Kolloquien 2018-2019

• 24th October 2018
  Tour of the exhibition: „Face the Fact. Scholars(hip) in Portraits“ with the curators Karsten Heck and Christian Vogel
  


• 7th November 2018
  Public Lecture: Stéphane van Damme (EUI Florence)
  Things that talk badly: Collecting Scandalous Antiquities in the Late Eighteenth-Century French Asia
  


• 14th November 2018
  Iryna Mykhailova
  Writing History in Exile: German Scholars of Renaissance in the United States
  


• 21st November 2018
  Sonia Gollance
  "One of the Most Dangerous Attractions for the Senses": Modern Jewish Literature and the Taboo of Mixed-Sex Dancing
  


• 28th November 2018
  Laura Nicolì
  Lumières on Hume: the "Natural History of Religion" and the French. Comparing Enlightenments
  


• 5th December 2018
  Defne Över
  Political Justice and Redefinition of Turkish National Identity
  


• 12th December 2018
  Public Lecture: Emilio Mazza (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano)
  “Something else too abominable to be nam’d”. David Hume and Greek love
  


• 9th January 2019
  Nahed Samour
  Re-conceptualizing the idea of danger in German police law
  


• 16th January 2019
  Rachel Koroloff
  Collecting Europe: Russian botanical networks in Western Europe in the second half of the 18th century
  


• 23rd January 2019
  Joanna Wharton
  Maria Edgeworth and the optical telegraph: literature, patronage and empire
  


• 30th January 2019
  Madeleine Elfenbein
  What Was Ottomanism? Bureaucrats, Dissidents, and the Quest for National Sovereignty in the Late Nineteenth Century
  


• 8th May 2019
  Annelien de Dijn
  “The Complacent Enlightenment: Montesquieu on Religion and Politics”
  


• 15th May 2019
  Rainer Bauböck
  “Urban Citizenship – historic origins, contemporary manifestations, possible futures”
  


• 22nd May 2019
  Liisi Keedus
  “Dispelling two or three myths about getting the ERC grant. An applicant's perspective”
  


• 29th May 2019
  Gregory S. Brown
  "The Liberal Imagination, Social History and Anglo-American Scholarship on the Enlightenment, 1955-1975"
  


• 5th June 2019,
  Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (co-organised by the Zentrum für Theorie und Methoden der Kulturwissenschaften)
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• 12th June 2019
  Ivan Gaskell
  "The Artist's Mark"
  


• 19th June 2019
  Hanna Roman
  “Discovering the Invisible: The Hermeneutics of the French Enlightenment Earth Sciences”
  


• 26th June 2019
  Daniel Wildmann
  “Laughing with ‘Ostjuden’. Ernst Lubitsch’s early silent movies”
  



• 23rd October 2019
  Fellows:
  Short introduction to their individual research project
  


• 30th October 2019,
  Introduction to Research Groups:
  Enlightenment (Martin Gierl), Human Rights (Matthias Koenig), Jewish Studies (Daniel Wildmann), Intellectual History (Martin van Gelderen)
  


• 6th November 2019
  Andreas Busch (Institute for Political Science, Goettingen University):
  University Governance: Germany and Great Britain in comparison
  


• 13th November 2019
  Matthias Koenig (Institute of Sociology, Goettingen University):
  The German academic world
  


• 20th November 2019
  Bill Bell (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University):
  “The Secret of England’s Greatness.” The strange reception of a painting
  


• 27th November 2019
  Marie Luisa Allemeyer (Centre of Collection Development, Goettingen University):
  Forum Wissen: Goettingen's future museum
  


• 4th December 2019
  Lars Magnusson (Department of Economic History, Uppsala University), Martin van Gelderen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg):
  Institutes of Advanced Study: Philosophy and Practice