Semester Programme

Every semester the CDC organises its public programme, a series of events related to current research projects. Coherent topics and themes are developed collectively and reflect the problems and questions CDC researchers are dealing with. The central ‘spine’ of the semester themes is formed by the CDC Talks, Colloquia, Workshops, and Panels. We also plan and organise event formats such as symposia, as well as a variety of more experimental and open conversations, that take place during the semester or in the term break.

Video recordings of past events are available on Vimeo. You can see the current semester programme below.

CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CULTURES – WINTER TERM 2026/27

29.10., 10:00–19:00 & 30.10., 10:00–15:30, C40.501
Symposium
Climate Sensitivities: Aesthetics and Politics of Heat
Keynote by Nicole Starosielski and lectures by Ignacio Farías, Stefan Höhne, Katrin Köppert, Laliv Melamed, Florian Sprenger, and others
Organised by Maren Haffke and Vera Tollmann (Leuphana)

17.11., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Climate Futures Talk
Who Traps Whom? Microsoft's Data Centres in the Rheinisches Revier
Estrid Sørensen (Ruhr University Bochum)

25.11., 18:00–20:00, Ditze-Hörsaal, Hamburg Media School
Portfolio Exhibition
Digital Media in the Making 5
Digital media projects by students from Leuphana University and Hamburg Media School

01.12., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Smartness as Wealth Talk
Beyond Scalable Diversity: Foundation Models and Epistemic Justice
Paula Helm (Goethe University Frankfurt)

08.12., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Artist Talk
The Search for Stories of Language: On Language, Technology, and the Poetics of the Non-Human
Qianxun Chen (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

15.12., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Talk
What if…? – Counterfactualism in Visual Arts
Elke Reinhuber (CityU Hong Kong)

12.01., 14:00–16:00, C40.154
Talk
Careless Care: The Violence of AI-Delegated Care
Johan Jönsson (Lund University)
In collaboration with Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation (LOST)

19.01., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Colloquium
The Algorithmic Co-Constitution of Dis/ability
Anna-Marie Rönsch (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

26.01., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Climate Futures Talk
The Machine in the Garden is Listening
Finn Arne Jørgensen (Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger)

27.01., 10:00–12:00, C40.154
Climate Futures Workshop
The Camera as Research Instrument
Finn Arne Jørgensen (Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger)