Category: Research
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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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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Thanks to my fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, I have been able to unearth some previously unpublished correspondence between the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Professor Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891), a Göttingen Orientalist and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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Colloquium 2020-2021
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic our research seminar takes place on the Kolleg’s digital platform (Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 pm) 8th January 2020Birgit Erdle:Broken universalism. Siegfried Kracauer’s political thought 15th January 2020Thomas Maissen:Britannia and her sisters in the 17th and 18th century. Political representation and iconography 22nd January 2020Dirk Moses:Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction […]
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Research Groups & Senior Fellows: Call for Proposals
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg is Göttingen’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Named after one of the most important and versatile representatives of the Göttingen Enlightenment, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the Kolleg is an international and interdisciplinary research institute and a meeting place for a rich variety of academic cultures. One of our principal […]
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Research Moments
In our new series ‘Research Moments‘ fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg report on their work-in-progress. These research moments highlight novel research questions and ongoing struggles; they invite discussion and dialogue. The series starts with Will Levine opening up intriguing, perhaps even perplexing perspectives on Kant’s political thought and the role of the Neo-Kantian thinkers Karl Vorländer […]
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Workshop: Virtue and Sociability
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen27-28 February 2020 Friendship is a basic feature of ethics and social life, and our workshop will investigate friendship in a historical perspective. We will concentrate on the early modern period (1500-1700) and are especially interested how early moderns reappraised, re-elaborated, and criticized traditional ideas of friendship. Greek philosophers such as Plato, […]
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Workshop: Rembrandt – Lasting Impressions
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Tuesday 10 December/Wednesday 11 December 2019 Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Tuesday, 10 December 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Martin van Gelderen, Ivan Gaskell) 10:15-11:15 Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York City): Face to Face with Rembrandt 11:15-11:45 Coffee/Tea Break 11:45-12:45 An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford): Young Rembrandt […]
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