We are delighted to warmly welcome our newly arrived fellows: Francesa Antonini, Amandine Barb, Bill Bell, Justin Broackes, Caroline de Lima e Silva, Philip Gorski, Shiru Lim, Lars Magnusson, Martina Mampieri, Dirk […]
Welcome
Colloquia Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Winter Term 2019/2020
The Fellow colloquium takes place Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Green Hall of the Historic Observatory. Guest are very welcome. 23rd October 2019 Fellows: Short introduction to their individual […]
Workshop: Intersections of Earth Sciences and Theology in the Long Eighteenth Century • 11th to 13 July 2019
Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Organized by Hanna Roman, Volkswagen‐Mellon Fellow in Residence & Lichtenberg‐Kolleg Programme Thursday, 11 July Arrival of conference participants 16:30 Meeting point at the Eden Hotel […]
Colloquia Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Summer Term 2019
The Fellow colloquium takes place Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m. in the Green Hall of the Historic Observatory. Guest are welcome. 8th May 2019 Annelien de Dijn “The Complacent Enlightenment: Montesquieu on Religion and […]
Workshop CFP: Social Technologies • 4th to 6th April 2019
Workshop CFP: Social Technologies and Global Knowledge Economies, 1750-1850 4th to 6th April 2019, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Conveners: Rachel Koroloff, Laura Nicolì, Joanna Wharton and Dominik Hünniger The remarkable density of connections that […]
Book Launch: W. Daniel Wilson • 28th January 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Goethes Leben ist so reich dokumentiert, sein Leben so vielschichtig, dass er leicht von allen möglichen Meinungsmachern vereinnahmt werden konnte. Für die Goethe-Gesellschaft etwa, 1885 in Weimar gegründet, war er schon vor […]
Early Career Fellowships 2019-2021
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, invites applications for Early Career FellowshipsOpening its doors in 1737 Göttingen quickly established itself as one of Europe’s […]
New Fellows Arriving
As new fellows for the academic years 2015 to 2017 are arriving in Göttingen, we would like to send out a very warm welcome!
Rethinking Lessing’s Limits
Approaches to the Laokoon on its 250th anniversary (1766-2016) Göttingen and Wolfenbüttel, 8–10 April 2015 This interdisciplinary workshop takes its cue from the 250th anniversary of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Laokoon, oder über […]
Early Career Fellowships
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, invites applications for up to 12 Early Career Fellowships Opening its doors in 1737 Göttingen quickly established itself […]