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ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter discusses the risks, but also the opportunities that AI systems can offer in the classroom in an interview with Lisa Duncan of the Weser-Kurier.

On 24 JulyZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling and Dr. Berber Hagedoorn (University of Groningen, Netherlands) facilitate a workshop on the Dutch North Sea island Schiermonnikoog. The workshop is funded by a seed grant of the Hanse University Alliance and is organized in cooperation with the local cultural history association ’t Heer en Feer. 

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has joined the advisory board of the Center for Critical Education on Antisemitism (CCEA). Since 2021, the CCEA has been conducting research and teaching within the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, focusing on how antisemitism is addressed in universities, schools, and non-formal educational settings.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler was involved in creating a dataset in which LLMs were tasked with answering a religious question from the perspective of one of twelve theological personas (six Christian and six Muslim).

On the afternoon of 8 July 2026, members of ZeMKI gathered at Linzer Straße 4 for the ZeMKI Research Day 2026. This internal event format provides a forum for presenting ongoing projects from the eleven ZeMKI Labs, discussing methodological issues and bringing together perspectives across the boundaries of the individual Labs.

On 8 July 2026, the ZeMKI Research Day at the Linzer Straße 4 site segued directly into the ZeMKI Summer Party. Following the day’s academic programme, the discussions moved outdoors and continued there in an informal setting.

In a recent article for the Medium Magazine, ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp examines the international debate surrounding social media bans for children and adolescents. In it, he argues that the focus should be less on bans and more on promoting confident use of social media and online platforms in general. Efforts to strengthen digital resilience should target children, adolescents, and their parents and be promoted systematically and broadly.

In Cambridge, Christian will contribute to the CGHR research theme "Global Experiences of Algorithmic Governance," building on his long-standing work on how technologies both shape and are shaped by discourses and regulations.