Colloquia 2017-2018
- 18th October 2017
Fellows shortly introduce their individual research project - 25th October 2017
Introduction to Research Groups: Enlightenment (Martin Gierl), Human Rights (Matthias Koenig), Jewish Studies (Martin van Gelderen) - 1st November 2017
Matthias Koenig: the German academic world - 8th November 2017
Guided Tour: "Mother Nature: Depictions of nature and femininity in Early Modern Art", University Art Collection - 15th November 2017
Marsha Libina: Divine visions: Image-making and imagination in the Early Modern academies of art - 22nd November 2017
Samuel Rubenson: Formative Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Reception of Ancient Monastic Wisdom Literature - 29th November 2017
Tony La Vopa, “The Labor of the mind. Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Culture” – book launch and conversation with Joanna Wharton and Julia Voss - 6th December 2017
Guided Tour: Ethnographic Collection - 13th December 2017
Ewa Morawska: Exploring ground-level multiculturalism in the past: The Case of Renaissance Venice - 10th January 2018
Bob Moore: Rethinking Rescue: the Heroes and the Hidden - 17th January 2018
Julia Voss: The Future of Art: Hilma af Klint’s life and work - 24th January 2018
Lars Magnusson: Comparing Cameralisms: how and for what purpose? - 31st January 2018
Paula Henrikson: Ruins and Revolutions: Swedish Literature on the Move in the Early 19th Century - 7th February 2018
Benjamin Tate, Princeton University Press: Publishing Monographs in the Social Sciences and Humanities - 11. April 2018
Demetrius Eudell (Wesleyan University):
“A Language for the Eye”: Lichtenberg, Lavater, Hogarth and the Spirit of Observation in the 18th Century
- 18. April 2018
Temi Odumosu (University of Malmö):
The Taboo Touch: Artists, Africans and Graphic Satire in 18th Century England
- 25. April 2018
John McCormick (University of Chicago):
The Crisis of Democracy and the Populist Cry of Pain
- 2. Mai 2018, 18:15 Uhr
Jürgen Schlumbohm (Göttingen):
Verbotene Liebe, verborgene Kinder. Das Geheime Buch des Göttinger Geburtshospitals, 1794-1857
- 9. Mai 2018, 18:15 Uhr
Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa):
Isaiah Berlin Revisited: his ideas of Enlightenment, Nationalism, and Germany in current perspective
- 23. Mai 2018
Hiram Morgan (University College Cork):
Servant and Subverter of Empire: Ireland in the history of Imperialism
- 30. Mai 2018
Yael Almog (Lichtenberg-Kolleg):
Lethal Zion: On the Jewish Longing for Europe
- 6. Juni 2018, 18:15 Uhr
Panel discussion with Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago) on her new book: Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire
- 13. Juni 2018
Zsófia Lóránd (Lichtenberg-Kolleg):
Feminist intellectual history in East Central Europe
- 20. Juni 2018
Richard Fischer (Cambridge):
Writing a Book Proposal / Academic Publishing in the 21st Century
- 27. Juni 2018
Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary University London / Lichtenberg-Kolleg):
Where, when, and what is "the West": history of an idea