Festive Week: Monday, 2 July 2018with Dies academicus

Long Table

Take a seat! Outside of the events at the table, you can use it yourself.

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Food and drink

During the Festive Week from 2 - 5 July 2018, in the Palace inner courtyard the Palace inner courtyard will become a small marketplace with many different booths. Food stands offer vegetarian and international delicacies, a coffee wagon, an ice cream stand, and a stand with exotic drinks await visitors. Cake is available at the ecumenical University congregation’s booth.

Delicious: Student Services will offer University members and guests specialties from the grill.

Sale of Hohenheim products:

Hohenheim and anniversary products will be available for purchase. The Department of Viticulture will sell the anniversary wines and serve Hohenheim wine and sparkling wine.

Ceremonial act Dies Academicus Academic ceremonial act at the Dies academicus to start off the Festive Week in the Otto Rettenmaier Audimax: The keynote lecture will be held by Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. The topic: “Challenges of Climate Change”. All University members are cordially invited.

Brown Bag Lecture - Intelligence, Happiness, Justice: Which ethical criteria do we use to answer questions related to the future of agriculture? Conflicts about nutrition, scarcity of cultivation areas, competition between food and fuel - there are many ethical questions that people evaluate differently. What criteria do they use to do this? Prof. Dr. Claudia Bieling discusses insights from her research.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Bieling

Food Waste Recovery Workshop: The Special Interest Group “Food Waste Recovery” of the ISEKI-Food Association, chaired by Dr. Charis M. Galanakis, organizes this workshop as pre-conference event to the 5th ISEKI_Food Conference in Stuttgart, dedicated to the recovery of valuable compounds (e.g. polyphenols, antioxidants, pectin, carotenoids, proteins etc) from food processing by-products (olive mill waste, grape marc, coffee silverskin, and cereal processing by-products etc) as well as to synergies with food industries via our open innovation network.

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• Pre-conference Program of ISEKI Food Conference 2018

Anniversary play: Sein oder F.I.T.-sein In a humorous way, the anniversary play of the University of Hohenheim’s theater group looks into the microcosm of the University of Hohenheim and its three faculties. What is life like at the University and how fit do you become for studies, career, or life? The reference to the University’s continuing education program F.I.T. is hardly a coincidence. Author and director: Jürgen von Bülow

Live broadcast of round of 16 games from the Football World Cup

Open Air Poetry Slam  For the University of Hohenheim’s 200th anniversary, the popular poetry competition - which is usually carried out once a semester in the TMS - will take place for the first time outdoors on the large stage in the Palace inner courtyard.

The Culture Group will once again welcome the Crème de la Crème of poetry slamming, including Marvin Suckut, the former BW runner-up and finalist in the German-language championships, Laura Gommel, the only female finalist at the BW Slam 2018, Markus Becherer, reigning Rheinland champion, Frederike Jakob, former Bavarian champion, Finn Holitzka, runner-up U-20 champion for the German-language championships and U-20 Hessian champion 2016, and Gülsen Ergün, participant at the BW championships.
 
Moderator Eva Stepkes will once again charmingly lead visitors through the evening.

Participating artists: Eva Stepkes, Marvin Suckut, Markus Becherer, Laura Gommel, Frederike Jakob, Finn Holitzka, Gülsen Ergün

Botany in Hohenheim – from an ancillary science to modern foundational research A guided exhibition in the Institute of Botany leads visitors from the historical development of Hohenheim botany to the resulting scientific highlights in the institute’s current research areas including the following topics:

• Scientific Herbariums - From Plant-Hunters to Online Databases
• Modern Microscopy - Opening up New Dimensions
• Dendro? Chrono? Of course! - Annual Rings as a Source of Information about Time and Climate
• Plant Remains from Millennia - Paths to Understanding Former Cultures
• Photosynthesis - Motor of Life on Land and Water
• How Stimuli Guide Plant Movements

Tours through the exhibition:

• Monday, 2 July 2018: 4 - 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, 3 July 2018: 10 a.m. - noon
• Thursday, 5 July 2018: 4 - 6 p.m.
• Friday, 6 July 2018: 10 a.m. - noon

Hohenheim's breeders day (in English)The State Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Hohenheim works intensively on the breeding of specialty wheat (Durum, Spelt, Emmer and Einkorn) as well as on pre-breeding for grain yield in bread wheat. With these methods, important screening concepts for genetic resources have been developed and are routinely used (cf. hybrid production and test with genetic resources). Furthermore, a large pre-breeding program for bread wheat has been established that in the future will regularly deliver new lines carrying novel diversity in an improved background for the direct use as parents of elite breeders. The idea of the breeder’s day is that you get an impression about what we are doing, that the new pre-breeding lines are no longer wild material, and that you deliver your ideas and feedback to us for improving our system and pre-breeding lines.

F.I.T. for students & staff - Citavi course:  Citavi is a reference management program for Microsoft Windows. The course aims to make it easier to start managing references using Citavi and get to know the basic functions.

The special F.I.T. offers during the Festive Week provide opportunities for personal and subject-specific further qualification as well as the development of professional skills. Registration using the F.I.T. platform: www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/continuinged

5th International ISEKI_Food Conference "The Food System Approach: New Challenge for Education, Research and Industry" The general aim of the ISEKI_Food conference 2018 is to contribute to the creation of an "open" international forum for researchers, education scientists, technologists, industry representatives, and food consumers.

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International Week The Office of International Affairs invites International Officers from Partner Universities to an intensive Staff Week on internationalization and student exchange, including cultural excursions.