Salon at the IBZ (TBA) on July 12th
On behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our Salon. We will meet in person at the IBZ (Amalienstrasse) for a scientific talk with our customary reception with wine and cheese.We will meet at 19:30 for a get-together with wine and cheese. The talk will start around 20°°.
Dr. Kathleen Jepson, Institut fürPhonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, LMU, München will give a talk titled:
"The phonetics and phonology of prosody in Australian languages"
Patterns of speech described for Australian languages from a phonological perspective (i.e., regarding the organisation of speech sounds) are often drawn upon to exemplify particular structural types in cross-linguistic research. On the other hand, phonetics (the study of speech acoustics, perception, and articulation) is underrepresented in research on the languages of Australia. The two fields of phonology and phonetics are closely linked; in view of phonetic evidence, some phonological findings have been challenged, highlighting the important role of phonetics in language description. My research sits within both fields, focusing on aspects of prosody. This includes word-level phenomena such as stress (i.e., the prominence of one syllable within a word), as well as sentence-level patterns such as intonation (i.e., the sentence-level meaningful modulation of pitch).
To understand the speech patterns and prosodic systems of Australia’s Indigenous languages, I work with people to make speech recordings and conduct listening experiments. In my research, I design experimental tasks that address particular questions about the sound system of the language, and travel to undertake fieldwork. This involves brining suitable recording equipment to collect data for analysis, and also connecting with people to form ongoing relationships. Using a range of methods, I analyse the collected audio recordings to describe the speech patterns and test hypotheses about the structure of the prosodic system.
In this talk I will discuss1) findings on aspects of word- and sentence-level prosody in Australian languages and their contribution to the cross-linguistic understanding of how languages can be structured, as well as 2) how this type of work is conducted.
Evi Vogel, Lutz Cleemann and Stefan Recksiegel
(Humboldt Club Munich)
Dear Humboldtians,
we offer you a guided tour through the Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg (Botanic Garden Munich) on Friday, June 16, 2023.
AvH generously agreed to cover the costs for the entrance fee, the guided tour and a joint coffee break after the tour.
The excursion is also open for family members and partners.
Planned timetable:
To get there, take Munich MVV tram 17 and get-off at the tram stop “Botanischer Garten”, which is directly opposite the garden entrance at Menzinger Str. 65, Munich.
Mind: Finding a parking nearby is not easy.
We will meet in front of the cashier desk not later than 13.45 h, so that I can buy the entrance tickets for all of you and the two guided tours I booked can start at 14.00 h.
After the tour, at approx. 15.00 h, we join all for some refreshments in the Garden’s Café.
The Botanic Garden is open until 18.00 h, so after the refreshments you can still visit the glasshouses or the more remote parts of the garden.
Registration
Please register each person attending until Wed., June 7 by sending me an email with the following Information:
- Last Name
- First Name
- Institution/Affiliation
- Humboldtian or family member or other
- Email.
There will be two guided tours of max. 20 persons each, so first come, first served.
See you soon
Yours
Evi Vogel
(one of the speakers of the Humboldt Club Munich)
Tefera Tadesse during his talk May 9th
Salon on May 9th
On behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our Salon on May 9th. We will meet in person at the IBZ
(Amalienstrasse) for a scientific talk with our customary reception with wine and cheese.
Tefera Tadesse will give a talk titled:
The impacts of Covid-19 on personal, academic, and research experiences of Ethiopian postgraduate students in healthcare professions
Postgraduate students are supposed to demonstrate higher competencies, independence, and multidisciplinary approaches while shouldering family responsibilities, and they may absorb the larger
magnitude of COVID-19-induced shocks than other university students. However, the literature about the impact of COVID-19 on postgraduate students, particularly health professionals, is somewhat
limited, and those limited studies focus on nurses and doctors in clinical settings. Thus, other health professions and non-clinical settings are far less noticeable. Also, existing literature
shows the lack of a coherent framework, subsuming a set of interrelated dimensions, to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on postgraduate students. With this study, we attempted to address these
shortcomings by comprehensively assessing postgraduate students’ personal, academic, and research experiences across sociodemographic groups. Findings indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has
negatively impacted their health and well-being and significantly disrupted progress toward their degrees. We provide general recommendations to mitigate challenges and enhance the capacity of
individuals and universities.
We will meet at 19:30 for a get-together with wine and cheese, the talk will start around 20:00.
Please send an email to dgh@ph.tum.de if you want to participate so we can arrange appropriate seating and refreshments.
With kind regards,
Evi Vogel, Lutz Cleemann and Stefan Recksiegel (Humboldt Club Munich)
Salon on January 24th at the IBZ
Bruno Nachtergaele gave a talk titled "Particles, Braids, and Anyons"
Künstlerweihnachtsmarkt an der Münchner Freiheit 29.11.2022
Impression from the Salon on Oct. 18th.
Dear Humboldtians,
on behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our Salon on October 18th.
We will meet in person at the IBZ for a scientific talk with our
customary reception with wine and cheese.
During the Humboldt Salon on October 18th,
Joshua-Philip Barham will give a talk titled
"Photo-electrifying Organic Synthesis: Breaking Limits and Rules in the Chemistry Textbook"
Exkursion Starnberger See und Museum Buchheim
Am Samstag 24.09.22 fand unsere Exkursion mit dem Schiff ab Starnberg zum Buchheim Museum in Bernried am südlichen Starnberger See und wieder zurück nach Starnberg statt.
Die 60 Teilnehmer nutzten die Schifffahrt für viele nette Gespräche und knüpften neue Kontakte. Im Museum erwarteten uns mehrere sehenswerte Ausstellungen, von der Sonderausstellung Blaue Reiter und Brücke über die witzigen Bilder von Hurzlmeier, die museumseigenen Sammlungen bis zur Ausstellung über den Film „Das Boot“. Buchheim war ja der Autor des Buchs zu diesem weltbekannten Film, der vor wenigen Jahren nochmals in Staffeln aufgelegt worden ist.
Boat excursion on Sat, September 24, 2022 from Starnberg to the Buchheim Museum
Dear Humboldtians,
on behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our Salon on July 5th.
Due to the current positive Corona situation we will meet in person
at the IBZ for a scientific talk with our customary reception with
wine and cheese.
During the Humboldt Salon on July 5th
Laura Martínez de Guereñu will give a talk titled
"New Interpretations of a Masterpiece: A More Inclusive History of the German Pavilion"
Dear Humboldtians,
on behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our Salon on May 5th.
After a long hiatus due to Corona, broken only by the excellent talk of
Maria Flaksman on the historical development of Germanic languages last
October, we will finally be able to meet again in person at the IBZ
for a scientific talk with our customary reception with wine and cheese.
We are very happy to invite you to our Humboldt Salon on May 5th, when
Thodoris Argyriou will give a talk on
TRACING THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF RAY-FINNED FISHES THROUGH MAJOR EXTINCTION EVENTS
We will meet at 19:30 for a get-together with wine and cheese, the talk
will start around 20:00.
Please send an email to dgh@ph.tum.de if you want to participate so we
can arrange appropriate seating and refreshments.
Although there is no 3G rule anymore, we would very much appreciate it
if you would test yourself for Corona on the day of the Salon. We will not
control this, but we ask you for your cooperation in protecting each other.
We are very much looking forward to meeting you in person again!
With kind regards,
Evi Vogel, Lutz Cleemann and Stefan Recksiegel
(Humboldt Club Munich)
Exkursion zur Ilkahöhe am 19.03.2022
Sonnenschein und blauer Himmel. Beste Bedingungen für unsere gut 3 stündige Rundwanderung von Tutzing am Starnberger See hinauf zum Deixlfurter See, weiter zur Ilkahöhe und wieder zurück.Versorgt wurden die 37 Wanderer mit von der Stiftung gesponsorten Lunchpaketen, die zu Beginn ausgeteilt wurden. Während der Wanderung wurde in wechselnden Gruppierungen angeregt geplaudert. Die Aussicht auf den Starnberger See und die Alpen war zwar durch den noch immer in der Luft liegenden Saharastaub etwas gedämpft, aber immer noch wunderschön.
Viele Teilnehmer haben sich bereits erkundigt, wann wieder eine Exkursion angeboten wird.
Evi Vogel
Dear Humboldtians,
on Saturday, March 19, 2022 we will offer a hiking tour.
The tour will start at 11.00 at the S Bahn stop Tutzing. We will make a round trip of about 10 km with a height difference of approx. 100 m and hopefully will have a good view into the Alps from Ilkahöhe (see photo attached)
Family members are welcome to attend.
The AvH generously agreed to pay for packed lunches which we will distribute at the beginning of the hike.
So please mark your calendar!
I will come back to you end of February for more details and ask you to register then.
Have a good time and stay healthy!
Yours
Evi Vogel
(one of the speakers of the Humboldt Club Munich)
Dear Humboldtians,
on behalf of the Munich Regional Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer, we cordially invite you to our next Salon on November 30th.
However, due to the soaring Covid numbers we will NOT be able to offer a meeting in person in the IBZ.
If you plan to attend via Zoom, please connect at least 15min before the start of the talk (20.00) so that we can sort out possible technical difficulties before the talk.
Zoom ID 94239549694, password 941864,
https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/94239549694?pwd=WHpkMkUyQVg5SXg4TWRkcWI2azJZZz09
Around 20:00, Prof. Dr. Rainer W. Gerling will start his presentation on:
IT-Security in Research: Why should I care?
IT-Security in scientific environments is a sensible subject. The openness of science with the international scientific exchange and the restrictions of IT-Security and data privacy are – a least on first sight – seemingly contradicting goals. You will see that there are indeed threads to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and systems in scientific research. Nevertheless, a good organization of IT-Security can also enable scientific exchange and international collaboration exchanging research data. Examples of incidents and examples of good practice will be shown.Excellent science is not possible without good IT-Security.
Prof. Dr. Rainer W. Gerling is a theoretical physicist and a data privacy and IT-Security expert. He has been professionally involved in information technology for over 40 years and published one of the first articles in Germany on computer viruses back in 1986. Prof. Gerling was a Feodor-Lynen-Stipend in 1988/89 at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. 1993 he changed from science to science-administration. From 1993 until his retirement in 2020, he was the data privacy and IT-Security officer of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. As co-founder, and from 2008 to 2020 as chairman, of the Information Security Working Group of German Research Institutions (AKIF), he played a key role in shaping the information security governance of German universities and research institutions. Today Prof. Gerling teaches Information Security at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and speaks at conferences and workshops.
We hope that we will have a lively discussion during and after the talk via Internet, as already quite a few expressed their interest in the subject.
With kind regards,
Lutz Cleemann, Stefan Recksiegel and Evi Vogel,
(Humboldt Club Munich)
Upcoming Humboldt Club Topics:
25.01.22 Thodoris Argyriou/ Paläontologie
tbd 22 Joshua Barham/Electrifying Photocatalysis
tbd 22 Laura Martínez de Guereñu/ Architecture
Vergangene Meldungen finden Sie im Archiv der Regionalgruppe.