Events at the adult education centre in June 2021

VHS@home - Online events

Wednesday, 2 June, 6 to 7.30 p.m.
The "Fritz Heckert" residential area - the 1970s to 1990s
Online participation: free
After registering (by 3 p.m. on 2 June) at www.vhs-chemnitz.de or 0371 488 4343, you will receive an access link by email.

The Fritz Heckert area was the third largest new housing estate in the GDR. The laying of the foundation stone in October 1974 was followed by a long construction process until 1989. As a result, eight construction areas and over 900 buildings were erected. Parallel to the construction work, a diverse life developed in the pedestrian zones, on Ikarus Boulevard and in the backyards. The lecture by Norbert Engst provides an overview of the history of the "Fritz Heckert" residential area from the 1970s to the 1990s.

The event is part of the series "Places of Historical Remembrance" at the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre.

Thursday, 3 June, 7 to 8.30 p.m.
What does home mean? Lecture and discussion
Online participation: free
After registration (by 4 p.m. on 3 June) at www.vhs-chemnitz.de or 0371 488 4343, you will receive an access link by email.

What does home mean? There are many different answers, and home has long since become a controversial term. Some see it as a home, a regional or even national culture that needs to be preserved. Others contrast it with the whole world as a home, global exchange and diversity, which do not need any places. Home as a feeling is always associated with emotions. In her book "Heimat. Geschichte eines Missverständnisses", Susanne Scharnowski aims to strengthen the factual argument. The literary scholar takes up the historical debates surrounding home right up to the present day.

The author presents various approaches. We invite you to come and talk to her about the concept and feeling of home.

Tuesday, 8 June, 7 to 8.15 p.m.
Can apps save lives? Big data and artificial intelligence in healthcare
Online participation: free
After registering (by midnight on 7 June) at www.vhs-chemnitz.de or 0371 488 4343, you will receive an access link by email.

Electronic patient records, care robots, chips under the skin of diabetics that transmit glucose levels: Digitalisation has far-reaching effects on medicine and the healthcare system. The promise that diseases can be recognised earlier and treated better with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) faces many uncertainties.

Where do algorithms and AI already play a role in our healthcare and where will current developments take us in the future? How can patients be protected from data misuse and how can it be ensured that the use of AI in healthcare is not orientated towards profits but towards patient well-being? Or will too much data protection ultimately prevent life-saving innovations? We will be discussing these and other questions with our experts at the event. Join us and contribute your questions to the discussion!

This event is part of the "Stadt-Land-DatenFluss" series developed by the German Adult Education Association as part of the "Digital Education Initiative".

Thursday, 17 June, 7.30 to 9 p.m.
The glamour and misery of walking upright
Online participation: free
After registering (by midnight on 16 June) at www.vhs-chemnitz.de http://www.vhs-chemnitz.de, you will receive an access link by email.

What makes people human? What elevates them - in the truest sense of the word - above all other living beings? A common answer since antiquity has been: "the upright gait".

In this lecture by philosopher Kurt Bayertz, the concept of the "upright gait", which has characterised intellectual history since antiquity, is presented. The posture strongly determines the human self-image and is still expressed in politics today in the "upright" person as a metaphor and symbol for a dignified life.

Kurt Bayertz is Professor Emeritus of Practical Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His book "Der aufrechte Gang. A History of Anthropological Thought" was honoured with the Tractatus Prize for Philosophical Essay Writing in 2013.

This event is part of the series "vhs.wissen live - the digital science programme" as a cooperation between the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre and the Erding and SüdOst Adult Education Centres in the district of Munich.

Friday, 18 June, 7.30 to 9 p.m.
What remains of Karl Marx?
Online participation: free
After registering (by midnight on 17 June) at www.vhs-chemnitz.de you will receive an access link by email.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Karl Marx's work was also released from the narrow mould of "Marxism-Leninism" and has since been more open to discussion again. However, this usually only reaches the wider public at times of economic crisis or on the occasion of anniversaries.

In this conversation between philosopher Kurt Bayertz and author Dietmar Dath, the philosophy and social theory of Karl Marx will be the subject of discussion, regardless of such external occasions. Can his critical theory of the capitalist mode of production still accurately describe the economy in the 21st century?

Dietmar Dath is an editor in the features section of the FAZ and a writer. He published a volume on Karl Marx with Reclam in 2018.

Kurt Bayertz is Professor Emeritus of Practical Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 2018, he published the book "Interpret in order to change: Karl Marx and his philosophy".

Current information at www.vhs-chemnitz.de.