Events

We offer a variety of events online and in presence, for scientific and non-scientific interested people.

Upcoming events can be found below. And click here for our event archive.

Our Scientific Events

The following series of events are primarily aimed at a scientific audience:

  • Leibniz Media Lunch Talks series: one-hour online event via Zoom with a short presentation by an expert followed by a discussion, usually from 12 noon on a Tuesday
  • Leibniz Media Lectures series: one-and-a-half-hour online or hybrid event with presentations by experts followed by a discussion, usually from 4 p.m. on a Tuesday
  • Conferences and workshops on current research issues: one- or two-day specialist events with international experts, irregular

Our Events for Non-Scientific Target Groups

The offers for different, predominantly non-scientific target groups include

  • Events as part of the “Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC)“: various formats and partner institutions from the FGZ context
  • Hamburg Media Symposium: half-day event in cooperation with the Medienanstalt Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein MAHSH and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, once a year in June
  • Cooperation events with various institutions: joint events with partners such as the University of Hamburg, ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, Körber-Stiftung
  • results-oriented workshops and working sessions with experts

Contact person: Dr. Wiebke Schoon

Last update: 17.07.2024

Upcoming events

Veranstaltung Bredows on Tour

35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

17. August 2026

At the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026), Smita Bhattacharya will participate in a workshop on Augmented Democracies, and Tetyana Turiy will present a talk and poster that explores discrimination through the use of artificial intelligence in hiring processes.

Verantstaltungsort Bremen

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Veranstaltung Leibniz Media Lecture

RIDLOP: A Research Infrastructure for Data from Large Online Platforms

3. September 2026

Dr. Simon Kruschinski of GESIS—the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences—will present RIDLOP, a research infrastructure that securely makes data from large online platforms available for social science research, starting at 12:00 p.m. The Hamburg Section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) is hosting this Leibniz Media Lecture.

Verantstaltungsort Hamburg
Veranstaltung Bredows on Tour

11th European Communication Conference

9. September 2026

The 11th European Communication Research Association (ECREA) conference is taking place this year in Brno, Czech Republic, under the title “Shifting Grounds: Paths, Connections, and Futures.” The HBI will be represented by several contributions.

Verantstaltungsort Brno, Czech Republic

Veranstaltung Promoting Young Researchers

Digitalisation Research Seminar 2026

21. September 2026

This year's Digitalisation Research Seminar on 21-22 September in Berlin is dedicated to “Balancing Digital Safety between Risks, Rights, and Regulation”. The HBI, WI, BI and CAIS are organizing the event.

Verantstaltungsort Berlin
Veranstaltung Bredows on Tour

43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association

1. October 2026

At the 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA), Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Antonia Eichenauer, and Jonah Wermter will present two papers on the topic of communicative AI in journalism.

Verantstaltungsort Mainz

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