Author: Bernhard Goodwin

We would like to invite you to our colloquium, “Simulation Games on Climate Health as a Teaching Format: Results and Challenges,” on September 26th at 13:00 (German time).

Dr. Michaela Coenen and Brigitte Strahwald, MSc. will report on a simulation game on climate health they developed as a new teaching format. In addition, the results of a cross-sectional study on the knowledge of and interest in Planetary Health in health-related study programs in Germany will be presented.

Dr. Coenen is the Head of the Research Unit for Health Promotion and Prevention and the Course Coordinator of the MSc Public Health at LMU. She has a diploma in psychology and a master’s degree in public health from LMU; and received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, also from LMU Munich.

Ms. Strahwald is responsible for the coordination of the Pettenkofer School of Public Health. She studied medicine at Université de Rennes 1 and at FAU Erlangen, received a master’s degree in Medicine Ethics and Law from The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and a master’s in epidemiology from LMU.

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We would like to invite you to our second July colloquium “Science in the Firestorm of Social Media: Research between Reach, Participation and Hate” on July 18th at 13:00 (German time).

Prof. Dr. Lena Frischlich will give a science communication-oriented insight into the use, chances, and risks of science communication and reception in social media. In particular, she will examine the dynamics and consequences of hate speech and so-called fire storms.

Prof. Dr. Frischlich is a communication scientist and media psychologist. She studied psychology at the University of Cologne and earned her doctorate there. In 2016, she moved to Münster and into communication science, where she led an interdisciplinary junior research group on democratic resilience. Since April this year, she has held a professorship in Empirical Communication Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She investigates how digitalization, on the one hand, creates new opportunity structures for the staging of online propaganda and related phenomena such as disinformation or hate speech and, on the other hand, opens up new possibilities for the support and “empowerment” of media users and the promotion of democratic resilience, “resilience.”

This is an online event carried out in English. However, questions in German are also welcomed.

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Another shout-out to all the film lovers out there: you are invited to a free open-air screening of the award-winning documentary “Dear Future Children” on July 21st at 21:15. The screening will take place at the garden of Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München at Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1, München.

For the first time the Public Health Filmfestival (https://www.phff.de/), supported by the MSCL, will be joining forces with Munich’s other film festivals during the Popup Sommerkino powered by M-net (https://www.popup-sommerkino.de/). Each evening another film festival team will be curating a free open-air screening of a film of their choice, allowing you to experience a great spectrum of films over the course of two weeks.

The film “Dear Future Children” is about young activism. It follows three female activists on the protests in Hong Kong against the Beijing-influenced administration under Carrie Lam, the protests in Chile against social inequality in the country, and in Uganda at the local Fridays for Future protests and actions for climate justice.

After the screening, there will be a discussion, hosted by Katharina Wabnitz from the Centre for Planetary Health Policy, about the film and the interrelation of climate, democracy, and equality with our own health. We will look at this topic from the perspectives of scientists and activists.

Do not miss this important film and talk and guarantee your free ticket here: https://rausgegangen.de/events/public-health-filmfestival-dear-future-children-0/

We would like to invite you to our July colloquium “Designing a free online course on planetary health as a science communication method” on July 11th at 13:00 (German time).

Paula Schwenke has a master’s in public health from LMU and is a scientific research associate at the Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research at LMU.

Ms. Schwenke and her team designed a course for the VHB (the Virtual University of Bavaria) about Planetary Health; and in this colloquium, she will provide insights into the development, implementation, and evaluation of an online course as a science communication format. Free accessible online courses offer an easy opportunity to implement the relevant and interdisciplinary topic of Planetary Health, regardless of the human or financial resources of the university.

More information on each colloquium will be sent to our mailing list as the dates approach. Here you can subscribe to our email list: https://www.mscl.de/mailing-list/ .

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We would like to invite you to our colloquium “Constructive climate communication from the audience perspective: promises, challenges and pitfalls” on May 16th at 13:00 (German time).

Prof. Dr. Imke Hoppe will take a closer look at the concept of ‘solution-based journalism’ for the field of climate communication with a perspective on audiences and will discuss potentials and limitations of the approach.

This year, Prof. Hoppe became a professor at the Geography department at LMU. She completed her doctorate at the Technical University Ilmenau (Department of Economic Sciences and Media) on the topic of digital communication and climate change. Previously, she was deputy head of the department children’s media at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. From 2017 to 2021, she researched and taught as a PostDoc at the Cluster of Excellence ‘CliSAP’ (Universität Hamburg) and at the Chair of Journalism and Communication Studies, esp. digitalized communication and sustainability. From 2022, Imke Hoppe worked at the DLR Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility.

This is an online event carried out in English. However, questions in German are also welcomed.

More information on each colloquium will be sent to our mailing list as the dates approach. Here you can subscribe to our email list: https://www.mscl.de/mailing-list/ .

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or ideas about possible topics and speakers.

If you missed the event, you can still watch Prof. Dr. Imke Hoppe’s presentation here: