been involved in the Internet Governance Ecosytem.She is also a curator at the Geneva Internet Platform Digital Watch Observatory, specifically in the net neutrality topic.Nathalia is currently German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working on network neutrality and liability of Internet intermediaries at the Center for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. https://youtu.be/7Hu_ofnbBgM; Small Business: Think Big When It Comes to Your Data; 8:02; The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas. Aditi Haruray will help us understand how data protection processes can be established in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and why these processes are indeed vital.
Aditi Haruray is a data protection lawyer by qualification and training, researching data protection, processing and control mechanisms in the EU vis-a-vis India. Her focus ranges from establishing organisational level data protection and control processes, to establishing cybersecurity measures in compliance with the EU's legal requirements.