Activities

• • Please Irritate Me: Money from nothing

    Public discussion series by Die Junge Akademie and the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft: Peter-André Alt talks with guests about new perspectives in science and research. Series of events kicks off with Andrea Binder.

    Tax havens are not only used to hide financial assets, but also to increase them. Political scientist Andrea Binder investigates how this works and why this practice is so precarious. Global banks headquartered in Germany and elsewhere use offshore financial centers such as the Cayman Islands to hand out cheap loans in US dollars to other banks, corporations, and companies around the world. With every loan that is disbursed in US dollars, the offshore banks increase US dollar supply, they ‘create foreign currency’. This process is subject neither to financial supervision nor to political control, undermines rules that would apply to banks in their home markets, and contributes to increasing inequality.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • society
    • Europe

    Starts on

    24.04.24

    Event access: Public

    Berliner Sparkasse
    Alexanderplatz 2
    10178 Berlin
    Link

    19:00

  • Democracy and Science

    Under the title "Demokratie & Wissenschaft" ("Democracy and Science"), the JAM #30 deals with the connections and interaction between these pillars of society.

    Topics:

    • Magazine
    • dialogue
    • Demokratie
    • climate

    Andrea Binder, Christopher Degelmann, Anne Hemkendreis, Rona Kobel, Nadine Mengis, Senthuran Varatharajah

    Berlin 2024

  • Salon Sophie Charlotte 2023

    Aufklärung 2.0

    In 2023, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities will once again open its doors to the public and invite visitors to the Salon Sophie Charlotte - this year under the motto "Enlightenment 2.0. The ten members of Die Junge Akademie who joined in the summer of 2022 will participate in the Salon with their own activity.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • dialogue
    • science communication

    Starts on

    13.05.23

    Event access: Public

    Berlin-Bradenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
    Link

    18:00

  • Workshop "Money and Society"

    In an internal workshop, members of the Research Group "Money and Society" discuss with external guests.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • society
    • climate
    • art

    Starts on

    27.04.23

    Ends on

    27.04.23

    Event access: Internal

    Potsdam