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 […]
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 part […]
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 – 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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Die Ausstellung ‘Sturm der Bilder’ zeigt Bilder aus der Göttinger Stichesammlung von Künstlern wie Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius und Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. Das berühmte Erasmus-Porträt von […]
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg and the Zentrale Kustodie (office for collection development) are hosting a summer school for PhD students interested in the material culture of knowledge. Entitled “Collecting and the Knowledge of Objects, 1700-1900”, […]
The third edition of the Lichtenberg Kolleg’s Open Day surpassed the tremendous success that this event has seen in the past years. More than 3’000 visitors flocked to our home in Göttingen’s […]
