World Science Café

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Since 2016, the International Scholars and Welcome Office (IScO) has been organizing the World Science Café event series. Until 2020, it was held in collaboration with ZAK (Centre for Cultural and General Studies). The series features researchers at risk who discuss their scientific work: What was their everyday research life like? What are the societal consequences when researchers can no longer conduct their work in their home country? And how can threatened researchers be supported in continuing their work in Germany?

Current Lecture:
"Artificial Intelligence, Technological Innovation and Human Rights", Dr. Murtaza Mohiqi

  Moderator: Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha,
                           KIT-Distinguished Senior Fellow and Founding Director of ZAK

  January 29, 2025

  6:00 pm

  KIT InformatiKom Foyer, Adenauerring 12, 76131 Karlsruhe

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Dr. Murtaza Mohiqi is a law lecturer, legal columnist, and human rights researcher with experience in both human rights and private law at domestic and international levels. His extensive teaching and research efforts, spanning from the Global South to the Global North, focus on comprehensively examining multifaceted human rights aspects related to diverse demographic groups, including women, children, minorities, immigrants, and individuals with disabilities.

Previously, Mohiqi served as an Assistant Professor in the Human Rights and Multiculturalism master’s program at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where he actively worked with students to deepen their understanding of human rights and multiculturalism. He is also a member of the Human Rights and Diversities Research Group at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Agder, Norway and lectures throughout Europe, most recently at the Università di Pisa in Italy on Defending Human Rights and Education: A Scholar's Journey from Afghanistan.

Additionally, Mr. Mohiqi is an expert in the fields of Human Rights and Diverse Societies, as well as Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. His expertise extends beyond traditional human rights discourse, and he is involved in projects focusing on digital universities during times of conflict. 

See also the Press Release of 2016 about the Presentation Series from ZAK (now named FORUM as of October 2024).

Murtaza Mohiqi University of South-Eastern Norway
Dr. Murtaza Mohiqi