invited talks¶
- The Future of Philosophy and Economics in the Age of AI , Wittgenstein Lectures, Panel Discussion, Department of Philosophy; University of Bayreuth, Germany (26.06.2025)
- Research Data Infrastructure at Africa Multiple, Knowledge Lab, Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – Africa Multiple; University of Bayreuth, Germany (04.07.2024)
- Data Models and why we should care, Theses and Dissertations Workshop in Computer Science, UFU Postgraduate Program in Computer Science; Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil (05.10.2023)
More information - Participation in the panel about “Artificial Intelligence in Teaching”, Tag der Lehre - Next Level Digitale Lehre - KI und XR , Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Bayreuth, Germany (28.04.2023)
More information - State on Fluid Ontologies: Our path from data intake to semantic recommendations, Knowledge Lab, Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – Africa Multiple; University of Bayreuth, Germany (27.04.2023)
- Moral Outrage in Social Media Networks, 3rd Annual Cluster Conference: Round Table on ‘Medialities', Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – Africa Multiple; University of Bayreuth, Germany (09.07.2022)
Video recording of the talk - Context and Ontologies: Creating a Fluid Knowledge Base, 3rd Annual Cluster Conference: Knowledge Slam, Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – Africa Multiple; University of Bayreuth, Germany (08.07.2022)
Video recording of the talk - Data Modeling in Digital Humanities, Oberseminar, Prof. Dr. Kropik; University of Bayreuth, Germany (07.07.2022)
- Context-Aware Network Analysis, BRAGFOST, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Maceió, Brazil (30.06.2022)
- Shortest Path based centrality metrics in attributed graphs with node-individual context constraints, Seminar, Mitchell Centres for Social Network Analysis; University of Manchester, United Kingdom (23.03.2022)
- Contextualized Networks: Data Management in the Cluster Africa Multiple, Keynote, Annual Convention 2021, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Netzwerkforschung e.V.; University of Bayreuth, Germany (06.09.2021)
- Data Modeling in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, MODUS Oberseminar, Bayreuth Research Center for Modeling and Simulation; University of Bayreuth, Germany (27.01.2021)
- Fluid Ontologies - Dissolving the Known?, Knowledge Lab, Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – Africa Multiple; University of Bayreuth, Germany (20.01.2021)
- Building Packages for R and Python, OpenMunich 2019, LMU Munich, accenture technology & RedHat; Munich, Germany (13.12.2019)
Slides and Code - Network metrics for reflective text analysis, Werkstatttreffen, Center for Reflected Text Analysis (CRETA); University of Stuttgart, Germany (19.03.2019)
- Reputation through observation: Active lurkers in online communities, Doktorandenkolloqium, Professorhip for Political Data Science; Bavarian School of Public Policy at the TU Munich, Germany (26.01.2018)
- Mobilität als Treiber der Digitalisierung, "Expert Conference ""Mobile IT in Energieversorgungsunternehmen""", Energieforen Leipzig GmbH; Mediencampus Villa Ida, Leipzip, Germany (08.12.2015)
- Privacy and dangers of deanonymization, Expert Meeting, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk; Halle (Saale), Germany (17.08.2015)
- Personalization and privacy: irreconcilable opposites?, "Symposium ""Big Data""", ARD.ZDF medienakademie and Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT); Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, Germany (25.07.2013)
- Big Data - An Introduction, Keynote, LERU eLearning Workshop, LERU eLearning Working Group; LMU Munich, Germany (29.04.2015)
- What is actually an app?, Visit of Realschule Poing (junior high school of Poing) at LMU Munich, Mobile and Distributed Systems Group; LMU Munich, Germany (25.07.2013)
workshops¶
- Social Media and the Story of Little Triangles, Girls and Technology, MINT Herbstuni; University of Bayreuth, Germany (02.11.2022)
- Personal Data Management: From an organised hard drive to an automated life, Early Career Workshop Series, BIGSAS; University of Bayreuth, Germany (25.10.2022)
Workshop Material
conference talks (not paper-related)¶
- Putting Trade Flows Into Context, European Trade Study Group (ETSG) 2025, Simon Blöthner, Durgesh Nandini, Mario Larch, Mirco Schönfeld; Milan, Italy (13.09.2025)
- Bridging the gap between data and understanding for novice users, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops: Text-as-Data Analysis in Political Science, *Beatrice Wangeci Kanyi, Mirco Schönfeld; Prague, Czech Republic (20.05.2025)
- Bias is not just in the data: A holistic view on AI systems, the need for data literacy, and regulatory intervention, 13th Congresso de Ciências Criminais do PPGCCRIM PUCRS, Mirco Schönfeld, *Paloma Mendes Saldanha; Porto Alegre, Brazil (14.09.2022)
- nctx - Analyzing Networks in ConTeXt, 42th SUNBELT, Mirco Schönfeld; Cairns, Australia (14.07.2022)
Video-recording of the talk - The Impact of International Bureaucrats on UN Security Council Debates: A Speaker-Topic Network Analysis, ISA Annual Convention 2022, Steffen Eckhard, Ronny Patz, Hilde van Meegdenburg, Mirco Schönfeld; Nashville, USA (01.04.2022)
- Contextualized Ontologies for Digital Inventories, Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference, Mirco Schönfeld, *Oliver Baumann, virtual (07.07.2021)
Video-recording of the talk - The effect of context on the importance of actors in networks, 40th SUNBELT, Mirco Schönfeld, Jürgen Pfeffer, virtual (14.07.2020)
Video-recording of the talk - Changing Power Relations and Agenda-Setting in Club Governance of the Global Economy, APSA Annual Meeting, Laura Mahrenbach, Mirco Schönfeld; Washington, USA (29.08.2019)
- Decoding-Bias in Network Visualization and Context-Aided Countermeasures, European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science 2018: Bias and Discrimination (Dataset Challenge), Mirco Schönfeld; Cologne, Germany (05.12.2018)
- The UN Security Council Transcripts: from Automated Topic Modeling to Speeches-As-Network, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Mirco Schönfeld, Steffen Eckhard, Alena Moiseeva, Ronny Patz, Hilde van Meegdenburg; Hamburg, Germany (24.08.2018)
- Reputation through Observation: Active Lurkers in Online Communities, European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA), Clemens Niemeyer, Mirco Schönfeld; Paderborn, Germany (05.07.2018)
- Community Analysis based on linguistic characteristics in Social Networks, European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA), Kristi Lubonja, Mirco Schönfeld; Paderborn, Germany (05.07.2018)
- Towards an Understanding of Perception of Network Visualization, 38th SUNBELT, Jürgen Pfeffer, Mirco Schönfeld; Utrecht, Netherlands (30.06.2018)
- Networks are so much more than graphs: Context is king!, 38th SUNBELT, Mirco Schönfeld, Jürgen Pfeffer; Utrecht, Netherlands (29.06.2018)