Enlightenment Man – Workshop in Honour of Hans Erich Bödeker   30 November 2017   Part 1: Theory and Methodology   10.00 – 11.00 Tony La Vopa, The Process of the Political: […]

The Labor of the Mind – Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures  A Book Launch & Conversation with Tony La Vopa, Joanna Wharton and Julia Voss (Historic Observatory, Red Hall, Wednesday 29th […]

Workshop: Global Natural History around 1800: Collections, Media, Actors Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historic Observatory, 7-9 December 2017 Limited spaces are available upon prior registration. Please contact Dominik Hünniger until 29th November 2017. The later […]

Impressions from the vernissage of  ‘Sturm der Bilder’. Our new exhibition on Dutch and Flemish graphic art from the 16th century will run until 11 December 2016. We would like to thank […]

Questions about the moral qualities and virtues of politicians have very much come back to the forefront of current debate. Questions about what we, as citizens, should do in case politicians and […]

We would like to warmly thank everybody for making last night’s charity event in support of the Protezione Civile  (helping the people of central Italy affected by the series of earthquakes that […]

Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute 2016 August 30 to September 3, 2016 – Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historische Sternwarte Criminality, it seems, has become a global preoccupation in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, […]