The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars given by the AIAS fellows or invited speakers. The speaker(s) will present her/his current research, followed by a feedback session with questions and discussion. 

What are the topics of the seminars?

As the AIAS fellows come from various academic fields, the topics of the seminars vary accordingly. For further information about each seminar, please follow the links below.

Seminars of the Autumn 2024 - on Mondays at 11:00-12:00

September 2024

• 4 September: Introductory Research Presentations, all new fellows and associates give short 3-minute presentations. NB: held on a Wednesday
• 9 September: ‘Ideas in the Making’ by Peter Dalsgaard, Carlsberg Monograph Fellow & Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 16 September: ‘Digital service journeys at the urban margins’ by Maj Nygaard Christensen, AIAS-SHAPE Fellow & Dept. of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 23 September: ‘A multidisciplinary approach for developing an Early Warning System for Sargassum Blooms in the Mexican Caribbean’ by Christian Appendini, AIAS-AUFF Fellow & Dept. of Engineering Institute, UNAM, Mexico
• 30 September: ’Back from the dead: The continuing influence of social class on political behaviour in Western democracies' by Rune Stubager, Carlsberg Monograph fellow at AIAS & Dept. of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

October 2024

• 7 October: ‘How does environmental heterogeneity influence the genomic footprint of adaptation?’ by Anna Maria Langmüller, AIAS-AUFF Fellow 
• 21 October: ‘Analysis of news flow to detect bias and censorship’ by Ilya Utekhin, AIAS-SHAPE Fellow
• 28 October: ‘Fluid cellular identities in the cardiovascular system' by Magda Hamczyk, AIAS-AUFF Fellow & Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, University of Oviedo, Spain

November 2024 

• 4 November: ‘Chat Democracy: AI, Democratic Talk, and a New Shared Language' by Jan Løhmann Stephensen, AIAS-SHAPE Fellow & Aesthetics & Culture, and Museology, Aarhus University
• 11 November: ‘Shifting alliances: Right-wing populism and “elite” skilled workers in Hungary’ by Eszter Bartha, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow & Dept. of Eastern and Central European History and Historical Russistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 
• 18 November: ‘Color as a Source of Chemical Information: from Picturesque Images to Chemical Sensors’ by Andrei Kalinichev, AIAS-AUFF Fellow
• 25 November: 'Beef Cattle and their Noncontiguous Geographies of Landscape Change' by Pierre du Plessis, AIAS-AUFF Fellow 

December 2024

• 2 December: 'Beyond the headlines: Reconnecting science and society through journalism' by Samuel Schlaefli, ERC FRONTIERS Fellow at AIAS, Aarhus University
• 9 December: ‘I Solemnly Swear I'm Up to Good: A Megastudy Investigating the Effectiveness of Honesty Oaths on Curbing Dishonesty’ by Panagiotis Mitkidis, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow & Dept. of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 16 December: 'Immune-to-Brain Signaling in Affective State' by Anna Klawonn, AIAS-DANDRITE Fellow & & the Dept. of Biomedicine & the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience at Aarhus University.

The time and place of the seminars?

The seminars take place on Mondays from 11:00 - 12:00 am, and are all held in English. They are open to the public and held at AIAS in building 1630, room 301, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C. All seminars are held in-person and also online via Zoom. Online attendance link is found at each individual seminar entry above.