PICAIS Coffee Talk

Invitation to the PICAIS Coffee Talk on July 1, 2025 – Scientific Networking at the University of Passau

The PICAIS Coffee Talk is a regularly held networking event that not only brings together all PICAIS Fellows currently completing their scholarships in Passau but also provides a platform for interested researchers from the University of Passau to exchange ideas in a relaxed setting. Our Fellows will briefly present their research projects; after that, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and network.

The next PICAIS Coffee Talk will take place on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the Professor’s Lounge (Cafeteria Building, 1st Floor, Room 254).

Our Fellows present on-site are:

• Prof Dr Hedwig Eisenbarth (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Host: Prof. Dr. Susanne Mayr (Chair of Psychology with a Focus on Human-Machine Interaction)

Research Project: AI-based Modelling of Emotion to Understand (Criminal) Behavior

• Dr Joshua Furnal (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Ireland)

Host: Prof. Dr. Markus Weißer (Chair of Dogmatic Theology and Theological Issues of the Present)

Research Project: Transforming Identities and Traditions in European Catholic Systematic Theology: A Comparative Study of the Eschatology of Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Rahner

• Prof Dr Bettina Kemme (McGill University, Canada)

Host: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Scherzinger, Chair of Computer Science with a Focus on Scalable Database Systems

Research Project: Legal and Reproducibility Aspects of Sustainable Data Science Systems

• Prof Dr Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University, USA)

Host: Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz (Chair of American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies)

Research Project: Government, Diaspora, and Advocacy. Responses to Refugee Migration: Ukrainian Migration to the United States and Germany, 2014-2024

• Prof Dr José Vicente Vezzosi (National University of Santiago del Estero, Argentina)

Host: Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo, Chair of Political Science (Focus on Political Theory)

Research Project: Moral Discourses and Stateness: An Approach to the Emergence of Radical Populisms in Europe and Latin America at the Beginning of the 21st Century

We look forward to your participation and kindly ask for registration by email to picais-office@uni-passau.de by June 20, 2025, for the planning of our catering (coffee/tea and pastries).

If you are unable to attend the event but would like to engage with our fellows, please feel free to get in touch with us.