Each academic year, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation fund up to twelve Post-doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for stays of 9 to 12 months in Germany. The Lichtenberg-Kolleg […]
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Season’s Greetings
The team and the fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg wish you happy holidays and a great start of the new year 2018!
Freedom With & Without Europe
Freedom with and without Europe: Indian and European Ways of Thinking Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study 14th-15th December 2017 Venue: Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstrasse 11, Göttingen K. Ramanujan’s […]
Enlightenment Man
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
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 […]
Global Natural History Around 1800
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 […]
Early Career Fellowships 2017-2019
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, invites applications for up to 10 Early Career Fellowships Opening its doors in 1737 Göttingen quickly established itself […]
Open Day 2016
What a wonderful Open Day! We would like to warmly thank the over 700 visitors who have joined us today for our exhibition ‘Sturm der Bilder’, live music from the award-winning ensemble […]
Exhibition Opening
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 […]
Exhibition ‘Sturm der Bilder’
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 […]
