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 […]
International conference at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg August Universität Göttingen in partnership with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen […]
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 […]
Liberalism and its Critics. National Identities and Institutions in Transition. Photography and Visual German-Jewish History, 1910-1950 31st January to 1st February 2019 Across the European continent, liberal institutions have come under increasing […]
The team and the fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg wish you happy holidays and a great start of the new year 2019!
“Something else too abominable to be nam’d”. David Hume and Greek love Emilio Mazza ‘Greek love’ today is a Wiki entry: ‘“Greek love” refers to various (mostly homoerotic) practices as part of […]
Exhibiting entangled histories Reflections from Oceania Museum collections are increasingly understood, not as masses of artefacts, art works or specimens, but as assemblages made up of relations as well as objects, and […]
Photography and Visual German-Jewish History, 1910-1950 Please register until November 6 if you are planing to attend to the workshop. The workshop intends to analyse the roles of private German-Jewish photography between […]
Things that talk badly? Collecting Scandalous Antiquities in the Late Eighteenth-Century French Asia In the last decade, one saw the emergence of a global history of antiquarianism (Miller, 2012; Schnapp, 2016; Bleichmar […]
Flyer_MenschenBilder_Ausstellung_Tag-der-offenen-Sternwarte 12. April to 30. June 2018, Historic Observatory Focusing on the work of the Kolleg’s namesake Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) and his colleague Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) this exhibition examines a controversial […]
