EPoS Summit
Der Forschungsschwerpunkt organisiert zweimal im Jahr – immer vor Weihnachten und Ostern – einen EPoS Summit. Die Veranstaltung bietet allen Forscher:innen, die Mitglieder im Forschungsschwerpunkt sind, die Möglichkeit, sich entlang ausgewählter Einzelthemen inhaltlich und sozial zu vernetzen.
Nächster Summit
Der nächste EPoS Winter Summit findet am Freitag, 18. Dezember 2026 statt.
EPoS Summer Summit 2026 - Democracy under Pressure
Geopolitics, Material and Intangible Trade and the Future of Democracy in Light of AI
Thiemo Fetzer, Professor of Economics at Warwick University and University of Bonn
False Authorities and Some Varieties of Lying
Christoph Jäger, Department of Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck
Full program
Friday, April 17th, 2026
8.30
SoWi Aula, Universitätsstr. 15
Winter Summit 2025
The Wordlessness of ChatGPT: Can Dialogue with AI Chatbots Facilitate Learning as a Worlding Practice?
Ernst Schraube, Roskilde University, Denmark
"I dont understand what it says, but I think it is correct": Parasocial Mechanisms and Epistemic Orders in Human-AI Interaction
Johanna Degen, Europa-Universität Flensburg
From Cyber Risk to AI Risk
Rainer Böhme, Department of Computer Science, Innsbruck University
Summer Summit 2025
Towards explainable AI in basic research
Hans J. Briegel, FWF Wittgenstein Award Winner, Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Innsbruck University
Understanding Humans through Technology and AI
Clemens Stachl, Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
The Video-Assistant Referee in Football: Implications for the AI-Transformation of Business and Society
Sven Laumer, Schöller Endowed Professor and Chair of Information Systems in the School of Business, Economics and Society at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Winter Summit 2024
Navigating Endogeneity in Applied Research: A Non-technical Update
Harald van Heerde, Research Professor of Marketing, University of New South Wales, Austrialia
The contribution of causal thinking in interpretive research
Kari Lukka, Professor Emeritus, Senior Advisor, Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Turku, Finnland
Summer Summit 2024
Fact/value entanglement in economics - it's worse than you thought!
Julian Reiss, Professor and Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Winter Summit 2023
A Social Perspective on Cognition
Natalie Sebanz, Professor in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Summer Summit 2023
Ethical Dilemmas in Migration Policy: How to study and how to address them?
Rainer Bauböck, Part time professor in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute