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The social brain

How we understand what others think and feel

Philipp Kanske, Speaker of Die Junge Akademie and psychologist and neuroscientist at the Technical University of Dresden, visits the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden as part of the event series diejungeakademie@.

How do we understand what other people think? How do we manage to empathise with others? Our ability to move in social communities depends on having access to these inner, unobservable states of others. The evening will highlight how social neuroscience explores our brain's ability to empathise and adopt perspective. Does the brain reflect what is going on in others? Or does it build abstract theories? People also differ greatly in how well they can think and feel and how problems contribute to the development of mental disorders. During the evening, we will briefly try out practical ways of practising these skills.

Wir laden ein zum gemeinsamen Rätseln! Teilnehmen können alle, die neugierig auf Wissenschaft sind - ob mit oder ohne Lernschwierigkeiten.

Moderiert wird das Quiz von Frederik Poppe und Carsten Schnathorst.

Wir laden ein zum gemeinsamen Rätseln! Teilnehmen können alle, die neugierig auf Wissenschaft sind - ob mit oder ohne Lernschwierigkeiten.

Moderiert wird das Quiz von Frederik Poppe und Carsten Schnathorst.

Studio Visit and Talk

Unfortunately the date is cancelled. The event will be postponed to spring 2021.

The Middle East as a utopia? Where could concrete starting points for new utopias in the region lie, beyond the realm of day-to-day politics? Members of the Young Academy will discuss these and other questions with other experts at the Theater Neumarkt Zurich. The discussion will be broadcast live on our youtube channel.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Miriam Akkermann und Isabelle Dolezalek invite you to a live discussion on the topic of "Digital (high) culture in times of Corona" followed by a live perfomance.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of Die Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Valerie Domcke is a physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and a guest in the virtual classroom. She speaks about detective work in the cosmos, unravelling the early history of the universe.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Astrid Eichhorn, physicist at the University of Southern Denmark, invites you to a lecture on the fundamental structure of space and time which, according to physics, determines the interior of a black hole.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Ricarda Winkelmann, climate researcher and professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and at the University of Potsdam, is a guest in the virtual classroom and gives secondary school students insights into a key topic of her discipline.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Christian Hof, a biologist at the Technical University of Munich, is a guest in the virtual classroom and gives secondary school students insights into a key topic of his discipline: Biodiversity - the variety of life

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Simon Lentner, mathematician at Universität Hamburg, is a guest in the virtual classroom and gives secondary school students insights into a key topic of his discipline: Symmetrical bodies in three and more dimensions.

"Self-efficacy - My body as a weapon" - Short films in discussion

An event on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Junge Akademie, curated by Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (director of the Berlinale Shorts & co-founder of the shorts/salon).

Guests:
- Gabriele Stötzer (artist, filmmaker, author)
- Isabel Schellinger (Die Junge Akademie, University of Leipzig Medical Center)
- amongst others

Moderation:
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlinale Shorts)

The event is part of the activities surrounding the 20th anniversary of Die Junge Akademie. Admission is free of charge. The minimum age for admission to the events is 18. The event will be held in German.

In light of current government advice on coronavirus, the members of the Junge Akademie will continue the event series diejungeakademie@ virtually until further notice.

Anna Lisa Ahlers, sinologist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), and Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Islamic Studies scholar at the University of Freiburg invite you to a live discussion on the topic "Authoritarianism and Corona". Guest speaker is political scientist Johannes Gerschewski, Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Unfortunately the event is cancelled due to the spread of the coronavirus. With this step we as a public institution are reacting to the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute to reduce social contacts in order to delay the further spread of the virus as much as possible. We hope to be able to make up for the event at a later date.

"Community" - Short films in discussion

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Die Junge Akademie invites you to an evening of short films and discussions as part of the series diejungeakademie@. Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (director of the Berlinale Shorts and co-founder of the shorts/salon) and Isabel Schellinger (clinician-scientist at the University of Leipzig Medical Center and member of Die Junge Akademie) Together with filmmakers and experts, the audience is invited to dive into the topic of "Community" through conversation.

The event is part of the activities surrounding the 20th anniversary of Die Junge Akademie. Admission is free of charge. The minimum age for admission to the events is 18. The event will be held in German.

Unfortunately, due to the current risk situation caused by the coronavirus, today's lecture at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden with Philipp Kanske on "The Social Brain" will be cancelled. We hope to be able to make up for the event at a later date.

The social brain

How we understand what others think and feel

Philipp Kanske, Speaker of Die Junge Akademie and psychologist and neuroscientist at the Technical University of Dresden, visits the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden as part of the event series diejungeakademie@.

How do we understand what other people think? How do we manage to empathise with others? Our ability to move in social communities depends on having access to these inner, unobservable states of others. The evening will highlight how social neuroscience explores our brain's ability to empathise and adopt perspective. Does the brain reflect what is going on in others? Or does it build abstract theories? People also differ greatly in how well they can think and feel and how problems contribute to the development of mental disorders. During the evening, we will briefly try out practical ways of practising these skills.

The event will be held in German. Admission is free. Interested? Simply register: Facebook event of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

The Research Group Popular Culture(s), together with the Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V., will be kicking off the event series “diejungeakademie@” as part of the 20th anniversary of Die Junge Akademie in 2020.

Four researchers, and members of Die Junge Akademie would like to place the form of Antigone against the backdrop of political events and cultural trends in society, and, from a historical, philological, literary, and philosophical standpoint, ask the question: How is she still relevant today? Excerpts will be read aloud from Friedrich Hölderlins translation of Antigone (1804): reviled as they were written, to this day controversial, but powerfully spoken and now used more and more.