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The Lichtenberg-Kolleg Archive
Thank you for visiting the director’s blog of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg. Please note that the Kolleg closed its doors on 30 September 2021. This is the digital archive of the Kolleg. It gives you an overview of its philosophy, of its activities over the past decade and, most importantly, it contains information about all the fellows […]
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E-Workshop: (Re-)Collections – Jewish Archives & Cultural Memory
Following Aleida Assmann’s description of the archive as potential memory or as material precondition for future cultural memories, the workshop seeks to combine perspectives from memory studies, archival science and Jewish history. While unlocking the potentials of archival sources, scholarship on European-Jewish history in the 20th century is confronted with the challenge of transferring scattered, […]
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Research Seminar Summer Term 2021
We are delighted to announce the programme of our research seminar for the summer term. Our weekly sessions will resume on 21 April. Guest are warmly welcome. Please email us to register: lichtenbergkolleg@zvw.uni-goettingen.de Appointment: Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) online 21 April 2021 – Alexandre Mendes Cunha “Influences and Convergences in the Dissemination of Cameralist Ideas […]
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Latest News Voices – Presse-Spiegel
The University of Göttingen has closed the Lichtenberg-Kolleg as per 30.09.2021. ‘Hiobsbotschaften aus Hochschulen nehmen zu’ – HNA (20.02.2021) ‘Angst vor der Zweitklassigkeit. Grüne und FDP in Niedersachsen kritisieren den Kahlschlag bei den Hochschulen’ – Weser Kurier (19.02.2021) ‘Grüne kritisieren Rot-Schwarz für Sparkurs an Hochschulen’ – NDR (18.02.2021) Landtagsabgeordnete Eva Viehoff: ‘Rede zum Sparkurs an […]
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Literatur im Archiv – Nachlässe an der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek Jerusalem
Online-Vortragsreihe Literatur im Archiv – Nachlässe an der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek Jerusalem Sommersemester 2021 Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung des Centrums für Jüdische Studien der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek, des Instituts für Germanistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz und des Lichtenberg-Kollegs an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Die Israelische Nationalbibliothek in Jerusalem ist die älteste Kultureinrichtung des Staates Israel. Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr […]
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Alex Jordan on the Göttingen Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle & Paul de Lagarde
Thanks to my fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, I have been able to unearth some previously unpublished correspondence between the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Professor Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891), a Göttingen Orientalist and notorious German nationalist. Conducted over the course of 1874–5 and conserved in the Lagarde Nachlass of the […]
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Background Stories
We start the year of 2021 with the new series ‘Background Stories‘, where fellows and staff members of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg and members of our worldwide academic alumni community share (longer) reads on their scholarship. The series starts with Martin van Gelderen explaining the cultural and family links between Moritz Stern, Alfred Stern and Anne Frank.
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Here’s to 2021
To you and the people near and dear to you, but also those people you don’t really know and perhaps don’t think about much, and those other people who push your buttons, irritate and hurt you, to all of you we are sending out many good wishes for a bubbly, happy, healthy and hopeful new […]
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Season’s Greetings
As a memorable year of 2020 is slowly drawing to its close the team & fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study at the Georg-August University are sending you their warmest seasonal wishes.
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Sebastian Schirrmeister on Reading Elie Wiesel in Yiddish
In his famous preface to Elie Wiesel’s seminal Shoah memoir La Nuit (1958), the novelist and Nobel laureate François Mauriac offers an enthusiastic and disturbingly Catholic reading of Wiesel’s experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Promoting the writing of an unknown, stateless, young Jewish journalist to the French public, Mauriac paints an almost saintly picture of a […]
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