Die Universität Göttingen muss sparen und will das Lichtenberg-Kolleg schließen. Für die einen Überbleibsel geplatzter Exzellenzträume, ist die Einrichtung für andere Ausweis von Weltbürgertum und wissenschaftlicher Internationalität. Die Wellen schlagen hoch. ES […]
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 […]
Über das geplante Aus für das Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study berichtet Benedikt Schulz im heutigen Deutschlandfunk Campus & Karriere. Der Bericht kann hier abgerufen werden.
Germany is entering a new period of ‘hard lockdown’ on Wednesday 16 December, and so the Lichtenberg-Kolleg is closing its doors once again. We are all working from home and we are […]
Schmuckstück der Aufklärung Göttingen will das Lichtenberg-Kolleg schließen Der Historiker Samuel Moyn hat die Menschenrechtsidee einmal als minimalistische Utopie bezeichnet, die aus den Ruinen der totalitären Ideologien hervorging. Nach Moyn knüpft sie […]
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESIDENTIAL BOARD OF THE GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITY, GÖTTINGEN, GERMANY December 9, 2020 Dear President Jahn and members of the Presidential Board, The names subscribed below are […]
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 […]
Top Hats, Low Standards. It is the telling title of the collection of essays published in 1969 by Jaap Meijer (1912-1993), an outstanding historian of Jewish life and thought, a fierce Dutch public […]
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 […]
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 […]
